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Calendar of Training Events
December 16 2011 & January 13 2012 Teleseminar series with Laurel Parnell and Maggie
Using EMDR to Heal Childhood Trauma and Neglect
February 8 2012 Teleseminar with Bill O'Hanlon and Maggie Post-Traumatic Success
December 13 2012
Teleseminar with Maggie
Hypnotic Innovations in the Treatment of Pain and Trauma
Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
2768 Darnby Dr.
Oakland, CA 94611
USA
510-655-3843
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Greetings!
I'm sure by now your preparations for the holiday season are well under way. We are also under way with our two-part teleseminar series with Laurel Parnell, Using EMDR to Heal Childhood Abuse and Neglect. There's still time to sign up to attend part 2 live on January 13 (with audio download of part 1 included) along with special bonuses. We also look forward to our February teleseminar with Bill O'Hanlon on Post-Traumatic Success. Our "News You Can Use" feature article is "The Season of Wonder and Generosity" (scroll down or click on the left sidebar to find this). Don't forget to check out some of the offerings below as you begin to plan for the New Year.
My very best holiday wishes,
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Teleseminars
We're having a wonderful teleseminar series with Laurel Parnell on Using EMDR to Heal Childhood Abuse and Neglect that began on December 16 and will continue on Friday, January 13. Many of you found out about this after the "last call" deadline so we are opening up registration again - you'll receive immediate access to the recorded December teleseminar, so you won't miss a thing if you sign up now.
During part 1 of the seminar, we focused on creating reparative relationships with clients, creating and accessing resources, and preparing for the successful transformation of relational trauma. Part 2 will focus on resolving common blocks and impasse in trauma reprocessing, specific strategies to resolve early wounds of intrusion and neglect, and further strategies for creating strategic resources.
Remember that you will receive permanent download of 3 hours of audio recording, two study guides, the opportunity to ask your questions live and also through our web link (visit http://www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_interactive_lp.html), and several great bonuses to expand your learning:
- Access to a video with Laurel that provides an appealing introduction to EMDR;
- A second video presentation with Laurel demonstrating Resource Tapping;
- Laurel's power point presentation from a one-day workshop on EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children;
- Maggie's power point presentation on "Healing Trauma through the Body" to help you address more primitive somatic issues and symptoms.
You can also purchase 4 CEU's and the Highlights edited transcript for a small additional fee. Again, to register, go to: http://www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_lp2.html).
 On Wednesday, February 8, join me and Bill O'Hanlon as we present a teleseminar featuring our best thinking on Post-Traumatic Success, from 9 am - 10:30 am Pacific time (live). This is a follow-up to our earlier seminar in July on "Healing Trauma Without Drama." In our February teleseminar, we will be covering the following topics:
- Neurological interventions that lead to "fast track" trauma resolution
- Post-traumatic growth and resilience
- How shame, devaluation, & violation split the self
- How self-inclusion approaches can help to reintegrate the self
- Simple strategies you can use to transform past hurts into positive contributions and life direction
- Rituals that are pathways to connection that can foster post-traumatic growth
- Your topic (go here now to add questions and topics that will make this a must attend seminar for you!
For a preview of the February seminar, please click here now to listen to this free audio download. You will hear some radical ideas that we will expand on in February! If you want to energize your strategies for trauma treatment that maximize success, please register now at http://www.maggiephillipsphd.com/courses_teleseminars_bo2.html.
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Holiday Sale
Additional holiday shopping ideas: We are offering free audio downloads of more than 35 practice exercises included in my Reversing Chronic Pain book! Just purchase Reversing Chronic Pain through Amazon or your local bookstore, and email your proof of purchase to Peggy@reversingchronicpain.com, and you will receive the link for downloading all of the audio exercises at no additional cost. This makes a GREAT gift for you or for anyone in your life who is struggling with pain-and we've created a special holiday gift coupon for this offer!
And, if you want to help someone in pain feel even more hopeful about their recovery, add the online multi-media self-treatment Reversing Chronic Pain program and the Pain Coaching CD set for a highly effective collection. We are offering these programs at half price through the end of the year. Go to http://www.reversingchronicpain.com/sale.html to take advantage of this terrific bargain. Click here to read what people have written about Reversing Chronic Pain online and coaching programs.
Scroll to the bottom of the sale page to learn how easy it is to become an affiliate and offer your clients even more savings (70%) on these holiday sale items.
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2012 Online Events
 I've been invited to participate in an exciting webinar that will meet monthly throughout 2012: The Heads and Tales of Clinical Hypnosis: Candid Interviews with the Experts, organized by Michael Yapko. My presentation will be on December 13, 2012 on Hypnotic Innovations in the Treatment of Pain and Trauma. But please don't wait a whole year to participate because the other outstanding presenters include Jeff Zeig, Ph.D., Mark Jensen, Ph.D., David Spiegel, M.D., Julie Linden, Ph.D., Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D., Daniel Kohen, M.D., Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., Carol Ginandes, Ph.D., Steve Lynn, Ph.D., Norma Barretta, Ph.D. and Philip Barretta, M.A. Click here to read all about the webinar series. After the first free webinar on January 12 with Dr. Yapko presenting, there will be a nominal charge (only $35 per session or $25 per session if you register for the entire series at once). Each webinar will be held on a Thursday afternoon from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Pacific time and will be recorded for later viewing. So, even if you're in a time zone that is not convenient for the live event, or have a schedule conflict, you can still watch the webinar on your own computer at your convenience. Click on this link to register for ONLY the free webinar on January 12, 2012. Click on this link to register for ONLY the webinar with Maggie Phillips and Michael Yapko on December 13, 2012. Click on this link to register for the whole series of 12 webinars. By the way, it's not too late to register for the special online conference Brief Solutions for Trauma! My presentation is on Healing Trauma Through the Body. The other members of the Ericksonian faculty include: Bill O'Hanlon on "Healing Trauma without Drama," Yvonne Dolan on "A Solutions Focus for Trauma," Ben Furman on "Putting Trauma in its Place," Gordon Young on Flashbacks, and Rob McNeilly on "Individualizing Trauma Treatment." You receive all 6 presentations plus a host of bonuses. Click here to register now.
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News You Can Use
THE SEASON OF WONDER AND GENEROSITY
One night this week I went with some friends to hear a wonderful winter solstice Celtic music concert. The musicians sounded the perfect notes to evoke a sense of wonder and generosity and lift us into the holiday spirit. Stepping lightly into the night afterwards, we encountered a homeless man who said, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I don't have money to get home tonight." Spontaneously, all of us said, "We're sorry too." This seems to be the point-counterpoint rhythm of the holiday season. We can be wrapped in delight one minute and in the very next, agonize about how we're going to get home - home to safety and comfort, peace and simplicity, quiet, connection and good will. At every shopping mall, Santa is ringing bells and posing with wide-eyed children who are filled with wonder. Later on in life, when they are told the truth, they may struggle with confusion: "What happened to that kind old man who filled my every wish once a year?" Sometimes that early crush of possibility can lead to more global disappointment, disillusion, and cynicism as the demise of Santa combines with many of the adverse circumstances that life hands us. Sometimes, faith and hope die along with Santa Claus. The author G.K. Chesterton offers us an antidote to this problem. He writes: "Instead of dwindling...Santa Claus has grown larger and larger in my life until he fills almost the whole of it. It happened in this way. As a child I was faced with a phenomenon requiring explanation. I hung up at the end of my bed an empty stocking, which in the morning became a full stocking. I had done nothing to produce the things that filled it. I had not worked for them, or made them or helped to make them. I had not even been good - far from it. And the explanation was that a certain being whom people called Santa Claus was benevolently disposed toward me...What we believed was that a certain benevolent agency did give us those toys for nothing. And, as I say, I believe it still. I have merely extended the idea. Then, I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking: Now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void. Once I only thanked Santa Claus for a few dolls and crackers, now I thank him for stars and street faces and wine and the great sea. Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside: it is the large and preposterous present of myself..."  At one time in our lives, it was far easier to see the world around us as a gift. Now, it takes faith. May we all experience through eyes of wonder during this season (and all year long) how amazing our gift of life is, and how our hearts can open to the generosity of all that is freely given to us in our daily stockings! My thanks to Brother David Steindl Rast for his essay, "A Child's Wide Eyes" (http://www.gratefulness.org/readings/dsr_chesterton.htm) which inspired this article. All of us on our team wish you the merriest of seasons and a new year bright with possibility. Maggie P.S. Please watch for our January newsletter and more information about our 2012 calendar of events.
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