Claudia Reinike - (Germany)

After 25 years of experience in psychotherapy with children and their environment, I developed an approach, named KIKOS, which includes embodiment and a problem solving methods as well as hypnosis. The special idea is that coaching the child and parents is not enough, when children have problems in their everyday life. Usually the school life is involved as well and newly learned behavior strategies are not strong enough to establish themselves if the environment does not support the process. Sometimes,certainly, it is the environment that needs a little support to change the perspective because some expectations prohibit changes. To learn new behavior strategies and the generalization of them can be supported by a combination of easy learnable techniques.In this workshop, I show how tapping and a problem solving approach help children and parents to change their less helpful behavior in a humorous, light and resource oriented fashion. Raising self-esteem is a central aspect that is dealt with in many ways, particularly with hypnosis techniques. Participants learn my method in different contextual situations and see how the different techniques are interwoven according to specific situations. We will use some techniques using participants examples, respectively children problems, preferably ADHD or other behavior disorders . Demonstrations can showcase the parallel use of the different approaches in different environments. It will be shown how this may be integrated into different psychotherapeutic methods.