EFT Training
If you are interested in specialist EFT training for your organisation, please complete the Training Enquiry Form here, or alternatively you can email info@eft4addictions.co.uk. Our open training events run mostly in Manchester and London, for available course dates click here.
Who should attend?
- Be at the forefront of innovation in addiction treatment and recovery
- Enhance your reputation through embracing cutting-edge interventions
- Save valuable resources, by improving effectiveness of treatment
- Enhance retention of staff and improve levels of job satisfaction
- Empower practitioners to help clients immediately with a wide range of emotional and psychological issues
- Give your staff an effective and accessible self-help and stress management tool which they can use anywhere and any time
- Minimise the negative effects of clients' distressing issues on staff wellbeing
- Show your workers they are valued by supporting them in their professional and personal development
- Gain rapid relief from withdrawal symptoms
- Reduce cravings for any substance in minutes
- Cope with anxiety, fear, anger, shame, guilt
- Begin to gently heal past traumas
- Reduce likelihood of relapse
- Reframe negative and unhelpful beliefs
- Enhance self-awareness
- Improve relationships and reduce co-dependency
- Gain a simple and powerful self-help tool for life
EFT for Addictions Training Syllabus
Courses follow the guidelines by the Association for Advancement of Meridian Energy Techniques (AAMET), the lead body for EFT in the UK, and also include additional addiction-specific material. Below is the outline syllabus which can be adjusted to the needs of your organisation. To see the details of DANOS (Drug & Alcohol National Training) Units supported by our training, click here.
Included in each training workshop:
- Comprehensive manual/handouts
- Assessment/certification
- Post-training support by phone or email
- Information on further progression
Our training workshops are run in the UK, mainly in Manchester and London. For the schedule of courses for 2009, click here. We also train internationally (Norway, Russia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan) and are available to travel throughout the UK and world-wide. You can read the comments from previous participants of our EFT courses on the Feedback page, and the quotes from practitioners working in a range of health and care settings on their experiences with EFT here.
Masha Bennett teaches EFT in her unique and individual style, whilst striving to stay consistent with EFT founder Gary Craig's original concept and core principles. As well as learning the practical skills of and specialised applications of EFT through face-to-face workshops with Masha, you can also learn standardised EFT directly from Gary Craig through DVD home study and gain his certification by online examination.
EFT for Addictions - Foundation Training (Incorporating EFT Level 1)
Day 1 - Introduction to EFT
- Brief History of EFT.
- How does it work – energy model and biomedical model.
- Comparisons with conventional treatments.
- Location of EFT acupressure points.
- EFT Basic Procedure and shortcuts.
- A.B.C. of EFT (Awareness – Balancing – Clearing).
- Psychological Reversal.
- Troubleshooting.
- How to teach clients to use EFT for self-help.
- Applications of EFT for fear/anxiety, troublesome memories, addictive cravings.
- How to deal with intense emotion.
- The importance of being specific.
- Identifying Aspects.
- “Borrowing Benefits” with EFT.
- How to introduce EFT to individuals and groups.
- Personal Peace Procedure.
- Progression routes.
Day 2 - EFT for Addictions
- Prochaska & Di Clemente's Cycle of Change.
- Addictions "Pie".
- EFT for addictive cravings.
- EFT for withdrawal symptoms.
- EFT for stress/emotional management.
- EFT for dysfunctional/negative thinking.
- EFT for triggers/risk situations.
- EFT for relapse prevention.
- EFT for assertiveness.
- Combining EFT with CBT, 12-step and other approaches.
EFT for Addictions - Intermediate (Incorporating EFT Level 2 - Practitioner Level)
- EFT over the Phone.
- EFT for Trauma & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- EFT for Addictions - Advanced approaches.
- EFT for Pain and Physical Issues.
- "Palace of Possibilities" - EFT for dysfunctional beliefs.
- Addictional acupressure points.
- Use of metaphor.
- Using EFT with Groups.
- Advanced Use of Language.
- Advanced Troubleshooting.
- EFT for Children.
- Brief introduction to other Meridian Therapies.
EFT for Addictions - Advanced
- Advanced EFT approaches.
- Syllabus and length of course varies according to the group.
Training Eligibility Criteria
Foundation - EFT Level 1
- Good level of self-awareness and communication skills
- Open to new learning
Intermediate - EFT Level 2
- Successful completion of EFT for Addictions - Foundations (or the standard EFT Level 1 training + experience of work in the addictions field)
- Experience of using EFT with at least 6 clients
- Experience of work in a people-oriented profession
Advanced - EFT Level 3
- Successful completion of EFT for Addictions - Intermediate (or the standard EFT Level 2 training + experience of work in the addictions field)
- Experience of using EFT with a wide variety of clients over a period of at least 1 year
Online Booking Form or Printable Booking Form
Below is a seven-minute video introducing some of the benefits of EFT - you may find that some of the claims in it may appear extraordinary, however in our experience, whilst not everyone gets the "miraculous" results in minutes, this approach does help to significantly improve and speed up the effectiveness of treatment. The examples in the video are not directly addiction-related, but the general principles are still applicable.
