Reminders. Water. Breaks. Time.

Start the day by asking participants for their SUD levels on issues they tapped on the day before. Notice any that have gone up or down and discuss why.

Role-plays but also working on one of our table legs. A full session with another participant.

Session Notes Form

Optional virtual meal tables today.

At the end of the day, we’ll review where we are in our practice—where we’re strong, where we need to boost our skills.

We’ll also consider: Which of the 48 Clinical EFT Techniques do you need more practice in?

Role-Play 15: Practicing Chasing the Pain & the Color of Pain

Client 1: An obese retired female teacher with chronic sciatic pain and insomnia.

Client 2: A cancer patient whose doctor says his widespread but intermittent pain is “of unknown etiology.”

Client 3: An 18-year-old athlete whose championship career is threatened by her multiple injuries accompanied by pain.

Pairs: Each person identifies an actual pain they have. Get SUD. Tap continuously. Use 9 Gamut at least once. Practice Sneaking Away at the end. Get SUD again. 10-minute session for 1 person only. After, client gives 1-minute feedback—what worked best, what didn’t work.

Role-Play 16: When SUDs Remain High

Demo with someone whose SUD stayed high after the previous exercises. The rest of the group continues with Borrowing Benefits by checking in on their SUD for the same issue before the demo.

Role-Play 17: The Issue of Self-Love

Client 1: You’re working with a famous actress. You identify a childhood event in which her sister hit her with a tennis racket. You craft a Setup Statement, but when you ask her to say “I accept myself,” she bursts into tears. She doesn’t accept herself.

Post in chat: What other phrases can you use?

Role-Play 18: Goal Setting

Client 1: A video conferencing session with a young ambitious manager who has had a successful series of 3 sessions with you as she seeks new career directions.

Client 2: In hospice with an elderly chemotherapy patient who is bewildered, inarticulate, and frightened of death. End of session, you’re goal setting with him.

Small Groups: What are appropriate goals? Each person presents one, groups of 4, 2 minutes each.

Whole Group: What was the most unusual goal anyone came up with in your group?

Role-Play 19: Techniques for Handling Flooding

Client 1: A new client, a 48-year-old banker, who during her first tapping session breaks down and is unable to either speak or tap.

Client 2: A 55-year-old male engineer who unexpectedly bursts into tears during a session you’re doing in front of a group.

Pairs: One person plays coach, the other plays the silent flooded client. After, client gives 1-minute feedback—what worked best, what didn’t work.

Role-Play 20: Making Up Events

During role-play: Use 9 Gamut, Sneak Away, Feedback on what really worked.

Client 1: A policewoman says she had a “pretty good” white-picket-fence childhood but has no specific memories before the age of 12. Ask her where she was born, where she went to elementary school, a bad thing that might have happened there.

Client 2: An actress says she had a nightmare childhood and has always blocked it from memory. She can feel a sense of distress in her body, but try as you might, you can’t turn the interoceptive feeling into an event. So you have her make up events.

Pairs: The other person now plays client. Feedback from client after session.

Post instructions in chat:

Coach: Start by finding the title of an Adult Event. Then ask about a similar childhood event.

Client: Say you remember no childhood events

Coach: Ask client to make up an event.

Client: Make one up, must be fictitious.

Role-Play 21: Exploring Low SUD Scores

Client 1: You know from a client’s history that she was abused as a child and is currently in an abusive relationship, but she optimistically reports SUD levels of 4 at the maximum for all events past and present.

Client 2: A session is going well with the client’s SUD scores going to a 2 by the middle of the session, but then they stall and remain at a 1 or 2 till the end of the session.

Whole Group: Practice Floor to Ceiling Eye Roll.

Role-Play 22: Eliminating Maladaptive Beliefs and Installing New Cognitions

Client 1: Phone session with a 37-year-old fibromyalgia patient trapped in hopelessness and despair over her condition and physical limitations.

Client 2: A successful 44-year-old writer working on his third book. He has developed writer’s block and has a looming deadline for completing the manuscript for which he has received a large advance.

Small Groups: There are many possible ways of working with the writer. What are some of the options? Make a list in your breakout room with your partner. The deadline? The body sensations associated with writer’s block? An event? An earlier memory? His fears? Psychological reversal? What changed between the previous book and this one? Imagine holding the completed manuscript? Secondary Gain? What was happening when you got blocked? Which direction would you go first? Share the rationale for your choice with your group.

Role-Play 23: Practicing Tearless Trauma

Client 1: A 45-year-old head of psychiatry for a major hospital who has had lots of psychotherapy but has a terrifying childhood incident she has never disclosed.

Client 2: A twenty-something Native Hawaiian man who is triggered by, and has many examples of, multigenerational racial discrimination.

Small Groups: Each person identifies (a) once thing you might consider doing differently before the session, and (b) what the client might be concerned about leading up to the session.

Role-Play 24: Identifying Hidden Aspects

Client 1: A female professional client, 35, with a single incident trauma for which SUD is not dropping, despite tapping on every known element of the event.

Client 2: A 68-year-old Vietnam veteran who has begun having recurring nightmares.

Client 3: A 36-year-old female EFT practitioner who has made no progress on a key childhood event.

Client 4: Work with one of your own recent adult events (leg) with a low SUD score. Find obscure aspects.

Whole Group: Trainer or an EA describes one of their personal recent events. Participants drop possible aspects in chat.

Role-Play 25: Dissociation and Disparities between SUD and Event

Engagement: What are some signs that a client might be dissociating?

Going positive. No body sensations. Disparity in SUD. The thousand-yard stare.

Post others in chat. Flat voice. Rationalization. Super-reasonableness. Not remembering. No facial expression. Jargon. Euphemisms like “passed away” for death. Anger as a way of defending. Changing the subject. Minimalizing. Getting lots of therapy.

Client 1: A 44-year-old woman who shows no emotion and tells you her previous therapist told her she dissociates from her feelings.

Client 2: A 39-year-old artist whose father beat him many times. There is a huge disparity between the severity of the events and the SUD scores he reports. He says it was “not too bad” and gives you a SUD score of 3. What could I do? Slow down. Pick the worst. Or the first. Explore all aspects. Have him tune into his body.

Client 3: A 33-year-old healer who has come for help getting over a terrible divorce. She has a hard time keeping her feelings under control. You sense she could burst into tears at any moment. Yet the highest SUD she reports is 3.

Role-Play 26: The Resistant Client

Client 1: A 40-year-old client who declares that no previous therapy has helped him and he has low expectations from EFT.

Client 2: A very cooperative 37-year-old client who has been coming to you for more than 10 sessions. She goes along with your every suggestion and her SUD levels drop quickly. But they’re back up to 10 the following session.

Client 3: A 36-year-old veteran who does not give you feedback and remains silent when you ask him questions. What techniques might you use?

Engagement: Breakout rooms of 4.