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Intermediate/Advanced Workshop October 15-16, 2022

EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN - OCTOBER 15 - 16, 2022 FALL WORKSHOP! 

"Personal Power:  Hypnosis to Enhance Strengths and Hypnosis with Couples"
 12 CEU's and credit toward ASCH Certification!

WHEN: October 15 - 16, 2022
WHERE: Virtual Workshop via Zoom
CREDITS: 12 CEU's and Credit Toward ASCH Certification

Stephen KahnPresented by Stephen Kahn, Ph.D.

Stephen Kahn earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1984, then became a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Kahn has been in private practice since 1979.  He has directed a number of major research projects at the University of Chicago, one on Hardiness and Stress and another on Creativity in Artists.  In addition, he has authored several papers and publications and has presented lectures based on his research endeavors.  He is co-author of a book entitled Self-Hypnosis: The Chicago Paradigm. Dr. Kahn co-edited a volume with Erika Fromm published in 2001 called "Changes in the Therapist,"  and also co-edited a volume entitled "Medical Hypnosis Primer" in 2009.  He is a licensed clinical psychologist and is currently a member of both the American Psychological Association and the Illinois Psychological Association, as well as the Maine Psychological Association.  He is both on the faculty and a Fellow of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) and is a Past-President of that organization.  In addition to being a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), he is also certified in Clinical Hypnosis and is an ASCH Approved Consultant.

Personal Power: Hypnosis to Enhance Strengths

This first day of this workshop will explore the enhancement of two areas of human strengths for both patients and clinicians: Resilience/Hardiness and Creativity.  After reviewing the research on Hardiness, we will complete a hardiness survey along with a variety of experiential exercises for creating and enhancing action plans, resolving blocks to these action plans, enhancing the sense of resilience, and acceptance of the things that can not be changed.  The research on Creativity will be addressed and then focus on ways of enhancing Creativity with hypnotic exercises for preparation and immersion in fantasy; reclaiming past successes; intensifying the creativity response; resolving blocks to creative emergence; and increasing present or future productivity. 

Hypnosis with Couples

The second day of the workshop presents a model for hypnotherapy with couples.  Participants will learn the indications and contraindications of using hypnosis with couples and learn how to assess resilience in the relationship.  The main focus of the workshop is on learning a variety of specific psychotherapeutic and hypnotherapeutic techniques for rekindling early positive relationship emotions; defusing strained cycles by fostering communication; managing thoughts; resolving unfinished family-of-origin business; addressing ongoing problems in the relationship; de-constructing couples' impasses that are at the heart of recurring cycles on the 'marriage-go-round;' and facilitating acceptance of each person.

Learning Objectives:

After taking this workshop, participants will be able to:
  1. List three dimensions of Hardiness based on research
  2. Identify three techniques for enhancing Hardiness
  3. Administer and interpret an assessment tool for Hardiness –pre and post tx
  4. Identify and apply two specific techniques for enhancing Creativity
  5. Outline a research-based model for treating couples
  6. List two specific techniques for enhancing couples' resilience
  7. Administer and interpret an assessment tool for couple's resilience

Program Schedule:

Saturday, October 15:

9:00 - 10:45 AM
Resilience and Positive Psychology
Resilience/Hardiness Model (Commitment, Control, Challenge)
Hardiness Assessment
Experiential: Increasing Hardiness
The Hardy Therapist

10:45 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM
 
Hardiness:
Specific Techniques:
  1. Nurturing Childhood Antecedents of Hardiness
  2. Action Plans and Resolving Blocks
  3. Anger Management
  4. Acceptance

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3;15 PM

Creativity:

Theory & Research: Wallas; Csikszentmihalyi
Experiential Exercise

3:15 - 3:30 PM  Break
3:30 - 5:00 PM

Creativity - Specific Techniques:

  1. Preparation and immersion in fantasy
  2. Reclaiming past successes
  3. Intensifying the creativity response
  4. Resolving blocks to creative emergence
  5. Increasing present or future productivity 

Sunday, October 16:

9:00 - 10:45 AM
  • Assessment: Resilience Survey
  • Research: Gottman, Figley & McCubbin, Kahn, and Maddi
  • Intervention: Pinsoff, Coche
  • Types of Hypnotic Couples Interventions
  • Resilience Model (increasing intimacy and decreasing conflict). 
  • Indications and Contraindications
  • Taking the History
10:45 - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM

Experiential Exercise
Psychoeducation – teaching hypnosis and coupling skills in a group format:
Resiliency Training for Couples - Specific Techniques
  1. Rekindling early positive relationship emotions
  2. Defusing Strain cycles by fostering communication
  3. Managing relationship thoughts
  4. Resolving unfinished family-of-origin business
  5. Addressing ongoing problems in the relationship

12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3;15 PM

6.  Anger/Conflict Management in Couples Therapy I (Simultaneous vs. Individual)

  • Stopping the marriage-go-round
  • Cognitive & Emotion-Focused
  • Time Outs & Time Distortion
  • Projective Identification - Deconstruction
  • Separation of Different Aspects of the Self
7.  Anger/Conflict Management in Couples Therapy II
  • Expression of Need/Coping Alternative
  • Taking Responsibility
  • Learning 
  • Rehearsal
3:15 - 3:30 PM  Break
3:30 - 5:00 PM
 
8. Facilitating acceptance of each person as they really are in the coupleship
9. Experiential: Resilience
  • Evaluations - Adjourn

Eligibility

Health professionals holding doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry, podiatry and psychology, or doctoral or masters degrees in social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, nursing, or other medical fields, licensed in the state in which they practice; degree graduates receiving documented clinical supervision toward licensing, and graduate students in eligible disciplines with documentation of their student status from the Chairperson of their graduate program. All attendees must have previously taken an ASCH approved Basic Hypnosis course or workshop.

automatically reports to cebrokerContinuing Education Credit

We offer 12 Florida CEU's for licensed psychologists under 490 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 5/24); clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists under 491 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 3/23), and all our workshops count toward ASCH certification requirements. We automatically report to CEBroker.

Location:  From the comfort of your home via Zoom

Registration Fees - Discounts for Early Registration

  Before Sept. 15 As of Sept. 15
FSCH Members $425 $475
FSCH NEW Life Members $212.50 $237.50
Non-Members $500 $550
FSCH Graduate Students/Intern Members $300 $350
Graduate Students/Intern Non-Members
(with student documentation)
$375 $425

 Note: if you are a graduate student or intern FSCH member, inquire about the Mutter Scholarship 40% discount.

Intermediate Workshop Registration OPEN!

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