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I'm still avoiding that Neuroscience paper, but I've at least been catching up on the other course I want to finish this spring, an independent study articulating what I do to move students and clients into states of consciousness conducive to creative expression and transformation. I realized early on in my teaching that you don't get much depth by just telling people who have just walked in from the rest of their lives to "Dance (or draw, or write) your deepest feelings!" Through trial and error and spontaneous experimentation, I developed my own ways to shift consciousness and move us into the realm where we can connect to deeper parts of the self (and who know what else) and find ways to express what comes through.
When I realized that more formal training in hypnosis could support this work, I found my way to Stephen Gilligan, a protege of Milton Erickson. An old friend gave me a shelf full of books on Ericksonian hypnosis, and I've been wanting to read them. This course gives me a chance to go through those books, along with a few other appropriate books I've had sitting on my shelf waiting, and integrate all of that into my understanding of what I do with my students and clients.
As usual, I back myself into the studies I need - I realize I've been doing something intuitively that I really should know more about, then catch myself up through whatever training and scholarly reading I can find. In this case I'd done the training part already, but if I'm going to write about what I do I need the background from the fields that I'm synthesizing. And it helps to have a mentor who can write. I'm pleased to be working on this with Allan Combs (http://www.sourceintegralis.org/articles.html).
Beginning this project just means plunging into reading I want to do - much more fun than writing something I don't want to write.
When I realized that more formal training in hypnosis could support this work, I found my way to Stephen Gilligan, a protege of Milton Erickson. An old friend gave me a shelf full of books on Ericksonian hypnosis, and I've been wanting to read them. This course gives me a chance to go through those books, along with a few other appropriate books I've had sitting on my shelf waiting, and integrate all of that into my understanding of what I do with my students and clients.
As usual, I back myself into the studies I need - I realize I've been doing something intuitively that I really should know more about, then catch myself up through whatever training and scholarly reading I can find. In this case I'd done the training part already, but if I'm going to write about what I do I need the background from the fields that I'm synthesizing. And it helps to have a mentor who can write. I'm pleased to be working on this with Allan Combs (http://www.sourceintegralis.org/articles.html).
Beginning this project just means plunging into reading I want to do - much more fun than writing something I don't want to write.