Creative Ways Parents, Teachers, and Family Are Bringing EFT to Kids

Before I was an EFT Practitioner, I was a middle school teacher. I had 140 rowdy 6th and 8th grade students outside of Compton Los Angeles.

After one treacherous day with my 8th graders, I sat in my car crying.

What am I supposed to do?

The school I taught at had 98% participation in the free lunch system which means 98% of parents lived below the poverty line. Many of the students I taught walked to school after a night sleeping on the street or would walk “home” to the back seat of a car where they would attempt to write a 5-page paper for my English class.

Balancing Academic Lessons vs. Emotional Lessons

One day I walked into class early. My 8th grader, who we’ll call Jacob, sat slumped at the desk, head in his hands.

“What’s going on” I tried to ask tenderly.

“My uncle died last night,” Jacob said.

“Oh my god.” I wasn;t expecting that answer. “ I’m so sorry. Do you feel like talking about it?”

Jacob explained that his uncle wasn’t part of a gang, but that he got caught in the crossfire a few blocks from school.

Here I was trying to teach metaphors.

I felt like my job was pointless.

But teachers, like parents, have the most important job in the world: To teach kids how to navigate the world.

I didn’t feel like metaphor and sentence structure was the compass that would help this boy.

I hadn’t heard of Tapping yet so all I could do was sit and talk to Jacob for the next ten minutes before the bell rang.

There must be something I could teach these kids alongside English lessons, that could be like emotional lessons.

In an answered prayer, my mom emailed me a YouTube video. It was my first introduction to EFT.

Within minutes I felt less anxious about my classrooms of kids.

Within months, I was boarding a plane to my first EFT workshop. My mission: learn how to bring EFT to the kids in my classroom.

Tutoring & Tapping: My Gateway to Becoming an EFT Practitioner

Tutoring for Homework Resistance: When I flew home I started tutoring for extra money. If a parent started talking about their kids stress or test anxiety, I would tell them about EFT. It became routine for me to tap with kids before the study session, which not only made the homework go much more quickly, but it helped them feel more confident about their answers.

EFT for Test Prep Anxiety: I then volunteered at a local college and hosted a test prep workshop. For one hour I tapped with college kids who were stressing about their final exams.

By the end of the hour they felt so good they were asking how they could tap DURING the test and some even wanted their teachers to let them take the exam early.

One of my favorite things about EFT is that you don’t have to be a therapist to teach it to kids.

EFT in School Districts: I taught a teacher who brought it to her school district. She actually built a business around training principals and staff at school across her state.

EFT for Sports Performance: I taught a baseball coach who taps with his team and then does private sessions with pitchers who want to increase their pitching consistency.

EFT at hospitals: I taught a nurse who would sneakily tap with her patients before and after surgery and a hospice director who wanted to combine tapping with her weekly grief group exercises.

I’ve taught parents who just want to pass it on to their own kids (and save them years of therapy in the future).

Not only is tapping easy to learn and to share but it’s proven effective in multiple arenas.

Proven Results

Classroom test scores are increasing because of EFT.

Bullying rates are dropping.

School satisfaction levels are increasing.

Sports performance is sky rocketing.

Ask yourself:

• If you learned how to tap with kids, who would you share it with first?

• How would you want to share it?

• Would you want to teach it directly to a child, or would you prefer to lead a group? Would you want to teach the teacher?

My intention is that this post has your creative wheels turning.

My other intention is that if you feel called to learn EFT for kids, that I give you an opportunity to do that.

Lifelong Opportunities for Learning

If anxiety, academic pressure, bullying, ADHD, or autism is stealing a child’s peace or confidence, it can stop here. The course tackles real life topics to give each student tangible strategies to practice immediately with kids ranging from infant to teen.

What challenges are the kids in your life facing?

If you want to support the emotional resilience of the next generation, so they can learn to navigate life's unexpected turns, begin course here.

Have questions? Email me at jackie@theeftmasterclass.com

If you are new to EFT, the course comes with my EFT 101 Training that equips you in the EFT essentials.

If you are keen on working with groups or classrooms, you will learn dozens of creative exercises designed specifically for group settings.

The FAQ video portal is always growing the student questions where we dive deeper into nuanced questions and kid-related challenges.

Next Steps

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