This Month’s Theme: Getting Started / Getting Going
Getting Out There – Overview of Key EFT Skills –
Who You Are and How You Show Up
Overview of Module 2 – Getting started with getting out there – a Checklist of Foundational EFT Skills and a session example – 5 Key Questions & What You Bring to the Table – Personality assessment tool to bring your IDENTITY into focus – the more you know who you are and make that visible, the more “your” people are attracted to you – understanding personality type differences and valuing diversity – how this can help in our EFT sessions.
Checklist of Level 1-2 Foundational EFT Skills and Concepts
Download the PDF:
Level 1-2 Foundational Skills and Concepts Checklist
This checklist will help you keep in mind all the skills and concepts that were presented in the EFT Level 1-2 Training. It takes much review and practice to actually internalize the material and have all the concepts and skills at your fingertips (literally!). So print this out and go back over it from time to time. It would be great to go through and check off things the list after a practice session. No one session will include everything on the list. Yet over time, you should be able to look through the list and know that you’ve practiced almost everything.
Please be aware that the entire program is dedicated to developing these skills. So don’t be overwhelmed — the mastery will come over the course of our work together.
Session Example
I have permission to share the “Session Details” of a previous student’s Case Study for Certification. I think you’ll agree that she did a nice job. Please read through the session and then review the Foundational Skills and Concepts Checklist — see what skills you can identify in this session. This is good practice for noticing the skills that will come into play in your sessions. (This was not the first meeting with this client so there is no explanation of EFT. Also it’s not the entire case study – I left off the background and preliminaries – just the session report is sufficient for our purposes.)
Read the session report:
Session Details from a Case Study
Another Case Example
This is the full case study that was recently submitted by a student. She got permission from her client for me to share it with my group. I think you’ll agree she did a really nice job. Once again, keep the Foundational Skills and Checklist in mind and notice her use of many of our core skills:
A Case Study with a Snake Phobia Session
Part 2 of Module 2 – Thinking about Identity and Visibility
This audio was originally the introduction to the module, but the checklist above has been added — so this has become Part 2 😉
Audio 1 – Who You Are and How You Show Up (12:40)
Your Handout:
This handout provides the “5 questions” from the above audio. It’s a PDF file and should open when you click on it. You’re not expected to answer the questions now! But this plants the seeds of for awarenesses that will develop as we continue over our 6 months.
“5 Key Questions – To Support your Development as an EFT Practitioner”
Your Worksheet:
“What You Bring To The Table”
This worksheet is intended to get you thinking about how all your life experiences have prepared you for this work in the healing arts. Again, this is especially for planting seeds in your mind. You don’t have to write answers yet, but it can be useful to take some time to think about this… in becoming an EFT practitioner, what do you bring to the table?
Download the PDF: What You Bring To The Table
If you prefer the Word document so you can type into it, email Betty.
An On-line Resource – Personality Type Assessment Quiz
My favorite lens to look through to understand personality or temperament types is known as the Myers-Briggs typology, which is based on Carl G. Jung’s personality theory. There are many free assessments on-line which are simplified versions of the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). Mind you, these are quite minimal and not nearly so thorough as the real test. Still, you may get a good idea of how you measure up on the Extravert/Introvert – Sensing/Intuitive – Thinking/Feeling – and Judging/Perceptive categories, which will give you a reading of your type.
I’ve recently changed the assessment I want you to use. Try this one: www.truity.com/test/type-finder-research-edition. It only takes 15 minutes or less. Be sure to sign up for a free account when you finish the test, that way you can revisit your results. Do note your results and see what you think of the descriptions they give.
That website, www.truity.com, is good for reading about the system and also about your type. They are pretty faithful to the original Jungian ideas.
In the past, I used a different assessment and had chosen it because I like the way they give you percentages. For instance, I show up as 72% Intuitive (that’s 72% greater than I am Sensing — pretty high! No wonder I have so little Sensing function!) So if it interests you, go through this brief test as well. It helps a lot to have the percentages – do have them email your results and you’ll get a chart with your percentages:
www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
The reason I changed and now prefer the Truity site is because the 16Personalities site really takes liberties with the original Jungian theories. Instead of the P meaning Perceptive, they call it “Prospecting” – ?? And they add a fifth variable, Assertive vs. Turbulent. I don’t know where they got that but it’s the only one with a value judgement! “Assertive” is described very positively and “Turbulent” negatively. And guess which one I am? 😉 So while I like the way this test gives percentages, I prefer the Truity site for the descriptions.
Special Handout: More on the Personality Types
The above handout provides some keywords for understanding the pairs:
E- extrovert & I- introvert… S- sensing & N- intuitive…
T- thinking & F- feeling… J- judging & P- perceptive
Audio 2 – Why We’re Looking at the Personality Typology (14:28)