EFT in the Classroom

by Rehana Webster, BSc, NLP, EFT

 For the past 12 months I have been working with a number of different client groups in New Zealand, the majority of which were made up of the native population (Maori), and who in particular were high risk offenders, using EFT to assist them in dealing with their negative emotions. More recently, I have been involved with one of the local Primary (Elementary) schools teaching the EFT tool to children aged between 6 and 14 years. Many of these children came from the homes of some of these high-risk offenders. Needless to say that the problems emanating from within these homes were also common within the school grounds. Violence had been an on-going problem at the school for many years that impacted upon the staff’s ability to manage in addition to educating these children. In fact, it was a huge task to get these children to participate in their own learning because their aggression interfered with not only their own education, but also with that of other students who were prepared to learn.

 The school Board of Trustees had in the past enlisted the services and programmes of many different professionals both local and international, to address these problems but without success. At the time that we were invited to make our contribution, I had just completed a six months study of the work I had done with high-risk offenders using the EFT model. The study indicated that the subjects achieved a 95% success rate in their behaviour changes. When this was shown to the School Board, they were very keen to trial the programme we offered.

 Initially, we were allocated a class of 11 very disturbed, disruptive and physically violent children, aged between 10-14 years of age, who teachers were unable to control or work with. We took this group and taught them EFT, how and when to use it, and also conducted individual sessions for one hour a day over three weeks. In that time, teachers and other pupils noted the huge shifts in behaviour that these normally aggressive children exhibited, and were so impressed with the success of the programme that the Teachers requested individual sessions for their own issues. Following that, we were given additional hours each day to work with any other children as their issues arose. The constant stream of children presented by staff was phenomenal and the resulting changes well noted also.

 From that, the School Board has approved the training of all 16 Teachers Aides in the use of EFT commencing this week. We have designed and developed a four-day training programme in the use of EFT with Children that will be piloted here, with a view to implementing this training in other schools in the area. Teachers at the school commented that for the first time in their teaching career at this school, they can actually get on with what they were hired to do; i.e. educate children.

 Please feel free to email me if you want further information.

webstar@ps.gen.nz

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