Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D.
Workshops for Professionals
Workshop Format
Enrollment is restricted to professionals with graduate degrees in health-related fields (e.g., M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D., M.S.W., M.A., etc.) or full-time graduate students in accredited programs in these fields.
All brochures produced by the sponsoring organization must contain eligibility statements, and copy must be reviewed prior to printing.
Each workshop customarily consists of lecture, experiential exercises, practice sessions, live demonstrations and discussion of videotapes of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., recorded in 1979 and 1980 during teaching seminars in Phoenix, AZ.
Workshop Descriptions
1. Brief Therapy:
Key Concepts in the Ericksonian Approach
Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (1901-1980), was renowned for his ingenious methods for eliciting patient change. His approach harnessed the power of hypnosis, but often without the use of formal trance. These brief therapy techniques, such as symptom prescription, reframing, anecdotes and symbols, can be incorporated into any psychotherapeutic discipline and across patient populations to enhance therapy.This dynamic workshop presents cornerstone principles of Ericksonian strategic psychotherapy. Key concepts include goal setting, gift wrapping, tailoring, creating a dramatic process and utilization. Applications to problems such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders and trauma will be addressed.
Educational Objectives:
1) To list five "choice points" that can be used to empower therapy.
2) Given a treatment goal, describe how to gift-wrap, tailor, and process the intervention.
2. Hypnosis in Time-Limited Therapy I:
Fundamentals of the Ericksonian Approach
What is hypnosis? What is the Ericksonian difference? How can I help patients elicit a constructive trance experience? How can I more powerfully present ideas to surmount resistances? How can I take methods from hypnosis and apply them in my practice without the necessity of formal trance? This experiential workshop answers these questions and more.You will discover how to elicit a trance state and learn the essential elements of trance from an Ericksonian perspective. You will enhance responsiveness through the application of novel assessment criteria based on the styles and values of the individual. Powerful hypnotic language forms can be tailored so that a trance is developed in the most appropriate and efficient way for each patient. You will see demonstration inductions and work in small groups to induce and experience hypnotic states.
Educational Objectives:
1) To describe the three-stage "skeleton' of an Ericksonian induction sequence.
2) To describe the use of responsiveness to minimal cues.
3) Given a patient's hypnotic responsiveness, indicate a brief therapy approach.
3. Hypnosis in Time-Limited Therapy II:
Intermediate Training in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Based on the ingenious hypnotherapy of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., you can: Utilize trance states to achieve clinical objects. Learn verbal and nonverbal communication forms that create optimal trance and post-trance responses. Discover the structure of resistances and how to utilize them. Harness indirect methods such as the interspersal technique, the confusion technique and the use of anecdotes, and help patients who suffer common clinical problems such as anxiety and depression. You also will see a live demonstration of actual hypnotherapy.Prerequisite: Participants in this workshop should have attended basic workshops on Ericksonian hypnotherapy and use it in their clinical practice.
Educational Objectives:
1) Given a patient, create a series of anecdotes to elicit resource states.
2) Given a patient with depression or anxiety, indicate a hypnotherapy approach.
4. Hypnosis in Time-Limited Therapy III:
Advanced Training in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Increase the efficacy of using hypnotic techniques to achieve clinical objects. Learn to use trance phenomena and multilevel symbolic communication. Create advanced induction procedures to bolster the process of hypnotherapy. Use "prehypnotic" suggestions, such as seeding, to increase effectiveness. Learn the latest techniques of inducing therapeutic amnesia. Conduct supervised hypnotherapy. View a complete demonstration of hypnotherapy. Topic areas include habit and pain control, phobias and hypnotherapy with the severely disturbed patient.Prerequisite: Participants in this workshop should use hypnotherapy regularly in their clinical practice and have previously attended workshops on the Ericksonian method.
Educational Objectives:
1) Given a patient, create a utilization induction specifically targeted to the patient's complaint.
2) To describe the stages in the process of Ericksonian therapy, and provide examples of three methods for each stage.
5. The SELF-Developing Clinician
Theory, Technique, Research--Each plays an important role in being an effective therapist. Accomplishment in these areas, however, does not make one a master clinician. There is something more-- a creative flair, as seen in such master therapists as Milton Erickson, Carl Whitaker, and Virginia Satir. They knew that developing one's SELF is an ongoing and never ending process, and each welcomed the challenge.There are many models to promote Self-development including personal therapy and supervision. These methods are valuable but often inadequate. Improvisation offers an additional model that is relevant because, in many ways, psychotherapy/counseling is a theatre art, more similar to improvisation than to science.
In this program, we will use improvisational training methods to develop innate tools. We will model master clinicians and learn how spontaneity and discipline join to become the foundation of effective clinical work. We will work individually and in groups, to develop our lenses (ways of viewing), our muscles (ways of doing), our heart (compassion), and our hats (social roles).
Group hypnosis and growth games are integral to this systematic training, which is primarily experiential, rather than didactic. We will address our personal assets and liabilities, and work to increase our strengths and improve those areas where we falter. We will discuss how these games, called PsychoaerobicSM exercises, can be readily applied to individual, group, and family therapy in order to shorten treatment. We will learn the tools to make therapy more effective and more fun for both patients and clinicians.
Therapists from all disciplines and at every level of experience can benefit from this training program, which has been widely acclaimed by attendees from the United States and abroad. Come see what it's all about. You'll be glad you did.
Educational Objectives:
1) To list five characteristics which made Milton Erickson a master clinician.
2) To identify three professional strengths and weaknesses and describe beneficial, related self-development exercises.
Additional One-Day Workshops
BRIEF, TIME-LIMITED PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A MANAGED CARE WORLD:
AN ERICKSONIAN APPROACH
NOTE: Each of the one-day programs can be presented separately or they can be combined into a longer workshop. They also can be expanded into longer programs.
Assessment and Treatment Planning
Learn a commonsense assessment format that allows practitioners to immediately develop an effective treatment plan.Metaphors and Symbols
Symbols and metaphors can be used as primary forms of therapy both within strategic approaches and within formal hypnosis. Symbols and metaphors are dramatic methods that can bypass habitual resistance.Habit Control
A method will be presented for joining assessment and treatment planning to create effective pattern disruption. Essentials of tailoring approaches for specific habit problems will be offered. Weight and smoking control will be emphasized.Depression: Using Tasks to Facilitate Treatment
Depression can be conceptualized intrapsychically, interpersonally and biologically. In each case, therapists can use directives and tasks to affect treatment. The use of congruent and noncongruent tasks will be described and participants will learn how to present tasks within the process of psychotherapy.Phobias and Anxieties
Integrative methods of therapy are especially effective in treating the panoply of anxiety disorders from simple phobias to OCD. Techniques used are derived from Ericksonian Therapy, Strategic Therapy, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis.New Programs
THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: or Masters of Therapy
What are the essential ingredients that make a master psychotherapist? In this program we will view sections of clinical demonstrations from presenters at the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences and describe the differences and commonalties that underlie effective clinical work. Experts to be studied may include: Aaron T. Beck, James Bugenthal, Albert Ellis, Eugene Gendlin, William Glaser, Mary Goulding, the late Robert Goulding, James Hillman, Otto Kernberg the late Ronald D. Laing, Al Lowen, Erv Polster, Miriam Polster, the late Carl Rogers, Ernest Rossi, the late Carl Whitaker, Joseph Wolpe and Jeffrey Zeig. The program also includes lecture and small group exercises to help students master principles and practice.THE UTILIZATION OF ERICKSONIAN METHODS IN COUPLES AND FAMILY THERAPY
Ericksonian methods are ways of empowering-empowering both individuals and systems. Techniques from hypnosis can be applied in systemic therapy, regardless of the orientation of the practitioner. It is not necessarily to rely on formal hypnosis, alone. Ericksonian hypnotic methods can make change more rapid and enduring.In this experiential workshop, we will explore the use of advanced techniques of reframing, posthypnotic suggestions without trance, and the use of imagery and metaphors with couples and families. We will investigate systems in which one member is the symptom bearer and we will also describe family patterns such as pursue/distance, hostile/dependent, and borderline/narcissistic.
ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS DEMYSTIFIED: BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR CLIENTS
Rather than Exorcists casting out hidden trauma and deficits, therapists these days look more like treasure hunters seeking the unrecognized gems in their clients' lives and personalities. Ericksonian hypnosis is an especially powerful tool for helping clients plumb for the best in their own natures and experience directly the untapped reservoirs of determination, intelligence, optimism and love that ultimately provide healing. In this intensive workshop, participants will learn about the latest dramatic advances for enhancing the experiential impact of therapy through trance. They will also learn the use of such classic hypnotic methods as the interspersal technique, the confusion technique and the use of anecdotes with a range of common clinical problems including anxiety and depression. Designed for both the beginner and the more experienced practitioner, this session will features live clinical demonstrations.Teaching methods include lecture, demonstration, videotapes, and experiential exercises. No previous training in Ericksonian hypnotherapy is necessary. Attendees must be licensed/certified to practice psychotherapy.
Specialty workshops are available on other topics such as:
- Key Concepts in Effective Therapy
- Therapeutic Tasks
- Hypnotic Pain Control
- Training Trainers: An Ericksonian Approach
To schedule Dr. Zeig for one of these workshops or for more information about them you may email Dr. Zeig, call his office at (602) 944-6529 or contact him by mail at the address below.
Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D.
1935 E. Aurelius Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
85020-5543 USA
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