What is it that you really want….motivation to exercise, different eating habits, more self control, better health?

Let’s talk it over.  You can do this.  Life’s problems become easier to manage when you feel supported and in balance. This is your time.

This unique class is designed to make hypnotherapy available at an affordable cost, offering tools for empowerment to achieve your goals. You will experience hypnosis, learn self hypnosis and receive individual support for your personal challenges.  Personal attention is a priority so class size is limited to 4 participants.

Four classes ~ Plus One Private Session included in the fee

Total fee $125.00

Class meets  Mondays 7:00 – 8:45   November 28 – December 19th

14511 Westlake Drive,  Lake Oswego,  OR  97035

Just minutes from I 5 and Kruse Way

Register on line at www.thetaoofchange.com

971- 217- 3755   mbjoy@thetaoofchange.com

Call for more information

If Stress and Anxiety are ruling your life please feel free to contact me for up to a 15 min free consultation over the phone to see if Hypnosis is the right fit for you.

Tracie Mahan
503-680-2407

Hypnosis comes easily to children.  Children love to daydream. It is a fluid, natural state for them. The power of their imagination, makes it easy for children to reach deeper levels of trance. Fairy Tales, stories, puppets and games can help a child to follow a path of suggestion while feeling safe and protected. For older children… and for inner child work with adults… sharing and giving  voice to treasured dreams and desires evokes  the imagination, the doorway between the conscious and unconscious mind. This then creates a space for change and allows for emotional growth.

Images of brightly colored lights, magic  wands, special learning hats,   or shining stars are metaphors that can be easily drawn into  a child’s  mind. These symbols then become resources to integrate into daily life.  These resources are carried  into  future situations by the  child,  who has already  rehearsed  the event.  They can then  face their fear in the world  with more confidence and some new tools to help them.  For children of any age, this can feel magical.

Building confidence and concentration, improving study habits, sports performance, dealing with  loss, fears and relationships are all issues that can be helped through the use of hypnotherapy.  Hypnotic suggestion is fueled by imagination and children have a talent in this area that is  very powerful.   Hypnosis  can teach them  how to focus this talent to bring more confidence and happiness into their lives.

Mary Joy  is certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists  in Pediatric Hypnosis

The Tao of Change  www.thetaoofchange.com mbjoy@thetaoofchange.com

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein

Healing through Past Lives. Click here for more information.

Have you ever wondered if you’ve lived before?  Have you ever felt that instant connection to another person and not know why?  Ever experience Deja vu?  Been drawn to certain places or locations or just feel at home when traveling somewhere?  These could all be signs of Past Life connections.  In this lecture on Nov 5th at the Portland Body Mind Spirit expo, hear more about how Past Lives can be influencing your current life.  Hear stories of how exploring Past Lives have helped people overcome Fears and Anxieties they are experiencing in their current life.   Find out how Hypnotherapy can help you on your journey to healing and discovery.

My aim is to create a space where, within a “clean” approach, leading-edge thinking can be applied in practical ways. As a group, we can go into greater depth on specific aspects related to Symbolic Modeling and other approaches. Participants have the opportunity to develop their skills as modelers and practitioners while honing their ability to work systematically.

The Developer’s Group is for practitioners, therapists, coaches and explorers who use David Grove’s Clean-Language , Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge processes or who are familiar with NLP and interested in taking their skill beyond the ordinary.

Membership to the group is open to those invited by myself or who have experience and training in Clean-Language & Symbolic Modelling (developed by James Lawley and Penny Tompkins), hypnosis or NLP.

The Developer’s Group is not intended as a replacement for training, though; there will be training moments where I’ll facilitate processes to introduce learning contexts within the group.

You can expect presentations and demonstrations on whatever we find interesting and worth researching within the context of the group. Sometimes participants don’t know what the day will be about until we begin that day or as little as a day beforehand when I’ll send out an email with background ‘notes’ or personal assignments to be explored on members’ own time. These notes and the group’s discoveries from the day either form the basis for an article published through the “The Interactive Blog” or remain a ‘work-in-progress’ paper to be published at a later date.

Here are some of the ways you can directly benefit from joining:

As an Observer you will:

• See Michael, a skilled Clean-Language Facilitator & Symbolic Modeller, demonstrate how Clean-Language and other processes work in live situations.
• Find out how Michael makes in-the-moment decisions about which direction to take and which questions to ask.
• See how metaphor structures our experience.
• Learn to take a systemic view of the nature of change.
• Discover how the relationship between interior and exterior space is fundamental to the way we make sense of the world.

As a Facilitator you will have a chance to put the above into practice and:

• Work directly with clients’ inner symbolic world in a naturalistic way.
• Train your attention to focus on what is most salient within the clients’ information.
• Listen with new ears; see with new eyes, ask questions in a new way.
• Learn how client’s words can become embodied and “alive” in the room, in the moment.

You will also find out about your Self:

• Your own Metaphoric Landscape
• How self-organizing change works from the inside
• The difference it makes when your own Metaphoric Landscape goes ‘live’
• How to incorporate this approach into your work

What you will not get:

• Me trying to ‘sell’ you on the ideas that I am offering. I consider each member of the group an explorer in his or her own right and on your own journey and am not interested in persuading others to my way of thinking, but rather encouraging mutual development between members and myself.
• A step-by-step technique to be followed blindly. This group is intended to develop one another’s perceptions so that we may see with new eyes, hear with new ears, and ask questions in new and interesting ways.
• Promises that what I offer will instantly transform your life and all your clients’ lives. Consider the hundreds or even thousands of hours you have spent on your own personal journey and keep that in mind when evaluating the claims made by those who promise you “instant cures” or “magic wand” techniques or who claim “I can change your life.”
• Analyses of clients’ processes based on theories of personality and diagnostic labeling.

I’m interested in creating contexts where learning and change occurs for everyone involved rather than introducing my philosophy about how life begins and ends, people work, or change occurs. We will focus on change, as it’s occurring in the space, in the moment.

The next Developer’s Group is scheduled for Monday, April 4th from 7 pm – 8:30 pm. Click Reserve to secure your seat.

To become a member of The Developer’s Group, please contact me directly: MichaelSpandel@gmail.com

Curious? Here’s what coming up:

While studying with some of the world’s foremost experts in NLP, Clean Language and other leading edge modalities - I came accross a therapeutic modality called Clean Language & Symbolic Modeling…

And was completely surprised and astonished by what I discovered.

Here’s a quick glimpse into what Clean-Language & Symbolic Modeling are all about…

In the 1980s David Grove (The creative genius behind Clean-Language) developed clinical methods for resolving traumatic memories, especially those related to child abuse, rape and incest. He realized many clients naturally described their symptoms in metaphor, but if he asked ordinary questions about their metaphors they quickly returned to an everyday narrative, losing the benefit of the symbolic perspective. However when he enquired about the metaphors using very simple questions and the client’s exact words, their perception of the trauma began to change. This inspired him to create Clean-Language, a way of asking questions which preserves the logic.

So in short, Clean Language Questions direct your clients’ attention to various aspects of their metaphors and do not unwittingly contaminate the client’s experience with your own metaphors and assumptions.

As a result, spending 10 minutes facilitating your client to an embodied experience of a valued aspect of self can sometimes be worth 10 sessions of going over their problem.

Once an “all-singing, all-dancing” resource metaphor is available to a client it can be called upon at any time in subsequent sessions, or by the client when they are in a problem situation. Sometimes it is not even important what the resource is, or whether it is an obvious solution to their problem. Simply accessing an empowering metaphor and the accompanying resourceful physiological state can result in the client establishing new ways of being and behaving in the real world.

Here’s a clip from my last Intro – Saturday, March 12th…

 I hope this bit of insight into metaphor and Clean Language has been of value to you!

Here’s whats coming up…

The Developer’s Group – Tuesday, March 22nd, 7pm – 8:30pm
For those who missed my first presentation to the NGH, here’s your second chance to get a glimpse of how you can start utilizing the power of metaphor in your own work, simply, with David Grove’s Clean-Language.  (8 Developers, $20) Learn more: http://clean-language.com/?page_id=36
 
The Personal Journey Day – Saturday & Sunday – April 9th & 10th
During the Personal Journey Days, you’ll have the opportunity to explore, in-depth, the metaphoric, unconscious representation of any issue you wish. Whether it’s becoming more creative in your life, managing your weight, building more rewarding relationships with the people you love, creating a new and lasting habit, or exploring new terrain, Michael will work with you in a small select group and individually to reveal what is happening next for you in your life. (5 people, $267) Learn more: http://clean-language.com/?page_id=12
 
As an added incentive, the first 6 people who participate in my first Personal Journey Day will receive a coupon for $200 off the cost of The Full Clean-Facilitator Training! 
(Along with the early bird special, that’s a savings of $600.)
 
The Full Clean Facilitator Program with Marian & Michael – June 2011
A program designed to equip you with David Grove’s Clean-Language, Symbolic Modeling, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge – ALL powerful communication tools that help people clarify their own thinking, resolve their own challenges, and access their own innate creativity.  (Early Bird ends April 1st!)  Learn more: http://clean-language.com/?page_id=239
 
“This training was the most profound and transformational experience I’ve ever had” – Margarita Abramov, Hospice Manager

This is a great interview on the Hypno-Band done by CBS News.  Click on the link above to see the clip.