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Energy Therapy Certification
Humans are spiritual beings having human experiences. The essence of our life force is energy. There is a new movement in contemporary medicine and psychology to access the ancient arts of healing through our energy fields. There are many emerging modalities of healing. Our Energy Therapy Certification combines the teaching of four modalities to support energy healing through the Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit. Three Core courses plus one elective course are required for certification. The four courses may be taken as a full sequence, or each course may be taken independently.
The Energy Therapy Courses are approved for CE units for RN's, MFT's and LCSW's.
The three required Core courses follow:
REIKI is an ancient hands on healing technique that focuses the universal life-force energy known by many names: "Ki", "Chi", "Prana", "Light", or "Love Manifest." The trainings involve receiving "attunements" that are the transference of Reiki energy and Reiki symbols from the teacher into the energy field and hands of the student so his or her energy system is open to the flow of the Reiki energy. The student learns how to give hands on treatments to himself and others. Treatments are given with clothes on and are appropriate and effective to combine with hypnotherapy sessions. Reiki is useful for stress reduction, physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and for pain management. The lineage of this Reiki training comes from the Dr. Usui method. Our certification includes the first two of four levels of Reiki training resulting in preparation to be a Reiki practitioner. Students wishing to be certified as a Master Reiki Teacher may take the two advanced levels of training as an elective course.
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE or "EFT" is a simple to use but highly effective body "tapping" technique that is revolutionizing conventional therapeutic thought and astonishing many who use it. The premise behind EFT comes from the research of Dr. Roger Callahan: The cause of all negative emotion is a disruption in the energy system. EFT is a systematic process that straightens out the energy system. Imagine experiencing quick, effective freedom from negative emotions, anxiety, limiting beliefs, inability to express love, years of doubt, grief, intense fears, phobias, addictive cravings and depression. EFT works effectively on all of these and many other of life's challenges. Any one can use it. It is simple to learn, easy to use and you can do it on yourself or with family or friends. Knowing EFT is incredibly valuable for therapist, hypnotherapists and anyone in the healing profession. In this course you will learn about the essence of EFT, the EFT technique, how to use the technique effectively, including shortcut techniques, the impact of energy toxins and how to get to the underlying aspects of a problem.
ENERGY BOUNDARIES FOR HEALERS and CHAKRA CLEARING
- Are you sensitive to the energy of people, places and things around you?
- Are you sometimes unable to distinguish your client's thoughts, feelings and attitudes from your own or find yourself triggered by their process?
- Do you sometimes complete a session feeling worse than when you began?
- Do you experience feelings of overwhelm, burnout, or even health problems due to holding too much for your clients, family or friends?
- Do you sometimes feel confused by all the messages or expectations around you?
Class Description:
Everything is energy and, whether you know it or not, as a healing arts practitioner you are an energy worker, whether you are moving energy through talk-therapy, bodywork or altered states. Learning healthy energy boundaries is critical for sustainability as a helping professional. The more we open to allowing healing energy to flow freely through us the more our intuitive centers open as well, and we sometimes find ourselves feeling our clients emotions, hearing unspoken thoughts and knowing specific information. As a result, it is important to cultivate practices that help us stay oriented to our own energy system, so we can clearly see the energy that we may be experiencing from others. Part of our role as healer is to support the release and transformation of blocked or "negative" energy patterns in others. However, if we don't have a strong understanding of our own energy system, what its like to be in our own authentic energy, we can easily become enmeshed with our clients thoughts, feelings and attitudes which can lead to overwhelm, burnout, and health problems. As we evolve and tune into subtler energies, part of being energetically responsible means learning "energetic hygiene" - how to transform and release blocked energy patterns so that they can be attuned to higher vibrations. Blocked energy is not the enemy, often it has valuable information to share with us. But as healers we must first learn ways to distinguish what is ours and what our is clients. We are the starting point and hold the intention for all healing that happens in our space. Every healer can benefit from learning how to keep their self and environment energetically clear. These techniques are easy to learn and use, and can also be taught to your clients. This class is also beneficial for those who just want to learn how to have better boundaries in their day to day life.
In this class you will learn:
- The 7 key areas of Energy Cultivation.
- Chakra Clearing for self and others.
- Ways to distinguish what is yours and what is someone else's energy.
- Tools to keep your personal energy and space clear before and after a client.
- Ways to raise your own vibration 24/7.
- To hold the highest frequency possible during a session to attune your clients energy.
The following are the elective courses. One is required for certification.
REIKI MASTER TEACHER TRAINING
is an elective in the Energy Certification courses. Reiki I and II are prerequisites. We recommend the Reiki practitioner have at least six months of Reiki experience before taking this Reiki Master Teacher Training. Holly Holmes-Meredith, Reiki Master Teacher, teaches this course.
EFT II: BEYOND THE BASICS
This 12 hour course taught by Carolyn Rigiero is for those who have received their EFT-I certification, EFT-CC on-line, or have used EFT extensively and successfully on themselves or clients, even without certification. (Before joining the class, please check with the facilitator if you dont have certification). It follows the EFT approved level II guide lines listed on Gary Craigs website, emofree.com. This course is a true advantage for any therapist who wishes to go beyond the basics and learn new tapping methods, new tapping points, using EFT with couples, EFT and the telephone, finding core issues, addressing physical ailments, testing, delivering EFT in groups and more. Each class will include practice sessions with feed back from other students and the facilitator. When you have finished, you will have gained a greater understanding of, and a greater respect for, the power of EFT.
MERIDIAN TAPPING TECHNIQUES: MORE THAN EFT
With the introduction of Gary Craig's popular meridian tapping process for healing, Emotional Freedom Technique, (EFT) in 1990, came many tapping enhancements now known as Meridian Tapping Techniques (MTT). This 12 hour course introduces you to the most influential of these and shows you how these processes can enrich your EFT experience with greater and often faster healing. Included in this course is a review of the EFT process and how EFT evolved into MTT. It shows you, through written exercises, how to properly formulate set-up phrases for Patricia Carrington's popular "Choices Method" and how to use this method to your best advantage. It includes learning to use Fast EFT and Simple EFT and when these processes are more beneficial than the full EFT process. It also includes an introduction to Dr. Daniel J. Benor's WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid EMDR/EFT), a practice that combines EFT with an EMDR-like process. The class concludes with an introduction to Karl Dawson's "ECHO" theory of healing and how it can be used to heal old traumas.
You can also expect a discussion of the many EFT improvements and advances introduced through the years. There will be demonstrations as well as intense hands-on experiences to help solidify your learning. Your instructor, Carolyn S. Rigiero, received her CCHT from HCH and later her EFT-ADV certification through Gary Craig's approved PACE testing. She also has her State of California certification as an EFT and Hypnotherapy Instructor, and now teaches several modules within HCH's Hypnotherapy Course.
Outside of the Hypnotherapy Course, she teaches Deep Hypnosis, as well as other beginning and advanced Meridian Tapping procedures. In 2008 she earned her Stop Smoking Certificate and Past Life Therapy Certificate through HMI in Tarzana, CA.
CHOICE METHOD EFT
This specialized EFT workshop is open to anyone who knows or uses EFT. EFT users and practioners often find that the traditional set-up phrase in EFT, "I completely and profoundly accept/love myself", is inappropriate to the presenting issue, and, in some cases, contrary to reality. And when it is contrary to reality, it brings on "Tail Enders" that users and practitioners are familiar with, such as "Oh, yeah? Do you really believe that?" Dr. Patricia Carrington has found a way to overcome this disadvantage through her empowering "Choices Method". In Choices, you target your set-up statement to your particular issue, rather than make a blanket statement that may not feel right to you.
In this four hour course you will learn the six rules of Choices, why choosing is different and more powerful than the traditional set up phrase, how to formulate the choice phrase that feels right to you for believable and lasting results, the all-purpose phrase that is appropriate in all circumstances, the proper sequence of "tapping" to instill the positive while replacing the negative, how the "Personal Resource State" and Choices go hand in hand and how The Secret and Choices relate.
If you are already a user of EFT, join us! These four hours will not only expand your use of EFT in a more effective way, but may well change how you view yourself within the world!
CE Units available for MFTs, RNs and LCSWs.
TAT BASICS I
The TAT® Basics I class is a 12-hour introduction to TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique®). The focus of the Basics I class is on doing TAT on yourself. This class is open to anyone interested in self-growth and healing as well as clinicians who seek to use TAT as a healing modality in their practice.
TAT is a meridian based Energy Psychology developed by acupuncturist Tapas Fleming in her quest to help heal allergies. TAT can be helpful in resolving trauma, depression, addiction, allergies, limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors, and numerous other issues.
TAT has been the recipient of a 2.1 million dollar grant from the NIH for a research study with Kaiser Permanente for weight loss maintenance. The initial study showed TAT more effective at weight loss maintenance than a support group or qigong. The NIH study involved 500 participants in the Kaiser Permanente system. The work has been completed and the report is due out in a few months. If these findings are consistent with the initial study, TAT could become a standard intervention in conventional medical care and health education.
The TAT pose involves lightly holding points on the head-the third eye, two points on either side of the bridge of the nose and the back of the head. This pose puts attention on the vision, or perception, and can shift the way one sees a "problem." In the pose, one focuses on a problem or situation for which one is seeking healing and then on series of healing steps. Included in the steps are attention to the origin, forgiveness and a choices step for the outcome, among others.
TAT may be considered a "cousin" of EFT. Tapas is featured in a demonstration of TAT in Cary Craig's Becoming the Ultimate Therapist DVD series.
There is a spiritual dimension to TAT which is regularly felt. The third eye is associated with insight and spiritual openings. Many focus on this point in their meditation. Also, the attention to something as a problem, then not a problem collapses the duality with which we often view life. This can open one to a deeper sense of oneness and connectedness with all.
The TAT Basics I class focuses on doing TAT for yourself. The TAT Basics II focuses on doing TAT with others. The TAT Basics classes are part of the requirements for becoming a TAT professional. Other requirements include a repeat of the Basics classes (video or live), a TAT Practicing Presence class, 25 sessions on yourself and 25 sessions on others, review and approval of a TAT Trainer.
The TAT Basics II class is 8 hours. The Basics I class is a prerequisite for Basics II.
TAT BASICS II
The TAT® Basics II is a 8-hour class which focuses on doing TAT with others. The TAT Basics classes are part of becoming a TAT professional. Other requirements include a repeat of the Basics classes (video or live), a TAT Practicing Presence class, 25 sessions on yourself and 25 sessions with others, review and approval of a TAT Trainer
TUITION for 2011 Classes:
| Core Courses for Certification Course | $750 |
| Core Courses if prepaid (tuition is discounted $50) | $700 |
| Materials included in fees | |
| Textbook for Reiki | $20 |
| EFT | $250 |
| Energy Boundaries/Chakra Clearing | $250 |
| Reiki I or Reiki II if taken separately | $125 each |
| Elective Courses are priced Individually | |
| Reiki Master Teacher Training | $200 |
| TAT Basic I | $250 |
| TAT Basic II | $200 |
| Choice Method EFT | $125 |
| Meridian Tapping Techniques | $250 |
| EFT: II | $250 |
| Ask and Receive with EFT | $65 |
| Courses may be taken in any sequence and may be mixed and matched from any scheduled certification program. | |
| Pre-registration is required: | |
| Full Certification/Registration | $750 deposit (Deduct $50 if pre-paid.) |
| Separate course | $50 deposit |
CORE COURSES SCHEDULE Winter/Spring 2013 Core Courses
Reiki I: Tuesdays April 16, 23 6:30PM to 9:30PM
Reiki II Thursdays April 18, 25 1:00pm to 4:00pm
EFT II: Sat/Sun April 27, 28, 10:00am to 5:00pm
Summer 2013 Core Courses
Reiki I: Thursdays May 16, 23 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki I: Thursdays July 25, Aug 1 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki II Thursdays June 20, 27 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki II Thursdays August 22, 29 1:00pm to 4:00pm
EFT: Sat/Sun June 29, 30 10am to 5:00pm
Energy Boundaries/Chakra Clearing: Saturday/Sunday, July 27, 28 10am to 5pm
Fall/Winter 2013 Core Courses
Reiki I: Thursdays September 12, 19 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki I: Thursdays November 7, 14 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki II Thursdays October 10, 17 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Reiki II Thursdays December 12, 19 1:00pm to 4:00pm
2013 ELECTIVE COURSE SCHEDULE
Reiki Master Teacher Training
Friday May 3, 10am to 4pm
EFT II Beyond The Basics
Sat/Sun April 27, 28, 10am to 5pm
YOUR INSTRUCTORS:
Holly Holmes-Meredith, MA, MFT, Master Reiki Teacher, CCHT, Doctrate of Ministry
Holly works with energy healing as an adjunct to her practice in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy. She is the Clinical Director and primary instructor in the hypnotherapy and Reiki Trainings at HCH. Holly has been teaching Reiki for seven years. Holly has been a student and practitioner of EFT since she was introduced to EFT in 1998. Holly combines these energy healing techniques with psychotherapy and hypnotherapy in her private practice.
Greg Harper, PhD, CCHT, EFT-ADV
After receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, Greg was a geology professor for many years, with more than 60 scientific research publications. He has long had interests in human behavior, how reality is affected by beliefs, the true nature of reality as revealed by quantum physics, and enlightenment. Workshops in shamanism, including advanced training with Michael Harner and Alberto Villoldo, revealed the nature of non-ordinary reality experienced during the shamanic state of consciousness. Recognizing a link between shamanic journeys and hypnosis, Greg decided to attend HCH, which has a tradition of incorporating aspects of shamanism into hypnotherapy training. Now he is continuing that tradition by teaching at HCH. Greg is also an EFT specialist and has taught EFT workshops for therapists and for staff at the Omega Institute. He has an active interest in the new Human Givens approach to therapy that is widely used in the U.K. Greg has a private hypnotherapy practice in Berkeley and Lafayette.
Heather Penman, MA, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Heather has been a natural healer her entire life. Helping others has been her profession for over 20 years. However, not until she became a hypnotherapist, when coupled with focused learning via Reiki, did she discover the greater depths of her intuitive abilities.
Channelling her energy has assisted her in "tapping into" the greater wisdom and intuition within, which manifests itself in working with clients in a loving and authentic way.
She believes that by using humor along with developing and creating a place of inner peace, that much can be accomplised. She revels in the wonders and joy in the world around her, and strives to assist others with their own personal quests of personal growth, healing, and intuitive development.
Carolyn Rigiero, Advanced Certification in EFT, CCHT
After a serious illness in 2002, she was introduced to Bio-feedback, which became the bridge to hypnotherapy and EFT. She earned her Clinical Certification in Hypnotherapy from HCH in February 2006. She became a devotee of EFT during a hypnotherapy class after her instructor applied EFT on her to avert a migraine. The results were amazing and she was hooked. She shares this amazing process with her clients at HCH.
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