Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, and Caroline Sakai, PhD, have lead several ATFT Foundation teams to Rwanda over the last 3 years for the purpose of developing a model for treating trauma after large-scale disasters. In the following 2 videos, Ms. Connolly tells the story of their August 2009 mission to Northern Rwanda where they used TFT to help hundreds of people traumatized by the genocide, trained over 30 community leaders who returned to their communities to continue the trauma relief work, and conducted a random controlled study to help refine the model for future missions.
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TFT Eliminates Trauma from War in Kosovo
This clip from “The Living Matrix” shows Lynne McTaggart, author of “The Field” and “The Intention Experiment”, talking about TFT’s ability to transform the lives of survivors of the war in Kosovo:
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TFT Aids Man in Coma from Severe Beating
TFT trainer and retired fireman Bruce Ramsay describes how a doctor attributed a 60% reduction in seizures experienced by traumatized man in a coma to the TFT trauma relief technique:
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TFT Relieves 11-Year-Old Boy of Trauma & Shame
TFT even works with people who don’t want to reveal what their upset is about, as Dr. Theresa Gormly, chiropractor, demonstrates in the following story:
I had such a great experience with TFT today with an 11 year old who was very depressed and crying all the time according to his mom. He was begging her not to tell me about his shame related to seeing a sexually explicit picture on the internet. Anyway I told him just to think of the experience (without telling me what it was about) and we tapped it out. Evidently before treating him he was preoccupied with thoughts about it and had alot of shame around it.
He transformed before our eyes. At the end I asked him to think about it and he couldn’t get it to come to mind. He hugged me and his mom and kept saying “thank you”. After I treated his mom I went into the waiting room to say “good-bye” and he looked at me and said “I still can’t think about it” with a “thumbs up”. So nice!
TFT Eliminates Terror from Armed Robbery
Carl Totton, licensed clinical & educational psychologist, describes 2 separate cases of completely eliminating the overwhelming terror experienced by teenage boys from having guns held to their heads:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74oaSf-UCYE&rel=0]
TFT Relieves Trauma of At-Risk Teenage Boys
Christina Mayhew, TFT-Adv, shares how she used TFT to relieve the trauma of troubled and at-risk teenage boys:
A couple months ago I was asked to present Thought Field Therapy to 16 boys at a local home for troubled and at risk youth. These boys ranged in age from 16 to 21 years old and this was the last stop before going to a youth detention center or to another foster care.
Some of the boys came from some really rough neighborhoods. Others were in trouble with the law for various things or their home life was incredibly negative or dangerous for them.
During the day the boys were in a work program teaching them about construction and then in the afternoon and a couple evenings, they would attend school. The other two evenings were spent with different programs learning ways to deal with their anger, frustration, social skills, etc.
The new social worker was a friend of mine and when I introduced her to TFT, she couldn’t wait to have me come work with the boys. We set aside a night for me to teach them and the other social worker TFT.
Knowing most of them suffered some type of trauma and were angry and may have guilt, I decided to concentrate on the Trauma with anger and guilt sequence. [Note: this is the TFT trauma relief technique]
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I arrived. Sixteen boys in a circle with their heads hung low and looking angry to be there. Continue reading “TFT Relieves Trauma of At-Risk Teenage Boys”