Bill OHanlon | June 2012
OUT OF THE BLUE AND BEYOND THE INVISIBLE FENCE:
Effective Therapy Approaches for Depression,Anxiety, Panic and Phobias
Depression and anxiety-related issues are the more common concerns brought to therapy. In this two-day workshop, you will learn effective, humane, compassionate approaches to reducing or eliminating depression and anxiety issues. Delivered with clarity, humor and an eye toward practical applications you can use right away by well-known possibility therapist Bill O’Hanlon, a former student of the late psychiatrist Milton Erickson and a guest on Oprah with one of his 34 books.
This workshop will provide a wide range of allied pofessionals with the very latest tools and modern day approaches.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- List new understandings of depression and its treatment
- Implement six innovative strategies for relieving depression
- Challenge prevailing models of treatment for depression
- List ten effective ways of treating anxiety and phobias
- Use at least one physiologically- and neurologically-oriented approach to resolving phobias
- Differentiate fears of physical danger from emotional/psychological fears
DAY 1: OUT OF THE BLUE
Escape From Depression
The Possibilities approach: What some special dogs can teach us about relieving depression
Causes are less crucial than solutions
Sitting with the darkness: Helping people through their depressive episodes without withdrawing, minimizing or giving false hope
Six Strategies for Escaping Depression
1 Walking out of depresso-land: Mapping depresso-land and feeling good/hopeful land
2 Undoing depression: Challenging patterns of depression
3 Ridding yourself from the alien invader: Externalizing and mobilizing against depression
4 Challenging isolation: Connections as important healing and preventive elements
5 A future with possibilities: Connecting to a future with meaning and hope
6 Re-starting brain growth: The neurogenic/neuroatrophy hypothesis and how to use it
DAY 2: BEYOND THE INVISIBLE FENCE
Ten solution-oriented methods to reducing and eliminating anxiety, phobia and panic problems
The main effect of fear, anxiety, phobias and panic: Restriction of movement and activity
The invisible fence: How fear, anxiety and depression keep people confined to a small territory
Challenging the limits of fear, anxiety and panic
1 The room of 1,000 demons: Walking through the limits of fear
2 Looking fear in the eyes: Facing fear
3 Liberating territory from fear: Pushing against the boundaries
4 Externalizing fear: Separating the person from the problem
5 Embracing the feared: Paradoxical approaches to dissolving fear
6 Desensitizing to the symptoms of fear
7 Deliberately seeking out fear or feared situations/thoughts/feelings
8 Fear as signal: When to attend to and follow fear and when to ignore or challenge fear
9 Fear as a call: When fear tells you what’s next in your life
10 Fear as frozen energy: Freeing the energy contained in fear
The solution-oriented approach to treating anxiety and panic
New physiologically- and neurologically-oriented approaches to rapidly resolving fear, anxiety, panic and phobias
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