Recent Workshops

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals Level 2 – Hypnosis for Trauma, Addictions, Sleep, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Enhancing Mindfulness

April 15th & 16th, 2023

Using Hypnosis to Enhance Sleep: Its Onset, Duration and Quality; Psychotherapeutic Hypnosis for Addiction Recovery; Hypnosis for Trauma; Hypnosis for Enhancing Mindfulness; Alimentary, My Dear Watson! A Close Look at Gut-Directed Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Language in the Fractures: Poetry and Hypnosis in the Treatment of Trauma.

Hypnosis for Chronic Pain Management

February 25, 2023
Vancouver, BC

This workshop will provide an overview of hypnotic strategies and suggestions for helping individuals better self-manage chronic pain conditions. While an overview of the neurophysiology of pain will be provided, the emphasis of the workshop will be on applied clinical techniques, demonstrations, brief hypnotic exercises and the opportunity for consultation. After participating in the workshop, participants will have the resources and skills to evaluate a patient with chronic pain for hypnosis treatment and design a treatment intervention that addresses the various problems identified.

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals, Fundamentals, Level 1

February 4 & 5, 2023
By Zoom

This practical and experiential workshop will provide practical training in the fundamental components of clinical hypnosis for clinicians new to hypnosis as well as those wishing a refresher. Demonstrations and practice sessions will provide sufficient training for those who wish to integrate hypnosis into their therapeutic skills.

Four Fundamental Interventions: The Ericksonian Approach to Hypnosis and Therapy

October 22, 2022
By Zoom

Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB, FASCH is a licensed Clinical Social Worker in Phoenix, Arizona who studied with Milton H. Erickson in Phoenix from 1976-1979. Since 2005, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, and is a Fellow and Approved Consultant with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals, Fundamentals, Level 2

April 30-May 1, 2022

This workshop will provide more experienced professionals with training and practice in advanced techniques and in the application of hypnosis to specific areas of practice.

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals, Fundamentals, Level 1

March, 2022
Vancouver, BC

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals, Fundamentals, Level 1

May 1 & 2, 2021
Vancouver, BC

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals, Fundamentals, Level 2

April 10, 11 & 17, 2021
Vancouver, BC

This workshop will provide more experienced professionals with training and practice in advanced techniques and in the application of hypnosis to specific areas of practice.

Clinical Hypnosis Skills for Health Professionals

Fundamentals, Levels 1 and 2

March 7th and 8th, 2020
Vancouver, BC

Fundamentals Level 1 will provide practical training in the fundamental components of clinical hypnosis for clinicians new to hypnosis, as well as those wishing a refresher.Demonstrations and practice sessions will provide sufficient training for those who wish to integrate hypnosis into their therapeutic skills.

Fundamentals Level 2, taught simultaneously, will provide more experienced professionals with training and practice in advanced techniques and in the application of hypnosis to specific areas of practice including the management of emotional disorders and physical conditions. Topics: Activating Focus, Enhancing Trance-Communication, Putting Metaphors to Work, Treating the Anxious Medical/Dental Patient, CBT and Hypnosis, Hypnosis in Palliative Care, and Launch-Pad Hypnosis –Reaching Goals.

Trance and Trauma

Hypnosis Skills for Adaptive Responses, Safe Relationships, Co-Creating Resilience

October 5, 2019
Vancouver, BC

Clinical hypnosis skills and principles provide a flexible and creative framework for assessing and treating the sequelae of trauma, which include anxiety, depression, and relational ruptures. This workshop will provide definitions of trauma, adaptation, hypnosis skills and trance within a psychobiological context. Through demonstration and practice it will illustrate the use of the therapeutic relationship between care-givers and care-receivers to create a climate for change, evoking and responding to the ingredients that lead to positive outcomes and shape resilience.

Clinical Hypnosis Skills For Health Professionals

Fundamentals, Levels 1 and 2

March 9th and 10th, 2019
Vancouver, BC

How can we, as health professionals, facilitate positive change that lasts? The key is clinical hypnosis: the language of change. During this two-day workshop, you will learn from our experienced teaching faculty how to enhance your therapeutic relationship with your clients and prime them for success using the unique skills of clinical hypnosis.

Hypnosis for Children and Teens

Clinical Training Workshop for Health Professionals

October 20th, 2018 and January 19th, 2019
Vancouver, BC

Children in pain and distress are highly responsive to hypnotic suggestions for relief, sensation alteration, and for comfort. This workshop will teach how to utilize pediatric hypnosis to address common distressing hospital procedures and situations and enable children to cope, co-operate and feel better. It is specifically designed to strengthen clinical practice skills.

Hypnosis: The Language of Change

Clinical Training Workshop for Health Professionals

October 13, 2018
Vancouver, BC

How can we facilitate positive change for our clients that lasts? This one-day workshop is designed to introduce you to the key features that make clinical hypnosis effective. Through demonstrations, and group and individual practice experiences, you’ll gain and refine your abilities to apply this broad-based clinical approach. In Hypnosis: The Language of Change, you will learn how to enhance your therapeutic relationship with your clients and prime them for success using the skills of clinical hypnosis. Clinical hypnosis is a powerful therapeutic technique which is founded on solid evidence-based science.

Hypnosis: The Language of Change

Clinical Hypnosis Training Workshop
Fundamentals, Levels 1 and 2
February 17 and 18, 2018
Vancouver, BC

The Connection Imperative

What Compassion and Hypnosis Teach us about Treating Violence and Trauma

Presented By: Dr. Harry Stefanakis, Ph.D., R. Psych.
Saturday April 29th, 2017
Vancouver, BC

The fundamental problems in today’s society involve experiences of fragmentation. People experience a sense of fragmentation within themselves, from each other and the world at large. Violence and trauma are consequences of fragmentation, and also are causes of fragmentation. The antidote to fragmentation is connection.

In this one day workshop, Dr Stefanakis explored how compassion and hypnosis can activate this antidote and can provide us with a foundation for intervening in violence and trauma.

Through discussion and demonstration, Dr. Stefanakis presented his C.O.R.E. (Centering, Opening, Releasing and Extending) essential components for effective interventions supported by theory, research and practice from more than two decades addressing violence and trauma issues.

Two-day Clinical Hypnosis Training Workshop

February 25th & 26th, 2017
Vancouver, BC

Presentations By: Dr. Heather Fay, Dr. Saul Pilar, Dr. Elaine Drysdale, Dr. Davidicus Wong, Dr. Bianca Rucker, Dr. Lance Rucker, and Dr. Harry Stefanakis

This workshop will provide the basic skills of clinical hypnosis, including demonstrations and practice sessions for those who wish to add hypnosis to their repertoire of therapeutic skills.

Simultaneously, intermediate/advanced skills in hypnosis utilization will be provided to the experienced hypnotherapist in areas such as: clinical hypnosis with children, hypnosis & cancer treatment, acute & chronic pain management, rapid induction techniques for emergency medicine and dentistry, and much more.

EXCITING TOPICS INCLUDED:

Sex Therapy Hypnosis Strategies
Women’s Health – Common Conditions and Hypnotic Treatments
Accessing Root Causes of Symptoms
Teaching Self-Hypnosis to Clients to Improve the Outcome of Therapy
Consolidating Hypnosis in Your Professional Practice

Two-day Clinical Hypnosis Training Workshop

February 27-28, 2016
Vancouver, BC

This two-day workshop will provide the basic skills of clinical hypnosis, including demonstrations and practice sessions for those who wish to add hypnosis to their repertoire of therapeutic skills. Simultaneously, intermediate and advanced skills in hypnosis utlization will be provided to the more experienced hypnotherapist in areas such as hypnosis for traumatic experiences, relationships, stress, pain, visualization techniques to enhance hypnosis, rapid induction techniques for emergency medicine and dentistry and much more.

The Power of Visualization

May 23rd, 2015
Vancouver, BC

Dr. Lee Pulos PhD, ABPP

Take Home Techniques for Health, Healing and Goal Setting!

Many psychologists are now recognizing imagery and visualization as among the most powerful tools in cognitive psychology. The earliest visualization techniques ever recorded are from over 4,000 years ago. This workshop will open the mind’s eye to the rich inner world of our imagination, integrating ancient and modern techniques for creating and achieving goals, optimizing health, identifying subconscious road blocks, developing intuition and creating our most optimal, healthy and fulfilling future possible.

The seminar will be 80% experiential and 20% lectures. This powerful one-day experience is open to healthcare professionals and to the public.

Dr. Lee Pulos, PhD, ABP

Dr. Lee Pulos is a clinical psychologist who earned his undergraduate degree at U.C.L.A. and his Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Denver. Upon graduation he held a clinical appointment at Indiana University Medical School and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin. Lee has been awarded a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is a past president of the BC Psychological Association and the current President of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BC Div), and conducts ongoing training for health care professionals. Dr. Pulos has published numerous professional articles and has written several books, including Beyond Hypnosis and Miracles and Other Realities. His most recent publication is Fearless and Free: Using EFT for Healing and Vitality.

Please download the brochure for more information on the workshop.

Two Day Clinical Hypnosis Workshop

February 7th & 8th, 2015
Vancouver, BC

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This workshop will provide the basic skills of clinical hypnosis, including demonstrations and practice sessions for those who wish to add hypnosis to their repertoire of therapeutic skills.
Simultaneously, intermediate/advanced skills in hypnosis utilization will be provided to the experienced hypnotherapist in areas such as: hypnosis for traumatic experiences, relationships, stress, pain, visualization techniques to enhance hypnosis, rapid induction techniques for emergency medicine and dentistry, and much more.

EFT [Emotional Freedom Technique]

The New Technology for Immediate Healing and Vitality!

May 10th, 2014
Vancouver, BC
Featuring
DR. LEE PULOS, PhD, ABPP and DR. HEATHER FAY, MD

EFT is one of the most powerful and effective therapeutic tools in the world for creating remarkable and impressive personal change and growth. It can be utilized for a broad spectrum of personal issues including eliminating phobias and fears, healing trauma, panic attacks, stress and anxiety, addictions, sleep dysfunction, belief change, etc., and is one of several approaches of Energy Psychology. The seminar will be 80% experiential and 20% lectures. This powerful one-day experience is open to healthcare professionals and to the public.

Two Day Clinical Hypnosis Workshop

February 8 & 9, 2014
Vancouver, BC

This workshop will providethe basic skills of clinical hypnosis, including demonstrations and practice sessions for those who wish to add hypnosis to their repertoire of therapeuticskills.
Simultaneously, intermediate/advanced skills in hypnosis utilization will be provided to the experienced hypnotherapist in areas such as hypnosis for traumatic experiences, relationships, stress, pain, visualization techniques to enhance hypnosis, rapid induction techniques for emergency medicine and dentistry, and much more. Details and registration form to follow.

EXCITING TOPICS INCLUDE
Acute and Chronic Pain ManagementHypnosis for Traumatic ExperiencesBetter Sex Through HypnosisAge Regression and ProgressionWomen’s Health – Common Conditions and Hypnotic Treatments Mind – Vagal Interaction in Chronic Medical Conditions: Latest FindingsTeaching Self-Hypnosis to Clients to Improve the Outcome of TherapyConsolidating Hypnosis In Your Professional Practice

Integrating Hypnosis and Attachment Disorders

led by Harvard Psychologist, Daniel Brown, PhD
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
Vancouver, BC

Dr. Brown is Director, Center for Integrative Psychotherapy, Newton MA, Associate Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School; taught hypnotherapy for 41 years. His 14 books include 3 books on hypnosis style. He spent 40 years studying Buddhist meditation and contributed to 2 books of East-West dialogues in psychology with H.H. The Dalai Lama. His current research is on the contribution of early attachment to complex trauma.

Sophisticated assessment tools are available to identify attachment pathology in adults. Less attention, however, has been paid to the development of effective treatment protocols. This workshop is specifically about state-of-the-art, effective ways to treat insecure attachment pathology, primarily in personality and dissociative disorder patients. Teaching format: lecture, demonstration, and case presentation. Hypnosis training recommended but not required.

Hypnotic Essentials – Experience & Practice

with Dr. Leora Kuttner, Dr. Mavis Lloyd, Dr. Harry Stefanakis
Saturday, June 1st, 2013
Vancouver, BC

This one-day workshop is designed to introduce you to, or review for you, the key features that make clinical hypnosis effective. Through demonstrations, group and individual practice experiences you’ll gain and refine your abilities to apply this broad-based clinical approach. You’ll leave the training with confidence and supporting handouts to immediately incorporate these skills into your clinical practice.

The Power of Visualization

Dr. Lee Pulos PhD, ABPP
Take Home Techniques for Health, Healing and Goal Setting!
Saturday, May 4th, 2013
Vancouver, BC

Many psychologists are now recognizing imagery and visualization as among the most powerful tools in cognitive psychology.

The earliest visualization techniques ever recorded are from over 4,000 years ago. This workshop will open the mind’s eye to the rich inner world of our imagination, integrating ancient and modern techniques for creating and achieving goals, optimizing health, identifying subconscious road blocks, developing intuition and creating our most optimal,healthy and fulfilling future possible.