This part of the workshop reviews and expands on the most essential EFT skills and strategies needed to get consistent results with EFT and which are the foundational set of skills that all advanced EFT skills are built and rely on. These include:

• the most effective and proven strategies for bringing up and identifying the various "aspects" or components of an issue;
• how to locate underlying emotionally painful events with greater precision;
• four primary ways to use EFT to work with and resolve painful experiences (such as upsets and trauma);
• several simple actions that significantly improve our results;
• what to do when EFT is slow or doesn’t work;
• educating clients to help them get the most from EFT;
• how to assist clients to become "the observer" of their negative feelings, emotions and thoughts, and
• how to maximize results by using EFT with the power of the now and tapping on "what is".

The advanced EFT skills are the large majority of this workshop. This includes:

• artful strategies to get to the Core Issues that underlie “presenting” problems;
• the art of "zeroing in" on Underlying Issues;
• the value and uses of Continuous Tapping;
• when and how to use Imaginary Incidents (such as giving a presentation in the near future);
• the Volcano Technique for dealing with suppressed anger;
• tapping on Positives and Opposites;
• observing and using Mental Imagery while tapping;
• using Intuition when doing EFT;
• the use of Exaggeration and Humour in sessions;
• how to use EFT for Performance Issues;
• the value and uses of Reframing and pre-framing in EFT sessions;
• the importance of Testing our work and many ways to do it;
• how to open the door to resolving Highly Resistant Issues (such as doggedly persistent issues, fears or phobias), and
• approaches to get to the bottom of and resolve serious Polarity Reversal;
• how to use EFT to work with and heal a Wounded Inner Child;
• how to work with troublesome Selves or disowned Parts of Ourselves;
• why EFT and the Law of Attraction are best friends; plus,
• advanced methods for resolving the lasting effects of heavy-duty Traumatic Events.
• And more!

• The importance of developing some basic facilitator/counsellor/coaching skills, including listening skills and establishing rapport with clients.
• Noticing physical indicators or signs that show that something has changed or shifted in the client which can be utilized to decide what the next step or action (or non-action) is appropriate.
• What to do if a client becomes seriously overwhelmed during a session or experiences an "abreaction" (defined as "an emotional release resulting from mentally reliving, or bringing into consciousness, a long-repressed, painful experience).

• Two other simple energy techniques that complement EFT are learnt on this workshop: An introduction to the Describing Technique and the Permeation Technique. The Emotional Freedom Techniques (plural), along with the Describing Technique and the Permeation Technique, make up a powerful and synergistic set of tools. The Describing and Permeation techniques can be used individually or in combination with EFT. Each of them assists the client to observe, accept and be present with the current feeling, emotion or similar.
• You will be introduced to the "Describe and Tap technique" where EFT and describing the feeling are used together.
• And, the simple "Tap and Breath technique" that can be done any where any time.
• Also, you will learn the "Tap and Watch" approach where you intently watch the feeling or sensation change or shift while tapping.

• Understanding beliefs: Where our beliefs come from; the roles of beliefs in our lives; how ideas become beliefs; the cycle of a response including the relationship between beliefs and emotions/feelings; the connection between our Beliefs and our Experiences in life.
• Using EFT to work with beliefs: some effective ways to locate limiting or negative beliefs that are causing or contributing to a personal problem; how to trace where a particular belief originally came from and then resolve that (its source, often a particular event); how to use EFT to eliminate attachment to a negative belief and replace it with a more useful (i.e. positive) belief, where appropriate; and how to help a client examine a belief’s "benefits" or payoffs (i.e. how it serves him/her) when this is appropriate (i.e. when he/she is hanging on to it as if it were the crown jewels).

• This section reviews the tools which together comprise an "EFT clearing toolkit" and practical ways that they can be used in a session when working on a client's personal problems.

This EFT toolkit consists of the various skills and EFT techniques learnt and practiced on this workshop plus a few simple complementary techniques which work well together.

One of the purposes of this workshop is to teach how these EFT tools can be systematically used to approach, work with and resolve personal issues by using "the right tool at the right time" and having a range of effective tools to choose from. EFT is the brilliant, amazing and golden center-piece of this toolkit.

The clearing toolkit can also be used to help clear the things that come up or are triggered (such as negative thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations, painful memories or impulses) while using another modality or that manifest while studying something or moving out of one's comfort zone, or similar.

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