This How-to Do-IT, neurologically informed webinar focuses on learning self-applied, meridian techniques to treat the anxiety spectrum disorders that includes GAD, Social Anxiety, Phobias, unwanted compulsions and habits, Acute Stress Disorders and Trauma. These disorders overwhelmingly report a somatic component often not addressed in traditional therapies. EFT is a comprehensive cognitive somatic approach that desensitizes 3 areas: unwanted thoughts, emotions and physical reactions. EFT/tapping quickly restores the emotional and physical dysregulation caused by negative experiences. A bonus is these methods also treat pain. Four ways to release pain is included in this workshop. These methods are emerging into both mental health and coaching arena for fast, lasting results. Add these methods to your practice to go beyond talk therapies, to reach those resistant, hard to treat problems. This workshop is fast moving and highly interactive, didactic and experiential.
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Analyze the origin and efficacy of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) including peer reviewed, published research.
- Apply desensitization and exposure techniques and tapping to reduce client distress
- Identify that EFT is a mind-body treatment method that has the capacity to desensitize 3 entwined reactions of thoughts, emotions and physical discomfort
- Use EFT is tool to counter and treat emotional dysregulation
- Show 4 way to release pain
- Apply language variations for maximum benefit in targeting stress, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, panic, compulsive and unwanted behaviors and traumatic events
9:30 am Welcome/Introductions
9:35 am Understand the origin of EFT as it applies to meridians throughout the body
9:50 am Discuss how stress is experienced physically and mentally in us.
10:05 am Learn Emotional Freedom Techniques aka tapping didactic & experiential
- Group breathing demo
- Group issue demo
- Set-up and reminder phrase
- Wording -active listening to formulate emotion about the issue
- Aspects –important to stay on one –clear one part before moving to another
- Value of SUDS rating of intensity
- Table metaphor to address deeper work
11:05 am Live demo drawn from the participants on a current phobia and finding the early trigger of its origin
11:50 am Working four ways to release paindidactic and experiential
- Group Demos
- Live participant demo
12:30 pm Discuss anxiety spectrum – for common understanding
12:40 pm Review peer reviewed, published research
- Adaptations for special populations (Children, couples)
12:50 pm Movie from the StressProject.org on working with PTSD and trauma
1:40 pm Teach Mind-Body Sweep, a gentle way to treat the body first for acute stress reactions and trauma
1:50 pm Review gentle trauma approaches including warning to not go where you don’t belong
2:10 pm Breakouts: Semi-supervised practice in pairs alternating between being the therapist and being the client
3:20 pm Conclusion/Q&A