06/09/2026
Pioneering with TTT in Ladakh
“Julley, Julley! Lets build tapping bridges, stay in touch and pass TTT on! “ was the greeting from the Tapping workshop participants in Ladakh when Kathrin Lacher from Germany left after one month in this most northern part of India. "Julley" is a very special word in ladakhi meaning "Hello, Goodbye and Thank You".
This is Kathrin's reflection:
"As TTT doesn’t require much talking, it breaks the deep-rooted taboo in Ladakh against discussing family or personal problems in front of others. As the Ladakhis are a very pragmatic and open-minded people, we got straight down to tapping.
After each workshop, participants came up to me and said that, for the first time, there had been space to address their own difficult issues, even though we had worked without focusing on specific content, and that they would like to continue working on this.
These were some of the comments I got after the workshop:
”TTT is like irrigating the fields with water inside me, seeds can grow and inner flowers can bloom.”
”Sun is coming out and spring after a long harsh winter with minus 40 degree in my heart, thanks TTT.“
”I’d love to learn so much more about it. After that tapping workshop I decided to study psychology.”
Twenty-nine years ago, I spent a summer on a farm in Ladakh, northern India, helping a Ladakhi family with their daily chores. Ladakh is a high mountainous place. The landscape, culture and people made a deep impression on me. This year I decided I wanted to return and give something back.
As I have been supporting people in Germany as a therapist for 20 years and Tapping has been my most effective and wonderful tool for the last 10 years, I wanted to offer it to the Ladakhis. For this ‘Tap and Travel’ project to Ladakh, as I call it, my partner and I wrote to various NGOs working in the fields of sustainability, education and mental health. We found the doors wide open! and my experiences from 29 years ago proved to be a great way in. I ran TTT workshops for 42 students and their teachers from SECMOL (Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh), for the 15 staff members of LEDEG (Ladakh Ecological Development Group), for the 5 staff members of the NAVIKRU Eco Foundation, and for 50 students and 25 teachers at Siddhartha High School in Stok. I also shared my knowledge of TTT with Dr Tsering Palmo, the chairperson of the Ladakh Nuns’ Association.
I offered TTT as part of mental health and resilience training, and all the NGOs were very interested in this subject area. The younger generation in Ladakh is growing up in a fractured reality, caught between traditional village culture and the rapid advance of Western-Indian modernity. I believe that few other cultures worldwide have experienced such a drastic transformation in every aspect within the space of just 30 years. The young people and adults alike were grateful for this practical tool for self-regulation; apart from Buddhism and yoga, there is not really any awareness of tools or therapists who can provide support.
I feel very blessed and grateful for these opportunities to share Tapping and for re-connection.”
PS. From Peaceful Heart Network: If there is a community or project you would like to offer these tools to don’t hesitate to reach out like Kathrin has done. This is the core idea of spreading ripples of healing - that we all can do something.