Looking at the following softwarelist (http://www.complementarycurrency.org/software.html).
I selected CuroMuto.com as a test environment because it should be able to have multiple currencies and it has a relative small usage fee ($11.50 a month + 0.5% of all transactions) although this system is English based (and I target it for the Dutch market), I hope to be able to get this barternetwork in action.

Just before this I joined http://stroomgeld.ning.com/ (dutch) aiming at an ecosophical approach using Bernard Lietaer’s book ‘The Future of Money’. A good portal-page about complementary economics in the Netherlands (including international links) is: http://complementaire-economie.startpagina.nl/

There are many web sites dealing with alternative money systems and related issues. The following are some of the most interesting (list from: http://www.ces.org.za/misc/links.htm)

Alternative Money Systems

• Access Foundation (Alliance of Complementary Currencies Enabling Sustainable Societies)
• Alliance of Complementary Currencies Enabling Sustainable Societies
• Alternative Money Systems
• Altruists International
• CC Information Technologies WorldWide (CCIT)
• ccPedia – an open collective knowledge centre on complementary currency systems
• Crom Alternative Payment System
• Local Exchange Systems in Asia, Africa and Latin America
• Community Information Resource Center (CIRC)
• Complementary Currency Resource Centre
• Creating Community Currency
• EF Schumacher Society
• Forum for Stable Currencies
• Ithaca HOURs Online
• International Journal of Community Currency Research
• Letslink UK
• LETS-Linkup
• LETS.net
• Living Economies
• Local and Interest-Free Currencies, Social Credit and Microcredit
• The Money Fix
• Online Database of Complementary Currencies Worldwide
• The Open Money Project
• P2P Foundation
• Reinventing Money.com
• Community Exchange System
• Strohalm for a change
• The Terra – Trade Reference Currency (TRC)
• Time Dollar Institute
• Transaction Net – Enabling Markets Online
• The Transitioner – TheTransitioner.org brings together those who want to marry the economy and Collective Intelligence in order to build a fair world.
• UniteDiversity Wiki
• Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy – Social Money

The following resources are to help you understand the nature of money-as-we-know-it and why we need a new money system.

Documents, Books and Articles

• Altruists International Money-Related Downloads
• Bibliography of Community Currency Research
• Community Currency Materials, Information and Resources, compiled by Appropriate Economics
• Complementary Currency Bookstore
• Complementary Currency and Exchange – The Movement to Reinvent Money, by Thomas H Greco, Jr. [HTML] [PDF] [PowerPoint]
• Community Currency Guide by Bernard Lietaer and Gwendolyn Hallsmith
• Flight from Inflation, the Monetary Alternative, by E.C Riegel. A posthumous compilation of his essays, Los Angeles, CA, The Heather Foundation, 1978 (PDF 488K)
• Interest and Inflation Free Money, by Margrit Kennedy
• History of the CES, by Tim Jenkin, June 2004
• I Want the Earth Plus 5% – the story of money
• Money and its Alternatives – Strohalm Foundation (PDF 575K)
• Money, Bona Fide or Non-Bona Fide, by Dr. Edward E Popp, 1970 (PDF 685K)
• Money and the Crisis of Civilization by Charles Eisenstein, March 2008
• Money: A New Beginning by Charles Eisenstein, April 2008
• Money – Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, by Thomas H Greco, Jr. (PDF 893K)
• The New Approach to Freedom. Together with Essays on the Separation of Money and State, by E.C. Riegel, 1949 (PDF 244K)
• The New Approach to Freedom, web site hosting the writings of E.C. Riegel
• Poor Because of Money – Strohalm Foundation (PDF 941K)
• Private Enterprise Money. A Non-Political Money System, by E.C. Riegel (PDF 537K)
• Reinventing Money. The emergent path toward peace, harmony, and equity.
  Presentation by Thomas H Greco, Jr. [HTML] [PDF] [PowerPoint]
• The Great Cookie Jar – Taking the Mysteries Out of the Money System, by Dr Edward E Popp, 1978 (PDF 774K). HTML Version
• The Monetary Philosophy of E.C. Riegel, by Thomas H. Greco, Jr. (MS PowerPoint 35K)
• The Money Myth Exploded – The Financial Enigma Resolved, by Louis Even
• The Natural Economic Order, by Silvio Gesell
• The Nature of Money, by John Kutyn, 5 March 2000
• The Nature of Money, by John Kutyn, 16 March 2005
• The Nature of Wealth, by Fred Lundgren, August 2002
• The New Money Text Book – Economics Made Simple, by Doctor Edward C Hamlyn, May 2007
• The Politics of Money, by EC Riegel
• Private Enterprise Money: A Non-Political Money System, by E. C. Riegel, 1944.
• The Credit Theory of Money by A Mitchell Innes, The Banking Law Journal, 1914
• What is Money? A history of credit by A Mitchell Innes, The Banking Law Journal, May 1913

Monetary Reform

• The American Monetary Act and the Monetary Transparency Act, 21 September 2006, American Monetary Institute
• The American Monetary Institute
• British Association for Monetary Reform
• COMER – The Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform
• Forum for Stable Currencies
• Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME)
  FAME is a not-for-profit educational organization whose sole mission is to educate people about the benefits of honest monetary weights and measures and the harm caused by our current fraudulent fiat money monetary system
• Global Research.ca. Centre for Research on Globalization
• James Roberston, working for a sane alternative
• The Money Reform Party
• People for Mathematically Perfected Economy
• Prosperity. Freedom from Debt Slavery
  Prosperity is a monthly Money Reform journal based in Glasgow, Scotland, which is dedicated to spreading understanding about the nature of our debt-based money system, and campaigning for publicly-created debt-free money.

Monetary History

• American Monetary History
• FX Micheloud Monetary History
• Gold: prices, facts, figures & research. Monetary episodes from history
• Monetary history documents
• Money – Past, Present & Future, Information on Monetary History, Contemporary Developments, and Electronic Money
• Money, Value, and Monetary History after Milton Friedman

Miscellaneous

• Money, Banking and Credit. This site is devoted to the issues of money, banking, fiscal, and monetary policy and their impacts on families and the nation as a whole
• The People vs The Banks – Class action suit on behalf of the people of Canada alleging that financial institutions are illegally creating money.

Peak Oil

• Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas
• EnergyBulletin.net
• Peak Oil Clock
• The Wolf at the Door

Video

• CC Video. Collection of videos on complementary currency systems
• Money as Debt [Google video]
  Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its “Duncan Initiative” received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States.
• The Money Masters [Google video]
  How International Bankers Gained Control of America
• Monopoly Men – Federal Reserve Fraud (1999)
• Suzao Media
  A good collection of videos on money and debt

Awareness as a whole is a pretty big issue and I have collected and read many books and articles about this subject. Recently I noticed the great overlap of David R. Hawkins‘ work regarding the calibrated consciousness scale (the map of consciousness) using applied kinesiology with the inspiring channelled work of Esther & Jerry Hicks (also featured in the movie ‘The Secret‘ about the Law of Attraction).
Hawkins calles it calibration levels and Esther Hicks called it frequencies or vibrational interpretation (this jargon or terminology is also used in therapeutics and NLP). Eckhart Tolle, author of ‘A New Earth‘, featured on Oprah’s website probably calls it identification with a certain form and at the lower levels (Hawkins Scale: above 200=Truth / below 200= Falshood) identification with the (collective) painbody. Caroline Myss, medical intuitive & author of ‘anatomy of the spirit‘ also identifies the collective tribal energy circuit (First Chakra in eastern terminology). Myss greatest methaphor is the analogy of your bodies energy system with a bank-account and identify where your energy flows. Stop the leaks or you become energetically bankrupt which causes illness in your body. My association when watching Caroline Myss explaining this Energetic Bankaccount concept was with Robert Kiyosaki, author of the book ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ in which he explaines the flow of money of the poor, the middle class and rich people [video] identifying assets (puts money in my pocket, will feed me) and liabilities (takes money out of my pocket, will eat me). The comparison of the importance of educating Financial Literacy and educating personal Energetic Literacy is rather interesting.

Back to awareness: When I meditate using only the Silva Method I am tuned in the Akasha field somewhat (Zero Point Field for scientists but what’s in a name), but when I also use the Heartmath (HeartCoherence) techniques I unlock and release creativity and new potential.
Burt Goldman, an 81 year old (retired) Silva instructor also known as the American Monk created a course named Quantum Jumping where you go to parallel dimensions when meditating using the Silva Method. In Silva you just go to your Lab and you meet your 2 advisors, but what if you just create a board of advisors, a mindteam if you will, and check the outcome in a parallel dimension immediately after your consult or brainstorm. Even if you only imagine it or visualize it: This is very powerful stuff and I haven’t even mentioned ESP or remote viewing.

I am aware that everyone chooses his or her own path in life, but although a skeptical approach is custom when dealing with these claims, one cannot ignore the impact experiences like these ideas have, even if it is just imagination and overwhelming evidence is pure luck according to witnesses. I’d like to end this personal awareness piece positive: Suspend (your thinking) & Hang in There, (free interpretation of Peter Senge’s Presence) and close with the wonderful affirmation:
“Everyday in every way, it is getting better and better!”

Chaos is paradoxical; you need a certain amount of chaos to be creative but not to the point that you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff. Getting organized is helpful for people in offices and at home. Unwanted chaos is non-productive; there are several systems, tools and principles for this. Getting organized is a general topic within problem solving which is said to be most effective to clarify feelings because it is primarily aimed at the physical environmental level. The clean desk feeling, nice labeled folders, knowing where your stuff is stored and where to put it (back) when done.

Usually the problem of increasing unwanted chaos is that new stuff doesn’t have a place to store it.

A nice helpful diagram to process “stuff” from your in-basket to a destination from David Allen’s Book “Getting things done” :

The level of accepted chaos may vary from person to person. In my experience the tolerance level of chaos for men tends to be higher than it is for women. If the values of cleanliness and order differ within a household this may cause tension. For example a woman might feel uncomfortable with dirty laundry on the floor or a pile of used dishes in the kitchen long before a man finally does. Even within a emancipated society this might be one of the reasons women still do more of the household tasks than men…  (It might be interesting to use the value-system as a variable for social science research)

Order is the reshuffling of Chaos using sets of Rules. These rules don’t have to be logical, reasonable or even sane, but they do have to be internally consistent, and most of the things or people involved must fit or be made to fit the resulting Pattern. Sweeping unwanted facts under the Rug usually includes those who found them. In Reality, order exists in a sea of Chaos, for Order must be be recognized as such so that Meaning can be attached to it. [Source]

Life is not making a living, but designing your life

Using metaphors can be powerful and inspirational for creating a mission or identity. I am a …. (fill in a metaphore from Nature). You can start by choosing a primary element (fire, water, earth & air) and then identify with specific items or places in nature you feel drawn to. It is sometimes helpful to identify with a certain animal which has certain values and charachter-trades you seek or admire which will fit your chosen role. Life design uses natural metaphores for the several cycles and development phases (growth) in our lives. When you identify your personal area of growth in your current life phase, you can take apropriate action.

Robert Dilts‘ alignment exercise (generally used in NLP-practice):

• increase income,
• decrease expenses, or
• adjust credit debt payments.

Several options exist for increasing income but all may not be alternatives for a particular situation. These possibilities include upgrading a present job to one that pays more; switching jobs to a better-paying one; working overtime; having someone additional in the household seek and find employment where more money is made than spent; qualifying for assistance, either public or private such as food stamps, child support, grants or subsidies; and renting or selling assets that are no longer needed and/or used.

Temporary adjustments in expenses may provide temporary income increases. Stop payroll deductions for retirement, savings, or education funds. Adjust tax withholding so that enough is being withheld but a large tax refund will not be coming next spring. Do more home production; garden or sew if you already have the skill and equipment needed. Use community resources for recreation. Pay insurance premiums monthly instead.

To decrease expenses either CUT DOWN or CUT OUT. For most people going “cold turkey” or cutting out entirely may not be possible. Above all, to cut expenses, go to a cash-only basis; put all credit cards out of reach.

Certain expenses cannot be cut out entirely because of health or safety concerns such as utilities, food, health, recreation, and insurance.

[Reference (renewed) source: Solve Financial Problems]

Recommended reading:

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter (Contributor)
• Why We Want You to be Rich: Two Men – One Message – Donald J. Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Meredith McIver, Sharon Lechter

• I am now open to receive the abundant good that God has for me
• God is the source of all my good, I look only to him for my supply
• I vision only that which is for my highest good
• I speak only good, kind, loving and harmonious words
• I now release all fear, worry and doubt into the loving arms of God
• All that the father has is mine, I rejoice in it now
• I now let go and let God work in my financial affairs
• I think only loving positive and uplifting thoughts
• Money is positive, money is my friend
• I am now open to receive the abundant good that God has for me
• It is good to be wealthy
• God wants me to share in his good fortune
• I use my wealth wisely
• I now decree to God that I am ready to receive his abundance
• Financial success is mine, I accept it now
• I send out in thought only that which I desire to have returned
• The good I send out in thought, comes back to me multiplied
• I now have a clear and open connection with my higher self
• Money is coming to me easily and effortlessly
• I love the work I do, it is a part of God’s divine plan
• I am now one with infinite intelligence
• I am an open channel expressing God’s will
• God is guiding me in everything I do
• I deserve to be rich, I accept it now
• God goes before me making everything right
• I now live in a loving harmonious universe
• God is abundant, I am one with God
• As a loving father, God wants me to enjoy his good wealth
• Success is mine, I accept it now
• I now decree to God my intention to share his wealth
• I use my money wisely for the good of all
• Money is circulating freely in my life
• Money comes to me in many ways, through God
• I am divinely guided in all that I do
• The Lord wants me to be prosperous, I say YES!
• I now gives thanks to a loving, abundant God

Written by Jeff Staniforth – AffirmWare 7 Part Affirmation Course? Visit http://www.AffirmWare.com.au
Quoted at the forum of Positive-club.com.

Information is a container word with several meanings; Information can refer to:

• raw data in a document or database
• tagged or classified information in a document or database
• specified, classified content without reference to a document or medium
• an answer to a specific question
• an automated system giving a programmed response to a specific question

Visualizing tools for Information are needed in our ongoing quest for information: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has published a lot of research papers over the years and developed several visualization tools.

Looking for ways to visualize information and meta-levels I found the following websites:

• A visual exploration on mapping complex networks:
  http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
• Interactive Knowledge Maps of Tools, Books, Researchers, Success Factors, and Methods in the Visualization Field
  http://www.visual-literacy.org/pages/documents.htm
• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
  http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html
• Visualization Methods from the Periodic Table:
  http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/xmldb/rest/db/Visualization/showAll.xql
• Information Visualization (methods and software)
  http://infoviz.pnl.gov/technologies.html
• Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
  http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/02/data-visualization-modern-approaches/

Total of 138,313,427 items in the collections, including:

• 20,854,810 cataloged books in the Library of Congress classification system
• 11,478,022 books in large type and raised characters, incunabula (books printed before 1501), monographs and serials, music, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports, and other printed material
• 105,980,595 items in the nonclassified (special) collections. These included:
  • 2,955,493 audio materials, such as discs, tapes, talking books, and other recorded formats
  • 61,432,879 total manuscripts
  • 5,317,279 maps
  • 14,833,797 microforms
  • 5,517,882 pieces of sheet music
  • 14,364,982 visual materials, including:
    • 1,204,781 moving images
    • 12,520,442 photographs
    • 92,960 posters
    • 544,142 prints and drawings

The Budget is the largest wordwide (to my knowledge). They operated with a total fiscal 2007 appropriation of $600,417,000, including authority to spend $42,108,000 in receipts. In comparison: The Koninklijke Bibliotheek in the Netherlands spend about €53,871,000 in 2007 according to their annual financial report. Some facts about The Koninklijke Bibliotheek:
Holdings
3,5 million items = more than 68 km of library materials, including 49 km of books (2.5 million), 18 km of periodicals (including 15,000 current periodicals) and more than 1 km of microforms
Acquisition
The deposit collection grows by an average of 40,000 books and 120.000 electronic publications annually. The research collection grows by an average of 19,000 items annually
Special collections
The KB also houses some 30 special collections including: medieval and modern manuscripts, old and rare books, pamphlets, book bindings, marbled papers and books on the history of paper, chess- and draughts, newspapers, cookery books and children’s books

Personally I have always had a thing with libraries and bookstores. The wealth of potential information is immense. Knowledge and wisdom stored in all those books and media.
The last 10-15 years Internet has been filled (or better: connected to webservers) with websites containing documents, pages and data from several sources including unreliable ones. The need to find good reliable information becomes higher and higher. Truth and reality becomes popularized and personalized in Blogs as Truthiness (“the quality by which one purports to know something emotionally or instinctively, without regard to evidence or intellectual examination.”) and Wikiality (“together we can create a reality that we all agree on — the reality we just agreed on.”). See more discussion about the Truth on Internet in the VPRO documentary Wiki’s Waarheid (Dutch subtitles).
Besides the trustworthiness issues, strictly speaking, searchengines like Google and Yahoo have taken over the initial information exploration function of conventional libraries and may as such be considered a fully digitized library. In this new situation does not the content itself, but the way this content (within a automatically interpreted context) is linked, indexed and categorized defines how it shows up in search results.

Google also made an effort to scan, OCR and index books from libraries to make full text search possible, this is what conventional libraries until recently couldn’t do. This service is called Google Book Search. An extension of that is starting your own Google library.
I already have a selection of my library online as an exported list: Toine Fennis Bookcollection with currently 521 books. I just looked into importing my library into My Google Booklibrary [my example] to enhance searching possibilities within my books which gives many benefits for research.
From the 521 books on my list, 51 were not recognized, so I guess it is safe to say roughly 10% gets lost. This might be due to the fact that a large part of the list is in Dutch but since I can find the info elsewhere on the Internet through library catalog’s and my catalog software MyGoogle Library still needs some tweaking.

I made my initial booklist with Collectorz.com Bookcollector Pro which supports the Flic barcode-reader (now sold as ROV) and other barcodereaders, to scan the ISBN on the back of most books. The program automatically searches in online libraries and bookstores and downloads most meta-data including the cover (if you use Amazon as a source). I did have to classify the Categories and Subjects from most books, it would be nice to also have the UDC or other classification or subject oriented keywords (automated) added to these books.

Since information becomes more and more important in our network-economy, online libraries (and of course searchengines) will become our guides in finding reliable data and resources. For the future innovation is to be expected as full-text searching and content-analyzing within books becomes available through services like Google Book Search. Optimizing connections between databases of conventional libraries with loads of meta-data stored and search-engines will not take long. New Internet applications including community created content is to be expected for searching and finding books and documents. Personal reviews, ranking and keywords combined with Web 2.0 namely Tagclouds, semantic webs, and shared booklists within a community setting including data mining (find similar books, related books, and booksuggestions) will become common practice.

Online Bookshelf’s
On the low end you will have pure commercial initiatives like Shelfari* which has some nice Gadget-plugins with Networking sites like Hyves with a business model based on Google Ads and Amazon affiliate sales. Shelfari only imported 226 of 521 books, = 43% from my original booklist (due to the fact they only use Amazon [upd. aug. 28 2008 Shelfari was acquired by Amazon] ). Other online bookshelf’s are Goodreads.com with only 214 books imported in my Goodreads library (sorry, this is not good enough). I got pleasantly surprized by aNobii.com with 451 imported books [see My Collection] (same number as Google!?). aNobii is more community oriented and does good suggestions about new books to investigate, it is also about what books you are reading at the moment.
On the high-end (very promising) you have Librarything.com which imported 471 books [my Librarything booklist]. Librarything is free till 200 books or membership based; I bought myself a lifetime membership for $25. Librarything is really about the love of books and libraries and it shows: lots of community features like comparing booklists, interestgroups, and lots of external connectivity. There is even a keyword tagmirror based on keywords others gave to the books in my list (it’s like a 360 degrees keyword feedback based on my booklist). In the near future I would like to see a combination / connection of the features seen in MyGoogle Library, Google Book Search and of course Librarything, if the full-text search and keyword features of these online library webservices synergize this would make my research library heaven….

Finally some general resources about libraries for librarians or information professionals:

• http://www.libraryspot.com/librariesonline.htm
  
• LibWeb Library Servers through WWW http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/
• over 30.000 Free Books http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
• Resources about Library http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum45.00.00/
• The European Library Portal http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html

• Linguistic intelligence (”word smart”):
• Logical-mathematical intelligence (”number/reasoning smart”)
• Spatial intelligence (”picture smart”)
• Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence (”body smart”)
• Musical intelligence (”music smart”)
• Interpersonal intelligence (”people smart”)
• Intrapersonal intelligence (”self smart”)
• Naturalist intelligence (”nature smart”)

As a coach and entrepreneur I encourage on the general concept of Life Long Learning: one must continue to improve him or herself, not only because of external force by an employer or professional peer group, but especially because of personal motivation and interest in a changing technological, economical and social environment.

In todays Information Society we also have to look into enhanced forms of literacy, not only the ability to read and write, the conventional or functional Literacy but also Computer Literacy (the ability to use computers for writing and E-mail communication), Information Literacy and Media Literacy.

Accelerated Learning Techniques have been investigated for several years. I found really good resources at Win Wenger’s Project Renaissance. Following the recommended links I found a generations overview of Accelerated Learning Techniques:

The First Generation – Tricks And Tools That Really Work

The Second Generation – Tapping The Unconscious

The Third Generation – Aligning The Unconscious

Although this is a preview (dated 2004?) by Matthew Turco; this accelerated learning overview offers me a nice opportunity to combine and position tricks, creativity, NLP, Psychology and Energy work.
Any other overviews on the subject are really welcome…..

From the emofree.com FAQ:

[How does EFT differ from Thought Field Therapy (TFT)?]
TFT uses similar principles as EFT but asks the student to learn 10 or 15 different tapping routines (called algorithms), each of which is designed to cover a specific issue such as trauma, phobias, depression, etc . Anything not covered by those individual routines (e.g. insomnia, TMJ, dyslexia, etc.) requires a diagnostic process. EFT, by contrast, uses only one comprehensive tapping routine to cover all issues (not just 10 or 15) and doesn’t require diagnosis.

What is EFT?
EFT is a psychological version of acupuncture, EFT is a simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body’s energy system, without the discomfort of needles.
The EFT Discovery Statement (premise):

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”

And because our physical pains and diseases often appear to be connected with our emotions the following statement has also shown merit…

“Our unresolved negative emotions are major contributors to most physical pains and diseases.”

This common sense approach draws its power from (1) time-honored Eastern discoveries that have been around for over 5,000 years and (2) Albert Einstein, who told us back in the 1920’s that everything (including our bodies) is composed of energy. These ideas have been largely ignored by Western Healing Practices and that is why EFT can work where nothing else does.

EFT has a very large community and has lots of cases and information available on the website and in the newsletter. The EFT Manual can be downloaded for Free and you can get started immediately. If you are autodidact like me, you can order one or more DVD sets from seminars and live sessions to learn and even become an EFT professional yourself.
You can use EFT as a complementary technique in your practice (Coach, teacher, health-professional). EFT can be applied to just about anything which is also encouraged.

I haven’t seen a therapy yet which has such profound and powerful results so quickly.
Why am I convinced about the integrity and positive intentions of Gary Graig? First, the manual is free, and the DVD-sets are very cheap [see EFT Store], especially if you buy more sets. Also, you are allowed to copy and give it away to 100 people.

What really convinced me is that even coaches (like Carol Ann Rowland from ZenSight) who developed their own therapy or intervention style still acknowledge the value of EFT. EFT is highly recommended for personal and professional use. Since this has a lot of potential I’m sure we will see and hear a lot more from these emotional freedom techniques.

In the meantime I have studied most of the EFT series DVD’s (it takes some discipline and a long time watching) and I practiced the techniques a lot. Now it feels much more comfortable using and sharing EFT with others. The only remarkable thing is that I fall back to English (instead of Dutch) for the Basic affirmation: ‘Even Though I have this [...] I deeply and completely accept myself’.

I am planning to make a compilation DVD with EFT material to watch and learn the basics.

Fortunately even with only ‘the basic EFT recipe’ most people get results. Just contact me if you have a specific issue you want solved with EFT; EFT can work even if I talk you through it over the phone or with Skype. Great tool for anybody.
[Toine Fennis]

Most of us start (or started) back to school each year full of enthusiasm and ambition. This year, we say, I will buckle down, stay on top of things, and get good grades. How often does that promise become a reality? Understanding your personality, and how it affects your learning style can lead you to more feasible resolutions, greater academic success, less guilt, and more fun!

Artisans

Artisans like their schoolwork to be fun and also practical, directly applicable to their personal aims. Hands-on, active learning is preferred to sitting in a chair and listening to a teacher talk. They prefer focus on details to leaping from thought to thought or concept to concept. In high school and college, Artisans choose courses and majors that will teach a skill they will use, whether that’s business administration, diesel mechanics, or chiropractic.

Guardians

Guardians respect their teachers’ decisions about what the content of their learning should be. They need and appreciate logical presentation of facts and ideas, and clear expectations for assignments — what is demanded of them and what the standards are. Teachers who leap from concept to concept will frustrate their Guardian students. Like Artisans, Guardians are likely to choose practical courses of study that will lead to secure careers.

Idealists

Idealists are excited and motivated by ideas, particularly those relating to people and relationships or an understanding of “Life.” Incorporating new learning into their guiding value system is critical for Idealists. They prefer teachers who act as coaches — who provide broad concepts, set up a launching pad for independent thinking, group discussion, and extrapolation, and then fill in the facts and information that support the concepts. Idealists often choose majors in the fine arts or literature, psychology, or the humanities.

Rationals

Like Idealists, Rationals are self-directed learners. They want to be challenged and provided with the means to pursue the ideas that are important to them. They are highly autonomous, and so don’t generally seek discussion. Teachers can support Rationals by sharing expertise and resources for learning and by giving them honest feedback as the students’ knowledge and expertise grows. Rationals often choose majors in science, mathematics, philosophy, or technology.

[Source: Newsletter from Advisorteam.com 1-2008]