In this talk Sarah Zorica Mitic talks about her experience teaching TRE® to refugees in Norway. She will present a review of a program where TRE® was taught as part of an integration program for refugees who had been granted residence in Norway. Sarah was the director of the TRE® part of this program. She will also talk about her experience teaching TRE® to refugee populations in Turkey and the former Yugoslavia.

TRE® can also be useful for those working with refugees, both volunteers and professionals. The role as helper can be highly stressful and even cause secondary trauma. The role of TRE® in this work will be presented.

Topics covered are:

• -What is TRE®?
• -War, political persecution, displacement and trauma.
• -Trauma, the body, the brain and the nervous system.
• -Surviving and adapting to life as a refugee.
• -Phases in the adaptation to life in a new country.
• -How TRE®, understanding trauma and other methods can help.
• -Considerations and precautions.
• -The role as helper and bystander trauma.
• -TRE® for those working with refugees

 

About Sarah Zorica Mitic

Dr. sci. med. Sarah Zorica Mitic is a retired medical doctor and specialist with 40 years of work experience in the health systems in several different countries. She grew up in a multicultural society, and she has extensive experience working with several cultures and religions.

She has always had a special interest in trauma therapy and has a doctorate in psychosomatics and psychophysiology – with a focus on fear.

Dr. Mitic is educated in Somatic Experience, Brain-spotting, NARM, SOMA, and is a TRE® Global Certification Trainer (Trauma Tension Releasing Exercises). She is the author of several academic books and articles. More information about these works can be found at https://independent.academia.edu/ZoricaMitic

Robyn’s work is at the intersection of mindfulness, consent, embodiment and sexuality — guiding people to slow down and bring awareness to what they desire, practice the skills to communicate those desires, and create clear agreements to receive exactly what they want.

Some of the benefits of TRE® include supporting people to connect to sensation in their body, to expand their capacity to feel and move emotion, and to self-regulate and choose their experience moment to moment. These skills and capabilities are essential to healthy relating and intimacy.

Robyn will talk about the role TRE® can play in this process, and how to integrate it with some of the other methods and tools in this field.

 

About Robyn Dalzen

I am an intimacy coach, facilitator, and certified TRE® provider. I help people feel at home in their bodies, create boundaries in all aspects of their lives, and deepen their joy and intimacy.

I have been working in this area for five years (after a 15-year career in leadership development in the environmental sector).

I am co-founder of the School of Consent with Dr. Betty Martin, creator of the Wheel of Consent — a model for creating agreements that bring integrity to relating.

You can read more about me here.

Su Thomas is a TRE® Certification Trainer in South Africa. Originally from Germany, she lives in Africa for 26 years and calls it her home. Her heart’s desire is to extend the reach of TRE® as a life skill and empowering practice for everyone.

 

About Susanne Thomas

People looking to improve their performance (especially at the elite level) are generally not interested in learning about stress or hearing about trauma– they’re focused on future outcomes & what they can do to achieve them.

They need to know how TRE® can help them:

• train strength beyond their 1-repetition max
• improve their heart-rate variability so they can recover faster from training
• keep them calm & relaxed under pressure so they can make better decisions
• improve their dynamic core stability to prevent injury & optimize speed & power
• support & enhance other treatments for injury recovery
• help them drop into ‘the zone’ where all peak performance occurs – both individually & collectively with their team-mates

Only then might they be interested in understanding how physically releasing stress & tension from their body will support their mental health & physical well-being, or that if they want to sustain elite performance over time they will need to become elite sleepers as well.

In this talk we will cover all this & more so you can use TRE® to improve your performance or support others to improve theirs.

 

About Richmond Heath

I am a Physiotherapist, TRE® Certification Trainer & the Founder of TRE® Australia.
With a background in high level sport I am passionate about empowering people to use TRE® to improve their performance & achieve their goals.
In addition to all the physical benefits of TRE® I am particularly passionate about the use of TRE® to entrain peak performance flow states, both for individuals & to create the neurobiological conditions required for group flow states essential to elite team performance.

Fiona is passionate around “movement”; being moved physically and emotionally, as well as moving towards healthier states of embodiment. The movement from frozen to fluid or from in-flamed to in-heart are some of the take aways of these practices. Fiona invites the possibility of a “riot of softness” – to be open to be moved to be moved to open to be moved to the place we call “ h o m e “.In this one hour lecture, Fiona will offer insights around the subject of “Sound” and its impact on the nervous system. She will also offer suggestions and tools to enrich the TRE® process through the use of sound and music. Become a TRE® DJ!!

TRE® and Sound – We will learn how to work with the “Sensation through Vibration” meditation plus a TRE® session with Q&A at the end. Led by Fiona Soma

About Fiona Soma

Fiona is a TRE®) Global Certification Trainer specializing in Somatic Health, with a focus on sexuality and relationships.

As an educator, she encourages us to safely explore methods of movement and play with forms of vibration, as a way of understanding ourselves better in relation to the world. Through curiosity, we are led though simple, yet healing processes that bring balance back to all body systems.

Fiona practices and teaches Taoist Energy techniques and meditations, and has created ” Nectar – Sexual Wisdom & Alchemy”, a practical, safe and accessible program, practicing the transformation of sexual energy for health and lifestyle benefits.
You can read more about Fiona here, www.treforlife.com

The current situation in the world, with many still feeling the after effects of lock-downs during the pandemic, re-emerging conflicts between super powers, financial stagnation and climate change are causing stress and concern. This comes in addition to everyday struggles, stress and trauma from the past.In this talk David will address some of these struggles and stresses and talk about how to stay grounded, self-regulated and connected during these challenging times. He will also theorize how the awareness of consciousness in the TRE® process can be a help during times of challenge and stress.

 

About David Berceli

David Berceli, Ph.D. is an international expert in the areas of trauma intervention and conflict resolution. He is the creator of Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). This revolutionary technique is designed to help release the deep tension created in the body during a traumatic experience or through chronic stress. He is also the energetic and creative founder and CEO of Trauma Recovery Services.

Dave has spent two decades living and working in nine countries providing trauma relief workshops and designing recovery programs for international organizations around the world. He has lived and worked extensively in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, and Lebanon. He is fluent in English and Arabic.

In this call, we will share experiences using TRE® over the long term and record testimonials for David.

This call in the TRE® talk, connect, and tremor series will differ slightly from previous calls. In our last talk and session with David Berceli, David asked us if anyone could record testimonials about their experience using TRE® over the long term. Many have now used TRE® for several years, and some for more than ten years.

About Hans Holter Solhjell

Hans is a Norwegian educator, trainer and practitioner of several learning, change and body oriented methods, such as the Feldenkrais method, TRE®, Somatic Experiencing. He also works with parents, kindergartens and schools with a focus on communication, conflict resolution, and developmentally supportive relationships with children.

I became actively involved in self-development as a student in my early 20’s and have been focused on learning, self-development and change processes, body-oriented methods, communication, conflict resolution, parenting, trauma therapy, Integral theory and various sports activities like barefoot running, total immersion swimming, skiing, self-defense, Aikido, Krav Maga etc.

I have trained in and are a practitioner of several practices, the Feldenkrais Method, Communicology, the Sounder Sleep System, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and am also certified as a Trainer in Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®).

After completing a major in pedagogy, and also worked at the Police College in Oslo, where I taught psychology with an emphasis on stress management and conflict resolution. I have been teaching courses, trainings, and counseling in private practice since 2006.

In my private practice, I work with councelling and courses for parents, trainings for staff in kindergartens and schools, with body-oriented trauma therapy, and body oriented learning and development processes.

I have also developed several practical models for self-development and developmentally supportive conflict resolution, among them the PLS (Positive Learning Spirals) regulation support model, a practically oriented method for development-supportive communication and conflict resolution in relationships with children.

You can read more about me here.

 

Medical conditions, acute and chronic diseases, undergoing medical treatment procedures, and long-term and repeated hospital stays bring numerous uncertainties, worries, and stresses. They can even be experienced as a threat to life itself.

This can result in long-term stress and even trauma. Even when everything goes well from a medical point of view, this can be the case. The result can be significant, with lower quality of life and reduced capacity to function and thrive in both one’s personal life, relationships, and at work.

It is especially important to tread carefully and be aware of the potential trauma onset when working with children, as traumas at a young age can mark individuals for a lifetime.

With knowledge about the subject matter, the potential consequences of suffering traumas can be reduced, prevented, or helped afterward.

In this talk, Sarah will draw on her experience as both a medical doctor and a trauma therapist to explain how medical conditions and treatment can be traumatic, how to prevent or reduce stress and trauma in the treatment setting, and how body-oriented methods like TRE®, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, etc. can be used to repair and restore the capacity for self-regulation in the aftermath of trauma.

About Sarah Zorica Mitic

Dr. sci. med. Sarah Zorica Mitic is a retired medical specialist with 40 years of work experience in the health systems in several different countries.

While working in Norway, Sarah developed a special interest in patients who had trauma from previous hospital stays or encounters with illness and the health system. For the last 20 years, she has worked with cancer patients in grave conditions, both adults and children. Sarah also has extensive experience in pain therapy and has written a pain treatment manual published in two languages.

Sarah is a also cancer survivor and has first-hand experience with complicated surgeries both as a medical professional and as a patient. She went through several life-threatening surgical interventions herself. That experience gave her an insight into and a better understanding of traumatic reactions.

As a specialist in anesthesiology, Sarah worked in several countries and was the head of an anesthesia department at the Clinical Center of the University of Belgrade, Serbia. In Serbia and Norway, she was part of medical teams that operated on patients with complex conditions, and she also helped the patients prepare for those interventions.

Dr. Mitic is educated in Somatic Experience, Brainspotting, NARM, SOMA, and is a TRE® trainer (Trauma Tension Releasing Exercises). As a TRE® trainer, she has gained extensive experience working with refugees. She has worked to introduce TRE® to Turkey so that new TRE® providers can work with refugees from Syria and surrounding countries.

She has always had a special interest in trauma therapy and has a doctorate in psychosomatics and psychophysiology – with a focus on fear.

During the war in former Yugoslavia, she worked as a doctor in war zone hospitals and wrote a book of her experiences from this period based on her diary.
“Life as Trauma: The Wartime Journals of an Anesthesiologist” The book can be found at: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Trauma-Wartime-Journals-Anesthesiologist/dp/0970919867/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=mitic&qid=1582833828&s=books&sr=1-4

She is the author of several academic books and articles. More information about these works can be found at https://independent.academia.edu/ZoricaMitic

As parents, we can sometimes see that young children will tremor or have other spontaneous movements, in addition to the more obvious emotional movements such as crying. This can happen when they are scared, angry, or experiencing pain or other adverse events. For instance, a medical or dental procedure, an accident, etc.

In these situations, the tremors and emotional movements happen naturally, without exercises, etc., to facilitate the tremors. How we relate to and communicate with the child about what happens in the body, can either create a sense of safety and normalcy regarding the body’s natural emotional processes or shut it down, making the child feel it is wrong and shameful.

In this talk, I will talk about how we can create safety and relate to those situations where tremors and emotional release occur naturally, during or after such events. I will also talk about four types of regulation, auto-regulation, self-regulation, co-regulation, and regulation-support.

I will also present the PLS regulation-support framework, a set of practically oriented educational models for developmentally supportive communication, conflict resolution, and regulation support.

An online introductory course in the PLS regulation-support framework is available on this page.

You will receive a 25% introduction discount on the PLS course using this code on sign up, “TRE talks”.

 

 

About Hans Holter Solhjell

Hans is a Norwegian educator, trainer and practitioner of several learning, change and body oriented methods, such as the Feldenkrais method, TRE®, Somatic Experiencing. He also works with parents, kindergartens and schools with a focus on communication, conflict resolution, and developmentally supportive relationships with children.

I became actively involved in self-development as a student in my early 20’s and have been focused on learning, self-development and change processes, body-oriented methods, communication, conflict resolution, parenting, trauma therapy, Integral theory and various sports activities like barefoot running, total immersion swimming, skiing, self-defense, Aikido, Krav Maga etc.

I have trained in and are a practitioner of several practices, the Feldenkrais Method, Communicology, the Sounder Sleep System, Somatic Experiencing (SE), and am also certified as a Trainer in Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®).

After completing a major in pedagogy, and also worked at the Police College in Oslo, where I taught psychology with an emphasis on stress management and conflict resolution. I have been teaching courses, trainings, and counseling in private practice since 2006.

In my private practice, I work with councelling and courses for parents, trainings for staff in kindergartens and schools, with body-oriented trauma therapy, and body oriented learning and development processes.

I have also developed several practical models for self-development and developmentally supportive conflict resolution, among them the PLS (Positive Learning Spirals) regulation support model, a practically oriented method for development-supportive communication and conflict resolution in relationships with children.

You can read more about me here.

 

“as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.”

― Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

― PABLO PICASSO

I have always believed and tried to live by the belief that we all are “mines rich in gems of inestimable value”, and that our life’s purpose is to discover and reveal these unique inner jewels, so that we and the world can benefit from them. The hunt for these jewels and our efforts to polish them and bring them forth, is creative living.

This creative living requires courage, as it implies living a life that is driven more by curiosity than by fear.

As users, instructors and/or students of TRE®, we know from our experiences and study of the nervous system, that stress and trauma can make it really difficult to move beyond our fear and survival responses. Thus we are prevented from freely and fully manifesting our inner gems, and from living a creative life.

In this talk, I invite you to come and explore with me – in an interactive and multi-sensory way – some of the questions and ideas which I find fascinating:

• – Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is pure creative energy.
• – We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creating, by being creative.
• – How do we connect with this creative energy and become channels to manifest it in our lives ?
• – How can the practice of TRE® help us in this process ?

The flavour of my talk will be infused by these two quotes :

“In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do (…).. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”

― Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”

― Julia Cameron

I look forward to sharing this experience with you !

About Yasmin Farhoumand

I have been working for over 26 years as a psychologist, accompanying adults and youth to navigate their professional and life paths as joyfully, coherently and meaningfully as possible. I studied psychology at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and specialised in organisational & educational psychology, career counselling and solution-centred coaching. I became a certified TRE® provider in September 2021, after following the online course with Hans Holter Solhjell and Robyn Dalzen. Here’s an interview Hans did with me recently, where you can read more about my journey with TRE® and the training :
https://oppmerksombevegelse.no/deep-healing-and-empowerment-with-tre/

For over 20 years,  I have also explored a vibrant path as a singer, composer and producer of several musical projects, albums and groups, such as SKY (SKYsoulsisters – a capella & spiritual), Yasmin Jazz Suite (jazz), Lemon Soul Trio (world-jazz) and Yasmin Doust (to be found on youtube, Facebook, Bandcamp). During the last 5 years, vocal improvisation (such as circle songs and other forms of group-improv) has become one of my favourite creative playgrounds.

I am passionate about constantly learning, exploring, connecting and improving ways and approaches to liberate, heal, transform and empower individuals, groups and communities, believing that we each can contribute to building a safer, more beautiful and better world.

Inspired by our sister organization in Denmark, Scleroseforeningen, and Michael Nissen’s work with TRE® there, Follo ms-association arranged to have TRE® courses for us a few years ago.

Based on the positive experiences of the participants, we decided to have the competence to teach TRE® in our own association, and three members with backgrounds as social workers participated in the TRE® instructor training.

We organize and teach weekly TRE® groups as volunteers in the Follo MS association. In addition to working with tension release, we also work with the shame of having a chronic illness. Focusing on acceptance. and that we can live a full life, and accept the challenges you get from having a chronic illness like MS, that the body does not function as before, that one may not be able to work. MS is a progressive disease, where the body is constantly changing, and brings a lot of uncertainty and fear that the body may get worse, and you don’t know when. This make it challenging to become comfortable in our own body.

We will talk about how TRE® can be a support in this situation,

In this talk, we want to share the experiences with TRE® from our group. This includes our personal experiences, the results of three surveys the participants have answered, how we practice and facilitate, and our thoughts about how we are using this method.

The purpose of these sessions are also to connect with others who practice TRE® to share experiences, support and learn from each other.

Price: 490 NOK (Norwegian Kroner).
about 46 EUR or 49 USD

We have a discount per session if you sign up for two or tree sessions. Please see information on the sign up page.

About Anne Rustad Sjøvold & Katrine Bagge-Skarheim

Anne has worked with children and youth with different disabilities for more than 30 years.

Katrine has worked as a child protection educator for more than 10 years, and has coordinated agencies’ drug- and crime prevention on a municipal level for many years.

We are both diagnosed with ms.

 

In this talk, Marie will talk about the importance of stress regulation for leaders and professionals. In her practice, Coaching for Stress and Burn-out, she uses body work, TRE®, hypnosis and EMDR in her work with professionals,  for the purpose of healing, embodiment, and elevating consciousness.

She will share her personal story about stress and burnout, how she uses TRE® with professionals and share her ideas for how to communicate about the importance of stress regulation, embodiment and TRE® in the corporate world.

During the talk Marie will ask the audience some questions to reflect on and share, to facilitate a group learning process.