Events

Changing your life one step at a time

The Gulliver Club is an opportunity for anyone who has learnt EFT to come together in a supportive environment to practice their EFT skills. This is a place to do just that in a warm, friendly setting in which we use EFT to undo old hurts, put down the frustrations of the week and prepare for the next week and a better life

This is for people who want to use EFT but are not sure how. It all looked so simple in the course but when it comes to everyday life you don’t know what to say and where to start. Not only will you get to practice EFT you will learn some approaches that you can easily use at home on your own. Simple worksheets will guide you all the way.

It’s all right not to be an expert here, the exercises will be practised in the comfort of your own mind. Andy Hunt, an experienced EFT Practitioner and Trainer, will guide the group through a number of tapping exercises. It’s perfectly all right to sit quietly and work on your own stuff without saying a word to anyone – this isn’t the Jeremy Kyle Show or Oprah, no-one is going to have to confess anything to anyone.

If you know EFT then you will have heard about the Personal Peace Procedure, Gary Craig’s recommended approach to improving your life by neutralising unpleasant old memories one at a time. In this group you will have the chance to work on your personal peace procedure or join in with the specific exercises as you see fit. One of the benefits of EFT is that you can use tapping along with someone else’s issues and get relief on your own using Borrowing Benefits.

What do you need to attend the Gulliver Club?

Only a working knowledge of  basic EFT and a willingness to feel better.

Why ‘The Gulliver Club’?

If you remember in the story Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver is shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput and awakes to find himself tide down by a network of fine threads, or so he thinks, in fact the Lilliputians have tried to secure the giant with their heaviest cables and ropes. To Gulliver each rope is just like a cotton thread but together they hold him down and keep him stuck in place. We are in the same position, held in place by thousands of small threads of memory, beliefs and feelings. Each one of them can be changed with EFT, the Gulliver Club is an opportunity to start cutting those threads that hold us down.

The Gulliver Club is not a substitute for one to one therapy and is not a suitable place for dealing with serious mental health issues. It is suitable for the vast majority of people who want to feel more at ease with themselves.

How does it work?

At the beginning of each session we spend a few minutes tapping away the emotional stuff we’ve brought with us to the occasion, perhaps we’ve had an argument with our boss or spouse, experienced a disappointment or setback and we are carrying that feeling with us.

Then we tap away any charge on an incident that may have happened in the gap between your last session and this one. Or you can work on one of your Personal Peace Procedure memories.

Next we work on a specific Personal Peace Procedure memory or a current issue of your choice.

Then we tap on any upcoming events that may be causing you anxiety – such as an interview, medical appointment, etc.

Finally we do some EFT to feel confident in ourselves and to look forward to the week ahead.

We end with tea and biscuits.

You don’t need to commit to more than one session to take advantage of the Gulliver Club, you can just attend when you feel the need.

What does it cost?

The cost for the one and a half hour session is just £10.

Practicalities

The first Gulliver Club meeting is next Wednesday March 10th at St Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre, Regent Ave, Gosforth from 7pm-9pm as part of the EFT Cafe. Thereafter it will be on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.

Just to let you know that the December Beginner’s EFT has been cancelled.

The Beginner’s EFT format is being revamped and will be re-launched in the New Year. So if you want to find out about EFT and do St Oswald’s Hospice a favour at the same time stay tuned.

Feedback from ChangeCamp in June

There are only two weeks now until the second ChangeCamp of 2009. The number of presentations is now up to 12 with more to follow.

For just £10 and a contribution to a shared meal you can choose from (just click on the link to find out more*):

• Quick Start EFT
• Gestalt Experiential Workshops
• Creating Confidence with NLP
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy
• Life Club
• Self Image & Esteem Building
• Stop Feeling Sh*t and Feel Good
• The Delights of Meta-Modelling
• The Happiness Workshop
• EFT for Cancer Patients
• Hypnosis To Stop The Stress And Begin Deep Relaxation
• Feel better with tapping

Last but by no means least there will also be a Laughter Workshop at the end of the day.

To sign up for ChangeCamp all you need to do is book your place online with Paypal or your credit card. It only costs £10 for the whole day’s presentations and the Laughter Workshop. It’s a bargain!

Look forward to seeing you there.

*If you are not already a member of the ChangeCamp website you will need to sign on, it doesn’t cost anything and it gives you full access to the details of the sessions and other parts of the website.

Yes folks, there is going to be another ChangeCamp this year. Following the great success of the first ever ChangeCamp we are going to show the Autumn collection of presentations and workshops on Saturday 24th October 2009 at Gosforth High Schoool in Newcastle

If you were at the first ChangeCamp you will know the score: pay £10, sign up for the presentations that interest you, turn up with some food to share and have lots of fun while learning lots of useful stuff.

The presentations list will grow as we get closer to the day, One of the things I’d like to find out is just how much excellent learning and enjoyment can be packed into one day.

If you want to attend, great! Tell you friends all about it.

If you want to help, great! It’s a great way to take part. Let me know if you can.

If you want to present, great! It’s a great way to meet new people and share what you know. Let me know.

Look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones on October 24th.

To sign up visit: www.changecamp.co.uk

Neutralising Limiting Beliefs: Possibility, Capability, Deservedness

Three common areas of limiting beliefs about being able to achieve any goal are:

• Hopelessness – The desired goal is not possible. It may be possible for other people to achieve this goal but it’s not possible for me.
• Helplessness – Even though the goal might be possible for me I am just not capable of achieving it.
• Worthlessness – The goal may be possible, I may be capable but I am not deserving of the outcome.

If you have some goals that have been hard to achieve then these limiting beliefs may be at work.

In this EFT Cafe meeting we will explore ways of identifying these limiting beliefs and neutralising them with EFT. So if you have some goals or outcomes you are stuck with this may prove to be a very useful session.

Where and when?

The workshop will be on Thursday February 12th from 7-9 pm with all refreshments provided for just £10.00

St. Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre,
Regent Avenue, Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1EE

I’d like to invite you to a rather unorthodox un-conference called ChangeCamp 2009 that I am organising for Saturday 27th June in Gosforth High School in Newcastle.

ChangeCamp 2009 is designed as a low cost conference event for practitioners of NLP, EFT, Hypnotherapy, Solution Focussed Brief Therapy and coaching, and for members of the public who may be interested in such things.

The themes for ChangeCamp are:

1. Changing yourself: Using psychological techniques to change our own experience of the world.

2. Changing others: Using psychological techniques in therapeutic or educational contexts.

3. Changing groups: Making groups and organisations more effective through psychological means.

Please not the emphasis on psychological applications. We will be restricting the presentations to a psychological orientation there wont be any presentations on crystal healing or aromatherapy. Our aim is to have a high quality content event that will appeal to professionals and public alike rather than a mind-body-spirit fare (of which there are many).

In a conventional conference attendees pay a large sum of money to sit and listen to acknowledged experts (who are paid an even larger sum) to tell them about the latest findings or how to do things.

In an un-conference that is put to one side, people who are interested in a subject and want to present about it make presentations to other people who are interested. The presentations may be talks, workshops, exercises, question and answer sessions, brainstorming sessions – what ever format best suits the issue in question. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. The event is organised to encourage an informality and cross fertilisation of ideas.

ChangeCamp is arranged to bring together a large number of participants from a variety of fields so they can be exposed to other ways of working and thinking. It’s set up to stimulate discussion.

To encourage high attendance the entry fee is set at £10 which is just enough to cover costs.

If you would like to attend just go to www.changecamp.co.uk and sign on to the website. If you would like to present in some way you can either email me with an idea.

I look forward to meeting with some of you in June.

View my page on ChangeCamp 2009

There are two opportunities coming up in the Newcastle area to practice your EFT and or NLP skills.

The EFT Cafe is returning after a summer break with an exploration of a process I have been developing with clients to make resolving unpleasant memories more comfortable. EFT makes resolving traumas very straightforward and comfortable. The Stunt Double Process as I’m calling it is a way of softening the trauma resolution process still further. To find out more visit the EFT Cafe website or drop me a line.

The NLP Cafe is also restarting after a summer lull. Appropriately the first meeting will be around the theme of Procrastination and Getting Things Done using NLP. The NLP Cafe is a structure NLP Practice group we meet monthly to explore different ways of using NLP to improve our lives. This meeting is on September 16th at 7pm at St Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre in Newcastle. Visit the NLP Cafe site for more information.