We welcome back Claude who will speak about how you can use hypnosis in humanitarian work, development cooperation and peace-building…
Association for Humanitarian Hypnosis is a group of hypnotherapists, former war journalists and ex-humanitarians believing hypnosis can support and maintain the mental health and psychosocial well-being of humanitarian workers and civilians in crisis.
The organisation’s target audiences are: Humanitarian institutions; Humanitarian personnel, Refugees and migrants. Its strategic goal is to make hypnosis accepted as a mental health tool in trauma-responsive peace-building and humanitarian organisations.
We worked with international organisations such as the International Red Cross, the UN peacekeeping force, NGOs, and individuals. We tested approaches and now have a wealth of knowledge we can apply in different settings.
Here I will briefly describe the use of mental health techniques in humanitarian contexts, outlining how clinical hypnosis deals with trauma and discuss the effectiveness of hypnosis for trauma.
I will cover:
What to use and with whom
Why approaches normal in our practice are rarely applicable in a humanitarian context;
How to apply a hypno-imaginative approach quasi-globally, cross-culturally and across classes;
How we work with the results from our Hypnoscience research.
Highlight what you can take away and use in your practice.
Leading coach, consultant, researcher & speaker. More entrepreneurship, more freedom, more innovation and creativity. These were the things I wanted to achieve, when I started my own business as a coach, consultant, therapist and expert in 1998. Prior to that, after studying social sciences and doing field research, I spent 15 years at the Red Cross as a delegate, program officer and department head responsible for staff recruitment and leadership, strategy processes, training and funding. Later, as an expert, I advised several European companies and organizations, such as DaimlerChrysler, DHL, Swisscom, UBS AG or the German and Swiss governments. Since 1991, I have conducted over 15,000 solution-focused sessions as a trainer, coach and therapist. For the past ten years I have been helping people at work to achieve maximum performance with maximum well-being. I am also an active part of the pioneering Hypno-Science Project at the University of Zurich as well as a board member of the Swiss Professional Association for Hypnotherapy. Three years ago I was a co-founder of the Association for Humanitarian Hypnosis, an organisation, which uses hypnosis for support and preservation of the mental health and psychosocial well-being of people responding to humanitarian needs and the civilian population in conflict zones.
Hear more from Claude in this video clip.
Further information, full schedule and tickets can be purchased here at the convention website.