One Week Left To Register For Level I IRRT In Denver, Plus Level II Trainings in Chicago and Denver!

Dr. Jon Connelly and fellow Certified Practitioners will be holding trainings  for Level I and Level II Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution in Denver and Chicago. In Denver,Colorado, the Level I training is May 31 through June 2 with the Level II training following from July 12 to 14. In Chicago, the Level II training is June 28 - 30. Please click here to register and for additional information.

Practitioners will earn 25 continuing education contact hours throughout the three-day intensive weekend training.

During the Level I training, you will learn to:

• Resolve multiple traumas in a single psychotherapy session
• Discover and resolve subconscious causes for emotional and behavioral difficulties 
• Create positive and transformational change through multi-level communication 
• Pinpoint and resolve issues contributing to medical problems
• Promote mind/body healing
• Expose and eliminate unconscious conflicts blocking desired change
• Pinpoint the exact events to clear so that desired change is automatic
• Eliminate the effect of traumatic events even if they are repressed or forgotten
• Stop self-destructive behavioral patterns
• Transform your client's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns
• Rapid Resolution Therapy Sequence Review 

When you register within 30 days of the Level II training, you will receive a $50 tuition waiver!

During Level II training, you will refine your skills from Level I training and learn the following:

• Rapid Resolution Therapy Sequence Review
• Transforming Frozen Grief: Rapid Grief Resolution
• Clearing Anxiety & Panic: Rapid Panic Resolution
• Clearing Substance Cravings: Rapid Cravings Resolution
• Healing Mind-Body

At the conclusion of the Level II training, participants will receive a 60-page manual including step-by-step outlines for the processes listed above.

We would love for you to join us for the Level I and II trainings! Trainings begin on Friday at 1 p.m. and conclude Sunday evening at 5 p.m. For more information on the trainings and to register, please visit www.cleartrauma.com or call 800-587-2623.

Level I Trainings:

May 31 - June 2, Denver, Colorado

Aug. 9 - 11, Atlanta, Georgia

Sept. 20 - 22, Orlando, Florida

Oct. 18 - 20, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Level II Trainings:

June 28 - 30, Chicago, Illinois

July 12 - 14, Denver, Colorado

September 6 - 8, Atlanta, Georgia

Nov. 1 - 3, Orlando, Florida

Dec. 6 - 8, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

For more information on Level I or Level II trainings, please click here. 

Overwriting - An RRT Technique

By Mark Chidley, LMHC, CAP

Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy 

In 1865 Lewis Carroll wrote about a little girl, Alice, who follows a white

rabbit down a hole and enters a whole other world where a host of strange characters regularly turn logic on its head. She winds her way among them intermittently struggling with her own size and identity. Eventually she runs into the Queen of Hearts, whose vengeful demeanor and favorite saying, "Off with their heads!" has everyone intimidated. In the finale, Alice faces the Queenʼs wrath and calls her and her minions out as just a pack of playing cards. As they rush her, she awakens to find not playing cards but leaves all over her face, and safe back in her own world with her sister just in time for tea.

Overwriting is a term RRT Master Practitioner Melinda Paige coined for the powerful clean up that is done in Rapid Resolution Therapy relative to participants' destructive meanings. Some of us might say, "Oh, thatʼs just reframing," but I think what we're onto may be something more. Lets take a brief look at the way overwriting is used in our work.

Overwriting is typically used after a powerful connection has built up. In looking over many transcripts, I find Jon reserves most of the best overwrites for the end of the process, sometimes following ghost busting, sometimes intermingled with it. In other words, overwriting understands our work is not done until dysfunctional meanings are cleared. It assumes a substantial amount of collaboration and momentum toward target is already underway. This is set up by the first stages of the method, which open up access to the participant's inner mind, as we talk to it in ways it understands. We can understand why connection must build first, as we would only incur defensiveness or disagreement if we swung the wrecking ball right at the outset. 

Reframing, as it is conventionally used, might leave the participant still thinking it over or debating an alternative view in their mind as they leave. In RRT we invite the participant to not only look with us through another lens but if we are artful, to also step through the lens. We ask them to experience themselves differently as they see how life events haven't negatively defined them after all and in fact could be construed in a very different way. Overwriting seems like a much more powerful form of reframing as we combine it with the participatory aspects of connection. It's the difference between stopping a movie at several points in the theater to discuss it with the audience versus sitting beside the participant in the theater while the whole movie runs. It's a movie so compelling and totally involving that we both forget about the popcorn on our lap.

Some examples come readily to mind. Changing internal geography and identity is a huge overwrite, as we lead her through to the realization that the core of her was never touched by the abuse. This is so powerful as survivors often feel soiled or tainted by abuse. There are many overwrites in our lexicon relative to shame.

One of my favorites is the girl and her father:

"Get it outside of you for just a moment. A woman told me her father once kicked her across her room and left her locked in her closet all day. She said that was the moment she knew she was worthless. I said, I don't get that. If you and I saw a grown man beating up a kid out in the parking lot, and I asked you why these things are happening, your first answer wouldn't be, "Well isn't it obvious, the kid is worthless?" It wouldn't, would it? Maybe you'd say, boy, we just learned something about that guy. But we wouldnʼt have learned anything about the little kidʼs worth, would we?"

This overwrite, which also uses dissociating the story, usually has massive beneficial impact, as deeper mind gets how shameful behavior was located in the perpetrator from beginning to end and never got in even skin deep to the survivor. It is then free to just sluff off.

We all know the overwrite of science over moralism. It starts with the story of the tree branch that is down and casts the participant as teacher to a younger person, teaching a scientific view of causality versus preference, moralism, or blame. The younger person in the story is our participant who is still trapped in those viewpoints. It ends with the participant getting how gratitude replaces pride but also things like guilt, regret, resentment, and blame. They get it through and through that they did past events in the only way they could have at the time and things couldnʼt have possibly transpired in any other way. Moreover, those events are no longer in existence. The much better course is to be present, tuned up, and causative in the here and now. 

A final example is often found on the tail end of clearing abuse when we clear stories of parental neglect. Iʼve always liked how Jon will frame the parentʼs inaction or hurtful responses as neurologically disconnected at the time. It isnʼt that mom got up one morning and thought through the best way to screw her daughter up for the next 30 years. She just couldnʼt connect the dots at the time the participant-child came to her with the bad news of molestation.

Jon paints an accurate picture of the severe click-off that denial does in the mind when confronted with overwhelming bad news. "Itʼs like you tell this guy, ʻYour house is on fire,ʼ and he says, ʻThatʼs a very valuable house, Iʼm choosing not to believe you." The parentʼs mind literally couldnʼt take it in, therefore they couldnʼt connect the dots and couldnʼt have taken effective action. This often enables massive relief and a sense of peace for participants. Similarly, in other transcripts, physical beatings, suicides, rages while on drugs, all manner of out of control behavior is pictured as a neurological storm, chemicals running around in a badly disconnected brain. This overwrites the long-carried notion that the behavior was personally directed at them or meant something about them.

Like Alice of old, we powerfully wake participants up from the walking nightmare that came from the meanings their mind attached at the time. We overwrite that story quite forcefully, but artfully, with proper timing. Listen and watch for when Jon starts a sentence, "Let me tell you what happened there..." You may just pick up something that will help your participant step back through the looking glass into a more positive world, into a more positively embodied existence.

Mark

Mark A. Chidley, LMHC, CAP, a fully licensed mental health counselor and certified addictions professional, offers counseling services at his office Kelly San Carlos Executive Center in Fort Myers, Florida.He has been in private practice since 1997. He holds certifications in Rapid Trauma Resolution (2010), Imago Relationship therapy (2001), and now specializes in the treatment of couples as well as individual trauma recovery and anxiety issues. He brings rich experience from a combined 26 years of hospital work and mental health counseling.  

Re-Thinking Forgiveness

   By Mae Young, EdS, LPC

Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy 

Two weeks ago I saw an adult male client who needed some ghostbusting done around some text messages he and his family members had been receiving from his mother. He had a lot of emotion around the incidents, which indicates an old ghost. 

His daughter was getting married soon, so wedding plans were afoot with a lot of drama surrounding who was attending and who wouldn't attend if others did attend. As we all know, weddings are nodal events in the family life cycle, which bring up a lot of family anxiety.

I did the ghostbusting technique of "stop putting on your pants" to get his mind to see that "nothing needs to be done" about those past nonexistent events. The emotion "disappeared" for him.

When I saw him this morning, he related a brief conversation he had with his mother as she and her husband were leaving the wedding reception. She said, "Please forgive me." What came to mind to say in reply was, "There's nothing to forgive." He became curious about where that reply came from. Later he wondered if it was related to work that had gotten done in our previous session.

I felt one of those delicious "RRT chills" that we get from the life-changing work we're now able to do with our clients. 

I then told him about some new ways of looking at 'forgiveness' that have recently come to mind for me. I no longer see "forgive" as a verb, as that is something that is impossible for us to do. I use 'forgiveness' as a noun.

At a recent retreat, I heard a take on the word "repent;" it comes from a Greek word that means to turn around, or to think differently. I then remembered that "-pent" is Latin for think. (Pensive means thoughtful). Therefore "re-pent" literally means to "re-think" (great cognitive stuff!).

So keeping that in mind and adding some of Jon's RRT stuff, I have redefined "forgiveness" as the absence of all those negative, yucky emotions as a result of re-thinking.

My client exited our session with relaxed shoulders, an easier stride, and a big grin. 

Love,

Mae

Mae C. Young, EdS, LPC, has been in private practice for eighteen years in Southaven, MS, a Memphis, TN suburb. She has a great interest in neuroscience, as she previously worked as a medical technologist for eighteen years in hospital laboratories. 

She is certified in RRT and Level II EMDR, and has studied Bowen Family Systems Theory. She does counseling for all ages, but specializes in trauma, couples, and ADHD. She can be reached at 662-349-2148 and  www.maeyoungcounselor.com.

Molly, My RRT Muse

By Dr. Elizabeth Michas

Certified Master Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy   

While driving to the second annual Healer the Healer Retreat from Tampa, Molly Sanford took the first exit off I-10 to Fort Walton Beach, FL, only to find herself on a long deserted highway that runs through Eglin Air Force Base reservation with her fuel tank quickly reaching empty. When she called I heard distress in her voice as she described the fuel light was on, and she was thinking her car would run out of gas before she reached civilization. 

She had no conscious map or view of where she was relative to the nearest gas station. She had temporarily lost directional sense as the idea of running out of fuel activated her primitive mind to make her body stronger and more alert. "I don't want to run out of gas"...inner mind hears dominant thought- run out of gas- Yeeeeeks! She knows she can drive, but right now she doesn't know where to go.

I reassured her that I was familiar with where she was, and we'd take care of it.  I then began to develop a target. I saw Molly calm, at ease, creative, and joyful at the retreat as she sat on the beach. 

Step 1 - communicate you're not alone, you and I are connected, we're collaborating and will get this done! I had to figure out where she was, and then develop a plan for how to get her where I wanted her. She told me right away that she wasn't an auditory person, so I stopped talking in directions and started using visual landmarks to keep her with me. What I said was there, was there. I saw the steps--"You're here Molly, keep going, you'll see this, then that." 

I saw a coffee cup, no time to develop an activator, but I knew that Molly's mind was wonderfully responsive to coffee. "You're going to see a Tom Thumb store on the corner. They have coffee and Gas." After you fill up, start moving again, more visual directions to our meeting place, and then follow me to the retreat.  Whenever you get or give directions to someone, you rely on your own ability to go inside and mentally represent through a movie how to get wherever it is you want to go. Yes think about it. Even directions involve creating imagery of what it will look like!

Step by step my mind showed me what to do, and then I showed Molly in a way that her mind got it. She had worry thoughts of "What if I run out of gas?" She felt stressed and lost (yes these were certain responses that came up along the way), but she kept calm, moving and we were soon at target.       

I started thinking this experience of getting her to the retreat was not unlike a RRT session. What's the problem, where are they now, and where do we want them? Dr. Jon Connelly tells us to be intentional. Begin with the end in mind. See the target. Demonstrate understanding, connect, create experiences that change is underway, lead the way with commands (directions) for where we want them until they arrive, and then celebrate.

If you'd like to chuckle a bit, can you just imagine for a minute what some of the other more popular therapy approaches might have done? Validate her, draw attention to her need for fuel, poison with sympathy, analyze why, was it something about her relationship with her mother, father; did she ever dream of getting lost and running out of gas, what does this really represent, was the problem irrational thinking, should we give her skills to cope and tolerate emotional distress, would it help if she was more mindful and accepted where she was so she would not struggle or try to control it, would they look at her readiness, desire or motivation for change? Sounds pretty ridiculous compared to RRT, huh?  

I thought it's totally okay with her to not be running out of fuel and looking for the quickest way out of the woods! Only a RRT therapist would set the clear intention from the start - seeing her calm, at ease, creative, joyful, her mind showing her what has benefit, and possibility. In the end Molly delivered a creative, moving, and effective Heal the Healer Retreat.

For more information about upcoming Heal the Healer Retreats, please visit www.thehealerretreat.com. 

Since 1991, Dr. Elizabeth Michas has been in private practice with Michas, Valentine and Gill, Psychiatric Associates in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. She specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, anxiety, and trauma and also has an interest in the application of mind-body medicine, neuroscience and integrative therapy approaches. In addition to psychotherapy, her practice includes psychological and neuropsychological assessment. Dr. Michas is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in the state of Florida (PY4751) and is board certified in Rapid Trauma Resolution and Advanced Clinical Hypnosis. You can reach her through her website at www.drelizabethmichas.com or email her directly at drelizabeth@cox.net. 

Come to CHICAGO for Level I Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution May 17-19!

This May 17 through 19th, join Dr. Connelly and fellow practitioners at theLevel I Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution training in beautiful Chicago! Practitioners will earn 25 continuing education contact hours throughout the three-day intensive weekend training.

During Level I training, you will learn to:

• Resolve multiple traumas in a single psychotherapy session
• Discover and resolve subconscious causes for emotional and behavioral difficulties
• Create positive and transformational change through multi-level communication
• Pinpoint and resolve issues contributing to medical problems
• Promote mind/body healing
• Expose and eliminate unconscious conflicts blocking desired change
• Pinpoint the exact events to clear so that desired change is automatic
• Eliminate the effect of traumatic events even if they are repressed or forgotten
• Stop self-destructive behavioral patterns
• Transform your client's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns.

Tuition Cost: $695

Registration: You may register online by clicking here or contact Lynne at 1-800-587-2623 or rtrblue@gmail.com.

 

How RRT Cleared This Male Survivor of Sexual Assault

By Tara Dickherber, M.Ed, LPC

Senior Certified Practitioner, Rapid Resolution Therapy     

Did you know that about 10% of all victims of the crimes of sexual assault, sexual abuse and rape in the U.S. are male? We hear a lot about women and girls being molested and raped, but we don't hear as often about men and boys. You can read more statistics on this and other areas of sexual assault on the RAINN website.

Since I specialize in treating survivors of sexual violence I'm starting to meet some male survivors. Last year I had the honor of working with a senior in high school. His father had actually called to see how RRT could help his son who had been sexually abused a few years prior. He is the first Dad to ever call me for an appointment, let alone a Dad making an appointment for his son. Then Dad came with his son, and Dad was a force to be reckoned with - which I did! (I'm grateful to have been both a client and practitioner of RRT to master my ability to flow with a situation even when someone is trying to be pushy and angry).  

Back to his son. Here sits this tall, handsome, sweet, young and accomplished athlete literally shaking in his tennis shoes. Dad and I settled his concerns, and off Dad went. The assault this young man survived had several layers, which we quickly cleared and moved on from. He went from physically shaking to laughing and having a good time. There really is a lot of laughter going on in my sessions. Sometimes I leave a session feeling like I just completed a stand-up comedy routine!

Three weeks after a session, my office manager or I follow up with my clients to check in. Given that this young man is in high school I simply text him to check in. I got back the BEST text message. He said he was doing very well, things were going well, and that what we did was a big help! I have saved that text message for months now!

There are male and female survivors that can greatly benefit from our help!  I can't wait to help even more.

Be happy - Tara

Tara S. Dickherber, M.Ed, LPC

573-754-0348

1360 S 5th St., Suite 394, St. Charles, MO 63301

www.mylifecoachtara.com 

Register by Wednesday for Early Bird Discount to New Workshop: Learn To Use Hypnosis With Children!

If you are looking to acquire life changing skills, enhance and grow your practice, provide and facilitate a deeper level of healing, be instrumental in advancing positive quality of life for your clients within a shorter time frame, then this is the course for you!

LEARN TO USE HYPNOSIS WITH CHILDREN

May 17-19, Los Angeles, CA, Courtyard LAX/Century Blvd

***EARN 20 CEU'S***

 

 Learning Objectives:

• Learn hypnotic techniques to enhance self-esteem, improve behaviors at home, increase academic performance and reduce the effects of childhood trauma including sexual abuse.
• Learn to identify children's own unique abilities and how to utilize their imagination for healing.
• Review Ethical Considerations when using Hypnosis with children.
• Examine the role of parents and how to engage them in the healing process.
• Engage in 3 days of highly experiential skill building and coached break-out sessions.

Presented By:

 

MOLLY SANFORD, LCSW, NBCCH

National Board Certified Hypnosis Instructor, Developer of Hypnosis with Children and Heal The Healer Seminars, Trauma Specialist, Experienced Crisis Therapist, Certified EMDR, Master Practitioner RRT, RTR

 

 

Tuition:

$485 per person

$385 Early Bird (Register by 4.17.13)

Registration:

Phone: 866-615-4325

Fax: 866-509-4034

Email: promotehealinglynne@gmail.com  

www.PromoteHealing.net 

 

Location/Accommodation:

The training is being held at the following location in Los Angeles, California: Courtyard LAX/Century Blvd 
6161 West Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-649-1400

For room reservations, please contact the hotel directly at the number provided. Refer to the name of the training, "Learning Hypnosis with Children," to receive the group rate of $89 per night. If you have questions or require assistance with registration, please contact the staff at Promote Healing at the following email promotehealinglynne@gmail.com or call 866-615-4325. 

 

We look forward to seeing you there!