Congress of the Australian Society of Hypnosis 2022
PAIN IS INEVITABLE. SUFFERING IS OPTIONAL:
THE MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMA & PAIN WITH CLINICAL HYPNOSIS
15-18 September 2022
The Location For In-Person Delegates
Peppers Noosa Resort & Villas Sunshine Coast QLD Australia
33A Viewland Dr, Noosa Heads, Queensland 4567
The Programme
| Day | Time | Activity | Presenter |
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| Thursday 15th | 1500 1800-1930 |
Registration Welcome Reception |
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| Friday 16th | 0900-1000 1030-1230 1330-1700 |
Keynote Address Workshop 1 Workshop 1 (cont) |
Mark Grant |
| Saturday 17th | 0900-1700 (incl lunch) |
Workshop 2 | Patrick McCarthy |
| Sunday 18th | 0900-1230 | Workshop 3 | Di McGreal Glenda Robertson |
Keynote Address
Healing medically unexplained pain by uniting past and present.
Mark Grant
The Keynote Address will explore: Pain as a psychological problem; Traumatic origins and sequelae of pain; Pain as a symptom vs pain as a problem; dissociation and chronic pain, bottom-up and top-down strategies for overcoming pain.
Workshop 1
A trauma-informed approach to chronic pain
Mark Grant
In this workshop, Mark will illustrate a trauma-informed approach to chronic pain based on the integration of hypnosis with selected sensory, emotional and neurological interventions. Mark will start by describing the seven tasks of pain management including but not limited to pain control. He will then review some assessment tips including personality factors and the role of trauma and dissociation in maintaining chronic pain, even in clients who might not initially present as ‘traumatised.’ From a treatment perspective he will then describe and demonstrate a range of ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ strategies (based on ascending and descending pain/ analgesic pathways) for alleviating various types of pain including imagery, somatic strategies and EMDR, and how these strategies integrate with hypnosis. This workshop will consist of didactic and experiential content with the aim of imparting innovative practical strategies for alleviating pain and its effects.
Workshop 2
Curing Anxiety
Patrick McCarthy
In this workshop, you will learn an innovative way to actually cure anxiety in just 5 therapy sessions, learn the three step mechanisms that are always present in all versions of anxiety and in all conditions that arise from anxiety and the necessary antidote to each step. Anxiety can also be the root cause of tension headaches, TMJ problems, tongue thrusting, stutter, cervical dystonia, palpitations, vomiting, IBS, irritable bladder, infertility, and skin problems to name but just a few. When you can cure the anxiety the end-organ problem usually goes away.
Innovative? no need for taking a history!, or asking about reasons for anxiety or triggers! or any traditional WHY WHAT WHERE WHEN or WHO!; a 95% meticulously scripted 5 therapy sessions even including the crucial intake session. An intake goal of raising hope and expectancy.
Anxiety need not be simply reduced or helped or dampened. Learn how to cure it.
Workshop 3
Rites of Passage: Using Hypnotic Interventions to Heal Grief and Loss.
Diane McGreal and Glenda Robertson
Di and Glenda will review the recent research looking at grief and loss and clients’ experiences of, and reaction to, these. They will then demonstrate and practise specific hypnotic techniques, based on regression and progression hypnosis, which you will be able to immediately utilise in your practice. You will leave the workshop with enhanced clinical skills to assist clients to process grief and loss and in doing so significantly enhance their quality of life.
Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitators
Mark Grant MA is an Australian Psychologist/researcher, with 30 years experience and a particular interest in the impact of stress on health and the involvement of the brain in stress. He likes to take a creative but practical approach to creating tools for undoing the effects of severe stress; ie, strategies that harness innate brain capabilities. He is definitely someone who is prepared to look outside traditional approaches, to do what works best for his clients rather than what is in some text-book. In addition to various research papers, apps and other audio downloads he is the author of Change Your Brain Change Your Pain (self-help) and Pain Control with EMDR (clinical treatment manual).
Patrick McCarthy MB ChB first trained in hypnosis in 1991, By 1993 he was President of the NZSH and already an international hypnosis speaker. He has been a multiple Toastmaster Champion, award winning actor, stand up comedian, Improv actor, author, playwright and even briefly appeared in the movie Avatar. He is a performer and entertainer and not just a presenter. He has given highly rated hypnosis workshops in NZ, Australia, UK, Canada, USA France, Denmark, Norway and Germany and spent 25 years seeking and finally finding the cure for anxiety. Patrick’s new book: How to Cure Anxiety in Just Five Therapy Sessions will be published early in 2022.
Di McGreal PhD is a Psychologist who runs a long-standing clinical practice in Frankston Melbourne. She has wide experience in a number of therapies and treats a wide range of clinical issues, all designed to promote clients’ wellbeing and positive living. Di has significant experience as a hypnosis practitioner and utilises trance with the majority of her clients. She is also an experienced hypnosis trainer, providing student supervision in the Society’s Postgraduate Training Course, as well as regularly running workshops and online hypnosis training.
Glenda Robertson MBusPsych is a Psychotherapist with 15 years experience, specialising in working with clients who are suffering trauma, grief and loss. Her therapeutic approach is eclectic and includes Multi Systemic Therapy and Clinical Hypnosis, an approach designed to enhance clients’ coping and positive wellbeing. Glenda has conducted grief and loss counselling nationally for twenty-five years.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
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APS: Activities do not need endorsement by APS. Members can accrue Active CPD hours