The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

WEEK ONE
The Psychology of More Internalized & Permanent Habit Control

• How to connect your client's behavior to their vision.
• Why your client's most difficult times can sometimes be the best opening for initiating change.
• New research that illuminates the neurobiology of emotions & why that matters in everyday life.

The Art of Eliciting & Sharing Information that Shapes Positive Attitudes and Increases Motivation

• How to use your client's past successes and failures: pre-emotive relapse prevention.

• Three powerful reasons to change.
• Why quality & quantity of life are linked.

Eliciting True Emotional Reasons Your Client Continues to Overeat/Smoke

• The positive intention(s) behind unwanted behavior
• Three state-of-the-art strategies, metaphors, and leverage points to create and support success.

• Why the right information at the right time encourages commitment.
• Fat as a chemical factory, BMI, and other issues in weight control.
• Four strategies to break the connection between stopping smoking and weight gain.

The Key to Effectively Setting & Reaching Well-formed Goals & Outcomes

• A detailed blueprint for building a compelling new self and goal image.
• How to create a path between your client and their future self.
• Why music can help propel your client down their chosen path.

• Four important attitudes, activities, and assignments.
• Design and use affirmations that actually work.
• Pros and cons to having your client keep records of their habit behaviors.

Hypnosis/Imagery for Relaxation & Stress Reduction

• A step-by-step method for preparing your client for hypnotic/imagery success.
• How to establish a deeper relaxation in your client.
• Help your client deal effectively with the three biggest threats to their ability to relax on their own.

• Help your client evolve into their new self.
• Thirteen important themes to master to make imagery inviting and magnetic.

State-of-the-art Hypnotic/Imagery Strategies for Creative Problem Solving

• Powerful conversational hypnotic language to augment the effectiveness of every intervention.
• How to adapt hypnosis for any goal or problem in habit control work.
• A four step process anchored in mindfulness and neuroplasticity to diminish obsessive urges.

• Six strategies, stories and reframes to eliminate or minimize nicotine withdrawal.
• Five important questions to determine what and how much to eat.
• A new paradigm for conceptualizing habits.
• Why understanding the true meaning of deprivation can facilitate your client's resolve.

Energy Psychology: Powerful Tool for Change

• How Energy Psychology strategies can clear unwanted stressors, emotions, urges, and cravings.
• An easy-to-learn, yet effective and sophisticated, strategy to use immediately.

• Practical and effective ways to help your clients use Energy psychology on their own.
• How to fine-tune these strategies to increase success in all facets of habit control.

The Enneagram of Personality Types

• Nine personality types that will reveal the key to your client's behavior.
• How understanding your client's personality empowers habit control change.

• Why each type's characteristics, motivational pattern and style impacts habit and habit change.
• How to elegantly treat clients of any Enneagram type.
• How your personality type influences your approach to therapy.

Master the Process of Habit Control Treatment

• How to integrate habit control into your current practice.
• The therapeutic value of becoming more strategic: how to know what to do when.
• Three follow-up methods to sustain your client's change