Practitioner Training

Phase 1 is an invitation to experience TRE® from the inside out, beginning with your own nervous system, your own body, and your own process. Before stepping into the role of facilitator, developing a deep personal relationship with TRE is the bedrock of this training.

Through experiential practice and study, you'll begin to understand the nervous system not only intellectually, but through your own direct experience. We'll explore the physiology of stress and trauma, nervous system responsivity, and the body's innate neurogenic tremoring mechanism, while developing the skills to safely guide and respond to your own TRE process.

This phase is designed to help you cultivate a sustainable personal TRE practice while building the embodied awareness that will eventually inform how you work with others. By approaching the practice with curiosity and a beginner's mind, you begin learning one of the most important skills of facilitation: how to listen and respond to what the body is actually communicating.

Phase 2 marks the transition from personal embodiment into the art of supporting another person through the TRE process. Building on the foundation established in Phase 1, we begin developing the practical facilitation skills, nervous system awareness, and attunement needed to work safely and effectively with individuals.

At the heart of this phase is learning to pay attention to the person in front of you. You'll begin refining your ability to track nervous system responses, read the body, recognize shifts in activation and settling, and respond with appropriate pacing, cueing, modification, or intervention.

We'll also move beyond simply learning the standard TRE sequence. Bodies are different, nervous systems are different, and the standard exercises will not serve every person in the same way. You'll learn how to modify and adapt the practice while remaining responsive to the individual, their capacity, and what their body is communicating in real time.

Through hands-on practice, observation, and feedback, you'll begin developing your own capacity to facilitate TRE with greater confidence, responsivity, and attunement.

Phase 3 brings the previous phases together as we move from working with individuals into the unique experience of facilitating TRE with groups.

Working with groups asks something different of a facilitator. Your attention widens. Rather than tracking one person and one nervous system, you are learning to notice what is happening across the room while remaining grounded enough to recognize when an individual needs additional support.

During this phase, you'll learn how to guide a TRE group from beginning to end, track multiple nervous systems, respond to individual needs without losing your awareness of the larger group, and work with the dynamics that naturally emerge when people practice together.

Through experiential learning, practice facilitation, observation, and feedback, you'll continue refining the skills you've developed throughout the training while learning how to tend both the individual and the whole.