EFT Café

EFT Café is an EFT practice group in Newcastle in the North East of England. It’s open to anyone who has attended an EFT Level 1 course or above. We practice together, developing our skills for the common good.

The EFT Café also present low cost seminars and workshops for the public and professionals.

To get the most from the EFT Café sign up to the newsletter. If you live in the North East of England come along to one of our practice groups or workshops. If you don’t live close, why not set up your own practice group?

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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

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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

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One of the strangest parts of EFT for newcomers on an EFT Level 1 training is the strange eye-rolling procedure of the nine-gamut process. If the rest of EFT looks strange, this part looks very strange indeed. The eye-rolling part of the nine-gamut procedure is designed to take advantage of the way we use our eyes to engage as much of the person’s nervous system while the tapping as possible.

Students of NLP are familiar with eye accessing cues,the idea that people move their eyes to help them access different thinking processes. For most people looking up to the left helps them access visual memories, looking down to the right helps them to tune into their feelings and so on.

Although it my seem strange, using these eye movements is a part of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing) therapy which is proving very effective for resolving traumatic memories and is now entering the therapeutic mainstream.

I recently attended an Integral Eye Movement Therapy training with Andy Austin (which I highly recommend). IEMT is his formulation of an eye movement therapy in which the therapist puts the eye movements to very good use.

IEMT and EMDR require quite a bit of training however the principles of using eye movements are quite simple and I’ve been working on combining some of these eye movement routines with EFT tapping to enhance the results.

We’ll be exploring these enhancements to EFT at the next EFT Cafe meeting here in Newcastle on January 8th. If you know some EFT and would like to try out some new routines drop me a line.

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Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a new, and easy to learn, self help process that can dramatically relieve distress and improve the quality of your life. Using EFT you can relieve painful memories, reduce anxiety or other negative emotions, relieve cravings, and ease many physical symptoms. It’s quick to learn and easy to apply.This course will teach you everything you need to use EFT for yourself, 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 suprised at just how quick, effective and painless it can be.

This training is fully self contained and open to all, you will be able to use EFT confidently for a variety of issues. If you want to go further, developing your EFT skills for working with other people, it serves as the foundation for the Level 2 (AAMET EFT Practitioner) course.

“The Level 1 course was fantastic. Lots of ’stuff’ to work on both on the day and afterwards. I particularly appreciate the ‘craving’ technique as I’m now totally Pringle free. No craving, no desire, nothing. How good is that? … There was nothing about the day I did not enjoy or feel could be done better. The group size was small and that possibly made my enjoyment more memorable. Your style was informal and informative.”

Carol Briggs

Venue
The Teaching Centre, St Oswalds Hospice, Regents Ave, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Date
Saturday November 3rd 2007, between 10am - 5:30pm

Full cost: £75

Early bird discount:
£60 if booked and paid for by October 20th

To book a place email me or call 0191 478 2726

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My friend Liz Kirsopp replied to a question about using EFT for OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) on the EFT Cafe email group. It’s an excellent description of how to use EFT with what is thought of as a difficult condition.

The question was:

“Hi was wondering if there was some advice on EFT and OCD - I was
imagining it might be best to work on compulsive behaviour with the
film technique and see if this lowers the compulsion rather than doing EFT in the moment to stop it happening - would this set up a kind of EFT compulsion???”

Liz answered:

It’s a very good question. I had one patient with very severe OCD who was too scared to try EFT in case it did become yet another ritual. Also, just as there is a danger with worriers of trying to attack every single possible worry, there is a danger of trying to tackle every little compulsive behaviour or obsessive thought with OCD which may only lead you further down the plughole of the problem. So I find it useful to look at the purpose of the whole behaviour in general and the beliefs behind it.

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My good friend Liz Kirsopp appeared in The EFT Imagineering Technique demonstrating the power of EFT combined with the unconscious mind to get to the emotional components of a physical problem.

If you read the article you will see that a chronic jaw problem was relieved when a childhood near drowning memory was uncovered and resolved using a standard EFT approach. The jaw problem is now greatly relieved.

The process reminds me of the film The Incredible Voyage where a submarine is miniaturised and injected into a persons blood stream to perform delicate surgery. Rather than going to the trouble of bending the laws of physics to create a physical submarine, this process uses imagination and metaphor to let you ‘travel inside’ to the site of the problem and use the information to guide the EFT process.

If you are used to flights of fancy and daydreaming you can probably use this approach for yourself. If you are of a logical disposition you may need to be assisted by a practitioner who can coax you into a metaphorical frame of mind. Of course you need to know how to use EFT to deal with whatever you find.

Liz and I are presenting a series of EFT trainings for professionals in September.

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I’ve added a few more dates for my introductory EFT stress relief workshops otherwise known as The Weekly Wash.

This is an short, affordable introduction to EFT which will give you enough skill to be able to defuse the unpleasant/stress provoking memories of the last week. Rather than take the week’s stress and anxiety into the weekend you will be able to take care of it and enjoy your time off.

You don’t have to limit yourself to last weeks unpleasantness, once you are able to use this approach you can start to jettison a lot of personal baggage.

The 3 hour workshops are on at St Oswald’s Hospice, Newcastle on:

• Saturday, September 1st between 10am-1pm
• Tuesday, September 4th between 6pm-9pm

The first hour of the workshop shows you the basics of EFT, the second two hours gives you supervised practice in using the technique.

The cost for the workshop is just £15. If you have already been to a Weekly Wash workshop or you have an EFT Level 1 or above you can skip the first hour and attend the rest of the training for just £10.

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The first EFT Café all day workshop was a very enjoyable event.

This is the first time Verity and I had co-presented and we both enjoyed the experience as much as the participants.

Here are some of the comments we received.

The teachers, the people, the venue, so professional. Good humour. I don’t think you could have improved on this event. I found it interesting and beneficial. Keep up the good work.
- Sylvia Stobbs

Revising my tapping skills and working with others. Could have done with more time on the outcomes - but you’ve already said it may become a full day event. An excellent venue and great trance work at the end of each session.
- Caroline Blyth

Thanks to Verity’s kindness Baby Milk Action will receive a cheque for £85.

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