NOTE: As NZ has achieved Level 1, this venue is reopening and we have confirmed our booking for the workshop at Home and Family Services, 2A Seaview Ave, Northcote. While it is possible NZ's Level 1 status may change, you should make your travel and accomodation plans according to your own best judgement.

Emotional Freedom Techniques is a comprehensive mind-body strategy that rapidly neutralises unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical reactions. EFT combines somatic interventions derived from restorative acupressure self-applications with a range of cognitive interventions. The anxiety spectrum typifies the experience where emotions overrule thought. Fragmented memories get stored in the body. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) discharges the restrictive emotional and physical reactivity freeing a path for clearer thinking and spontaneous cognitive and behavioural shifts. EFT is an evidence-based practice with over 100 published studies. One published study (J. of E.B. Int. Studies 2018) demonstrated a 37% decrease in cortisol (stress hormone) level and 40% reduction in Anxiety in the EFT group over a one-hour session. This effective brief therapy belongs in every mental health practitioner’s toolbox. Bring EFT into your practice, enhance your clinical excellence and treat resistant problems that other methods failed. This EFT workshop focuses on cutting-edge techniques to work with a range of common problems including:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Stress and Overwhelm
• Panic, Fears and phobias
• Chronic Pain and Illness
• Trauma
• PTSD
• Performance

EFT belongs to a proposed new fourth wave of somatic therapies including EMDR, working with the trauma response encoded in the body. Essentially, these requires

• A counter-intuitive engagement with the traumatic experience
• Consciously pairing the traumatic state with a positive resource
• Engaging in an amygdala calming process in the presence of the traumatic memory

Fourth wave somatic processes tend to work remarkably fast compared to analytic, cognitive and behavioural approaches, updating the brains learning pathways for lasting generalizing results.

These mind-body methods are emerging into mainstream mental health, trauma treatment, coaching, employee assistance programs and sport psychology arenas as a rapid, effective, non-invasive, calming, desensitizing tool. Do not miss this opportunity to learn evidence-based techniques you can use immediately with your clients and improve treatment outcomes rapidly.

Benefits of EFT for clients (and practitioners):

• Demonstrable measurable results
• Develop easy practical self-regulation skills
• Builds emotional resilience and self-esteem
• Accelerate progress towards goals
• Dissolve obstacles, resistance and procrastination
• Deepen spiritual connections
• Improve self-awareness, listening and observational skills
• Greater comfort in their own skin

This 5 day workshop covers the core curriculum of EFT International for both Level 1 and Level 2 workshops... and more. Participants who have attended an EFT Level 1 International workshop within the last 12 months may register for days 2-5 only.

To attain EFT practitioner certification and EFT International accreditation, participants are required to enter into a separate 6-9 month follow-on mentoring program which requires ongoing study, mentoring, practice sessions and both written and practical evaluations, at further cost. Full details at this link https://lizhart.com/eft-practitioner-training-events/

Objectives of this Workshop:

1. Explain the origin, theory and efficacy of EFT including research.
2. Create a desensitize state using EFT as measured by a continuous drop in SUDs level.
3. List exploratory questions to elicit core events, and aspects of events.
4. Be able to use EFT to rapidly de-escalate an abreaction
5. Demonstrate EFT techniques for stress, phobias, anxiety, chronic pain/illness and traumatic events.
6. Systematically map out and deconstruct a problem state into workable components
7. Identify and challenge core limiting beliefs
8. Elicit cognitive shifts with questions, moving clients towards their goals
9. Describe key concepts and processes to others using non-technical terms.
10. State the ethical concerns of not working outside knowledge base.

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychotherapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• School Counsellors
• Occupational Therapists
• Case Managers
• Other Mental Health Professionals
• Health Professionals
• Education Professionals

Note:

This workshop is educational in purpose and not a therapy group, and as such while we will work with real life examples and issues these are for learning purposes only. Participation in this workshop depends upon your taking full responsibility for your own mental, emotional and physical health. By registering you agree to consult a physician or professional therapist if appropriate regarding your use of the techniques, especially if you are dealing with mental/emotional or physical health issues. Further, you acknowledge that some of the techniques being demonstrated and taught are still considered experimental with no guaranteed outcomes for any particular user.

Previous Participants

Students who have previously attended a Level 2 workshop with me may attend this workshop at a reduces fee. Limited places are available - please contact me directly to apply.

This event occurs at premises for hire and has no association with Home and Family Counselling Inc.