All of us are endowed with an innate ability to renew and heal ourselves in mind, body, and spirit. We can gain access to our inner healing resources by entering a concentrated state of being called "trance." Our inner resources include both the wisdom about what is needed and the power to effect change. Trance states help us tap that wisdom.

Trance state also provide access to hidden regions of the inner mind that some-times hold secrets that need to be revealed in order for emotional healing to occur. Therapeutic trances are a powerful means of carrying out this delicate therapeutic work.

For these reasons, trance states are tremendous tools for maximizing psychotherapy or counselling techniques. Although these altered states of consciousness have always been part of human experience, it is only in the past two hundred years that we have found ways to develop workable trances in controlled therapeutic situations. Surprisingly, even though trances can now be regularly employed for therapeutic or healing purposes, it seems that few therapists or counsellors make extensive use of them.

These workshops are designed to give practitioners the practical knowledge needed to induce trance states and use them to the greatest advantage with their clients. They are based on the belief that trances occur commonly in our lives and that therapeutic trances are not magical or mystical states, but powerful naturally-based aids for freeing the potentials of those who seek our aid.

Each workshop is for three days and a total of twenty-four hours.

My book Trance Zero: The Psychology of Maximum Experience is companion reading for the seminars.

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Trance Zero I: Intensive Training For Using Trance States In Psychotherapy And Counselling

A THREE-DAY WORKSHOP (24 Workshop Hours)
with Adam Crabtree, Ph.D.

DAY ONE: TRANCE AND TRANCE INDUCTION

• What is a trance?
• The Four Trances:
  • Relational
  • Situational
  • Inner Mind
  • Group-Mind
• Trance Phenomena (time distortion, hallucinations, analgesia, amnesia, heightened imagination, suggestibility, etc.)
• Inner Mind Trance with Rapport
  • (IMTR)--(sometimes called hypnotism, fascination, mesmerism, etc.)
  • Therapeutic use
  • IMTR induction
  • The experience of automatisms
• Principles of Trance Induction
  • Adaptation to the individual
  • Using the subject's natural modes of perception
  • Using the subject's subjective experiences
• Demonstrations of Trance Induction
  • By workshop leader
  • By workshop participants

DAY TWO: THE INNER MIND AND INNER-MIND COMMUNICATION

• Group-Mind Trances
  • Family, workplace, cults, etc.
  • The problem of cultural trance
• The Inner Mind
  • Inner Mind vs. Outer Mind
  • Reality of the inner mind
  • The inner world
  • Phenomena of the inner world
  • Qualities of the Inner Mind
  • Knowledge
  • Healing Power
  • Wisdom
• Ideomotor signals (communication that bypasses the conscious mind)
  • Types of ideomotor signals
  • The finger signals--communicating with the Inner Mind
  • Establishing the finger signals
  • Demonstrations
• Using the finger signals
  • The mode of questioning
  • Discovering hidden information
  • Bringing the information to light
• Examples:
  • Uncovering the cause of a symptom
  • Memory recovery
  • Decisions making
  • Determining direction and means of therapeutic treatment
  • Demonstrations and Practice

DAY THREE: TRANCES IN THERAPY AND COUNSELLING

• Converting daily-life trances to Inner-Mind trances with rapport (IMTR)
• Trance regressions
• Memory work
• Lost objects
• Conflict resolution
  • With persons active in one's life
  • With absent persons, living or dead
• Use of suggestion in therapeutic trance
  • Reconditioning the nervous system
  • Restoring self confidence
  • Developing latent abilities
• Dream interpretation
  • The dream as self-interpreting
  • Approaches to self-interpretation
  • Using finger signals to aid dream interpretation
  • Dreaming in the trance state
• Therapeutic uses of trance tapes
• Self-induction of trance states
• Learning to use everyday trances for therapeutic purposes
• Demonstrations

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TRANCE ZERO II : Advanced Training For Using Trance States And Ideomotor Signalling In Psychotherapy And Counselling

A THREE-DAY WORKSHOP (24 Workshop Hours)
with Adam Crabtree, Ph.D.

DAY ONE: TRANCES AND AUTOMATISMS

• Trance and Automatisms
  • The experience of automatisms in daily life
  • Automatisms and sleep
  • Automatisms as therapeutic tools
  • The induction of automatisms
• Guiding Principles for Trance Induction
  • Creation of absorption
  • Using the situation of the client
  • The experience of automatisms
• Difficult Cases
  • Difficulty inducing trances
  • State of the client
  • Techniques for overcoming difficulties
• Demonstrations and Advanced Experiential Work with Trance Inductions

DAY TWO: TRANCES AND DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

• Working with Dissociative Experiences
  • Everyday dissociation
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
• The Problem of Diagnosis
• Trance Techniques with Dissociative Disorders
• Trance and the Transpersonal: Unusual Types of Dissociation
  • Possession experiences: The possession syndrome
  • Culturally integrated possession
  • Problematic possession in North America
  • Possession by ancestral spirits
  • Possession by wandering spirits
  • Possession by non-human entities
  • Possession and the DSM-IV
• Spontaneous Anomalous Experiences
  • Spontaneous channelling
  • Spontaneous prevision
  • Spontaneous clairvoyance
  • Psychokinetic happenings
  • Poltergeist occurrences
  • Past-life memories
  • Other anomalous phenomena or dissociative events
  • Spontaneous anomalous experiences and the DSM-IV

DAY THREE: ADVANCED USE OF IDEODYNAMIC SIGNALLING

• What is therapy with anomalous experiences meant to accomplish?
  • Normalizing anomalous experiences
  • Using trance states to treat anomalous experiences
• Using Ideodynamic Signalling: Advanced Approach
  • Finger signals to communicate with the inner mind
  • Establishing the finger signals
  • Questioning mode
• Finger Signals for Determining How to Proceed in Therapy
• Finger Signals for Distant Memory Recovery
• Finger Signals for Current Memory Recovery
• Finger Signals to Discover What Needs To Be Explored in Particular Sessions
• Finger Signals for Working with Dissociative Parts
• How Do You Know When Finger-signal Work is Successful?
• Advanced Experiential Work with Finger Signal Involving Workshop Participants