Invitation To Possibility Land: An Intensive Teaching Seminar With Bill O'Hanlon

by Bill O'Hanlon, Robert Bertolino

For many years, mental health professionals have attended the seminars of Bill O'Hanlon. The author and co-author of over a dozen books has captivated audiences with his informative, humorous, and interactive teaching style. An Invitation to Possibility Land takes participants a step further. In the context of a week-long training limited to 10 participants, O'Hanlon moves to a new level of experience that cannot be duplicated in his large workshops. The author shares riveting stories, metaphors, interchanges with participants, transcripts of therapy sessions during the week, and many more teaching points that allow this book to read like a novel. The book explores many current issues facing therapists in today's climate such as how to make therapy briefer and how to work with abuse victims. It offers the reader a chance to experience, along with the participants, an in depth training where subjects such as hypnosis, brief, Ericksonian, solution-oriented, and narrative therapies, and the use of language, are explored. Welcome to Possibility-Land.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

Bill O'Hanlon, M.S., is psychotherapist, author, and speaker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O&...

Librarian note:
Some books and editions are published under the full name of William Hudson O'Hanlon

Reviews

[Melvin Marsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Since this was recorded off a workshop, it is a little more dense than Bill's usual work, but that isn't a bad thing as I tend to like denser material (it makes me feel like I am learning more). I appreciated learning about some of the other clients from other participants in this.