SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA  1 interactive event featuring: Camillo Loriedo, Christine Padesky, Ernest Rossi, and Michael Yapko

CAMILLO LORIEDO, MD, PHD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Rome, School of Medicine, and the School of Specialization. Since 1998, he has been a member on the Board Directors for the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. Loriedo has recently been elected President of the Italian Society of Psychotherapy. Since 2005, he’s been a member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis and has been awarded the Milton H. Erickson Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Psychotherapy. He has authored over 350 scientific papers and 26 books.

CHRISTINE PADESKY, PHD, Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California, is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and former President of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. British CBT therapists voted her the “Most Influential International CBT Therapist,” the California Psychological Association awarded her its “Distinguished Contribution to Psychology,” and the Academy of Cognitive Therapy bestowed its 2007 Aaron T. Beck Award on her for enduring contributions to the field. Padesky is a leading cognitive therapy innovator and develops audio CD & DVD therapist training materials store.padesky.com). Her recent and fifth book, Collaborative Case Conceptualization and her bestselling self-help book Mind Over Mood (www.mindovermood.com) was voted by BABCP as the most influential cognitive therapy book of all time.

ERNEST LAWRENCE ROSSI, PHD, is an internationally-renowned psychotherapist, teacher, and pioneer in the psychobiology of mind-body healing. He received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Erickson Foundation, 1980; American Association of Psychotherapy, 2003; and American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 2008. Rossi has published 36 books and 175 papers on therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, dreams, consciousness and creativity. His most recent book is Creating Consciousness: How Psychotherapists can Facilitate Wonder, Wisdom, Beauty & Truth.

MICHAEL YAPKO, PHD, is a clinical psychologist who is internationally recognized for his work in clinical hypnosis, brief psychotherapy, and the strategic treatment of depression. He routinely teaches to professional audiences all over the world (30 countries). He is the author of 12 books including, Mindfulness and Hypnosis and the classic text, Trancework: An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis (4th ed.). He is a recipient of lifetime achievement awards for his contributions to hypnosis and psychotherapy from the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and the International Society of Hypnosis.