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Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes and
Volume 18 Issue 3
In This Issue:
Our First TFT Boot Camp
Trainer in UK
Voice Technology and Optimal
Health in London
Rwanda Trauma Relief
Missions
My Crisis and Home
Treatment Team
New TFT programs,
products and websites!
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Floods – Trauma, Fear, Grief and Pain
The need is so very great, throughout the world for large scale trauma
relief. We painfully watch one natural disaster after another kill 1000’s,
devastate entire regions, and increase health risk for millions. People are
suffering, locked in the vice-like grip of trauma and fear, while faced with
trying to pick up the pieces and move forward with their lives. For many
this task becomes insurmountable.
In addition to the natural disasters, there are man-made disasters and
wars, effecting millions, from the Gulf Oil Spill to the uprisings in the
Middle-East and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the constant threat of
terrorism.
Most of us watch the news with a ever-present underlying and pervasive
fear, “What’s next?, Could it happen to my family?” This fear can become
crippling, destroying our quality of life. Constant fear and stress depress
our immune system, making us more vulnerable to health challenges.
It is becoming more and more vital to have safe, quick, effective self-
help tools that can be applied by the masses.
It is simply impossible - economically, logistically and human resource
wise- for the millions in need to see a professional therapist. TFT can
safely help fill this need for large scale relief from trauma, fear and stress
in our lives. The ATFT Foundation has completed two clinical studies with
follow-up that demonstrate TFT can be effectively learned in a two day
class and shared with fellow countrymen to provide tremendous relief and
much healing. TFT can be quickly and easily self-applied and taught in a
grass roots type of sharing of information.
The ATFT Foundation has created a free trauma relief site, which can be
found at www.TFTTraumaRelief.wordpress.com, that provides self-help
TFT trauma relief procedures in 11 languages, both in video and print,
including American Sign Language.
Also, Our TFT web site, www.RogerCallahan.com provides a free
self-help Stress Guide and video, and our sister Spanish site, located at
www.Terapiadelcampomental.com provides the same free Stress Guide
and video in the Spanish language.
Share these resources with others. If you have friends and family
experiencing stress, trauma, or fear – let them know about these free
resources.
Together, we can make a difference and decrease the tremendous
suffering in the world today. 1
 Meet Our First
TFT Boot Camp Trainer in UK
John Plester, TFT-Adv, RCT
TFT BOOT CAMP AROUND THE WORLD

John is an Advanced Thought Field Therapist and Boot Camp Trainer.

He is a member of the British Thought Field Therapy Association, the
British Complimentary Medicine Association and the Association of
Thought Field Therapy. He originally trained with Ian Graham in 2004
after being introduced to TFT by Paul McKenna and then went on to
do Diagnostic, Trainer Training and Optimal Health with Roger and
Joanne Callahan.

John is also a Meta Master NLP Practitioner and Trainer having trained
extensively with the worlds leading hypnotist
Paul Mckenna and the creator of NLP, Dr
Richard Bandler whom he is personally
recommended by and personally licensed to
train NLP to master level. He has regularly
assisted Paul Mckenna and Dr Richard Bandler on their UK NLP
seminars and is one of the few consultants in the UK to have been
regularly referred clients from Paul Mckenna’s company.

John has run an extensive range of training courses in NLP, Hypnotherapy and TFT in
Norwich for many years and has trained hundreds of therapists in these various disciplines
over the years. He also runs a successful therapy business which was initially set up and
opened by Derren Brown back in 2001 as the Old Palace Centre and Norwich Hypnotherapy
Practice. He also held the position of Principal Tutor at the East Anglian Institute of NLP and
Hypnosis as well as guest training for a number of colleges including the School of Analytical
and Cognitive Hypnotherapy and the College of Contemporary Thereupeutic Studies in
London.

John is proud to have trained with some of the top therapists in the world including Dr Roger
Callahan, Dr Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna, Frank Farrelly, Gil Boyne, Michael Neill and
Robert Holden.

In recent years, he has written the self help therapy book ‘Unleash the
Slim Within’ which Dr Roger Callahan kindly wrote the foreword to and has
appeared on the BBC’s ‘Make my Body Younger’ programme helping a binge
eater to stop. He is currently completing his second book to accompany his
programmes ‘Unleash the Freedom Within’ which has been designed to create
an integrated formula for change using NLP, TFT and Hypnosis.

In addition to running TFT Boot Camps, he also runs NLP and Hypnosis Boot Camps, again
intensively training the best of the best of each of these disciplines. Uniquely, he also runs
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tailored one to one training in NLP, TFT, Hypnosis and Coaching which are also available as group
trainings on location by request.

Full details of all his training programmes can be found as his training website:

www.johnplestertraining.co.uk

John also provides an integrated therapy/ coaching service by telephone or online via Skype using
TFT Voice Technology, NLP Coaching and the state-of-the-art ‘Inner Space Series™’ hypnotic audio
programmes. Full details of these programmes can be found at his website: www.johnplester.com

What Dr Roger Callahan says about John Plester and his book

John’s ‘Unleash the Slim Within’ book is both innovative in style and content. John
blends humour and straight-talking common sense with the latest psychological
approaches in such a way as to create a powerful resource for change.

John uniquely goes a step further in his programme by providing an integrated

support package, which is available worldwide, using my most accurate discovery of
Voice Technology™ to identify individual energy toxins and help people overcome the
inevitable emotional baggage that is often in the background of any problem.

Furthermore, John has integrated one of the key solutions to psychological reversal in most of the
exercises and techniques. This is a reversed electrical polarity in the body that blocks natural healing
and psychological treatment. I believe the existence of psychological reversal is probably my most
important scientific discovery.
I highly recommend that you follow his book and programme as it is intended, as I have no doubt it
will be an invaluable resource in your quest to change!’

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 TFT Voice Technology and Optimal Health
in London – A Truly International Group
By Joanne Callahan, MBA
I have just returned from London where I had the privilege of teaching our Optimal Health and
TFT Voice Technology to a wonderful group of individuals from around the world. We had
practitioners from Saudi Arabia, France, UK, Sweden, Canada and the USA. They shared
a broad set of interests and skills, from medicine and mental health to music and business
development and sales, each with different ways they will be helping others with this powerful
tool.
TFT AROUND THE WORLD

The most exciting part of the class for me is always when each participant successfully works
with their very first client using TFT Voice Technology. They each were required to work with
at least two clients, in class. The excitement and results were shared by the whole group.
Each participant successfully helped the people they worked with, some in France, some
in Sweden, and others in the UK. One of the class members was even able to bring great
emotional relief to a hospitalized family member throughout the weekend.
Our class worked in many languages, French, Arabic, Swedish, Egyptian, and English,
across a culturally diverse group. This class was a particularly good example of how
TFT works across gender, culture and age to begin a healing process.
I wanted to share some of their comments (click below to view the videos):

ACEP Conference:

Dr. Callahan and I are off to the ACEP (Association for

Comprehensive Energy) Conference and hope many of
you will join us. The conference is set to be an inspiring
and educational event and we will be making an exciting
announcement Saturday night during the banquet.

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 ATFT Foundation’s Rwanda Trauma Relief
Missions Come Full Circle
For the past five years, the ATFT Foundation has sent teams of TFT practitioners to Rwanda to treat and
train Rwandan genocide survivors in using TFT. At the Izere Center in Byumba, a TFT treatment center
office was recently opened. It treats about 30 people a day, two days a week.
These teams, and the research they have completed, have demonstrated TFT to be effective in the
treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with adults and adolescents, including recently
completed randomized controlled studies with genocide survivors in Rwanda. It has also been helpful
with anxiety, anger, phobia, rage, excessive guilt, grief, depression, addictive urges, and chronic pain
management. 1,2
The ATFT Foundation helped to form and staff the IZERE Center (Peace and Reconciliation) in Byumba,
TFT AROUND THE WORLD

Rwanda, where over 2000 trauma sufferers have been helped. However, there are still hundreds of
thousands of yet untreated genocide survivors who suffer from PTSD in Rwanda. The Rwandan TFT
practitioners and leaders need to be trained as TFT trainers so they can train others to use TFT in their
homeland.
In September 2011, ATFT Foundation will bring three Rwandan TFT practitioners from Byumba and
Kigali to Hawaii for a month of intense training. They will review TFT their skills and learn to train others
to use it. As part of their training, the Rwandans will train TFT skills to 16-20 trainees from local pro-bono
Hawaiian clinics. And, they all will also be trained on recognizing and addressing high-risk situations
(e.g., substance abuse, trauma, mood disorders, suicidal risks).
Under the supervision of the Rwandan trainers, the new trainees will then practice their skills in clinics at
their agencies with the people that they serve. Supervision of the Rwandan trainers will be provided by
TFT practitioners in Hawaii who are also licensed psychotherapists. We hope to work at least two days
at each site.
ATFT Foundation, together with the help of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Hawaii, the local Catholic
Diocese, and other supporters, will ensure all of these trainings and clinics will be provided free of
charge. The Rwandans, who have been given the gift of healing with TFT, will share that gift with those in
need, in Hawaii. Our trauma relief will be going full circle, and back to Rwanda to begin anew, spreading
healing to surrounding regions and other African nations.
What are the benefits of this program?
1) Rwandans moving to self-sufficiency in continuing to train, treat and follow-up on their TFT treatments
of wide-scale trauma, and empowered to expand geometrically the benefits of TFT across Rwanda and
to neighboring countries.
2) Free treatment for the homeless, people in recovery and many others who do not have access or the
means to obtain treatment.
3) Locally trained TFT practitioners prepared to work with the people with high needs and limited
resources in Hawaii.
We are asking for support in order that all participating free clinics can help provide water, lunch for the
Rwandans and trainees, and water and light snacks for the clients. You can share in this expanding
circle of healing with your donation to ATFT Foundation, www.ATFTFoundation.org.

1 Sakai, C., Paperny, D., Mathews, M., Tanida, G., Boyd, G., Simons, A., Yamamoto, C., Mau, C., & Nitter, L. (2001).
Thought field therapy clinical applications: Utilization in an HMO in behavioral medicine and behavioral health services.
J Clin Psychol, 57(10), pp. 1215-1227.
2 Sakai, C., Connolly, S.M., & Oas, P. (Winter 2010). Treatment of PTSD in Rwandan child genocide survivors
using thought field therapy. Int J Emergency Mental Health, 12(1), ISSN: 1522-4821, pp 41-49.

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 T F T C A S E H I S TO R I E S I N B R I E F
From TFT Boot Camp to National Health Services and
My Crisis and Home Treatment Team
by Judith Carhart
I was first introduced to TFT about 7 years ago when I received a successful treatment from a friend
for a severe dentist phobia. Unfortunately for the next few years it fell to the back of my mind.
It wasn’t until September 2010 that TFT came back in to my life. I was looking to choose a topic for
my dissertation, and was determined that I didn’t want to do the usual boring mental health nursing
topic. So I thought, why not look at TFT. It gave me a great opportunity to look in to the research
evidence and see for myself whether it would be something worth considering integrating in to my
own practice.
I am a community Mental Health Nurse working in the NHS as part of a Crisis and Home treatment
team. We assess and treat individuals with a range of acute mental health problems who are in severe
psychological distress. The care we provide is over a short period of time but very intensive with
individuals usually being seen daily. A number of traditional psychological and medical interventions
are used by practitioners within the team but due to the short term nature of our involvement we mainly
manage the acute risk and only begin the therapeutic work before referring patients on to other more
long term community services.
I find TFT amazing! Certainly in mental health practice I can think of no other intervention that can
offer such safe, rapid and dramatic results. At the very least, if it doesn’t work you know straight away
so you could begin to use the more traditional approaches that would have been used any way.
What I find most helpful about TFT, is that the technique can be taught to patients for them to use
longer term as a self help tool. After reading and studying the research and evidence base for TFT I
was confident that it would be a worthy addition to the treatments available in the team. However as
it isn’t a mainstream treatment in the NHS I was very anxious about how I should broach the subject
to my manager. I contacted Joanne Callahan for her advice, and am very grateful that she put me in
touch with an amazing lady called Phyll Robson (TFT Adv), board member and officer for the ATFT
Foundation, UK. (See separate article about foundation support in ATFT UPdate.)
Phyll was a breath of fresh air. She told me how she had successfully utilised TFT in her practice as
a nurse in the NHS. Not only successfully integrating TFT in to a busy maternity department but also
initiating the majority of the midwives being trained in TFT. Hearing about Phyll’s experience made
me much more confident about broaching the subject with my manager. It also gave me the drive to
go ahead and complete the training.
I attended John Plester’s Boot Camp Training in Norwich in March 2011. I chose boot camp as
I thought this would be the easiest and quickest way to qualify up to diagnostic level. I wasn’t
disappointed! I found the course very interesting and enjoyable. What was also invaluable was the
self study part of the course which includes DVDs with lots of treatment examples to watch as often
as needed to help cement classroom learning.
Following the training I started to work on people I knew offering free help with phobias, stress and
pain. However my real reason for wanting to learn TFT was to be able to integrate it into my nursing
practice. As I have already mentioned TFT is not yet recognised as a mainstream treatment. It is
however recognised as a complimentary therapy by the NHS Trust Foundation. As nurses are actively
encouraged to utilise complementary therapies within their work, I knew this would be the route to go
down when discussing with management.
On speaking to my manager she was very interested and positive about me practicing TFT as
were her line manager and the team’s psychiatrist, although they all wanted more information first.
Phyll kindly offered to come to do a talk with the crisis team about TFT and their experiences of
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integrating it in to the NHS. As we live quite a distance away we decided it would also be a great
opportunity to help me practice my diagnostic skills under her supervision.
I knew first and foremost I wanted to get staff on board so what better way than to provide a drop in
where hospital staff could come along and receive free TFT treatment for pain, stress, and phobias.
Just as importantly this would also provide the means for me to practice my skills under Phyll’s
professional supervision. We arranged an afternoon with time for a presentation and a 2 hour time
slot for the drop. I sent flyers around the hospital advertising the sessions. On the day both Phyll and
her husband, Dr. Howard Robson (TFT Adv) who is also a retired Cardiologist, came along. We
had a great response and managed to work with a number of people with problems such as physical
pain, stress and phobias. The treatments had great success. We found staff were very interested and
enthusiastic about what we were doing. Hopefully as a result of this we have some good links in to
working alongside other departments and possibly even the local maternity hospital.
Following the drop in session Phyll did an hour long presentation to the staff in the Crisis team. The
session was very well received. I have received very positive feedback from both the staff treatment
sessions and the ongoing work I have been doing with patients.
Along with the positive results, my TFT journey hasn’t always run smoothly. A Crisis team is faced
with many situations and I have come across some when I have struggled and felt out of my depth.
My mentors were invaluable.
I can imagine that lack of supervision for some new practitioners could lead to feeling disillusioned
and worst case scenario giving up. Luckily I have had Phyll at the other end of the phone or via email
to talk things through and make suggestions. As a new practitioner myself, this highlights the value
of ongoing support and supervision for practitioners. Coming from a nursing background clinical
supervision is part of daily practice it is also a professional requirement. Who will be supervising you?
This was actually one of the first questions my manager said to me when I told her about wanting to
practice TFT.
In closing I would love to hear from people about their suggestions regarding how we can build up our
TFT supervision network. I am also keen to hear from anyone who is using or thinking about using
TFT in the NHS. It would be great to hear your experiences, so we can share ideas, help support each
other.
Finally, I would like to say a big thanks to everyone who has been part of my TFT journey to date.
From John Plester and the people at my boot camp, and to Phyll and Howard Robson who have been a
godsend to me. I would especially like to say thank you to Joanne Callahan who put me in touch with
Phyll in the first place and Colin Baron who has also been available on the end of the phone for advice.
Finally I would like to say thank you to Roger Callahan who without his amazing journey of discovery
all of our lives would have been very different.
Note: For further details on support and supervision in the UK – contact Phyll Robson at r.robson2@
btinternet.com

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 N e w To T h o u g h t F i e l d T h e r a p y
Tapping into the Soul
New TFT Workshop - Aug 27-28, 2011
We’re excited to announce a new workshop, “Tapping into the Soul”. TFT’s significant impact on the
spirit and evolution of individuals and communities has become increasingly obvious. This two-day
workshop is intended to teach the basics of TFT, including objective self-testing, with this specific
focus to as many people as possible. 

Mary Cowley, PhD, TFT-VT, has developed the course after several years of testing for information
not only from the local thought field, but also from the unified field of Consciousness, where all
information is held. 

We’ll be teaching what Mary calls “resonance testing” as it demonstrates whether or not something
resonates with our own life force, thereby giving us the opportunity to make life-enhancing choices
that support and empower our lives and deepest desires. We’ll be exploring and practicing how to
test what things-- ideas, books, movies, music, people, classes to take, philosophies to study, and
more--are for your highest good and the life you want to live. Open yourself to a whole new world of
possibility and transformation by joining us in San Diego in August. 

To register your interest in this class, please email me, joanne@tftrx.com or Mary Cowley, drmary@
thecel.com

Our New Spanish Web Site: www.TerapiaDelCampoMental.com

As TFT spreads around the world, the need for our free tapping guides and materials in other
languages is growing. Trauma, fear and stress seem to be increasing exponentially, worldwide and
we have had many requests to provide help in other languages.
Tapping the Healer Within is in 13 languages, including Spanish. One of the earliest translations of
our training materials was in Spanish, and we
have many Spanish speaking practitioners in
Mexico and the US. We thought it only fitting
that our first web site translation be into the
Spanish language.
We launched this site in early May and have
already had 100’s of visitors and people
downloading our free Stress Guide in
Spanish. Our stress tapping video has also
been translated and is already providing many
with stress relief. We have new guides and
products to follow.
If you have friends or family whose first
language is Spanish, be sure to let them know
about Terapia Del Campo Mental – our new
site and watch for our growth and expansion.
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 NEW: Sensitivities & Toxins 1-Day Class Introducing:
Personalized 30-Minute
TFT Tapping Sessions.
An easy and affordable way to get
private help. We’ve set aside a
limited number
of sessions to
work privately
with those who
want to get a
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How much better could you feel everyday, if you could avoid eating consultation.
things that make you feel bad, or, neutralize them when you eat them? In this private
What if you could eliminate negative feelings and self-sabotage when
session, Joanne Callahan will lead
they start, or even before they happen?
you through the individual tapping
The number 1 question we have been asked over the last three decades
of TFT’s development and training is: How can I identify my psychological sequences for your specific
reversals and toxins my self? Or, how can I treat myself? challenge or problems.
So, we have created an all new, one-day course to do just that.
Learn to identify and self-treat the two biggest obstacles to our Click here for more details.
health and success... Click here to find out more.

The Boot Camp combines thebasics of TFT Algo and the full TFT Dx
training into a 2-day course, saving you both time and money.
This Boot Camp is hands-on training, practice and live demonstrations. Attendees have the chance to
work on personal issues and many experience resolution of these issues during the weekend. Attendees
receive all the materials included in the Diagnostic Training Step A and B. This material allows you to
diagnose, i.e., determine the precise sequence of tapping required, to quickly help most psychological
problems and daily stresses.
CE’s are also available.

Join us at a TFT Boot Camp Near You

Click Here For More Information

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THE THOUGHT FIELD
© 2011 Callahan Techniques, Ltd.
PO Box 1220
La Quinta, California 92247

TFT NEWSLETTER STAFF:

Editor: Roger J Callahan, PhD
Co-Editor: Joanne M. Callahan, MBA
Publisher: Joanne M. Callahan, MBA

Contributors:
Joanne Callahan
Judith Carhart

Submission Information:
Our intention is to publish the
newsletter four times per year.
Articles for submission can be
sent to: Joanne Callahan
PO Box 1220 La Quinta,
California 92247 or
by email to info@tftrx.com

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