Tapping Team Uk Support for Slupsk

Hi,  My name is Aga Kehinde, I was born in Poland and have lived in the UK for the last 17 years. I am a clinical nurse, cancer coach and educator. I have been running multiple projects in and out of the NHS integrating emotional and psychological aspects to improving patients’ experience, staff wellbeing and the tools to deal with personal and global crisis. Years of working in this traumatic environment, supporting individuals and groups in crisis led me to a deep understanding of the value of immediate trauma support in a variety of settings and spawned a prison project as well as other local trauma relief efforts.

 

When the war broke out in Ukraine I started receiving messages from my home country Poland, from my friends, families but also from my professional colleagues. All  asking the same question: How should we support others in crisis, how can we prevent trauma and post traumatic injury? how do we do it ? we cant even speak the same language? Can you share your tool and techniques please?  

As I continued supporting my home community, I also noticed other colleagues who were supporting those in Ukraine and Poland affected by the war. At the end of February, I joined with Jess Mor to bring simple somatic tools for trauma relief, resilience and stabilization to aid workers, communities and refugees in Poland and Ukraine.

We will be receiving donations through gofundme and also through EFT International’s Crisis Fund.  

 

In May we will be heading to Slupsk Poland to provide support, education and training for their emergency services, aid workers, and communities involved with assisting the incoming refugee population. We will spend 3 months training 1,000 service providers - therapists, educators, first responders, medical professionals - who are working with Ukrainian refugees, so that they can provide acute trauma relief alongside the other essential services they are providing. We are also going to offer programs for over a 1000 Ukrainian refugees including 500 orphans providing acute trauma relief.

 

Our goal is that all of the service providers and refugees will experience the benefit of somatic trauma relief tools, the knowledge of how they work and the confidence and skills to continue utilizing the tools for themselves and others as they move through this most challenging time. We will teach simple to learn, easy to apply evidence based trauma relief tools, including TTT (Trauma Tapping Techniques), EFT ( Emotional Freedom Techniques), and other simple body based techniques.

 

We know that we all have an innate ability to recover from extreme events and that every one of us, professional and non-professional, is capable of supporting a process of global healing. We conceive that with accessible trauma education, together with the sharing of self-help and group healing tools, a helpless and powerless experience can become an empowered and hopeful one.