Stephen has provided postgraduate training for professionals since 1975 in 48
states and 21 countries.
His teaching programs include a psychotherapy
skills and issues including brief therapy, family therapy, gestalt therapy,
transactional analysis, diagnosis and assessment, Ericksonian approaches,
therapeutic metaphor, hypnotherapy, pain control, trauma recovery, self-image
development, development of the therapist, and changing paradigms in mental
health. His sponsors
include universities, post-graduate training institutes, mental health
providers, and state and national professional organizations. The links here
will provide more detail in several areas.
The locations and topics vary and newly scheduled workshops
change on a monthly basis. Feel free to email for details at any of the office location in Phoenix.
Stephen sponsors CEU workshops for professionals in Phoenix, Arizona. For other training opportunities see the list of our training sponsors below and especially The Milton Erickson Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ongoing clinical supervision is available for professions increasing treatment skills and for professionals seeking to acquire the requisite supervision and consultation from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Membership or the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis, Membership and Certification in Clinical Hypnosis. If there is any question about how
to proceed to organize individual, group, or even phone-based supervision, feel
free to contact Stephen for actual details of the office
location in Phoenix, Arizona.
Stephen has provided individualized and group training, and consulting for
performance enhancement and sports psychology since 1985. Recipients of
his approach have included a broad range from Olympic swimmers and wrestlers,
marksmen and women, to circus stunt performers. Several of the enhancements
concepts and one of the key protocols Lankton developed was researched by Dr. Bill Nugent, currently professor of statistics at the
University of Tennessee. Dr. Nugent conducted the studies with performers
of dangerous and difficult trapeze stunts and showed conclusively the power of Lankton's approach. Some of these pieces of research are published in the
Ericksonian Monograph. For questions about how to
go about setting up on-site, in-office or phone-based consultation, feel
free to contact Stephen for actual details of the
office location in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Clinical demonstrations, lecture, discussion, exercises are combined to provide participants with working models of comprehensive clinical frameworks involved in strategic therapeutic approaches. A larger number of topics is detailed elsewhere on this site. In brief overview, however, the workshops concentrate on such topics as diagnosis and treatment planning and the use of carefully planned interventions such as therapeutic metaphors, indirect suggestion, hypnosis, multiple embedded metaphor, ambiguous function assignments, and paradoxical and skill building assignments in various therapy venues. They are most often organized around the content of Stephen's books published by Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, Inc. The hypnosis workshops emphasize the concepts and misconceptions of hypnosis, induction techniques, uses and contra-indications of hypnosis as well as other therapeutic approaches such as brief therapy models, gestalt therapy, and couples and family therapy. Clinical frameworks are continually emphasized while technical components are taught depending upon the requirements of the professional audience. Refer to the current clinical training schedule.
Training workshops and presentations have been sponsored by universities including: Univ. of MI, Xavier, USCA, John Hopkins, Harvard, NJ School of Medicine, McGill, MSU, Pennsylvania University, Univ. Miami, Loyola, Florida State, Nova, Univ. of CT. Univ. N. TX, Univ. of NY, Univ. of Ark., etc.; professional organizations including: AAMFT, ASCH, AGPA, AFTA, AAP, NASW, ITAA, Ortho, The Milton Erickson Foundation, etc., and to state professional organizations including those of Psychology, Psychiatry, Family Therapy, and Social Work in almost all US states. Stephen has also provide in-house training and supervision and training externally advertised for community education or for the profit of training organizations throughout the US and Canada: Family Service organizations, Community Mental Health Clinics, Hospitals, Pain Clinics, or other recognized professional training institutes. The actual list of sponsors for events spanning over 25 years is, of course, too long to be all inclusive. We extend apologies to all those wonderful organizations and people who are omitted from this brief list.
Attendance in clinical training programs is restricted to clinical professionals who hold accredited masters or doctorate degrees in the mental health professions. Previous training or experience with family therapy or hypnosis may be helpful but is not necessary.
