Provocative Energy Techniques (PET) Seattle Workshop

Learn how to treat problems with lightness and humour

Seattle, Washington, USA, Tuesday October 24 - Thursday October 26, 2006

What is PET?

Humour + Paradox + Energy Tapping = Rapid Change!

Provocative Energy Techniques (PET) combines meridian tapping as used in EFT with humorous and paradoxical communication and techniques drawn from Provocative Therapy, Ericksonian Therapy and Brief Strategic Therapy. The result is an approach that addresses the multi-level nature of problems through warmth, liberating laughter, and spontaneity. It's a powerful combination...

"Although I have been using EFT successfully with clients for several years, the fine-tuning and addition of the PET techniques have profoundly expanded my effectiveness ... I am amazed at how much more quickly and comfortably clients have been moving through their issues, pain and trauma. I have received several phone calls after the sessions in which I have used these techniques thanking me for, as one client said, 'bringing me the first feeling of peace I have had in months'."
--- Lynda Malerstein, C. Ht, Power Journeys Hypnosis

Provocative Energy Techniques (PET) elegantly addresses both the mind and body in counselling and therapy. The provocative techniques allow you to cut through resistance, negative beliefs and other emotional barriers to get right to the heart of problems. The meridian tapping techniques (EFT and SET) and use of humour allows you to rapidly desensitise clients’ fears, anxieties, trauma, hurt and other negative emotions. It’s a powerful combination.

Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake have developed some unique processes for both simplifying the meridian tapping procedures (See below for information about their new approach, Simplified Energy Techniques - SET) and also for leveraging the results you can achieve in working with emotional issues, and this allows you to engage issues at a very deep level - whilst also benefitting from the healing power of humour and laughter.

Benefits of PET for the client:

• PET's powerful techniques assist with the resolution of opposites (the classic push-pull that most of us experience), thus freeing up a great deal of energy to allow you to pursue your goals.
  
• Gets to the heart of issues very quickly.
  
• Provides rapid relief for emotional pain.
  
• Leads towards self-acceptance, and ultimately towards integration and wholeness.
  
• Puts you back in touch with your personal power.
  
• Unlike traditional approaches, PET doesn't accept that change is inevitably painful, so change tends to be enhancing, even enjoyable.
  
• Frees you up to consider the positive aspects of change.
  

Benefits of PET for the practitioner:

• New tools in your toolbox.
  
• Not getting stuck.
  
• Enjoying the session.
  
• Learn how to bypass resistance.
  
• Learn how to work with the client's energy rather than against it.
  
• Rapport with the client is deepened; learn a radical form of empathy and how to rapidly get onto the client's wavelength.
  
• Motivation for change is drawn from within the client, rather than you having to argue for change. PET thus provides an effective antidote for burnout.
  
• PET allows you to leverage the results you can achieve in a session by getting to the big issues quickly and releasing the emotional pain.
  
• Learn some powerful techniques for rapidly and permanently treating emotional issues and blocks.
  

For more details on the PET approach Click Here

Workshop Format and Content

The PET workshops consist of a 1-day PET Foundational Workshop followed by a 2-Day PET Workshop. These workshops assume you are already familiar with meridian stimulation as used in EFT and PET, however prior training in these modalities is not essential. Contact us to discuss if unsure.

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Foundational PET Workshop: Day 1

This workshop will teach you the important theoretical and practical background necessary to understand and use PET. It includes demonstrations, practical and experiential exercises, and an outline of the key techniques as well as the key principles and philosophy underlying the PET approach. This workshop is pre-requisite for attending the 2-day PET Workshop which follows.

2-Day PET Workshop: Days 2-3

This workshop will include demonstrations of PET, practical exercises in which the main patterns underlying PET are illuminated and practised, theoretical discussions, and group experiential exercises. This workshop will give you plenty of opportunity to learn some of the key patterns and processes of this approach, to experience PET and try it out in a non-threatening environment. Immersion in the process is the key and it is important to take the opportunity to experience the PET approach. Once you do, you - and your clients, family and friends - may never be the same again!

Who Should Attend?

This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to learn ways of enhancing their results with energy techniques - and add some humour to their life! It will be especially useful to coaches, counsellors, consultants, and professional therapists who want to leverage the results they currently achieve with clients, although anyone can benefit. It is recommended but not required that you have a practical understanding of EFT - Contact the organisers to discuss if you do not have prior training in EFT. It is also mandatory to have a working sense of humour, and be unconcerned with non-politically correct language (See important note below regarding who should NOT attend!). In addition, those who attend will need to be willing to have their current paradigms tilted and their assumptions about change shattered. Be prepared to work on yourself - The PET approach is something to be experienced prior to being shared with others.

What others say about PET and Steve and David's workshops

"Steve and Dave possess a truly remarkable set of therapy skills. Their live demonstrations model the excellence of their work in a richly communicative way. Their blend of provocative therapy & EFT is fascinating."
--- --- Steve B. Reed, LPC, LMSW, LMFT, Psychotherapist, Dallas, Texas

“The combination of professionalism, sense of humour and true creativity that you both bring to this work is astounding – truly a one-of-a-kind experience. I have found that your approach combining Provocative Therapy and EFT not only gets to deep core issues quickly, but the laughter is ever so healing. I think you are right in that when someone laughs at that level while doing EFT, they can never go back to the same stuck place they were before. Thank you again for inviting me to your workshop. I haven't looked back."
--- --- Maggie Adkins, EFT Master, USA

“I would like to express my impressions on your workshop, like this: PET -makes impossible things possible. I am a doctor, a physician. I’m trained to be sceptical about everything that is not scientifically evidence based. There is a reason why I came to this seminar though. The scientifically proven stuff is not enough, to help people. So I’m looking over the fence. The first day of the seminar I almost succeeded in holding on to my beliefs; i.e. - you can not talk with people about their problems like this, so right on the spot, no mumbling, no humbling, goings around the hot spot. When first listening to a PET-session, my own cognitive limitations came up like a couple of policemen not wanting to cooperate at all. To be the PET-patient was another thing. The provocative style was like having a sauna bath, relieving, refreshing, just great, clear thoughts, limiting beliefs gone.

Other participants at the seminar, all more or less sceptical, did sessions with David Lake and Steve Wells, and had that noticeable cognitive shift, the point where the problem is no longer a problem. Relationship treatment- a brave couple came up with their problems - was magic. The PET method turned their problems into something more like a sincerely happy marriage. So when the sun rose the second day of the seminar, I was convinced, by the results of the PET method, and not only by the great performers, David and Steve.”
--- --- Eva Maria Lundell MD, participant in Munich Workshop

IMPORTANT NOTE: This workshop is not for everyone! Those who do not have a working sense of humour - or intend to resurrect one - are not recommended to attend! Also, those who insist on Politically Correct language may have some challenges with the irreverence of the PET approach - which deliberately plays with stereotypes to challenge your normal ways of thinking and get you thinking and feeling in new ways. If you - like many therapists - believe that change is always painful and slow and hard, you will find that this workshop will likely shake the foundations of your beliefs. It's not called Provocative for nothing! On the other hand, if you like light-heartedness, understand warmth and relationships (or would like to) and believe that humour can be healing, you'll be excited by the potential of PET to shed light where previously only darkness prevailed. In fact, its likely you'll find PET to be a breath of fresh air, as you see its light and humour shift previously stuck perspectives and emotions. And lastly, if you, like us, like to have a good time as you learn, you're likely to find this to be one of the most exciting and energising workshops you've attended for some time...

About the Presenters

Steve Wells (pictured left) and Dr. David Lake (pictured below) are internationally recognized as innovative leaders and skilled practitioners in the new field of Energy Psychology.

Dr. David Lake is a medical practitioner and psychotherapist in private practice from Sydney, Australia. Steve Wells is a psychologist, professional speaker and peak performance consultant from Perth, Western Australia.

David and Steve have been using Energy Psychology techniques for the past 8 years and together developed their own unique integrative energy approach: Provocative Energy Techniques (PET). They have helped thousands of people through their worldwide seminars and workshops.


David and Steve have written two books together, including New Energy Therapies: Rapid Change Techniques for Emotional Healing , a manual for helpers now in its second edition, and the self-help guide to EFT Pocket Guide to Emotional Freedom . Dr. Lake is also the author of the best-selling Strategies for Stress and the relationships manual She’ll be Right, and Steve is also co-author of a new children's book on EFT, Rose and the Night Monsters.

Steve and David's workshops are always entertaining and engaging and filled with practical techniques and inspiration you can use immediately to improve your life. Not only that, Steve and David's special blend of humour and compassionate provocation means that their workshops are always full of therapeutic fun and laughter whilst at the same time dealing with deep issues.

Workshop Details

Dates and Times

Tuesday October 24 through Thursday October 26, 2006, 9.00am to 5.00pm each day.

Workshop Fees:

Early Bird Discount Rate (If paid in full prior to September 8, 2006): $595
Full Fee (If paid after September 8): $695

Special Note:

This workshop can be combined with our other workshops being conducted concurrently by Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake (and with our colleagues Kerry and Kristelle Sim) in Los Angeles and Seattle - By combining two or more workshops you will not only extend your learning, lightness, and laughter but also save many hundreds of dollars! To view a summary of all workshops being conducted and find out about the special offers available to you, click on the following link: US Workshops 2006

Venue

Embassy Suites Hotel Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
15920 West Valley Highway, Seattle, Washington, United States 98188
Tel: +1-425-227-8844 Fax: +1-425-227-9567

The Embassy Suites hotel in Seattle includes a free cooked-to-order breakfast, and a free Manager’s reception with drinks and snacks in the afternoon. All rooms are suites: Each suite is beautifully decorated with a private bedroom and spacious living room, and fully equipped with television, refrigerator, microwave oven, coffee maker, two telephones with data ports and a well lit dining/work table.

There is a free shuttle to and from the airport.

Please mention the EFT / PET Workshops when you register.

Enquiries and Registration:

Call Kerry Sim on 360 933-1676, 9am - 9pm Pacific Time Monday-Saturday, or email him at: workshops@dashoflife.com

Secure Online Registration:

To register securely online via paypal for the PET workshop click on the following payment button and enter your credit card details. Note that the company processing your payments for us is Dash of Life.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations accepted up to 28 days prior to the event with payment of $95 Administration fee. Following this 50% of fee will be charged up to 14 days prior, after which no refunds will be paid, however your place may be transferred to another person who may attend in your place (subject to prior notification and confirmation with us).

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