North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Disability Accommodations
For additional information or disability accommodations, please contact John Hall, PhD, at 704.258.5553 (text or voice)

Here’s a sample schedule from our 2021 Conference

Day 1: Inviting Hypnosis (November 5th, 2021)

9:00-10:30

• A relational understanding of hypnosis
• Difference, context, & mind
• Boundaries of the self
• Embodied minds & mindful bodies
• Connected knowing
• Empathy, sympathy & compassion

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-12:00

• Q & A
• Flow & avolitional engagement
• Meditation & self-hypnosis
• Expectancy

12:00-1:00
Lunch

1:00-2:30

• Q & A
• Getting and staying in sync
• Mind-body coordination
• Hypnotic utilization and permissive language

2:30-2:45
Break

2:45-4:30

• Q & A
• Principles of hypnosis improv
• Stories, metaphors, & avolitional emulation
• Q & A

Day 2: Inventing Change (November 6th, 2021)

9:00-10:30

• A relational understanding of hypnotherapy
• Negation and boundaries
• Indifferentiating problems
• Formulating treatable problems
• From diagnoses to symptoms

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-12:00
Q & A

• Shifting clients’ orientation to their problem
• Altering addictive short-circuits

12:00-1:00
Lunch

1:00-2:30

• Q & A
• Altering patterns
• Altering self-referential cycles: anxiety, panic, & depression

2:30-2:45
Break

2:45-4:30

• Q & A
• Principles of hypnotherapeutic improv
• Therapeutic stories, metaphors, & avolitional emulation
• “Playing with” rather than “working on”
• Therapeutic utilization
• Facilitating learning
• Q & A