Using Tapping to Help an Entire Class

Welcome back! Summer vacation was wonderful, but I’m always excited when September arrives as there is something about it that inspires new beginnings and gets ideas flowing.

It’s the first day of school in my neighborhood. I just heard the bell from the middle school down the street, and I’m enjoying thinking about all the kids starting off the school year with clean slates. Right this second, their potential is breathtaking.

I’ve been reading some emails from people who have been teaching in the classroom the same kind of tapping relaxation technique I use. They are teachers, administrators, counselors, and volunteers all over the world. They work with first-graders through high school students, kids struggling academically (and often behaviorally) to the gifted and everyone in between.

They have been tapping with kids before ordinary tests and standardized assessments–and other stressful times–and the results they report are impressive. Not only do many of the kids who have done the tapping report feeling much better and more relaxed before and during their tests, their results on the tests were reported to be better than expected. (I wish there were controlled experiments on the effect of tapping on test-taking that I could point to, but unfortunately this type of research has not been done yet. Still, the anecdotal reports are exciting.)

Even just one simple round of tapping led by a teacher seemed to improve her kids’ behavior and lessen their stress. A more detailed approach by a school counselor that addressed students’ individual issues appeared to get rid of many if their test anxieties. Some of the writers pointed out that the improvements from the tapping spilled over into other areas of the students’ lives, like sports performance and social interactions.

It occurred to me that the more adults in schools who can teach kids this technique, the better off all kids would be. More students might actually achieve their academic potential. Tapping might improve classroom dynamics, too, as kids would have a tool to use to replace acting out.

News of all these successes in the classroom has inspired me to start offering training to teachers, school counselors, and anyone else who can teach this tapping technique to kids who could use it. I can teach the tapping basics (with a few special tips for using it with kids) in a one hour session over the phone. If you are in the Seattle are and would prefer to meet with me in person, I have an office in Crown Hill. Or if you have a group of up to ten people, I could come to your school.

To talk more about this, please  email me at help@StressedKids.com or call me at 206.459.1589.

Nancy Linnerooth, Stress Coach

206.459.1589