Teacher's Discussion

Beginning of School

teachermod2 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:31:10 GMT

We are just completing our first full week back to school, and TappyBear has already been put into action. On the first day we had three kindergarteners who were not at all sure they were ready for the school experience, and were crying and proclaiming they wanted to go home in no uncertain terms! I introduced TappyBear, showed the students his "power buttons,' did a little tapping and showed the students how they could tap on the power buttons. They calmed down and took their places in the classroom; for a little extra assurance, I left aTappyBear with each student for the day. By the 3rd day, only one of the little students still had a problem separating from her mom in the morning.

It would be great for teachers to tap with their students at the beginning of the year with such setups as, "Even though I'm a little nervous about this year,' "Even though I'm new to this school," Even though I'm already worried about the big tests," etc. Teachers can keep their own stress level down as they help their students to do the same!

And parents, this is a great time to start tapping with your child before they leave for school to get them in a good frame of mind. Tap in some positives: "I love to learn," "Learning is easy for me," "I make lots of new friends."

Have an awesome year!

selective mutism in 9 yr old girl

Kath — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:50:55 GMT

Hi,

I'm a special education teacher who has completed level 1 & 2 of EFT trainin, so I'm not new to this, and frankly see it as the one thing I can offer this child. She is a new student who somehow passed the interview with the vice principal to enter the school [I work in an international school in Hong Kong with English language proficiency levels dictating entry] so obviously she spoke enough english to support her enrollment.

Her last school commented about her level of communication but nothing more. I have been working with her for about a week and a half now, everyday - doing EFT and some NLP exercises I've learned. I've used some intuition and some of the phrases I've read in articles about mutism because I'm not getting anything from her. The biggest shift, just vibrationally, was when I asked her to place all her worries in a box [what size? what does it look like?] and somehow get rid of it. She wrote down that she wanted to cook it - so we did a couple of rounds on that - it felt really good but no talking.

Today [Monday], it feels like being back to square one. Any rapport I had built up, now seems to have disipated. Has anyone else worked with a child with this condition? The parents are not really supportive of our efforts and are not encouraging her to participate on any level which makes it very hard for her to make friends, join in on group work and show her knowledge.

looking forward to any ideas

Kat

Test anxiety

mindxb — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:08:03 GMT

Hi There

I have been using EFT for around 1 year and really want to take it into the school arena. I realise exams have already started but know that it is an invaluable tool in dealing with stress connected to exam performance.

Today I've been in to see the HeadTeacher of my son's nursery (who is also part of a group for secondary education.) She is very interested and is giving me a personal introduction to the concerned Head! I'm very excited about the possibilities... which are endless as parents will be involved and they can bring EFT into the home and their own areas of concern.

Are there any particular areas of attention that I can bring to this meeting? Perhaps a teacher's experience with how it has helped and what is essential in getting the student into a mood where they are calm enough to recall the info necessary, and confident enough that they can excel.

Thanks so much

Marina

10 year old not able to focus or concentrate

beesmom — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:19:30 GMT

My 10 year daughter's teachers from Kindergarten thru now 5th grade, have always told me she doesn't focus in class. She short cuts all instructions. Example: She is doing a math worksheet and the question will say "reduce 30/100 and write as a percent, and decimal" she will answer the first part and reduce the fraction, but she never answers the rest of the question. She does this all the time. If she's given a writing assignment, she only answers the first part and leaves the rest blank. It's like she only reads the first words and that's it. I have no idea why she does this. It's now getting to a point were it is affecting her grades. I sometimes think she does it because she's lazy or because she just wants to do the minimum to just turn it in.

Anyway, I have used EFT for a phobia I had. I was thinking that maybe EFT can help her. However, I'm not sure where to start with it. I asked my EFT practitioner and she said Hypnosis would be better for her, but we already tried hypnosis and she just falls esleep. I don't feel like it does anything for her. She's done Hypnosis as directed and still I don't think it's doing anything for her.

At this point any advice will help. Thanks in advance

beesmom!

performance improvements and more

Eric — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:42:50 GMT

This note from EFT practitioner and gymnastics coach Judy Whitcraft illustrates the side benefits from incorprating EFT into your team or youth group work. In addition to performance improvements in your specific sport or activity, your students can experience many side benefits as Judy's article attests. Achievement-oriented young people may be a good audience to introduce EFT to younger generations. They are often looked up to by their peers and if they are doing something others will follow.....

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"I own a tumbling/dancing studio, and I am LOVING every minute of "performing magic" with EFT. Some of the many successes have included: preschooler quit crying because her dad was late, a 6 year old quit throwing a tantrum about her leotard not fitting right, a 9 year old was able to fully participate in class when her sunburn didn't hurt anymore, one of my instructors healed her knee, and many students have performed new tumbling tricks when EFT removed their fear. The mothers and children keep saying to me, "How did you do that?" And yes--- I HAVE been teaching the parents (and children) how to do EFT for themselves." ~Judy Whitcraft

We plan to document some of Judy's students for our documentary film so look for this and other practical examples of EFT in use with young people. EFT is often discussed as a tool for dealing with serious physical and emotional issues. Don't forget to bring this technique into the everyday world of simple tasks and needs.....it works on everything.

If you have some simple examples to share, please let us know so that others can use them too.

Be well,

Eric

Using EFT with whole class (handwriting lesson)

Heidi — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:23:04 GMT

I am a handwriting teacher (first/second grade) who is new to EFT. During handwriitng lessons I would like to use EFT to get my students ready for the lesson. Some of my students are already very resistant to handwriitng because of difficulties with writing while others are just "bored" by it. Can we tap as a whole class (26 students)? What do I say as the set up -- since the students are at such varied levels?

Autistic tendencies

Teresa Sharrard — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:16:14 GMT

I am an Intervention Specialist in Akron, Ohio. I have been working with a young man in the 6th grade that suffers with extreme anxiety disorder. We began a tapping session in the morning and then followed up with one in the afternoon. We were able to get his anxiety level down to a zero. It took at least 25 minutes. He had a calm afternoon and is so excited about coming and seeing me because he was able to, for the first time ever that he can remember be without anxiety. We will continue to work together and see how it goes. The first two sessions showed remarkable results.

Teresa Sharrard; InterventionSpecialist

Group Surrogate Tapping

RosieP — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:53:16 GMT

Friends,

I work with students (1/2 hour every 2 weeks) at risk of disengaging from the education system and wonder what the protocols would be for group surrogate tapping. Would each individual benefit as much as from an individual surrogate session? Is just focussing on each student briefly in turn prior to the setup sufficient to establish an energy connection? I would like to use the Optimizing Brain Function with EFT by Laurel Cozzuli with 25 students surrogately. All of my students have been exposed to EFT although only few choose to use it by themselves. All of my current students are willing for me to think/pray/EFT/TAT for them.

Thanks for your insight.

RosieP

Tips for Getting EFT into the Classroom

Eric — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:03:30 GMT

The following appears in the current EFT Masters Newletter and Mary Stafford has graciously allowed me to offer it here in the hppe that it inspires teachers and administrators.....

Mary Stafford's dream is that EFT will be taught in elementary schools and children will teach their parents to do this easy to use healing tool. Children who learn to tap will have a greater quality of life; they will be able to release their hurt, anger sadness and embarrassment themselves. Here are 7 tips for getting EFT into your children's schools.

Tell every parent you know about EFT. Create EFT groups where parents learn to use EFT for themselves and their children. Share the resources on the EFT website.
Participate in research projects. Doing research projects and collect data to document how EFT helps kids overcome test and/or math anxiety. Such documentation could make it easier for more schools to incorporate EFT.
For school staff who use EFT - teach other staff members how to use it for stress management. Reducing stress levels with EFT benefits teachers and students and subsequently, teachers may share EFT with their students.
For parents with kids in school - go to PTA meetings. Tell other parents and school staff about the benefits of EFT for kids. Direct them to the EFT website.
Volunteer at your child's school. If you are tutoring kids, use EFT with a child's learning problem and share the result with the teachers.
For EFT trainers - prepare brochures focused on how EFT helps children. Provide them to school counselors, and put them on school bulletin boards. Show the EFT Specialty Series #1 DVD where Ann Adams presents using EFT for children's emotional issues.

Ask school counselors you have trained in EFT to keep case histories of their use of EFT with children. Make presentations with the school counselors using the case histories. Encourage more counselors to participate in EFT training.

Mary Stafford, EFT Master
www.mindbodytherapy.com

EFT in Education Think Tank

ChristineM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:05:31 GMT

Are you aware of the EFT in Education Think Tank at the 2008 Masterclass? If you are asking, whats a Think Tank? This is how Judy Byrne - EFT Master and 2008 Masterclass organiser describes it.Think tanks will be your chance to have even more input. Masters and non-masters with particular expertise will be on these panels together to brainstorm how EFT can serve the community through making a bigger contribution to medicine and to education. The EFT in Education Think Tank will be:

a relaxed way of gathering together our experiences, trials, successes and future plans collaboratively.

Judy has handpicked wonderful EFT contributors:Their experience and expertise is invaluable to the EFT in Education Think Tank.

We will be joined by :

Think Tank chair, Ann Adams LCSW Administrator of the Masters programme. Ann has many years experience of working with emotionally disturbed children and of introducing EFT into institutional settings. Co ordinating EFT Master, Jaqui Crooks , has a background in teaching and hypnotherapy. She trains EFT Level 1, 2 and Level 3, where she combines NLP and Hypnotic language with EFT. She is a skilled supervisor and also a trainer for TAT. EFT Master, Dr Patricia Carrington was the first major innovator in EFT with her revolutionary Choices method which is used by therapists worldwide. Besides being one of the earliest and best-known EFT practitioners, Pat is an Associate Clinical Professor and is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. She has written 32 research papers and four books. Pat has special interest in working with children. After introductions we are interested that:as many practitioners as possible contribute to the think tank and offer their input. Please be encouraged to share collectively however large or small. Updates from you all would be very beneficial. We can plot a UK map perhaps. Together, we can work through barriers of using EFT in Education. Our skills and experiences and skills are diverse and certainly pack more power when collated. Maybe you can share news of.... Nursery introduces Tapping to Circle Time,Sixth Formers and Staff using EFT for Exam Anxiety,Extended School Project using EFT for SEN Children and Families,Teenage Tapping Circle,INSET training,Transition Programme in Secondary school,Healthy School Week ,EFT workshops, Funding tips, CRB checks, Collaborations, etc If you are able to attend ,that’s great. Let me know if you would like to contribute. Please let me know if this is an area that interests you even if you are not able to attend.

Join the UK CYP EFT forum which aims to train and deliver first class EFT to our younger generation.

Christine Moran at contact@eftworking.co.uk Parents * Grandparents * Carers * Primary Schools * Secondary Schools * Colleges * Youth Organisations * Charities * School counsellors * PHSE teachers * Specialist teachers * Support staff * SEAL Programmes * Aim Higher staff * Pupil referral staff * CAMHs staff Extended School projects * Child Clinical Psychologists * Educational Psychologists *Are you responsible for Children and Young People's Emotional Health and Wellbeing ?

Co-Moderator wanted

Eric — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:27:39 GMT

The Teacher's Discussion forum is looking for a volunteer moderator to help with the review and approval of posts to this specific forum. If you are an educator, coach, or youth group leader and can offer us a few minutes per day please contact me to discuss this important position to the operation and quality of our forums.

Child at all-day care - frequent involuntary bowel urinary movements

Dorothy Mulvie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:33:16 GMT

My name is Dorothy Mulvie and am a mother of twins who are of adult age. In fact one is now living in America with her American husband. I have completed Certificate 1 of 2 of EFT but due to Gary Craig's rearrangements of certificaiton I have not be able to see a way forward to completing certification to enable me to become a fully qualified insured therapist. I have purchased all the DVD's and they have been quite helpful for my own emotional scaring. With great consideration and pondering as to where my life should be I now work as a carer in a Before and After School Care unit in Canberra Australia. I just happened to be talking with a certain child at the care centre whose mother works all day and so the child is at the centre from 7am to 6.30pm each day. As we began chatting and with my prompting the child told me that she lives with her mother, (I have later found out that her mother works in the Australian Defence Forces in Canberra). Her father lives out west in NSW. I have not yet discerned just how often she sees her father but it cant be very often as Orange is quite a distance from Canberra. Peta (not her real name) gets rather moody when she feels she isnt included and often strays away from the group of other children while playing outside, even to the point of hiding. I mentioned this to the supervisor of this institution and the supervisor said that Peta has a lot of issues and that she is unable to control her bowels or bladder and soils herself in her pants. This is the reason why Peta goes and hides. I have been told by the supervisor that the child's mother has taken the child to a doctor but they are unable to do anything for her. As far as I am aware she is still soiling her undies. I am endeavouring to win this child's confidence each time I attend the school, which is only once a week for 3 hours in the afternoon, and I am told this will increase to at least 2 to 3 days. Peta has made me cutouts and coloured-in pictures for me to bring home. The reason for my writing is to request as much help as possible either from an experienced EFT Therapist or Master in Child behaviour who may be able to advise me on the best way forward. One mother has mentioned the "magic buttons" which seems to be a marvelous but as I am not supposed to know why she goes and hides it may be a difficult situation to start showing her the magic of EFT. I await hearing from anyone who might be able to assist.

Classroom environment...?

schwimmer — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:20:53 GMT

As a future teacher of adolescents/teens, I was wondering what you believe the ideal classroom environment to be.

Also, do you think tracking (ie: honors, regular, basic classes) is a positive thing for all students? Why/why not?

Can you offer ideas to help a very sweet 8-yr-old girl...

Betty Garnett — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:57:12 GMT

I am a teacher and have a student who is precious...

First a little history:

She has an older half sister who is perhaps Mentally Retarded or very close to it.
She has an older full sister who is Gifted and Talented.
She herself is 8 years old and has severe dysgraphia. Our speech therapist thought her problem was a problem where the child starts the writing in the middle of the page and uses just the right side of the paper, completely leaving off the left portion. But that is not the case. She did that on a "test" that was given to see how she writes. However, when given duplicated papers she writes in the correct place although it is sometimes unreadable. She knows what she has written, but it is often undecipherable. Speech teacher also said that she may need to read with something that helps her to read all the way to the left side of the paper, but the child is rather bright and reads a lot on her own and has good, stable comprehension.
She has developed a walking problem in the last year whereby her legs turn inward. It looks almost painful.
During the past sememster she has developed a facial tic that she is aware of and tries to hide. But it doesn't stop her from showing and talking to the whole class (standing in front of the class). She often brings objects from home that she wants to share with the class. I never discourage her. I think it is fabulous that she is so confident.
It is a pretty sad situation b/c she is so bright and "looks" learning disabled.

Her parents have been seeking help from several neurologists but to no avail. They send her away with no help or advice.

I plan to talk with her parents as friend to friend (since I cannot talk to them as teacher to parents) and tell them about EFT and Gary's site and the free manual that is offered. I hope they will take it a bit further and search for a good practitioner of EFT.

Does anyone know of a practitioner who knows what precautions to take with regards to this child? I guess I am looking for someone with a lot of experience as well as some kind of specialized training who would know best how to deal with her problems. I personally am at a loss as I am a teacher, not a counsellor or a doctor, and I am just a newbie to EFT. I KNOW it works for a fact, and I continually "weird out" my husband. (I really love doing that! LOL) I am happy to report that he too is becoming a believer gradually.

Helping my grandson with his hatred of math

lynn Carlomagno — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:12:38 GMT

I am VERY new to eft and would like to help my grandson do better at math and enjoy it. Any suggestions?

Final Exams and State Tests

teachermod2 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:01:49 GMT

Hi Everyone,

Here in Texas we are getting ready for the state mandated tests to be given this spring. Because at certain grade levels passing the tests is a requirement for advancing to the next grade or getting your high school diploma, there is a lot of stress involved for teachers, students and parents.

As a teacher or parent, if you know that a child has test anxiety, you can help with that by tapping on the fear. "Even though I'm afraid I will fail the test, I'm still a great kid." "Even though just thinking about the test makes me nervous, I'm still a great kid." If you can get your child to tell you how the anxiety or fear manifests in his or her body, you can tap on that very effectively. "Even though my brain starts to freeze when I think about the test...Even though my chest gets tight....Even though my stomach (or head) hurts..."

After you have tapped on the "bad stuff", you can start offering a more positive choice: "Even though my brain freezes up when I take a test, I choose for my brain to feel calm and relaxed." "Even though my stomach starts hurting when I have a test, I choose for my stomach to feel peaceful and happy."

Teachers and Parents, you can tap for yourselves, too. "Even though I'm really worried about Johnny passing the test, I'm a great parent and he's a great kid." "Even though I'm afraid for my child, I choose to release the fear." "Even though I'm worried about Sally passing the test, she's a great kid, and I love her no matter what." "Even though I'm worried some of the students won't pass the test, I'm a great teacher and I did my best for them."

Children are already under a lot of stress. When the adults around them are also stressed, everything intensifies. It's important for children to know that they are loved and accepted whether or not they pass the test. If they are calm and relaxed, they have a much better chance of doing their best.

Good luck!

Hugs and Blessings,

Syandra

naughty class who just will not obey, cannot be controlled

mrinalini — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:06:42 GMT

My daughter Huzan hs just begun teaching Maths to gifted children in a school.

There are three classes she takes. Two are fine, but the third has unruly disobedient children.

At my suggestion she appointed one of the naughtiest as monitor.

He was in charge of the door, to see that the children did not just leave when they felt like it.

What was her surprise to see that when one of the children wanted to leave he approached the door,

and this monitor opened the door for him to leave!

Any suggestions?

eft for my prefect

minah ahmad — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:53:10 GMT

I am just go through eft training with Dr Suriya From Malaysia. Thanks a lot for your effort to introduce a new skills of healing from stress.I would like to know more about eft.We can share how to use this technique with our students.May this is one way to create excellency in studies. TQ

EFT and Building Kids' Self Esteem

thejuicywoman — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:09:59 GMT

Hi,

I'm a Professional Life Coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming and Ericksonian Hypnosis. I'm also an avid practitioner of Emotional Freedom Technique as well as one of the co-moderators on the Weight Loss board.

Over the past 8 weeks I've been volunteering my time on Friday mornings. As a Professional Coach, I've decided to present a program to my daughter's 6th grade class focused on teaching the children strategies to increase their self esteem and to be more aware of their bodies. I call it Self Esteem Secrets and Mental Magic. Basically what I have been doing is teaching the kids how their thoughts affect their bodies and doing so in a context that really makes sense to them.

I've been building up to teaching them more about EFT for weeks, yet don't quite know where to find the best bridge.

We've talked about the importance of having choices, and the kids shared how they often feel the victim of their cirumstances. Some of them are facing divorce in their family, others are facing sibling rivalry, loneliness, frustration, parents out of work, relatives who are alcoholics, dissention in their families, chronic illness and death of loved ones. Boy have these little ones got a lot on their plates.

The teacher and I began the school year by talking about the importance of recognizing our feelings and realizing that this is just as important as paying attention to learning any academic subject like Math or English. Both she and I are survivors of abusive homes and we stand as role models for the kids proving to them that anyone can rise above their circumstances. We've talked extensively about role models and seeking out people who can guide them to who they want to become.

I've taught them about the importance of creating a safe space inside of them, anchoring positive feelings and sharing what is on their mind with those who they trust. We've talked about bullying and how words can affect the way that we feel about ourselves. I've taught them many wonderful things that I've learned from doing a series of self esteem seminars with Jack Canfield.

I've given them several convincer examples of how magical their minds are and they are soaking it up like little sponges.

Recently the children have been investigating and researching issues in society that they want to understand more. Global warming is one of the things that they are passionate about learning.

I see this fascination and curiosity as a means of teaching them about the concept of globalization so that they can see that we are all one.

I am not sure how to bring this point home to them in terms of convincer exercises or topics of discussion. I'd like to get some ideas from anyone who can give me some insight into how to bring this together for the children so that it is deeply meaningful to them.

I have already done a Feldenkrais exercise with them that taught them that they can overcome their own perceived limitations by moving their arm further than they thought they could by just thinking about it and then I decided to take it a step further and introduce a quick reference to EFT by using the tapping on the karate chop point to further move beyond their imposed comfort zones. That was met with a lot of shocked looks of disbelief and WOWs.

In one of my NLP training classes, I recall doing an exercise where the group formed a circle and we each rubbed our hands together and after creating enough friction we put our hands into the center of the circle and played with the energy, tossing it from person to person and back again.

Can you recommend a way of introducing this concept or some other to the kids in a simplistic manner. My concern is that some of them will 'get it' and others won't be sensitive to the subtle vibrations generated by doing this exercise.

I really need some help to keep on task and to not overwhelm them with all my enthusiastic information and sharing.

My objective is to empower them to realize that they have a choice and that by honoring their emotions, they can deal with them in a way that releases stress and creates more harmony.

What recommendations can you make to help me to build a bridge so that the kids really 'get it' and see that they are part of a much bigger picture?

Thank you,

Andrea

eft in the classroom

kim kolb — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:51:16 GMT

I am fairly new in EFT and have the opportunity to present it to the elementary school in my community. Any suggestions as how to best present it, with guidelines, handouts, sample exercises, etc. would be appreciated. I will be presenting to the principal, reading specialist and several teachers. I will have 45 minute block(s).

thanks, Kim

autism

kim kolb — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:03:16 GMT

Best way to use EFT for an autistic child?

thanks, kim

Classroom Management Technique

teachermod2 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:12:56 GMT

Hello Everyone,

The school year is off and running, bringing with it the usual challenges. I encourage all of you who are teachers to consider using EFT at the beginning of class to set a positive tone for the day or class period. EFT can appropriately be referred to as a stress-relieving technique, and most students, elementary school students included, will freely admit to feeling a significant level of stress. Using EFT can calm everyone before teaching takes place, improving students' ability to take in and process information. (As I wrote that, I had a companion thought that teaching students EFT is one of the greatest things we can do, because it empowers them to manage their own emotions.) Doing a round of EFT only takes a moment or two and has the potential to yield amazing results.

If any of you try it, we would love to hear your sucess stories.

Hugs and Blessings,

Syandra

Classroom Management Technique

teachermod2 — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:01:50 GMT

Questions

Davlo Vanier — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:00:34 GMT

I have been recently exposed to EFT...Great!... I would like to know if EFT has been used with Autistic children and children with leaning disabilities and behavioral problems? I have two sisters who work ith kids with these problems. Thanks for the help. Dave Vanier

New EFT Forums starting

Eric — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:21:56 GMT

Based largely on the success of eft4Kids, I'm happy to announce that a new series of specialty discussion forums will be launched this coming Monday on emofree.com. Look for the official announcement in the Monday Insights Newsletter from Gary Craig, or go the web site to find the forums link. eft4Kids is a part of this larger family of communities and will be linked from there to here as well as maintaining our own unique address.

I encourage you to visit and support other topics of interest to you while continuing to support our efforts to bring EFT into the lives of young people. Thank you for your patience and support so far and please spread the word. We are only as strong and vital as our community. We need your active membership and input

Be well,

Eric