A Message from Our President

Dear Membership, “The Times, They Are A Changin’” (Bob Dylan, 1964). We appear to be at a watershed on critical issues related to our species’ health and humanity. Pick up a newspaper or go onto social media and you will see “Civil Unrest;” “National Guard Has Arrived;” “Thousands Protest;” “COVID-19 Pandemic;” “ICU’s Nearing Capacity.” Speak with a client/patient and you will hear, “I don’t know what to do;” “What will my future bring?” I sincerely hope this IMAGES edition finds you healthy, safe, and able to practice effective self-care measures. As practitioners, we have a calling: To simultaneous care for others while remembering to care for self. I cannot think of a better time to utilize hypnosis for treating mind, body, and soul than during these difficult his-torical times. The old adage of the in-flight airplane attendant stating, “Please first place the oxy-gen mask over your own mouth and nose before assisting others,” rings true dur-ing these times. (Ahh… airplanes. Do you remember traveling on planes?!! We DID do that not too recently, though most of us are taking a break from travel for at least the short term). (continued on page 2)

Check out our website for details

at: https://msch.us/

Sept 12, 2020 9:00 a.m. to 12:00

Heather Klein, PhD, LP & Carol

Siegel, PhD, LP

All Member Practice Session– great

way to connect with colleagues to

share and practice various hypnotic

techniques.

Oct 24, 2020 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Rosenthal Retreat with Robert

Staffin, PsyD, ABPH

Elements & Examples of:

Utilization, Age Regression, & use

of stories in psychotherapy:

Didactic presentations, analysis of

video interactions, & small group

experiential exercises.

Nov 7, 2020 9:00 a.m. to 12:00

Delle Jacobs, LICSW, LMFT

“The Hands Have it” Two Handed

Technique. This training is a

practical therapeutic technique

that enables clients to unlock their

natural problem-solving & mind-

body healing capacities to arrive at

a resolution in a way that many

other therapies might not.

Upcoming 2020 Events/Workshops

Minnesota Society for Clinical Hypnosis “Our mission is to promote clinical hypnosis and quality education through intellectual rigor, curiosity, integrity, and community.”

Images Spring 2020

And isn’t it nice to know that you have the training and ability to utilize hypnotic phenomena such as age regression in both yourself and your clients/patients to intensify healing and comfort in an experiential way? By recalling pleasant ex-periences, we can help achieve trance-formation by activating innate healing capacities.

Civil Unrest + The Pandemic. We are facing an unprecedented, rapidly increasing intensity of stressors during modern times that impact life in exponential ways: emotionally, physically, and globally. The lens one uses to cope with these powerful developments will determine long-term, lasting effects for humankind collectively, as well as for individual wellness and healing.

As a MSCH member, YOU have an incredibly powerful resource because you are trained in Clinical Hypnosis. Your skills in the utilization of hypnosis can facilitate and accelerate your clients/patients in their healing. Further, as practitioners we can all benefit by practicing self-hypnosis (SH) in order to self-regulate our own autonomic

nervous systems before assisting our clients/patients. And yes, the times they are a changin’. Not too long ago, hyp-nosis was viewed as a “fringe” treatment or “anti-establishment alternative” therapy. Now, hypnosis is more widely accepted as a complementary tool in the healthcare professional’s toolkit. Why? Because we are facing threats with tangible losses. The uncertainty of when this current health crisis and humanitarian crisis will significantly improve can be overwhelming because our brains are hardwired to react to uncertainty with fear and panic. The result is a shift in which the limbic system takes over. Our limbic system is the place where emotions such as anxiety

and fear are generated. As uncertainty “turns on” the limbic brain, we tend to overreact. However, we can override this. How? By quietening our limbic system. Self-hypnosis is one of the best antidotes to an overactive limbic system. I personally feel very fortunate to belong to an organization that is in a key position to assist our world in healing from the emotional wounds of recent tragic events. MSCH members are well- equipped to do this work. Further, research has gen-erally substantiated that hypnosis is an effective, empirically supported intervention to ameliorate both psychological and medical conditions. I hope you are more pleased than ever to be a ‘card-carrying member’ of MSCH. While hypnosis is ‘as old as time’, we are all messengers who can shed new light about the efficacy of hypnosis. In closing, I am saddened that I won’t be able to greet each and every one of you at the June 2020 Annual Conference due to COVID 19. I will surely look forward to seeing you next year at the 50th MSCH Annual Conference to be held June 17-19, 2021. I will also look forward with hopefulness to a future in Minnesota (and across the globe) in which intentional actions of peace, connection, equality and meaningful change are forever practiced.

Please stay safe and healthy, everyone. Sincerely, Cheryl Bemel, PhD, LP MSCH President, 2020

CANCELLED

2020 Annual MSCH

Workshops in Clinical

Coming June 17-19, 2021

The Discriminating

Therapist: Hypnosis in

Enhancing Decision-Making

Guest Faculty:

Michael Yapko, PhD

MEMBER DUES

Current dues are valid through

June 30, 2020.

NEW FOR NEXT YEAR!

1 year membership at $90.00

July 1, 2020—June 30, 2021

OR

3 year membership at $250.00

($20.00 discount)

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR All MSCH MEMBERS Exploring Hypnosis: A Monthly Series to Enhance Skills and Confidence

under the Guidance of an ASCH-Approved Consultant

Sign up for the Fall 2020 session now! NEW TOPICS! The Fall session meetings will take place on Sept 9th, Oct 7th, Nov

4th, and Dec 2nd 2020. The same curriculum will be used for both the Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 sessions. If the session

is filled, a waitlist will be created and utilized for Spring 2021. *Gather in the Minneapolis home of MSCH member, Carol

Siegel, and enjoy exploring hypnosis with other MSCH members. Given the nature of this group, we ask that you commit

to attending all of the meetings for the session(s) in which you register. 7pm to 9pm – 2 CEUs provided (8 per session).

Cost per meeting is $20.00 ($80.00 per session). Readings (journal article, book chapter, etc.) are provided beforehand

and serve as the focus of the evening. The curriculum is still being developed and will be announced by the end of July.

*Due to COVID, we may be meeting over Zoom.

Testimonial: “I've been a MSCH member for several years but had drifted away from workshops for awhile. This

study group was a wonderful way to connect to new people, bounce ideas off one another, and renew my excite-

ment in the use of hypnosis. I am looking forward to attending future workshops where I now know more people

and feel part of a community. “ Shelly L. Curran, PhD, LP

Register for this opportunity by emailing: Carol Siegel at cfsiegel@gmail.com or Heather Klein at heather.klein@parkdaletherapy.org

ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW MEMBER: Jennifer Stoos is a LMFT in

private practice at Rekindle Counseling. She has

been a MSCH member for 13 years and is an ASCH

approved consultant. She will be serving as Co-

President along with Carol Siegel.

Thank you for serving!

Julia Clowney, MSW,

LICSW

NEWLY ELECTED

BOARD POSITIONS

2020-2022

Co-Presidents: Carol Siegel &

Jennifer Stoos

President Elect: Heather Klein

Past President: Cheryl Bemel

Secretary for the Board &

Images Editor: Catherine Russell

WHAT’S NEW WITH

THE BOARD

NEW MEMBER: Kris Kampsula, LMFT, LADC joins the board after her initial Clinical

Hypnosis training at last June’s conference. She has been working as a mental health

professional at Hazelden Betty Ford, Maple Grove for the past five years. She is

an LMFT, LADC, and AIR Network and EMDR trained. She specializes in working with

families impacted by addiction and trauma. Kris resides in St. Paul and shares her

home with her two cats. “After attending the annual conference, workshops, and the fall

study group, I have been so impressed with the work MSCH does and the people who

are dedicated to promoting Clinical Hypnosis and are members of this organization. I

am honored to serve on the board.” Kris will be serving as LMFT at Large.

NEW MEMBER: Ann Schissel, PhD, LP is

a clinical psychologist in the Twin Cities

metro area. She has a private practice and

started as a core faculty in the PsyD

program at St. Mary's University in May

2020. She will be serving as Psychologist

at Large.

Roni Ahern, MA, LP has been serving as the MSCH Treasurer since Fall 2018. She is a private practitioner and a strong support for our organization. “Since the mid-80's I've been a student of hypnosis in MSCH, a volunteer small group leader, then the coordinator of small group training starting in 2002. When I "found" Milton Erickson and hypnosis some 35 years ago, I knew this was a discipline I wanted to learn, practice and offer to clients. Again and again I've seen the strong benefits it has offered to so many clients of mine, and I'm still thrilled when a client tells me the story of how it's been helping them. The training in hypnosis available through MSCH is absolutely extraordinary. It's made me a more effective clinician, and I've never once made someone cluck like a chicken.”

Thank you for serving!

Julia Clowney, MSW,

LICSW

5th Annual Shep

Myers Memorial

Workshop via Zoom

Ego State Therapy &

Hypnosis:

The Healing Power from

Working with

States of Self

Wendy Lemke, MS, LP

Wendy Lemke, MS, LP presented on Ego State Therapy used within the context of clinical hypnosis. She be-gan by providing information about Ego State Therapy's basic concepts and how to conceptualize clients with different symptoms using this approach. She discussed approaching several different disorders using Ego State Therapy, including various forms of anxiety, OCD, disordered eating, trauma disorders, and dissociative disorders. Ms. Lemke then also provided useful ways to engage clients using clinical hypnosis within the framework of Ego State Therapy. Ms. Lemke also drew from her extensive history as a clinician working with many patients experiencing dissocia-tive symptoms. She was able to share artwork and poetry that reinforced many of the concepts she was illustrating, making these examples take nice shape for the audi-ence Her examples of approaching several disorders with both Ego State Therapy and clinical hypnosis were fascinat-ing and very helpful for clinicians branching out into this area. Moreover, in addition to Ms. Lemke sharing her knowledge and experiences, this was the first training MSCH has done virtually! With the assistance of Jennifer Stoos, the virtual training was received positively by several attendees from across the country! While we had a good number of MSCH members present, several people from the New England Society for Clinical Hypnosis were also present. In short, the presentation was a lovely marriage of Ms. Lemke's experience and 21st century technology!

About the writer - Ann Schissel, PhD, LP is a clinical psychologist in the Twin Cities metro area. She has a private practice and started as core faculty in the PsyD program at St. Mary's University in May 2020.

Fac-

ulty:

Faculty: Heather Klein, PhD, LP

5th Annual Shep Myers Memorial Workshop

Ego State Therapy & Hypnosis:

The Healing Power from Working with States of Self

Wendy Lemke, MS, LP

Review written by Richard Duus, PhD

How do clinical interventions appear to positively affect reality? How does a therapist intervene to facilitate the healing growth of a patient to their future? My suggestion is that most already do. But what we are effec-tively doing may not be what we think we are doing. In my clinical practice what is actually happening to facilitate the patient's growth is often not what I thought was happening, and, for me, openness to such un-certainties and belief in the patient is part of effective practice. Equally likely is that many therapists have already anticipated and work within the understanding of self and selves suggested. Hypnosis works well to stabilize a relationship with a patient that can then be something of a conduit to ground the patient in a sense of her body, focus them on the immediate presence of an internal or external relationship, and engage their sense of reason and community.

These are some thoughts the workshop engaged for me, and may be of some interest to others. Wendy's workshop presentation was timely and useful to me in my first Zoomed conference. The dynamic interac-tions of ego states, states of selves, are the forms in which every day thinking occurs, and it may be helpful to consider ego state interactions as a form of thinking but perhaps not always good reasoning and thinking. The second observation is that ego state therapy is congruent, and even similar, with Dialogical Self Theory that illustrates that EST is not a lonely theoretical development of psychoanalysis. It converges with Dialogi-cal Self Theory derived independently of the psychoanalytic tradition. This development enhances the scien-tific credibility of EST. Finally, what can be referred to as one's true self is a changing entity that is in the physical body, is in the present, exists in openness to another person, and is openly oriented through reason to one's community. The practical question is, if this is the reality a therapist recognizes, what does the hyp-nosis protocol look like when working with a patient in an EST context. This is a question for further and separate discussion. Thank you, Wendy!

Richard wrote a longer paper inspired by Wendy’s workshop. If you would like to read more, please see our website for a link to his paper.

Richard E. Duus, PhD Duluth Psychological Clinic Highest Degree: PhD, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Title: Consulting and clinical psychologist, clinical supervision, LP1934. Address: Duluth Psychological Clinic, 205 West 2nd Street, Suite 437, Duluth, MN 55804

Dr. Richard Duus is the founder of the Duluth Psychological Clinic, a group psychological practice dedicated to providing psychological service and treatments that are current and congruent with psychologi-cal science. Psychological treatment, assessments, and consultations are delivered in a professional manner open to the diversity of cultural backgrounds including race and gender. He has used hypnosis, meditation, and biofeedback procedures in the context of psychotherapy which has evolved into perhaps a unique psychophysiologically balanced psychotherapy. He regularly gives and participates in workshops and presentations as well as research and writing that addresses psychotherapy, hypnosis based psychological treatment, assessment and education. Current focus is on the psychological and phenomenological self as employed in research and clinically in psychological treatments. The investigation of self involves writing which recently resulted in the publication of Constituting Selves: Psychology’s Pragmatic Horizon.

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ulty:

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an experience is worth a thousand pictures. What is it that brings therapy to life? What are the mutative elements in the therapeutic process?

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Robert Staffin as he presents aspects, elements and examples of:

-utilization,

-age regression, and

-the use of stories in psychotherapy.

Through a combination of:

-didactic presentations,

-analyses of video interactions, and

-small group experiential exercises,

You will be invited to recognize and hone your own clinical mastery!

Bio: Rob Staffin is a clinical psychologist who has been in practice for 30 years. He has spent the last 20 years studying, teaching and writing about clinical hypnosis. He is the president of the Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey, an approved consultant for the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis.

Rob has been studying with Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, the founder and executive director of the Erickson Foundation since 2002 when Jeff began leading Master Classes in NYC. Rob, who has attended 2 to 3 of these classes each year since their inception, has recently released, More Common Therapy: The Experiential Psychotherapy of Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. Based on micro analyses of audio and video tapes from the master classes, Rob’s book is a “how to” on developing your own clinical mastery. He offers an exegesis of Dr. Zeig mastery through the metaphor of a compass. The domains of Communica-tion, Interpersonal Relations, Utilization and Strategic Intent serve as the headings of the compass points.

SAVE THE DATE:

October 24, 2020

Rosenthal Retreat with

Rob Staffin, PsyD ABPH

Dimensions of Ericksonian Experiential Psychotherapy:

Imagery, Language, Experience, and Clinical Hypnosis

Faculty: Heather Klein, PhD, LP

FEBRUARY WORKSHOP

Tailoring the Hypnotic Experience: Co–authoring the Hypnotic Narrative through Dialogue,

Sensory Engagement, and Client Preferences

Presented by: Heather Klein, PhD, LP Reviewed by Mary Landwehr MD

“… and when you open your eyes these gifts will unfold even further..”. With this suggestion Heather Klein

concluded a wonderful workshop on a bright and sunny Saturday in February 2020. The title of the workshop

had intrigued me, a family physician from Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. In my practice I have the privilege and

honor to connect with people from birth through to the end of life. And most often the connection involves

other people important in my client’s lives.

Heather reminded us of the importance of drawing in

these people as support. A process that is called re-

membering in narrative therapy. “It takes a village to raise

a child” is a well-known proverb and what I was reminded

of during the workshop was that we thrive as individuals

and as a world community when seek and allow connec-

tion, when we focus on the positives in our narratives.

Heather demonstrated several techniques on how narra-

tives can be changed without changing actual life history.

She reminded us as participants that we choose what

moments we include in the stories we tell ourselves.

Heather invited us to take a step back and allow ourselves

to realize other moments that may change the narrative from the “problem story” to the preferred story. I

read a lot and this resonated with me. When we read a favorite or intriguing story again isn’t it interesting

what we find out re-reading that same story? Perspectives can change and so can the message although the

written words remain the same.

Heather demonstrated this with a very practical approach by using a pen, coffee mug or any other item avail-

able to represent the problem. This representation allows for a visual differentiation of the person and the

problem. “I am stressed” versus “I feel stressed”. Externalizing and being able to hold the problem (in this ex-

ample, stress) at a distance can help us see things that were there however not evident to us before, which in

turn provides us with an opportunity to change the narratives we tell ourselves.

Practical application of dialogue made the morning fly

by as we practiced dialogue. Fascinating how intent and

focused listening can change narrative organically in real

time.

Heather introduced the “absent but implicit” concept

used in narrative therapy, which reminds us that every

problematic narrative holds an implicit solution. Adding

the hypnotic experience can help draw these

implicit solutions forward so we can access them and

more them from seemingly absent to present.

The concept of grand narratives and more focused problem narratives was reviewed and connected to the

inner resources we all have. How do those inner resources influence our narrative? How can we connect with

a person to help move from the problem narrative to the

preferred one? Heather gave us many tools including the

“problem wanted poster” and the “floating ball” to name a

few ways on how to realize the problem and change the

narrative. The floating ball really reminded me of the tool

Obi Wan used to train Luke Skywalker- the ball challenged

me to focus my intent on it so I could change it to my pref-

erence. And it totally worked.

A comfortable setting and thoughtful preparation made it

easy to practice the sensory aspect of changing narratives.

Personally I have never considered myself an artist howev-

er being afforded the option to draw and doodle helped me

externalize my problem and differentiate the problem from

me. It helped to be able to take a physical look at it – all at

once it seemed concrete and not as big, vague and prob-

lematic. Definitely an approach I will consider in practice.

Using figurines to “build” the problem story and then rear-

ranging the same figures to the preferred narrative was fas-

cinating and empowering. Thank you Pooh Bear! (A

figurine I used in my story.)

Client preference as mentioned in the title referred to asking about how we experience the inside and outside

world, what we like and dislike based on our senses. More than once Heather encouraged participants to

write down the intent of the people we are connecting with and writing it down verbatim. We like to hear

ourselves talk and if we hear what we have said from another person it sends a strong message of connection

and affirmation.

With every section Heather provided an opportunity for a hypnotic experience in which these same princi-

ples were used with more formal hypnotic language. It was easy to see and experience how hypnosis can be

an organic addition to narrative therapy, enhancing our ability to reflect on the narrative and change the sto-

ries we tell ourselves.

The morning concluded with a demonstration of using narrative to conduct the pre-hypnotic interview,

develop the intent and understand client preferences. During the pre-hypnotic interview the narrative

already started changing and this flowed easily into the hypnotic experience.

“…and when you open your eyes these gifts will unfold even further...”

They certainly will!

Thank you for a truly lovely and enlightening work shop!

Mary Landwehr MD

Signature strength: Love of learning; Calling: Family doctor; Country of origin: Germany; Feels

most grounded: When outside in nature; Most humbling experience: Being a parent; Favorite ther-

apist: My horse; Recent endeavor: Learning about what makes therapy therapeutic?