Intermediate/Advanced Workshop

"Ancestral and Past Life Trauma"
Philip Accaria, PhD, FASCH, and Paul Schenk, PsyD

Virtual 12-hour Workshop

This workshop has ended.  New workshops coming in 2025!

 WHEN:  November 9 - 10, 2024

• Saturday, November 9, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT
• Sunday, November 10, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT

12 Florida CEU's and Credit Toward ASCH Certification

Presented by: Philip Accaria, PhD, FASCH, and Paul Schenk, PsyD

Dr. Philip L. Accaria is a licensed psychologist in both New Jersey and Tennessee and is credentialed through APIT to conduct “teletherapy” in approximately 44 states. He has been practicing in the field of mental health since 1976 and has been utilizing clinical hypnosis since 1981.  Philip is Past-President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and Past-Chair/Moderator of its Board of Governors for 4 years is a Life Fellow and Approved Consultant. He also served as President of the Clinical Hypnosis Society of New Jersey for 15 years. Philip is also specialized in Indigenous/Shamanic Energy Medicine practices which utilize the clinician’s trance state and intuitively accessed information. He has also been practicing Past-Life Regression Therapy and teaching ideomotor signaling since 1992.

Dr. Paul Schenk mostly retired in 2019 after 43 years in private practice. He has been an Approved Consultant with ASCH for many years, and is a former president of the Georgia Hypnosis Society and former Chairperson of the Division of Independent Practice of Georgia Psychological Association. He still enjoys teaching and consulting with clinicians regarding the varied uses of hypnosis. His journal articles have appeared in the American Journal of Nursing, the Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. the ASCH Newsletter, Journal of Personality Assessment, the ADHD Report, as well as numerous articles in lay journals and a book published by Crown House.

An Extended Application of LeCron and Cheek’s “Past Experience” Common Cause: Past Life Therapy, Trauma, and the Spiritual/Transpersonal

This didactic and experiential workshop will address the successful utilization of hypnotic regression techniques in resolving/reducing a variety of chronic physiological, cognitive and emotional issues when ideomotor signaling indicated the origin of the symptom/issue was linked to a trauma reportedly experienced during a “past life”.

A theoretical basis and definition of “past life therapy” (PLT) will be presented which incorporates traditional concepts of family/systems theory, CBT, and trauma treatment. PLT protocols will be presented. Participants will have opportunities to experience a regression. Participants will be introduced to 60 years of research related to children who spontaneously remember a previous life. Alternative models which view the (PLT) experiences as purely fictional/metaphorical will also be presented.

Using case transcripts of hypnotic experiences of the “past life” type, participants will be asked to consider alternative theoretical models to explain the observed therapeutic effectiveness. We will present the following models for your consideration: (a) a model that relies on reincarnation as an explanatory factor, (b) a “waking dream” model which assumes the experiences are purely fictional/metaphorical creations of the client’s unconscious, and (c) indigenous medicine practices and constructs of “soul”. 

The topic of intuition will also be addressed; definitions, examples of different types, and how the use of intuition can be incorporated into PLT practice.

The presentation will address differentiating the subset of clients for whom this treatment approach would be contraindicated, ways to discuss with clients the different theoretical bases underlying the technique, and the critical role of ideomotor signaling as a diagnostic component, with a particular focus on the “past experience” common cause of symptoms as postulated by Leslie LeCron and David Cheek.

 Learning Objectives:

 After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Articulate a theoretical model to help explain how an event from a different lifetime could contribute significantly to a presenting symptom.
2. Use ideomotor signaling/muscle testing to explore LeCron and Cheek’s “Past Experience” factor to rule out events from a different lifetime that are contributing significantly to a presenting symptom.
3. Expand conceptualization of alternate causes of symptoms with a 4-dimensional model that adds to participants’ existing constructs for intra/interpersonal psychotherapy.
4. List two or more symptoms (Axis I, II and III) for which this approach has been shown to be useful.
5. Discuss applications of two classic trauma treatment strategies and CBT to such situations.
6. Use hypnosis to have the client’s mind generate fictional/metaphorical dream-like imagery that can be utilized to reduce or eliminate a presenting symptom.
7. Incorporate NDE type phenomena when it emerges in the client’s experience.
8. Differentiate two types of clients for whom this approach might be contra-indicated. 

 Location: Via Zoom

Continuing Education Credit:

We offer 12 Florida CEU's for licensed psychologists under 490 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 5/26); clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists under 491 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 3/25), and all our workshops count toward ASCH certification requirements. We automatically report to CEBroker.  All registrants must have completed a 20-hour ASCH-approved basic workshop in clinical hypnosis.

Registration is CLOSED

If you prefer to pay by check, mail your printed registration form with your check payable to FSCH to 13705 SW 91 CT, APT C, Miami, FL 33176

 Note: if you are a graduate student or intern FSCH member, inquire about the Mutter Scholarship 40% discount.