Ongoing Ericksonian Training with John Lentz, LMFT

Continuing Education Opportunity

Objectives for Course:

• Introduce New Participants to Ericksonian Hypnosis
• Inspire Participants to Develop and Use their Intuition in Therapy
• Deepen Repeat Participants' Understanding and Use of Ericksonian Hypnosis

In an effort to promote the systemic field of Ericksonian Therapy and Hypnosis, this continuing education opportunity offers the requirements for the 20 hours of training required by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) for membership.

ASCH divides these 20 hours into two levels of trainings into Level 1 and Level 2. 

Presented by John D. Lentz, DMin, LMFT and Approved Supervisor. Dr. Lentz acts as head of The Milton H. Erickson Institute of Jeffersonville, is a Certified Member & Consultant with ASCH as well as a member of the International Society for Clinical Hypnosis.

Participants will learn all or part of the following in this ongoing training:

• Introduction to Clinical Hypnosis
• Neurophysiology of Hypnosis
• Anatomy of the Hypnotic Experience
• Group Experience
• Process Group Experience
• Hypnotic Phenomenon
• Principles & Process of Rapport, Attunement, Trance Elicitation,and Reorienting
• Fundamentals of Hypnotic Communication & Formultation of Suggestion
• Client Assessment, Presenting  Hypnosis to the Client
• Intensification of Hypnotic Trance/Experience
• The Different Types of Trance Elicitation: Focused Diaphragmic Breathing, Eye Fixation, Eye Roll, Arm Levitation,
• Ego Strengthening
• Self-Hypnosis
• Treatment Planning, Strategy, and Technique Selection in Hypnotherapy
• Integrating Clinical Hypnosis into Practice
• Ethics and Clinical Hypnosis
• Refining Hypnotic Language and Suggestion
• Neuroscience of Hypnosis
• Applications of Hypnosis: Insight and Exploratory Techniques
• Ideomotor Trance Facilitation
• Advanced Elicitation and Intensification
• Applications: Anxiety, Fears, & Phobias
• Metaphorical Approaches in Hypnosis
• Developing and Using Metaphors in Hypnosis
• Utilization
• Applications: Habit Disorders, Disturbed Sleep, Pain Management
• and More.

The training will include dynamic presentation, demonstrations, experiential exercise, dyad practice, interactive discussion, reading, and reflection.