Workshop 3 is offered over three days; your registration covers all three sessions. 

Friday, August 15, 2025 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm, EDT, 1 hour break at 12:00pm for lunch)
Saturday, August 16, 2025 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm, EDT, 1 hour break at 12:00pm for lunch)
Sunday, August 17, 2025 (8:30 am – 3:00 pm, EDT, 1 hour break at 12:00pm for lunch)

20-hour Advanced Training: Inventing Change

Topics include:

• Preparing clients for hypnotherapy
• Avoiding recipe-focused hypnotherapy
• Intraventive multi-tasking
• Symptoms = avolitional sensations, thoughts, actions, and emotions
• The self-referential spiraling of symptoms
• Hypnotherapeutic change = engaging avolitional agency to alter avolitional symptoms
• The self-referential spiraling of therapeutic change
• Practicing hypnotherapeutic improvisation
• Utilizing distractions and problems
• Creating implicit categories
• Utilizing expectancy
• The construction of emotion, memory, and certainty
• Thinking contextually and working collaboratively
• Inviting relational freedom
• Shifting the boundaries and the experience (the quality, intensity, and/or irritation of the problem
• Unraveling and reconfiguring the pattern of the problem
• Practicing therapeutic non-violence
• Post-hypnotic suggestions
• Altering anxiety, panic, pain, addiction, habits
• Limitations and possibilities

Workshop Fees

The workshop fee is reduced for students and/or non-yet licensed clinicians. The following credit cards are accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.