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Trance Camp, Summer 2005, San MarcosThe e-book presents material covered on the Trance Camp 2005.Trance camp is an experiential workshop for those interested in exploring trance and generative personal change. It teaches skills for cultivating inner states for purposes of improved health, happiness, healing, and helpfulness to others.Stephen Gilligan  was among the students that gathered around the founders of NLP during its formation at U.C. Santa Cruz from 1974-1977. He was influenced from Milton Erickson and Gregory Bateson, and became one of the premier teachers and practitioners of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. Motivated by his experiences as a therapist, a teacher, and by his own quest, he developed a new practice of radical awakening incorporating Ericksonian psychotherapy, Aikido, Buddhism, meditation, and the performance arts.His work, known as Self-relations Psychotherapy, reconnects mindbody processes and encourages and supports radical change. The cornerstone of Self-Relations Psychotherapy is the understandings and processes of Sponsorship.hook up with the creative unconscious before receiving the “symptom as solution”;translate the symptom description into a “solution in progress”;create a safe “sanctuary” for the “symptom as solution”;access and connect competent ego states to the symptom;identify and disconnect “alienating” negative influences from the symptom;transform the symptom into a solution;test the effectiveness of the solution;incorporate the client’s competent cognitive skills into an ongoing relationship with their creative unconscious.