All right, so before the whole lunch break we went through a nice simple structure for
doing some hypnotherapeutic work, right?
Would it be fair to say that you started to experience something significant and shifts
were going, I realize that not all of you necessarily had a resolution, but all of you
got closer to one, if not actually receiving one.
Would that be fair to say?
Remember you're only working for half an hour and I'm still recommending you initially
start with 90 or 120 minute sessions to really build everything, including the kitchen sink.
(An English expression, I don't know why they want kitchen sinks but apparently we
do) What I want to do now is take this training wheel model we've played with and give you
a more general model of what I would consider to be a model for Ericksonian hypnotherapy.
Nothing in this list will surprise you except for one or two things that we'll cover tomorrow.
But I want you to be aware of it, because then we can start looking at the therapeutic
stage in it to play with that.
Before we actually go into this model here, let me just simplify this into three steps.
This puts everything in perspective.
[Drawing on the board]
There are three key phases that I personally conceive of in the Ericksonian therapeutic
thing and the reason I give them a phase and not a step is because they're not linear.
They are all three constantly happening and they are all running inside of each other,
so you'll start one which leads into the other, which goes to another one and goes
back to the first, ends up in the third and comes back to second, so they just jump all
around the place, but they are three key things that are constantly happening.
I call them the three T's just to tease you a bit.
The first of the three T's is…
Trance Induction
This is basically everything that gets the conscious processes out of the way.
I hope you realize by now you're constantly doing things to get the conscious process
out of the way and consciousness will resurface and diminish in waves throughout your whole
session.
Which means, you're constantly re-inducing trances, deepening and really it becomes the
same effect.
The point of what you're trying to do is to keep limiting the amount of interference
you get from the rigidity of the conscious mind.
Do you understand what I mean by that?
Yes.
The next one I think a lot of you already understand…
Trance training
Trance training, as you well know, is accessing as many unconscious potentials as you can
usually in the form of phenomena, because when you access a phenomenon it proves that
trance is working, which goes right back into trance induction.
It sidelines the consciousness even more, because once you receive proof it creates
a stronger dissociation from the unconscious that conscious/unconscious dissociation is
going on.
The third thing that's happening, you get to start doing your therapy.
You're using therapeutic trances.
You're using the fact that the conscious mind is not so involved in step one and the
fact that you have lots of experiences brought up in phase II, to do something practical
with it.
Each of these three phases, and remember they're not linear they'll happen constantly throughout
a session.
Each of these three phases has its own unique problems and its own unique solutions.
By far the most difficult of them all is step number three.
This ironically is the one that most hypnosis schools, coaching schools and so on just give
you a glib technique for, and it had its uses, but I think it misses the point in terms of
how important and how significant that particular trance is.
You could probably spend three lifetimes just exploring that element and getting some real
good material out.
Therapeutic stage
Ironically enough, field hypnosis, most people are fixated on the first step, trance induction,
which is actually the simplest of them all, although as you saw earlier when we talked
about 4:46 resistance if you like in teaching us how to work that you can get stuck in a
way with that too.
Now trance training, I've noticed that many hypnotherapists, many hypnotists in general,
but hypnotherapists in particular are petrified of that in case it fails.
I think whilst anyone wants to laugh at their misfortune, you can see those concerns be
much more laughable now, given your experiences.
So these are three key phases that are constantly running.
If you think of three little machines running inside the whole hypnotherapy practice that's
these three here.
How does that look in actual practice?
Well, it starts with some kind of problem and an outcome dynamic.
What is the problem?
You can get very elaborate.
I've seen models where you spend an hour talking about their family, their history,
when and where does it happen, how do you feel when it does happen?
How could it possibly not happen?
I mean it's very involved.
Personally I don't get very much up front, I just look at if I understand what the nature
of the problem is?
Do I understand what they want?
Do I have a sense of where the blockages are?
That's usually enough for me.
Erickson did even less, he just said, what's the problem?
Shut your eyes and off he went.
Step number two is not a part of my marriage counseling practice.
It's actually a term that comes from another hypnotist called Dave Dobson, who's an excellent
phenomenon, another genius like Milton Erickson, also sadly passed away now.
We'll deal with that more tomorrow, I'm just putting it in here so you have a complete
model.
Somewhere in that whole process you'll be making your decision around inherent skills
the personal already has.
What is the hidden ability and the problem?
Also, what might be missing?
What is it that if they had it would it would be easy to resolve the problem?
Again, not rocket science at this point.
Then number four, we go straight into the whole trance step.
Steps one to three are relatively invisible because you're doing it in conversation
ahead of time and it seems like you're doing chit-chat with a client.
This is where the action begins as far as they're concerned.
Now, you can start that formally, looking at folks at this point now go inside.
You can also do it informally, for example, in the form of a hypnotic lecture.
Erickson loved doing these sort of things where he'd say, okay, so your problem is
X, Y and Z and you've tried this, and this and this to resolve it and its failed.
Now you've come to me for help and you really need to understand the functioning of the
human body in this regard.
You can breathe and you can feel comfortable about breathing.
Some people have discomfort but soon it turns into a comfort when they understand the mechanism
of breathing, and off he goes.
The person has no idea that the trance has begun, they're just going like, what's
going on?
So the trance induction or the trance phase here, I hope you realize is, you can be semi-covert.
You can be totally overt, it doesn't matter too much it just depends on where you are
with that particular client.
Then I pull out three phases of trance training, and again they'll all kind of come together
anyways just to keep you posted with the general idea that you want to be doing a fair number
of Dr. Unconscious' within the process.
In other words, you want to talk to a semblance of that conscious mind from time to time.
As you get more experience, you'll end up talking to their unconscious more as their
somnambulist, although initially you'll think you're talking to their conscious
mind until you realize you're not.
But, five, six and seven is to really put you on alert that there are many ways you
can run those particular processes, but you do want to make several trips into the fractionation
process.
That you do have separate tasks to perform in there.
There are several different skills that you wish to elicit from them and that all of them
are important for the therapeutic process.
From time to time you may skip one of those steps, you may not go over the missing skill,
it may be enough for an inherent one or it may, just through general trance training
and discover sufficient resources to do the work you wish to do, in which case you make
a professional decision not to continue to find more resources, because you can get on
with their therapy.
And if you're correct you did a good job and if you're incorrect the client has no
idea that when you go back to doing some more trance training that it was in your plan all
along.
So again, step five, six and seven should be pretty straightforward for you, because
you've been doing it quite a bit now.
Are you okay with that one?
Let's have a look at the second portion.
So really, you can see the general steps one to four cover the trance induction phase.
You have to figure out what to do with these people and what kind of people you have.
Steps five, six and seven are really the trance training phase and then as we talked about
before, I've given it to you in a linear list but these things are happening in cycles
continuously anyways.
Then eight to the end is the therapeutic stage and again, you can do a lot of this stuff
as things are happening.
For example, when a trance phenomena comes up, you can start seeding their learning straightaway.
You don't have to wait until a later phase, although you can wait until a later phase,
there's a lot of choices you have available to you.
So you know about seeding their learning.
You understand about seeding their future memory, which basically gives the unconscious
mind the opportunity to adjust the conscious goal in accordance with the whole personality
and there's many ways you can do that.
These are relatively indirect.
You can directly ask the unconscious mind to adjust the goal so it becomes more relevant
to the person.
There's many things you can do with that.
Phase 10 is purposely ambiguous, that's where you do the therapy.
So far you've got a couple maneuvers you can do in therapy.
You've learned the reframe right?
You've learned to use trance phenomena as power loops in terms of, here's an experience
of trance.
Here's a way of separating yourself from memories and learning something from them,
so you can use it as a general, just review your memories in a new way.
You've learned how to play with the emotions to some degree.
So you have three simple maneuvers that you can put into that.
Those of you who have more coaching and therapy experience can plug whatever model you happen
to know into this point as well and it's much more likely to be successful because
the problems you typically run into, are less likely to emerge now.
We'll come up with some more processes today and tomorrow.
Integration and testing, well, it's pretty straightforward at this point right?
One thing I may add to this just to get an idea of completion, this includes what's
called the 'post hypnotic suggestion' phase.
A post hypnotic suggestion is basically an instruction to experience something outside
in the real world once they've finished the trance.
Really, it's the same thing as the future memory.
This is one of Erickson's favorite ways of preparing that and you should know a lot
of these ideas, especially the idea of inherent skill and the idea of the post hypnotic suggestion
comes from one of my mentors, John Overdurff, who also did an Ericksonian seminar, an excellent
seminar called 'Training Trances'.
It's a book of the first portion of that seminar available and it's a great read.
It's totally worth reading.
So, you'll recognize if you read it where some of my ideas came from and I take my hat
off to them because that's where I got the idea to start this.
The model I run is a little different from his, not to say that it's any better or
worse, necessarily, it's just the way I perceive it and hopefully it'll help you
perceive it in similar ways.
It's definitely worth getting a second opinion on.
If you watched any of the Erickson videos, especially those commentaries talking about
what Erickson's doing as he's doing his therapy.
He had a very different model.
If you look at his model you'll notice that it fits into this in some ways, but it's
very different.
If you ever watch those tapes you'll enjoy it because it's much more conscious mind
oriented, and you'll go oh, that makes a lot of sense.
How do you do that?
I don't know, but it makes a lot of sense.
Whereas, hopefully this is like, I don't quite understand it.
Yeah I can do it its easy but I don't quite understand it.
That's my preference.
It's easy and straightforward at this point.
So the post hypnotic suggestion, a simple way of doing that is to say, I don't know
how you'll know you've changed.
Perhaps you'll go home tonight and something wonderful will happen.
Perhaps you'll wake up in the morning and this happens.
You know, there's been many situations that had they happened in the past you would've
had the old problem resolved, but now when they happen 14:22 doesn't it?
Think about it now.
So you're basically getting them to re-experience that outside and if you know some of the contextual
situations they'll be in.
Maybe it's a car, something at school, being at work, being with other people, having set
tonality and so on, you basically list them and remind them that in trance when they have
these experiences it's a reminder that all this good work that they've done is being
fortified.
It's a relatively straightforward process.
After that we typically want to present amnesia.
You can give it more hard line to say you will forget stuff.
My preference is to offer the unconscious mind the opportunity and the right to let
the conscious mind forget those portions that are important for it to not interfere with
or think about.
And so typically you'll have what I get is a dual result.
The most elegant version, I think, was when the gentleman came up who said, I heard everything
you said.
I have no idea what it was but I heard everything you said.
That's a great example of amnesia.
He didn't forget the fact that he was in trance.
He didn't forget the fact that he'd had conscious activity whilst he was in trance.
He has no idea what it was, so he can't interfere with it, but at the same time he
acknowledged the fact that it occurred.
Sometimes they'll swear that certain portions have occurred, and of course you don't remind
them about that.
Other times they'll say they know everything and if you want to test them on it just ask
them about it.
What I recommend you do, if you're going to ask them about what happened in the trance
experience, get them to take a break first.
Let them walk around for a bit.
You know you'll keep people in a trance afterglow, like when they're doing this
sort of thing.
Wait till that stops because they're still hovering, there's an afterglow.
When hypnosis finishes, especially when a lot of stuff has happened, there tends to
be this afterglow that lingers like when you wake up in the morning, you have this sort
of sleep afterglow that lingers.
Wait for that to diminish because they're still on the threshold of trance so they'll
have more access to what's going on there.
It's called 'state dependent learning'.
Once they've changed their state more significantly, their everyday alertness, when you ask them
about it than they've had a much better chance to forget the important bits which
is great.
So you understand why now, right?
If you do ask about them, don't remind them and say, hey what do you think about this
bit?
Then you're reminding them about it again.
How was that experience for you?
Is there anything you recall from that versus what's everything you recall about that?
Do you understand the subtle difference in the way I presented, which will be received
differently?
Self-appreciation is very important.
I think it's a fundamental thing and really comes across clearly reading Erickson, that
he really appreciated and respected people of all walks of life, no matter how messed
up their life has become.
Some people that came to him did some really messed up things and really experienced some
strange and unpleasant situations and he still respected them immensely.
He still treated them as a valuable unique human being, whether they were a prince or
a pauper.
He made a point to ensure that they did the same for themselves that they appreciated
themselves also.
That's an important piece.
Finally, you end the trance.
You can do it indirectly where you say you can come back any time.
Do you feel all right?
You do it directly…
Erickson was not shy in saying, now count from 20 to 1 and awaken at the count of 1.
That's very classic, authoritarian hypnosis.
Many Ericksonian's miss that.
Use your instincts whether you want to make it a more formal ending or informal ending.
I like the informal ending because then people go, what the heck?
I also like that the last part of their trance is a Dr. Unconscious because they don't
know why they've just awoken.
But you don't have to do it that way you can do it any way and there's times when
I'll just count them out, purely because I consider it to be more valuable for them
in that sense.
Lastly, you want to distract them from what just occurred because of that trance that
we just talked about.
Have a general chat about the weather and all the rest of it.
One thing Erickson loved to do is, right up here before we started talking about a problem
or maybe around the gold digging stage, he'll start talking about something random, sometimes
actually even before the trance induction.
Maybe it's weather, football, a play he and his wife saw, a meal he just had… he'll
go huh?
He'll make no attempt to segue into it smoothly he'll just start talking about it.
Then he'll interrupt that as though halfway through and start doing the whole trance induction,
the whole process and by then they're off in fairy land.
When they come back he distracts them, they just carry on the conversation from where
they left off.
That creates a very nice loop and it works on a principle in psychology in memory research
called 'recency and primacy'.
The things you remember the best is the beginning and ending of things.
So he gives you the beginning of something and ending of something that fit perfectly
together, so the mind had a tendency, not a guarantee, but a tendency to put them together
as a whole unit and everything else that's happened in between kind of just vanishes.
The other version is distraction… have you ever noticed if you have something important
to say to someone and he's like sure, tell me you need some input but first… take your
train of thought off and go, what is it you want to tell me?
And they go, never mind, because they change your train of thought.
I actually used to love to do this, especially with the colleagues that really would give
him a hard time or chew him out and so on.
He'd just distract them to the point we were about to launch in and then go afterwards
and say so, what is it you wanted to say?
And they'll go…
So the whole model of Ericksonian therapy should be pretty straightforward for you right
now, although I appreciate there's many steps in it, it's not so much that you have
to remember steps in a sequence, these are all stuff that's happening pretty much at
the same time, layering over each other and so on.
This is one of the reasons why it can feel or seem like a daunting task, trying to make
sense of what Erickson's doing.
He's doing basically most of these steps, especially step four through eleven, which
are constantly happening on top of each other.
He'll distract them one way and then go another way and another way and so a lot of
things are happening.
To keep track of which one's happening for what reason, what stage he's at that can
take a little bit of skill sometimes, especially when you're going there with him.
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