Hypnotherapy and Mental Training

Contents

The training teaches the foundations of mental training and demonstrates how top athletes and other peak performers can be effectively coached.

The seminar will cover the following contents:

Basics of trance inductions
- The principle of pacing and leading in hypnotherapy
- Connecting and utilization
- The principle of small steps
- Hypnotherapeutic language patterns
- Indirect communication and intersperse techniques
- Metaphors
- Posthypnotic suggestion
- Activating processes of self-organization

Insights into application fields of hypnosis and hypnotherapy
- Hypnosis as a practice and covering approach
- Special applications in medicine and emergency situations
- Application in sports and other peak-performance areas
- Hypnotherapy as an approach to solving problems and conflicts
- Special applications in consulting, coaching, and psychotherapy

Utilization of the client's resources and skills
- Connecting resources with situations, where they are needed
- Resource work in sports and other peak-performance areas
- Resource work in medicine (surgery preparation, etc.)
- Psychotherapeutic utilization of resources

Hypnotherapeutic application of time progression

- As a protocol for finding solutions
- In the work with athletes, smokers, overweight people, exams, etc.
- For creative solutions to interactional conflicts

Activating unconscious knowledge
- Use of the creative powers of the unconscious for diagnostics
- Activating the client's implicit knowledge of himself and his symptoms
- Application in the field of psychosomatics, burn-out syndrome, depression, etc.

Utilization of problem trances
- Special techniques in the work with psychosomatic patients
- Utilization and reinterpretation of the patient's problem metaphors
- Utilization of problem trances for trance induction
- Recognizing and utilizing spontaneous age regressions

Trainer

Ortwin Meiss (Germany)

Date

July 19 to 24, 2010

Requirements

Basic experience in counseling or therapy

Target group: Therapists, counselors, and coaches who want to learn efficient and effective techniques for therapy and coaching.

Language of instruction

German, translation into English is possible

Certification

Participants will receive a certificate of participation.
In addition, the Milton Erickson Institute in Hamburg recognizes this seminar as a B1 and B2 building block for the hypnotherapy training (B1-B8).

Investment

€ 880

Program combinations

You can book this course seperately or as part of the following combination program, subject to a discount:

Applied Hypnotherapy (three weeks with Ortwin Meiss, Dr. Stephen Gilligan, and Dr. Stephen Paul Adler)