Tuning Effect and Ericksonian Techniques

WHA Sponsored Workshop February 18^th and 19^th.

Learn a new self-awareness tool – The Tuning Effect© and hone your skills in Ericksonian Hypnosis! Integrate these new skills immediately into your hypnotherapy, coaching or counseling practice.

This February WHA is bringing Mel Kimura Bucholtz, MA, in from Boulder, Colorado to train us in his unique and powerful techniques.

The Tuning Effect© is a new self-awareness tool that reconnects our mental and physical bodies. Within minutes of using this technique, clients are relieved from emotionally charged situations, while their best feelings are restored to the front of their attention.

Based on brain research studies, meditation practices, and athletic performance training skills, participants learn how to remain wide awake using their Alpha and Beta brain wave states to reconnect with bodily sensations and to then apply this to emotionally charged situations. 

The Tuning Effect successfully reduced stress for  over five hundred participants at the Guggenheim Museum’s Stillspotting exhibit in June 2011, and was featured on MSNBC and other major news media for rapidly relieving stress in mind and body. The Tuning Effect is now being effectively introduced to veteran’s programs across the nation.

Tuning Effect:

 In this workshop participants will learn

• how to safely stabilize their attention in their bodily sensations
• how to objectively view charged situations apart from themselves
• how to synchronize their mind, their bodily sensations, and their awareness into a solid sense of personal presence
• how to restore their best sense of themselves to the front of their attention and
• how to achieve all the above concretely within thirty minutes.

Ericksonian Hypnosis

Waking and sleeping are certain kinds of attention. Between these two exists our hypnotic form of attention, an attention which meets the world by fascination, surprised wonderment and entrancing curiosity. These make up the character of our most intimate learning moments.

Through hypnotic connection with the world in these moments of attention, Dr. Milton Erickson developed his remarkable hypnotic techniques for therapeutic change and the discovery of one’s true passion in life.

Participants will learn:

• to restore clients’ positive self-attitude for resolving issues and successfully achieving new goals.
• to read physical signs that reflect their client’s emotional and sensory life history, creating their client’s immediate presence 
• to develop linguistic and vocal skills necessary for engaging their client’s presence
• to develop appropriate dialogue skills to evoke clients’ natural hypnotic learning state

By learning the above skills, Erickson believed therapists could evoke their client’s natural hypnotic learning state. These skills also create greater rapport because the client feels recognized from the first moment of their therapeutic experience.

In the manner of Erickson, workshop participants will be asked to recall:

• those physical, personal or intellectual limitations and/or advantages that spurred them to develop their own best skills by their own efforts, and
• moments of stunned fascination in their childhood which evoked their natural hypnotic learning states, moments that ignited their life-long passions and pursuits, and
• their own “family trance”, the one which created the lens through which they saw and felt themselves connected with others. (This can include models outside their family of origin as they grew and matured).

Mel Kimura Bucholtz, MA will present the workshop on The Tuning Effect and Ericksonian Hypnosis the weekend of February 18th and 19th.

Mel would like to be in contact with each potential participant in advance of the workshop, either by email or phone. This will allow both parties to determine whether the workshop is a good fit for the participant.

In advance of this workshop, Mel would like participants to view the films The King’s Speech and Buck. Each film gives outstanding examples of humility, the seriousness of life, and true Ericksonian artistry in crucial life situations. These are important elements for seriously understanding and using Erickson’s work through the training in this workshop.
Date: February 18th and 19th, 2012

Time: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Studio C, 13256 NE 20th Street, Suite #7 – Bellevue, WA 98005

Cost: WHA Members $250 / Non-Members $300.

Please Note: WHA is bringing this training to the Seattle area and offering it at a great discount.  This class may sell out in advance so please register early if you plan to attend. Please note: previous training was full weeks in advance.

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WHA Members $250

Non-Members $300

Contact Ellin Sidell For More Info:  Ellin_Sidell (at) hotmail.com

About Mel:

Mel has presented at major learning centers since the mid-1980’s (Naropa University, Esalen and Omega Institutes, Gestalt International Study Center). He has more than 30 years of experience as a trainer of physicians and mental health practitioners.

He has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Tufts and Boston Universities and numerous teaching hospitals.

In the 1970′s he

• founded the first holistic training center in Boston, Interface
• worked in the psychophysiology lab at Harvard University under Dr. David Shapiro
• was personally trained by Milton Erickson, MD, the foremost practitioner of the 20th century in clinical hypnosis
• studied Zen meditation in Hokkaido, Japan.

In the 1980′s he

• established and conducted his major clinical counseling practice in Cambridge, MA
• developed and conducted a professional training program utilizing hypnosis for therapeutic practice.

In the 1990′s he

• was a scholar-in-residence at Esalen Institute
• worked as a consultant in the 1996 Olympics

In 2002 he began developing  the Tuning Effect© method, which teaches individuals self-hypnosis for rapid trauma relief and for enhancing their self-esteem and performance.

His work draws on Ericksonian techniques, which he combines with Gestalt and the Zen perspective. For his work developing the Tuning Effect© he was awarded a Recognition Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007.

He maintains an international counseling and training practice from Boulder, Colorado.