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It’s true that EFT is easy to learn, and even children can use it, but that applies to the basics and doesn’t necessarily produce consistent or deep results. In order to produce the kind of results you need as a professional, you have to go deeper. The videos are absolutely packed with information and anyone who has approached this exam with an open mind has walked away with a surprising amount of new material.
We realize that many people just want to pass the exam and go about their business, but we want more than that for you! Our first priority is that you get as much from these videos as possible, and we aren’t comfortable offering Certification without that assurance. By really using the Study Guide and applying yourself to the material, you will walk away with a lot more training, much better results, and with any luck, an EFT Certification to hang on your wall.
Here’s a tip: Put all of your expectations, previous experience and preconceived notions aside and expect to learn something new!
Study Guides: The DVDs are loaded with so many insights, demonstrations, and refinements that it can be very easy to overlook important information. To address this issue, we have developed a Study Guide to accompany the DVDs in each Library so that everyone can learn the same material.
The Certification exams are based entirely on the Study Guides, so if you know all of that material, you will pass the exam. The Study Guides have been developed to help you identify the most important material and will show you which material you can skip. They also offer additional notes that will explain, clarify and expand upon material in the videos, and will count as material for the exam.
The Study Guides are useful for anyone learning EFT, so they are available as free downloads for anyone who wants to use them. At this point, only the Foundational Level Study Guide is available. The others will be released as they are completed.
The Process: By using the Study Guide, the learning process for each library should take about four months. It would be similar to taking a college course for one quarter with three hours of lecture and a few hours of homework each week. At the end of such a college course, you conduct an extensive review of the material and take your final exam. In this case, you will also need to complete your requirement for sessions and experience before you take the exam, but process is still much shorter than many other modalities.
If you are not new to EFT, your process may only include a review of the material. However, if you are used to incorporating variations that are not presented on the DVDs, we would recommend that you practice the official version of EFT to be sure you can make the distinction.
Specific Content - There are questions on the exam that will point to specific content from the sessions like key phrases, client responses, Gary’s decision making process, and the techniques or approaches that were used as a result. The easiest way to see how well someone understands EFT is to watch their decision making process during a session (ie. which direction to go, which questions to ask, or which phrases to use). With this in mind, the exam will test how well you can evaluate and understand Gary’s decision making process, because that’s where all the pieces come together. Please use the Study Guide to help you review the sessions thoroughly, and be sure you understand the “why” behind each step.
Here’s a tip: Just as looking for new aspects is also a way to test your results, be aware that, in many cases, one approach or technique can be chosen to accomplish several goals.
There are other discussions on the videos for which specific content will be used on the exam. All of those discussions are listed in the Study Guide, so be sure you engage yourself with the points being made and do the suggested exercises. If you make the effort to adopt the new perspectives offered, you will remember them much more easily.
Memorization - There is a LOT of material on the videos for this exam, but passing it will not be possible by simply memorizing it all. In fact, if you try to memorize everything you will likely fail the exam. Why? Because we are testing your command of the concepts. We are not interested in your ability to memorize. We expect that if you learn it properly and then use it in practice correctly, most of the material will become second nature to you. Further, if you are watching the sessions to see how completely you can understand them, you should be able to remember the key elements of each session even a year later. Just in case, take good notes, review the material again before taking the exam and be prepared to review a session or two in the extra time allotted.
Variations and Individual Style: Please be advised that the exam will only cover EFT as taught in the videos and the Study Guides. If you have already developed your own style or have borrowed tools from any other source, you will need to put those aside during this process. As you watch the videos, pay particular attention to any material that is different from your current knowledge, and be prepared to answer questions on the video and Study Guide material only.
Test Anxiety- Test anxiety is a very broad term that can include a variety of different issues. However, we have found that people with any significant test anxiety have a very difficult time passing this exam. They try to memorize the material rather than understanding it, and in general, are worrying too much to think clearly about the questions, or even the material itself during the study process.
We recommend that you put your EFT skills to work and handle any test anxiety before you even register for the exam. If necessary, you might enroll the help of someone more experienced. Either way, it will only be a step in the right direction to "do your own work" and use EFT to resolve your issues.
Renewal: This certification is valid for five years from the date of issue and will be subject to renewal by passing another exam at that point. The renewal exam for Intermediate and Honors Levels will include all prior material so that only one exam is required per renewal. There will be an additional Study Guide released for each renewal exam to help you prepare.
The purpose of the renewal process is to be sure that you are practicing EFT according to the official video instruction and passing EFT along to your clients in a consistent manner. As a Certified Practitioner of EFT, we expect that you will practice EFT according to the official video instruction, and pass along a consistent education to your clients.
If you decide to incorporate an EFT variation that is not part of the official instruction, please be sure you can make the distinction and disclose it to your clients to avoid confusion. If you maintain that distinction through the term of your certification, you should be able to pass the renewal exam without much review. If you do not, you might need to study the videos again to pass the renewal exam.
For answers to questions that are not covered on the website, please send an email to cert@emofree.com
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