Re-Cycling Through the Group Process Groups may proceed through the three stages quickly or slowly; they may fixate at any given stage, or they may move quickly through some and slowly through others. If they do indeed complete all three … Continue reading →
Norming and Performing in Group Process STAGE III: ADULTHOOD Now, the frustration of the first two stages is behind them — in the past, and the group can finally pull together as a real group, not merely a collection of … Continue reading →
Storming in Group Process STAGE II: ADOLESCENCE When a common level of expectation is developed, the group can then move into the stormy stage of Adolescence. This can be a most difficult stage of development to tolerate. This stage cannot be … Continue reading →
Forming in Group Process STAGE I: INFANCY Regardless of what events give birth to a group, as it begins, it has to form, to come together. The behaviours in Stage I are initially polite and superficial as each person seeks … Continue reading →
Understanding Group Process GROUP CYCLES FROM BIRTH TO DEATH (Adapted from the work of Richard Weber, NTL, 1982) During our lives, both professional and social, we all have experienced times in being in or with groups that have worked and … Continue reading →
Regression in Hypnotherapy Here I give two techniques for the regression section of the session, firstly using Ideo-motor responses, secondly a free-floating regression. Alternatively you can simply ask questions! While regressing, there are some basic considerations: Clean language is an absolute … Continue reading →
Research in practice Why should research be of interest to a therapist in practice or to the student in Social Science?’ Consider the following issues for a moment and then write down in Work Box One how you think applied … Continue reading →
Medical Issues and Hypno-psychotherapy For today’s blog, I would like to offer you a very important piece of work created for the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy by its Chief Medical Officer, Dr Geoff Ibbotson. I believe this to be … Continue reading →
LUSTIG’S MASTERY MODEL The following procedure has been abstracted from a video produced by Herb Lustig (Lustig, 1986), who worked closely with Erickson during the 1970s. During a single session (condensed to about 15 minutes on the video), Lustig assists … Continue reading →
Why Smoke? It is important that you are fully aware of the reasons why people start to smoke and why they continue. Perhaps the crucial factor is that a reason may have been valid once, but may no longer be … Continue reading →
