How To Use Ericksonian Hypnosis

To Create Incredible Change

You too can easily learn and use ericksonian hypnosis in simple situations, help your family members or clients in places such as 'over dinner' or in more professional contexts like coaching or managing.

 

Background to Ericksonian Hypnosis

& why hypnosis does not have to be a 'couch session' anymore

The work of Milton Erickson publicly changed the way hypnosis and trance had been perceived and viewed. Citing that -

trance and hypnosis is a phenomenological experience inherent in us all and as such everyday experiences taken for granted are hypnotic phenomena to be utilised in trance and change work

A different approach

The difference between the work of Milton Erickson and other clinicians at the time lay in how Milton understood and utilized his clients everyday 'trances' to shape their experiences in ways that would help them reorganise their problems and find new pathways to change, without having to do 'formal trance inductions' common in the clinical world.

During that time, it was understood that only certain people (good hypnotic subjects) were susceptible to hypnotic inductions and therefore were the only people able to take advantage of the available therapeutic interventions that could help them.

This was largely due to the tests used to demonstrate a subjects hypnotic susceptibility (how susceptible were they to suggestion) as well as the limited skill of the practitioners in understanding hypnosis as a phenomenological experience.

The tests

Some of the tests included: The Hand Clasp & Rocking or Attention Gazing at a swinging watch. While the subject was engaged in the task the clinician would make hypnotic suggestions (for example with The hand clasp) that while their attention was focused on an object in front of them.....the subjects hands were to come together .....only as quickly.....as it took for them to.....focus more intently on the object.....until such a time their hands would become..... locked together like glue....and the more they focused their attention on the object.....the more their hands would stick together.

The test of their hypnotic suggestibility would be whether the subject could pull their hands apart by their own free will. If they could, they would either be subjected to further tests or concluded to be un-hypnotisable. Similar tests are used today by stage hypnotists to draw out from the crowd who would be good subjects to work with on stage.

The inevitable drawback of this type of testing...

The inevitable drawback of this type of testing mean the clinicians concluded only a percentage of the population were susceptible to suggestion and as such only that percentage could take advantage of the therapeutic treatments available under hypnosis. These therefore built cultural beliefs around the fact that:

Hypnosis is something that is done to people.

They either were or were not hypnotisable and had to find other methods of treatment other than where hypnosis had been found to be beneficial in helping with their condition.

This left an obvious hole in the clinical world of therapeutic treatment. If the only available effective treatment at the time was under hypnosis and the client was deemed to be un-hypnotisable the client inevitably lost out.

Short of being a miracle

Milton H. Erickson had a different approach he had developed in part because of his incumbent disabilities of polio, colour blindness and word blindness.

During a time in which he suffered a severe bout of polio which left him paralysed, it was suggested by the doctors to his mother that he would not make it through the night.  Milton overheard this conversation and he set out to prove the doctors wrong. He survived and spent the time he was bedridden discovering how to use his mind to get himself out of bed and able again.

Short of what would be seen to be a miracle he regained a lot of his mobility in a short time. It was during this time he learnt how to use his unconscious mind to regain his mobility. Because of his disability and by listening to and studying others he had learnt how people created the trances they lived by that either disempowered them or helped create their successes.

Conversational hypnosis & naturalistic trances

Ericksonian Hypnosis gets rid of the stereotype of laying on a couch, closing your eyes and counting back from ten

Milton developed ways to use naturalistic trances, language, and metaphor that enabled his client’s access to their unconscious mind without the need for formal trance inductions. His skill was immeasurable and consummate in guiding his clients into and through trance in order to access the resources of their unconscious mind.

The principles of Erickson’s work presupposed that as trance was a natural everyday phenomena and people's problems were the domain of the unconscious therefore, the domain for the change lay also in the unconscious mind. It was a question of how to provide people with access to those resources that would prevail in their recovery and change.

NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis & Trance

In the early 1970's, John Grinder and Richard Bandler (co-creators of NLP) had the opportunity to meet Milton Erickson by their mentor and friend Gregory Bateson; a friend of Milton's.

From their meetings, John and Richard formalised a set of models and principles from Milton's work whereby they could reproduce the methods of Milton into teachable skills, techniques and strategies. Thus others could with practice achieve some of the extraordinary results that Milton had with his clients, with their own.

As the doors of trance and hypnotic phenomena opened so did the understanding and multi-disciplinary uses of these same skills merge into other fields other than those kept to the clinicians and stage artists that hypnosis occupied as an occupation.

Hypnosis today

Today, the legacy if Milton's, John and Richard's work can be found in sales, for influencing and persuasion to personal coaching, management training, sports performance, teaching, training, parenting and beyond.

Today the phenomena of hypnosis and trance states for learning, change and personal enhancement is open to all that wish to learn how to access their unconscious mind and create the type of change that would otherwise have only been accessible by going to a trained hypnotherapist.

Today, the locks that kept the doors closed all those years ago are freely open for you to learn and discover what you really are capable of achieving.

How I came to learn Hypnosis and how it brought me back from the brink of destruction

From 1992 - 1994 I suffered severe episodes of panic attacks and acute anxiety. I could not explain why they happened or where they came from. My life became a living hell from which I could not escape.

Everything started slipping away from me, my achievements, future and my life. I sought solace from the fact that the only way out was a place I did not want to go to, to escape this hell, and so this became both my bitter motivator and demon.

I knew there had to be something, someway of getting rid of what was happening to me and yet I just didn't know what it was.

I had tried everything

I tried all sorts of medication from beta blockers to seeing a psychiatrist (whom I thought was madder than me, as he kept insinuating I was hearing voices) - needless to say, I lost all confidence in him and  the medical institution. No-one could explain what or why it was happening or what to do about it.

Work became difficult, I coudn't concentrate, I thought people must be staring at me when the panic episodes happend. I found that I was slowly pulling myself away from the world and trying to hide what I thought was 'me going slowly mad'. I became fearful of telling people for fear of being put on serious drugs or worse, thrown away somewhere.

I battled on and vowed that I would find a way throught this maddening state of fear and panic. I did.

I came across a book called self-hypnosis by Dr. Brian Roet. I found a single passage in the book that talked about the unconscious mind. I bought the book and read it from cover to cover.

So began my journey like Milton's in learning how to change this demon. I learnt and practiced and practiced how to build and develop trance through self-hypnosis. I learnt how to control the panic attacks, to understand what they were and why they happened. I would go the loo at work when I needed to, drop into a trance and use what I was learning.

Within 4 months, I had become free from the demons that had haunted me for 2 years. I had learnt how to use my mind and be free.

 

I had befriended the giant within

How NLP made sense of Hypnosis

Shortly after this I came across Neuro Linguistic Programming. I had found that NLP explained the structure behind what I had learnt in how I had changed myself.

Today what took me 4 months to change; I can change in less than an hour.

Kathy SmithI feel that this course has added a new dimension to my perception of the influences particularly internal, that help or hinder my progress through life. The effects of this new perception and knowledge with the allied accessing skills already have a profound effect on my life. Thank you!

You would benefit from this course?

• If you want to learn hypnosis and trance for personal change
• If you’re a coach and want other ways of helping your clients that work
• If you’re a parent and have tried all the things you can to help your family and want ways to help them
• If you’re looking at getting into the people helping industry and want to use hypnosis as a way to help them
• If you’re in the medical profession and are stuck in not knowing how else to help people

Ericksonian Hypnosis Overview

Erickson hypnosis is about learning how to access your unconsious mind and resources for change, or that of others. Using natural trance states and conversational language you will learn the methods, skills and techniques that have also helped the people above in creating the life they wanted to live as well as the methods of Milton Erickson M.D.

The course is built around the three direct principles of trance. Here you wil learn to be skillful in the use of a wide range of techniques to induce trance in many different situations.

The three stages are:

• The induction - learning a wide variety of skills and techniques to induce the state of trance in hypnosis, you'll have the flexibility and adaptability to make this easy in any situation.
• The trance - Once either you or the recipient is at the level of trance and hypnotic state you require, you'll will need to know what to do to create the change or access the resources you need. Here you will learn a number of different techniques for creating powerful change.
• The return - re-orientation brings you back to your normal waking state. Here you'll learn different methods to do this depending upon the situation you or your client is in.

The Specific Techniques You'll Learn:

Learn specific techniques and a multitude of ways to give you the flexibility to induce trance and more.

The induction

The Invocation

The Indication

You will also learn:

You'll also learn the different types of trance states and what to use them for as well as the trance states themselves

How to recognise when the onset of trance happens and how to utilize these states for quick suggestions

What trance is and is not and why knowing this will help you realise some of the most important and fundamental aspects to personal development and change

As a special bonus you are also going to learn how to Cold Read. If you have ever watched Derren Brown or the TV programme The Mentalist you're going to learn some of the secrets they use to 'read' someone, where it almost appears as if they have the skills of a 'mind reader'.

For beginners...

 

...and for the advanced person:

Where & When

Where:

The course is held in Bracknell, Berkshire.

BlueMountain Conference Centre

(The conference centre is 10 minutes taxi drive from Bracknell train station, 40 minutes out of Waterloo station in London and 10 minutes off from the M4.)

Date:

16 - 18th September 2011

Registration on the Friday will be 9.00 for a 9.30am start, finishing at 6.00pm
each successive day will start at 9.00am and finish at 6.00pm

Cost

The normal cost of this course is: -

£897

To ensure you get a place we recomend you book early to avoid disappointment.

A Full Ericksonian Training Course

The last time we ran this course was in the summer of 2010. We don't run this often, therefore if you really wish to learn Ericksonian Hypnosis and at this price consider whether you either, desire to wait and pay at the full price or  join other courses that offer similar content for longer time frames at over £1800.

This is a full Ericksonian Hypnosis Training Course that is desigend to teach you everything you need to know to successfully use the skills, techniques and methods of Milton Erickson for your personal use or with your friends and family at work or with your clients.

How do you manage to fit it all into three days?

The course is structured in such a way to teach you the skills in layers. Such that each exercise of sklls and techniques builds upon the next to successively give you all the methods outlined in the course.

What do I need to do to book

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N.B. Please note company invoices will not be accepted for this course.

And after you've booked

You will recieve confirmation of your booking and 7 days prior to the event you will be sent an email with your 'Joining Instructions' that will include everything you need to know to be there.

 

As the course is mostly hands on and not just watching, you learn & experience so much and feel that in a short time you have accomplished Sooooo much. Everyone would benefit from the course even if they never used it outside the class as it is layered in such a way what ever you want you could make the course fit. Catherine Casey

To begin with I doubted I could actually put a person into a trance. A common self-doubt that I possess. Just implementing the techniques proved I could and I CAN do things. This crap belief (Self-doubt) is on its way out. No doubt about that. The other students provided a sage and supportive environment thank you. Rob paced and delivered the course brilliantly. Jim Haffey

Robert was enthusiastic and worked hard to keep the group working well together. It felt packed with information and plenty of time to practice techniques – it was a real learning experieince, not just information gathering. Jill Ackland, Psychologist.

It was brilliant – I warmed to Rob and his style of training. The setting was great. Rob it’s a great course full of knowledge and skill from yourself and your style of teaching. Thanks for all you’ve helped me with. I’ve learn’t loads. Nicola Kalisperas - Community Counsellor.