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An Open Letter To Gary Craig NOTE: In respect to Gary Craig, I submitted the letter below to him before sending it to you. His comments and clarifications are shown in the body of the letter in BLUE and ITALICS.
June 25, 2009 Dear Gary, I listened with interest to your telecast of June 21 with Betty Moore-Hafter and Jade Barbee, and would like to comment on what you said in it about some of the issues now being brought into the open for discussion –– I believe to the ultimate benefit of all of us. I was very glad to learn of your offer to the EFT-CC and EFT- ADV certificate holders. As the former Director of the EFT Certificate Program (which closed in June, 2008) I want to express my appreciation for your plan to grant free tuition for the Cert-1 exams (the first level exams of your EFT Certification Program) to all those who previously earned EFT-CC or EFT-ADV designations. I think this should be of substantial help to those certificate holders who have wanted to apply for your new EFT Certifications but who, for monetary reasons, have hesitated to do so. (For details of Gary’s Cert-1 program offer go to http://www.emofree.com, scroll down to EFT Resources, then to Certification) I want to point out that an important need for many of the EFT Certificate holders is to receive full recognition for the considerable work that went into the taking and passing of the EFT-CC and EFT- ADV exams. In reviewing the records of the EFT Certificate Program, I notice that approximately 95% of the people taking the initial (Basic) level EFT-CC exam, passed that exam the first time they took it. However, only about 38% of those taking the Advanced EFT-ADV exam passed this exam the first time they took it (applicants were allowed two opportunities to take each exam). The ADV exam appears to have been much more difficult for the majority of the applicants and it certainly was not, to use your words on the telecast, "almost laughable" in its simplicity. You may therefore want to reconsider your implication that this exam was worthless, a concept that is causing considerable distress to certificate holders, many of whom have contributed substantially to the prestige of EFT worldwide as they use the EFT-CC and EFT-ADV designations wisely. GARY'S COMMENT: While there are differences of opinion regarding the quality of the EFT-CC and EFT-ADV tests, the real issue here has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is that EFT-ADV cannot possibly be considered "advanced" given the newer material that has come out since its advent. It has lost credibility through no fault of those who hold it or its creators - all was done in good faith. I wish I could compensate everyone for the time, effort and money they put into getting their EFT Certificates of Completion, but that of course is not possible. I can, however, waive the $300 Cert-I fee and this is substantially more than anyone paid for EFT-CC and EFT-ADV combined, which was $160 for the two exams. Further, those who pass the Cert-I test will then have an up-to-date credible credential. Pat and I should have discontinued this program earlier, but I am taking steps now to correct this issue in order to maintain EFT's integrity. (PAT SPEAKS AGAIN): On your telecast you requested that listeners let you know of any changes they’d like to see in your Open Hand Policy, before you modify it, which apparently you plan to do soon. I am therefore requesting, in the name of the synergy you mention in your talk and for the sake of us all pulling together as a "team", that you modify the wording in the paragraph I have copied below from your Open Hand Policy. I request that you change it from what seems now to be a command to certificate holders to discontinue using their EFT Certificate designations, to a respectful request that they do so in order to protect the legal status of EFT (or whatever it is that is threatened). The reason for this request is that the word “legal”, as used in your policy, is being interpreted by many people who have been contacting me as a veiled threat of a law suit from you against them, and they are distressed by this possibility. I personally do not believe that you intended the words to be taken as a threat of a law suit against these people, particularly in light of the assurance you gave in your telecast that you have no intention of suing people over this (or at least that was my interpretation of your words). My own understanding of what you wrote in the policy is that you are referring to a legal threat to the integrity of EFT if the EFT-CC and EFT-ADV designations remain in use. Is my assumption correct? If so, it is important to clarify this point because no-one else I know of has interpreted your wording this way, they see it as a threat of legal action against them if they don't comply with your request. I am underlining the words (see below) from your present Open Hand Policy that are causing this problem: "Those using the EFT-CC, EFT-ADV, EFT Level 1, EFT Level 2 and EFT Level 3 or any other non-official form of EFT credentialing should discontinue using them immediately. I realize this is different than my much softer, previous, stance and I apologize for any inconvenience. However, as clearly stated above, these designations have obviously become misleading and there is a compelling legal need to clean this up in the public interest. Please cooperate as the misleading nature of such designations may create unwanted legal complications." Explaining within the policy itself that you do not intend to sue individuals for noncompliance with your demands on this matter might do a lot to clarify things all around. Whether or not a particular certificate holder will comply with your request will depend upon the individual needs of that person, and in some cases this may involve serious considerations for that person’s EFT practice, but I think I understood you to say in the telecast (or imply) that unless a person were to be in flagrant violation of EFT's integrity and represent a clear danger to that method, you have no intention of resorting to legal action - at least this is how I interpreted your words. If my interpretation was correct, this will be a welcome clarification for many certificate holders. GARY'S COMMENT: As I said clearly in my interview, I consider this matter to be an ethical one and intend to approach it in that manner. I hope never to be in court on any EFT issue but, for the good of the movement, I must reserve the right to do so if extreme abuses appear against the EFT brand name.
Best
wishes to you Gary,
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