Stephen Brooks – Hypnotherapy Lectures – Part 7

The course is based on 120 essential skills and techniques covering the following areas:

Indirect Hypnosis Principles
– The Interactional Approach
– The Intrapersonal Approach
– Implication, compression and economic language
– Symptom Substitution and Resolution
– The Relationship Between Cause and Symptom
– Response Attentiveness
– Achieving Positive Outcomes
– Communicating with the Unconscious
– Identifying Verifiable Goals
– Values, Criteria and Beliefs
– Abreaction and Trauma
– Identifying Sabotage Strategies
– Therapeutic Orientation – Change or Improvement?
– Motivating the Patient to Stay in Therapy
– Future Pacing
– Secondary Gains and Indirect Benefits
– Weaning Patients Off Therapy
– Understanding the Patient’s metaphors
– Contextualising Change
– Organic metaphors and Symptom Based metaphors
– Developing Advanced Strategies to Deal With Failure
– Pursuing Relevance
– The Structure of Learned Experience
– The Irrationality and Framing Model
– Contextual and Time frames
– Benefits and Costs
– The Laws of Attachment and Non-attachment
– Decision Making Personality Types
– Anchoring and Conditioning
– Feedback Loops
– The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort
– The Laws of Positive Expectancy and Reinforcement
– The Laws of Observation, Utilization and Reframing

Indirect Hypnosis Techniques
– Hypnotic Time Distortion
– Favourite Activity and Leisure Trance Inductions
– Pseudo-Orientation in Time in Hypnosis
– Positive Negative Integration in Hypnosis
– The Third Person Dissociation
– Hypnotic Catalepsy
– Arm Levitation Inductions
– Automatic Writing in Hypnosis
– Unconscious Negotiation in Hypnosis
– Recalling Previous Trance as an Induction
– Surprise Technique Inductions
– Therapeutic metaphor
– The Multiple Mirror Therapeutic Induction
– Age Regression Techniques
– Paradoxical Intervention
– The Old Master Induction
– Indirect Utilisation of Sub-modalities
– Uptime Downtime Induction
– Utilising The Patient’s Needs As A Motivational Strategy
– Stop Smoking Strategy
– Inducing Amnesia
– The Self-Suggestion Induction
– Teaching Your Patient Self-Hypnosis
– The Four Seasons Induction
– Crystal Gazing and Multiple Screens
– Non Verbal Inductions
– Ideo-Motor Signaling
– The My Friend John Induction
– Cellular Healing Therapy
– The Early Learning Set Induction
– Scrambling Symptoms
– Ambiguous Task Assignments
– Eye Fixation and Distraction Inductions
– The Confusion Induction
– Deep Trance Identification
– Hypnosis for Pain Control and Anaesthesia

Indirect Hypnosis Skills
– Taking the Patient’s History
– High Quality Information Gathering
– Creating and Applying Therapeutic Nominalisations
– Recognising the Minimal Cues of Trance
– Creating Dependent Suggestions
– Open Questioning
– Positive and Reverse frames and Negative Tags
– Sorting for patterns of association
– Adjunctive Suggestions
– Calibrating to Positive & Negative Response Cues
– Responding to Polarity Responses
– Classes of Double Binds
– Passive Response Suggestions
– Using Therapeutic & Hypnotic Double Entendre
– Post Hypnotic Suggestions
– Serial Suggestions
– Challenging Negative Nominalisations
– Sensory Based Predicates
– Open-ended Suggestions
– Resource Accessing
– Facial Symmetry Calibration
– Insertive Eye Contact
– Recognising Patients’ Subjective Interpretations
– Casting Doubt and Challenging a Patient’s Interpretations
– Getting Video Descriptions and Sequence Responses
– Designing Therapeutic Tasks
– Prescribing and Delivering Tasks
– Developing a Compassionate Empowering Personality

Integrity and Ethics
– The importance of patient confidentiality
– Integrity and ethics within a hypnotherapy practice
– When it might be better to partner with a co-therapist
– How to maintain patient records
– When to terminate treatment
– Ethical and legal business management and practice
– The current status of hypnosis and codes of practice
– Medical and psychological contraindications of hypnosis
– The importance of requesting feedback and follow-up
– Recognition of psychiatric illnesses and when to refer
– Establishing clear guidelines regarding duration and cost

Practitioner Development
– CBT, humanistic and psychodynamic psychology
– Research methodology related to hypnosis
– The history of hypnosis as a therapeutic approach
– objective evaluation of professional skill development
– The need and value of supervision and ongoing training
– Basic physiology and anatomy
– Recent developments in brain science related to the mind
– Recognition of how previous treatment may affect therapy

The Hypnotic Relationship
– Developing a caring and sincere approach to those in need.
– Patients general health and lifestyle management.
– Appropriate social and relationship skills for patients.
– Local resources and support groups available to patients.
– Identifying the patient’s expectations regarding outcomes
– Transference and counter transference
– Motivating patients to be an active part of the treatment.
– Secondary or external influences that affect therapy
– Contextualizing treatment to the patient’s environment
– How to clearly communicate therapeutic options
– How emotions can affect patients decisions and perception
– How to negotiate mutually acceptable therapeutic outcomes
– Evaluating the effectiveness of treatment

These 10 Lectures in this part are:
61. The Stephen Brooks Self Suggestion Induction
62. Teach your Patient Self Hypnosis
63. Stephen Brooks’ Four Seasons Induction
64. Understanding the Patient’s metaphors
65. Contextualising Change
66. Organic metaphors and Symptom Based metaphors
67. Crystal Gazing and Multiple Screens
68. Non Verbal Inductions  – Erickson’s Handshake Induction
69. Ideo Motor Signaling
70. Cross Matching