Practical Wellbeing Podcast
Notes From A Tapping Practitioner
If you are a newly minted tapping practitioner, I imagine that you have found working with ‘real’ clients a little different to how you imagined it to be.
The complicated, messy, and intertwined knots of difficulty some clients present you with are nothing like the ‘simple’ practice sessions that you had in your training.
Even if you are an experienced practitioner like me, there are plenty of challenging situations that you have to untangle when you are working with your clients.
The problem with any technique, even a great technique like tapping, is that it is not enough by itself to help people.
We need to be able to understand and disentangle what the client wants and needs.
We need to decide whether, or not, we can help them.
Then we have to create a safe space for the client and ourselves, establish a good rapport with them, figure out what we have to do, and after all that (and more) we might get to do some tapping.
These kinds of skills can only be hinted at in a short tapping training.
The rest comes down to experience, and mentoring from someone who is more experienced than you are and can help guide you.
There are so many skills and abilities that you need to bring into play to do this work. Most of them weren’t taught in my tapping trainings, there simply wasn’t enough time. I had to learn a lot of this when I started working with clients.
I learned a lot from my excellent mentors and supervisors and a great deal from my mistakes, and, heaven knows, I made a lot of mistakes as I figured out do this kind of work.
I’d like to help you learn from my mistakes.
So, what you will hear on this podcast
I aim to give you, the tapping practitioner, straightforward, actionable suggestions to help you get better results with your clients. I hope this information will be useful whether you are just beginning or have been tapping for a while.
These suggestions are from a practitioner who is (still) learning as he goes along.
I will explain what I know as best I can, but how you apply these processes is up to you.
What you won’t hear on this podcast
You wont hear any inspirational or miracle cure stories from me, if you need them I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong place, it’s just not that kind of podcast.
I want to give you practical things that you can do to help your clients (no miracles required).
You probably won’t get much pizzazz on this podcast, I’m a low key Brit who was “born to be mild”, not only that, you won’t get any big production values. I’m recording this in the living room of our small house in the north east of England.
I promise there won’t be any annoying adverts interrupting these podcasts (personally I hate having to fast forward through ads to get to the interesting stuff) If I mention resources, workshop or other things that I am offering, I’ll do it at the end.
I promise there won’t be any half hour sales pitches thinly disguised as useful information (because I don’t like those either).
I definitely won’t be giving you any legal or medical advice, I am not a lawyer or a doctor. This is podcast is for educational purposes only, it’s up to you to use your own intelligence and judgement to apply these approaches in a way that fits for your situation and, of course, your mileage may vary.
I plan to release two episodes a month, one will be about practical client strategies, the other will be a ‘Blast from the past’ from my back catalogue of more than 450 articles on my website and I may occasionally drop in an extra episode if fancy takes me.
Each podcast will probably last between 5 - 15 minutes, so you don’t have to give up half your day waiting for me to get to the point.
So who am I to offer these suggestions?
Everything I’m going to share with you is based on more than 20 years experience of tapping as a practitioner, mentor, and as a trainer.
I am an advanced practitioner and mentor with EFT International (one of the largest, if not the largest, tapping organisations in the world) and at the time of this recording I am the co-chair of their Ethics and Professional Conduct Committee.
I am also a practitioner and mentor for Steve Well’s Intention Energy Processes AKA Intention Tapping.
And finally, I am the creator and sole trainer of Identity Healing, a set of advanced tapping processes that help people heal the parts of themselves that were damaged growing up and which show up as unhelpful identity beliefs, unhelpful patterns of feelings and behaviour that are still running their lives.
So, if you are a tapping practitioner who is interested in learning new approaches I hope you will join me on the podcast.