Hypnosis Workshop Topics
10-hour Introduction to Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
- How to think like a hypnotist
- History of hypnosis
- Hipgnosis
- Common misconceptions
- Contraindications
- Avoiding scripts
- Hypnosis and brief therapy
- Hypnosis and relaxation
- Breathing and other rhythms
- Ethical implications
- Self-hypnosis, meditation, and guided imagery
- Trust and hypnotic rapport
- Methods for inviting hypnosis
20-hour Intermediate Training: Inviting Hypnosis
- Intermediate methods for inviting hypnosis
- Hypnotic logic and therapeutic change
- Association and dissociation
- Empathic communication versus “yes sets”
- Shifting the boundaries of the “self” and of awareness
- Metaphorical communication
- Synchronizing with clients
- The art of inventing and offering suggestions
- Developing and intensifying concordance with clients
- Therapeutic storytelling—inventing and offering stories
- Intravening rather than Intervening
- Formal and informal hypnosis
- Utilizing internal and external interruptions and distractions
- Evoking and utilizing hypnotic phenomena
- Conscious and unconscious processes
20-hour Advanced Training: Inventing Change
- Advanced methods for inviting hypnosis
- Inventing therapeutic change
- Explaining hypnosis to clients
- Avoiding recipe-focused therapy
- Intraventive multi-tasking
- Hypnotherapeutic improvisation
- Extemporaneous counterpoint
- Utilization of distractions and problems
- Creating implicit categories
- Construction of memory
- Working contextually and collaboratively
- Completing distinctions
- Thinking with a patterned sensibility
- Inviting relational freedom
- Shifting the boundaries and the experience of the problem
- Unraveling and reconfiguring the pattern of the problem
- Practicing therapeutic non-violence
- Limitations and possibilities
- Hypnosis for non-volitional sensations, thoughts, emotions
Workshop Size & Format
Adapted for the Zoom platform, these small, highly interactive workshops interweave hands-on hypnosis training, in-depth didactic instruction, and ongoing question-and-answer opportunities. Participants are immersed in observing, talking about, conducting, asking about, and experiencing hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
A maximum of 20 participants are able to register for each workshop. A minimum of 14 participants is required for the workshop to be held.
Continuing Education
Context Consultants is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling as a provider of continuing education hypnosis training. Provider number: BAP-639-Exp.03/31/2023.
These virtual workshops have been approved for CEU credit by the Florida 491 Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. They are also approved for CEU credit in Georgia by The Department of Marriage and Family Therapy at Valdosta State University. The Florida Board of Psychology (for both psychologists and limited license psychologists) no longer pre-approves providers from complimentary boards. Psychologists may still take the training for CE credit; however, if audited, they would need to submit documentation establishing that the training “enhanced [their] psychological skills and/or psychological knowledge.”
Workshop Fees
The workshop fees are listed below. The amount depends on whether you are an already-licensed (A-L) therapist or a not-yet licensed (N-Y-L) therapist and/or full-time graduate student. The following credit cards are accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. You may also use a debit card, prepaid gift card, your PayPal account, or PayPal Credit.
- 10-hour Introduction to Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy (two 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $150 / A-L: $175
- 20-hour Intermediate Trainings (four 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $300 / A-L: $350
- 20-hour Advanced Trainings (four 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $300 / A-L: $350
- 30-hour Introduction-&-Intermediate Trainings (six 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $450 / A-L: $525
- 40-hour Intermediate-&-Advanced Trainings (eight 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $600 / A-L: $700
- 50-hour Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced Trainings (ten 5-hour days)—N-Y-L: $750 / A-L: $875
Zoom Link
Zoom links for the workshops will be sent via email with your purchase confirmation.
Further Information and Questions
If you’re interested in reading some of Dr. Flemons’s articles on hypnosis and therapy, click here.
If you have questions about the workshops, you can reach Dr. Flemons in the following ways:
- E-mail: [email protected]
- Phone: 954-296-8944 / 828-989-8479
Resources
Hypnosis
- http://www.erickson-foundation.org
- https://www.miltonherickson.com/
- http://www.asch.net
Brief Therapy
- https://www.brieftherapycenter.org/
- http://www.sfbta.org
- http://www.erickson-foundation.org
Practicing Hypnosis in Florida
Florida doesn’t certify or license hypnotherapists, but if “practitioners of the healing arts” wish to employ hypnosis in their work, then they must complete hypnosis training that has been approved by their professional licensing Board. Chapter 485, the “Hypnosis Law,” defines a practitioner of the healing arts as “a person licensed under the laws of the state to practice medicine, surgery, psychiatry, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, naturopathy, podiatric medicine, chiropody, psychology, clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, or optometry.” Appropriately trained professionals within any of these areas of expertise may employ hypnosis, but only “within the limits and framework of their own particular field of competence.”
The statutes that govern hypnosis training for professionals licensed under the 490 Board (psychologists) and the 491 Board (mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and clinical social workers) are not altogether clear. They specify that psychologists are required to take 10 hours of instruction to practice what is defined as “basic hypnosis”—stress management, self-hypnosis, guided imagery, or relaxation—and they say that 491 professionals must complete 50 hours to do anything “other than stress management, self-hypnosis, guided imagery, or relaxation.” However, the rule governing 491 practitioners doesn’t mention the 10-hour training in basic hypnosis described in the rule for psychologists, and the rule for psychologists doesn’t mention additional training to allow them to do more than basic hypnosis. The intent of the rules appears to be that a practitioner licensed under either the 490 or 491 Board should obtain 10 hours of training for practicing basic hypnosis and 50 hours for practicing therapeutic hypnosis. Chapters 490 and 491 both specify that the use of specific modalities (e.g., hypnosis) is restricted to professionals who have been appropriately trained in such modalities.
Workshop 2: Intermediate Training: Inviting Hypnosis (20 hours)
Day 1: Friday, October 1, 2021 (1:00 pm – 6:30 pm, EDT)Day 2: Saturday, October 2, 2021 (10:00 am – 3:30 pm, EDT)
Day 3: Friday, October 8, 2021 (1:00 pm – 6:30 pm, EDT)
Day 4: Saturday, October 9, 2021 (10:00 am – 3:30 pm, EDT)
$300 – $350
Workshop 3: Advanced Training: Inventing Change (20 hours)
Day 1: Friday, October 22, 2021 (1:00 pm – 6:30 pm, EDT)Day 2: Saturday, October 23, 2021 (10:00 am – 3:30 pm, EDT)
Day 3: Friday, October 29, 2021 (1:00 pm – 6:30 pm, EDT)
Day 4: Saturday, October 30, 2021 (10:00 am – 3:30 pm, EDT)
$300 – $350