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STORIES THAT HEAL In this one-day workshop, you will learn to construct and utilize the methods used by Milton H. Erickson, M.D. and other therapeutic Story Tellers to create effective healing metaphors. You will learn to use stories and metaphors to bring a fresh dimension to your clinical repertoire regardless of your orientation.

Storytelling and Metaphor have been used though the ages to convey knowledge and inspire change. A few well-chosen phrases, a brief allegory, or a creative tale can bring about remarkable and lasting transformation.

This material will provide the content with which to form your teaching tales or therapeutic metaphor. You will learn how to individualized stories for the unique needs of each of client.

Participants will learn a number of frameworks for creating powerful and captivating teaching stories and multi-level healing metaphors.

Participant will learn how to tell stories and metaphors for maximum impact. You will also learn to use both verbal and non-verbal communication to create meaningful therapeutic shifts for your clients. Using metaphors can gracefully and respectfully facilitate multi-level change that can impact the client’s cognitive, behavioral, and emotional life.

Your training will consist of lecture-demonstrations and practice exercises in pairs and triads. Participants will work with colleagues until the use of healing metaphors becomes a comfortable alternative approach in your practice.

Therapeutic Metaphors and Teaching Tales can create profound and lasting changes; often in a single session. Notably, the use of stories and metaphors is respectful of the client’s integrity, and encourages her/him to use their own personal history and resources.

Dr. Erickson’s genius was his ability to generate specific, often brief stories matched to the patterns of the client’s problem with a powerful solution attached. These therapeutic narrative metaphors and stories enable the client to generate a new response to old problems based on the information included in the metaphor without exerting a lot of conscious effort. You will learn the underlying patterns he used to create and deliver healing stories

What you want is excellent training…this is excellent training. Baltimore Behavioral Health and American Hypnosis Training Academy instructors are fully committed to teaching. Therefore, the focus is on your learning and skill development.

Who should attend? This workshop is open to mental health professionals and health care providers.

Continuing Education (6.5 hours). Enrollees who complete the workshop will receive both a formal certificate of completion and attendance (C.E.) documentation.

American Hypnosis Training Academy, Inc. is an approved provider by the American Psychological Association to offer C.E. for psychologists, by the National Board for Certification Counselors to offer C.E., (it is the responsibility of the provider to abide by NBCC guidelines), by the National Association of Social Workers in accordance with 258 CMR.31.00,D20,641.

8:15 - 8:30 AM	Registration
8:30 - 10:45 AM	Instruction & Practice
10:45 - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 - 12:30 PM	Instruction & Practice
12:30 - 1:30 PM	Lunch (PROVIDED)
1:30 - 3:30 PM	Instruction & Practice
3:30 - 3:45 PM	Break
3:45 - 5:30 PM	Instruction & Practice

Ron Klein, M.C.S., NBCCH, CCDC, is a National Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and a Certified Trainer in NLP. He is a nationally recognized teacher of Ericksonian clinical hypnosis and brief psychotherapy. Ron has thirty-two years of experience as a teacher and during that time he has provided training to more than 6000 mental health professionals. His programs have been offered in a variety of public and private settings including: Georgetown University School, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Maryland Mental Health Department, The University of Maryland - University College, The American Cancer Society, The American Academy of Psychotherapists, The Family Therapy Network National Conference, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work and the Family Guidance Centers of Nova Scotia. For almost seven years Ron worked as a counselor and was the staff hypnotherapist for the Medical Illness Counseling Center, a psychiatric center in Bethesda, MD.

“Ron Klein has the unique ability to demystify the patters and structures of designing therapeutic metaphors.”

“Ron Klein is an unusually well-organized teacher, who practices what he teaches. He enriches his presentation with illustrations, humor and effective demonstrations. Ample experiential work is well-planned and gives Ron opportunities to assess the needs and facilitate the learning of each individual participant. He is an excellent trainer with skill, humor and integrity. It is a pleasure to recommend his courses.”

“Ron Klein’s training is precise, clear, informative and structured to maximize learning, skill development and personal growth.”

“Ron is a great story teller, whether he is telling Dr. Erickson’s stories or his own homegrown metaphors. His instruction is so thorough, one leaves his workshops able to put the material to immediate use.”

Registration Fee: $144.00 Fee includes buffet lunch, refreshments and all handout material.

A refund (less $35.00) will be made when written request to withdraw from the program is postmarked at least 15 days prior to the event. After that date, the fee paid will be non-refundable. Meals and lodging are the responsibility of the participant. In the unlikely event the workshop is cancelled, full tuition refund will be made. Further expenses incurred are the responsibilities of the enrollee.

Baltimore Behavioral Health
Accounting Department
200 S. Arlington Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21223

Payments made by check to Baltimore Behavioral Health that are not honored by the bank will incur a returned check fee of $30. A collection letter will be sent to inform the account holder of the returned check and consequences if not paid within 10 business days. Payments for returned checks are to be mailed to:

Baltimore Behavioral Health
Accounting Department
200 S. Arlington Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21223

Returned check reimbursement payments must be in the form of cash, cashier’s check, certified check or money order.

301 West Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-685-3500
Room rate: $129.00 Single/Double

Make sleeping room arrangements on your own. Contact the Holiday Inn as soon as possible to make your reservation and to be sure you get the special $129.00 rates. Inform the local reservation clerk that you are registering for Baltimore Behavioral Health, Corporate Account Number: 100251683. Also, you can register online by clicking the following link: Holiday Inn - Inner Harbor. Use Baltimore Behavioral Health Corporate Account Number: 100251683.

Please call Ron Klein on his cell if you experience any difficulty making your hotel reservation at the $129.00 rate: 301-523-5659. Nonetheless, immediately make your reservation, and Ron will call the hotel to make sure you get the $129.00 rate. If the Holiday Inn is sold out, they have agreed to help you find a comparable room rate at a nearby hotel. Holiday Inn offers a full service restaurant and room service. Their restaurant is open for breakfast at 6:30am-lunch-dinner last severed at 10:30pm.