Advanced intensives focus on the process of Ericksonian therapy, and the resources of the therapist. Exercises, supervision, and advanced instruction allow you to enhance your acumen as an agent of change.

Objectives
Week 1: The Metamodel of Psychotherapy & Advanced Techniques of Psychotherapy: Attunement

1. List the five choice points
2. Define the primary question for each choice point
3. Define attunement
4. Describe the place of attunement in therapy and hypnosis
5. List five methods of attunement

Week 2: Confusion Technique & Amnesia

1. List five methods to create destabilization.
2. Describe how to effect a destabilization method that will be appreciated by the client.
3. List five methods to elicit amnesia
4. Describe how and when to use amnesia techniques.

Week 3: The Process Of Ericksonian Therapy & Using Anecdotes In Therapy

1. Describe the SIFT method.
2. Indicate how to process an intervention sequentially given a patient.
3. Describe how to tailor a story
4. Describe how to use stories to elicit adaptive sub-states
5. Describe how to create a dramatic process to make simple stories effective

Week 4: Therapist Development

1. Indicate 3 strategies for being a better clinician for a given patient.
2. Describe 4 characteristics of an Ericksonian Therapist.
3. Describe 4 generic characteristics of a therapist.

Week 5: Therapist Development Part 2

1. Create an experiential exercise for clinician development for a given student.
2. Indicate an experiential exercise for a given couple.
3. Describe the rational for using experiential exercises.

Week 6: Formulating Indirect Suggestion And Therapeutic Binds: Rationale And Method

1. Review the rationale for using indirect suggestions and binds
2. Use construction formulas to quickly create a total of 6 forms of indirect.
3. Use construction formulas for 4 forms of therapeutic binds

Week 7: The Art And Science Of Impact

1. List three methods of impact from the arts that can be applied in psychotherapy.
2. Indicate how to apply methods from the arts to effect treatment, for a given patient’s problem or solution.

Week 8: Advanced Techniques Of Psychotherapy IV: Resilience, An Experimental Approach

1. Create an experiential intervention for a given patient
2. Describe the elicitation model
3. List five sub-states of resilience

Week 9: Making Therapy Visually Alive; Speaker Jeff Zeig, MA, LPC

1. Analyze a therapy goal and create a living sculpture of a part or process of that goal.
2. Describe how to use gestures to enhance the therapeutic moment, making the words “scaffolding” for a given problem or solution.

Outline

• The Metamodel of Psychotherapy
• Advanced Techniques of Psychotherapy: Attunement
• Confusion Technique
• Amnesia
• The Process Of Ericksonian Therapy
• Using Anecdotes In Therapy
• Therapist Development
• Formulating Indirect Suggestion And Therapeutic Binds: Rationale And Method
• The Art And Science Of Impact
• Advanced Techniques Of Psychotherapy IV: Resilience, An Experimental Approach
• Making Therapy Visually Alive