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NYSEPH TRAINING COURSE

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 five 20-hour sections in weekly two-hour or four-hour classes. The emphasis is on sequential practice, so that from week to week, students can come to fully integrate Ericksonian approaches into the repertoire of their therapeutic techniques.

The program is limited to professionals in health care related fields with graduate degrees from accredited institutions, and to graduate students in accredited programs in the above fields who supply a letter from their department chairperson certifying their student status. Certificates of attendance can be given to those applicants who are not in the health field.

Fee: $700 per 20-hour section
Deposit: $700, nonrefundable
NASW CEU Credit--10 credits
ASCH Credits---100 hours

I. INTRODUCTION:

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ericksonian principles and techniques. It includes a brief history of the development of hypnosis, a discussion of the myths and misconceptions about hypnosis, and demonstrations of direct hypnosis and hypnotic phenomena, with an analysis of Milton Erickson's unique redefinition of, and contributions to hypnotic approaches. 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; checking for a lead; utilization of voice quality and response language; utilization of resistance and hypnotic responses; dissociation; ideomotor signaling; hand catalepsy; direct and indirect suggestion; and interspersal technique.

II. INTERMEDIATE:

This course 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 language patterning; body awareness; metaphor; deepening techniques; and other forms of indirect suggestion. The use of these techniques will be developed within treatment issues, such as pain control, habit control, ego strengthening, memory recall, and general utilization of trance phenomena for therapeutic purposes, including more elegant uses of dissociation.

III. ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE:

This course continues the work of integrating all the basic skills. Students begin to focus on developing their own unique styles and on asserting therapeutic use of themselves as "being in control of the patient being in control." Emphasis is on the practice of complete inductions, utilization of "deeper " trance (such as fractionation, open-eyed trance, construction of age regression, and progression imagery), in addition to work with pain control, sexual abuse, and post-traumatic disorders. Students develop a variety of hypnotic approaches to a wide spectrum of clinical conditions, including conversational inductions. Work on the Advanced Intermediate level focuses on refinement of students' unique styles and may utilize their own clinical materials.

IV. ADVANCED:

This course 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: refined training in the reading of minimal cues; automatic handwriting; "The February Man" approach; therapeutic uses of time distortion; hypnotic control of physiological processes such as bleeding and intestinal movements; and hypnotic approaches to medical conditions; phobias, pain, sexual problems, and other clinical conditions, including cancer treatment.

V. CLINICAL SUPERVISION SEMINAR:

This course provides hypnotherapists with ongoing clinical case supervision in a group context in which students present material. Emphasis of the course is on developing and enhancing flexibility in treatment approaches, on refining individual hypnotherapeutic styles, and on expanding the repertoire of hypnotherapeutic techniques, working with utilization in specific cases in a wide variety of diagnostic categories.