THE HANDOUT BOOK 
               
          Complete handouts  
         from the workshops of 
           Bill O’Hanlon 
                                 
                                 
                                 
                        Welcome to Handout Land 
      
     This compilation of my handouts has evolved over the course of a number of years. When I first began giving workshops and 
     seminars, I would often read on the feedback forms, “Wish there would have been handouts since there was so much information.” 
     So, I started making handouts. I guess I got a little carried away, though, as you can see with this book. Workshop sponsors started 
     sweating  a bit when I sent 25 or 30 pages of handouts (I was restraining myself-I wanted to send 50). So, to save trees and to 
     make them available again after they have been out of print for some years, they are back, newly revised and compiled. 
      
     Years ago, someone came up to me at a workshop and declared, “You give good handout!” I hope you agree. I have endeavored to 
     chock these pages full of useful information and summaries. 
      
     The work in this edition owes a great deal to my former assistant, Martha Geske, who died unexpectedly recently, and to my 
     current assistant, Bianca Sivan. Work on previous editions was done by Mary Nathan and Steffanie O’Hanlon. Thanks to them all. 
     I produce a great deal of original work, but organizing it and making these compilations is not my forte. Without their good work, 
     this would very likely not exist. 
      
     Because I am committed to spreading these ideas, you have my permission to reproduce and of these handouts for colleagues, 
     friends or clients. Please do not use them in any commercial (i.e., money-making) activities or products, though, and please keep 
     my name and contact information on them when you share them. 
      
     Because this is an online version, we can make changes relatively easily. Please let us know about any corrections or suggestions 
     that occur to you. 
      
     Bill O’Hanlon, Santa Fe, NM, USA 
     April 2005 
      
      
      
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                          TABLE OF CONTENTS 
                                    
                        Brief, Solution and Possibility Therapy 
      ACCEPT Framework 
      Acknowledgment and Possibility in Interviewing 
      Acknowledgment, Valuing and Validation 
      Assessment Questions 
      Assessment Questions – Inpatient 
      Basic Orienting Questions of Consumer-Oriented Therapy 
      Brief Solution-Oriented Therapy Bibliography 
      Brief Solution-Oriented Therapy Summary 
      Brief Therapy Assumptions and Assessment 
      Brief Therapy Research/Data 
      Brief Therapy Supervision 
      Changing Patterns 
      Collaborative Task Assignments: Basic Principles 
      Collaborative Therapy 
      Contrasting Traditional Therapy to Solution-Oriented Approaches 
      Deep Listening 
      Designing Pattern and Framing Interventions 
      Discouraging vs. Possibility Therapy Explanatory Styles 
      Elements of a Collaborative Conversation 
      Elements of Contexts 
      Essentials of Possibility Therapy 
      Evoking Client Solutions and Competence 
      Finding A Focus in Therapy 
      Interviewing for Possibilities 
      Investigating the Doing of Problems 
      Map of Problem-Land 
      META Model 
      Negotiating A Presentable Problem 
      New Possibilities for Therapeutic Conversations 
      Overviews of Brief Solution-Oriented Therapy 
      Possibility Therapy Bibliography 
      Possibility Therapy: Key Concepts and Methods 
      Possibility Therapy Summary 
      Principles of the Collaborative Language System Therapy Approach 
      Problem/Solution Map 
      Problematic Stories 
      Setting Achievable Goals in Therapy 
      Solution Talk 
      Solution-Building Steps 
      Solution-Oriented Interviewing 
      Solution-Oriented Therapy: Key Concepts and Methods 
      Symbols and Healing Rituals 
      Therapeutic Symbols/Rituals 
      Types of Questions and Statements in Solution-Based Therapy 
      Unexamined Assumptions in Psychotherapy 
      Use of Time in Possibility Therapy 
      Varieties of Task Assignments 
       
                    Ericksonian Therapy & Solution-Oriented Hypnosis 
      Class of Problems/Class of Solutions Model 
     Developing and Delivering Therapeutic Metaphors 
     Doing Solution-Oriented Hypnotherapy 
     Elements of Solution-Oriented Induction 
     Erickson’s Therapeutic Pattern 
     Escaping Negative Symptom Trances 
     Evoking Amnesia 
     Evoking Hand/Arm Levitation 
     Generic Patterns In Erickson’s Work 
     The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Solution-Oriented Hypnosis 
     Metaphor Clusters 
     Models of Metaphor 
     Phases of Erickson’s Therapy 
     The Process of Solution-Oriented Inner Work 
     Sequence of Hypnotic Induction 
     Strategies for Pain Control 
     Symptomatic Trance---------Healing Trance 
     Trance Phenomena 
     Tranceports: The Four Doorways into Altered States 
     Using Presupposition in Hypnosis 
     Wordsmithing in Solution-Oriented Inner Work 
      
                        Narrative Therapy 
     Externalizing Problems 
     Metaphorical Frames in Narrative Therapy 
     Narrative Therapy Bibliography 
     Resurrecting Or Discovering Alternate Identity Stories and Points of View 
     Types of Questions in Narrative Therapy 
     Types of Questions in White’s Narrative Therapy 
      
                    Couples, Families & Relationships 
     Accountability and Change in Violent Behavior 
     Acknowledgment 
     Action Complaints 
     Action Praise 
     Action Requests 
     Actions, Stories, and Experience 
     Conjoint Strategies 
     Contrasting Approaches to the Treatment of Domestic Violence 
     Escalating Interventions for Destructive/Harmful Behavior in Relationships 
     Five Levels of Intervention in Couples’ Therapy 
     Guidelines for Couples’ Communication 
     Integrity, Boundaries/Limits, Consequences and Amends 
     Intimacy 
     Love 
     Love is a Verb Summary Points 
     Making Relationships Last 
     Mix’N’Match Sexual Menu 
     Negotiated Agreements 
     Rewriting Love Stories: Brief Couples’ Therapy 
     Sexuality 
     Solution-Oriented Couple and Family Therapy 
     Solution-Oriented Relationship Counseling 
     Step-parenting Hints