Workshops For Professionals

WORKSHOPS FOR PROFESSIONALS

George Glaser, M.S.W. | Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.

GEORGE GLASER, MSW

Formats of half-day, 1-day, and 2-day workshop: This presentation helps practitioners develop comfort and efficacy when responding to patient's anxiety states and associated affective presentations. Using this approach, anxiety is viewed as a set of compelling and interrelated biological, psychological and interpersonal experiences. Practitioners learn concepts and methods for teaching clients how to respond with greater comfort to the waves of distress that often accompany such messages. We focus on the flexible use of direct and conversational hypnotic interventions to promote increased comfort for both parties, rapid decrease of anxiety and panic, and an openness to exploring the psychological and interpersonal components of the problem. Participants will gain tools for helping clients become more comfortable in accessing, acknowledging and using anxiety as a tool for healing, and develop skills for attending to their own psychological state while participating in the therapeutic process. Hypnosis, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and self-relations theory inform the concepts and skills presented here. The events involving the use of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) monitoring present information on the simultaneous use of HRV biofeedback equipment to help clinicians pinpoint problem areas and more accurately find language and techniques to assist the client/patient in acknowledging their fears and reaching a calmer state on physical and emotional levels.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

May 4, 2007

Calming the Heart of the Demon: Using Heart Rate Variability to Monitor Hypnotic Status
One-day workshop at the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (Alberta Division)
Spring Conference & Workshops - Banff, Alberta

May 5, 2007

Hypnosis as a Tool for Aiding Medical Compliance
One-day workshop at the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis (Alberta Division)
Spring Conference & Workshops - Banff, Alberta

May 17-20, 2007

Ericksonian and Self-Relations Approaches to Anxiety
4-day Cruise and Workshop sponsored by the Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis

March 7-11, 2008

Calming the Heart of the Demon: Interplay of Hypnosis, Breath, and Heart Rate Variability
Advanced Workshop at 50th Annual ASCH Scientific Meeting and Workshops - Chicago

September 12 , 2008

What About Hypnosis? An Overview for the Curious Mental Health Professional
3-hour event In ccordination with the Office of Professional Development - UT School of Social Work, theCentral Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Austin.

October 3, 2008

Managing Anxiety: Interplay of Hypnosis, Breath, and Heart Rate Variability
One-day presentation for the Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey; Elizabeth, New Jersey

UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS

November 6-8, 2008

Calming the Heart of the Demon: Interplay of Hypnosis, Breath, and Heart Rate Variability
Advanced Workshop - NASW Texas Annual Conference; Galveston, Texas

to contact George Glaser for information about content, fees and availability.

Four-Day Intensive Consultation/Training Group With Stephen Gilligan, Ph.D.
April 2 - 5, 2009 • Austin, Texas

(Sponsored by The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Austin)

Event is full - contact us if you wish to be on the waiting list.

Stephen Gilligan is one of Milton Erickson's most influential students, extending Dr. Erickson's work in many creative ways. Most importantly, over the past 15 years he has been developing Self-Relations Psychotherapy, a post-Ericksonian approach, which expands on Erickson's remarkable therapeutic approaches:

• accepting and utilizing the person's reality

• using resistance creatively

• seeing and developing the symptom as a solution

• seeing how the attempted solution is the problem

• developing healing trances from a person's presenting reality

• accessing a person' s creative capacities

The development of Stephen Gilligan's Self- Relations Psychotherapy is a work in progress, and Steve’s ongoing supervision groups continue to be a very important part of the evolutionary process. The Austin/Houston training seminar began in 1986 as one of Steve’s first consultation groups. This gathering offers you 4 full days of experiential learning with one of the finest therapists and integrative thinkers in the world of psychotherapy. The next Austin/Houston consultation group meets at a private home in Austin, Texas. These events usually fill quickly. We would love to have you participate, so contact us early about availability.

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