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A Level 3 Advanced EFT course was run in Bury St. Edmunds for six of our therapists and nurses from St. Elizabeth, St. Helena, St. Luke and St. Nicholas hospices and the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre. The course, delivered by iEft of London, ran for two days, was very well received by the students and will allow them to expand their expertise for the ultimate benefit of their patients. It was very good to hear how well EFT is working around the hospices and in some cases, with spectacular results.

Thanks again to the attendees for their hard work and enthusiasm, to Sue and Emma for their excellent teaching and to Julie Parrott for her organisation of the venue in Bury St. Edmunds.

We joined St. Luke’s Head of Care Deb Hickie, Quality & Education Liaison Officer Jean Evans and CEO Eileen Marshall, lecturer Jane Wigg and 9 very enthusiastic course delegates from St. Luke’s and St. Elizabeth’s hospices and St. Peter’s Hospital half way through the course.

The delegates were finding the combination of theory and practice interesting, informative and also hard work! They had high praise for lecturer Jane Wigg from Leduc UK, who is also Clinical Innovations Manager for Haddenham Healthcare, and the St. Luke’s hospitality. We very much look forward to receiving the students course critiques.

Deb Hickie had also arranged for us to meet Helen Carnell, a child counsellor who had attended the January EFT course held at St. Nicholas’ Hospice. She was able to show us ‘Tappy Bear’ – bought for work with children and to tell us of the success she was having using EFT.

We thought once again how amazed and delighted Nancy would have been with the way the Trust is enabling her dream.

We are particularly pleased to report on this event as it achieved so much more that the original aims. The Trust now has contact with six hospices or hospitals in Essex and Suffolk and we are always overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and dedication of the staff and volunteers we meet there. We felt strongly that they would enjoy and benefit from sharing their experiences, knowledge and needs with one another and this has been the case with the participants on this first shared Trust course. Nancy would have been delighted.

The following is an extract from feedback received from our own Julie Parrott who was also one of the course delegates.

“The first trust funded Emotional Freedom Technique course was held from 11th - 13th of January at St Nicholas Hospice in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, taught by Emma Roberts and Sue Beer, EFT masters from the iEFT centre in London. Seventeen people attended, from St Nicholas, St Helena Hospice in Colchester, Helen Rollason Centre in Chelmsford, St Luke’s in Basildon and St.Peter’s Hospital, Maldon. The attendees included nurses, counsellors, complementary therapists and psychotherapists.

All participants gained their Level 1 practitioner certificates, and will be awarded Level 2 following completion of the requisite case studies.

All are keen to use this versatile technique as an extra tool to improve patients' and their families experience and were able to learn how this can be used for their own self care and stress relief, and for their colleagues working at the hospices.

A follow up session has been arranged for the evening of 23rd February, to help to consolidate the learning, to provide an opportunity for extra practice, and to share experiences, and it is hoped that Sue and Emma will return in April to give a day's supervision and mentoring.

Thanks to the attendees for their hard work, enthusiasm, and for giving their time, to Sue and Emma for their excellent teaching, to Rachel Brown for her organisation of the venue, and to the staff at St Nicholas for making everybody so welcome.

August 2010

Julie Parrott, representing the Trust presented an introduction to EFT and a demonstration of its use to 27 health practitioners at St. Helena’s Hospice, Colchester. The event went extremely well with lots of interest from the staff.

September 2010

Our major news item is that in collaboration with the St. Nicholas Hospice, Bury St. Edmunds we are running a three day combined Level 1 and Level 2 EFT training course for 20 hospice or hospital staff in January 2011.

St. Nicholas Hospice is providing the training facilities and The Nancy Salmon Trust is providing the funding. The training itself is being provided by The iEFT Centre, London, a leading EFT school and its web site can be found at http://www.theeftcentre.com/home. The 20 places will be filled by health practitioners from St. Nicholas Hospice itself and from other hospices in Essex.

This is a most exciting development for us to be able to increase the availability of EFT so dramatically in our area. Nancy would have been really amazed at such a development and we are thrilled.

Wonderful donations are still coming in and we continue to make significant progress on MLD practitioner training.

Geoff Bowen is now practising MLD at The Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre

in Chelmsford and is delighted that the Trust has helped to enable him to offer

this valuable service to lymphoedema sufferers.

It is necessary from time to time for MLD practitioners to receive update training and that has been the case for Sara Percival at St. Helena’s Hospice, and the Trust has funded that advanced and update training.

We have made a new contact at St. Luke’s Hospice in Basildon. It is further south in Essex but this small hospice does amazing work and we as trustees know that Nancy would have strongly approved of our assisting here with MLD training and quite possibly EFT later in the year.

We continue to make ‘gentle’ progress with EFT and hope to provide funding for some training of staff at both St. Luke’s, Basildon and at The Helen Rollason Centre, Chelmsford. Julie Parrott is expecting to offer some introductions to this therapy at both of these centres before we commit to funding formal practitioner training.