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               EGO STATE THERAPY FOUNDATIONS COURSE

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Timed Agenda/Learning Objectives:   Each session is 3.5 hours with one brief ten-minute break.   Sessions will include lecture, demonstrations, engaging exercises, and time for questions.  Sessions will start at 9 am and end at 12:30 pm Central Time with a ten-minute break at 10:40 am to 10:50 am.

 

Session 1:  What is it? Where did it come from? & why we use it:

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Introduction and Overview

History & Theory of EST

Principles of EST

EST & the Pandemic

Successful Case Examples

 

Objectives:

• Be able to define ego state theory

• Be able to describe seven ego state therapy principles and their relevance to clinical practice

• Be able to recognize at least two ego state pandemic related issues that have been barriers to therapeutic growth

• Be able to Identify four important contributors to the field of EST

 

Session 2:  Setting the Stage for EST

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Development of ego states

Phase-oriented treatment

Activating/accessing/ and working with ego states

Therapeutic approach

 

Objectives:

• Be able to name four processes of ego state development

• Be able to apply five strategies to access and work with ego states in clinical practice           

• Be able to list five points to discuss when presenting EST to clients

• Be able to describe ten steps for formulating an EST approach to treatment

 

Session 3: Communications with the self and within the self

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Clinical hypnosis and use of hypnotic language (speaking with the unconscious)

Internal voices (understanding, normalizing, and effective utilization)

Use of metaphors

Nonverbal communication & the use of ideomotor signaling

 

Objectives:

• Be able to define three hypnotic strategies for communicating with ego states

• Be able to describe the development and role of inner voices/private speech for functional use

• Be able to create a clinically useful metaphor or story relevant to ego states and multiplicity

• Be able to describe three applications of ideomotor signaling for communicating with ego states

 

Session 4:  The Core of Treatment: Strengthening, Stabilization, & Skills

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 Symptoms as solutions

 Ego strengthening

 Strategies for affect regulation

 Keeping skills accessible (They only work if you can access them!)

 

Objectives:

•  Be able to list three ego state strategies for changing symptoms into solutions

• Be able to describe three ego state therapy applications for ego-strengthening

• Be able to describe three ego state therapy applications for affect regulation

• Be able to describe three hypnotic strategies to stay within the ‘window of tolerance’.

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Session 5:  Corrective Experiences & Therapeutic Applications

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Developmental Repair

Attachment: Relational aspects

Strategies for self-harm and trauma reenactment

 

Objectives:

• Be able to explain the role of attachment on ego state behavior and reactivity

• Be able to describe three relational components to help address insecure/disorganized attachment patterns between therapist/ego states

• Be able to describe how to use transitional objects hypnotically when dealing with attachment related repair.

• Be able apply three ego state therapy principles when addressing safety concerns such as self-harm

 

Session 6:  EST and Challenging Concerns

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Working with destructive states

Stuck/dormant/missing states

Caveats related to dissociation and dissociative disorders

Case Presentation/Consultation

Wrap up: ASCH Certification & ESTI Certification

 

Objectives:

• Be able to Identify two ego state therapy caveats when working with dissociative disorders

• Be able to list three ego state therapy strategies when dealing with malevolent or destructive ego states

• Be able to list three ego state therapy strategies for dealing with ‘missing, stuck, or dormant’ ego states

• Be able to discuss a case and formulate an EST plan for treatment