ATFT Update Magazine and E-zine Archive |
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Thought Field Therapy UPdate | Premier Issue, Vol 1 No 1 |
TFT & Voice Technology | Roger Callahan |
Running … Out of Steam | Nora Baladerian |
Heart Rate Variability Validates Thought Field Therapy | Karen Hope |
Roger Callahan in Rome | Joanne Callahan |
Make Your Business Cards More Effective | David Hanson |
ATFT Foundation: Fund Raising for Research | Joanne Callahan |
Moscow on the TFT | Norma Gairdner |
ATFT Conference | |
ATFT Update E-zine | Vol 2, Winter 2005 |
Suzanne Connolly Teaches in Kuwait | |
TFT with Animals | Jo Cooper |
Dr. Roger Callahan on P.R. | |
Case Study | Suzanne Connolly |
Quantifying Toxins | June Kennerley |
Mini Seminars Can Create Client Opportunities | David Hanson |
Marketing Tips | |
TFT Makes a Hard Day’s Work A Good Day’s Work | Robert Bray |
Completeness of Treatment with TFT | Carolyn Sakai |
ATFT Update E-zine | Issue 3, Summer 2005 |
Dr. Roger Callahan Goes to Dublin & Oslo | |
Ideas for Providing Press Releases to the Media | Herb Ayers |
Dr. Roger Callahan on Visualization and Peak Performance | |
Case Study | Norma Gairdner |
TFT & A Great Crisis Intervention Tool | Jim McAninch |
TFT & with People & Animals: Achieving Peak Performance | Jo Cooper |
Maximum Performance for Your Website | David Hanson |
ATFT Foundation News | Joanne Callahan |
ATFT Mailbox | |
ATFT Update Special Issue | Issue 4, Winter 2006 |
ATFT Foundation’s Mission to Africa | |
Speak Out for TFT | Herb Ayers |
ATFT Foundation News | Joanne Callahan |
ATFT Foundation Special Report: Africa Project | Mary Cowley, Chris Milbank, |
Alvaro Hernandez | |
Roger Callahan Analyzes Africa Mission HRV Results | |
Letter from David Hanson | |
Research Advisory Committee | Chris Semmens |
Trauma Relief Committee: Trauma Relief Committee & Green Cross | Norma Gairdner |
Success Stories & TFT Case Studies | Suzanne Connolly |
Treating Grief with Thought Field Therapy | Ian Graham |
TFT Allows Us the Feelings We Need | Robert Bray |
TFT, HRV, and the Broken Heart | David Hanson |
Lifting the Shroud of Anxiety | Suzanne Connolly |
ATFT Update E-zine | Issue 5, Fall 2006 |
ATFT Mini-Conference – Birmingham, England | |
Success Story | Dottie Webster |
ATFT Trauma Relief Team: The Third Times a Charm | Suzanne Connolly |
Avoid-A-Void | Kevin Laye |
ATFT Foundation News | Joanne Callahan |
TFT for Helping with Music Performance Enhancement | Rosemary Wiseman |
Raising Funds | Ildiko Scurr |
Jonathan | Elizabeth Bourne |
Fly Me to the Moon | Doris Keating |
Loss of your Best Friend (animal) | Jo Cooper |
TFT Conference Scrapbook | Pictorial |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 6, Winter 2006 |
Meet Three of our Most Distinguished ATFT Members | |
A Lifting Experience | Steve McNulty |
Cost – vs- Value | Kevin Laye |
Newest VT-ers – Meet the Halvorsons | |
Saved By the Ball: TFT & Soccer | Anne Schneider-Cullen |
Dr. Callahan – New Voltmeter Book | |
Charlotte, the TFT Baby | Sigrid Semmens |
The Therapist | Doris Keating |
Success Story | Stein/Annette Halvorsen |
Three Distinguished Leaders | |
ATFT Foundation Fundraiser is a Success | Pictorial |
Anatomy of a Fundraiser | Ildiko Scurr |
Jenny Edwards Accepts Post as ATFT’s First Trainer’s Training Instructor | |
David Hanson | |
Niche Marketing – Pet Loss | David Hanson |
Migraines Disappear | Chris Semmens |
TFT and Veterans | Robert Bray |
ATFT Worldwide Conference News | |
ATFT Update E-zine | Issue 7, Spring 2007 |
2007 ATFT Worldwide Conference | |
Featured Success Story | Ildiko Scurr |
VT Comes to the Rescue | Franziska Ng |
3 No-Cost Marketing Tips You Can Do | David Hanson |
Pooh Sticks | Kevin Laye |
Making Effective Presentations About TFT | Colin Barron |
Special Report: Irish Survivors of Child Abuse | Eileen McMahon |
On the Way to the Forum | Herb Ayers |
TFT Success Stories | Various |
Quality over Quantity | Steve McNulty |
A Refresher P.R. | Roger Callahan |
Special Notes on P.R. | Roger Callahan |
Changes to the ATFT Member Listserve | Rhoda Draper |
ATFT Update E-zine | Issue 8, Summer 2007 |
Nightmares Replaced with Dreams of Future at El Shaddai | |
TFT Goes to Graduate School | |
Meet Suzanne Connolly | |
Success Story | Yvette Lamidey |
El Shaddai Orphanage | Gabriel Constans |
We Appreciate Your Services | Suzanne Connolly |
Using Testimonials in Your Marketing | David Hanson |
Pathological Hoarder- Or Just Stubborn | Robert Bray |
Zen and TFT Meet | Kevin Laye |
Back to Tanzania | Alvaro Hernandez |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 8, Spring 2008 |
Work Worth Doing – PTSD Research and Treatment | |
Medical Advisory Board for ATFT | Caroline Sakai, Colin Barron, |
Arthur Davis, Richard Petty, | |
Dipa Modi | |
Dreams Do Come True | Judy Harvey |
Hurricane Katrina, Now Orleans and Trauma | Nora Baladerian |
The Day Our Lives Changed Forever | Ecoee Rooney |
ATFT Foundation 2008 Projects | Joanne Callahan |
Being Interviewed about TFT on Radio and Television | Colin Barron |
Work Worth Doing | Suzanne Connolly |
Thought Field Therapy Training in London | Jenny Edwards |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 9, Summer 2008 |
What is a Good HRV Score | Roger Callahan, PhD |
Trauma Relief Study – May 2008 | Suzanne Connolly, MFT, CISW |
UK and ROI Committee Update | Yvette Lamidey |
TFT Case Study ‘Tom’ Brain Tumor May/June 08 | Val Chater, BEd |
Japanese Association for Thought Field Therapy | Ayame Morikawa, PhD |
The Evolution of Callahan Techniques and Thought Field Therapy Joanne Callahan, MBA | |
BTFTA News | BTFTA Committee |
ATFT Foundation – Uganda Project 2009 | Joanne Callahan , MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 10, Winter 2008 |
It Seems Like Magic, but it’s Science | Edgar Rivera |
TFT Today | Franziska Ng, EdD |
TFT in Scandinavia | Stein Lund Halvorson |
Treating Medical Problems with TFT | Colin Barron, PhD |
Updating from the TFT Foundation UK | Ildiko Scurr |
Assisting Aging Parents with TFT | Katherine Bird, BA, BSW, RSW |
How I Tapped Myself from a Size 14 to a Size 4 | Franziska Ng, EdD |
UK/ROI Committee Update | Yvette Lamidey |
How it all Began | Terri Perry |
Culm Valley Centre for Integrated Health | Steve McNulty |
ATFT Code of Ethics | |
ATFT Foundation – Looking ahead to 2009 | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 11, Spring 2009 |
BTFTA November Conference Overview | Ian Graham, BSc, CBiol, MIBiol |
ATFT Foundation Donations and Two-Legged Stool | Bruce Paton, PhD |
TFT Today | Various |
ATFT Foundation – Looking Ahead to 2009 | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
TFT Much Needed in Rape Crisis Work | Sharon Hales |
ATFT Foundation UK | Ildiko Scurr |
ATFTF Provides R&R Retreats with Timeshares for Vets | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Freedom R&R’s with Timeshares for Vets | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 12, Summer 2009 |
TFT Today | Various |
Australasian ATFT Committee Update | Judy Harvey |
What Makes for a Good ATFT Foundation Project | Roger Ludwig, MA |
Overcoming Panic Attacks | Christina Mayhew |
Our Surgical Experience with Thought Field Therapy | Lois Sugarman, PhD, RN, FT |
Uganda Project | Roger Ludwig, MA |
Uganda Malaria Study 2009 | Howard Robson, MA, MB, Bchir, FRCP, FRCPE; Phyll Robson; Robert Bray, PhD, LCWS, CTS |
TFT in Sudan | Patricia Leong |
L of a Way 2 Pass | Diane Hall |
Managing Negative Emotions | Phyll Robson |
Prometra – Promotion des Medecines Tarditionelles | Lionel Mandy |
2009 – A Crossroads for ATFT | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 13, Fall 2009 |
Meet Your ATFT Members | Suzanne Connolly, MFT, CISW |
Caroline Sakai, PhD | |
Freedom R&R’s with Timeshares for Vets | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
A Letter from the Battlefield | Efland Amerson |
TFT and Hope in a Beleaguered Region | Caroline Sakai, PhD |
Rwanda Case Notes | Suzanne Connolly, MFT, CISW |
Volunteerism: At a home for At-Risk Youths | Chrissie Mayhew |
Treating Medical Problems with TFT | Colin Barron, PhD |
TFT Relieves Bank Robbery Trauma | Mary Cowley, PhD |
TFT Testimonials | |
Overcoming Fear of Snakes | Dale Solarz |
Lyme Disease Sufferer Finds Relief with TFT | Tana J |
Living Fearlessly with TFT | Dariah Morgan, PhD |
ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Expands in 2009 | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
TFT Trauma Relief Blog | Mary Cowley, PhD |
TFT Today | Various |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 14, 1st Quarter 2010 |
Meet Your ATFT Members | Jenny Edwards, PhD; Howard Robson, MA, MB, Bchir, FRCP, FRCPE; Phyll Robson |
Japanese TFT Peer-Reviewed Journal | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
The Use of TFT in Family Care | Christina Mayhew |
A Toe-Tale Success | Suzanne Connolly, MFT, CISW |
Thought Field Therapy Archives | Jenny Edwards, PhD |
News from the United Kingdom | Ildiko Scurr |
Leadership Changes | Paul Oas, PhD |
Darla Terry-Ausman | |
John McLaughlin | |
Foundation News | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
TFT Today | Various |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 15, Summer 2010 |
Callahan: Present ACEP Lifetime Achievement Award | |
Meet Your ATFT Members | Ayame Morikawa, PhD |
Bruce Paton, PhD | |
Roger Callahan Honored with ACEP Lifetime Achievement Award | Roger J Callahan, PhD |
Awareness During Anesthesia: My Personal Mission to Help Others | Jeanette Magdalene, PhD |
Stroke: Treatment, Rehabilitation and Recovery | Rosemary Wiseman |
Layoffs Hurt, but TFT Helps | Herb Ayers, MA, LMHC |
Chaos Theory | Rita Weinberg, PhD |
Leadership Changes | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
TFT Today | Herb Ayers, MA, LMHC |
Foundation News | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 16, Autumn 2010 |
Byumba Leaders Using TFT to Help Their Community | |
Meet Your TFT Members | Robert Pasahow, PhD |
Colin Barron, PhD | |
Rwandans Help Each Other Recover | Caroline Sakai, PhD |
Hawaii Training Project for ATFT Rwanda | Caroline Sakai, PhD, |
Ann Yabusaki, PhD | |
Haiti 2010: TFT Foundation Mission to Haiti | Phyll Robson, Howard Robson |
“Hey, Mom! I Need a Haircut!” | Helen Sugarman Schicketanz |
TFT Today | Herb Ayers, MA, LMHC |
Project Turning Point | Mette Rosseland |
I Learn How to Help Others Every Day | Jackie Rioux |
ATFT Foundation: 2010 and Beyond | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
ATFT Update Magazine | Issue 17, Summer 2011 |
Sudden Destruction: Japan | |
Member Spotlight | Jim McAninch |
Sudden Destruction in Japan | Ayame Morikawa, PhD |
ATFT & ACEP Coming Together – Let’s Make it Happen | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Esophogeal Spasms Relieved with TFT | Lois Sugarman, PhD, RN, FT |
Hidden Benefits of TFT | Robert Pasahow, PhD |
A Strange Tale and My Smallest Patient | Terri Perry |
First Aid for our Cat, Harry | Terri Perry |
Who Cares about Homeless Women Vets? | Bruce Paton, PhD |
ATFT Foundation, USA and UK | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
New Initiatives; ATFTF-UK | Dr Howard Robson |
TFT Today | Herb Ayers, MA, LMHC |
Tapping for Humanity | Winter 2012 |
TFT Foundation 2011 Year in Review and Projects and Dreams for 2012 | |
TFT Healing Comes Full Circle – Our Dreams become Reality | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Tapping for Peace … One Heart at a Time | Mary Cowley, PhD |
ATFTF (UK) Ltd Report for October 2011 | Howard Robson |
Combined Treatment for Elderly Patients | Katherine Bragin, LCSW |
Thought Field Therapy Serving our Women Vets! | Bruce Paton, PhD |
TFT Foundation Hawaii – Rwanda Training a Success | Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, LMFT |
TFT Publication Guidelines | Herb Ayers, MA, LMHC |
Tapping for Humanity | Spring 2012 |
Our Plans Needs and Hopes for This Year and Our Long-Term Future Joanne Callahan, MBA | |
Fundraising Book Corner | Mary Lou Dobbs |
Matching Funds Gift Program | Bruce Paton, PhD |
TFT Spotlight | Herb Ayers, MA LMHC |
Transforming Trauma – Creating Peace | Mary Cowley, PhD |
Thought Field Therapy – PTSD Study Published | |
ACEP Grant Awarded to Suzanne Connolly | |
TFT Foundation (USA), ATFT Foundation (UK) and Mats | |
Uldal Humanitarian Foundation | |
(MUHF) Form a Multi-National Trauma Relief and | |
Research Team | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Multi-National TFT Team Leads PTSD Research and | |
Provides Trauma Relief and Practitioner | |
Training in Uganda 2012 | Roger Ludwig, MA |
TFT Team Returns to Uganda | Phyll and Howard Robson, MD |
Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami – TFT in the Aftermath | |
TFT to Help Wounded Warriors in Leaps of Faith Event | |
TFT Community Day of April 20th 2012 | Deacon Augustin NZABONIMANA |
TFT Foundation Publication Guidelines | |
Tapping for Humanity | Summer 2012 |
TFT Foundation 2012 Summer – Tapping Around the World | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Tapping into Healing – Uganda 2012 Brief Summary | Roger Ludwig, MA |
Fundraising Book Corner | Suzanne Connolly, LCSW, LMFT |
Matching Funds Gift Program | Bruce Paton, PhD |
A Letter of Thanks | Fr. Peter Mubunga BASALIZA |
Uganda 2012 Team Leaders – Short Report | Phyll and Howard Robson |
Tapping into Healing for Wounded Warriors at Leaps of Faith Event | Patricia Jennings |
Don’t Stop Short: Tap ‘til You’re Free of Your Perturbation | Jacqueline Smillie |
TFT Works at so Many Levels – From Launching Healing | Phyll Robson |
to Merely Improving the Quality of Life of an Individual | Henry “Mack” Davis |
Horses and Tapping Heal the Hearts of Troubled Children at Stillwater Farms | Barbara Hutson |
Transforming Trauma – Creating Peace | Mary Cowley, PhD |
A Trip to Cairo | |
TFT Mexican Association – Reaching out with TFT | Alvaro Hernandez |
TFT Foundation Publication Guidelines | |
Tapping for Humanity | Winter 2013 |
Looking Back at 2012 and Forward to 2013 | Joanne Callahan, MBA |
Back to Rwanda – Treating, Training and Documenting the Healing |
Suzanne Connolly |
Anxiety Study – Finally it is out | Mats Uldal |
Thought Field Therapy Serving Our Women Vets in New Mexico | Bruce Paton, PhD |
Amazing Results From Brazil – A New Application for TFT | Teixeira, Paula |
Peacemakers Inc. – Using TFT to Relieve Trauma and Reduce Violent Behavior |
John Ivey |
World Trade Center Trauma Relief in New York | Diane Bahr-Groth |
Fundraising Book Corner | Bob Bray |
TFT Foundation Publication Guidelines |
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The “Street Children” of the El Shaddai Orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda |
In April of 2006, a 10 member Mission Team traveled under the sponsorship of the ATFT (Association for Thought Field Therapy) Foundation, www.TFT.org., to Rwanda and the Congo to do research and provide trauma therapy and training. They used and taught the revolutionary process of trauma relief developed by Dr. Roger Callahan, author of “Stopping the Nightmares of Trauma.” (For a brief synopsis of the TFT process, see www.TFTrx.com.)
Below see the heart-opening experience of the ATFT team being welcomed by 400 singing orphans. You can also see other ATFT videos on YouTube.
The ATFT Trauma Relief Team being welcomed by 400 singing orphans.
Their focus was primarily on the 400 “Street Children” of the El Shaddai Orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda, “home” for those orphaned by the 1994 genocide and subsequent AIDS and poverty.
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El Shaddai Orphanage, “home” for those orphaned by the 1994 genocide and subsequent AIDS and poverty. |
The Team was co-sponsored by Christ Lutheran Church in San Diego, who has raised $35,000 of the $48,000 pledged to feed and bed the 400 orphans for a year. Five of the Team were from CLC. (www.Christpb.org).
This team’s mission statement was: “To help create healing and stability in Rwanda by using Thought Field Therapy to heal the wounds of trauma and by training Rwandans and the Congolese to use TFT to help their fellow citizens heal the wounds of the past and move forward to create a strong, peaceful and healthy nation.”
The goals of the 2006 mission team included the following:
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Our travel-weary volunteers, captivated by the singing orphans. |
What motivates 10 Americans from the ages of 29-75 to leave jobs, practices, spouses, children and the comforts of home to travel thousands of miles to the heart of Africa – a country replete with war, genocide, corruption, disease, poverty and seeming hopelessness?
You will have to ask them!
I can only share some observations.
In selecting the team, these were the qualities I initially looked for and found:
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Flowers, smiles, song and dance greeted our tired team upon their arrival. |
On the road, April 10:
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Smiling faces and inquiring eyes, filled with hope for what we may be able to do.
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Toss in 2 sleepless nights on crowded airlines by team members attempting to bivouac in Nairobi from Hawaii, LA, Phoenix, DC and Kuait, a flight cancellation from Nairobi, Kenya to Kigali, Rwanda, and arriving “shower less” and disheveled 4 hours behind schedule.
Reluctantly we honored the insistence of Pastor Peter Ilungalutum, the Director of the El Shaddai Orphanage, to “stop by” and be welcomed by 400 children orphaned by the 1994 genocide, AIDS and poverty.
We were bounced and whisked to an abandoned warehouse where these hundreds of former “street children” had been waiting 4 hours to welcome our arrival.
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Genocide victims, both young and old, working hard to fill out their PTSD questionnaires. |
What we experienced then was impossible to describe without tears welling up again. It was for me the signature experience of our mission. As 10 weary travelers descended from packed Land Rovers into a cave like entrance to the warehouse, voices of 400 orphans singing at the top of their lungs was overwhelming in its stark contrast to what we anticipated.
We saw faces beaming with joy and animation, eyes wide with excitement. For over an hour they mesmerized us with singing and dancing. Like Ravel’s “Bolero,” the beat and dance escalated until our “Raggedy Ann” travelers were “seduced” onto their feet – joining hearts and feet in a crescendo of connection.
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Dottie Webster sharing Easter Sunday with the orphans. |
We were there to “heal” them? This experience alone was worth the “price of admission.”
With but an hour to travel to our lodging, splash water on our faces, run a brush through hair – most were on time for our 4:00 p.m. staff meeting with our local hosts and Embassy volunteers.
The Presbyterian Guest House was our domicile for the next two weeks. There were clean rooms, mosquito net draped beds, showers and bath. (Electricity and hot showers were sporadic, but “shower sharing” rescued us.)
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Caroline Sakai explaining about the TFT therapy and study. |
Tasks at hand:
Due to typical African communications, Suzanne Connolly’s training of 35 psychologists, pastors and teachers was postponed for 10 days.
This allowed time for Caroline Sakai to rally the team to the task of therapy and research. Having recently returned from two deployments to New Orleans and Green Cross Certification, Caroline launched into the formidable details involved in adequately translating our PTSD approved testing instruments into Kinyarwandan and receiving approval by its author. This became an amazing team effort requiring many trips to the Internet Café until appropriate and adequate translations were acceptable and in place.
The team worked till late at night assembling research and training materials. Days were spent in testing and treating as many children and staff as possible.
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Additions to daily protein and nutrition were welcomed. |
Meanwhile, 3 of the team, Carl Johnson, Beth Bates and Paul Oas left for the Congo and Northern Rwanda to provide training and follow up continuing education for last year’s trainees in Goma and Ruhengeri.
Now, time for a weekend break!
Six of our team journeyed to the mountains separating Rwanda from Uganda and the Congo to track down the elusive Silverback Gorillas of “Gorilla’s in the Mist” fame.
Their mountain climbing trek through thick jungle rewarded them by a literal “brush” with the gorillas and left them rain soaked and mud caked as ecstatic reincarnations of “Diane Fossey.”
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We taught the children to “sew” with the donated machines. |
Our final week was no less exciting and rewarding. 35 students arrived from the Congo and various parts of Rwanda for the two-day training in TFT. (Due to the extreme poverty in Africa, it was necessary to subsidize students for travel, food, lodging and training.)
The training was led by Suzanne Connolly, a seasoned tutor and traveler. Since January, she already had two training deployments prior to Rwanda: New Orleans and Kuwait.
With 6 assistants and a translator, the students not only learned the basics, they also experienced relief from their own pent up traumas, which helped solidify their education and experience.
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Suzanne Connolly leading the TFT Algorithm Level training for the local community. |
The remainder of our time was spent in treating as many of the orphans and staff as possible and to ensure that protocols for research follow up were in place.
Farewells were heart wrenching, as affection-starved children were once again being “abandoned.” Clothes were drenched with intermingled tears as orphans clung to new friends and “surrogates” from America.
It was now impossible to determine — who had healed whom?
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The sad good-byes. |