Emotrance for Community College Students?

Dear Silvia,
 
Thank you so much for your in-depth response. I have to say that no matter
what my students think of me (perhaps I run less risk as a "dependent" adjunct
than full time instructor), I have shared EFT with all of my students, even
giving voluntary assignments out on it in Interpersonal Communication. I am
not the least bit shy about it, for I believe in it so strongly and know my
position as an educator can be influential. I did a required EFT assignment for
a once-a-week web class for my Dominican Academic Writing summer students
from the Global Connections program and did contact Joaquim Schubert for
additional Spanish materials so they could bring the info home. One girl's father
was an M.D. in Santo Domingo, but every weekend they would drive to their
former hometown and he would spend the entire time treating the poor--I thought,
what a wonderful thing to share with masses of people in abject poverty!
 
I would like some ideas on how to introduce Emotrance in a public speaking
class. My class is tomorrow, and other than a tape on how to do an introductory
 speech (introducing a speaker), I need some unique ideas to start my second
class of the semester. I'm thinking that a version of ET would possibly be
more acceptable to students of all ages than the tapping, which no doubt brings
out cynicism in some people (my students range from 15-year-old home
schoolers to college-age students to Global students from all over the world to
retirees).
 
Perhaps we can all collaborate on how to really put this out in colleges.
It's already there to some degree. A few of my colleagues do some energy-related
 stuff such as Zen koans in mathematics and at a workshop at an excellence
in teaching conference the facilitator spoke about teaching her students to tap
 on their heads to keep awake during a lecture :).
 
I can do editing/writing myself but I have to admit, other than volunteering
to edit an Emotrance workshop piece for one of your colleagues in the UK, I
have not read as much as I should on the topic. What would you recommend for
starters? (Funds are a bit limited for a few weeks anyway.) One thing I've
come up with when doing some ET for people is picturing the energy block
pixelating (like a full picture on a computer breaking up into pixels). It's
something most people can relate to very well.
 
Well, that's it. Gotta prepare for tomorrow's classes! There are 60 new
students in all in my three classes and I want to knock their socks off so they
will be engaged from the get-go!
 
Warm regards,
Jill Marie
_www.indystrategies.com_ (http://www.indystrategies.com)
 

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Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 07:29:06 BST