Tools to bring tre alive for children & teens

The Art of Combining Nervous System Education,

Self Awareness & TRE

Lynea Gillen, TRE Trainer, Child and Family Counselor

Tools to Bring TREtm Alive for Children & Teens

The Art of Combining Nervous System Education, Self Awareness & TRE

Lynea Gillen, TRE Trainer, Child and Family Counselor

Saturday, January 31, 2026
8:00 am – 10:30 am (PST-Los Angeles time)

Live, Online Training for Certified TRE Providers & Trainees

When teaching TRE it is important to learn to regulate the shaking mechanism and to be aware of the way it impacts the body. This is difficult to do if individuals have not developed enough self-awareness to understand what their body is telling them. It is also very important to know what is happening in the body and to develop a language that can express their physical and emotional experiences. What are the cues that my body is anxious?  When does my body need to release?  When does it need to soothe?  When does shaking feel out of control, and how do we manage the experience?  These skills are just as important to children and teens as they are to adults.

Teaching Life Skills

In this highly experiential session, participants will explore simple ways to provide nervous system education so youth can understand what is happening in their bodies. As they learn about the nervous system, they are better able to name their experiences and make choices that help them regulate.

This education, coupled with simple practices to help with nervous system regulation, can also develop self-awareness and reflection, help youth become more emotionally and socially intelligent. They begin to see when their bodies are triggered and go into a sympathetic response, that it’s a natural response, and instead of feeling out of control, they learn that they have tools to understand and manage these experiences.

Building Compassionate Communities

In our work with children and teens, we have seen that by developing a community of support and understanding around emotional and mental health, young people are able to thrive. TRE is an important part of this education and is much more effective when combined with other practices in a skillful way.

This session will cover:

• Nervous system education tools for children and teens
• Simple breathing, movement and reflection practices
• Tools that develop community and support
• Basic movement practices and games for grounding and opening the body, exploring pulsation (contracting and relaxing), and releasing energy
• How to introduce basic tremoring practices in various settings

Lynea loves to collaborate and draw out the collective intelligence of workshop participants, therefore there will be lots of opportunities to ask questions, share ideas and relate experiences in how our TRE community creates best practices for introducing TRE to our youth.

Please join us for this opportunity to help our future generations!

*** This workshop is a new offering.  Lynea’s past TRE for Children & Teen workshop is not a prerequisite. ***

Details

Saturday, January 31, 2026
8:00 – 10:30 am (PST-Los Angeles time)

Live, online training format

The workshop will be recorded and available for workshop attendees to review for two weeks after the workshop.

Training will be in English.

$80

Cancellation/Refund Policy  

Instructor

Lynea Gillen, LPC, RYT, TRE Trainer, is a pioneer in the field of health and wellness education. Her heart-centered, creative and effective tools were developed directly from her 40+ years of as a school teacher, counselor and clinician.

Lynea’s Yoga Calm for Children program was developed in a behavior classroom in a rural Oregon elementary school 20 years ago and is now being used with tens of thousands of children around the world in diverse settings such as urban classrooms, clinics and psychiatric hospitals like the Mayo Clinic.

Developing emotional literacy, community, and resilience are the hallmarks of Lynea’s approach and are exemplified in her award-winning books and media: Yoga Calm for Children, Mindful Moments Cards, Good People Everywhere, Little Banty Chicken and her latest, Little Book of Healing: A Coloring Book for Grief and Loss. Lynea has been featured on TV regarding children and trauma, and writes frequently on this and other health subjects.

Lynea has extensive experience with TRE having organized and assisted with dozens of certification trainings over the last 12 years with Dr David Berceli, including the development of TRE’s online global certification trainings.

​Lynea is an adjunct professor at Portland State University, Lewis & Clark College and the University of the Pacific, where she has created over a dozen graduate level courses in counseling and special education and has taught thousands of schoolteachers, counselors and therapists.

Her online course Transforming Childhood Trauma is a strength-based approach for working with trauma in classroom and therapeutic settings, and her Empower program provides short integrated nervous system education, mindfulness and yoga activities to help elementary school children.

Lynea is a current licensed professional counselor with the state of Oregon, holds an MS in counseling in education from PSU, and is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.