Module 1 – Embodied Mastery
Where your TRE® journey takes you is up to you. For many people, it begins a lifelong. life changing personal practice. For others, it also opens the door to an exciting new chapter in their professional life.
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Module 1 | Embodied Mastery
A complete weekend in its own right
Embodied Mastery is the foundation of the TRE® Provider Training Programme.
It is also a complete stand-alone training for anyone who wants to learn TRE® safely, confidently and thoroughly as a personal practice.
Some people join because they are curious about TRE®. Others are looking for a body-based approach to support their own wellbeing, resilience or professional development. Many are therapists or wellbeing practitioners who want to experience TRE® for themselves before deciding whether to continue into the professional training.
Whatever brings you here, Embodied Mastery offers a complete learning experience.
There is no expectation that you decide about Provider Training before you’ve experienced TRE for yourself.
The purpose of Module 1 is to help you establish a safe, confident personal practice. Learning to facilitate TRE® with others is the focus of the professional training that follows.
Why Embodied Mastery?
The name Embodied Mastery reflects the purpose of this weekend.
It isn’t about mastering a technique. It’s about becoming increasingly familiar with your own body, recognising its patterns, trusting its responses and developing the confidence that comes from lived experience.
That understanding doesn’t come from reading a book or attending a lecture. It develops through experience, curiosity and regular practice.
Whether you continue with a personal TRE® practice for years to come or later decide to apply for the Provider Training Programme, this embodied understanding becomes the foundation for everything that follows.
Embodied Mastery isn’t about mastering a technique. It’s about developing the confidence that comes from lived experience.
Activities:
- Guided instruction on the seven foundational TRE® exercises and their purpose
- Hands-on practice sessions to familiarise participants with their own organic movements and innate sensations
- Group exploration of the importance of self-regulation and safety in initiating the tremoring process
Experience Before Facilitation
TRE® is designed to be experienced before it is facilitated. For many people, Module 1 is a powerful experience in itself. It is often the first time they discover the body’s natural tremor mechanism and begin to understand just how much wisdom the body already holds.
Over two days you’ll learn the TRE® process in depth, experience it for yourself and gain the knowledge and confidence to continue practising safely at home. The weekend is just the beginning.
As your own practice develops over the weeks and months that follow, your understanding naturally deepens. Questions arise. Your confidence grows. You begin to recognise the subtle changes that only lived experience can teach.
Whether you continue with a personal practice or later decide to apply for the Provider Training Programme, everything begins here.
- Students will explore fight, flight, freeze and dissociation in relation to TRE® as adaptive survival mechanisms in the face of threat, and how they present in the TRE® space
- We will explore these responses in both the animal world and with humans
- Students will deepen their understanding of how these processes manifest in the body, influence behaviour, and impact emotional regulation
The Science: Understanding What You’re Experiencing
One of the things that makes this training different is the emphasis on understanding why TRE® works.
Throughout the weekend we’ll explore the science that underpins the practice, connecting your own experience with current understanding of stress physiology, trauma and embodied learning.
Together we’ll explore topics including:
- The neurophysiology of stress and recovery
- The body’s innate protective responses
- Polyvagal Theory and the defence cascade
- Neuroplasticity and how experience shapes the brain and body
- Central Pattern Generators and the learning spine
- Fascia and embodied awareness
- Safety, pacing and self-regulation
The science isn’t taught as theory for theory’s sake.
It provides a framework for understanding what you’re experiencing, helping you make sense of the body’s remarkable capacity to restore balance, adapt and recover.
Learning Together
TRE® may be a personal practice, but learning it is enriched by learning alongside others.
Embodied Mastery is taught in a small, supportive group where curiosity is encouraged, questions are welcomed and everyone’s experience is respected.
One of the greatest teachers during the weekend is the diversity of experience within the group. No two people experience TRE® in exactly the same way, and exploring those differences together deepens everyone’s understanding of the process.
Many students tell me that one of the unexpected benefits of the weekend is simply spending time with other people who share a curiosity about the body, wellbeing and personal growth.
What You’ll Leave With
By the end of Embodied Mastery you’ll have:
- A thorough understanding of the TRE® process.
- The confidence to establish a regular personal practice.
- A clear understanding of how to practise TRE® safely.
- An introduction to the science that underpins the work.
- Practical experience of TRE® within a safe and supportive environment.
- A deeper appreciation of the body’s innate capacity to release stress and restore balance.
For some, that’s exactly where the journey ends. For others, it marks the beginning of the pathway towards becoming a Certified TRE® Provider. Both are equally valuable outcomes.
Online or In Person?
Embodied Mastery is available both online and in person.
The online programme offers a comprehensive introduction to TRE®, giving you the knowledge, confidence and support to establish a safe and sustainable personal practice from your own home.
Learning TRE® for yourself can be done very effectively online.
Learning to facilitate TRE® with others is a different skill, and that is best developed together, in person.
For this reason, the remainder of the TRE® Provider Training Programme is delivered predominantly through in-person modules, supported by online group supervision. This combination allows you to establish your own practice before developing the practical facilitation skills, observation and professional judgement that come from learning alongside others.
If you’ve completed Embodied Mastery online and later decide to continue into the TRE® Provider Training Programme, you’re warmly invited to attend the in-person Module 1 before progressing to Module 2.
To support this transition, I offer the in-person Embodied Mastery weekend at half price for students who have already completed the online programme.
Many students find that experiencing the training in person adds another valuable dimension to their learning before beginning facilitation training.
Many students also choose to return to Embodied Mastery later in their journey—not because they need to, but because they value the opportunity to deepen their own practice, revisit the learning and reconnect with the training community.
TRE® is a practice that continues to evolve. Returning to Embodied Mastery often allows people to recognise just how much has changed since they first began.
Bookings, Cancellations & Transfers
Module 1 – Embodied Mastery
The full fee for Module 1 is payable four weeks before the training.
Once payment has been made, the fee is non-refundable.
If unforeseen circumstances prevent you from attending, please contact me as soon as possible. Wherever possible, I’ll offer you a place on the following year’s Module 1, subject to availability.
TRE® Provider Training
The TRE® Provider Training Programme is a year-long professional commitment, and your place is reserved specifically for you throughout the programme.
For those continuing into the Provider Training Programme, your place is confirmed when your first Certification Supervision payment is received.
In addition to your statutory rights, I offer a 7-day cooling-off period from receipt of your first Certification Supervision payment, during which you may cancel and receive a full refund.
Subsequent supervision instalments may be cancelled within 48 hours of payment. After this period, supervision fees are non-refundable.
Places are intentionally limited to ensure a high level of individual support, group supervision and learning throughout the programme. Once payments become non-refundable, they cannot be transferred to another person.
About Kate
Kate is a trauma and emotional abuse specialist. She is a Global TRE® Certification Trainer & Mentor and current Chair of the TRE UK Association. She is a EFT Mentor & Advanced Accredited Practitioner, having served as Exec Director EFT International for 6 years and is a member of ACEP.
She is also an accredited SSP Provider, and an Integrated Energy Psychology Practitioner and body worker with over 30 years of experience in the field.
Kate is privileged to have trained with Dr David Berceli (the creator of TRE®) and now teaches and Mentors TRE students alongside offering regular trainings, workshops and 1:1 TRE® consultations and embodiment coaching.
While she works with any problem state she specialises in the sensitive areas of Post Traumatic Stress PTS (specifically narcissistic emotional abuse), chronic pain and anxiety.