An Evening with EFT
Presented by Lynne Fredericks and Susan Roberts
A Diamond Umbrella Foundation Workshop
Monday, June 2, 2008
6:30 – 9:30pm
The Culture Center
410 Columbus Avenue between West 79th & 80th Streets

Join us for an exciting evening of EFT – the self-empowering therapy which is sweeping the globe. Whether you are a first-time-tapper or have practiced for years, there is great benefit in working in a group.

Easily learned, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a powerful means of clearing the emotional conflicts which create stress in our bodies and lives. Through combining focused thought with gentle fingertip tapping on key acupuncture points, EFT clears blocks in the body’s energy pathways. These pathways, called meridians in Eastern medicine, were mapped over 3,000 years ago by Chinese acupuncturists. EFT is often called emotional acupuncture.

Lynne and Susan have studied consciousness dynamics and energy psychology for more than 25 combined years and are registered Diamond Umbrella Foundation teachers. They feel strongly that EFT is the most empowering of the Energy Therapies. It can be used anytime, anyplace, anywhere (with a touch of creativity!) for soothing the stress of public speaking to dealing more easily with physical and emotional pain.

The possibilities of EFT are seemingly limitless: we have witnessed dramatic shifts in a broad range of issues, including abundance, chronic fatigue, diseases, decision making, injuries, pain, phobias, stress, sports performance, trauma and weight loss.

Cost: $60 with advance registration; $70 at the door

For further information, email LEFredericks3@hotmail.com or call 917-912-4344.

One-day workshop

In 1998 a group of friends who were sharing life’s rewards and challenges and trading information on sources of inspiration and help decided to widen the circle: the idea for our first workshop, the two-day Women & Spirit (W&S) was born. The founding group of women was incorporated in 2001 as the Diamond Umbrella Foundation, a not-for-profit educational organization.

As W&S grew, so did requests for a one-day version of our maiden workshop. While the agenda for each W&S is always inspired by the composition of the participants, there is a usual format for the day. Our teachers, all of whom have many years of experience, will lead us through the following general outline:

Introductions: What brought you here?
• Basics of your energy system: explanation and discussion
• Guided journey meditation with discussion of individual experiences
• Lunch with the group
• Energy exercises and practices: experiential approach
• Discussion, questions, wrap-up of the day

While most of us in Western society know the fundamentals of our physical anatomy, familiarity with energy anatomy is rare. Yet there is widespread awareness that energy does move through our bodies, and physicists tell us that the body is not as solid as it seems. The hours spent in Diamond Umbrella’s one-day W&S workshop give the first-time participant a basic understanding of the chakra system, and returning participants an opportunity to work more deeply with their awareness and perception of these powerful energy centers.

Learning about how energy flows through the body deepens knowledge of the self and is a key to changing relationships, shifting perception, and supporting health and vitality. Being in a group where participants share the desire to learn more about themselves and support the growth of others is a powerful setting for self-transformation.

Women & Spirit alumnae tell us the workshops have influenced and changed their lives. Please join us in building the Diamond Umbrella community!

PLEASE NOTE: Each academic year we schedule a two-day Women & Spirit . Spending a longer time together as a group builds safety and intimacy. “Sleeping on it” often brings insight through dreams and other “aha!” moments which deepen self awareness. As with the one-day workshop, there are no pre-requisites for attendance.

A Year of Energy Study (YES)
A seminar series of four two-day sessions

The Diamond Umbrella Foundation’s seminar series A Year of Energy Study (YES) grew from the model of the Women & Spirit workshops.  Response from the women’s workshops held over the years has been so positive that we were inspired to create YES, a deeper experience which stretches over the academic year.  Attendance at a Women & Spirit workshop is a prerequisite for joining YES.

 The YES series’ four sessions stretch over the academic year, and are devoted to developing a coherent and supportive group.  We undertake an in-depth exploration of energy dynamics, and of energy techniques that can create a greater sense of ease and flow in daily life.  Our teachers guide participants in working together to discover the power of the group, to develop clearer expanded sense perception and awareness, and to gain insight into inner experiences and to learn to trust intuition in its many forms. 

Through connecting to our innate wisdom, relationships to Spirit, to other human beings, and to those who came before us -our ancestors – are strengthened.  In YES we learn how to breathe through the challenging transitions in our lives, and how to call on the power of the group to help us as individuals.  Also, since the Diamond Umbrella Foundation has a special interest in children, we will touch on the stages of human energy development and the unique way children run their energy.

The first YES session of an academic year may be attended as a single workshop before a new participant commits to the year’s series. After the first workshop, however, it is important to attend the remaining sessions, since this commitment is critical to the integrity of the group.

Introduction to Emotional Freedom Techniques
A half-day EFT workshop

The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), while easily learned, is a powerful means of clearing the emotional conflicts which create stress in our bodies and lives. Through combining focused thought with gentle fingertip tapping on key acupuncture points, EFT clears blocks in our energy pathways. These pathways, called meridians in Eastern medicine, were mapped over 2,500 years ago by Chinese acupuncturists.

Learning EFT in a group amplifies the energy available to every participant. This is true even if the issue which is front and center seems unrelated to your personal experience. This phenomenon of each participant receiving energetic support from the work (tapping) of others is called Borrowing Benefits. If you already know EFT and tap for yourself, a workshop setting can significantly deepen your experience of emotional freedom.

Lynne and Susan have studied consciousness dynamics and energy psychology for more than 25 combined years; in our experience EFT is the most empowering of the Energy Therapies. It can be used anytime, anyplace, anywhere (with a touch of creativity!) for soothing the stress of public speaking to dealing more easily with physical and emotional pain.

The possibilities of EFT are seemingly limitless: we have witnessed dramatic shifts in a broad range of issues, including trauma, anxiety, anger, chronic fatigue, diseases, phobias, sports performance, injuries, pain, and weight loss.

Lightening Up our Energy Systems
A two-day experiential workshop
Teachers: Lynne Fredericks & Susan Mainwaring Roberts

Day One – Human Energy Anatomy
Learn the basic structure of human energy anatomy: how does subtle energy get into our bodies, where does it go, how does it flow? See how we unconsciously manipulate this flow to insulate ourselves from pain, causing distortions which block well-being.  Teaching will include gentle energy exercises and guided meditation, as well as group discussion and informal lecture.

Day Two – Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Easily learned, EFT is a powerful means of clearing the emotional conflicts which create stress in our bodies and lives. Through combining focused thought with gentle fingertip tapping on key acupuncture points, EFT clears blocks in our energy pathways.  These pathways, called meridians in Eastern medicine, were mapped over 2,500 years ago by Chinese acupuncturists.

Lynne and Susan have studied consciousness dynamics and energy psychology for more than 25 combined years; we strongly feel that EFT is the most empowering of the Energy Therapies.  It can be used anytime, anyplace, anywhere (with a touch of creativity!) for soothing the stress of public speaking to dealing more easily with physical and emotional pain.

The possibilities of EFT are seemingly limitless: we have witnessed dramatic shifts in a broad range of issues, including trauma, anxiety, anger, chronic fatigue, diseases, phobias, sports performance, injuries, pain, and weight loss.