Setting
This year’s Annual Conference will take place online. Information on how to access the training through Zoom will be emailed to you once you register. Any internet-connected computer capable of running Zoom and having a functioning microphone and camera should be adequate for participation. The course will be highly interactive with large and small group discussions and practice.

Schedule
Workshop schedule is 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. each day. There will be 15-minute breaks mid-morning and mid-afternoon and one hour for lunch.

Eligibility
Persons are eligible if they hold doctoral degrees in Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, or Nursing, or a Masters Degree in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling, or Nursing, and if they are licensed to practice in the state in which they practice. Also, current students of these disciplines are eligible.

Continuing Education Credit

PENDING APPROVAL
Certificates of Attendance Provided. Twelve (12) CE hours will be awarded for attending the entire two-day workshop. No partial credit will be given and no credit will be given for those who attend one day only.

• Credit toward ASCH re-certification has been approved for this workshop at the advanced level.
• This program is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Psychological Association and the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis. The North Carolina Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The North Carolina Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program is offered for 12 hours of continuing education credit.
• The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy, Course #3839, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/04/2021 - 11/04/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 12 Clinical continuing education credits.

Target Audience
The workshop is for intermediate and advanced practitioners of clinical hypnosis. Further training and supervision are recommended.

Attendance Policy
To receive continuing education credit, you must be present for the entire workshop and complete a course evaluation through the online form to which you will be directed during the workshop. No credit will be given to participants who are late in arriving or who leave early.

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

Grievances
If you would like to file a grievance, please do so as described on our Grievance Policy page

Conference Fees
Member $325
Non-Member $425
Student Member $162.50
Student Non-Member $212.50

Representative References

• Barabasz, A. F., & Barabasz, M. (2017). Hypnotic phenomena and deepening techniques. In G. R. Elkins (Ed.), Handbook of medical and psychological hypnosis: Foundations, applications, and professional issues (pp. 69–76). New York, NY: Springer.
• Bateson, G. (2000). Steps to an ecology of mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Bear, A., & Bloom, P. (2016). A simple task uncovers a postdictive illusion of choice. Psychological Science, 27(6), 914–922. doi:10.1177/0956797616641943
• Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.

• Erickson, M. H. (2008). Further clinical techniques of hypnosis: Utilization techniques. In E. L. Rossi, R. Erickson-Klein, & K. L. Rossi (Eds.), The collected works of Milton H. Erickson, Vol. 1: Basic hypnotic induction and suggestion (pp. 271.301). Phoenix, AZ: The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Press.

• Flemons, D. (in press). The heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing change. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
• Flemons, D. (2020). Toward a relational theory of hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 64(4), 344-363. DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2019.1666700
• Flemons, D. (2019). Heating up to cool down: An encountering approach to Ericksonian hypnotherapy and brief therapy. In M. F. Hoyt & M. Bobele (Eds.), Creative therapy in challenging situations: Unusual interventions to help clients (pp. 70-79). New York, NY: Routledge.
• Flemons, D., & Charlés, L. (2019). Transvision: Unknotting double binds in the fog of war. In L. Charlés & G. Samarasinghe (Eds.), Family systems and global humanitarian health: Approaches in the field (pp. 123-141). New York, NY: Springer.
• Flemons, D., & Green, S. (2018). Therapeutic quickies: Brief relational therapy for sexual issues. In S. Green & D. Flemons (Eds.), Quickies: The handbook of brief sex therapy (3rd ed.) (pp. 9-45). New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
• Flemons, D. (2008, July/August). Hypnosis, indifferentiation, and therapeutic change. Family Therapy Magazine, 7(4), 14-23.
• Flemons, D. (2007, May/June). Finding flow. Psychotherapy Networker, 31(3), 67-71.
• Flemons, D. (2005). May the Pattern be with you. In F. Steier & J. Jorgenson (Eds.), Gregory Bateson: Essays for an ecology of ideas (pp. 91-101). Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic.
• Flemons, D. (2002). Of one mind: The logic of hypnosis, the practice of therapy. New York, NY: W. W. Norton.
• Jiang, H., White, M. P., Greicius, M. D., Waelde, L. C., & Spiegel, D. (2017). Brain activity and functional connectivity associated with hypnosis. Cerebral Cortex, 27(8), 4083–4093. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw220
• Kirsch, I. (1985). Response expectancy as a determinant of experience and behavior. American Psychologist, 40, 1189-1202.
• Kirsch, I. (2017). Placebo effects and hypnosis. In G. R. Elkins (Ed.), Handbook of medical and psychological hypnosis: Foundations, applications, and professional issues (pp. 679–685). New York, NY: Springer.

• Landry, M., & Raz, A. (2017). Neurophysiology of hypnosis. In G. R. Elkins (Ed.), Handbook of medical and psychological hypnosis: Foundations, applications, and professional issues (pp. 19–28). New York, NY: Springer.

• Moerman, D. E. (2002). Meaning, medicine, and the ‘placebo effect’. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Siegel, D. J. (2017). Mind: A journey to the heart of being human. New York, NY: Norton.
• Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J. H., & Fisch, R. (1974). Change: Principles of problem formation and problem resolution. New York, NY: Norton.
• Yapko, M. D. (2019). Trancework (5th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.