EFT and The Power of Self Acceptance

A Unique Workshop Experience with Leading International Energy Psychology Experts Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake

Melbourne: 2-3-4 March 2007 (Introductory PLUS Advanced Workshops)

Sydney: 9-10-11 March 2007 (Introductory PLUS Advanced Workshops)

In these unique workshops, Dr David Lake and Steve Wells will be teaching both Introductory and Advanced patterns of EFT and will also demonstrate their own unique innovative approaches Simple Energy Techniques (SET) and Provocative Energy Techniques (PET). See below for more information.

"Every new movement has a number of pioneers who become stars. Steve Wells and David Lake qualify in both regards...These delightful gentlemen combine wit, humor, skill and compassion in a unique way that both entertains and informs their many audiences. It has been my personal pleasure to watch their skills multiply throughout their worldwide audiences."
--- Gary Craig, Creator of EFT, www.emofree.com

What are EFT, SET, and PET?

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a revolutionary “psychological acupressure” technique, which is capable of producing rapid and effective changes in emotional responding. By acting directly on the body’s energy system via specific energy meridian points, you can use EFT to eliminate the emotional blocks and barriers to your performance and, ultimately, your success.

Simple Energy Techniques (SET) is a very user-friendly meridian stimulation approach developed by Dr. David Lake and Steve Wells that can be used by almost anyone with very little training. This very simple, practical approach will enable you to incorporate the "tapping" into your daily life. Therapists will be excited to learn that SET is easily accepted and used by clients. Members of the public will be impressed to learn a technique that they can use without having to be clever or "psychological".

Provocative Energy Techniques (PET) is an advanced energy approach that combines the power of meridian tapping (EFT) with the humorous and paradoxical language style and techniques of Provocative Therapy. The result is an approach that transforms. This powerful approach can allow you to leverage the results you can achieve with EFT, and engage issues at a very deep level with the healing power of humour and laughter. PET is something you need to experience to understand – and once you understand it you’ll never see problems in the same way again!

More information on EFT and PET can be found at: http://www.eftdownunder.com/eftpet.html

Workshop Format

Stage I - (For newcomers to EFT and SET): Level 1 EFT Introductory Workshop

• Learn the essentials of EFT in one day! This workshop or other prior training in EFT/SET is essential to attend the advanced weekend self-acceptance workshop. Click here or scroll down for more details on the Fast-Track Workshop.
  

Stage II - (For those who know EFT and SET): The Power of Self-Acceptance

• Learn how to use EFT and PET to experience true self-acceptance. (This workshop teaches Advanced EFT and also uses unique PET strategies to leverage the results you can achieve.)

Stage I (Day 1): Fast Track Introduction to EFT (For newcomers to EFT)

Learn the essentials of EFT in one day!

If you've just discovered EFT or haven't been to a live training the Fast Track Introduction will give you a rapid entrée to how to get results with EFT. You'll see the EFT technique demonstrated on a range of issues and get to experience using EFT on your own issues. You’ll also get the chance to practice the technique and have your questions about EFT answered by Steve Wells and Dr David Lake, two of the leading experts in the field.

Steve and David will show you how to use both the shortcut and extended versions of EFT, and also show you some additional comprehensive points to add to the basic EFT processes. They will also outline how you can apply EFT to overcome the internal barriers that have been holding you back from achieving your goals, how to use the techniques to improve your self esteem, and ultimately how to create more freedom in your life.

If you want to achieve more of your potential and create the future life you really want, this workshop will help you to get started. Then the weekend self-acceptance workshop will help you to really take off!

Introducing SET - Simplified Energy Techniques:

Dr. David Lake and Steve Wells have developed this very user-friendly meridian stimulation approach that can be used by almost anyone with very little training. In this workshop you will learn this simple, practical approach, and how you to use it to enhance your results on emotional issues. The basic training in SET is incorporated into the EFT Workshop and will provide you with several additional strategies you can use immediately to produce an improvement in your quality of life, and to assist your clients and friends.

Introductory SET Training is incorporated with the EFT Level 1 Workshop training.

Register now for Fast Track Introduction to EFT Workshop

Stage II (Days 2 and 3): The Power of Self-Acceptance Workshop

Has anyone in your life really accepted and loved you exactly the way you are?

How can they – if you don't accept yourself?

In this uniquely humorous, amazingly different and emotionally engaging experiential workshop, you’ll learn the astounding power of true self-acceptance and how it can lead you to a place of profound personal peace. Steve Wells and Dr. David Lake will show you how to use Advanced EFT strategies, Simple Energy Techniques (SET), and their unique PET approach to create personal peace (instead of “Internal Civil War”), integrate the dark, and begin your journey back to wholeness.

About the Self-Acceptance Workshop:

Learn Advanced Energy Techniques...
You’ll learn some creative, intuitive, advanced applications of the EFT technique that will excite and astound you. Steve and David will also show you how to use Simple Energy Techniques (SET), and will showcase their own unique approach, Provocative Energy Techniques (PET). PET combines the power of meridian tapping with the warmly empathic humor and provocative communication style of Provocative Therapy. The result is a therapy that transforms. For those interested in learning to use PET in their practice this workshop offers credit towards PET Certification. Lay people will also learn powerful strategies for enhancing their personal results.

Transform your relationships...
Dr. David Lake’s relationship work – using EFT and PET - will bring tears to your eyes as you see couples realize again the true reason they came together and find the love that lies hidden beneath their conflict. You’ll realize something you already know intuitively, that reaching the zenith in relationships is based on developing a true devotional friendship – and you’ll learn in this workshop how to transcend the personal blocks to achieving this state.

Learn to laugh again...
In contrast to traditional approaches that always seem so grimly serious, the PET approach is characterized by the deliberate and goal-oriented use of humor. Learn how to treat serious challenges with humor, empathy and love. Have fun - and laugh lots, even as you address serious issues. Advanced participants may even start to gain a weird pride in their own problems.

Stop blaming and start living...
Steve and Dave will blow your personal fault and blame system out of the water and show you how to do it properly using their uniquely humorous and provocative yet warmly empathic approach. After this workshop, you may never be able to get upset at yourself and your problems in quite the same way again.

--Let go of the struggle, learn to laugh at yourself, and resign yourself to being happy NOW!--

Interested in PET Certification? This workshop could count towards certification for those intending to become PET Practitioners. For details on the PET Certification program click on this link: PET Certification Program

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...

Click here to read what others have said about David and Steve's self-acceptance work.

Click Here to read a personal message from Steve Wells on Self-Acceptance.

Click here to register for Self-Acceptance Workshop

About the Presenters:

Dr David Lake (pictured left) and Steve Wells (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 in Sydney, Australia. Steve Wells is a psychologist, professional speaker and peak performance consultant in Perth, Western Australia.

David and Steve have been using Energy Psychology techniques for the past 9 years and have developed their own unique integrative energy approach: Provocative Energy Techniques (PET). Together 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 (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. Steve is also co-author of a childrens book 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.

Registration Details - All Workshops

Click on the links below or scroll down for workshop details and registration information.

Sydney Workshops
Melbourne Workshops

Sydney Workshops

Dates:
Introductory EFT Fast Track Workshop: Friday 9 March, 2007, 9.30am - 5.00pm.+
Self-Acceptance Workshop: Saturday 10 — Sunday 11 March, 2007, 9.00am – 5.00pm.
+ Introductory EFT Workshop or prior training in EFT is required for participation in Weekend Self-Acceptance Workshop.

Venue:
Johnson Room, Crows Nest Centre, 2 Ernest Place Crows Nest.

Workshop Fees

Please Note: Places are strictly limited in these workshops, so please book early to secure your place.

· Introductory EFT Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $250 Full fee: $295
· 2-Day Self-Acceptance Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $495* Full Fee: $595
· Introductory Workshop + 2-day Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $595* Full Fee: $695

· Early Bird Discounts apply to registrations with full payment received prior to 9 February for Sydney Workshops.

Refund policy: Full refund (less $60 Admin fee) for cancellations made 21 days or more prior to workshop. 50% refund for cancellations made up to 7 days prior to workshop commencement. No refunds after this time, however your place is transferable to another person (subject to prior notification and confirmation).

Registrations and Enquiries:
Call Joy or Louise on 1300 362 981.
Email: events@eftdownunder.com
Click here to register for Sydney Workshops using our secure server

Melbourne Workshops

Dates:
Introductory EFT Fast Track Workshop: Friday 2 March, 2007, 9.30am - 5.00pm.+
Self-Acceptance Workshop: Saturday 3 — Sunday 4 March, 2007, 9.00am – 5.00pm.
+ Introductory EFT/SET Workshop or prior training in EFT is required for participation in Self-Acceptance Workshop.

Venue:
Conference Room, Meat Market, 5 Blackwood Street, Nth Melbourne

Workshop Fees

Please Note: Places are strictly limited in these workshops, so please book early to secure your place.

· Introductory EFT Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $250 Full fee: $295
· 2-Day Self-Acceptance Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $495* Full Fee: $595
· Introductory Workshop + 2-day Workshop: Early Bird Discount Fee: $595* Full Fee: $695

· Early Bird Discounts apply to registrations with full payment received prior to 9 February 2007 for Melbourne workshops.

Refund policy: Full refund (less $60 Admin fee) for cancellations made 21 days or more prior to workshop. 50% refund for cancellations made up to 7 days prior to workshop commencement. No refunds after this time, however your place is transferable to another person (subject to prior notification and confirmation).

Registrations and Enquiries:
Call Joy or Louise on 1300 362 981.
Email: events@eftdownunder.com
Click here to register for Melbourne Workshops using our secure server

Feedback from Previous Participants:

"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 cannot talk with people about their problems like this, so right on the spot, no mumbling, no humbling, going 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, Munich, Germany

"A breakthrough ... A very, very powerful tool to get finally in the feeling, “NOW I’m good enough” and “I can accept myself.” I’m very thankful to you David and Steve. You are very professional and you are wonderful persons. Everything comes from your heart. Thanks a lot for lots of laughing"
– Eckehart Neumann, Munich, Germany

"I immensely enjoyed the workshop, and learned a lot... The numerous demos were awesome! I loved the provocative therapy and the humor. But mostly, I loved the energy that both of you brought to the seminar: unconditional acceptance, complete generosity and sharing of your expertise, and your upbeat attitudes... It was a delight to attend your workshop, and I look forward to my friends' experiencing that wonderful Australian Dynamic Duo energy...!"
– Barbara Hagerman, EFT Practitioner, San Francisco workshop

"To treat serious things with humour, empathy, love helps to bring together, to unify parts of us human beings, parts which seem to be apparently divided. But they belong together and work together during (our) lifetime... The spiritual background and perspective is wonderful, exciting and great. Sense of humour and seriousness come together. A lot of thanks to David and Steve for that wonderful experience.”
– Peter Poppel, Musician, Munich, Germany

"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, Energy Therapist, New Mexico

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Personal Message from Steve Wells on Self-Acceptance

Many of you know that about 2 years ago I (Steve Wells) began seriously studying the issue of self-acceptance, an issue that was dear to my own heart at the time because I was going through a severe period of non-acceptance! Well when I began to apply EFT to my own self-acceptance issues I had some astounding results and insights - and at that time I conducted a 30-day trial of EFT and self-acceptance that quite literally changed my life. You can read about my struggles and subsequent release on Gary Craig's website at: http://www.emofree.com/articles/WellsSelfAcceptanceSeries.htm

Well at the same time, Dr David Lake was achieving excellent results in working with couples in his practice when working specifically on issues of self- and other- acceptance. Realising that acceptance of the other was crucial to bringing couples to a place of peace Dr Lake knew that accepting the other person's faults was really about acceptance of the disowned parts of ourselves. He began to work with couples on accepting the other person's faults without requiring them to change in any way (in relationships of good will) - and found that this process actually began to create the conditions for true change to take place. Over the past 2-3 years David has begun to demonstrate this approach at our workshops - Anyone who has witnessed these sessions has seen the powerful unfolding of love that takes place when couples are put back in touch with what brought them together.

As we came together and ran workshops our focus repeatedly came to the issue of self-acceptance, and in both our workshops and our clinical work we started to see all sorts of transformations happen when clients were able to accept their seemingly conflicting parts. What was powerful however was when we started using a provocative paradoxical stance within a seeming parody of non-acceptance! When we externalised the non-acceptance for them our clients started to see their pattern and were also empowered to see beyond their former limiting beliefs to a more empowering reality - they began to move beyond their attachment to these negative concepts and negative beliefs about themselves. And they didn't just grab hold of new concepts - some of them began to move to a place beyond attachment to concepts at all, a place of profound peace and even spiritual enlightenment. Some of them quite literally began to see a higher reality, to glimpse the ultimate!

To say we have been excited about our experiments in this area doesn't quite capture it! We were ecstatic to be able to facilitate this sort of release for others - and to be able to deepen these experiences for ourselves.

We have increasingly begun to focus on these issues in our workshops.

The results?

People consistently report that the greatest breakthroughs they made during the workshops were when they began to feel a shift in self-acceptance.

The true test came when we tried these techniques out on 15 fanatical Advanced EFTérs at our first ever EFT/PET Retreat in December 2003. The result? Shifts by day 2 that we hadn't expected to see until day 5. ... Comments such as the following:

"MY family are astonished with the changes in me - my son thinks I'm crazy and funny, my husband playful and sweet (like the girl he married) and I just find I can accept what is far more easily ... It seems as if I have let go a whole lot of resistance to who I am and what was happening in my life ..." Julie Skele, Queensland Australia

"Its hard to put into words the joy I feel right now. I can at last be more fully present, without the fears or the need to 'fix' it." Linda Foster, North Sydney Australia

We began to get the message.

Self-acceptance wasn't something peripheral to success - It WAS success!

So now we are finally starting to conduct workshops where self-acceptance is the absolutely central theme. The response to these workshops has been awesome - Here are just a couple of comments from participants:

"Enthusiastic thank yous for the transformational Self-Acceptance workshop I attended in Albuquerque two weeks ago.

When I decided to attend I wasn’t sure whether I placed a greater importance on my own personal healing or expanding my expertise as a hypnotherapist. My expectations were greatly exceeded on both counts.

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 these past weeks. 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”.

My own personal journey has continued using the techniques on myself. I am uncovering layers of issues that I have been aware of, but have not been able to release for years. What a valuable tool you have given me.

The two of you are so effective together—patient, articulate and hilariously funny. I found myself listening raptly for two and ½ days and cannot believe how much I laughed while dealing with the sensitive personal subjects we covered with volunteers in the class. Look out, Batman and Robin. You two are indeed the dynamic duo.

I have enrolled in the certification class and cannot wait for the next level of my continuing growth.

Warm regards,"

Lynda Malerstein, C. Ht. Power Journeys Hypnosis

First, please note that the slight delay in responding is due to computer problems, here, and not to any reluctance whatsoever to express my keen satisfaction and gratitude for the whole 4-1/2 day experience with David and Steve. They are each wholly effective on their own, and their styles so enhance one another's that the effectiveness of the course is more than doubled.And the material, well, I was a complete novice where EFT is concerned, and already I can see how it is permeating every aspect of my life, personally and professionally, and my optimism valve has never been so wide open – not since childhood, anyway.

So many of my keenest interests and experiences came together with a new clarity in the light of this perspective, it was utterly fascinating to me! And even if that were not so, it would have been worth going just to be with so many extraordinary people under those circumstances.

Right from the start, the enthusiasm for the potential of this technique as presented by David and Steve disarmed our guardedness, and I felt the participation was wholehearted for the great majority of participants. It was equal parts exhausting and exhilarating for me, and were it not for y'all's highly considerate attention to all the practical aspects of our gathering, the former may have tipped the scales, just for the intensity of it all. Fortunately the laughter was as potent as the tears, or even more so; and altogether I'd have to call it a watershed experience, one that tops all others of its kind in my personal history. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

And I surely hope to see you for lift off in October!

Kathleen Terbeek
Professional Singer and Singing Instructor
Dallas, Texas

I wish I could describe to you the joyful feeling I had when I did my very own self-acceptance trial 2 years ago, and how that experience continues to impact on my life. I know now that self-acceptance provides the doorway to something greater, to a state of being where "I" am no longer the problem, and although problems continue to exist out there in the world, it is much less often that I take the feelings on board and beat myself up about them.

I hope you'll take a look at the workshop information and if you feel the information is calling to you come and join us for the time of all our lives.

Best wishes

Steve Wells

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