August 16 (Monday) – August 22 (Sunday), 2010

Basic:               August 16 (8:30-5:00) and August 17 (8:30-11:45)
Intermediate:   August 17 (12:45-6:00) and August 18 – 19 (8:30-5:30)
Advanced:        August 20 – 21 (8:30-5:30) and August 22 (8:30-3:30)  

10-hour Basic Training 

·        How to think like a hypnotist

·        History of hypnosis

·        Common misconceptions

·        Contraindications

·        Avoiding recipe-focused therapy

·        Hypnosis and brief therapy

·        Hypnosis and relaxation

·        Breathing and other rhythms

·        Ethical implications

·        Self-hypnosis, meditation, and guided imagery

·        Trust and hypnotic rapport

·        Methods for inviting trance

20-hour Intermediate Training:

·        Intermediate methods for inviting trance

·        Hypnotic logic and therapeutic change

·        Association and dissociation

·        Hypnosis and "flow"

·        Shifting the boundaries of the “self” and of awareness

·   Shifting from control to coordination, from countering to encountering

·        Metaphorical communication

·        Synchronizing with clients

·        The art of inventing and offering suggestions

·        Developing and intensifying concordance with clients

·        Therapeutic storytelling—inventing, structuring, and telling stories

·        Intravening rather than Intervening

·        Formal and informal trance

·        Utilizing “resistance”

·        Evoking and utilizing trance phenomena

·        Conscious/Unconscious processes

20-hour Advanced Training:

·        Advanced methods for inviting trance

·        Inventing therapeutic change

·        Explaining hypnosis to clients 

·        Intraventive multitasking 

·        Hypnotherapeutic improvisation

·        Extemporaneous counterpoint

·        Utilization of distractions and problems 

·        Creating implicit categories

·        Construction of memory

·        Working contextually and collaboratively

·        Thinking pattern

·        Completing distinctions

·        Inviting relational freedom

·        Shifting the boundaries and the experience of the problem

·        Unraveling and reconfiguring the pattern of the problem

·        Practicing therapeutic non-violence

·        Hypnosis for

·  pain

·  anxiety and depression

·  skin conditions

·  disturbing thoughts and emotions

·  other non-volitional problems

·        Limitations and possibilities

These small, highly interactive workshops interweave hands-on hypnosis training, in-depth didactic instruction, and ongoing question-and-answer opportunities. Participants are immersed in observing, talking about, conducting, asking about, and experiencing hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

Continuing Education

Context Consultants is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling as a provider of continuing education hypnosis training. Provider number: BAP-639-Exp.03/31/2011.

These workshops have been approved for CEU credit by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling; the Florida Board of Psychology; the Florida Office of School Psychology; and the Florida Council of Licensed Midwifery. They are also approved for CEU credit in Georgia by The Department of Marriage and Family Therapy at Valdosta State University .

Practicing Hypnosis in Florida

Florida doesn’t certify or license hypnotherapists, but if “practitioners of the healing arts” wish to employ hypnosis in their work, then they must complete hypnosis training that has been approved by their professional licensing Board. Chapter 485, the “Hypnosis Law,” defines a practitioner of the healing arts as “a person licensed under the laws of the state to practice medicine, surgery, psychiatry, dentistry, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, naturopathy, podiatric medicine, chiropody, psychology, clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, or optometry.” Appropriately trained professionals within any of these areas of expertise may employ hypnosis, but only “within the limits and framework of their own particular field of competence.”

The statutes that govern hypnosis training for professionals licensed under the 490 Board (psychologists) and the 491 Board (mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, and clinical social workers) are not altogether clear. They specify that psychologists are required to take 10 hours of instruction to practice what is defined as “basic hypnosis”—stress management, self-hypnosis, guided imagery, or relaxation—and they say that 491 professionals must complete 50 hours to do anything “other than stress management, self-hypnosis, guided imagery, or relaxation.” However, the rule governing 491 practitioners doesn’t mention the 10 hour training in basic hypnosis described in the rule for psychologists, and the rule for psychologists doesn’t mention additional training to allow them to do more than basic hypnosis. The intent of the rules appears to be that a practitioner licensed under either the 490 or 491 Board should obtain 10 hours of training for practicing basic hypnosis and 50 hours for practicing therapeutic hypnosis. Chapters 490 and 491 both specify that the use of specific modalities (e.g., hypnosis) is restricted to professionals who have been appropriately trained in such modalities. 

Workshop Cost 

The 50-hour training costs $750 for not-yet-licensed (N-Y-L) therapists and/or full-time graduate students, and $875 for already-licensed (A-L) therapists (who are no longer students). No credit cards please. Complimentary continental breakfasts and afternoon refreshments will be provided.

10-hour workshop—N-Y-L: $150 / A-L: $175

20-hour intermediate workshop—N-Y-L: $300/ A-L: $350

20-hour advanced workshop—N-Y-L: $300/ A-L: $350

30-hour basic-and-intermediate workshop—N-Y-L: $450/A-L: $525

40-hour intermediate-and-andvanced workshop—N-Y-L: $600 / A-L: $700

50-hour (basic, intermediate, and advanced) workshop—N-Y-L: $750 / A-L: $875

Location

The workshops this year will once again be held in the ArtServe Auditorium in East Fort Lauderdale. The address is 1350 East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. Phone: 954-462-8190. The space is friendly, but the temperature is variable. Bring a sweater with you. There are several good restaraunts nearby for lunch.

From I95, take the East Sunrise Blvd. exit and drive toward the ocean for 2.5 miles. Along the way, you’ll cross over some railroad tracks. When you start seeing Holiday Park on your right, you’ll know you’re getting close. The Artserve building is at the East end of Holiday Park, at the corner of Sunrise Blvd. and 14^th Ave. Turn right on 14^th and make an immediate right into the parking lot. As you enter the building, the auditorium will be to your left.  

If you have questions about the workshops, you can reach Dr. Flemons in the following ways:

                    E-mail: douglas@contextconsultants.com

                    Phone: 954-296-8944

                    Address:   Context Consultants

1948 E. Sunrise Blvd., Suite 8

Fort Lauderdale, FL  33304