Stephen Brooks – Hypnotherapy Lectures – Part 4

Stephen Brooks – Hypnotherapy Lectures – Part 4

Archive : Stephen Brooks – Hypnotherapy Lectures – Part 4

The course is built on 120 basic skills and practices that cover the following topics:

The Interactional Approach – The Intrapersonal Approach – Implication, compression, and economic language – Symptom Substitution and Resolution – The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom – Response Attentiveness
– Achieving Positive Results
– Communicating with the Unconscious – Establishing Verifiable Objectives – Values, Criteria, and Beliefs
– Trauma and Reaction – Identifying Sabotage Strategies
– Therapeutic Orientation – Improvement or Change?
– Keeping the patient in therapy – Future Pacing – Secondary and indirect benefits
– Weaning Patients Off Therapy – Understanding the Patient’s Metaphors – Contextualizing Change – Organic and Symptom Based Metaphors – Developing Advanced Failure Strategies – Pursuing Relevance The Organization of Learned Experience – Contextual and Time Frames in the Irrationality and Framing Model
– Costs and Benefits
– The Laws of Attachment and Non-attachment – Decision Making Personality Types – Anchoring and Conditioning – Feedback Loops – The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort – The Laws of Positive Expectancy and Reinforcement

Hypnotic Time Distortion – Favorite Activity and Leisure Trance Inductions – Pseudo-Orientation in Time in Hypnosis – Positive Negative Integration in Hypnosis – The Third Person Dissociation – Hypnotic Catalepsy – Arm Levitation Inductions – Automatic Writing in Hypnosis – Unconscious Negotiation in Hypnosis Inductions Using Previous Trance Recall – Surprise Technique Inductions
The Multiple Mirrors is a therapeutic metaphor. The Old Master Induction – Therapeutic Induction – Age Regression Techniques – Paradoxical Intervention
– Indirect Use of Submodalities – Uptime Downtime Induction – Using The Patient’s Needs As A Motivational Strategy – Stop Smoking Strategy – Inducing Amnesia – The Self-Suggestion Induction – Teaching Your Patient Self-Hypnosis – The Four Seasons Induction
– Inductions that are not verbal
– Ideo-Motor Signaling – The My Friend John Induction – Cellular Healing Therapy – The Early Learning Set Induction – Scrambling Symptoms – Ambiguous Task Assignments – Eye Fixation and Distraction Inductions – The Confusion Induction – Deep Trance Identification –

Taking the Patient’s History – Gathering High-Quality Information – Creating and Applying Therapeutic Nominalisations
– Recognizing the Minimal Cues of Trance – Developing Dependent Suggestions – Open Questioning – Positive and Reverse Frames and Negative Tags – Sorting for Association Patterns – Adjunctive Suggestions
– Responding to Polarity Responses – Classes of Double Binds – Passive Response Suggestions – Using Therapeutic & Hypnotic Double Entendre – Post Hypnotic Suggestions – Serial Suggestions – Challenging Negative Nominalisations
– Sensory Predicates – Open-ended Suggestions – Resource Access – Facial Symmetry Calibration – Insertive Eye Contact – Recognizing Patients’ Subjective Interpretations – Casting Doubt and Challenging a Patient’s Interpretations – Obtaining Video Descriptions and Sequence Responses Developing a Compassionate Empowering Personality – Designing Therapeutic Tasks – Prescribing and Delivering Tasks

Integrity and Ethics – The significance of patient confidentiality – Integrity and ethics in hypnotherapy work – When it may be preferable to collaborate with a co-therapist – When to stop therapy – How to keep patient records – Ethical and legal business management and practice – The present state of hypnosis and professional codes – Medical and psychological hypnosis contraindications – The significance of seeking input and following up – Recognizing psychiatric diseases and when to refer – Establishing clear time and cost parameters

Practitioner Development – CBT, humanistic, and psychodynamic psychology – Hypnosis-related research methods – The history of hypnosis as a therapeutic technique
– objective assessment of professional skill development – the need and necessity of supervision and continuing training – basic physiology and anatomy – recent advances in brain research connected to the mind – recognition of how prior treatment may impact therapy

The Hypnotic Relationship
– Developing a caring and sincere approach to those in need.
– Patients general health and lifestyle management.
– Appropriate social and relationship skills for patients.
– Local resources and support groups available to patients.
– Identifying the patient’s expectations regarding outcomes
– Transference and counter transference
– Motivating patients to be an active part of the treatment.
– Secondary or external influences that affect therapy
– Contextualizing treatment to the patient’s environment
– How to clearly communicate therapeutic options
– How emotions can affect patients decisions and perception
– How to negotiate mutually acceptable therapeutic outcomes
– Evaluating the effectiveness of treatment

These 10 Lectures in this part are:
31. Achieving Positive Outcomes
32. Responding to Polarity Responses
33. Paradoxical Intervention
34. Communicating with the Unconscious
35. The Old Master Induction
36. Sub-modalities
37. Eye Accessing and Rep Systems
38. Identifying Verifiable Goals
39. Past Life Therapy
40. Values, Criteria and Beliefs

COURSE CONTENT