The NYSEPH Training program is designed to provide a systematic yet flexible educational experience for practitioners interested in developing a thorough grounding in Ericksonian hypnosis. It is conducted in 5 sections: Introduction; Intermediate; Advanced Intermediate; Master Class and Supervision. Each section is 10 weeks long with weekly two-hour classes. The emphasis is on sequential practice, so that from week to week, students can come to fully integrate Ericksonian techniques into their own therapeutic work.
After students have taken 60 hours, they will be able to complete the 100 hours by continuing on to the Master Class and the Supervision if they choose to.
When possible, the weekly class length will be increased from 2 to 3 or more hours. This is to enable the students to complete the course requirements in a shorter amount of time.
The program is geared towards professionals in healthcare related fields with graduate degrees from accredited institutions. The program is also open to graduate students in accredited programs, also in the healthcare fields, who supply a letter from their department chairperson certifying their student status. People who are in other fields can contact us for more information.
Total Fee: $700 per 20-hour section; $2100 for 3 sections: $3500 for the 5 sections
Deposit: $700, non-refundable
ASCH Credits--100 hours
Courses are taught in the offices of the individual faculty members.
I. INTRODUCTION:
This section is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ericksonian principles and techniques of hypnosis. It includes a brief history of the development of hypnosis from Mesmerism to Milton Ericksonian's unique contributions to the development of hypnosis as we know it today. There will be discussions of the myths and misconceptions around the use of hypnosis. In this section, there will be demonstrations of direct and indirect suggestions as well as an introduction to various hypnotic techniques. While didactic instruction is provided, the primary emphasis is on supervised practice exercises and inductions. The material covered in this course includes, but is not limited to:
The pre-induction interview; hypnotic phenomena and methods including pacing and leading; utilization of voice quality; utilization of resistance; introduction to metaphors; conscious/unconscious dissociation; ideomotor signaling; direct and indirect suggestions; embedded suggestions and interspersal techniques; self-hypnosis; post-hypnotic suggestions.
II. INTERMEDIATE:
The second section is designed to provide continued practice and consolidation of introductory skills as students integrate Ericksonian approaches into their own unique styles. It includes the use of metaphorical language; creation of original metaphors; story telling; script writing; body awareness; sensory alteration; inner resource development and deepening techniques. The use of these techniques will be developed within a variety of treatment issues.
III. ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE:
This section continues the work of integrating all the basic skills. Students begin to focus on developing their own unique styles, becoming more familiar with the therapeutic use of hypnosis. Emphasis is on the practice of creating more complete inductions; using more deepening techniques; utilizing a number of different confusion techniques; conversational trance; fractionation and therapeutic uses of time distortion; age regression; age progression. In addition, students will be introduced to working with anxiety and depression. The Advanced Intermediate level focuses on refinement of students' unique styles and may utilize their own clinical materials.
IV. MASTER CLASS:
This section focuses on enabling students to utilize the widest possible array of hypnotic interventions, even with subjects who might otherwise have been considered "unhypnotizable". Specific approaches include:
Hypnoprojectives; preparation for surgery; working with cancer patients; accessing ego states i.e. adult/child work; ideomotor signaling for symptom exploration; hypnotic control of physiological and medical processes such as bleeding; treating phobias, pain, PTSD, and other clinical conditions.
V. CLINICAL SUPERVISION SEMINAR:
This section specifically provides hypnotherapists with ongoing clinical case supervision in a group context in which students present material from their own practice. The emphasis of the course is on developing and enhancing flexibility in treatment approaches. Each student is encouraged to develop and refine his or her own individual hypnotherapeutic styles. The goal of this section is to expand the repertoire of hypnotherapeutic techniques, while working with utilization in specific cases, in a wide variety of diagnostic categories.
Class hours in this section that are taught by an ASCH consultant can be used towards ASCH certification.
