Our 2021 Annual Conference
featuring
Dr. Douglas Flemons
November 5-6, 2021
This presentation will be a hybrid event, in-person in Chapel Hill, NC and virtually by Zoom
13 CE Hours by ASCH & NCPA
(Pending approval)
Partial credit available if you can only attend live one day.
The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy
This two-day workshop will go to the heart of hypnotherapy, in both senses of the word. Gregory Bateson’s systemic ideas about mind and communication will help illuminate core principles and practices of hypnosis and its application to a therapeutic context. But we’ll also delve into the beating heart of this way of working—the use of empathy, the invitation of hypnosis, and the facilitation of therapeutic change. All discussion and learning will be guided by a deep respect for and understanding of the mindfulness of the body and the embodiment of mind, both intra- and inter-personally. This sensibility will weave through an exploration and application of meditation, Ericksonian utilization, and metaphoric communication, and it will inspire the experiential structuring of the workshop. Participants will have ongoing opportunities for trying out new ideas and skills, receiving feedback, asking questions, and incorporating (< L. in- “into” + corpus, “body”: “unite into one body”) new learning—for getting it into their bones.
Educational Objectives:
After the first day of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Educational Objectives:
After the first day of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe hypnosis as a shared-mind phenomenon.
- Utilize distractions from and obstacles to hypnosis as repurposed contributions to the process.
- Work extemporaneously, without relying on scripts, to absorb clients in hypnosis and invite avolitional responsiveness.
- Apply the principles of hypnotic invitations to the collaborative invention of therapeutic change.
- Orient to hypnotherapy as a non-confrontational way of altering, not abolishing, problems.
About Dr. Douglas Flemons
Douglas Flemons, Ph.D., LMFT, is Professor Emeritus of Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University, where, for over 30 years, he offered team-based live supervision and taught graduate courses on hypnosis and meditation, systems thinking, brief therapy, writing, suicide, and sex therapy. A licensed MFT and an AAMFT Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor, Flemons is the author of two books on hypnosis (Of One Mind and the forthcoming The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy); co-editor of Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy (3rd ed.); and co-author of Relational Suicide Assessment. In 2021, he won the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis’s Milton H. Erickson Award for Scientific Excellence in Writing on Clinical Hypnosis for his article, “Toward a Relational Theory of Hypnosis” in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. He presents nationally and internationally on a variety of topics, and since 1993, he has been offering an (almost) annual 7-day (50-hour) intensive, Florida-Board-approved hypnosis workshop in Fort Lauderdale. He has now relocated to Asheville, where he maintains a private practice, writes, and hikes.
Workshop Agenda
Please note: You must attend the whole day and do the evaluation to receive the certificate of attendance used fo apply for CE hours.
CAN'T COME BOTH DAYS?
We've got you covered. If you can only attend one Saturday, you'll be able to watch a recording of the other one. You can get credit for CE hours ONLY for the days you attend live. To get partial credit for one day of attendance:
CAN'T COME BOTH DAYS?
We've got you covered. If you can only attend one Saturday, you'll be able to watch a recording of the other one. You can get credit for CE hours ONLY for the days you attend live. To get partial credit for one day of attendance:
- You must still register and pay for both days of the Conference
- You must attend one day
- You may receive CE hours only for the day you attend live.
- You do not need to attend/watch Session 1 to attend Session 2 "live" or vice versa.
Schedule to Come Soon!
About Dr. Flemons' Upcoming Book
The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy:
Inviting Connection, Inventing Change
(W. W. Norton, 2021)
In the popular imagination, hypnosis is misconstrued as something done to people, as if the hypnotist hypnotizes them. And hypnotherapy is similarly misconceived as something done to clients’ problems, as if the therapist could unilaterally counter or cure them. In a refreshing departure from conception-as-usual, Douglas Flemons offers another view, articulating relational ideas about how minds and bodies communicate and learn. In his characteristically casual but concise way, he explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited, not induced, and how hypnotherapy entails the altering and unraveling of knotted strands of problematic experience, not the controlling and abolishing of labeled afflictions. The therapist gets in sync with clients so they can, together, extemporaneously facilitate avolitional shifts in unbidden and undesired thoughts, urges, emotions, sensations, or behaviors. This book takes you to the heart of hypnotherapy, to the respectful, playful practice of utilizing clients’ flow experience to collaboratively discover and create—to invent—opportunities for embodied learning and therapeutic change.
Inviting Connection, Inventing Change
(W. W. Norton, 2021)
In the popular imagination, hypnosis is misconstrued as something done to people, as if the hypnotist hypnotizes them. And hypnotherapy is similarly misconceived as something done to clients’ problems, as if the therapist could unilaterally counter or cure them. In a refreshing departure from conception-as-usual, Douglas Flemons offers another view, articulating relational ideas about how minds and bodies communicate and learn. In his characteristically casual but concise way, he explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited, not induced, and how hypnotherapy entails the altering and unraveling of knotted strands of problematic experience, not the controlling and abolishing of labeled afflictions. The therapist gets in sync with clients so they can, together, extemporaneously facilitate avolitional shifts in unbidden and undesired thoughts, urges, emotions, sensations, or behaviors. This book takes you to the heart of hypnotherapy, to the respectful, playful practice of utilizing clients’ flow experience to collaboratively discover and create—to invent—opportunities for embodied learning and therapeutic change.