Silvia Hartmann - EmoTrance

EmoTrance or ET stands for Emotional Transformation and was developed by Hartmann in 2002. At the time, Hartmann was working with Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT an alternative medicine method and Project Sanctuary which is related to Win Wenger’s Image streaming.

The practice of Emotional Transformation is based on the work of the American psychotherapist Virginia Satir. Other aspects of EmoTrance were the direct result of Hartmann’s work on animal behaviour in the early nineties.

The technique was first presented at the 2002 Oxford Energy Psychology Conference held at Oxford University, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, United Kingdom.

In 2009, Kim Bradley piloted the technique at a London school to train up school children as EmoTrance Practitioners. A teacher reported positive results for releasing exam stress and also for improving strained relationships between students and teachers. However, because the human energy field is unknown to science, David Colquhoun a professor of pharmacology, has labelled EmoTrance as "preposterous make-believe".