3 Day Practitioner Training – Emotional Freedom Techniques
Day 1 – Foundations and Fundamentals for EFT Practitioners
Day One Module 1 9AM – noon EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives:
• Demonstrate understanding of the EFT protocol including wording of the set-up statement, the specific tapping points and use of reminder phrases.
• Recognize common variations practitioners may choose to use while facilitating an EFT session
• Identify conditions and symptoms which benefit from EFT treatment and are supported by clinical studies.
• How to recognize the signs of intense emotional response and a process for quickly restoring calm to the nervous system.
Welcome and Introduction
Preframes – Logistics; schedule; overview of the day; informed consent & release form
o Ground Rules: Online challenges and process, Confidentiality; Safety, Group Sharing (permission to pass)
o Guidelines for demonstrations and working with partners.
o Commitment of Group to Guidelines
Participant Introductions (Your WHY, experience and intentions)
Online Extras – Helpful Moves to Engage & Balance Energy
Foundational Concepts – Intro to EFT
Tapping Points review and frequently asked questions; modifications
Basic Recipe of EFT
Set-up statement
The Sequence
Reminder Phrase
The 9 Gamut Procedures
Group Exercise/Demonstration ‘my EFT training worries’ as the issue
Important Terms
Science and Research Supporting EFT
Partner Exercise – Creating Setup Statements and Reminder Phrase Role Play
Rapport, Safety and the Handling Emotions
Aspects
Rapport & Listening Skills. Integrating Client Words/Phrases
Handling Intense Emotional Responses
Day One Module 2 2PM-5PM EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives:
• Demonstrate understanding of measuring emotional intensity (SUDS), testing results and engaging curious mindset.
• Know how to utilize the Personal Peace Procedure as part of ethical practitioner selfcare
• Demonstrate how the EFT treatment can address physical symptoms, behaviors, cravings and/or emotions.
• Name factors that can interfere with successful treatment and simple adjustments that can enhance results.
Calibration and Testing
Understanding SUDS, physical connections, intensity and verbal and non-verbal signals during and after a session
Mindset of an EFT Practitioner – Be curious. Get out of the way!
Working with words, aspects and the detective mindset
Video or demonstration of a basic session – introducing SUDS and importance of testing
Practice Exercise: in Dyads/Triads or Demonstration in front of group
The Importance of Working on Your Issues
The Emotional Scale
Personal Peace Procedure – Using EFT on Your Own Issues
EFT for Physical Issues – demonstration with volunteer
Practice Exercise: Physical Pain – chasing the pain; finding emotional roots to the pain
EFT for Behaviors – food cravings
Practice Exercise on cravings – finding emotional roots to the stress, feelings and memories connected to the craving
Practice Time, Troubleshooting
Group Exercise – taking a Presenting Issue and Finding Aspects
The Art of Questioning
Things that may interfere with successful treatment
Introduction to Treating Specific Events
Homework before Day 2
Reflections on the Day – Around the room
What was your greatest takeaway? What are you grateful for?
Day 2 – Understanding Trauma/Gentle Ways to Work With Stories and Events
Day Two Module 1 AM 9-noon EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives:
• Know the significance of the ACES study and current research about the relationship of childhood trauma to health outcomes
• Demonstrate understanding and practice of gentle techniques, including appropriate use the Movie Marquis Technique and Tell the Story for treatment of specific events.
• Learn ways to manage safety and intensity of a session, including pacing, distancing skills as well as containing and closing a session using “The Box” technique.
Reconnection and Review
Pre-Frame & Client Care Basics
The Healing Garden as Metaphor
Borrowing Benefits
Client safety and handling intensity
ACES Study and Understanding Trauma
The Trauma Capsule
Gentle Techniques & The Importance of Being Specific
Tell the Story/Movie Technique
Tearless Trauma Technique (Guessing)
Review – Tell the Story Technique using Movie Marque
Sneaking up and Sneaking Away
Practice Time – Group Exercise/Demonstration “Tell the Story”
Day Two Module 2: 2PM – 5 PM EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives
• Understand psychological reversals, how these can interfere with outcomes and a EFT process to identify and treat common reversals.
• Know what a reframe is and how to help your clients discover their unique reframes.
• Understand the term borrowing benefits and measure how group EFT influences personal healing.
Psychological Reversals (PR) & Working with Beliefs to Find Events
Writing on the Walls Metaphor
Principles & Implications of PR and Secondary Gains
o Global Reversal
o Common Reversals
o Identification and Treatment of Reversal
Practice Clearing Reversal Exercise: Demonstration with volunteers
The Use of Frames
o Pre-Framing
o Re-Framing/Cognitive Shifts
Borrowing Benefits Check in
Homework for Day 3
Day 3 –Blocks, Beliefs, Ethics and Your EFT Practice
Day Three Module 1 AM 9-noon EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives:
• Understand Core Issues, limiting beliefs and uncovering a connection to specific events
• Demonstrate common ways to test EFT results
• Know when to introduce affirmation statements to the EFT intervention
• Practice using EFT to treat a specific event with a partner
Review of Day 2/Burning Questions
Psychological Reversals and Resistance
Core Issues, Limiting Beliefs, Tabletops, VOC, Connection to Specific Events
Tabletops – Beliefs and Events & Measuring VOC
Cognitive Shifts and Reframes
Partner Pairs Exercise – Exploring Reversals and Limiting Beliefs
Witnessing the Transformation and Integrating Positive Affirmations
Testing & Tail-Enders/Yes, BUT……
Settling into a better place on The Emotional Scale – Does it hold?
Review of Steps
Practitioner Awareness & Working with Beliefs
Partner Pairs Practice – Work on a or Specific Event connected with a Core Issue
Debrief separating “practitioner” and “clients” for discussion
Day Three Module 2: 2PM – 5 PM EST (with one break each hour)
Objectives:
• Demonstrate understanding of EFT practice in special situations and common practitioner challenges
• Know basic practice management tools for ethical business and client care
• Know the requirements for EFT practitioner certification through EFT International
Common Practitioner Challenges
Practicing EFT by Phone/Zoom
Working with Special Situations – Surrogate, Children & Animals
Recognizing Your Limitations and Areas Mentoring
Practice Management (overview – more covered in certification)
EFT INTERNATIONAL Code of Ethics
Honoring Confidential Information – Files, forms and data
Insurance
Demonstration/Releasing Business Blocks/Borrowing Benefits
Next Steps – Weekly Zoom Bonus Sessions and EFT INTERNATIONAL Certification
Partner Pairs for follow-up and scheduled zoom calls
Energy Makeover/EFT International Certification Requirements
Supervision for Certification – Group and Individual Options
Reflections and Closing Meditation
Reflections, Feedback Forms & CE and Certificates
