Kathy Carter
Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming
hypnotherapist ethos
The talk ‘Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming
hypnotherapist ethos’ aims to shed some light on
some common myths surrounding neurodivergent and
especially autistic clients – including so-called
challenges with imagination and empathy, and the
widely-held view that autism doesn’t define a
client. Looking through a neurodivergent lens, Kathy
aims to introduce some of the modern neurodiversity
concepts, including language and labels, as well as
some key facets of the autistic experience. These
include the ‘double empathy’ problem; monotropism,
which recognises and even celebrates interest-based
brains; and the breaking down of unhelpful
stereotypical viewpoints of autistic people and
clients, especially concerning empathy, imagination,
and how neurodivergence defines individuals, and
shapes their identities.
Kathy will also introduce some discussion about the
medical versus social model of disability – as well
as how holistic, autonomic nervous system-based
concepts within talking therapy position the
autistic experience, in terms of individuals’ social
engagement systems.
The talk will feature lots of practical tips about
how a therapy room can be physically adapted to suit
neurodivergent clients, how telehealth sessions may
be affected, and what modality adaptions may be
useful, from a neurodivergent client’s perspective
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Rob McNeilly
How many Ericksonian Therapists Does it take to
change a light globe? The practical heritage of
Milton H Erickson.
1)This presentation focuses on practical
applications rather than theories.
2) You will learn about a simple, respectful way of
inviting anyone into hypnosis to help them to access
and utilise missing resources so they can resolve
their problem easily and permanently.
3) You will take away an ability to incorporate this
approach into your clinical work, adding to your
effectiveness and personal satisfaction.
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Steve Burgess
The Power of Past Life Regression
In recent years Past Life Regression has attracted
a great deal of positive publicity and those
therapists who use it regularly know that it is one
of THE most powerful therapeutic interventions in
the therapists’ arsenal of techniques.
The causes of a wide range of stress-related and
emotional problems, as well as many dysfunctional
behaviour patterns, can often be traced back not
only into this lifetime but also back to events and
traumas which have occurred in past lives.
These include:
Fears and
phobias
Anxiety states and panic
attacks
Addictions
Physical illnesses and pain
Weight
problems
Skin disorders
Lack of
confidence
Sexual
problems
Migraines
Depression
Obsessional
behaviour
Anger
issues
Emotional
Imbalances
Relationship
problems
etc, etc, etc.
By allowing our clients to recall and explore the
dramas of past lives we can help to:
*Treat effectively many issues presented in therapy.
*Stimulate increased self-knowledge and reduce or
overcome fear of death.
*Reveal the karmic causes of physical illnesses and
heal them.
*Dissolve the negative aspects of the past which
hinder growth and contentment.
*Discover a greater meaning and purpose in life and
enhance spiritual awareness.
The benefits to the client are immense and quite
often life changing. Past Life Regression can
also be used as a means of bringing resources from
the past into the present in order to help the
client enhance his or her current life. Past
Life Regression is also good for business – it
invariably attracts publicity and can stimulate a
lot interest in your therapy practice.
Steve Burgess specialises in using regression with
many of his clients, working on the emotional root
causes of their issues to heal them. Many of his
regression sessions involve going back into previous
lives, and Steve has facilitated many thousands of
past life regressions over his 29 year career. His
presentation will focus on the incredible healing
power of past life regression, illustrated with some
of his client’s past life experiences whilst in
trance.
Steve will also discuss the importance of past life
regression as a therapy process, and why, in his
opinion, past life therapy should be treated as a
mainstream therapy process, instead of being
side-lined as New Age alternative therapy.
Steve has developed his own regression system which
uses Ideo-Motor Response signalling to allow the
client’s subconscious to not only diagnose the
causes of their issue but also to lead both
therapist and client into the previous lives and
release the traumas which are causing the issue.
Often the client also becomes aware of
understandings and learnings that they bring back
into their present life to give greater
understanding of their life.
Steve’s presentation promises to be lively,
controversial, thought-provoking and given with his
trademark sense of humour!
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Alicja Heyda Ph.D.
Practical Breathwork in Psychotherapy of Cancer
Patients
Cancer is a great challenge, both for the patients,
and their families. Breathwork methods of various
origins based on different rhythms and embodying
awareness can be very helpful. According to research
various breathwork methods quickly reduce pain,
fear, panic and depression.
Polyvagal
theory setting is helping to understand how the
human being may self-regulate with various breathing
patterns causing optimal vagal stimulation.
There are many types of breathwork - faster styles
which activate sympathetic (fight-flight response)
and the slower of 6 breaths per minute or less which
activate ventral vagal parasympathetic response
related to safety and safe social connection.
Slow rhythmic breathing (coherent breathing) of 6
bpm is known for its beneficial effects on
regulating the peripheral nervous system through
vagal nerve stimulation, improving heart-rate
variability, oxygenation and reducing hypertension.
Various cancer types and their treatment very often
cause facial and bodily disfigurement, fatigue,
pain, speech problems, and depression. Slow type
breathwork is easy to introduce and helps the
patients immediately to self-regulate and calm down
symptoms like prolonged nausea, anticipatory nausea,
panic attacks, pain, PTSD, claustrophobia
during chemotherapy, radiology and radiotherapy
procedures.
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Dr. Olivia Remes
How to cope with anxiety and bounce back, and take
back control in your life
Anxiety is high and we're looking for new ways to
take back control of our lives. New ways to
become resilient and bounce back. Whether
you've been dealt a good or bad hand in life, now is
the time to take charge and bounce back to get
closer to the life you want. Cambridge
University researcher, Dr. Olivia Remes will be
sharing tips on overcoming anxiety, as well as
obstacles in life and becoming resilient, based on
research. This is especially important now
that we're going through the pandemic and our mental
health has been affected in more ways than one.
The other aspect that this talk will touch on is the
link between anxiety and stress, and how to achieve
work-life balance. A bit of stress is good for
us, because it motivates us to get things
done. When stress becomes out of control,
that's when our mental health and wellbeing start to
suffer. When does stress become associated
with anxiety, and how can you recognise the signs of
stress in yourself? In this talk, Dr. Olivia
Remes, will reveal the key to this, and will teach
the audience actionable strategies for taking better
care of ourselves when the stress gets to be too
much - it will show how you can feel in greater
control and get closer to the life you want.
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Kaz Riley
Working with female sexuality in 2021, it’s time
for things to change!
The study of female sexuality and the understanding
of female sexual function is a relatively new
science. This talk will outline the latest research
and how that applies to the therapeutic setting.
Many therapists shy away from sexual issues, but
with 80% of women currently classified as having a
sexual dysfunction, even if you don’t work with
sexual issues directly you will be working with
clients that have sexual issues, those issues will
impact on every area of their lives. This talk will
highlight why we need to educate ourselves and our
clients and how to do that. This talk will be
extremely frank and open, if you are offended
easily, this talk might not be for you.
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Miriam van Groen
Shaking the Snowglobe - Intentional Psychedelic
Experiences
The psychedelic renaissance is a thing to behold.
There are many opportunities for people's increased
wellbeing, but also valid concerns. This talk will
be give a quick overview of the workings of
psychedelics, developments in the global field, and
the Dutch situation specifically. Then we'll focus
in on the personal: the skills and attitudes needed
by guides, how to decide who are suitable trippers,
and how to create the best possible circumstances
for lasting positive change.
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Cathy Simmonds
How to package your therapy programmes to serve
your clients at the deepest level - and step into
consistent and predictable income
Cathy talks about a way of offering your services
that has already transformed the practice of many
therapists. A path to higher and more consistent
income as well as one that gives you the confidence
that your clients will get the results they crave.
We will cover how bringing your uniqueness into your
practice and programmes can offer magical new ways
of reaching the clients you love to work with most,
even if you aren’t wedded to a niche, so your
favourite clients will say ‘Yes’ as soon as they see
what you offer.
You will learn the 3-sweep approach to designing
client programmes that serve and sell, which has
never before been shared outside of her group
coaching and online programmes,
and how to quickly and easily apply this to your
practice without sacrificing any flexibility.
You’ll find out why the therapy side of your
business need not be completely separated from the
business side, and how combining the two can even
make your marketing easier.
And take away a framework you can use over and over
again, with lots of new and exciting ideas.
So come and listen to some great advice and learn a
strategy that can easily apply to your practice and
business whatever your level of experience.
It’s time to say goodbye to the feast and famine of
the uncertainty of session-by-session work.
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Antonietta Angelina Viola
You’re tough, but are you mentally tough? Unlock
your greatest potential, Your Mental Toughness.
Tools to improve performance and success for you and
your clients.
Mental toughness is a valuable skill in today’s
challenging world. Most people are familiar with
building physical strength, but there is a lot more
ambiguity when it comes to building mental strength,
especially mental toughness.
Mental toughness is not always taught. It is
two-fold:
1. How you perform under pressure
2. How you deal, cope and handle adversity, setbacks
and challenges
Antonietta Angelina will address the skills needed
to build mental toughness and resilience, answering
the following questions:
1. Why is mental toughness important?
2. What is mental toughness?
3. How mental toughness and resilience is measured.
4. How to build mental toughness and resilience.
5. The science of mental toughness in Health, Work
and Life.
She will look at the research, theories and
applications of mental toughness, to facilitate you
and your clients to succeed, even more!
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