Sydney, Australia

Week 1: 19-24 April 2010

Week 2: 26 Ap-1 May 2010 

 

The prerequisite to week 2 is Week 1 or prior training with advanced skills in Ericksonian Hypnosis.

 

Venue: Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney 

 

Tuition:

$1995 per week or 

$3695 for both weeks

 

 

Special Note: These courses are for therapists, coaches, and individuals sincerely interested in exploring trance for generative change. They are deep explorations of how reality is created via various trance processes, and how such realities may be transformed and improved. The main emphasis is on how to promote self-generativity and self-change in self and others, rather than one person “doing something” to another.

 

Who should attend?

Trance Camp is open to anyone seriously interested in generative personal change and altered states of consciousness.  

 

This is not a workshop for receiving personal therapy or for learning to do therapy with other; it is an experiential workshop for learning how to experience and use trance states. 

 

Therefore anyone and everyone should attend Trance Camp. It will be especially interesting and valuable for NLP Practitioners, Hypnotherapists, Health Care Professionals, Coaches, Therapists, Teachers and anyone interested in using trance for change. 

 

No previous experience is required to attend Week 1 of Trance Camp. 

 

 

 

 

What is Trance Camp?

 

You can choose between a 6 or 12 day trance journey. During the workshop, you will be lead through a number of hypnotic trances as a group, in pairs, trios and self-paced work. Through the days of Trance Camp, you will learn skills for cultivating inner states for the purposes of improved health, happiness, healing and helpfulness for yourself and others. 

 

Trance Camp is devoted to the theme of Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey. This is a beautiful metaphor for how to connect through one's deepest self and into the world to live a deeply meaningful life. Week 1 of Trance Camp is about finding that inner connection, Week 2 is about using that connection to transform one's reality. 

 

Trance Camp is an experiential workshop for those interested in exploring trance and its relevance to creativity and change. 

 

 

Week 1: Monday, 19 April to Saturday 24 April 2010

Generative Trance - Developing transformational states of consciousness

This 6-day seminar is an intense experiential examination of how to cultivate and maintain a generative trance state in self and others. Generative consciousness is seen as a higher level state than regular “ego consciousness,” one capable of transformation, healing, and creating radically new outcomes in one’s life. 

 

In Week 1 you will learn: 

  • Many techniques for developing generative trance 

  • How to make transformational changes while in generative trance 

  • How to establish a deep connection with the creative unconscious 

  • To identify and transform limiting beliefs and resistances 

  • To transform 'negative trances' (such as anxiety, depression, self-criticism) into positive resources 

  • To use generative trance to create experiences and outcomes you never imagined or believed possible 

  • The Ericksonian attitude of approaching each day and challenge as a great opportunity for new learning 

 

Major topics include: Trance at the level of identity change/Mastering the core somatic principle of “align and centre”, and the specific techniques of relaxation, absorption, playfulness, openness, and resonance/Mastering the core cognitive principle of “accept and utilize” each experience for deepening trance/The difference between ordinary, negative, and generative trance; and how to transform the former into the latter /Many specific techniques for developing and maintaining generative trance in self and others /Creating special trances and other special mind/body learning states for problem solving and creative living/Deep trance for deep transformation/Creative conversations with the Unconscious Mind.

 

 

Week 2: Monday, 26 April to Saturday, 1 May 2010 

Utilisation of Generative Trance

This advanced course, open to graduates of the first week or equivalent work with Dr. Gilligan, deeply explores the many possibilities of working within trance for generative change. The workshop explores generative trance as a model for the construction and re-organization of psychological realities (that is, one’s identity and consciousness), especially emphasizing how trance phenomena represent amplified versions of the basic dimensions of psychological reality—e.g. time, space, body identity, memory, the future, and perception. This allows us to deeply explore how trance work can cultivate a Generative Self capable of transformation, healing, and creating new realities You will learn how to develop basic hypnotic phenomena such as age regression and age progression; time distortion; dissociation; deep trance identification (exploring other identities in trance); and special communication techniques with the unconscious. These skills and practices will allow you to realize mastery of psychological realities, thereby enabling the creation and living of a deeply intentional and generative life. 

 

Week 2 includes: 

  • How 'reality' and 'identity' are 'trance states' created, maintained, and transformed via trance phenomena

  • How to use trance phenomena to create a Generative Self of higher consciousness capable of going beyond previous limits, obstacles, beliefs and negative events 

  • How to transform an experience by shifting the submodalities of natural trance phenomena 

  • Generative trance as a quantum field that opens possibilities beyond ordinary limits

  • What to do once generative trance has been established 

  • Integrating the conscious and unconscious minds into a 'Generative Self' 

  • How the Generative Self can heal wounds, improve competencies, develop deep intimacies and generate transpersonal experiences.