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Mirroring Hands with Richard Hill

Course curriculum

    1. Introduction by Richard Hill

    1. What is Mirroring Hands (Part 1) (15 min)

    2. What is Mirroring Hands (Part 2) (20 min)

    1. Discounts and resources for you

About this course

  • Free
  • 4 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

About This Course:

This program is of value to all mental health practitioners including lay practitioners and those seeking self-development. Mirroring Hands is a therapeutic practice that utilizes focused attention to create a state in the client where they are able to process both explicit and implicit experience simultaneously. The practice has emerged from the non-directive hypnotherapeutic style of Milton Erickson, that have been developed since Erickson's death in 1980 by Ernest Rossi

It is a rapid and gentle form of therapy where the client and the therapist are able to co-create a deep insight into what lies beneath the presenting problem. It is also an approach to therapy that can be applied to all modalities. Client-responsiveness is generated through language styles, a heightened sensitivity of observation and a curiosity for the meanings that can emerge spontaneously in response to our natural human capacity to recover from illness, be it physical and/or mental. The videos include numerous demonstrations and recordings from workshops. The program has a gentle balance of theory and practice.

It is important  to understand the theoretical elements that are the foundation of effective therapy. We need to shift the standard way we think about how the mind works and how we can best create a beneficial therapeutic experience for the client. During the program you will learn how thinking in the context of a complex system gives you insights into not only how the Mirroring Hands process works, but also, more importantly, how clients are able to access their own resources and be a pro-active part of their own healing. You will also understand the value and importance of getting out of the client's way as they find, with your help and facilitation, their own best resolution. In the workshop we are then to take the time to get a genuine "felt sense" of these technical concepts through a series of practical activities and exercises designed specifically for the workshops.

When you think about it, most of the therapies that we practice today can be found in the stories and theater of the past, back to Shakespeare and even to Plato and Socrates. There is much to discover in our natural human recovery system and this foundational course will both guide and, I hope, inspire you. This video program lays the foundation for the onsite workshop programs that are presented around the world. You will be informed about locations as they are organized. I hope to see you before too long in person. Meanwhile, this video program and, of course, the book, The Practitioner's Guide to Mirroring Hands by myself and Ernest Rossi, provide a wonderful start to your engagement with Mirroring Hands.

Instructor

Chief Education Director Richard Hill

Richard Hill began his professional life in the performing arts and is now a practicing psychotherapist, author, educator, and Clinical Science Director and Managing Editor at the Science of Psychotherapy. Richard returned to intellectual studies at 42 (1996) achieving a B.A. majoring in linguistics, followed by 3 Masters Degrees in Social Ecology, Education, and Brain and Mind Sciences and is now a PhD candidate researching the nature of the person-responsive approach in therapy. His latest book is co-authored with Matthew Dahlitz, The Practitioner’s Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy. Richard enjoyed the good fortune to be mentored by the esteemed Ernest Rossi, PhD who introduced the field of Psychosocial Genomics and is a member of the international research team that studies the impact of therapeutic practice on the genetic level. Richard co-authored The Practitioner’s Guide to Mirroring Hands with Rossi. His main theoretical proposals concern – The Winner-Loser World Theory; the Curiosity Approach: and the Possibility Solution – which are explored in his numerous books and book chapters. Richard is active internationally including his role as Science Director for CIPPS college in Salerno, Italy, and course consultant at the University Fernando Pessoa in Portugal. He is also Patron of the Australian Society of Clinical Hynotherapists.