Events Psychology & Energy Psychology
An Interview with Silvia Hartmann
How is Events Psychology different from Energy Psychology?
What advantages does
Events Psychology confer to a practitioner of Energy Psychology?
Are the
principles of Events Psychology proven, tried and tested?
What impact is Events
Psychology going to have on Energy Psychology?
These and other questions are answered by Silvia Hartmann, the Creator of
EmoTrance and Project Sanctuary, on the eve of the launch of "Events
Psychology".
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Events Psychology & Energy Psychology
Interview with Silvia Hartmann, Designer of Events
Psychology
How is Events Psychology different from Energy Psychology?
Energy Psychology as we know it is a collection of methods and techniques
that work with the human energy body in order to bring about a healing change
for mind, emotions and behaviours.
Working with Energy Psychology, notably EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques and
EmoTrance over the last ten years has shown
up some things about how a human works in mind, body and spirit that were simply
not known before.
Events Psychology offers a new model of how people work so we can understand
ourselves and others better. Events Psychology explains how people are formed
and shaped by the events of their lives and then explains what needs to be done
to heal the past, preserve the present, and plan for a different future.
This is a very structural model that applies to human psychology across the
board and is applicable not just for mind healing, but also for future planning.
Events Psychology is content free, which means that you can treat any kind of
event - good, bad, unknowable and missing - in a structural, successful way.
More than that, Events Psychology is also "method free" which means that ANY
change technique that actually works can be used in the treatment flow to bring
about real events of change, healing, learning and evolution.
Obviously, Events Psychology lends itself particularly well to using Energy
Psychology methods, but it can also be used by those who "don't believe in
energy" or work in a more traditional way with established change methods; this
is very important at this time in order to create a bridge between those who
practice Energy Psychology, and those who don't.
Events Psychology is designed to be that bridge.
What advantages does Events Psychology confer to a practitioner of Energy
Psychology?
Energy Psychology as we know it has suffered from the disadvantage that it
inherited the absence of a cohesive, practical, workable model for human
development, emotion, thought and behaviour from traditional psychology.
This was unavoidable, because without taking the energy system into
consideration, people don't make sense and you can't create a workable theory
for how people actually work.
Therefore, Energy Psychology was used in the the same way as the old
traditional psychology methods were, simply because we didn't have anything
else.
This brought with it naturally significant drawbacks which included:
- a high level of uncertainty in both the practitioner and the client
whether what they're working on is the right thing in the first place,
- if there are ecological concerns and how to deal with those,
- what changes should be sought for the best of the client,
- what the level of rapport and connection between client and practitioner
should be,
- how to structure sessions for the best benefit of the client,
- how fast or how slow to take the changework,
- whether or not to it was beneficial to have the client experience
extreme emotions in the treatment flow,
- being uncertain how to handle various forms of mental and emotional
stress correctly in the treatment flow,
- in which order and sequence to work on which presenting aspect of the
problem group,
- how many sessions were actually needed,
- how to know when the treatment was complete,
- how the actual outcome of the complete treatment would look like,
manifest like,
... and so on and so forth.
That's a lot of uncertainty.
That's a lot of stress.
Events Psychology removes both the uncertainty and the stress and replaces
this with a clear cut model of what we need to do, step by step, to achieve a
breakthrough in healing, change, learning (cognitive changes) and evolution for
the client.
This speeds up the treatments, makes them much more pleasant, gives a
natural, powerful motivational flow to the entire treatment process, brings
powerful, measurable, predictable results and leads to more good feelings for
both client and practitioner all around.
You could say that Events Psychology provides Energy Psychology with the
missing theoretical backbone that takes Energy Psychology to the next level of
its effectiveness.
Are the principles of Events Psychology proven, tried and tested?
That is an interesting question.
Events Psychology is not "a new idea" that now needs to prove itself in
practice.
Events Psychology arose DIRECTLY out of observations made during the practice
of many different Energy Psychology methods over the last ten years.
As people really started to change and gain forward movements in their stuck
problems, we began to understand how change works, how you do change, what
change is all about in the first place.
During this time, many major breakthroughs were achieved on numerous
different fronts, like a jig saw puzzle beginning to come together, one piece at
a time.
And these breakthroughs were tested in the field, with literally hundreds of
thousands of people, more perhaps, in self help, in the client/practitioner
setting, in workshops, in practical settings with actual victims all around the
World.
We are talking numbers of test subjects which have never been seen in any
psychologically motivated clinical trial, ever.
Not only were thousands upon thousands of people from all religions,
upbringings, ages, gender, sexual orientation, race and society involved in the
"reality testing" of Energy Psychology ideas and theories, the range of problems
that were treated with these approaches is equally unheard of in any clinic
trial, and impossible to replicate in a clinic trial setting.
The amount of evidence we have is simply staggering - overwhelming, you might
say.
Events Psychology is THE DIRECT RESULT of taking that data, and putting it
together into a new working model that is based entirely on reality, and on real
living people who do not just have problems, but also dreams, hopes, fears,
goals and ambitions and cannot be treated in isolation as "some psychological
disorder".
To answer the question, the principles of Events Psychology have been tried
and tested for over ten years, can be tested further right now against the
actual life experiences of any individual person, and are very close to being
incontrovertible.
What impact is Events Psychology going to have on Energy Psychology?
Events Psychology represents a coming of age for the many different energy
psychology techniques and approaches.
When Energy Psychology first began, there was a great deal of having to be
very careful, being very apologetic about these "new, untested, and essential
unscientific" methods amongst even the greatest proponents of these new
approaches.
Of course, everyone who practised Energy Psychology found themselves in
unchartered territory, and at the receiving end of a truly remarkable learning
curve, at that.
Simply put, we started off quite nervous, hesitant and shy, and often in a
position of not being able to explain properly "what just happened" - we only
knew it worked, and there was something incredibly important for each one of us
as well as for all humanity to be found here.
Without a proper theoretical framework, things were difficult.
Events Psychology puts and end to this uncertainty.
Energy Psychology practitioners can use the principles of Events Psychology
as a powerful theoretical backbone for their work. This means quite literally
that all who practice Energy Psychology can stop apologizing for what they do
and hold up their heads high as the vanguard of a new way of understanding
people and helping them achieve more exciting, joy filled lives.
After the peer review of Events Psychology by the executive AMT trainers, it
was decided to re-design the MET trainings around the principles of Events
Psychology as it makes the theory and practice of Energy Psychology easier to
explain, faster, more directed and allows the true power of the Energy
Psychology approaches to shine from the word go.
Further, it is important to note that the principles of Events Psychology are
the missing bridge which will bring many more "traditional" psychologists and
other forms of professionals engaged in the field of helping people with
thought, behaviour and emotion directly into Energy Psychology.
This is very much the purpose of publishing Events Psychology in its current
form at this time.
In order to test the validity of the principles of Events Psychology, no leap
of faith of any kind is required.
All a person has to do is to consider the events of their own lives and those
of other people to be able to validate to themselves, right there and then,
whether or not this is simply true.
No amount of 2nd hand authority-endorsement can compete with a single person
having the actual experience of discovering something new and important about
themselves that they never understood before.
This is probably the only practical way to change people's minds and overcome
their preconceptions without fail.
Events Psychology is provable, simple, straightforward and in the end, simply
true. It will not just help alleviate psychological suffering, but also bring
joy into people's lives, and significantly reduce uncertainty and stress for
anyone who knows about it. Events Psychology as a high theoretical model has
further, endless applications for all forms of healing, teaching and learning,
art and science, change and evolution which makes it particularly exciting.
But please do remember that Events Psychology is THE RESULT of what we
learned during our trials, experiments and real life tests with real people
using Energy Psychology methods and approaches all around the world for over ten
years and on a huge array of presenting problems. It is that which makes Events
Psychology so solid, provable, and the paradigm shift it represents.
Silvia Hartmann
Designer,
Events Psychology: How To Understand Yourself And Other People
August 2009
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