What are the origins and inspirations behind the Méthode Dolfino?

The method’s various games and tools draw on hypnosis, creative visualization, coaching techniques, and the latest discoveries in neuroscience.

Several different schools of thought have shaped the development of the Méthode Dolfino®. Here are the main ones.

Classical hypnosis (stage hypnosis)

The hypnotist plays a leading role, working with direct and indirect hypnotic suggestions.
The Méthode Dolfino® highlights:

• The value of rapid inductions
• The idea of dialogue with the unconscious
• The concept of suggestibility

Ericksonian hypnosis

The altered state of consciousness is achieved indirectly, notably through hidden suggestions and scattering (sprinkling suggestions through speech).
Subtleties of language are used to let the unconscious choose its own solutions to its problems, calling on its creativity.
The Méthode Dolfino® highlights:

• The use of metaphors and figures of speech
• Adopting the concept of the “Greater Me” (higher consciousness)
• Techniques of mental confusion and saturation

Hypnosis through consciousness expansion

Encourages a detailed and different perception of a situation, a fact, a value, or a way of thinking.
In this sense, this type of hypnosis fosters self-observation from angles that are often overlooked.
The Méthode Dolfino® highlights:

• The vision of the Self through the “3 Me’s”: Young Me, Rational Me, and Greater Me. These concepts are covered a bit further on.
• Visualizations that let you experience clearer awareness and heightened senses.

New hypnosis / NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)

Lets the guided person take an active part in their own experience. This approach leads them to make choices, describe what they feel, imagine various scenarios, and genuinely answer questions, without being influenced or directed.
The guided person’s role therefore stops being passive and moves to the center of the guidance.
The Méthode Dolfino® highlights:

• Anchors (the process of associating an internal response with an external or internal trigger)
• The importance of VAKOG communication (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory)
• Synchronization
• The principle of non-directiveness

Méthode Dolfino® brings these techniques together, adds many more of its own, and layers in the pleasure of play and simplicity of execution, resulting in games and tools that are original, different, inspiring, fun, and highly effective.

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