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Basic Training In The Tapas Accupressure Technique®

TAT Certification Program

Lasting Weight Loss group

Transforming Trauma, Complicated Trauma and Dissociation with Multiple Body/Mind Modalities: A Developmental Approach

      


  Basic Training in the Tapas Accupressure Technique®

Level One



          Date: Sunday October 31 and Sunday November 7, 2010
Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Place: The LifeWorks Center

          Investment: $279 before October 15, 2010; $299 after


 The Tapas Accupressure Technique is an easy to learn self-help technique that reduces stress,
including traumatic stress, from the body and the mind. It is profound and life changing.

In this workshop you will learn the basics to use THE TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUE (TAT) to:

  • Heal Traumatic Stress; Eliminate Allergies; Transform your relationship with money and success.

  • Transform your relationship with your body; Help children and animals, Enhance your spiritual connection.

  • Watch demos & do practicums to become comfortable using TAT.

  • Experience the peace that TAT can bring.

  • For those who are interested in pursuing using TAT professionaly with others, it is necessary to become a Certified Professional in TAT. This basic training is the first step. An additional certification course is beginning on November 21, 2010. It will include 4 days of training meeting once every 3 to 4 weeks. In addition, Tapas Fleming will offer the Practicing Presence Workshop as a webinar at some point during the 3 month period. For more information about the requirements to become a Certified Professional from TATlife, click here.

 

Patricia Thatcher, the workshop leader, is a licensed, clinical social worker
with over 25 years of experience.  She specializes in the use of mind/body techniques
including TAT, EMDR, TFT & Hypnosis to help you transform your life for positive outcomes. 
She has had extensive training with Tapas Fleming, the originator of the
Tapas Acupressure Technique and has been offering training workshops since 1999.

          

  •  This workshop is appropriate for anyone over the age of 16.  All Professionals will find it useful.
  •  12 Continuing Education Credits applied for, for social workers, mental health counselors, nurses, & acupuncturists for an additional $20 fee.

Investment of $279 includes registration with TAT Life

For More Information contact:  Patricia Thatcher, MSW 617-661-1277 or email patthatch@thelifeworkscenter.com


To Register via check :  Send $279 before 10/15/10 or $299 after 10/15/10 (checks made out to Patricia Thatcher, MSW) and the following registration form (copy and paste into Word or similar) to:

The LifeWorks Center                                   
50 Dudley St.

Cambridge
, Ma  02140 

 

 

NAME:_____________________________________________

 

Professional Letters:___________________________________

 

Address:___________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________

 

Phone:______________________  email:_________________________

 

Please send lodging information:_________________


CEUs ($20 extra)           Yes [ ]       No [ ]


CEUs must be paid via check or in cash on day of workshop.


To register via credit card, please select the option you desire from the dropdown list below and click Buy Now once you have made your decision. Please note that this pays in full immediately.


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Directions and other information will be sent once registration is received.



Certification Program to Become a TAT Professional
Level Two


TATLife’s Certification Program exists for anyone who would like to learn TAT® according to the
standards set by Tapas Fleming, originator of TAT. It includes a set of skills and the demonstration of
having learned essential information that will enable you to effectively deliver our standard of care to clients. TATLife is the only certifying body for TAT. (text © TATLife website)

Please click here to read more about becoming certified as a TAT Professional.
This program will offer you the opportunity to complete all the steps required to become certified. 
You can enter at the beginning with the Basic Level 1 training or if you have already completed
a Level 1 workshop you can enter into the Level II training.

You must be registered in the certification program with TATLife to enter Level II.

This program will provide you four additional training days to complete TATLife Requirements
plus Practicing Presence Workshop with Tapas Fleming.

Day 1 (Sunday, November 21, 9am - 4pm):
 

Basic Training Level 2: Utilizing TAT with Others

Working in the large group, dyads & triads you will gain a better understanding of the Steps and how to guide someone through the 9 Step TAT process.
Being successful, stopper thoughts and beliefs about becoming a TAT Certified Professional.
View films & demos of Tapas & others guiding TAT.
Essentials for setting up the problem statement and the opposite condition.
Understanding Storage places & Origins.
Importance of staying present.
Utilizing TAT with specific conditions ie:  allergies & medical conditions, trauma, weight issues.
Review of documentation of material for certification.
Review of the Essential Points (1-7).


Day 2 (Saturday, December 11, 9am - 4pm):

Becoming more experienced and comfortable guiding others

How to handle various problem situations.
Bundling issues in problem statements.
Having conversations, grief & loss.
The Forgiveness Steps.
Mentor observation of practitioner guiding TAT in groups, in dyads & triads.
3 Step TAT.
Review of the Essential Points (8-14).
TAT with specific conditions i.e. working with children, animals.
Viewing other films.


Day 3 (Sunday, January 9, 2011, 9am - 4pm): 

Becoming more proficient in guiding TAT

More on TAT with specific conditions including complicated trauma, parts & dissociation, addictions.
The Parts Step, anything left, the  “I choose statement” and final integration.
Mentor observation of practitioner guiding the TAT in groups, in dyads & triads.
Review of the Essential points (15 – 20).
Reviewing Case Studies & documentation of TAT with self, others, buddies.


Day 4 (Saturday, February 5, 2011, 9am - 4pm):

Completing the Program

TAT with specific conditions – attached beings.
Ethical considerations.
Recognizing when you are in over your head.
Creating a referral support community.
Complete the observation of guiding TAT.
Complete review of written material.
Anything left.


Practicing Presence with Tapas Fleming Webinar :
Seven 90 minute sessions with Tapas guiding you through the process via the internet.
This will probably be held in the evenings although a daytime could be arranged.
It will be 4 times the first week and 3 times the second or vice versa.
Time and date to be determined.
It is necessary to complete a Practicing Presence course with Tapas to receive certification.

Homework
includes:

Reading Professionals Manual.
Answer the Essential Points Questions.
Document doing TAT 25 times on yourself.
Document doing TAT 25 times on others.
Document doing TAT 15 times with a buddy.
Complete 2 case studies on sessions with others
Listen to TAT with Weight loss, read the manual
Review other DVDs, audio and written materials from TATLife.
Review ethical guidelines

List of costs:
1. Basic Training October 2010: $279
(to LifeWorks Center)
2. Level Two Certification Course (4 days): $575 (to LifeWorks Center)
3. Registration with TATlife for certification: $55 (to TATlife)
4. Practicing Presence paid to TATlife: $~300 (price not final)
5. Membership fee after certification: $150 (to TATlife)
6. Materials fee: TBA
7. 24 CEUs extra cost: $20

For More Information contact:  Patricia Thatcher, MSW 617-661-1277 or email patthatch@thelifeworkscenter.com

Early Bird registration: register and pay in full before November 07, 2010 and receive $25 off.

Register for BOTH TAT Basics (Level One) and Certification Course (Level Two) and pay in full by October 15, 2010 and receive $40 off.

Payment plan: Send a deposit of $125 before November 7, 2010, followed by the remaining balance in three easy payments of $150 by January 28, 2011 (checks made out to Patricia Thatcher, MSW) and the following registration form (copy and paste into Word or similar) to:
The LifeWorks Center                                   

50 Dudley St.

Cambridge
, Ma  02140 

 

 

NAME:_____________________________________________

 

Professional Letters:___________________________________

 

Address:___________________________________________________________

 

__________________________________________________________________

 

Phone:______________________  email:_________________________

 

Please send lodging information:_________________


24 CEUs ($20 extra)           Yes [ ]       No [ ]


Date of Basic Training: _____________________


Name of Trainer: _________________________


I have registered with TATlife for certification as a TAT Professional    
Yes [ ]       No [ ]

I am registering for:
[ ] Level One Early ($279 before 10/15/10)    [ ] Level One Regular ($299 after 10/15/10)

[ ] Level Two Early ($550 before 11/07/10)    [ ] Level Two Regular ($575 after 11/07/10)

[ ] Both workshops Early ($814 before 10/15/10, save $70!)

Payment plan: Send a deposit of $125 before October 31, 2010, followed by the remaining balance in three easy payments of $150 by January 28, 2011 (checks made out to Patricia Thatcher, MSW).

Planned dates of payments: 1. ___________     2.____________     3.____________





CEUs must be paid via check or in cash on day of workshop.


To register via credit card, please select the option you desire from the dropdown list below and click Buy Now once you have made your decision. Please note that this pays in full immediately.

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  Lasting Weight Loss: Lifetime Results

                   Dates: Begins Winter 2011 for 12 weeks

                   Cost: $60/session ($720 for all 12 sessions)

                   Location: The Lifeworks Center, 50 Dudley St, Cambridge, MA 02140

                   Preliminary interview required, cost: $125

                   CEUs possible for social workers

 

You’ve tried every diet and the weight still creeps back on.  You know what to do but can’t make yourself do it anymore.  The guilt is “eating away” at you.  Isn’t it time to look at an alternative to yo-yo dieting?  Don’t go through this alone.

 

 

We’ve been helping people successfully change their relationship with food and keep off the weight using The Tapas Acupressure Technique.

A Stunning Fact

Successful weight loss is measured by two years of maintenance.  Before the two year mark, most people regain even more weight than was originally lost despite the best of intentions and the diet followed.

 

Long term weight loss happens out of a reflective and non-judgmental process; not the imposition of your will to lose weight over your desire to eat.  Freeing yourself from the tyranny of binge-eating/dieting rituals entails unraveling the dynamics of your issues and being able to self-soothe without using food.  And it is possible.

 

A Solution

In 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded a study with scientists from Kaiser Permanente.  They compared The Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) with two other approaches for weight loss maintenance; the traditional approach of cognitive-behavioral advice/support and Qi Gong, a martial art.  Each group was given 10 hours of instruction. In the three-month period of the study, the group doing TAT regained no weight whereas the other groups both gained weight.  After the program ended, the TAT group regained less than one pound, whereas the other groups gained back six times as much.  The results were published in Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 10.28-39.  There were no adverse effects of TAT.  Kaiser Permanente has since been awarded a larger grant to further study the impact of the Tapas Acupressure Technique and weight loss maintenance.

 

Tapas Acupressure TechniqueR

TAT is a self-administered mind/body approach to restructuring the neuro-pathways that have been damaged by repeated stress.  It is a combination of placing your attention on whatever the issue is and holding a few specific acupressure points around your eyes and at the back of your head — that’s it!

 

TAT For LASTING WEIGHT LOSS GROUP

a 12-week group with life-time benefits

 

  • Learn to work with the core issues that keep you stuck in overeating, and being overweight
  • Heal the past incidents, anger, shame, hurt and other emotions as well as beliefs that shackle you to weight issues
  • Reduce cravings
  • Perform a powerful guided meditation/visualization that deeply connects you with your essential beauty and perfection, clearing the way for the vision of yourself to become a reality.

 

TAT has been proven to be the best method for weight loss maintenance.

  

Additional Benefits

  •   Reduce or eliminate chronic aches, pains and/or illness.
  •   Increase your energy.
  •   Relieve effects of past traumas.
  •   Reduce anxiety.
  •   Have more fun and joy.

        With TAT for Weight Loss Maintenance, you replace the defeat of yo-yo dieting with long-term success so that you no longer impose your will over your desire to over eat.  Instead, you learn to listen to your inner wisdom, develop your ability to make empowering choices and be peaceful within yourself; a process that has a deep and life-time impact on the quality of your life.

 "I always regarded eating as a symptom rather than the problem, so my much improved eating and weight loss reflects overall stress management."   - Elizabeth


"I'm much more in control of feelings, food, and life."   -Linda


Please contact a group facilitator to schedule an initial interview.

 

Group facilitators


Patricia Thatcher, LICSW       (617) 661-1277  or patthatch@thelifeworkscenter.com

 

Beth Rontal, LICSW      (617) 522-6611 or bethrontal@earthlink.net




The Lifeworks Center in collaboration with Simmons School of Social Work Invites you to participate in a 2 day workshop:


    Transforming Trauma, Complicated Trauma and Dissociation with EMDR and Adjunctive Body/Mind Modalities: A Developmental Approach

    In this workshop you will come away with tools you can use immediately:

    Develop an understanding of how to accurately diagnose Complex PTSD and DID from a developmental perspective. This will include the theory of Judith Herman, Bessel van der Kolk, Ego-state Therapy, Structural Dissociation, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.
    Learn various ways to utilize imagery, hypnosis, & breathing techniques to reduce stress and build resources.
    Become familiar with a basic overview of how EMDR is useful when treating trauma.
    Use a developmental chart to systematically organize treatment strategies.
    Use a Stage Model of Treatment to inform treatment choices.
    Integrate these modalities into your work and life.
    Have the opportunity to present cases, ask questions.


    Presenter:   Patricia Thatcher, LICSW   has over 25 years experience working with trauma & dissociation specializing in the use of mind/body methods including EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), the Tapas Acupressure Technique, The REMAP Process and hypnosis.   She presents at local & national conferences, is president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma & Dissociation and maintains a private practice in Cambridge, Ma where she works with adults, children, couples and families.

    Date:  TBA
    Place:  Simmons College, 300 the Fenway, Boston, Ma 02115
    Investment:  $279 (additional 10% discount for faculty, students & field supervisors of Simmons School of Social Work, agency employees & members of NESTTD, please pay by check if you apply for the additional discount as Paypal has no way of verifying if you qualify)
    No prior training in EMDR, hypnosis, Tapas Acupressure Technique or Parts work required
    For further information or to register go to www.thelifeworkscenter.com
    Or call  The Lifeworks Center at 617-661-1277

    12 CE’S for Social Workers, Mental health Counselors & Psychologists offered by Simmons School of Social Work for an additional cost of $10. Simmons School of Social Work is a National Board of Certified Counselors Approved CE Provider #6426. American Psychological Association Approved CE Sponsor #2057.

    12 CEUs for TAT Professionals for an additional cost of $15.

    You can pay for CE credits at the time of the workshop.

    This workshop is held in facilities that are in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Please contact the Lifeworks Center if special requirements are required at least 3 weeks prior to the workshop.
        Registration will open once we've set a date.