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If you have been on a training, or been to an EFT practitioner, you know that EFT can get you surprising results. In spite of one minute wonders EFT is more like exercise program than a magic wand. You need to put in the effort to get the results.
The EFT Café is intended to provide a local opportunity to people who are interested in using EFT in their personal or professional lives. It’s an opportunity to practice and develop those skills and to get the benefits whilst you are doing it.
There’s a lot of pain and suffering in the world at large, our communities and our own lives. Skillfull use of EFT can do much to ease that pain, but being skilled takes practice.
The EFT Cafe focusses on three areas of development: personal, skill and community.
1. 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 everyone who has been on an EFT Level 1 or 2 course 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 gives us the opportunity to become well integrated and flexible people who understand EFT through and through. It’s a safe place where we can pursue our own personal development and professional development using EFT, knowing that there is help at hand.
Advantages of personal development at the EFT Cafe:
- Low cost: It’s cheaper than therapy. Although an EFT practice group is not a substitute for therapy, it is an opportunity to clear up old memories and present anxieties. Disappointments, phobias, anxieties, physical issues can all be tackled in a practice group session. Because EFT has no known side effects you can work on these issues and get some relief without having to visit a professional.
- Self care: EFT is good for you, it’s relaxing and calming. A practice group can be a very good way to look after yourself: Many people have very stressful jobs with little formal support, or stressful lives where they have to cope with a lot of emotional pressures. EFT gives you a way of reducing those strains, an EFT practice group is a good place to get some relief from stress.
Disclaimer:You must take full responsibility for your own well being. While I hope these sessions will be very therapeutic, they are not intended as a substitute for therapy.
2. Skills Development
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.
What to expect when you are developing your skills at the EFT Cafe:
- Encouragement: It’s much easier to practice in company. How many exercise bikes sit unused in the corners of bedrooms and garages? It can take quite a lot of willpower to pursue an EFT ‘exercise’ program on your own, but when you are with other people it’s much easier to put in the effort and get results.
- Help: When you are around other people who are familiar with EFT and have more experience than you do then you have a reservoir of experience and advice to help you with whatever difficulty you are working on. EFT Practitioners are usually keen to help and very willing to offer suggestions and support as you find your own way in this endeavour.
- Service: You have the chance to help someone else whilst helping yourself: Since EFT is egalitarian, you have the chance to help someone else resolve some of their difficulties. In most cases you don’t have to stand by and wait for the experts. Whatever your level of skill you can help someone else make progress.
- Practice: Sometimes what you need is more practice not more training: Perhaps a Level 1 training is more than enough and you don’t want to go on to a Level 2, but the Level 1 course is only 1 day long and some things need more practice than that. Being in a practice group helps you get good at the things that interest you without having to invest in another training.
3. 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.
It’s pretty clear after even a brief exposure to EFT that it can be applied in a wide variety of situations. Since you can use EFT in a group session there ar many opportunities to use your EFT skills to benefit poeple with specific difficulities. EFT Cafe is a forum for sponsoring trainings and seminars for the general public.
EFT Cafe community development can help you:
- Be of service: A chance to do some good in the world. At the EFT Cafe there are opportunities to use your EFT skills to benefit the wider community by organising or taking part in courses and seminars.
- Improve your presentation skills: Working on training seminars is a great way to develop your own presentation skills if you want to use your EFT skills in other work.
- Establish your credentials: If you are a Level 2 Practitioner this is a great way to become more widely known. It doesn’t mean spending the session doing a hard sell, it means demonstrating your skill, compassion and trustworthiness. If people like what they see they’ll let you know.
Members
There are three types of members of the EFT Café:
- Members: People who have some experience of EFT as trainees to Level 1, or clients of practitioners. Attend the monthly meetings and workshops as participants.
- Associates: Members who also present, co-present or assist at workshops. Usually EFT Level 2 or 3 Practitioners.
- Trainers: Associates who are also accredited EFT Trainers with the AAMET able to run approved EFT Level 1 & 2 courses.
You will be welcome whatever your training background, you don’t need to have been trained by Practical Wellbeing.
Organisation
Meeting nights - for the immediate future the EFT Café will meet on the second Tuesday of each month at the St Oswalds Hospice Teaching Centre, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, between 7pm and 9pm. Each session costs £10.
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.
EFT Café is coordinated by Andy Hunt of Practical Wellbeing an EFT & NLP therapist and trainer working in the Newcastle area. My aim is that no one ever leaves the EFT Café feeling they’ve wasted their time.
Finally: Just in case you were wondering, EFT Café is not a Café, or a coffee shop, but we do aim to be an informal environment where people can meet and enjoy themselves.
To find out more drop me a line
