Fifteen Minutes to Freedom by Harry Pickens

Author:Harry Pickens [Pickens, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Havening For Humanity
Published: 2017-02-07T23:00:00+00:00

chapter 16

No pain, no meds

Elizabeth White

Dr . Elizabeth White is an experienced therapist, speaker, trainer, coach and author with a private practice in Manchester, United Kingdom .

Harry: Elizabeth, how did you first learn about Havening? Elizabeth: I was introduced to Havening by my old friend Paul McKenna, who is a well-known self-help guru. I trained with Paul and Richard Bandler in NLP more than a decade ago.

I saw that Paul was presenting the first workshop in London about Havening in early 2013. Unfortunately, I missed out on that one. I attended the second training they held which was later that same year. Many of the people who are now well-known in the Havening movement also attended that same training.

I was most interested to learn more, because like most people, I’m skeptical about new stuff. It sounded a bit too good to be true. Especially since it was addressing a lot of the same kinds of issues I was already helping my clients to address: post-traumatic stress, anxiety, phobias, and so on.

H: Your description of how you found out about Havening reveals some common strands that I’ve noticed . A number of people, who as you mentioned, are predominant in the Havening community now, came out of an NLP background and/or came out of hypnosis and hypnotherapy . One thing I’ve noticed in the people I’ve known who have trained in those areas is that they possess what I would call open-minded skepticism . They have a willingness to try things, and if something works, they don’t hesitate to adapt and use it . What matters is whether or not it works .

Coming into Havening from this extensive background in therapy, in NLP, and in other modalities, what did you find most interesting about Havening?

E: I was very interested in working with specific traumatic events. When I first found out about Havening, the primary focus was Event Havening. And that was my area of interest. I work a lot with sexual abuse, with adults who were abused when they were younger. At the time, Havening was specifically focused on treating traumatic events, phobias, and other types of anxieties.

I thought, “If this is what I think it is, and it works like it says it does, this could transform what I do.” Obviously, I was intrigued by the issue of touch, which in most other modalities, we don’t use, even though touch has always been used as a way to comfort and support people. The other thing that shocked me about Havening was the speed and effectiveness.

H: You’re sharing some very common perceptions . The speed with which it occurs, the practically instantaneous change, the significant physiological change that you see in people . They look younger . They’re more relaxed . They have this look that’s become familiar to me . It’s the what-just-happened-to-me look .

E: Absolutely. It’s almost shock, isn’t it? They’re looking around for the thing they’ve just lost, even though they don’t want it back. That’s the way I would describe it, when everything works well.

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