Tappers Gathering Presenters and Schedule
Saturday and Sunday, November 7-8
An outstanding list of experienced practitioners and trainers who are sharing what they have learned with all of us.
All of the handouts for each presentation will be sent after the Gathering to those who register for the tappers gathering from this page.
Digging Out the Roots of Overeating with EFT
Bernadette Hunter
If food controls your life, if you are not free to eat anything you want, then you are forever in a state of conflict and weight gain. For compulsive eaters, this chronic state of inner and outer unrest is life debilitating. This workshop will explore the predictable stages of the Control-Release Cycle and the concurrent thoughts and emotions that create a never-ending compulsion with food and dieting. EFT is extremely effective at short-circuiting this cycle, breaking the chains of cravings, and particularly eliminating the negative thought patterns toward food and the self. Come join us as we laugh and cry and kiss the dieting blues goodbye!
About Bernadette
Bernadette’s education in peak performance work includes the highest credentials and study with some of the foremost figures in EFT, peak performance and EMDR: An advanced certificate as an EFT practitioner including study with EFT founder Gary Craig, particularly on serious illnesses and pain. Basic and Advanced certificates in PSYCH-K, an energy psychology tool for creating optimal performance in any area of functioning, training with Elizabeth Powers of Boulder, Colorado.
Study in EFT applications for maximizing sports performance to achieve optimal play, especially with golfers and tennis players, with EFT Sports Pioneer Stacey Vornbrock, M.S., of Scottsdale, Arizona. EFT training with leaders in the field of individual and corporate peak performance, including David Lake, M.D. and Steve Wells, Ph.D., both of Australia.
The Downside of Wellness:
Tap Away Hidden Fears and Saboteurs
Annabel Fisher
Are you struggling with a chronic illness, and feeling overwhelmed by the mountain of things to tap on?
Are you an EFT Practitioner avoiding clients with chronic illness and pain because there are too many aspects to address, and you’re unsure of how to be effective?
Working with serious/chronic illness and pain needn’t be daunting, so long as you have a clear direction of where to take the tapping session.
During this workshop, you’ll learn how to be the Creative Detective by using specific, well-defined questions to unearth the root cause of the chronic illness or pain, in preparation for tapping. We’ll be exploring why, very often, there are benefits to remaining unwell; that there really is a downside to recovery. By using these heartfelt approaches, you’ll be successfully peeling away the layers which have lead to illness and pain, yet avoiding the inevitability of overwhelm. This process is hugely enriching for practitioner and client.
About Annabel
In 2003, Annabel Fisher was bedridden with severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). She was in extreme pain, utterly exhausted and felt hopeless. A year later, her life was forever changed when she discovered a ray of hope: EFT. Within two years she went from being wheelchair-bound, hopeless and helpless – to vibrant, healthy, fully mobile, and running her own EFT Business.
Over the last five years, Annabel has received training from Gary Craig and several EFT Masters, successfully combining EFT and NLP to enable her clients to go from managing their symptoms, to enjoying life, to living at their fullest potential. Annabel is a certified EFT Trainer with the AAMET and facilitates regular workshops ranging from the basics of EFT, to advanced techniques and Practitioner Training programs.
Working Intimately with EFT – Relationships, Sex, and Happiness
Alina Frank and Craig Weinston, D.C.
This workshop is designed to broaden the perspective on how to work with issues surrounding sexuality. Emotional issues show up profoundly in the bedroom, resulting in what is now being called an Era of Sexless Marriages.
Using techniques like EFT can powerfully release the emotional traumas and patterns brought on by poor self image, morality quandaries, childhood sexuality traumas, past relationship patterns and physical conditions that often affect the quality of a person’s sexual life and relationship.
We will review innovative approaches and case studies that have resulted in the resolution of infertility, premature ejaculation, anorgasmia and more. Studies show that sexual satisfaction is one of the most significant factors in “happiness test scores.”
About Alina and Craig
Alina Frank, EFT-CERT-I has been a practitioner of alternative healing arts for over 10 years. She has taught EFT in a variety of different settings to thousands of people around the country. She is also co-facilitator of the Right Mate For You program which teaches women in a webinar format how to choose the right romantic partner using behavioral psychology and EFT. Alina is a moderator on Gary Craig’s WomenWise Forum.
Craig Weiner Weinston, DC has been a chiropractor for 18 years and has been practicing EFT for 2 years. As a chiropractor he utilizes EFT with patients primarily with regard to physical pain disorders and coinciding issues. He has co-taught EFT with Alina Frank in the Pacific Northwest. He has also presented “EFT: From Relationship to Elationship” and given seminars on quantum physics and extraordinary states of consciousness.
Together they have created the 7 part series on Sex and EFT created for Life Made Much Easier. They have conducted radio interviews, seminars and are creating retreats based on the simple idea that when techniques such as EFT can clear the space for greater and fuller sexual expression in a relationship, greater joy and happiness are the natural sequel.
Money Matrix: Abundance Through EFT
Paul Zelizer
Your financial situation is formed by your thoughts, feelings and actions – your money matrix. EFT and other energy psychology techniques are wonderful tools to shift your money matrix and attract more abundance into your life. However, many people aren’t sure how to authentically and effectively apply EFT for abundance. This workshop will teach participants effective tools to 1) see and feel what their unique blocks to increased abundance are, 2) use EFT and other energy psychology tools to effectively clear those blocks and 3) more deeply allow clients to understand their own abundance blocks, clear them and progress towards their abundance goals.
About Paul
For more than 20 years, Paul Zelizer explored energy tools and psychology techniques separately. In his personal practice, he studied energy systems like yoga and Tai Chi. In his professional life, he worked for more than 20 years as a social worker and licensed counselor. He developed innovative community projects, facilitated programs for over 14,000 participants and ran a well respected non-profit for 8 years.
In 2005, Paul was introduced to and fell in love with the world of energy psychology. In 2007, he founded his EFT practice. In 2008, he wrote Money Makeover 2.0: 5 Steps to Financial Well-being in Today’s Economy – an EFT based abundance program that has been downloaded by thousands. Today, Paul runs a global coaching business where he has helped hundreds of people increase their financial well being using the combination of EFT, attraction principles and the power of web 2.0 He specializes in helping spiritual people increase their success and joy with these tools.
EFT with Stress & Trauma: Knowing the Difference is Important
Zoë Zimmerman
Stress and trauma show up differently in clients, and require different interventions. If we’re unaware that someone is in a trauma state, we can make it worse, or just not be helpful. This presentation explains stress vs. trauma symptoms, how they appear in the body and nervous system, and how we as therapists can recognize when someone is in a trauma state. When working with stress, usually the Tearless Trauma Technique and Movie Technique work very well. However, with trauma it’s often not so simple. In this presentation, we will focus mainly on trauma and specific ways to use EFT to work with it.
About Zoë
Zoë is a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience. She has been specializing in PTSD and stress/trauma for about 10 years and has been using EFT exclusively with clients for close to 3 years. She has taught a number of seminars and classes for therapists on stress and trauma in the US, Austria and Germany. Zoë also specializes in relationship issues and physical pain. In addition to her work with clients, Zoë has experience consulting with businesses and organizations to resolve conflicts, create effective management styles, and improve communication up and down the hierarchy ladder.
Introducing Children and Families to Tapping
Bonnie Thompson
Many of our lifelong issues are rooted in early childhood. What could be more helpful to the next generation than simple tools to clear these issues as they arise? We must keep in mind, though, that while children are very open to energy work, they respond differently than adults.
In this workshop, you’ll discover:
- How children’s energy systems differ from adults
- Practical ways to approach varying ages of children
- Ways to prepare yourself for working with children.
About Bonnie
Bonnie Thompson, HTCP, EFT-ADV, has a private healing practice in Fort Collins, Colorado, in which she combines energy therapies such as EFT and Healing Touch to help her clients release blocks to healing and learn how to self-heal.
She is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and has studied EFT extensively as well as other subtle energy therapies.
She loves teaching EFT and Healing Touch classes and working with children and parents. After homeschooling her four children for the past twelve years, she has a special place in her heart for children and their unique needs and a great love of learning.
Open New Energy Circuits to Release Old Patterns
Dr. Carol Robin
Energy medicine works with the acupuncture meridian points we use in Meridian Tapping techniques to clear energy blockages. It also uses other energy systems, including Chakras, IET (Integrated Energy Therapy) Integration Points and radiant circuits. I will demonstrate how to integrate the use of these energy points in a tapping session.
Working with an expanded repertoire of energy points allows us to be more effective in releasing blocked energy. Many of these points are also useful for emotional desensitization and lowering emotional charge, allowing you to work more effectively with very emotionally charged issues or trauma.
I also will demonstrate incorporating “positive tapping” and affirmations with these additional points which is a powerful way to activate radiant circuits and balance energy systems to create new energetic and emotional patterns.
About Carol
I am an energy-based Chiropractor and have practiced energy medicine and
imagery work for 30 years. I have studied Therapeutic Touch, IET,
CranioSacral Therapy, BRT, EFT, ETHOS and many other energy medicine
techniques.
I have taught energy work and guided imagery work for the past 25 years,
and produce guided imagery meditation CDs for health and healing, including “Transforming Surgery,” “Transforming Cancer Surgery” and “Transforming Cancer Treatment.” I have worked extensively with people preparing for and recovering from surgery, and have worked in the Operating room and Recovery room at several hospitals using energy work and imagery during surgeries.
I have also worked extensively with energy medicine, imagery and energy
psychology techniques with clients with sexual abuse, trauma and
dissociative disorders. I have been incorporating EFT and meridian tapping
therapies into my practice for the past 4 years.
Animaleze – EFT For Animals/Surrogate Tapping
Susanne Peach
Animals, large and small, can all benefit from EFT, just as humans do. However, applying EFT to animals takes some tweaking and Susanne has figured out that tweaking and more.
You’ll hear examples of a poodle eliminating its fear of the groomer, a cat who’s tumorous cancers “disappeared”, a horse who overcame its food aggression that involved kicking the barn/bars of the pen for up to 4 hours before the tapping, the “hospice way” that tapping has helped so many animals pass over in a more graceful and dignified manner, faster recovery from surgery on Susanne’s own dog, and many other first hand stories. Whether it’s a fear of thunder, separation anxiety, dealing with new additions to the family, or facilitating faster physical healing, this is a tool you must know if you take care of animals.
Even if you don’t have animals, you’ll gain valuable tips on surrogate tapping to use on children, elderly or anyone else that is not capable of tapping or themselves. If you tap on a regular basis, or would like to, surrogate tapping is a must have addition for your toolbox.
About Susanne
I have been using EFT for over 8 years, as well as teaching the basic and intermediate classes in Colorado for over 5 years. I was a former corporate trainer for 12 years, which helped me learn to sdeliver the material to my students in an educational and entertaining manner. I attended Coaching school in 2008 to add it to my practice. My areas of expertise are teaching EFT to others, working one-on-one with people in overcoming the challenges preventing them from reaching their goals, working with athletes, and of course, helping animals with any and all issues through EFT.
I am fortunate to have attended Gary Craig’s last 5 advanced EFT workshops, learning first hand from the founder of EFT. I have taught many people in Denver, Boulder, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs, Kansas and Nebraska the basics of EFT so that they could use it in their business and/or personal lives. I was honored to be filmed by the EFT organization in 2008 on how to apply EFT to animals. That film will be on the Emofree website shortly.
AND – A SPECIAL EFT COMMUNITY EVENT on SATURDAY EVENING!
TAP INTO THE RHYTHM OF SPIRIT
Jonathan Crowder
Unite in ONE rhythm and ONE heartbeat! Join Jon Crowder of Peak Rhythms for a fun and inspirational evening drum circle experience to connect us through the Tappers Gathering. One of the most powerful and ancient tools for building community and personal transformation, the drum circle is a perfect way to rhythmatize, energize, and synthesize your overall weekend experience. We will facilitate everybody in playing music together, sharing Spirit, and building the Tappers’ community. No prior musical experience necessary. Drums and instruments will be provided. You are also welcome to bring your own instruments. See you in the Circle!
About Jon
Jonathan M. Crowder, JD, is an acclaimed facilitator, speaker, and musician. A former attorney, he uniquely combines his professional background with a lifelong love of music and spirituality to facilitate human potential. Jon founded Peak Rhythms with the mission of empowering and uniting people through rhythm. He and the Peak Rhythms team have facilitated programs for organizations, keynotes, sports teams, schools, music festivals, spiritual and religious organizations, communities, and groups of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds. Among others, his clients have included Toyota, Wells Fargo, Kennedy Space Center, the University of Colorado football team and hospital, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Copper Mountain Ski Resort, the International Academy of Management, the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, the American Camp Association, Vail Valley Medical Center, public and private schools, non-profit organizations, and more.
He is an accomplished musician with extensive experience in the universal principles of drumming, rhythm, and ceremony. He is committed to uniting old wisdom with the modern knowledge of personal development and transformation. And, he believes in the power of the drum and drum circle to heal, transform, and unite. He is also a Remo drum company Endorsed Drum Circle Facilitator, a trained Health Rhythms facilitator, and a professional member of the Drum Circle Facilitators Guild.
There is no extra charge for this special event. It is our gift to you.
FRIDAY NIGHT COMMUNITY FORUM:
WHAT IS HEALING, ANYWAY?
Moderated by Lynne Morell
In this open forum Lynne will facilitate a community conversation that will explore what healing means for us as practitioners and in our own personal lives.
We each have a framework that underlies our belief about what we think healing is for ourselves and for others. What we think about healing affects the healing process.
*Does healing mean getting rid of the illness?
*Getting rid of all symptoms?
*Does healing involve finding out what causes the illness, making a course correction and learning the rules so as to never get sick again?
*Could healing be present even when symptoms remain?
*Are illnesses enemies… or possibly our allies?
*What are your thoughts about someone whose symptoms just won’t go away no matter how much tapping you have done with them?
*Would this be resistance…or might this be a deeper mystery?
*What if this is you? What are your thoughts about your own process?
Come join this edgy, tender and compassionate dialogue about… what is healing anyway? Lynne will bring her own blend of insight, humor and
irreverence.
About Lynne
Lynne Morrell is a Life Coach and EFT Practitioner, who has been doing this form of work in the world for the past 8 years.
In the process of her own healing journey with a chronic illness, Lynne discovered the power of EFT. She “gobbled up tons of EFT training” and soon was sharing it with her clients.
Never one to sit still for long, you can find Lynne in her garden, gallivanting on the internet in her blog, on her website, in her newsletter, on the phone with her clients. Or you can also find her each Monday with her “babe-a-roo best of friends” doing her blog talk radio show:
Embracing polarities: radical and irreverent coaching conversations~
www.lynnemorrell.com
www.lynnemorrell.com/blog
www.blogtalkradio.com/embracingpolarities
TAPPERS GATHERING 2009 SCHEDULE
| Day | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Friday Nov 6th | Rue Hass | Morning: 9:00 AM -12:30 PM A Spiritual Approach to Healing What Hurts Afternoon: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
| Special Evening Program 7:00-9:00 PM |
Lynne Morrell, moderator | Community Forum on “What Does it Mean to Heal, Anyway?” |
| Saturday Nov 7th | Susanne Peach | Surrogate Tapping and EFT for Animals |
| Zoë Zimmerman | EFT with Stress and Trauma – Knowing the Difference is Important | |
| Alina Frank and Dr. Craig Weinsten | Working Intimately With EFT: Relationships, Sex and Happiness |
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| Bonnie Thompson | Introducing Children and Families to Tapping | |
| Special Evening Program 7:00-9:00 PM | Jonathan Crowder | Tapping into the Rhythm of Spirit Drum Circle – no experience of drumming needed! |
| Sunday Nov 8th | Annabel Fisher | Tap Away the Hidden Fears and Saboteurs of Chronic Pain |
| Bernadette Hunter | Digging Out the Roots of Overeating with EFT |
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| Carol Robin | Open New Energy Circuits to Release Old Patterns |
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| Paul Zelizer | Money Matrix: Abundance Through EFT |
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| Finish at 4:30pm |
