Learning Hypnotherapy, weekend 7.2
We had an introduction to Inner Child work today. It's based of the idea that to resolve issues which originate in your childhood, you need to connect with heal your 'inner child'. The reasoning behind this one doesn’t really fit with my beliefs, but it is useful for some people so that makes it a valuable technique. Obviously, in the classroom setting we're not going to be dealing with real problems - so we were just practicing fairly generic stuff. Even doing that, one of the students did get some fairly strong emotions back from her childhood. So much so in fact, that she ended up too emotionally drained to continue with the rest of the day, so she headed home early. I can't really see myself using this technique very much when doing therapy for real though, but it's still interesting.
We also briefly covered dealing with sexual abuse, not in any detail though - it was mostly just to say "if you want to work in this area, you're going to need lots of specialist training".
Something that I've started to notice recently in that the learning weekends don't seem to be as useful as they were at the start of the course. I suspect it's a combination of a couple of things. Firstly, we've mostly covered the big things that hypnotherapy is useful for, so we're dealing with smaller (and more specific) areas now. And secondly, in my out-of-course studying I'm already applying the things I've already learnt on the course to stuff that I'm reading about - so it doesn't feel like the things we're covering now are new to me. I've already come across them (or similar things) outside of the course. So recently I feel like I've been getting more out of just being there, even just to improve my focus in learning hypnotherapy by being there and to speak to the other folks on the course. But there's no reason to only speak to those people on school weekends, maybe I should try and get some regular meetings going for us to share ideas, etc.
Also, the end of the course is isn't far away, final exam is in November.
We also briefly covered dealing with sexual abuse, not in any detail though - it was mostly just to say "if you want to work in this area, you're going to need lots of specialist training".
Something that I've started to notice recently in that the learning weekends don't seem to be as useful as they were at the start of the course. I suspect it's a combination of a couple of things. Firstly, we've mostly covered the big things that hypnotherapy is useful for, so we're dealing with smaller (and more specific) areas now. And secondly, in my out-of-course studying I'm already applying the things I've already learnt on the course to stuff that I'm reading about - so it doesn't feel like the things we're covering now are new to me. I've already come across them (or similar things) outside of the course. So recently I feel like I've been getting more out of just being there, even just to improve my focus in learning hypnotherapy by being there and to speak to the other folks on the course. But there's no reason to only speak to those people on school weekends, maybe I should try and get some regular meetings going for us to share ideas, etc.
Also, the end of the course is isn't far away, final exam is in November.
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