Generative Trance: The experience of creative flow by Stephen Gilligan (English)

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Generative Trance by Stephen Gilligan This major new work from renowned author and trainer Stephen Gilligan reveals how life can be lived as a great journey of consciousness. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The author emphasizes that reality and identity are constructed by ourselves, and explains how generative trance is crucial in creating new realities and possibilities for clients. It is a view that differs markedly from the traditional hypnosis ideas of a client losing control, as well as from Ericksonian approaches that feature a benevolent hypnotist who bypasses the conscious mind to work with a clients unconscious mind. Instead, generative trance stresses a "disciplined flow" process in which a persons conscious and unconscious minds cooperate to weave a higher consciousness capable of transformational change. The book offers a framework for developing this creative consciousness, including a step by step processes for creating it. Stephen Gilligan has been developing this work over the past thirty five years, first as a protege of the great hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, and then as the originator of the post-Ericksonian approaches of Self-Relations and Generative Self. William James used to say that the unconscious mind is the horse and conscious mind is the rider: its the relationship between the two that is most important. This book shows you how to harness the relationship for a much more powerful and effective therapeutic intervention. Author Biography Stephen Gilligan PhD, has become a leading figure in Ericksonian hypnotherapy. He is the developer of the Generative Self approach to personal growth. A licensed psychologist, Stephen maintains a private practice in Encinitas, California. Long Description This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions through the use of Stephen Gilligans concept of generative trance. The first generation of trance work, that is, traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first knocking out the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to program the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person s own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and de-potentiate it with confusion techniques. Stephen Gilligans third generation of trance work sees this negative attitude toward the conscious mind as unnecessary and ultimately unhelpful. Creative action requires a skillful conscious mind to realize the potential of the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is needed to set and maintain intention, to sense and evaluate multiple pathways of possibility, to properly name and represent experience, and to organize actions in a sequential and linear way. Details ISBN1845907817 Publisher Crown House Publishing ISBN-10 1845907817 ISBN-13 9781845907815 Format Hardcover Imprint Crown House Publishing Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 615.8512 Media Book Short Title GENERATIVE TRANCE Language English Year 2012 Illustrations Illustrations Publication Date 2012-10-25 Author Stephen Gilligan Pages 308 Subtitle The experience of creative flow Replaced by 9781785833885 NZ Release Date 2012-10-25 UK Release Date 2012-10-25 Place of Publication Camarthen AU Release Date 2012-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161191931;

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