What are Emotional Freedom Techniques?
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT):
Often referred to as “tapping,” EFT is a highly focused, evidence-supported energy psychology (EP) approach that rapidly releases the emotional impact of stressful or traumatic life events from the mind-body system. Trapped negative emotions and their related energy disruptions are at the heart of hyper-arousal, inhibited functioning and performance, emotional disorders, and even some physical diseases.
As you bring your attention to specific distressing memories and symptoms, you are walked through a process of specific statements and tapping on acupuncture meridian points. This activation appears to reduce levels of stress while stimulating natural healing and processing functions.
After a session, you commonly report reductions in symptoms, new insights, cognitive and emotional shifts. Using specific patterns of inquiry, you continue this process through different associations and “aspects” of the distress until you experiences deep relief, usually within a single session (per issue addressed).
EFT tapping is such a straight forward approach to healing that the basic procedures can easily be taught to clients (even children) as a self-help and self-management tool. More sophisticated versions are valuable clinical tools in the hands of well-trained consultants and practitioners. Both approachesare taught in this hands-on workshop.
“EFT is a simple, powerful process that can profoundly influence gene activity, health and behavior”
-Bruce Lipton PhD, Author of The Biology of Belief
What You Will Learn in EFT Tapping Level 1:
- EFT Tapping Theory and science
- The Basic EFT Tapping Recipe
- Using Basic EFT Tapping for emotional and physical issues
- How to discover the many “aspects” of an upsetting memory
- Working with specific events
- How to start using EFT Tapping in your practice
- Ethics of EFT Tapping practice
- Tell-The-Story Technique
- Personal Peace Procedure
This workshop is designed with hands-on learning to facilitate mastery of the skills you need to start using EFT Tapping immediately in your practice and your life.
Even skilled EFT Tapping practitioners who took this workshop discovered that it was deeply helpful to them in solidifying their understanding and filling in gaps from their previous training.
Who Should Attend:
Forward-thinking psychologists, social workers, therapists, life and wellness coaches, massage therapists, teachers of energetic self-care, counselors and helping professionals who:
- Are looking for state-of-the-art therapy using the mind-body connection
- Want to bring rapid, deep and lasting relief
- Want to successfully treat PTSD in as few as 6 sessions
- Understand that the healing relationship is necessary, but not always sufficient for true healing
- Enjoy using active and focused therapeutic approaches with their clients
- Want to significantly increase the value of their practice by providing a service for which clients are willing to pay out-of-pocket
Research on EFT
There have been over fifty peer-reviewed studies conducted on EFT tapping and other energy psychology (EP) modalities. Eighteen of these studies are randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 100% of which showed statistically significant results in favor of EP. One study showed EFT tapping to considerably lower cortisol-related stress levels and self-reported psychological symptoms after a single treatment session. A second published RCT found that six sessions of EFT tapping eliminated PTSD in 86% of veterans in the study.
Michael DeMolina MS, LPC, MAC, D.CEP is the senior North America trainer for ACEP (Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology). Certified by ACEP as an Advanced Practitioner of EFT tapping.