Full Description
For many years, mental health professionals have attended the seminars of Bill O'Hanlon. The author and co-author of over a dozen books has captivated audiences with his informative, humorous, and interactive teaching style. An Invitation to Possibility Land takes participants a step further. In the context of a week-long training limited to 10 participants, O'Hanlon moves to a new level of experience that cannot be duplicated in his large workshops. The author shares riveting stories, metaphors, interchanges with participants, transcripts of therapy sessions during the week, and many more teaching points that allow this book to read like a novel. The book explores many current issues facing therapists in today's climate such as how to make therapy briefer and how to work with abuse victims. It offers the reader a chance to experience, along with the participants, an in depth training where subjects such as hypnosis, brief, Ericksonian, solution-oriented, and narrative therapies, and the use of language, are explored. Welcome to Possibility-Land.
Contents
Chapter 1. Welcome to Possibility-Land. Introduction. Opening Doors. Mission statement. Group Member Introductions. Observational and Conversational Items. Chapter 2. Language is a Virus. Creating an Awareness of Language. Implications of Constructivism, Postmodernism, and Modernism. Attending to Metaphors. The Collaborative Approach. Escaping Dogma. Chapter 3. Cindy. Individual Therapy Involving Hypnosis. Group Observations, Reflections and Feedback. Talking Hypnosis. Chapter 4. Evolving Conversation. What's coming across? Stories, Myths, and Fairytales. New Roads of Possibility. Chapter 5. Trancepersonally. Inner work. Practicing Hypnosis. Continuing Conversations. Valuing Internal Experience. Chapter 6. Jill and Eric. Therapy with a Couple. Group Observations, Reflections, and Feedback. Continuing Conversations. Chapter 7. Pathways with Possibilities. What's Coming Across? What Do You Call It? Acknowledgement and Possibility. Chapter 8. Lynn. Individual Therapy without Hypnosis.
