People typically go into therapy when they experience a life crisis in which their old ways of coping just won't work anymore. In this workshop, we'll explore how the "problems" that people bring to therapy—depression, addiction, rage, anxiety, a failed relationship—may be hidden opportunities for regeneration and personal transformation. You'll learn a way of working with people that helps them use their "presenting problem" as a springboard to a more open, expansive sense of self and a richer, more flexible way of living. This model of therapy draws on Ericksonian hypnosis, Buddhism, Aikido, and the performance arts to help clients access their own inner wisdom for healing and creativity. Participants will learn skills for evoking in their clients the "generative mind" on three levels of the self: the cognitive, somatic, and the "field" self—that larger, archetypal consciousness that connects us to the world beyond our own egos. (This session will continue with Workshop 323.)