Level 2 Zoom Workshop
Clinical Hypnosis for Anxiety, Anger And Aggression, Accelerating Mindfulness, Mind-Body Healing, Cancer Treatment and Complex Chronic Medical Conditions
April 6th and 7th, 2024 by ZOOM
9:00am to 2:30pm
By popular demand, we’ve created a new intermediate level workshop with exciting new topics.
Prerequisite: Level 1 Clinical Hypnosis Workshop or equivalent
In addition to stimulating live presentations, you will have ample opportunity to practice with the supervision of our experienced faculty.
The Rehearsal Technique for Anxiety and Phobias
(presented by David Bowler, MBChB)
Do you have clients or patients who are limited by abject fear of an anticipated future event, be it a flight to a daughter’s wedding, a vacation, a presentation at work or school or a pending medical procedure?
Learn the Rehearsal Technique and put those fears to rest.
From Fury to Freedom: Core Hypnosis for Anger and Aggression Intervention
(presented by Harry Stefanakis, Ph.D.)
This seminar delves into advanced techniques rooted in compassion-informed hypnosis.
This interactive session combines expert insights, case studies and tailored exercises to equip professionals with the tools necessary for enhancing clinical interventions with clients presenting with anger and abuse issues. This workshop is a unique opportunity for professionals to refine their skills and enhance their ability to navigate challenging clinical presentations.
Accelerated Mindfulness: Mindfulness-Based Clinical Hypnosis
(presented by Davidicus Wong, MD)
John Teasdale’s cognitive subsystems theory defines two ways of knowing: the conceptual way of knowing that labels, judges and compares and the holistic experiential way of knowing associated mindfulness.
The development of mindfulness through meditation alone is often a slow and difficult process with many individuals meditating daily for years without being able to inform their daily thoughts and actions with mindfulness. Hypnosis can ease this transformation by increasing focus, promoting dissociation from limiting conceptions of the self and intruding judgmental thoughts, and creating new associations with mindful states through post-hypnotic suggestion and visualization.
Dr Wong will present his mindfulness-based use of clinical hypnosis and the practices he has used with his patients to accelerate mindfulness in their daily lives and foster the mindsets of acceptance, compassion, unconditional love and joy.
Adapting Hypnosis for Complex Ongoing Medical Procedures and Conditions in Order to Promote Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Recovery
(presented by Leora Kuttner, Ph.D.)
This session will explore how hypnosis was therapeutically used as a central treatment approach over four years of intense life-saving medical treatment for an adult patient with a complex lymphoma diagnosis, multiple hospital admissions, and exceptional medical therapy.
We’ll discuss how to adjust hypnosis to address these complex situations, and for the ups and downs of chemotherapy, unexpected ICU admissions and painful medical procedures. We’ll also explore how to build a foundational hypnosis framework for mind-body-spirit co-operation to promote trust in one’s inherent capacities to heal. We’ll see how to use dreams and dream-motifs during crises and how this can then weave into ‘conversational hypnosis’ – Eriksonian-style hypnosis. Self-hypnosis then becomes a personal scaffold containing multiple levels of the therapeutic medical work that can accompany the patient, with or without your presence.
Audio clips from selected hypnosis sessions will be played to show the complex and multilevel nature of hypnosis as therapy for coping and healing while living with life-threatening illness. The patient has given consent for the use of these audio clips for this presentation.
Mind-Body Healing: Hands Polarity and Mirroring Hands
(presented by James Stabler, MSW, RCC)
Fail safe hypnotherapy utilizing deterministic chaos theory by bringing together the psychodynamics of hypnosis with the non-linear dynamics of chaos theory.
Two processes will be demonstrated:
- The basic accessing question, and
- Hands polarity.
Participants will have sufficient practice time to learn these processes and use them the next day.
Participants will learn how to:
- Make the client/patient the central focus,
- Utilize ideomotor/ideodynamic signaling, and
- Utilize the language principles of the implied directive.
Most people spontaneously dissociate from experiencing both side of their conflicts. Structuring a non-linear mind-body psychodrama allows the client/patient to experience both sides simultaneously and heal.
Learning the polarity/mirroring process will allow the participants to utilize the constructs of chaos and polarity/mirroring process will allow the participants to utilize the constructs of chaos and polarity in other types of inductions and conversationally without any formal induction.
Clinical Hypnosis Applications for Use in Cancer Treatment
(presented by Elaine Drysdale, BA (Psychology), MD, FRCPC (Psychiatry))
Dr. Drysdale is consultant psychiatrist to the Bone Marrow Transplant Programme of BC for the past 31 years and a former psychiatrist at BC Cancer for 24 years.
She will discuss various clinical situations in cancer treatment where clinical hypnosis can offer additional benefit for the patient by facilitating relaxation, an altered focus of attention and a sense of control. A clinical demonstration will be given.
Eligibility:
Open to members (and full-time students) of regulated health professions including physicians, nurses, naturopaths, dentists, psychologists, marriage & family therapists, registered clinical counsellors, social workers, chiropractors, massage therapists, and physiotherapists.
Fees:
Early-Bird | After March 28th | |
CSCH Member | $230 | $265 |
Non-Member | $295 | $330 |
Full-Time Student | $165 | $165 |
Payment:
By e-transfer or credit card.
Faculty:
- Davidicus Wong, MD, Family Physician
- Derek Chang, MD
- Harry Stefanakis, PhD, Psychologist
- James Stabler, MSW, RCC, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist
- Lance Rucker, DDS, Professor Emeritus, UBC Dentistry
- Bianca Rucker, RN, PhD, Marriage & Family Therapist
- Saul Pilar, BASc, MD
- Leora Kuttner, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Professor of Pediatrics UBC & BC Children’s Hospital
- Kourosh Edalati, MD, FRCPC, Psychiatrist, Director of the Elumind Centre for Brain Excellence
- David Bowler, MBChB, CCFP, CAFCI, PgCPain, Family Physician with Focused Practice in Pain Management and Clinical Hypnosis