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EARN UP TO 43.0 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT HOURS 31.0 Continuing Education Credit Hours for the International Congress 6.0 Continuing Education Credit Hours for Law & Ethics (Pre-Conference) OR 6.0 Special Event Workshop 6.0 Continuing Education Credit Hours for Post-Conference Workshops MAXIMUM CREDIT HOURS: 43.0 AMA — The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is ac- by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. credited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing BRN — The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. Pro- Medical Education to provide continuing medical edu- vider approved by the California Board of Registered cation for physicians. The Milton H. Erickson Founda- Nursing, Provider Number CEP 9376 for 43.0 contact tion, Inc., designates this live activity for a maximum of hours. 43.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the NASW — This program is in the process of being ap- extent of their participation in the activity. proved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #88692793) for 43.0 continuing education APA — The Institute for the Advancement of Human contact hours. Behavior, co-sponsor for The Milton H. Erickson Foun- dation, is approved by the American Psychological NBCC — The Milton H. Erickson Foundation is an NBCC Association to sponsor continuing education for psy- -Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and chologists. The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that maintains responsibility for this program and its con- meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsi- tent. Credit is provided on an hour-per-hour basis (43.0 ble for all aspects of the program. ACEP#5056. This hours maximum). program is eligible for 43.0 clock hours. BBS — The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc., is a State of Florida Department of Professional Regulation board-approved provider (PCE No. 398). This course — The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. is approved meets the qualifications for 43.0 hours of continuing by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage education credit for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling as a provider of continuing education (CE Provider #: 50- CEUs from additional agencies will be listed online as they are granted. Connirae Andreas , PhD, has been an innovator in the field of personal development for almost 4 decades, 12th Erickson best known for her groundbreaking work developing Core Transforma- tion. This method utilizes our limita- tions as the doorway to a felt experience many Congress describe as their spiritual core, offering a deep healing that resolves many of life’s problems. Connirae’s new work, the Wholeness Process, provides a precise way to experience “dissolving the ego,” another long time spiritual goal. Her FACULTY work is strongly influenced by her experience with Dr. Erickson in 1979, and has been published in Jorge Abia, MD, has been the co- over 14 languages. director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of Mexico City since 1989. Steve Andreas, MA, has been learn- Dr. Abia has training in internal ing, teaching, developing, and writ- medicine, family therapy, and Erick- ing about briefest therapy methods sonian hypnotherapy, and has 25 for over half a century. He is author years of experience as an Erickson- of several books, including Trans- ian Hypnotherapy clinician, teacher, researcher forming Negative Self-Talk, Trans- and programs designer. He is co-Author of a forming Your Self, and Virginia 1,500 page teaching program and author of a Satir: the Patters of her Magic, and has co- self-hypnosis book. authored and edited several others. Ronald Alexander, PhD, is executive Marilia Baker, MSW, is a multicul- director of OpenMind Training Insti- tural, multilingual Licensed Mar- tute, Santa Monica, CA. Licensed riage and Family Therapist based psychotherapist, author of Wise in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is a Mind Open Mind and co-author with Board member of the Phoenix Insti- Elisha Goldstein Chapter 33 tute of Ericksonian Therapy; mem- “Mindfulness, Trauma and Trance: A Mindfulness ber of the Advisory Board for Phoe- -Based Psychotherapeutic Approach,” The Wiley nix Friends of C.G.Jung; International Advisor and Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, 2014. He is Consultant, Centro Ericksoniano de México, and the originator of the OpenMind Training, a unique Institutes Editor for the Milton H. Erickson Foun- method of mind body healing therapies combin- dation Newsletter. She conducts presentations ing Ericksonian Hypnosis, Somatics and Mindful- and workshops locally and internationally. Ms. ness Practices. He is active teaching and training Baker is the author of A Tribute to Elizabeth applying these principles in the US. Japan, Moore Erickson: Colleague Extraordinaire, Wife, Europe, Russia, Australia and Asia. Mother, and Companion, also published in Span- www.openmindtraininginstitue.com ish, Portuguese, and French. Helen Adrienne, LCSW, BCD, is an Norma Barretta, PhD and her late Ericksonian clinician and mind/ husband, Philip, taught regularly in body therapist recognized for her the United States, Italy, Poland, creative clinical work. She provides Spain, and occasionally other individuals, couples and groups countries. Norma continues to see with coping tools needed to man- patients in her private practice. age inordinate stress. Since 2002, She and Philip were honored with Helen has hosted, and for the last 4 years has co- a Lifetime Achievement Award for taught with Jeff Zeig in the New York City Master their Contributions to Hypnosis and Classes. Along with her private practice she runs Hypnosis Education by the American Society of a two-day training program for clinicians seeking Clinical Hypnosis. Norma is regular faculty for the expertise in working with infertility patients. Addi- Southern California Society of Clinical Hypnosis tionally, NYU Fertility Center recruited her to lead and serves on the SCSCH Board. psychoeducational stress reduction classes. Helen has taught nationally and internationally. Rubin Battino, MS, is a Licensed She is the author of On Fertile Ground: Healing Professional Clinical Counselor Infertility. (OH) specializing in very brief ther- apy generally using hypnosis. He has published ten books on psy- QUESTIONS ABOUT CONGRESS? chotherapy; the latest is When All Else Fails. Some New and Some Call the Foundation toll-free at Old Tools for Doing Brief Therapy (2014). He con- 877-212-6678 tributed a chapter on single session therapy in Capturing the Moment (2014). Page 3 Sofia Bauer, Psychiatrist and hyp- Consuelo Casula, Lic Psych, is notherapist in Brazil, received train- President of the European Society ing in Phoenix at the Milton H. of Hypnosis (esh-hypnosis.eu) Erickson Foundation in 1993. She (2014-2017), psychologist and has worked with S. Gilligan, J. Mills, psychotherapist with private prac- Teresa Robels, S. Lankton in Posi- tice in Milan. Author of seven tive Psychology Certification with books, in leading training groups, Tal Ben-Shahar, EFT, TFT, EMDR strategic communication, how to create meta- with Francine Shpairo. Director of Milton Erickson phors, women’s development and resilience. The Institute of Florianópolis, Hypnosis and Professor book on metaphors has been translated into of Psychology with several online courses, several Spanish, Portuguese and French. publications in the area in Portuguese. Books: Hypnotherapy Manual, Handbook of Advanced Sheldon Cohen, MD, is a Hypnotherapy, Understanding the Panic Disorder, psychiatrist in private practice in Primer Optimism. www.sofiabauer.com.br Atlanta, GA. He is past professor at Tulane and Emory. His John Beahrs, MD is Professor research efforts have centered on Emeritus of Psychiatry, Oregon the biochemistry of the brain. He Health and Science University. is a past editor of the American Stanford: ER Hilgard’s hypnosis Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, as well as past vice laboratory 1968-69, MD 1969. MH president of ASCH. He received the Presidential Erickson 1971 et seque. Milton H. Merit Award ASCH, the Distinguished Service Erickson Award x 3. Developed Award MAA, and recognized as Man of the Year “strategic self-therapy” for treating by GPA.