Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (B.C. Division)

Level 2 Zoom Workshop

April 26th and 27th, 2025 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

Day 1 (Saturday):

  1. Leora Kuttner PhD: Fine-tuning Language to enhance your Hypnosis Suggestions.
    In this session we’ll explore words, phrases, prosody and pacing, and include the use of questioning to enhance the power of your suggestions. We’ll focus on developing hypnotic language to tell the difference between direct and indirect suggestions to become more therapeutic, not only in the words used, but by in the way it’s expressed and hopefully lands. Concepts such as open-ended, invitational, metaphoric, hope-generating are some of the characteristics of language that have more therapeutic potency. We’ll practice!
  2. Lance Rucker DDS and Jack Sniderman MD: Incorporating Clinical Hypnosis into the preparation, procedures, and follow-up for everyday dental and medical clinical interactions.
    Medical and dental procedures provide multiple daily opportunities for clinicians to optimize patient expectations, procedural progress, immediate outcomes, and ongoing healing and resolution related to interventions and to underlying disease processes. Patients often arrive at our clinics with anxieties about receiving frightening diagnoses, concerns about having to endure unpleasant and potentially painful procedures and being incapacitated by state-dependent memories. During this Level 2 module, clinician faculty presenters will demonstrate ways in which such opportunities can be recognized, how hypnotic processes can be readily envisioned and engaged, and how optimal outcomes can be realized. Breakout practices (pairs) will address clinician-appropriate pre-op, trajectory, and post-op scenarios which will be monitored and coached by experienced faculty clinicians.
  3. Harry Stefanakis Ph.D. R. Psych: Rewire & Restore: Using Clinical Hypnosis to Prevent and Treat Burnout.
    Burnout disrupts mental clarity, emotional well-being, and overall resilience, but hypnosis can help restore balance. This seminar explores how clinical hypnosis rewires stress responses, promotes recovery, and enhances long-term resilience. Using the CORE framework (Centering, Opening, Releasing, Extending), you’ll experience guided hypnotic techniques to regulate the nervous system, release mental exhaustion, and rebuild inner strength.

Day 2 (Sunday):

  1. Davidicus Wong MD: Narrative-informed Clinical Hypnosis: Using Clinical Hypnosis to Discover and Transform the Stories by Which We Live – Our minds are story-making machines because stories are how we make sense of the world.
    The stories that we adopt from our families of origin and cocreate throughout our lives shape how we see ourselves and our world. A maladaptive story is like an outdated mental model, but when reality doesn’t match our mental models, we blame reality rather than revising our theories, models or stories.

    In this session, we will explore listening for the stories that underlie our clients’ presenting problems and encouraging them to create a greater more adaptive narratives with the use of metaphors and stories in clinical hypnosis.

  2. Shelley Ugyan MACP, RCC: Healing Adult Attachment with Clinical Hypnosis.
     This presentation explores how clinical hypnosis can help repair attachment disturbances in adults. We’ll examine how early attachment patterns shape emotional regulation and relationships and discuss hypnotic strategies to shift maladaptive schemas, enhance affect regulation, and foster secure attachment. Practical techniques and case examples will be included.
  3. David Bowler MBChB: The Rewind Technique for Phobias and Past Trauma.
     Originally described as Visual-Kinesthetic Dissociation or The NLP Fast Phobia Cure this technique is a useful and rapid method of dealing with phobias and relatively well-circumscribed incidents of past trauma. This is not suitable for individuals with complex PTSD, severe attachment disturbances, or personality disorders.

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. Completion of Level 1 is required.

Fees:

  Early-Bird After April 13th
CSCH Member $240 $275
Non-Member $305 $340
Full-Time Student $175 $175

Payment:

By e-transfer or credit card.

Faculty:

  • Davidicus Wong, MD, Family Physician
  • 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
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