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TRE® @ Ottery Youth Care Centre

TRE® @ Ottery Youth Care Centre

Manuela Kacinari Wall and Christine Cornick began working with Ottery Youth Care Centre in Cape Town (for Juvenile Offenders) in April 2015 and have so far run a TRE courses with 20 of the staff and 18 of the boys in their care programme. Desiree English also joined the training team for some of the […]

TRE® @ Chrysalis School Cape Town

Author: Dr Melanie Salmon – TRE Level III Trainer I had the privilege and pleasure yesterday to revisit the Chrysalis Academy, in Tokia, Cape Town. I interview the staff who deliver TRE to their youth…. they have 200 students residentially going through a 3 month rehabilitation program, 3 times a year. Fifteen of the senior […]

Fire ! Desaster Relief with TRE®

Fire ! Desaster Relief with TRE®

by Ingrid Regenass (TRE Certification Trainer) For me the worst day of the Cape Town fires was on Wednesday 4th March 2015. I had hardly slept the night before – from the balcony of our house I watched as the fire raged across the mountain. Large areas that had already burnt were eerily beautiful and […]

Police and First Responders and TRE®

Police and First Responders and TRE®

by Hazel Bond It was a great privilege on Wednesday 18 March 2015 to travel to Empangeni, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa to teach TRE to 60 firefighters, policemen & women, life savers & other emergency responders. Doreen Sithole of the Umhlathuze Municipality has had a dream to do this for 2 years since her and […]

TRE® ‘My Life’ Project Cape Town

TRE® ‘My Life’ Project Cape Town

We chose MyLife from many that were interested in bringing TRE® into their organisation; both of us passionate about increasing youth awareness, we believed this to be a valuable tool to add to the University of MyLife, an organisation intent on rehabilitating the young, the homeless, the lost and the suffering on the streets of Cape Town, South Africa.

TRE® at SOS Childrens Village

TRE® at SOS Childrens Village

Here are two videos from South African Pilot Projects in a SOS Childrens Village and school in the Cape Town area. For those who work with children, have wondered if children can do TRE and benefit from it or would like to learn more about TRE and children. Further down you will find another video […]

TRE® Community Wellness Day

TRE® Community Wellness Day

Written by Robin Vanderplank – Clinical Psychologist and TRE® Mentor in KwaZulu Natal.  (Scroll to the bottom to watch a 4 minute video testimonial )  ‘Woza Moya’ offers care and practical help to the community that lives in the beautiful rolling hills and valleys of the Ufafa Valley region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – up […]

TRE® for Rape Crisis Volunteers

TRE® for Rape Crisis Volunteers

Contribution by Beverley Streng A group of Somerset West TRE Providers (Dr Melanie Salmon, Beverley Streng, Tim Knight, Donovan Brown and others) worked together during November/ December 2015 to offer a pro bono 6 week group course to a small group of Helderberg Rape Crisis volunteers. This initiative came about after discussion with the centre […]

TRE® in the Corporate World

TRE® in the Corporate World

Contribution by Viv Routledge Managing the effects of stress is one of the biggest challenges facing the Corporate world so it was encouraging when Spier Holdings decided to try a different approach by offering TRE to their staff. The goal was to equip them with a skill that would enable them to better manage their […]