From Sarah Stewart-Brown of Wellbeing Ventures

The TEPP Facilitator training is very rich; I came away after each of the three retreats with many insights and much more awareness of body and mind habits that I’d developed to protect myself and were now a constraint. One that springs to mind right now is understanding at a very profound level that when my head was busy, I was scared. I didn’t feel scared; I would just become aware that I was composing endless lists of things I needed to do right now,and writing emails in my head to explain my point of view often to people who weren’t interested. There was a quality to this energetic state that I started to recognise as a form of madness; one in which anything I accomplished would be tainted. I have now stopped trying to do anything other than be kind and gently with myself when I am in this state. I focus on remembering the things that I know can bring me back into my body. It sounds so simple, but for a ‘head case’ like me this change has had profound ramifications throughout my life and my relationships.

I signed up for the Facilitator training because reading Radical Wholeness and participating in a couple of Radical Wholeness workshops had opened my eyes to the gap between how I feel now and how I could feel. They helped me locate my perineum and understand its potential. They introduced me to some potent practices that I knew I wanted to get skilled at. I travelled from the UK to the beautiful, peaceful Light on the Hill retreat centre in New York State for three weeklong retreats over the course of a year. Others travelled long distances across the US and Canada, several to repeat the training for a second time. During the three weeks we spent together we deepened our own capacity for embodiment and developed a sense of connectedness that hasn’t been diminished now there is an Ocean between us. I encountered many wounds on the training, some of which were ready to open and heal, or in TEPP language to melt and trickle down to the perineum to be integrated. This left me much more open and connected. And I felt safe enough to uncover wounds that were not yet ready to be integrated with these the journey continues.

Our predecessors on TEPP Facilitator trainings have not yet started to offer Radical Wholeness weekends. But something magic has happened in our group. The North Americans have established a TEPP camp where they gather and work with volunteers to experience the delight of sharing this work and gain the confidence to start running workshops. Our group gets together on Zoom once a week and shares news and practices, and last week they were positively glowing from their TEPP camp experience. And in the UK last year the Dao led me to Ron de Brito, an embodiment coach who had done the TEPP Facilitator training in the Netherlands. And we have teamed up to offer Radical Wholeness weekends in the UK. Our backgrounds – mine in medicine and health, and Ron’s in Nonviolent Communication mean we can make the connection between TEPP practices and the resolution of disease processes and relationship blocks. So our weekends have a subtly different flavour, complementing Philip’s offer.

Our next weekend is in Oxford this year on 22/23 rd November and the one after that 7/8 th March 2026. I will be offering the weekend on my own in Bristol on 28 th / 29 th March 2026 and then Philip will be back in Oxford in May 16/17 th 2026. We look forward to seeing you on one of these weekends.