EFT International

John Greenaway Building

John Greenaway Close

Tiverton, Devon, EX16 6QF

United Kingdom

Tapping Into Health and

Wellbeing

EFT International 2021 EFT International 2021

Online Symposium Online Symposium

Saturday March 20th Saturday March 20th

9am9am——5pm GMT5pm GMT

A Guide to the Days Proceedings

Sonia Munafo

Please read this page before the webinar

This is a Webinar not a Meeting so you will not be able to see the at-

tendees just the Host and the Speakers.

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put any questions you may have about the presentation in the Q&A Box

Melanie Hammick – Our Q&A Lady – will pick your questions up from the

Q&A Box and ask the presenter on your behalf at the end of the presen-tation

If you put questions in the chat box your question will not be answered!

After every presentation we will have a 10 minute comfort break – use

these breaks to use the restroom – get a drink – do any movements, tap-ping or energy exercises to support you – enjoy your break and be back with us in time for the next presentation.

The theme of the day is health and wellness, so we encourage you to

take a walk and have a healthy lunch during the lunch break.

At the end of the day there will be an opportunity to join “breakout” rooms

so you can catch up with your friends, or discuss the days presentations.

The whole day will be recorded and you will receive a link to all he re-

cordings shortly after the day.

You will receive a certificate of attendance by email shortly after the day.

Welcome from the EFT International Research Team

We are delighted to welcome you to the 2021 Online EFT International Scientific Symposium: Tapping into Health and Wellbeing.

We have a very full day planned, filled with world leaders in EFT research. We hope you enjoy their presentations and take away plenty of information, and may-be some inspiration to conduct your own research.

Research Team Mission Statement

To provide resources to encourage outstanding research into EFT which will permit its acceptance in mainstream organisations, thus allowing EFT to fulfil its potential as a medium for reducing stress, optimising performance and supporting improve-ments in mental and physical health and quality of life for everyone.

Meet the Research Team

Pat Ballantyne

Pat is chairperson of the EFT International Research Team. She holds a BPsych and is an Advanced Practition-er in EFT. After working full time in the NHS as a Primary Care Mental Health Worker, for 16years, she recently took flexible retirement and now works part time. Clients typi-cally self refer after advice from a medical professional such as a GP or other medical professionals. She primarily works with clients who present with issues relating to anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress, pan-ic, phobias, anger, chronic pain, obsessive compulsive dis-order, low self-esteem, and chronic fatigue (ME). Pat learned EFT in 1999 when she trained in Australia with Steve Wells and Dr David Lake. She started using EFT in her work as a counsellor in outback Australia. She re-turned to the UK in 2003 and got a position with the NHS in 2004, using EFT as her primary therapy. She has since formalised her training with Gwyneth Moss.

As well as serving AAMET International then EFT Interna-tional as Chair since 2014 and being part of a wider move-ment advancing EFT, Jacqui runs EFT Devon as Accredit-ed Certified EFT Master Trainer and Eden Energy Medi-cine Certified Practitioner. Her EFT specialty areas are complex or chronic issues and autoimmune illness. She is a qualified Teacher – BA(Hons) PGCE – and also holds qualifications in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Ma-trix Reimprinting, Naturopathic Nutrition, Reiki, WHEE, Ask and Receive, Emotrance. Jacqui has a passion for teach-ing and facilitating EFT because of its capacity holistically to empower and to support lifestyle change and health op-timisation alongside other modalities such a naturopathic nutrition and energy medicine. Jacqui was vital in getting EFT accepted for research fund-ing through the NICE guidelines in 2018 Jacqui’s Website: eftdevon.co.uk

Professor Liz Boath: Liz is Professor of Health and Wellbeing at Staffordshire University in the UK and has over three decades experience in research and evaluation of services. Liz has significant expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods and re-search ethics. She is a leading light in EFT research and a key member of the EFTi Research Committee. Liz has published over 60 peer reviewed publications, including seminal research on EFT. She is passion-ate about getting EFT research into practice and get-ting EFT practitioners into research. In her hot off the press book ‘Making the case for EFT and Energy Psychology: Designing, Conducting and Publishing Case Studies’ Liz provides a step by step guide for practitioners to help them design, con-duct, write and publish their own EFT case study.

Professor Liz Boath

Jacqui Footman

Craig Weiner is an EFTi Master Trainer of Trainers and together with his wife Alina Frank, directs the EFT Tapping Training Institute. They are the produc-ers of the documentary, The Science of Tapping and offer a variety of continuing education trainings such as the EFT Marketing and Business Academy, Tap-ping out of Trauma, Matrix Reimprinting and others. He is passionate about keeping his fingers on the pulse of tapping research and using it to empower practitioners so they can more effectively communi-cate the power of EFT. This not only can help a prac-titioner to grow their practice but helps our field to be-come more accepted and integrated into clinical, academic/education and corporate settings, raising the recognition of the healing and transformative power of EFT. https://www.efttappingtraining.com/craig-weiner

Melanie Hammick

Melanie initially trained in Person Centred Counsel-ling and has worked for the last 15 years both in the NHS and private practice. She started her journey with EFT six years ago and is thrilled with how it has enhanced her work and the outcomes for her clients. She lives and works in West Dorset. Melanie has worked with many different client issues and has a specialist interest in ADHD./ADD. You can contact her at mohammick@googlemail.com

Craig Weiner

Sonia is a passionate advocate for holistic wellness.

She is an Educator and Facilitator who consciously empowers people to enhance their Physical, Emotional and Mental Wellbeing by providing them with the knowledge, skills and tools to embody healthy habits and behaviours of health and wellbeing.

She uses different modalities to address and optimize the clients health, fitness and wellbeing.

These modalities range from EFT to Kinesiology/Autonomic Response Testing, to Somatic Movement Therapy/ Applied Movement Neurology, to Sports MassageTherapy/ Trigger Points/ Myofascia release, to Nutritional Therapy and many more.

Sonia has also the ability to build rapport with a wide range of people from all over the world through excellent teaching and communication skills, her extensive language skills, fluent in Italian, German, English and French and her sensitivity

to individual needs ensures that she is successful in support-ing clients at all levels.

You can connect with her by visiting:

https://www.somabodymind.com/

Sonia Munafo

Will Thomas is a coach, trainer, hypnotherapist and award-winning author who works in the education sector and in pri-vate practice supporting clients using NLP, Coaching, Time-line Therapy Hypnotherapy and EFT. He runs Vision for Learning, Coachmark and Perfectly Wonky Life, supporting those whose lives didn’t quite turn out as they might. He runs online and face to face training programmes and offers one to one therapeutic support. He is a member of the EFTi Research Team, collating and reviewing the evidence-base for EFT. He loves the outdoors and lives in Malvern, Eng-land where he and his partner have a wild Tibetan Terrier called Dory.

https://willthomascoaching.com

https://visionforlearning.co.uk

https://perfectlywonkylife.com

Will Thomas

EFT International Research Section

https://aametinternational.org/discover-eft/eft-science-research/

ACEP

https://www.energypsych.org/page/Research_Landing

EFT Universe Research Page

https://eftuniverse.com/research-studies/eft-research

The Science behind Energy Psychology : PDF Quickfacts

https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.energypsych.org/resource/resmgr/research/

Science_Behind_EP_Quick_Fact.pdf

Guidelines for Energy Psychology Research : Dr Peta Stapleton has

published a set of guidelines for Energy Psychology Research. If you are

considering doing any EFT research, please consult this excellent re-

source before you start. https://eftinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/

Publishing-Guidelines-for-EP-Studies-Stapleton-2021-FINAL.pdf

Some Useful Links to EFT Research Websites and Resources

Time Presenter Title of Presentation

GMT

9.00—9.05 Sonia Munafo An introduction to the day’s proceedings

9.05 –9.10 Jacqui Footman and Pat Bal-

lantyne

Introduction and Welcome from the EFTi Chair and Chair of

the Research Team

9.10—10.40

10.40—10.50

Keynote Speaker:

Dr Peta Stapleton

Comfort Break

Tapping for Stress and Chronic Pain: The Latest Research Up-

dates

10.50—11.35 Dr Mahima Kalla Tapping into Recovery: Recovering a Life Amid Chronic Illness

11.35—11.45 Comfort Break

11.45—12.15 Jacqui Footman NICE recommendations for EFT

12.15—1.15 Lunch Break

1.15—1.45 Dr Liz Boath Writing for Publication: finding the write…er…right journal

1.45—1.55

1.55– 2.25

2.25-2.35

2.35—3.05

Comfort Break

Panel from the EFTi Research

Team

Comfort Break

Suzanne Connolly and Dr Liz

Boath

Answering your questions about research

Tapping the Way to Global Mental Health

3.05—3.15 Comfort Break

3.15—4.15 Dr David Feinstein Tapping for Healing and Human Potential:

The Evidence as of March 2021

4.15—4.55 Dr Craig Weiner Using the Scientific Evidence to Supercharge Your EFT Business

4.55—5.00 Pat Ballantyne Closing remarks and goodbyes—Invitation to join breakout

rooms

Saturday March 20th 2021: Schedule and Timings

We have a very full agenda, please be back online in time for each presentation.

Welcome 9.05 – 9.10

Jacqui Footman, EFTi Chair and Pat Ballantyne EFTi Research Team Chair welcome speakers and attendees, giving an overview of the days proceedings.

Jacqui Footman

We are joined today by people from all over the world. We would like to acknowledge their presence and confirm for them that they will receive recordings of the whole days presentations since their locations mean they will be joining us for the live event either late in the evening, for people in Australia, or early in the morning, for those joining us from Canada and America.

Pat Ballantyne

Program for the Day and an Introduction to the Speakers and Their Presentations

Sonia will start the day by going through housekeeping

and the technical issues, please see page 1 for details if

you miss this important information

Sonia Munafo

9.00 – 9.05

Introduction to the Day

Keynote Speaker Dr Peta Stapleton live via ZOOM from the Gold Coast, Australia

Emotional Freedom Techniques for Stress and Chronic Pain: The Latest Research Updates

About Peta Dr. Peta Stapleton is a registered clinical and health psychologist and associate at Bond University (Queensland, Australia). She embraces evidence-based practice and is passionate about new and innovative techniques to support behaviour change. Peta is a world leading researcher in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or Tapping) and has led a world first study investigating the impact of EFT in the brain through a fMRI study. She has been awarded the Harvey Baker Research Award for meticulous re-search in energy psychology by the Association of Comprehen-sive Energy Psychology, and also the greatest contribution to the field of Energy Psychology. Peta has been awarded the Global Weight Management Congress Industry Professional Award of Excellence, and in 2019 Peta was named Psychologist of the Year by the Australian Allied Health Awards. Peta has authored The Science Behind Tapping: A Proven Stress Management Technique for the Mind and Body (Hay House), which won Best self-help book in the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by Amer-ican Book Fest. https://petastapleton.com About todays presentation This presentation will outline the latest EFT research updates from Australia. In 2019 Dr Peta Stapleton replicated Dr Dawson Church’s 1 hour cortisol trial with one small change that almost doubled the reduction in cortisol after EFT. In 2020 she began an EFT for Chronic Pain trial that examined a self paced version against a live facilitator -led version. Outcomes from these two ar-eas will be discussed.

Dr Peta Stapleton

Comfort Break 10.40 – 10.50

9.10 - 10.40

10.50 – 11.35 Dr Mahima Kalla live via ZOOM from Melbourne, Australia

Tapping into Recovery: Recover-ing a Life Amid Chronic Illness

About Mahima Mahima is a researcher, with a particular interest in the area of health sociology and integrative medicine. She is passion-ate about using qualitative inquiry and creative arts research methods to explore health and illness experiences. In her Ph.D., she explored the use of Emotional Freedom Tech-niques (EFT) for supporting physical chronic disease healthcare. Based on her research, she has developed the 'Kalla Model: Using EFT to support chronic disease healthcare for patient as a whole-person'. Underpinned by a biopsychosocial view of health, this model provides a holistic framework for supporting chronic illness patients. Her re-search has been published in journals such as Disability and Rehabilitation, and International Journal of Wellbeing. About todays presentation Complex and multifaceted in both causality and impact, chronic illnesses pose physical, emotional and economic bur-den on people, families, and economies across the world. In light of complex care needs and often a lack of established and accepted medical cure, is it possible for patients to gain more control of their health, better manage their health condi-tion, and 'recover a life'? In this presentation, we will look at some case studies (developed as part of a qualitative re-search study) of patients and EFT practitioners who have used EFT to support physical chronic disease healthcare. In addition, we will also look at a practice-based model that EFT practitioners can apply to better support their clients with chronic physical health conditions.

Comfort Break 11.35 – 11.45

Dr Mahima Kalla

11.45—12.15 Jacqui Footman live via ZOOM from Devon, UK

NICE recommendations for EFT

About Jacqui As well as serving AAMET International then EFT Interna-tional as Chair since 2014 and being part of a wider move-ment advancing EFT, Jacqui runs EFT Devon as Accredited Certified EFT Master Trainer and Eden Energy Medicine Certified Practitioner. Her EFT specialty areas are complex or chronic issues and autoimmune illness. She is a qualified Teacher – BA(Hons) PGCE – and also holds qualifications in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Matrix Reimprinting, Naturopathic Nutrition, Reiki, WHEE, Ask and Receive, Emo-trance. Jacqui has a passion for teaching and facilitating EFT because of its capacity holistically to empower and to support lifestyle change and health optimisation alongside other modalities such a naturopathic nutrition and energy medicine. Jacqui was vital in getting EFT accepted for research fund-ing through the NICE guidelines in 2018 Jacqui’s Website: eftdevon.co.uk About todays presentation In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Care Excel-lence (formerly National Institute for Clinical Excellence – NICE) is responsible for the evaluation of all treatments and therapy to be recommended for use in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). NICE produces guidelines by condi-tion. This presentation concerns the NICE Guideline for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), NG116 and how EFT, in combination with TFT, which NICE referred to as “combined somatic and cognitive therapies” (CSACTs), was accepted as a therapy worthy of further research funding.

This talk will clarify what NICE regards as good research, thus helping anyone considering doing EFT research to do that research to the standard required by NICE. Once NICE, and therefore the NHS, have accepted EFT, it will truly be re-garded as “mainstream”

Jacqui Footman

Lunch Break 12.15 – 1.15

1.15—1.45 Professor Liz Boath live via ZOOM from Stafford-shire

Writing for Publication: finding the write…er…right journal

About Liz Professor Liz Boath: Liz is Professor of Health and Wellbe-ing at Staffordshire University and has over three decades experience in research and evaluation of services. Liz has significant expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods and research ethics. Liz is leading EFT research in the UK, is a member of the EFT International Research Committee and has published over 60 peer reviewed publications, including many publica-tions and book contributions on EFT. About todays presentation Making the case for EFT will highlight the need for published EFT case studies and provide an overview of published case studies. It will provide guidance on designing case studies, obtaining ethical approval and client consent, data collection and outcome measures. It will also provide ad-vice on selecting journals and writing case studies for publi-cation.

Professor Liz Boath

Comfort Break 1.55— 2.25

Comfort Break

1.45 – 1.55

Research Team Panel Discussion answering your questions about research

2.25– 2.35

2.35 – 3.05 Suzanne Connolly live via ZOOM from Sedona Ari-zona with Dr Liz Boath

Tapping the Way to Global Mental Health

About Suzanne Suzanne lives in Sedona, Arizona where she has been in private practice for thirty-three years. She is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker, a Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Substance Abuse Counselor. Suzanne has taught as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University where she taught Holistic Social Work in the graduate pro-gram. Suzanne has been training professionals and non-professionals in Thought Field Therapy (TFT) since 1996 and has trained over 2,000 people around the world to use TFT at the algorithm level. She is the author of Thought Field Therapy: Clinical Applications. She has also authored and co-authored four studies of TFT published in peer-reviewed journals. https://www.thoughtfieldtherapy.net/suzanne/ About todays presentation Learn how a few TFT tappers and EFT tappers, dedi-cated to the idea that training lay community members in low and middle-income countries can help close the mental health treatment gap got their manuscript ac-cepted by the Bulletin of the World Health Organi-sation (WHO) In this soon-to-be-published study (date to be announced) these EP therapists-turned-researchers make their case that lay counsellors can play a big part in closing the mental health treatment gap in low and middle-income countries. They includ-ed 3 TFT RCTs conducted in Africa along with 16 ad-ditional studies of Interpersonal therapy IPT) , Cogni-tive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), and educational therapies throughout Asia and Africa. In this systematic literature review and meta-analysis, it is clear just how promising tap-ping therapy looks.

Comfort Break 3.05– 3.15

Suzanne Connolly

3.15 – 4.15 Dr David Feinstein live via ZOOM from California USA

Tapping for Healing and Human Po-tential: The Evidence as of March 2021

About David David Feinstein, PhD. David is a clinical psychologist and a pioneer in developing innovative therapeutic approaches, leading to nine national awards for his books on conscious-ness and healing. He has served on the faculties of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Antioch College. He has received the U.S. Book News Best Psy-chology/Mental Health Book Award of 2007, the Associa-tion for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) Out-standing Contribution Award (2002, 2012), and the Canadi-an Association for Integrative and Energy Therapies’ 2015 Outstanding Leadership Award (2015). He has, with his wife, Donna Eden, built the world’s largest and most vibrant organization teaching the hands-on use of Energy Medicine. Their 1,600 certified practitioners are serving thousands of clients and teaching hundreds of clas-ses in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Their most recent book, The Energies of Love, achieved best-seller status on the NY Times Relationship List. David and Donna were honoured by the Infinity Foun-dation as the first couple to receive its annual “Spirit Award” for their contribution to “the evolution of consciousness” and its “impact on society.” They also received awards from the Energy Medicine Research Institute for their pioneering contributions. To learn more about David’s work with energy psychology, visit www.EnergyPsychEd.com. About todays presentation How can tapping on the skin, rolling the eyes, and hum-ming a tune help overcome severe psychiatric problems? What do we know about claims about the effectiveness of energy psychology? What do we know about what happens in the brain when we tap on our skin? And what does that have to do with emotional healing and well-being? This dy-namic talk will address these questions.

Dr David Feinstein

Comfort Break 4.15 – 4.25

4.15 – 4.55 Dr Craig Weiner live via ZOOM from California USA

Using the Scientific Evidence to Supercharge Your EFT Business

About Craig

Craig Weiner is an EFTi Master Trainer of Trainers and together with his wife Alina Frank, directs the EFT Tapping Training Institute. They are the produc-ers of the documentary, The Science of Tapping and offer a variety of continuing education trainings such as the EFT Marketing and Business Academy, Tap-ping out of Trauma, Matrix Reimprinting and others. He is passionate about keeping his fingers on the pulse of tapping research and using it to empower practitioners so they can more effectively communi-cate the power of EFT. This not only can help a prac-titioner to grow their practice but helps our field to become more accepted and integrated into clinical, academic/education and corporate settings, raising the recognition of the healing and transformative power of EFT.

About today’s presentation Growing your EFT practice can sometimes feel like a tricky business. While as EFT practitioners we know that doing the "internal work" can have a profound effect on the exter-nal ease or difficulty of marketing yourself there are strate-gies that we can implement that have excellent track rec-ords for effectiveness. Given the fact that the majority of the population still have no idea what EFT is, and if they do, they may consider EFT to be a fringe therapy and have concerns about its validity. Finding ways to integrate EFT science and research into your outreach can help to not only alleviate concerns and skepticism but can inspire and motivate potential clients and professional collaborations. Today Craig will offer some powerful tips and guidelines for doing just that. Craig Weiner, DC is an EFTi master trainer of trainers (MTOT) and director with his wife Alina Frank of the EFT Marketing Business Academy (EFTMBA.com)

Dr Craig Weiner

4.55 – 5.00 Pat Ballantyne: Wind up comments, thanks and goodbyes, invitation to join the breakout rooms