Past Courses, Workshops & Trainings: 2008

April 12 - 13, 2008
Healing Trauma and Pain Through the Body with Somatic Experiencing® and Energy Psychology
in Beijing, China
Contact: Valent lizhongying@gmail.com

April 18 - 19, 2008
From Pain to Potential: Reversing the Effects of Persistent and Chronic Pain Conditions
in Singapore
Contact: Whole Perseon Centre PTE, Ltd.
Phone/Fax: 67744863
Email: Lucy Heng wpclucy@singnet.com.sg

During these two days, we will study various types of pain, learn a 10 point protocol for treating these disorders, and explore various issues that relate to systemic as well as localized pain. Specific treatment areas include fibromyalgia, headaches, post-surgical pain, neuropathies, and arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune dysfunction. We will also examine extreme emotional pain states such as grief, rage, panic, and shame.
 
Presentations will examine how to reverse the course of pain conditions, which is possible through work with the polyvagal nervous system. You will learn techniques that address emotional and physical pain from the "bottom up," gradually re-setting the nervous system which makes it possible to reverse the effects of trauma and pain rather than simply managing or reducing pain. Methods will be drawn from hypnosis, mindfulness, imagery, Energy Psychology, and Somatic Experiencing® models. Participants are invited to bring patients for live demonstration and to discuss their most challenging clinical cases for consultation.

April 23 - 24, 2008
Treating the Pain of Trauma
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contact: Nan-Yang Foundation
Email: nyfound@nanyang.com.my

April 26 - 27, 2008
Healing Trauma with Somatic Experiencing® (Part 1)
in Hong Kong
Contact: George Zee, Whole Person Center
Website: www.frzee.com
Phone: 852-2771-6183
FAX: 852-2385-7873

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) offers a hopeful, naturalistic perspective on trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity to heal, as well as the intellectual spirit to harness innate healing abilities.

This first workshop teaches the essential somatic building blocks to help release the long-term and acute effects of traumatic stress in order to create permanent, positive change from the body level up. Topics include the physiology of threat, healthy autonomic response, the dynamics of self-regulation, the roles of the triune brain and the polyvagal nervous system in both activating and deactivating reactions to trauma.

Participants will view and discuss several video demonstrations of the work of Peter Levine during both workshops. In this workshop, there will also be live demonstrations to illustrate various SE skills such as:
• How to work with sensation, the language of the reptilian brain;
• Identify, normalize, and stabilize traumatic reactions
• Specific ways to titrate and integrate trauma activation in the body;
• The TRIPODS and ROSE models of tracking and assisting clients through the somatic healing process.

May 1, 2008
From Pain to Potential: Reversing the Effects of Persistent and Chronic Pain Conditions
in Hong Kong
Contact: George Zee, Whole Person Center
Website: www.frzee.com
Phone: 852-2771-6183
FAX: 852-2385-7873

Click here to hear an audio invitation to this one-day workshop from Maggie.

Participants will:

1. Identify 3 multiple mechanisms involved in persistent and chronic emotional and physical pain conditions.
2. Explain how unresolved trauma can be a root cause of pain.
3. Describe one way to teach self-regulation of pain
4. Practice 2 techniques effective for treating chronic emotional and physical pain.
5. Identify a 10 step, skill-based model that helps resolve chronic pain.
6. Practice one way to resolve inner conflict that prevents optimal response to pain treatment.

May 3 - 4, 2008
Healing Trauma with Somatic Experiencing® (Part 2)
in Hong Kong
Contact: George Zee, Whole Person Center
Website: www.frzee.com
Phone: 852-2771-6183
FAX: 852-2385-7873

This workshop presents additional Somatic Experiencing® building blocks, with a special focus on understanding and facilitating resources of empowerment, mastery, and expansion of choice and resiliency.  Participants will learn specific ways to facilitate movement through time for problems that have been “frozen” due to various types of trauma; methods of containing and managing flooding and over-activation of post-traumatic symptoms; and how to help clients restore gentle cycles of sympathetic and parasympathetic interplay using various types of language patterns.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to practice and refine the following specific skills:
• Identifying resources,
• Effective use of invitational and body-based language
• Recognition of patterns of constriction, activation, discharge, and integration,
• Coupling and dissociative dynamics.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own cases for consultation and to participate in case discussion. As time permits, we will also work with "live" clients to illustrate Somatic Experiencing® methods.

May 5 - 10, 2008
May 5: Treating Chronic Pain: The Body as Ultimate Healer
May 6: Expanding the Self Through Ego-State Therapy and Energy Psychology
May 8: Healing the Trauma-Pain Connection
Presentations and Workshops to take place at the 3rd International Conference on Ego-State Therapy – Hypnosis, Trauma, Pain, Psychotherapy, Ayurveda, Shamanism
in Kathmandu, Nepal
To register, contact: Milton-Erickson Institute Rottweil
Phone: 0741/41477
Fax: 0741/41773
Email: Daniel Bass DanielBass@meg-rottweil.de
Website: www.meg-rottweil.de/nepal/index.html

May 12 - 14, 2008
Advances in the Treatment of Trauma: The Power of Somatic Experiencing® and Energy Psychology
Workshop to take place at the Post-Conference of the 3rd International Conference on Ego-State Therapy – Hypnosis, Trauma, Pain, Psychotherapy, Ayurveda, Shamanism
in Pokhara, Nepal
To register, contact: Milton-Erickson Institute Rottweil
Phone: 0741/41477
Fax: 0741/41773
Email: Daniel Bass DanielBass@meg-rottweil.de
Website: www.meg-rottweil.de/nepal/index.html

June 7 - 8, 2008
The Body as Ultimate Healer of Trauma and Pain
Workshop for the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis/Ontario Division
in Toronto, Ontario
For registration and full details, click here to download the course brochure (PDF, 137 KB).
Contact: Dr. Annette Lorenz at alorenz@cogeco.ca or (905) 338-2195
Dr. Heather Aubry at heatheraubry@sympatico.ca or (705) 840-1212

This workshop will explore the latest advances in the treatment of trauma, while the second day will review the dynamics of emotional and physical pain and specific techniques to reverse the effects of pain conditions through self-regulation of the nervous system. Download the course brochure (PDF, 137 KB)

June 18, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Book Signing Event
Presentation and book signing by Maggie Phillips for Reversing Chronic Pain
East-West Books, 324 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA
For more information and to reserve tickets, contact East-West Books
Phone: 1-800-909-6161 (or 650-988-9800)
Website: www.eastwest.com

September 17 - 21, 2008
Fundamentals of Ego-State Therapy
intermediate Ego-State Therapy
with Dr. Maggie Phillips, Dr. Claire Frederick, and Dr. Woltemade Hartman
Workshops to take place at the European Society of Hypnosis Congress
in Vienna, Austria
To register, contact: European Society of Hypnosis
Phone: +43 1 405 138 316
Fax: +43 1 407 82 74
Website: www.vienna.hypnos.de

September 22, 2008
Advanced Topics in Ego-State Therapy and the Treatment of Trauma
with Dr. Maggie Phillips, Dr. Claire Frederick, and Dr. Woltemade Hartman
Workshop to take place at the Post-Congress of the European Society of Hypnosis Congress
in Vienna, Austria
Fee: 100 Euros on or before June 15 (120 Euros after that date)s
To register: This workshop must be booked separately from the ESH congress; contact Dr. W. Hartman at hartmanw@global.co.za

This workshop will focus on ego-state therapy as a strategic method to repair post-traumatic fragmentation, dissociative and attachment difficulties, intractable mindbody symptoms such as chronic and atypical pain. Participants will review hypnotic techniques and other methods useful for work with ego states connected with various post-traumatic symptoms, including malevolent and destructive states, techniques for activating internal resources through ego strengthening, and ways of promoting integration. Special topics include: Crucial aspects of the therapeutic relationship, including positive utilization of the transference-countertransference trance, and the use of advanced applications of ego-state therapy to treat anxiety disorders, grief reactions, and racial and sexual orientation distress in children and adolescents. Our format will include lecture, live and video demonstration, and case consultation.

For more information, click here.

September 27 - 28, 2008
Treating Complex Stress Disorders with Mindfulness and Mind-Body Healing
an advanced, two-day workshop in Paris, France
To download the syllabus, please go to: http://ietsp.free.fr/pdf/september-2008_English_Brochure.pdf
To download the registration form, go to: http://ietsp.free.fr/pdf/Inscription_Seminaire.pdf
(There will, of course, be French translation).
For further information, contact mayerbernard@free.fr

October 1, 2008
Case Consultation Session
Dr Maggie Phillips and Dr. Woltemade Hartman
at the Milton-Erickson Institute Rottweil, Germany
To register, contact:
Phone: 0741/41477
Fax: 0741/41773
Email: kontakt@meg-rottweil.de
Website: www.meg-rottweil.de

October 2 - 3, 2008
Advanced Topics in Ego-State Therapy: Treating Complex Stress Disorders
at the Milton-Erickson Institute Rottweil, Germany
To register, contact:
Phone: 0741/41477
Fax: 0741/41773
Email: kontakt@meg-rottweil.de
Website: www.meg-rottweil.de

This workshop explores advanced applications of Ego-State Therapy in the treatment of complex stress disorders, which include complex PTSD and dissociative disorders, autoimmune and life threatening systemic problems, and complex health conditions including chronic pain syndromes. Topics include ways of prioritizing treatment for clients with multiple diagnoses and multi-layered trauma; the effects of early attachment on affect regulation, internal fragmentation, and the formation of mood disorders; the interface of Ego-State Therapy with internal family systems and structural dissociation models. Guiding principles and specific treatment techniques involve ways of facilitating information processing and changes in cognitive schema, methods of optimizing autonomic and polyvagal nervous system self-regulation, and Various models for expansion of resources related to empowerment, mastery, choice and resiliency. The workshop will feature live and video demonstrations, practice exercises, and case consultation.

October 4 - 5, 2008
Multi-Modal Approaches to Healing Post-Traumatic Pain
at the Milton-Erickson Institute in Heidelberg, Germany
To register, contact Dr. Gunther Schmidt
Phone: +49/6221/410941
Fax: +49/6221/419249
Email: office@meihei.de
Website: www.meihei.de

This workshop will include methods drawn from mindfulness, breathing and meditation, Somatic Experiencing®, ego-state therapy, formal hypnosis, interactive guided imagery, Energy Psychology and EMDR. Participants will learn how to build individualized, highly effective protocols that address both emotional and physical pain as well as the trauma components
that often block healing.

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