EFT Café

The EFT Café is an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practice group in Newcastle in the North East of England. It’s open to anyone who knows how to tap. We aim to practice together developing our skills for the common good.

Just in case you were wondering, EFT Café is not a coffee shop, but we do aim to be an informal environment where people can meet and enjoy themselves.

Autumn 2010

• September 8th - Irritation Tapping: We all have things that irritate us, people do things that get on our nerves or rub us up the wrong way in some way or another. In this EFT Café we will explore ‘Irritation Tapping’ process developed by Steve Wells as a way of using these irritations as guidelines for us to develop ourselves (and reduce the effect of the irritations).
• October 13th – Identity Relief: We all have ideas about ourselves, who we are and what we are like. These identity beliefs may be helpful or a hindrance to us. In this workshop you can learn how to use a new EFT process to quickly dissolve unhelpful identity beliefs we might have about ourselves such as ‘I am not good enough’, ‘I am lazy’, ‘I am overwhelmed’ and more.
• November 10th – Working With The Shadow: Carl Jung the psychiatrist and contemporary of Freud came up with the idea of ‘the shadow’ – the disowned parts of ourselves. These aspects of our experience were hidden away from view to please our parent’s family and friends. In spite of it’s name the shadow may contain positive and negative aspects of ourselves. In this workshop you will learn how to use EFT to work with disowned parts of ourselves.
• December 8th – The Compassion Triangle: In this workshop we will use EFT to help ease interpersonal conflict, making us calmer and more resourceful in dealing with difficult people – Just in time for Christmas!

Each EFT Cafe costs just £10 for two hours training and supervised practice.

Note: You do need some experience of EFT to attend these workshops and if you are an AAMET EFT Practitioner each EFT Café counts as 2 hours CPD credits to help you maintain your accreditation.

The EFT Cafe is on May 12th at St Oswald’s Hospice Teaching Centre, Regent Ave, Gosforth, Newcastle. From 7pm to 9pm. The cost is just £10. You will need some experience of EFT to get the best out of this event.

EFT Café Manifesto

There’s a lot of pain and suffering in the world at large and closer to home. EFTers can do much to ease that pain. But they must be skilled, and that takes practice. The EFT Café is intended to provide a local opportunity for EFTers to practice and develop those skills and give yourself some benefit whilst you are doing it.

Personal Development

I believe EFT Practitioners want to be inspiring and effective examples of EFT and they can be, if they first develop the habit of using EFT on themselves. Whilst every EFTer had an opportunity to work on some of their issues during training, the emphasis was on learning the technique and not on personal growth. The EFT Café provides a safe space where we can pursue our own personal development using EFT, knowing that we can be helped by other EFTers.

The EFT Café gives us the opportunity to become well integrated and flexible people who understand EFT through and through.

Practising Skills

During the EFT training, at Level 1 or Level 2, we get exposed to a large amount of information; concepts, techniques and processes. In the EFT Café we can take these ideas and practice them until they are second nature. So that when we work with clients, or on our own, we have these techniques at our fingertips. It’s an opportunity to practice to make perfect.

EFT Community Development

This is a place to explore how EFT may be useful in meeting community needs. It’s a place to network and discuss how skills can be used for the common good.

Organisation

Meeting nights – for the immediate future the EFT Café will meet on the second Wednesday of each month 7pm and 9pm. Each session costs £10. I intend that the meetings will be consistent, starting and ending on time. The café will keep regular hours regardless of who shows up. You don’t need to attend all time, you can drop in whenever you want to. My aim is that no one ever leaves the EFT Café feeling they’ve wasted their time.

Requirements

There are only two requirements to attend:

1. You know the basics of EFT.
2. You take responsibility for your own well being. While I hope these sessions will be very therapeutic, they are not intended as a substitute for therapy.

Cost: £10

For more information drop me a line.