pro - as in professional
You are a therapist, counsellor or coach and want to use Changers with your clients? Learn more about ordering, principles of action and training for Changers intervention here.
The working principles of the Changer intervention are not new: The work with (auto)suggestions, images/metaphors, rituals, goal orientation, and humor has been used in therapy, counseling, and coaching for quite some time. What is new is that they are combined in an intervention. We have been accumulating experience with the Changers since 2019. Enthusiastic about the processes and results, we have been training colleagues in their use since 2020.
Working with Changers can be integrated into any approach, and it promotes most change processes in unexpected ways. It is a joyful, creative, humorous, and at the same time profound process. Helping people find the skill to be developed, as well as the target state/image, is fascinating, fulfilling work. When developing the label of the changer can along with its name, additive, effects, and side effects, there is almost always plenty of fun & laughter involved - at the latest when discussing the consequences of overdosing ;-)
Sustainable change work can be fun!
Interview
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Changers session video
Recording of a Changers session in english
This Video shows a Session in english, in which a Frederic Linssen uses the Changers-Intervention - a psychological intervention to develop a individualized image-based open-label-placebo. First 33 minutes Frederic gives the client, who is a future mental health professional interested in the Changers-Intervention, some background information. If you only want to watch the session, feel free to skip to minute 33.
working priciples
Research
In an initial study completed in 2024, the effectiveness of Changers in relation to stress experience was investigated.
In three further studies starting shortly, the effect of Changers
during the waiting period for psychotherapy
in children and adolescents
in adults
and their physiological effect (biological markers) will be investigated.
The results of the first RCT - evaluation study of the Changers in the area of stress reduction in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Stefan Schmidt from the University Hospital Freiburg will be available here shortly.
Book on Changers Intervention (geman)
Sometimes all the knowledge about a problem and its possible solutions isn't enough to make lasting changes in everyday life. Wouldn't a miracle cure be helpful, the use of which supports or enhances the effects of therapy or coaching?
Psychologist Frederic Linssen has developed such a remedy: Changers are wafers printed with individual target images. They are administered in a pharmaceutical-looking container imprinted with personal expectations of their effectiveness.
As so-called open placebos, they represent a psychologically effective, (auto)suggestive preparation for changing experience and behavior without any physiological active ingredient, which can be completely adapted to the individual needs of the client.
The book first introduces the history and mechanisms of placebos and provides surprising scientific findings on their effects. This is followed by step-by-step instructions for practical use, followed by guidelines for creating a Changer for working with clients or for yourself.
978-3-8497-0584-8
mit einem Vorwort von Ben Furman
ca. 200 Seiten
