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Mindfulness-Based Hypnotherapy to Enhance Outcome

Assen Alladin, PhD

This is an innovative and cutting-edge workshop that demonstrates how to utilize evidence-based mindfulness in hypnotherapy to enhance treatment outcome and prevent relapse. Western psychotherapy, with its central focus on the mind, ignores the role of the heart in psychotherapy. In contrast, Non-Western societies attach more importance to the heart. The heart is central to producing changes in psychotherapy because a person validates reality by how the person feels (affect) and not by how one thinks (cognition). This workshop will demonstrate how to integrate Western and Non- Western values and beliefs in hypnotherapy to help clients become mindful of their reality. A simulated hypnotherapy session will be role-played to demonstrate how the mind (cognition) and the heart (feeling) can be harmonized in therapy.