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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.

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EFT Cafe: Three sessions of working with your values

This summer I was lucky enough to attend a Values Intensive workshop with Steve Wells, psychologist and EFT expert in London. It was one of the best trainings I’ve ever been on: powerful, humane and very funny.*

The subject of the training was using EFT to work with our values. Values are the feelings or states that are important to us: those that we want to seek or to avoid.

‘Seek values’ might be love, freedom, challenge, doing good in the world. ‘Avoid values’ might include: conflict, failure, being judged. They are powerful drivers of behaviour, a lot of what we do or strive for is to meet these values.

There are many different values and combinations of values and we all have our own unique mix.

The problem with our values is that for the most part we didn’t consciously choose them. Most of our values are the result of our early experience, they were picked up along the way from our experiences and the values of other people who were important to us.

They may not serve us well in our current lives, some may be helpful, some not. For example: if two of your important values are challenge and safety you may have a great deal of difficulty taking up challenges, even if you want to, even if you know you should. The two values will conflict,  making taking action a very stressful process.

These values and the conflicts between them are often below concious awareness and are probably responsible for most procrastination, self-sabotage and indecision.

Fortunately there is something we can do with these values - we can tap on them. Using EFT we can:

• Get clear about our values
• Resolve conflicts within values
• Resolve conflicts between values

The next three meetings of the EFT Café will be a shortened version of the Values Intensive course. These sessions will focus on:

1. Finding out what’s important: Identifying the important values that drive our behaviour for good or ill.
2. Resolving conflicts within values: Releasing the ’stoppers’ that lurk within our values and stop you getting the feelings you want. This will let you feel the feelings you really want to feel.
3. Resolving conflicts between values: Reducing internal civil war to gain a deeper clarity and peace of mind so that you can make consistently better choices.

When you find out and align on your true values you will be able to choose what is deeply right for you and become someone who congruently walks their talk.

These special sessions of the EFT Café  are at 7pm on Wednesday October 14th, Wednesday November 11th and Wednesday December 9th. The cost is just £10 each.

IMPORTANT:  You will need to know how to do EFT and you will also need to attend the first session to attend the other two. You won’t be able to join the later sessions. Normal solo-sessions will be resumed in the new year.

*If you ever have the chance to attend a Steve Wells’ workshop I heartily recommend it.

Image courtesy of sophiea

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Always Meditate on Whatever Provokes Resentment
An instruction from the Lojong compassion training of Tibetan Buddhism

It takes one to know one!
Often said in my primary school yard

Annoyances with other people are usually things we think we just have to put up with it or complain about. There are occaisions when what annoys us about other people is what we are not able to acknowledge to ourselves so we project it onto someone else.

This weeks EFT Cafe will look at how we can use what annoys us in others to improve our own sense of wellbeing by working on what our adversaries reflect back to us.

The EFT Cafe starts at 7:00pm and finishes at 9:00pm on Thursday March 12th and takes place in the Coleman Teaching Centre, St Oswald’s Hospice, Newcastle.

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The Stunt Double process is a method for comfortable trauma relief that I’ve been developing with clients for a little while. One of EFT’s strengths is that it can make short work of difficult, even traumatic, memories.

The Stunt Double process lets you even more comfortably release unpleasant memories and get a new perspective on what happened. You may find this useful if you are interested in clinical work with clients or just to make life easier for yourself.

Just in case you are worried that this might be a bit heavy, you won’t need to dredge up any traumas to practice this technique, everyday discomforts will do.

The EFT Cafe will be on Tuesday September 9th between 7pm and 9pm costing just £10. For more information contact me.

Note: You need to know the basics of EFT to attend these workshops

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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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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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