I am Margreet Vink, Dutch EmoTrance trainer, Project Sanctuary master and in daily life e-learning expert. I studied career counselling but work as a trainer/teacher. I thoroughly enjoy my work and will be presenting Provocative Energy Therapy at the 2010 European EFT & Energy Psychology Conference.

In 2002 I did a workshop Provocative Energy Therapy and I now incorporate this into sessions of EmoTrance.

Provocative Therapy was discovered by Frank Farrelly. He worked in the sixties as a therapist and got attracted to the work of Carl Rogers. Carl Rogers is somebody who works client centred and much is done by affirming the client. Humming, mirroring, giving feedback.

After doing this for a few years he got dissatisfied. He wants to say what is there, what he sees. When he listens to a client who wants to commit suicide and is bored by his story, the client asks him what he actually thinks. He replies: “To be honest, your story sounds so good I think you should do it!” The client is in shock and defends the exact opposite – staying alive. Frank thinks, this is funny, this works and he goes a bit further.

This is the core of provocative therapy, saying to the client what you see and for the first time they don’t feel like a victim anymore. They become responsible for their own life.

Steve Wells & David Lake learned this technique from Frank Farrelly himself, and since they practice both EFT they incorporated this technique into EFT. Since then we have PET, Provocative Energy Therapy. It is a fun way to work with people, very effective.

The thing with this provocative technique is that you stir up old and hard blockages, take away the serious thoughts and feelings somebody had about it. Remember my course participant who came to me with the very serious (he looked worried) announcement that he had a cobble stone left that wasn’t energy. He went from worry to fun in just minutes.

The light heartedness of it makes it so easy to work with. Remember we work with energy, and energy flows much easier when the thoughts and feelings about it are out of the way!

I look forward to sharing this technique with you all at the conference.

Margreet Vink