Posttraumatic growth or resilience in illness

After 25 years of experience in psychotherapy, I developed an approach, named KIKOS, which includes embodiment, tapping, and problem solving methods as well as hypnosis, which is extremely helpful in a crisis or a disease. It shows how to increase the resilience while being occupied with the challenge of the crisis or the disease even when parts of the environment flood you with problem focused hypnotic and black thoughts.Having experienced all myself after my cancer diagnosis, I show in this WS how tapping, as in PEP (process- and embodimentfocused psychology by Michael Bohne), self-hypnosis, and an alternative approach may help recognize several experiences as strengthening resilience in order to profit in a long term manner. It will be demonstrated and explained in an easy way that how elements of PEP, such as tapping, can ease dysfunctional emotions, and how strengthening self-esteem by clearing up allegations and expectations or untying old loyalties work. Short hypnosis exercises, as by LeShen, or trance inductions from Bernhard Trenkle will be a part of the WS. If appropriate, demonstrationsmayincludespecificexamples of participants.The special idea is that coaching patients is not sufficientsince many problems in daily life are connected with the environment. KIKOS shows how to include the nearer and fartherenvironment, really or abstractly.Demonstrations can showcase the parallel use of the different approaches in different environments. It will be shown that how this might be integrated into different psychotherapeutic methods.