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Embracing Ambiguity:  The Worlds of Ericksonian Hypnosis 
with Tim Brunson PhD
  
	
You may begin this course at anytime and work at your own pace.
  
Lesson 1:  Introducing Dr. Erickson and His Innovative Style of Hypnotherapy
- Why use hypnosis:  From Myths to Advantages.
 
- What are the five basic principles of his techniques?
 
- How he used flexibility and observation.
 
 
   Lesson 2:  Using your Patient’s Patterns as an Intervention
- How to use and alter their current patterns.
 
- Establishing new patterns.
 
 
   Lesson 3:  Differences and Sameness
- How splitting concepts can form new meaning.
 
- How linking concepts can form new meanings.
 
- Using splitting and linking at the same time.
 
 
   Lesson 4:  Stories and Metaphors Can Access the Unconscious Mind
- What are roles of metaphors and stories in therapy?
 
- Why should I want to lead the patient in the direction that they are going?
 
- Elegantly using symbols, analogies, and refraction.
 
 
   Lesson 5:  Finding the Power in Implications, Ambiguity and Reframing
- How to say what you are saying without saying it.
 
- Ambiguity, confusion and the resistant patient.
 
- Looking at something in a different light.
 
 
   Lesson 6:  Linguistic Techniques I
- Learn how to easily and elegantly use advanced linguistic patterns in therapy.
 
 
   Lesson 7:  Linguistic Techniques II
- Master even more of Erickson’s linguistic patterns.
 
 
   Lesson 8:  The Phases of Erickson’s Therapy
- The seven step therapy process.
 
- How to break resistance and get change elegantly.
 
 
   Lesson 9:  The Elements of Erickson’s Trance Induction
- The seven ways to get trance.
 
- How does this compare to other hypnosis traditions.
 
 
   Lesson 10:  Putting Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis Together:  Four Views
- Hailey’s Framework.
 
- Beahr’s Framework.
 
- Rossi’s Framework.
 
- Bandler & Grinder’s Framework
 
 
   
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