In this exciting topic we’ll cover the necessary preparation before we meet new clients, including how to use and evaluate the QEC Medical Indemnity, how to take a medical history, history of childhood development and history of trauma and addictions. We’ll teach you how to use QEC to stabilise the Autonomic Nervous System and we’ll explain the “bell curve” of trauma. Finally, we’ll set goals and intentions for the work ahead.

This lecture starts with the question “What is trauma?” Dr Salmon will explain the QEC Trauma Formula, a simple yet powerful approach to working with trauma. You’ll understand how the Autonomic Nervous System is impacted by different traumas at different ages and how ‘coming down the bell curve' finds optimal balance.

You’ll learn how QEC can be used to change hard-wired trauma in procedural memory in the brain.

Moving forwards, we’ll discuss support and treatment plans for your clients.

We will look at how to apply our Gestalt listening skills and the QEC technique for change in the following situations: 

How to work with ‘freeze’, a state of emotional disconnection with its roots in childhood. For context, Dr Salmon will teach a brief history of ‘freeze’ back to times of hysteria and being institutionalised. 

You’ll learn how to work with clients experiencing ‘overwhelm’ and emotional ‘flooding’, when being present seems impossible. 

Dr Salmon will teach you how to work with clients whose trauma stems specifically from a break in integrity, such as violent physical abuse, sexual abuse, narcissistic parenting and toxic shame.

We will start by asking “what are addictions and can we heal from them?” The cause of addictions is now clearly understood from the work of Gabor Mate and others. We’ll cover this work as an important foundation for our QEC approach. Dr Salmon will teach you how and when to use the QEC Addiction Formula, including describing the special challenges that often arise.

You’ll understand how QEC addiction work differs to other types of trauma work in that we take a long-term approach to heal the more resistant aspects of addictive, habitual behaviour patterns.

In this lecture you will gain a crucial understanding of how to help others without ‘rescuing’ them; We will ask questions such as: "Do I need to relieve the pain in others in order to relieve pain in myself? Does witnessing a suffering client trigger suffering in me? Am I clear with my boundaries and am I able to gauge when I’ve done enough? Have I ever suffered from burnout?

The cycle of reaching out to relieve suffering can be hard to stop because we get triggered unconsciously into our own past trauma. Our reaction to it, in the moment, is almost unstoppable.. It’s a sense of “I have to do something!” The work of supporting trauma requires that we attend to our own ability to hold an inner resilient and calm space for others, without being triggered.

This lecture explores how to help clients to unlock their potential, moving from survival to thriving. QEC work, by releasing past baggage, raises consciousness. This upwards trajectory allows us to create the life we truly want.

We need to understand how to ‘clear’ everything that’s holding us back from being our best self. We’ll review key QEC principles such as following excitement as a personal guide, releasing attachment to old dysfunctional behaviour patterns and stepping courageously into a higher energy field that allows us to create a new reality.

In this final lecture, Dr Salmon will cover all that lies ahead for you after certification. As part of our global QEC community, you’ll be able to attend our monthly Connect and Grow meetings and have access to our advanced QEC Trainings - also presented live with Dr Salmon. Plus, you’ll be able to attend our ongoing supervision groups to deepen your client work.

This empathic relationship builds a foundation of trust and safety that allows clients, over time, to open up to their deeper concerns.

You’ll learn how to hold up a mirror to your client, allowing them to become aware of who they are – so that they are able to make changes if they wish to.

As phenomenology discovers how clients have made meaning in their lives, you will learn how to use the ‘rule of description’ to only describe what you see without interpretation or making assumptions.

Dr Salmon will unpack for you why phenomenology is such an important aspect of the Gestalt interaction – and how, when applied – it lays stepping stones to begin the work of change with QEC.

You'll develop the skill of tuning in to the outside of your client – meeting them where they are, without intrusion or pressure. This means to acknowledge that clients are willing to be seen on the surface but aren’t always comfortable to reveal what lies underneath.

You will develop the skill of working layer by layer. The QEC approach is natural and organic. As each next later presents itself, the previous layer is removed in a non-threatening way.

By “peeling the onion” in this way, we build trust and work though what the client is happy to work with, until such times as the deeper, perhaps more painful or shameful material can be seen and worked with

Peeling the onion is how all QEC Practitioners begin working and will do this until the client is ready for the deeper work

We'll explore the latest understanding of how the brain works and how it is possible to change old ‘wiring’. You’ll understand how it is possible to create a new reality through neuroplasticity.

You will see how it is possible to change even ‘hard-wired’ beliefs dating back decades, especially those coming from early childhood and from trauma.

You will learn how to apply the principles learned in this section to set the right conditions that allow for change to happen with your clients.

We will cover essential information on the topic of Epigenetics – the mechanism by which we activate genes according to our state of mind and our environmental stimulus.

We will learn how our beliefs systems control our health and how we can choose and initiate change in our lives.

Fear and phobias are common and can create a dysregulated nervous system, untimely leading to ill health. We will learn to moderate and change what we fear and even what we imagine we fear (our phobias). Crucially, you’ll learn how to work with clients to return their nervous system back to homeostasis

We will examine the reasons why we aren’t experiencing a life we would prefer, including how we might be blocking ourselves from having the best outcomes 

You will learn about levels of consciousness and the work of Dr David Hawkins. Applying these principles to your QEC work allows you to join the path of raising consciousness.

We will also learn how to follow the “stepping stones” of our personal excitement, aligning with our ‘truest self’, in order to reach personal fulfilment and extraordinary outcomes

We will learn the mechanism of manifestation and the power of focused intention. You’ll see how it is possible to attract to us experiences we want such as new career, home or relationship.