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Our Trauma and Abuse training program is primarily focused on working with trauma and abuse, into which EFT is woven. EFT can be an amazingly focused and compassionate tool for working with all types and levels of trauma and abuse.
This training program is organized in a graduated format so you can learn the important issues behind trauma and abuse while learning how to apply EFT effectively and compassionately.
We weave client concerns and vulnerabilities with a gradually increasing skill level in EFT and related interventions so that participants can grow in their own self confidence
and understanding of this complex issue. Self care for practitioners is a major concern at all levels of training and we offer on-going support and consults for those who are
working with clients in this area.
Structure of the Training Program
Part 1 consists of three levels of introductory work with EFT, trauma and abuse.
Levels 1 and 2 are a combination of instructional material with both demo and group practice sessions so the foundation is built for
these skills to become second nature in ones practice. Basic principles of the structure of trauma and safety in working with trauma are introduced.
Level 3 focuses on practicum work with additional skills introduced to build on and solidify the fundamentals of Levels 1 and 2. This training focuses
on group and individual practice to fine-tune and enhance skills. A deeper understanding of how trauma and abuse affect lives and distort perception is
brought about through case discussion and demonstration and practice of the interweaving of techniques.
Part 2 Advanced Training.
Offers in-depth specialty training in trauma and abuse, including advanced issues in abuse with
concurrent issues such as addictions, grief, and anger. Part 2 focuses on specifics of ritual abuse, satanic ritual abuse, mind control,
war trauma, natural disaster and accident trauma, and more.
Advanced Levels 1 and 2 are prerequisites for Advanced Levels 3, 4 and 5, but Levels 3, 4 and 5 can be taken in any preference or order.
Advanced Levels 1 and 2
These two levels go deeply into detecting and addressing intense emotional states such as types of dissociation, abreaction and cognitive looping.
Videos of real sessions with trauma clients are used to see and understand these states in a safe context. Group dialog and guidance help gain confidence in how
these states develop and how to bring clients out of them with maximum healing benefit. Honing of skills and facility in dancing with the changing states and
layers of trauma are invaluable points in these trainings. Special focus is on practitioners’ ability to stay open and safe in the face of these extreme states,
how to stay connected with clients while buffered from the effects of their experiences. Practitioner self-care is a primary consideration in this training.
We can’t help them if we’re falling apart.
Advanced Level 3
This level offers deeper level work with sexual abuse, ritual abuse, satanic ritual abuse, torture, and mind control.
Advanced Training Levels 1 and 2 are prerequisite. Specific types of abuse, abuse organizational groups, methods abuse and of
silencing victims, self-blame, embedded self-destructive patterns, and the issues faced when clients recognize the extent of the
abuse are explored. Methods of support, ways to stay present, practitioner self-monitoring and self-care, and helping clients find
and develop their own resources are focused upon using EFT and the practitioner’s own presence. The goal is to offer tools to the
practitioner and client to open the doorway to deep resolution of the effects of this type of abuse and the discovery of what can open beyond abuse.
Advanced Level 4
This focuses on war trauma, combat issues, reintegration issues, family issues including secondary trauma to children and spouses.
This training is for practitioners who work with military personnel and their families and includes intense combat trauma and its residual
effects, disenfranchisement from their former cultural connections, anger at treatment by the military, and non-combat trauma including rape
and civilian abuse.
Advanced Level 5
Level 5 deals with natural disaster and accident trauma. Focus is on shock, injury, aftermath of events, how people were or were
not supported following an event, injury to sense of self and loss of a sense of safety in the world. This training is applicable to those who
travel to disaster sites, first responders, and those who work clinically with the after-effects of event trauma.
We offer both introductory and intensive EFT training workshops designed to meet the specific needs of various individuals and communities. For example, we serve:
- Students, staff and faculty at educational facilities
- Medical and Mental Health Professionals.
- Alternative healthcare givers. (massage, quantum touch, reiki practitioners, EFT Practitioners, etc.)
- Caregivers. (friends, relatives, significant others)
If you have a special workshop request, please write to us at: info@personalpeacefoundation.org
Introductory EFT Workshops:
Free or low-cost 2-hour experiential EFT
workshops
- Learn the basics of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and how to apply it confidently and consistently for yourself and others for a range of emotional and physical issues.
- Receive a casual, introductory EFT presentation designed to address your specific professional needs, while you experience "first-hand" EFT's potential applications for caregivers and service providers.
- Become acquainted with EFT strategies for more challenging and complex issues.
Right now, we are scheduling training workshops in cities and towns where we know local Foundation trainers can provide proper follow-up support. Feel free to contact us regarding the possibility of a workshop in your area.
Healthcare Provider Intensive Workshops:
Intensive 2 Day or 3 Day experiential EFT
trainings for service providers and caregivers. (Cost:TBA)
All intensive workshops include basic and more advanced EFT approaches in an active group environment. Each intensive includes detailed EFT instruction tailored to your group's specific needs.
For example, in EFT for Trauma, we'll address:
- Traumas: How to work through them gently for lasting results.
- Reintegration Issues: Strategies to help your clients approach getting back into the mainstream and reconnecting with family and friends.
- Chronic Bothersome Thoughts and Memories: Ways to diffuse them and eliminate the emotional charges.
- Nightmares and Flashbacks:How to address them successfully, even though they aren't happening "now".
- Sleep Issues, Insomnia and more: “I can’t sleep when it is dark. It doesn’t feel safe”…
- Chronic Pain: Skills to reduce or eliminate it.
- Addiction Issues: How to skillfully address cravings and underlying emotional causes
All Healthcare Provider Intensive Workshops include the following Advanced EFT skills and more:
- Developing Rapport: Strategies to help you connect deeply with your client.
- Successfully Following the Trail : Recognizing the small things that can go unattended, following clues that can lead to Core Issues.
- Working with Aspects: Learning to recognize different parts of an issue (or different issues entirely), asking the right questions to bring them to the surface, noticing when a client jumps from one to another, learning how to stay on track.
- Identifying Resistance: Strategies for noticing and dealing with resistance to getting past the issue and handling psychological reversal.
- Reframing : Knowing when and how to help individuals to see old events and patterns from a different perspective - opening their eyes to whole new world of opportunity.
- Trusting and Developing your Intuition:Going with the flow and taking yourself out of the equation so you can 'tune in' to work more effectively
- Identifying Core Beliefs: What questions do you ask to gently locate the contributing factors and events? And equally as important, how do you respond to aid in generating more expansive possibilities?
- Getting Specific: Learning the necessity of staying with a feeling until the intensity is as low as it can go.
- Confidently Utilizing: Tearless Trauma, Tell the Story, the Movie Technique and Sneaking Up.
- Reading your client: Truly 'tuning in' to what they feel, hear and see to help them initiate the changes they desire.
- Incorporating Client Language in Setups: This powerful technique involves listening for words that resonate with your client completely and using them effectively.
- Testing your work: How and when to check if issues have truly been overcome.
- Persistence: Knowing the importance of following a trail as far as you can, knowing when it is time to change course (see 'Aspects')
- Transforming the Energy: Empowering your client to transform the "negative" energy into energy that better serves their dreams and goals.
- When EFT Does Not Work: Learning what to do, how to recognize the 'Apex Effect' and knowing when it is time to walk away.
- Creating theDesired Future: As the challenges are cleared, begin to initiate the future your client desires.
- Is Your Client Not Sure What S/he Wants? Learn how you can help them decide and develop it!
- Learning how to close a session and assign homework.
- Addressing your questions and concerns regarding your specific client issues and challenges.
The above is only a partial list of everything that can and will be covered in a Healthcare Provider Intensive Workshop. While we teach a strong foundation in both basic and more advanced EFT approaches, it is our hope that all our experiential workshops inspire participants to further deepen their knowledge of EFT. Additionally, clients who do their EFT "homework" tend to have the most profound results - and the same holds true for practitioners. The more you experience EFT for yourself and do your own work, the more you'll resonate with how powerful EFT truly is - and the more effective a coach you will be.
Experiential EFT Workshops: We plan to offer a whole portfolio of workshops for the general population as well as EFT professionals. While we are beginning our flagship projects with a select group of professionals, as we grow we will soon require additional qualified professionals. Please sign up for the Newsletter to learn about what we are doing and the latest training opportunities.
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Important note: All information on this website is for educational purposes only. In no way is anything here intended to suggest that it is a substitute for proper medical care or good common sense. While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it. We do not claim to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or psychological disorder. Programs are sponsored by the Personal Peace Foundation and only represent the views of the presenter(s). Programs, trainings and sessions offered are not necessarily associated with, nor endorsed by EFT or Gary Craig.