EFT Tapping for School Staff
WHAT’S UP: My advice for how best to introduce EFT tapping skills to kids in schools/in the home is to do so through what Ash Buchanan calls a Benefit Mindset.
In other words, start with training a small group of interested staff well in EFT Tapping – not with the students. Decide on a timeline (e.g. 3 weeks? 2 months? 6 months?) when you will explore how doing EFT tapping to self-soothe can benefit YOU, and transforming your own stress levels/blocks. This experience, and the insights you will gain will allow you to figure out how you can introduce it to your family/kids/students most successfully. Remember, we can’t give when we have nothing left to give.
As educators and mental health professionals, I believe we have to make our own emotional self-care habits a high priority so we can teach by example. Normalizing self-soothing stress management skills by being okay with being seen ‘looking weird/different’ by using strategies to self-regulate helps younger generations learn that we’re all human. We all get stressed and need to pause to self-regulate sometimes. And so we have more in common that they realize – despite our differences in age, cultural background etc.
Below you will find:
- An example of how you can introduce it to children Grades 1-5
- An example of how we introduced it to an online class of 11th graders in an international school for managing academic workload stress and anxiety
- 10 examples of how it’s been introduced to students from Pre-K and Primary School to PhD candidates in university by educators all over the world
MEET ELENI
Eleni Vardaki supports parent, teacher, and student well-being. Her mission is to help bridge the gap between mainstream education and the wellbeing skills we need to thrive. She believes in doable, sustainable interventions for student wellbeing in school and family cultures that value not only student but also whole school community wellbeing.
