Certificating Generative Trance (Trance Camp)
By STHEPHEN GILLIGAN
For over 30 years, Dr. Stephen Gilligan has been one of the main teachers of Ericksonian hypnosis and therapy. We are delighted to have him come to Japan to present the most popular of his trainings, the 14-day certification course in “Generative Trance work. The course will be an intensively experiential workshop for those interested in learning how to use trance work for creativity and change, in themselves and others. In the Ericksonian view trance is seen primarily as a naturalistic learning state that occurs from within, not an artificial state created or controlled by an outside “hypnosis”.
The training teaches how to develop and utilize these states for purposes of improved health, happiness, healing, and helpfulness to others The training consists of two 6-day segments led by Dr. Gilligan, with two day-long practice sessions being held on November 1st and 2nd by Alastair Prentice to deepen understanding and skills between the segments.
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Week 1 will primarily focus on the many ways to develop and utilize trance to connect with the creative and healing potentials of the Self. You will learn how to help others to develop deep trance for lasting changes. You will learn techniques for self-hypnosis; establishing a connection with the inner self; identifying and transforming blocks and resistance; deepening trance; working with symptoms as trance states; transforming negative trance states into positive ones; mutual hypnosis; generative trance; and specific applications of trance. |
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Week 2 will emphasize how to utilize generative trance for transforming identity, healing, and major creativity and problem-solving. A major theme is how trance phenomena model the basic dimensions of psychological reality—e.g. time, space, body identity, memory, the future, and perception—and how you can develop these trance phenomena in creative ways for major changes. Skills development include age regression and age progression; time distortion; dissociation; hypnotic dreams; trauma resolution; goal achievement; and communication with the unconscious. These skills and practices will allow a person to realize mastery of their own psychological realities, so that he or she can live the best life possible. |
These courses are for therapists, coaches, and individuals sincerely interested in exploring hypnotic trance for generative change. In this course, Dr. Gilligan will teach about deep explorations of how reality is created via various hypnotic processes, and how such realities may be transformed and improved. The main emphasis is on how to respectfully tap into the amazing creativity that is within each of us, and utilize this creativity in positive ways. You will find this training relaxing, invigoration, transforming, and integrative. Come and learn from one of the masters.
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Participant's voice
◆◇◆◇ Especially, the mimicry of "Ericsson" was the highest. I wish to express my gratitude to the doctor who gives us the tip of the wonderful thing cultivated by his long years' study and the experience without regrettably. I noticed variously and deeply things in each story and each work. Because each member's level was high, I received a lot of stimulation in the six days. |
In 2004 Yearly general meeting in Arizona state phoenix, Stephen Gilligan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Erickson Foundation in honor of his many contributions. The course of 14 days is a recognition course of a basic hypnosis skill. You will deeply learn the principle,the base of practice and the technique of the Ericsson hypnosis, and learn a variety of application methods. The teaching material will be clearly introduced at two or more levels of recognition and the experience epistemology and practice of generating change being strongly emphasized. In the field of the Ericsson hypnosis, nobody matches Stephen Gilligan who learnt directly by Ericsson for six years. Come and learn from one of the masters at this first chance in Japan.
| Dates and Periods | : | (Year 2012) The third season [Week1] Saturday, September 15, 2012-Thursday, September 20, 2012 (The person in charge is Dr. Gilligan) Follow up seminar schedule undecided (The person in charge is Mr. Alastair) [Week2] Saturday, February 2, 2013-Thursday, February 7, 2013 (The person in charge is Dr. Gilligan) |
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| Venues /Places |
: | Holon PBI seminar room Room 902 in Hirogaki Building 11-13, 1-chome, Higashi-Tenma/Temma, Kita-Ku, Osaka City Phone: 06-6354-5072 Facsimile: 06-6354-5074 →MAP |
| Participation Fees | : | 787,500 yen (inclusive of taxes, interpreters' fees, text(s) and certification fees) Discount at early stage: When you will receive the full amount by two months before of holding: 690,000 yen (inclusive of taxes) Attending a lecture only at Week1:433.125yen Please pay the balance 354,375 yen when you decide the participation in Week2 after Week1 ends. About the discount of a re-attending a lecture: Discount for the second, third-time participation in the same seminar or event:393,750 yen Those who attend this lecture again can participate only in Week1 or only in Week2. In that case, please pay 393,750 yen. About the extra discount When the person who completes Hero’s Journey and Generative Coaching participates in the course for the first time for 14 days, the fee is 590.625 yen (25% discount). See the attached sheet for cancellation after your seminar participation has been accepted. |
| Application Fees |
: | 50,000yen (constituting a part of your participation fee/a partial payment in advance of your participation fee) Requirements |
| for Seminar Participation | : | Participants are required to have some experience or knowledge about hypnosis. It is preferable that the participants have attended the class for NLP practitioners or have attended similar classes. No person, who is mentally unstable, who receives outpatient treatment or who is being hospitalized, is accepted as seminar participants. This is not a licence to practice psychotheraphy. |
| Organizer | : | Holon PBI ,inc Room 903 in Hirogaki Building 11-13, 1-chome, Higashi-Tenma/Temma, Kita-Ku, Osaka City Phone: 06-6354-5072 Facsimile: 06-6354-5074 |
Please inquire details by mail.
※This license is not a professional license.



