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from http://www.hypnosisresearchinstitute.org/Embracing Ambiguity: The Worlds of Ericksonian Hypnosiswith Tim Brunson DCHWeaving Erickson’s Advanced Hypnotherapy Skills into your Medical or Therapy Practice!Regarded my most clinicians as the “Father of American Hypnotherapy”, the unique skills of Dr. Milton Erickson were probably the most profound hypnosis innovations during the last century. He expertly weaved hypnosis and therapy into a very respectful and powerful (but easily mastered) set of skills. This course brings you comprehensive instruction into the core concepts of this system. Whether you are healer or a business person, when you learn these tools your communication skills will reach new heights.Overall Learning objectivesUpon completion of this course participants will be able to:   * Quickly understand the basic principles of this permissive and indirect system of therapeutic change.   * Master the art of purposeful story telling and reframing as power communication tools.   * Learn to use simple but advanced linguistic phrases to overcome resistance.   * Understand how you can use his methods to improve your therapeutic practice.Tim Brunson DCHDr. Tim Brunson has over 30 years of training experience, including having taught on the faculty of two universities, serving as the head of a four state transportation school, having provided instructors to 23 universities, and working for the U.S. government as a head of training for eight Southeastern states. Additionally, his training and clinical experience as a doctor of clinical hypnotherapy and as NLP trainer have given him unique insights into communication, training, and the human mind. He facilitates and coaches individuals, organizations, and corporations who are seeking to excel through transformation. Also, he produces clearly superior Master Trainers and Communicators who employ powerful and entertaining techniques designed to achieve unheard of results.Course TextTaproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis by Bill O’Hanlon———-Course Agenda:Lesson 1: Introducing Dr. Erickson and His Innovative style of Hypnotherapy   * Why use hypnosis: From Myths to Advantages.   * What are the five basis 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