“Symptoms are unique forms of communication.…”
— Milton Erickson, MD

The renowned psychiatrist and hypnotherapist Milton Erickson viewed psychosomatic symptoms as a gateway to the healing power of the creative unconscious. He often worked with such symptoms to create healthful therapeutic outcomes, particularly in challenging cases. Workshop participants will receive training in Erickson’s revolutionary approach, as well as in leading-edge somatic psychotherapy skills for the rapid treatment of trauma, pain, and other mind/body imbalances. These methods for reframing trauma can transform painful somatic-affective experiences into new healing rhythms in the body—often with dramatic and immediate results.

The workshop is aimed toward all health professionals, educators, students, and consultants who wish to learn new clinical skills and provide advanced training in the use of “pacing and leading.” Such skills and training develop rapport and mirror a patient’s natural learning rhythms; naturalistic trance and “double induction” methods; healing metaphors for the transformation of destructive emotions; and framing, reframing, and de-framing techniques to dislodge old patterns and core beliefs to re-educate the brain-mind. Additionally, participants will learn advanced methods for trance, “stateand- gene-dependent” learning, “flow-state” healing, positive psychology for promoting peak performance and optimal states of creativity and wellness, Gestalt-relational process work, and the applications of mindfulness meditation and Buddhist psychology.

Ronald Alexander, PhD, specializes in the practice of somatic and mind/body psychotherapy and teaches clinical training groups for professionals in Somatic Psychotherapy and Ericksonian-Mind/Body healing therapies in Santa Monica and internationally. He is a diplomate in professional psychotherapy in the International Academy of Behavioral Medicine, Counseling, and Psychotherapy. Ronald is the originator of the OpenMind Training, a unique method of mind/body healing that integrates the wisdom teachings of the East and integral psychology. (www.ronaldalexander.com)