On June 7th I will be running an EFT Level 1 training at St Oswald’s Hospice, Newcastle. This is the introductory level of EFT training and equips you with the skills to use EFT to work on your own issues and those of your family and friends. It’s a hands-on training with lots of supervised practice, you’ll soon be using EFT for yourself, and you may be surprised at just how quick, effective and painless it can be.
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The May meeting of the EFT Cafe will focus on Simple Energy Techniques (SET) a an approach that is similar to EFT because it involves tapping on accupuncture points but different in that it doesn’t use setup statements and encourages continual tapping throughout a session. SET was developed by Steve Wells and Dr David Lake in Australia you can find out more about it here.
Many EFTers complain that they have trouble coming up with the correct form of words for the setup statement. SET may be very useful in this case because the setup statement is abandoned completely. Also because tapping can be done continuously without any special wording it would be possible to integrate this way of working into conventional talk therapy just by adding the tapping to what you already do.
This EFT Cafe will be on May 13th between 7pm to 9pm costing just £10. For more information contact me.
On May 10th the EFT Café is holding a daytime workshop at St Oswald’s Hospice split into two parts.
Part 1: Dealing with difficult people
We all have difficult people in our lives. Family, friends, colleagues, clients or customers some people have the knack of pushing our buttons. Fortunately we can use EFT to disconnect those buttons so that we can interact with these people more easily.
From 10am to 12pm we will practice using the Dealing With Difficult People process. This session is open to anyone with some experience of EFT including Beginner’s EFT workshops, EFT for Mental Health Professionals workshops and EFT Level 1 Trainings and above.
Part 2: Tapping swaps
The afternoon session is between 1pm and 4pm. Having completed a Level 2 EFT training many people feel a little bit apprehensive about using these techniques with clients. This workshop is designed to give you an opportunity for people to practice their EFT skills in a supervised sessions and work on an issue that is important to them.
Working with a partner you take turns to work on an issue as a client for an hour then reverse roles to become the therapist to work with their ‘client’ for an hour. There will be a break midway through the afternoon and an opportunity to ask questions.
It’s a great opportunity to clear out some junk and practice your skills. This part of the day is only open to holders of an EFT Level 2 Certificate and those who have attending the EFT for Mental Health Professionals workshop.
Separately each workshop costs £15, attending both costs just £25.
For more information email andy@practicalwellbeing.co.uk
We live in a world of differences, colour, beliefs, politics, aptitudes, resources. Most of us handle these differences by judging them; this is good, this is bad, this is neutral, I like it, I don’t like it, I don’t care about it. When we turn these judgements against ourselves we suffer.
Negative comparisons are the bread and butter of a lack of self acceptance. Thoughts of “I’m not as good as …“, “They are better than me …” and perhaps surprisingly “I’m better than …“. It’s true that we all have different capabilities, in a world of differences that’s inevitable. That’s not the problem. When the comparison causes us to feel dissatisfaction with ourselves or judge ourselves then we may suffer.
EFT Revealed is a new-ish website consisting mainly of interviews with EFT practitioners working in various fields. Each interview is quite short, usually less than 20 minutes.
The range of subjects is impressive. The last four entries have been
- Working with developmentally delayed adults
- Confidence on the golf course
- ‘Compulsive helping disorder’
- Using EFT for Perfectionism
If you are looking for EFT inspiration this is a good place to start.
Practice makes perfect. If you are interested in a subject or want to develop your skills the best way to do that is to join with like minded people and practice. Typically after an EFT, NLP or Hypnotherapy training you are set loose and left to your own devices.
Since these techniques are not yet well known it can be difficult to find people who know what you are on about. Practice groups give you a chance to get together and develop your skills, get new perspectives and connect with kindred spirits.
There are three practice groups in Newcastle where you can develop your skills.
EFT Café: The EFT Café is an EFT practice group in Newcastle in the North East of England. It’s open to anyone who has attended a Beginner’s EFT course or an EFT Level 1 course or above. We practice together, developing our skills for the common good. Meets on the second Tuesday of the month to work on different aspects of EFT between 7-9pm.
NLP Café: The NLP Café is facilitated by Andy Hunt and Nigel Hetherington who are co-founders of Integrity NLP. Our purpose is to provide the context and experience for you to radically increase your NLP abilities, so you become more confident and competent in your developing skills.
To attend the sessions you will need some experience of NLP. The NLP Café meets on the third Tuesday of the month between 7-9pm.
Trance Café: The Trance Café is Newcastle upon Tyne’s monthly meeting place for Hypnotherapists and those curious about Hypnotherapy. We meet on the first Wednesday of the month 7-9pm. The Trance Café functions as both a Hypnotherapy Practice Group and a Hypnotherapy Supervision Group. The Trance Café is sponsored by Communicating Excellence.
Drop me a line if you would like to attend any of these groups. You do need to have some experience of these skills to attend but the events are pitched at a level that everyone can join in and benefit. They each cost just £10 for 2 hours of quality, structured practice.
A few days ago at at the first part of an EFT Level 1 training we were practicing our abilities to neutralise unpleasant memories with EFT by using the example of disagreeable film clips. Film clips have the advantage of being short, specific, unpleasant experiences that are not about us.
One of the participants chose the ’shower scene’ from Psycho as an example of a distressing film memory. She commented since seeing the film she had felt uncomfortable when taking a shower when she was alone in her house. It’s a ‘compliment’ to Hitchcock’s film making skills that he could have induced a fear of showers from a few minutes of film. It’s not just Hitchcock, a large number of people felt it wasn’t safe to go back in the water after watching Jaws.
The conversation reminded me of the effect of one traumatic incident on me. When I was four and a half years old President John F Kennedy was assassinated. We had a black and white TV in one corner of our sitting room and I remember watching the news footage of the shooting in Dallas.
After the film of the assassination there was a discussion between the TV presenter and some sort of expert (he probably had a white coat) using a model a brain to explain the effect of the fatal shots. That image sticks in my mind.
Although I would have been too young to make much sense implications of that event I must have picked up on the anxieties of my parents. I imagine it was one of those ‘oh-sh*t, what now?’ moments in world history much like 9/11 nearly thirty years later. Fortunately the world survived and life moved on.
However in my late teens and twenties I noticed a vague feeling of apprehension when I sat in that chair by the window watching the TV. I had the feeling that there was a sniper somewhere in flats behind the house getting ready to shoot me in the back of the head.
Logically the idea was ridiculous, the flats were mostly inhabited by little old ladies who didn’t seem to be very interested in sniping. In spite of that the feeling persisted. Not enough to stop me watching the TV but enough to be noticeable. I didn’t connect at the time the assassination of JFK with that anxiety.
Now I see it as an example of the (inadvertant) installation of an anxiety by TV back in the days of poor quality black and white television. I wonder how many phobias have been installed by modern high definition full colour coverage of destruction and atrocities? How many 4 year olds (and others) watched the repeated coverage of airliners crashing into the World Trade Centre? How might it manifest in their lives?
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