Dear ISH members:
As you know, due to the uncertainties related to the COVID pandemic, ISH’s Board of Directors has elected to post-pone the in-person 2022 World Congress that had been scheduled to occur in Kraków for June of this year to June of 2024. However, we also decided that we wanted to plan for a special virtual event this year that would help to keep us all connected. So we are currently deep into making plans for a special virtual event for all ISH members (and future ISH members) worldwide, to be held on June 10 and June 11 of this year.
We are creating a unique program that you can access via your favorite device, and that will occur from 15:00 to 19:00 (or, if you prefer, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm) Central European Standard Time on both days. Please save those dates and times in your calendar.
Our primary goal for the event is connection. We wish to create an event that will help nurture and develop our connection with each other, as well as an event that will connect the live congress held in Montreal in 2018 with the live congress held in Kraków in 2024.
Save the dates for the Event of 2022!
ISH’s Virtual Event on June 10 and 11, 2022
Yes, we will have both clinical and research Keynote addresses to keep you updated on the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-science discoveries about hypnosis. We will include skill-building workshops to give you tools for your clinical and research work in the area. We will also plan for a special awards event, during which we will announce the 2022 awardees of ISH’s numerous awards, including the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for Scientific Excellence, the Pierre Janet Award for Clinical Excellence, the Kay F. Thompson Award for Clinical Excellence in Dentistry, the Jay Haley Early Career Award for Innovative Contribution to Hypnosis, the Helen H. and John G. Watkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal.
We will also create opportunities for the event’s participants –you and your ISH colleagues – to interact and connect with each other, and with ISH’s Board of Directors.
Yes, we will have both clinical and research Keynote addresses to keep you updated on the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-science discoveries about hypnosis. We will include skill-building workshops to give you tools for your clinical and research work in the area. We will also plan for a special awards event, during which we will announce the 2022 awardees of ISH’s numerous awards, including the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for Scientific Excellence, the Pierre Janet Award for Clinical Excellence, the Kay F. Thompson Award for Clinical Excellence in Dentistry, the Jay Haley Early Career Award for Innovative Contribution to Hypnosis, the Helen H. and John G. Watkins Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal.
We will also create opportunities for the event’s participants –you and your ISH colleagues – to interact and connect with each other, and with ISH’s Board of Directors.
The event will be free for all ISH members (including anyone who joins ISH as a member prior to the event), although we will invite ISH member participants to donate 30 euros or more to help defray the costs of organizing the event if they so choose. The Polish Team has been working hard to organize World Family Meeting for more than 3 years on their own costs, and two more years of planning work are needed. So we are thinking that it would be fair to share at least some of the costs for all of this work. This is the reason to invite ISH members to make a donation. Non-ISH members who are eligible to participate in ISH training events will be able to participate in the virtual event for a 60-euro registration fee.
So please, mark your calendars, and get yourself ready to again feel connected with your international hypnosis community. We want to see you there!
Warmly,
Mark P. Jensen
P.S. Some of you may have noticed that our webpage was hacked and not working for a few days. We thank Shady Tonn and Manni Henke for react-ing very quickly to this hack, so that in 2-3 days all problems have been solved. The webpage now has a much higher level of protection from future potential hacks.
P.P.S. As another way for you to stay connected with your ISH colleagues, you can continue participating in ISH’s virtual Monthly Masterclass Webinars. https://www.ishhypnosis.org/ish-monthly-masterclass/ The up-coming masterclasses for 2022 are as follows:
• March 16, 2022. Enayat Shahidi will facilitate a workshop on using hypnotherapy to treat traumatized individuals.
• April 20, 2022. Dan Short will facilitate a workshop on the use of hypnosis to facilitate emotional processing.
• May 18, 2022. Cecilia Fabre will facilitate a workshop on the use of metaphorical objects in hypnotherapy.
• June 2022. ISH’s 2022 Virtual Event.
• July 20, 2022. Nicole Ruysschaert will facilitate a workshop on hypnosis to address burnout and compassion fatigue for health care workers.
• August 17, 2022. Paola Maria Brugnoli will facilitate a workshop on hypnosis for palliative care.
• September 21, 2022. Brian Allen will facilitate a workshop on using hypnosis to help “change the world in the heart.
• October 19, 2022. Mark Jensen will facilitate a workshop on listen-ing for effective hypnotic suggestions: Using open questions and reflective listening to boost treatment efficacy.
• November 16, 2022. Carl Hattingh will facilitate a workshop on con-temporary approaches to ego state therapy.
• December 21, 2022. Anita Jung will facilitate a workshop on incorporating music in hypnosis treatment.
If you are interested in facilitating an ISH virtual Masterclass Workshop in 2023, please feel free to write to the chair of ISH’s Education and Training committee, Enayat Shahidi (dr.enayat.shahidi@gmail.com). All 3-hour Monthly Masterclass workshops are currently scheduled to occur from 17:00 to 20:00 Central European Time. However, they are recorded so that anyone who registers can watch the workshop after the live event. The registration fee for these masterclasses is only 20 US dollars (or its equivalent in euros) for Individual ISH members and ISH Constituent Society members. The registration fee for non-members who are eligible to participate in ISH training events is still only 50 US dollars (or its equivalent in euros). The monthly masterclass webinars are another wonderful opportunity to brush up on your clinical skills, as well as to connect with other ISH members. Please join us!
P.P.P.S. And of course, please continue to join me and each month’s Constituent Society co-host for the monthly “Coffee with the President” event on the first Thursday of every month. Although we meet each first Thursday, the specific time changes as a function of the time zone of the co-host. If your Constituent Society wishes to co-host this event sometime in 2022, please feel free to write me (mjensen@uw.edu).