These are some short presentation topics that can be done in one to thee and a half hour sessions as breakouts at large conferences.
Faith, Hope and Charity: Three Elements from Positive Psychology That Can Enhance Well-Being
Positive Psychology is the scientific study of human happiness and well-being; what works in people’s lives rather than what can go wrong. Many research findings have appeared in this area over the past 20 years, but locating a good summary of those findings and applying them to the change process has not been an easy thing. This session will provide a simple framework for understanding and applying these new insights into your work and life.
Objectives:
1. Apply research findings on forgiveness and compassion in the change process
2. List four methods of instilling hope
3. Define Mitzvah Therapy
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'From Positive Psychology to Effective Psychotherapy
Positive psychology has swept through the therapy field and popular culture, but this research-based model doesn’t readily translate into practical therapeutic moves. Bill O’Hanlon, perennially creative and psychotically optimistic, will show how the research on happiness and the good life can be implemented within the therapy room.
Objectives
1. Identify the latest research on happiness and life satisfaction
2. Translate this research into practical therapeutic interventions
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Getting a Life: How Clinicians Can Get
Things Done in Half the Time
In this session, clinicians
will get strategies to free up their time and work less,
while not sacrificing income.
• Automating • Webifying information, tasks and repetitive
inquiries • Using autoresponders • The Meaning of Enough:
Eliminating and winnowing tasks and information •
Outsourcing or using virtual assistants (even if you have a
job) • Strategies for breaking email and work compulsions •
Using the web for work and income • Setting up sources of
passive and residual income • Using the telephone and Skype
for income
Objectives:
1. Identify 3 time-wasters
2. Identify 3 time savers
3. List 3 web tools or strategies to automate tasks or
create passive income
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Let Your Soul Be Your Pilot: The
Four Signals That Tell You What to Do With The Rest of Your
Life
Bill O’Hanlon
This presentation will offer an in-depth look at the four
soul signals that provide a compass for people to determine
what direction is next for you. Through audio clips, movie
clips, poetry and stories, you will leave energized and
inspired. Bill O’Hanlon is one of the top speakers in the
mental health field.
Learning Objectives
Escape from Depresso-Land: Six strategies for relieving depression
People with depression, one of the most common problems we see, are sometimes stuck and challenging to help change. Medications don’t help all depressed people and, even when it helps, it often comes with uncomfortable side effects and only works partially. Sometimes working with depressed people gets therapists depressed and discouraged.
In this presentation, you will learn six hopeful and innovative approaches for helping people with depression to get some traction out of it.
Strategy#1: Walking out of depresso-land
Strategy#2: Undoing depression
Strategy#3: Shifting the relationship to depression
Strategy#4: Challenging isolation and making connections
Strategy#5: A future with possibilities
Strategy#6: Re-starting brain growth
Objectives:
1. List new understandings of depression and its treatment
2. Implement six innovative strategies for relieving depression
3. Challenge prevailing models of treatment for depression
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Be There Then: Using the Future as a catalyst for change in psychotherapy and change work
Most psychotherapy has been oriented to the past. This session turns this approach on its head and focuses instead on four powerful methods of using the future to help people change.
Future Pull: Did you know the future can cause the present?
Problems into Preferences
Positive Expectancy Talk
A Letter from The Future
Starting at the End
Objectives:
1. Articulate the rationale for using the future as a change method
2. List the four methods of using the future in change work
3. Use the problems into preferences method
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Out of the Blue:
Using the new brain science to relieve depression
Recent research and insights have given a new understanding of depression, not as a deficit in chemicals, but as a problem with neurogenesis (new brain growth adn connection). Antidepressants may work by promoting brain cell and neuronal growth and connection, but there are other ways, within the grasp of therapists, counselors and addiction specialists, that can make an immediate and lasting difference in helping relieve depression. This session will give three simple methods for relieving depression using insights from recent brain science.
Objectives:
1. To articulate a new model of depression based on new research on the brain
2. To use at least one new therapeutic intervention based on understanding the new brain science and depression
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Better Than Prozac: Using the new brain science to relieve depression and anxiety
New research shows the critical contribution movement, especially regular aerobic exercise, plays in helping people decrease depression and anxiety levels and increase cognitive functioning and the ability to take in new learning. This workshop will give you a clear and compelling overview of this exciting new research that will help you jumpstart stuck clients. You will also get some simple strategies to get your patients started in their exercise routines.
Objectives:
1. List three research results that support the benefits of exercise in mental health treatment
2. List three methods of helping people begin or continue exercise programs
3. Tell the current best recommendations for enhancing brain fitness and learning with exercise
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Change 101: The seven ways occurs in therapy and life
“If you want truly to
understand something, try to change it.” –Kurt Lewin
Change is one of the most challenging aspects of life. Yet
there are identifiable ways we all change. In this short
session, you will learn the seven major ways people change
and how to identify and tap into people’s natural
motivational styles to create change.
Objectives
1. Identify 7
major pathways to change
2. Discuss the two types of motivation
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Dealing with Your Most Difficult Clients
Clients with borderline issues, trauma survivors, and other
chronic problems are often paralyzed by ambivalence and
impulses toward self-hatred and self-harm. Suggestions,
interventions, and proposed solutions are often met with
“Yes, but” or “You don’t understand.” In this session,
therapists will discover how to meet with clients in their
ambivalences and contradictions in a way that permits them
to choose to step into the possibility that things can be
different.
Objectives
1.
Identify 5 methods of acknowledgment that also introduce
possibilities
2. Discuss 3 methods of inclusion
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Breathing “Soul” Back Into
Psychotherapy
Soul and spirituality has often been left
out of therapeutic work primarily because therapists
haven't been shown a respectful, non-intrusive way to bring
it in to change work. But leaving out this important
resource in people's lives is impositional in another way.
This session will provide a clear overview, definition of
spirituality and provide easy to understand and use tools
for spiritual assessment and intervention.
Objectives
1. List the three components of spirituality
2. Name at least four of the seven pathways to connection
3. Use spiritual assessment methods
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Mid-Course Corrections:
Re-finding Passion and Purpose in Mid-Life
In mid-life, people often find they feel
lost or dissatisfied. As they face aging and come nearer to
death, they begin to rethink their life and work. This
session will examine typical mid-life issues of work,
relationships and life purpose and give guidelines for how
to help people rework their lives and find new passion and
purpose.
Objectives:
1. To recognize common mid-life issues
2. To identify where people have gone off course in their
lives
3. To learn at least three ways to help people re-connect
with passion and purpose
Brief Therapy: The Basics
Brief therapy is not just an abbreviated
form of long-term therapy. It has different assumptions and
a different focus. Learn the basics in this session from
one of the originators of brief solution-based therapy.
Objectives:
1. Differentiate briefer approaches from longer-term
therapies
2. Cite the research that supports brief therapy
3. Articulate and use the basic skills of brief therapy
Beyond the
Invisible Fence: Breaking the Bonds of
Fear
Fear
can be a powerful force in people’s lives, restricting them
from living fully and stealing their dreams and hopes.
Unless one learns to confront fear, or shift one’s
relationship to it, fear can diminish life. This session
will show the effects of fear in people’s lives and will
detail approaches to helping people successfully challenge
their fear, make friends with fear, listen to fear and mine
the energy of fear to reclaim their lives.
Objectives:
1. Identify the three tactics fear uses to keep
people frightened and small
2. Identify two ways to challenge fear's imposed limits
3. Apply these insights and methods for treating phobias
and anxiety
Keeping Your Soul Alive as a Therapist
Therapy can be challenging. Difficult clients and working
conditions, worrisome legal and insurance intrusions, and
overwhelming record keeping can conspire to invite
therapists to burnout and discouragement. This session will
provide a re-energizing tonic. Filled with wonderful
stories, humor and useful strategies for keeping yourself
alive in your work life and profession.
Objectives:
1. To be able to identify the purpose of their work and
reconnect with a sense of passion and purpose in work;
2. To be able to describe three things that contribute to
professional and personal burnout;
3. To be able to identify the two functions of the soul.
The Hour and The Story: Using Metaphorical
Interventions in Changework
This session details the power of stories and metaphorical
interventions (including rituals and analogies) in creating
change in a gentle, charming way. Filled with stories and a
few short exercises, participants will come away with some
basic skills they can use right away.
Objectives:
1. To be able to identify the main types of metaphorical
interventions used in changework;
2. To be able to describe the elements of an effective
story;
3. To be able to identify the two types of therapeutic
rituals.
Inclusive Therapy: A simple and powerful method of
dissolving resistance derived from permissive hypnosis and
Eastern religions
This session details a new model of therapy designed to
deal with the ambivalence to change challenging clients
often bring to the therapy process. You will learn a gentle
way to approach conflicted clients to dissolve resistance,
binds and dissociation in a way that rapidly moves the
change process forward. This method can be especially
useful in dealing with borderline, hostile/violent clients.
Objectives:
1. To be able to list three methods of inclusion in
therapy;
2. To be able to decide when inclusive methods are called
for in the change process;
3. To be able to identify and resolve ambivalence in the
therapy process.
Brief Therapy as a spiritual method
Brief therapy is often seen as a shallow
approach to change, due to its association with managed
care. In this session, the case will be made that brief
therapy reflects a profound trust for resources within and
beyond people, leading to a view of brief therapy as a
spiritually-derived method of change.
Objectives:
1. Define spirituality in a therapeutic context
2. Articulate how brief therapy taps into spiritual
resources within and beyond the client
3. List the seven pathways for connecting with resources
for change
Resolving Trauma
Without Drama:
New, Brief, Respectful and Effective Approaches to Treating
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Bill
O’Hanlon, M.S.
This presentation will detail a philosophy and methods of
working briefly and effectively with people who have been
traumatized. An array of new methods have shown that
previous conceptions and methods of working with trauma are
unnecessarily long-term and re-traumatizing. These
approaches, rather than being based on the past and
deterministic models, are oriented towards the present and
future and a sense of possibilities. Through lecture,
videotaped examples and handouts, participants will be
equipped with new tools and ideas to work briefly,
effectively and respectfully with even severe and
long-standing traumas.
Introduction: 4 Rapid and respectful ways to resolve trauma
Future Pull: Did you know that the future can cause the
present?
The Viktor Frankl Strategy
Future pull methods
Inclusive Therapy: Reclaiming devalued
experience
The Inclusive Self as a means to melting the frozen,
repetitive trauma
In the shape of a bottle: Changing patterns that
were shaped by the trauma
Patterns vs. set realities
The doing of traumatic patterns
Neurology: The fast track out of trauma
Perceptual treatments: Changing the images and patterns of
traumatic memories
Reconnection: Where dissociation was, connection
will be
Seven pathways to connection
Rituals for Healing: Connection and Disconnection
Rituals
Connective and stability rituals
Transition and dis-connective rituals
Objectives
1. Learn four rapid methods for
resolving trauma.
2. Learn to assess which method for trauma resolution is
the most helpful for a particular client/patient.
3. Learn to identify seven areas of disconnection and
connection for trauma survivors.
Creating Multiple Sources of Passive and
Location-Independent Income
In this session, professionals will learn the top five
methods of creating one-time or ongoing sources of passive
or residual income.
This income can lead to a work life that is
location-independent and can take you into and through
retirement.
• Teleseminars
• Audio products
• Ebooks
• Webinars
• Online courses
• Strategies for marketing and building email lists
Objectives
1. Identify 5 types of products
that can create passive or residual income
2. Create a teleseminar
3. Use an audio editor to create an audio product
