An Advanced Workshop
with Ernest Rossi, Ph.D.:
Creativity, Neuroplasticity
and Therapeutic Hypnosis

14 Continuing Education Hours

Courtyard Marriott in Sherman Oaks, CA

• Overview of Workshop:
  
  Saturday, September 20, 2008 Registration 8:30 AM, 9 AM - 5 PM
  
  The New Neuroscience of Mirror Neurons, Creativity, Brain Plasticity, and Healing in Therapeutic Hypnosis, Psychotherapy, and Rehabilitation:
  
  Revolutionary research in neuroscience and functional genomics documents how the experience of (1) Novelty, (2) Environmental Enrichment, and (3) Physical Exercise can optimize gene expression, brain plasticity (brain growth), and mind-body healing. We will explore practical approaches to facilitating the 4-stage creative cycle to optimize these experiences in therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy. We will investigate the possibility of a deeper understanding about the role of mirror neurons and implicit processing heuristics (therapeutic suggestion) in transmuting negative experiences into positive realizations by facilitating the creative reconstruction of the mind-brain at a molecular-genomic level.
  
  9 AM 1. Mirror Neurons & Implicit Processing Heuristics in Psychotherapy
  
  9:30 AM 2. From Mind to Molecules in Therapeutic Hypnosis
  B. Brain Plasticity: Hour & Daily Re-Synthesis
  C. Psychological Experience Drives Synaptogenesis
  
  10 AM 3. Creative Replay as the Essence of all the Psychotherapies
  A. The 4-Stage Creative Process in Therapeutic Hypnosis
  B. Creative Replay of the Circadian & Ultradian Clock
  C. Creative Replay in Art, Science, & the Psychotherapies
  
  10 AM to 10:15 AM Break
  
  10: 15 - Noon 4. Group Experience: Innovative Approaches to Therapeutic Hypnosis
  
  Noon-1 PM Lunch on your own
  
  1 PM 5. Practicum 1: Small Group Practice and Discussions.
  A. Small group practice: Hand Hypnosis & the 4-stage Creative Process
  B. Discussion of Roles of Psychotherapist and the Patient
  C. Summary: The Activity-Dependent Creative work of the Patient
  
  2:30 Break
  
  3 PM 6. Practicum 2: Small Group Practice and Discussions.
  A. Small group practice: Implicit Processing Heuristics for Problem Solving
  B. Discussion of Roles of Therapist and the Patient
  C. Summary: The Activity-Dependent Creative Work of the Therapist
  
  4:30- 5 PM 7. Questions, Discussion & Wrap Up.
  
  3 Behavioral Objectives:
  1) To list 3 classes of human experience that could facilitate gene expression, brain plasticity & mind-body healing.
  2) To list 3 activity-dependent approaches to facilitating gene expression and brain plasticity via therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy.
  3) To build skills in the practical application of implicit processing heuristics in therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.
  
  Sunday, September 21, 2008 Registration: 8:30 AM, Program 9 AM– 5 PM
  
  Can Art, Beauty, and Truth Facilitate Gene Expression and Brain Plasticity in Therapeutic Hypnosis, Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation?
  
  We will experience a new world view of the meaning and role of consciousness, love, truth, and beauty in the arts, humanities, and culture as presented in Rossi’s recent books. Group and individual demonstrations will be used to explore new activity-dependent approaches to facilitating the 4-stage creative process that may optimize gene expression, brain plasticity, and mind-body healing via therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy. Small group practice will be used to learn these new psychosocial attitudes and practical approaches to the deep psychobiological foundation of therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy as presented in Rossi’s most recent books.
  
  9 AM 1. Psychosocial Genomics Theory of Novelty, Gene Expression, Brain Plasticity, & Mind-Body Healing via Therapeutic Hypnosis.
  A. Examples of Novelty, Enrichment, and Exercise in Daily Life and Hypnosis
  B. Gene Expression in Response to Psychosocial Cues
  C. Activity-Dependent Neurogenesis and Healing via Stem Cells
  
  9:30 AM 2. Group & Individual Demos of Innovative Therapeutic Hypnosis.
  . A. Group Demonstration of Creative Replay in Therapeutic Hypnosis & Psychotherapy
  B. Group Experience of 4-Stage Creative Process via implicit processing heuristics
  C. Discussion of Activity-Dependent Therapeutic Hypnosis & Psychotherapy
  
  Lunch - Noon - 1 PM on your own
  
  1 PM 3. Practicum 1: Small Group Practice and Discussions.
  A: Small group practice: Hand Hypnosis & the 4-stage Creative Process
  B: Discussion of Roles of Psychotherapist and the Patient
  C: Summary: The Activity-Dependent Creative work of the Therapist
  
  2:15 PM Break
  
  2:30 PM 4. Practicum 2: Small Group Practice and Discussions.
  A: Small group practice: The Hand Polarity Process for Problem Solving
  B: Discussion of Roles of Therapist and the Patient
  C: Summary: The Activity-Dependent Creative Work in Daily Life
  
  4 PM Final Workshop Wrap- Up Discussion
  

• Objectives of Workshop:
  Behavioral Objectives for Day 1:
  1) To list 3 classes of human experience that could facilitate gene expression, brain plasticity & mind-body healing.
  2) To list 3 activity-dependent approaches to facilitating gene expression and brain plasticity via therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy.
  3) To build skills in the practical application of implicit processing heuristics in therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.
  
  Behavioral Objectives for Day 2:
  1. List 3 activity-dependent approaches to the theory of gene expression & brain plasticity in therapeutic hypnosis & psychotherapy
  2. Build skills in facilitating 4-stage hand hypnosis with implicit processing heuristics
  3. Build skills in facilitating creative replay as the essence of therapeutic hypnosis.
  
  Recommended Texts for the Entire Workshop:
  
  1. Rossi, E. (2002). The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and Neurogenesis in Therapeutic Hypnosis and the Healing Arts. N.Y.: W. W. Norton Professional Books. ISBN: 0 – 393 – 70343 – 6.
  2. Rossi, E. & Nimmons, D. (1991). The Twenty-Minute Break: The Ultradian Healing Response. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher. New York: Zeig, Tucker, Theisen.
  3. Rossi, E. (2004). (Editor, Salvador Iannotti: Saiannot@tin.it) A Discourse with Our Genes: The Psychosocial and Cultural Genomics of Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Published in an Italian and an English Edition. Benevento, Italy: Editris SAS Press. ISBN 88 – 89396 – 01 – 6.
  4. Rossi, E., (1972/2000). Dreams, Consciousness & Spirit: The Quantum Experience of Self-Reflection and Co-Creation. (3rd Edition of Dreams & the Growth of Personality). New York: Zeig, Tucker, Theisen.
  5. Rossi, E. (2007). The Breakout Heuristic: The New Neuroscience of Mirror Neurons, Consciousness and Creativity in Human Relationships: Selected Papers of Ernest Lawrence Rossi. Phoenix, Arizona: The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Press. office@erickson-foundation.org.
  6. Rossi, E. (2005). (Laurent Carrer, Translator & Editor). Cinq essais de psychogénomique – Exploration d’une nouvelle démarche scientifique axée sur l’interaction entre l’esprit et la molécule [Five essays on psychosocial genomics: Exploration of a new scientific approach to the interaction between mind and molecule]. French edition only. Encinitas, CA, USA: Trance-lations, ISBN : 0-9767350-0-8.
  

• About the Presenter:
  Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Ph.D. received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Psychotherapy from the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. He is the Science Editor of Psychological Perspectives and the author, co-author and editor of twenty professional books in the areas of psychotherapy, dreams, psychobiology and therapeutic hypnosis that have been translated into a dozen languages. His most recent books are The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and Neurogenesis in Hypnosis and the Healing Arts (W.W. Norton Professional Books, 2002) and The Breakout Heuristic: Mirror Neurons: The New Neuroscience of Mirror Neurons and Ceativity in Relationships (MHE Press, Phoenix) Internationally recognized as a gifted psychotherapist and teacher of innovative approaches to the creative process, he has pioneered new approaches to mind/body communication theory, healing and human consciousness.

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