However, the problem is global at any one time one out of twenty men and one out of ten women are suffering from posttraumatic stress, often following large scale or man-made or natural disasters. Mitabu are reaching out, not only to their neighboring communities, but to their neighboring countries in the Great Lake Region. Mitabu will be teaching TFT to some group somewhere in the Great Lake Region of Africa, and the world will be better for it, you can be sure.Įnergy psychology has made a positive impact on the lives of many suffering from trauma in Rwanda, and some Rwandans, like Rev. The young man fully recovered and thanked them.Īpril is over, and the TFT practitioners can finally get some well-deserved rest. However, Red Cross workers brought him to the TFT practitioners the next morning. A severely traumatized young man was taken to the hospital that night completely unconscious. The TFT practitioners left, thinking they were only to work during the day. However, one ceremony continued into the night. Mitabu mentioned that people who become re-traumatized at the commemoration events are no longer taken to the hospital, but instead are brought to the TFT practitioners. At the end of treatment sometimes I ask them ‘why do you apply these techniques for treating people?’ They tell me, because they heal people very quickly. Some of them have just mastered the algorithm for trauma and some reversals nothing else. And whenever I ask them where they have learned these techniques, they refer me to people I have trained in different institutions. Wherever we attend any commemoration event organized in different places far from Kigali, we always find people using TFT. One thing which has amazed me is that TFT is rapidly spreading in Rwanda, and this has surprised me. He did what he called a “reminding training” (a refresher course) for the AVEGA nurses and others who would be assisting at the memorial ceremonies this April. He explained that AVEGA is” a public institution with branches across Rwanda”. Mitabu met a group of nurses who worked with AVEGA, a group that provides counseling and basic medical services to women who were raped during the genocide. When he asked where they had learned this technique, they mentioned names of others he had trained.
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He was surprised to see how many people attending also knew how to do TFT. Mitabu was asked (as usual) to form teams of practitioners to assist the International Red Cross at commemoration genocide memorial ceremonies throughout Rwanda. Recently, during April, the month of mourning in Rwanda, Rev. He has taken these techniques to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Burundi, and South Sudan and has treated and trained over 10,000 persons. Mitabu is asked by the International Red Cross to assist at the commemorative events, and he has put the directions for doing simple TFT treatments on the radio every year during the commemoration. He has trained university students at the major universities in Rwanda and every year he is asked to bring his team of trained TFT practitioners to the genocide memorial ceremonies held throughout April. Mitabu works tirelessly for the greater good of all people. He accomplishes all this while being the pastor of a church and heading a successful center for former street children. Mitabu has devoted much of his life to training others in this technique. Later, he received several advanced trainings in TFT, even attending one in Seattle, Washington. Mitabu took a formal TFT training in Kigali. Celestin Mitabu as an interpreter in 2006, when we treated over four hundred street children at a temporary shelter in Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali. (TFT is one of many energy psychology methods.) We first met Rev. Recently, we received an email from one of our top Thought Field Therapy (TFT) practitioners in Rwanda, Rev. It has been effective in ways we could never have imagined. Many of us have done this in Rwanda since 2006. It is imperative that we train more energy psychology professionals to teach others. But the number of energy psychology therapists throughout the world is limited and there are only so many individuals and families that one energy psychology practitioner can treat. We get astounding results we get when we teach others to use energy psychology methods for humanitarian purposes. ( by Suzanne M Connolly, LCSW, LMFT, LISAC)
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