other IACT/IMDHA important news

With the Fall season quickly approaching I'd like to call your attention to four terrific trainings sponsored by our organization. An announcement at your meeting is gratefully appreciated. Mentioning the events in your blogs, tweets, web site, chats, yahoo posts, or any other social circle helps make the events a success. Thank you in advance for your support!!!

Coach Training - http://www.goalimageryinstitute.com/

Galaxy of Stars - http://www.iact.org/TrainGalaxyOfStars.php

Parts Therapy Instructor Training http://www.iact.org/TrainPartsTherapy.php

Parts Therapy Workshops

4-Day Certified Parts Therapy Trainer
Instructor: C. Roy Hunter

The only place you can receive this training!

When: October 8-11, 2009
Where: Las Vegas, NV
Time: 9-5 each day
Tuition: $995

To Register:
Phone: 570-869-1021
Fax: 570-896-1249
Mail: Hypnosis Headquarters, RR #2 Box 2468, Laceyville, PA 18623
Online: Register In The Store

After successful completion of this 4 day Training, participants will have all the tools necessary to teach client centered parts therapy to hypnosis students and/or hypnosis professionals, using an optional PowerPoint Presentation, designed for exclusive us of Certified Parts Therapy Trainers. While the first two days are devoted to learning parts therapy, the last two days will enlist the expert teaching of Roy Hunter to show you how to train others to properly employ parts therapy.

Prerequisite for Parts Therapy Trainer: Must have at least two years of full time experience with professional hypnotherapy (or three years of part time professional experience), and EITHER 1) have taken previous training in client centered parts therapy PLUS professional experience using parts therapy with clients. Exceptions must be cleared by Roy Hunter.

When clients have an inner conflict, parts therapy often helps to resolve the conflict even when other hypnotic techniques fail

Someone strongly desiring to attain a goal, but who also experiences self-sabotage, may be a prime candidate for PARTS THERAPY. Competently facilitated, parts therapy often helps people get past barriers when other techniques are insufficient. However, there are pitfalls that must be avoided in order to maximize results for your clients. This course is experiential, and is a MUST for anyone not totally familiar with parts therapy. Roy Hunter, is the published author of two hypnosis texts based on the teachings of the late Charles Tebbetts, as well as Hypnosis for Inner Conflict Resolution: Introducing Parts Therapy. All who attend will receive a participant workbook. The first two days will cover the following:

Day 1 and 2
Objectives:

What parts therapy is
When to use parts therapy
Why parts therapy is best for some clients
How to use parts therapy (complete step-by-step process)
How to explain parts therapy to your clients, and why such explanation is needed
Why it is so important to be an objective mediator
How to avoid inappropriate leading, and the potential consequences of not doing so
Why Roy Hunter added an important update on the Tebbetts Method
How to avoid common pitfalls that could put clients farther away from success
Participants will have breakaway practice sessions

Day 3 and 4
Objectives:

Participants will learn...
How to introduce parts therapy to hypnosis students and professionals
How to teach parts therapy (step-by-step)
Why it is important to facilitate role play during the learning process
What role play exercises to use with your participants
How to use Roy Hunter's PowerPoint Presentation as a guide to help you teach

INCLUDED is a copyrighted CD available for the EXCLUSIVE use of Certified Parts Therapy Trainers, which contains the following:

A professional PowerPoint Presentation as a guide for both you and your students
An MSWord document with Roy Hunter's copyrighted Parts Therapy Workbook, which you can reproduce for your students
A special 'Read this first' file, which contains additional information for the Certified Parts Therapy Trainer.
Optional exam (and exam key)) for your use with students.
Additional MP3 sound files to accompany the PowerPoint presentation

Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate recognizing you as a Certified Parts Therapy Trainer. At a later date you will have access to a special parts therapy website, and you will be listed on BOTH the Association website AND on Roy Hunter's website as a Certified Parts Therapy Trainer.

Train the Trainer http://www.iact.org/TrainTheTrainer.php

Below is an article I found in the Virtual Library. "Delivering Effective Metaphors" Idea! This could be a topic/discussion for a future chapter meeting...

Thought to ponder...

“If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." -Zig Ziglar

Be well and prosper,
Robert

Delivering Effective Metaphors

By George Bien

Too often hypnotherapists go into a nonsensical, non-directional story, used over and over again and call it a therapeutic metaphor.

According to the Free Online Dictionary, a metaphor is "A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage".

As hypnotherapists, we use a metaphor as a substitution of one idea or object with another, to assist expression or understanding. It is a communication that uses analogies and symbols, to create new meaning. Now, I’m assuming that you have a basic understanding about structuring metaphors in a story-like fashion.

The problem is that too often hypnotherapists go into a nonsensical, nondirectional story, used over and over again and call it a therapeutic metaphor. I've seen this too often in my classes. And it was done by licensed professionals! This actually diminishes the magic of metaphors. We can use direct hypnosis and supplement it with a metaphor-type story, but the flow of the story must be carefully delivered.

Don't get too excited! Just because a client's eyes are closed doesn't mean that they're benefiting from what is being said!

First things first! Have a clear objective or goal. You will have to do some work with your client to establish the meta-outcome. I want to kill my boss NOT a meta-outcome! Keep asking your client, “What would that do for you?”, until you arrive at the meta-outcome, which could actually, “I was to feel respected!”

You then need a clear destination. Without a clear destination, how can you calibrate whether or not you’re moving in the right direction? Basically, how are you going to help your client get that outcome? And what is the right direction? This of course is a means of a way to achieve a specific outcome.

Naturally, obstacles to the goal(s), outcome(s) will be present. Otherwise, why would the person be seeking your services? If you compose obstacles metaphorically, be sure that your client can relate to them on both conscious and subconscious levels.

Now, you need a way to overcome those obstacles. It’s been said, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”. Perhaps so, but we’re not going to just consciously overcome them, they have to impregnate the unconscious (subconscious)! Remember what Einstein said, “Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. And when the two are in conflict, the imagination always wins.” And, of course, you have hypnosis on your side.

Naturally, some facility with hypnotic languaging in your delivery will make a greater impact. Obviously, you delivery has to be effective, so continuously calibrate your client's responses.

I don't thing that I need to stress the importance that metaphors must be idiosyncratic to the person with whom you are working. It must be "that of the client", not "that of the hypnotist".

Idiosyncrasy, as defined by Wikipedia, is "a peculiar temperament, habit of body (idios - one's own, and syn-krasis - mixture) is defined as an individualizing quality or characteristic of a person or group, and is often used to express eccentricity or peculiarity. The term can also be applied to symbols. Idiosyncratic symbols mean one thing for a particular person, as a blade could mean war, but to someone else, it could symbolize a surgery." Thanks Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia)!