TFT – Callahan Techniques® Thought Field Therapy®

As founder and developer of Thought Field Therapy, the first of the tapping therapies, and the underlying structure for the many derivatives, Dr. Callahan has lead the field with new changes, developments, and research for over 30 years.

ACEP has been working hard, over the last 12 years, to get “energy psychology” and tapping therapies accepted by APA. After having been rejected several times, they now feel they will need to “raise the funds necessary to conduct the state-of-the-art research that cannot be ignored.”

ATFT Foundation has been funding humanitarian and research projects for over 6 years and has recently completed two of these “state-of-the-art research that cannot be ignored”, studies on PTSD. Together, Dr. Callahan, Callahan Techniques, Ltd., ATFT and ACEP can be a much stronger force in bringing recognition to our work and facilitating help for so many suffering from trauma throughout the world

As we all recognize, TFT is about healing and helping people, and not about competition, working with ACEP, participating in joint research and presenting at the upcoming ACEP conference will help provide a united front for a greater awareness of TFT and all of the meridian tapping therapies

I would like to share the announcement for the next annual ACEP Conference, and, that Dr. Callahan and I will be presenting Thirty Years of Healing With TFT.

Dr. Caroline Sakai and Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, will be presenting the ATFT Foundation’s PTSD studies, that state-of-the art research mentioned above. We are all very excited because this is the first time in many years where we will be working together with ACEP and the various energy Psychology therapies to expand awareness, increase research and create a stronger force to reckon with mainstream regulatory bodies.

If you are interested in attending this event, you can save by registering now. We expect this event to be sold out. I hope to see you there.

Joanne Callahan

June 3-6, 2010
San Diego California

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Keynotes
William Bengston, PhD Researcher in Energy Healing of Cancer
Norman Doige, MD Author of The Brain that Changes Itself
Dean Radin, PhD Author of the Conscious Universe
Donna Eden Author of Energy Medicine
David Feinstein, PhD Author of Energy Psychology Interactive
Debbie Ford Author of The Secret of the Shadow

54 BREAKOUT SESSIONS Organized into 9 Tracks

Fundamentals of Energy Psychology   -   Energy Psychology Through the Life Cycle   -  Special Populations  -  Specific Approaches  – Spirituality and Consciousness  -  Developing the Practitioner  -  EP and Culture  -  Integrated Approaches to Energy Psychology  -  Potpourri of Energy Psychology

By leaders in the field including: Gloria Arenson, John Diepold, Tapas Flemming,  David Gruder, Fred Gallo, Mary Hammond, Anodeah Judith, Nan Lu, Phil Mollon, Maggie Phillips,  Sandra Radonski,  Steve Reed, Mary Sise, Judith Swack and Many More

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June 7, 2010   Energy Medicine a Hands on Experience with Donna Eden & David Feinstein, PhD

June 7-8, 2010   The Bengston Energy Healing Method with Bill Bengston, PhD

June 7-9, 2010   Essential Skills in Comprehensive Energy Psychology (Part 2 of the ACEP Certification Process) with David Gruder, PhD and Gary Peterson, MD

UP TO 44 HOURS CE CREDIT IS AVAILABLE

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Sponsored by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology. The Largest organization of practitioners of energy psychological methods.

We have a preliminary report of the progress being made following our ATFT Trauma Relief interventions this August in Byumba, Rwanda. We are attaching the draft that we received from Brother Augustine. The report sent by Brother Augustine, summarizes the reports sent in by each of the thirty-six therapists we trained this August. The therapist’s reports had to be translated from Kinyarwanda to English by Brother Augustine, and this report, attached, contains the responses thus far translated. It is a busy season now in Rwanda and we may get a more complete summary sometime early next year.

It is good to know that the thirty- six therapist the ATFT Team trained have treated 622 people since our departure at the end of August. That is in addition to the 200 plus persons treated by the Rwandan therapists while we were there. It seems that TFT is making a big difference in the lives of the therapist’s, in the lives of those whose lives the therapists touch, and in the larger communities in which they live.

Good work ATFT members! All of you have helped in some really significant way. Thanks especially to team members, Caroline Sakai, Gordon Barrett, Carmen Carrasco, Gary and Cyndie Quinn.

Happy Holidays!

Suzanne M Connolly, LCSW
ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Committee Chairperson. read more »

By Robert L. Bray, PhD, LCSW, CTS, TFT-DXDr. Robert Bray is the Secretary of the ATFT. He is a respected counselor specializing in trauma and post-traumatic stress issues. He has been deeply involved with TFT for many years and offers TFT Algorithm trainings on a regular basis. His work has been featured on television

In my experience, the most common problem with grief is people not grieving. When a client comes in looking for help with grief, the first question I ask is, “What are you doing? How are you grieving?”

The most common response is that it hurts to much and “I cry ever time I remember (he or she) is gone.”

Avoiding the memories, avoiding the parts of their current life that triggers the memories, or avoiding sharing memories with others is a common coping mechanism to manage the pain even for the toughest person.

Taking the time to be with feelings of love for the one who has died and integrating the fact that person is no longer with him or her is a necessary component in reconstructing a life.

Grieving is an active process requiring our engagement.

Time passively passed without our conscious awareness is of little help in this process. Time spent locked in overwhelming emotion that freezes our thinking and prevents us from taking action is of less help.

Making the change in our being requires living with the reality of having been given the gifts of our loved one and now being without the physical presence of his or her.

TFT provides a means to getting unstuck and using our feelings in this change process.

A woman in her late forties approached me after a presentation at a conference and asked for help dealing with the loss of her son three years
earlier. In his early twenties he had been killed in an industrial accident. She was an experienced mental health professional and was able to describe her sense of being stuck in her grief. read more »