Alternative Metaphors of the Natural Sciences

This workshop will show the limitations of our modern view of reality and how it can be understood, not as a dogmatic structure, but as a set of "metaphors." Instead of hypnotically succumbing to metaphors that have become too confining for us, we will be put in a position to consciously exchange these metaphors for others.

 

A workshop by:

Dr. Henning Alberts (Germany)

 

Date:

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m.

 

Content

In the Middle Ages people believed in "divine revelations," with the Bible as the main source of reference. Today we believe in the "objective truth" of the natural sciences, with statistics and figures serving as indisputable references. Many see this as progress, but it is perhaps only a process of exchanging one set of metaphors for another.

In this workshop we will show the limitations of our modern view of reality. We will look for contradictions in the areas of astronomy, archaeology, and evolution theory, and question the validity of our historical self-awareness and our conceptions of space and time. Furthermore, we will discuss facts that contradict our current view of the world and strange reports that we usually classify as mythological.

The goal of this workshop is to show how our modern view of reality can be understood, not as a dogmatic structure, but as a set of "metaphors." Instead of hypnotically succumbing to metaphors that have become too confining for us, we will be put in a position to consciously exchange these metaphors for others.

German presentation, English interpreting depending on the audience.

The presenter

Dr. med. Henning Alberts (Germany)

Date

Sunday, August 1, 2010, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m.

About the presenter

Dr. Henning Alberts, born in 1944, is a neurologist and psychiatrist who opened his own practice in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1978, with a focus on hypnosis. Since 1983 his work has integrated traditional hypnotherapy with the Ericksonian approach and the NLP techniques.

Henning Alberts has been a trainer and a teacher of hypnosis and NLP since 1986. He is co-founder of the Synapse institute and a trainer and member of the German Society for Dental Hypnosis (DGZH) and the Austrian Society for Medical and Dental Hypnosis (ÖGZH). He is also a member of the Milton Erickson Society (MEG). Since 2000 he has taught medical hypnosis at the Wissenstransfer Universitätsbund Tübingen (WIT).

Contact

E-mail: htm-alberts@t-online.de

Web: www.comedweb.de