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FROM CUEING TO CREATING
Student-Centered Facilitation for Movement Teachers
A three-month, 12-hour online facilitator training for teachers who want to move beyond imitation-based instruction and step into creative, experiential, embodied spaceholding.
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with Tracee Kafer & Jess Linick, PhD
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February - April, 2026 (3 Modules)
Hosted on Zoom, Recordings Provided
A 12-hour, cohort-based experience for teachers ready to move beyond instructor-imitation and into a rhythm of shared discovery, agency, and creative self-expression.
This training equips you with simple, effective, and time-tested student-centered frameworks you can integrate into any style, class, or studio environment. Over three months, we’ll explore how to design classes that move beyond imitation—where students feel more empowered, curious, and connected in their own movement.
This training is for you if…
You’re ready to:
✅ Infuse your classes with more agency and creative freedom
✅ Balance structure with exploration
✅ Trust your voice, your timing, and your presence as a movement guide
✅ Create space for student-centered discoveries—not just student performance
✅ Soften your grip as a teacher without losing clarity, progression, or leadership
✅ Build classes that feel different (and keep people coming back)
Instructors and guides of pole dance, aerial dance, yoga, fitness, choreographers, and somatic practitioners all welcome.
A deeply experiential curriculum centered around practical facilitation skills, including:
Frameworks for Student-Centered Class Design
How to shift from imitation → exploration
Building discovery moments into the beginning, middle, and end of class
Balancing safety, clarity, choice, and creativity
Designing prompts and creative movement tasks that support mixed levels
Language & Communication
Invitational and present-moment cueing
What to say (and what not to say) to support self-exploration
Language that reduces pressure while increasing curiosity
Voice, pacing, tone, and timing
Facilitator Skills
How to read a room and respond in real time
Addressing resistance without making it a problem
Modeling embodiment for students so they are invited to feel their own experience
Feedback that expands possibility, not perfectionism
Embodied Practice
You’ll practice:
Integrating new frameworks directly into your teaching style
Practicing creative cues and prompts for student-centering
Facilitating exploration moments in breakout groups
Receiving supportive feedback
Experimenting with your stance and your presence
Integrating What’s Missing In A (Pole) Class
What’s Missing In A (Pole) Class?
Reserve your spot today and step into a new dimension of teaching.Tuition
$499
Payment Plan Option:
3 Payments of $175
Use payment plan option below as your first payment/deposit. You will be auto-billed two consecutive months for remaining payments of $175 each to complete your enrollment. If you need additional considerations, send us an email.
How the Online
Format Works
3-month, 3-module cohort
12 total hours of live training
Sessions held on Zoom
Recordings provided if you cannot make all sessions live
Includes a digital Workbook & Facilitator Manual
Community support throughout the three months
OUR SCHEDULE
Module 1:
Saturday, February 21st
12:00 - 4:00 PM EST (break included)
9 AM PST, 6PM CET
Module 2:
Saturday, March 21st
12:00 - 4:00 PM EST (break included)
9 AM PST, 6PM CET
Module 3:
Saturday, April 11th
12:00 - 4:00 PM EST (break included)
9 AM PST, 6PM CET
“I can’t recommend learning from Tracee Kafer enough! Studying with her for the last five years has changed how I approach, freestyle, facilitation, and my own personal practice!”
“You really shouldn’t miss this. I don’t think any of us pole freestylers would be the same if it hadn’t been for what Tracee enabled for our dance style with Finding Your Freestyle. She changed my life for sure.”
THIS IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE A…
pole dance instructor
yoga teacher
somatic practitioner
freestyle facilitator
aerial instructor
fitness teacher
choreographer
embodiment guide
Own a studio?
Contact us if you are studio owner or program director interested in a bulk pricing for continuing professional development for your teachers.
About Your GuideS
This training is led by Tracee Kafer, founder of Finding Your Freestyle® and co-facilitator Jess Linick, PhD. Finding Your Freestyle is a practice and community that has been creating spaces for movement discovery since 2012.
Tracee and Jess combined have taught more than 10,000 students worldwide through classes, workshops, retreats, and intensives. Their facilitation experience blends decades of dance and movement experience, pole artistry, one-on-one and group transformational work, Somatic Experiencing, Psychology, and a System Therapeutic Modality called Family Constellations, offering a rare combination of embodied depth and practical teaching tools.
Tracee Kafer
Since 2012, Tracee Kafer (creator of Finding Your Freestyle®) has been nurturing freer expression, movement exploration, and embodied artistry in the pole community and beyond.
FYF began as a weekly movement-class at Body & Pole in NYC with the aim of creating space for freestyle not defined by tricks or competition but by creativity, curiosity, and collaboration.
FYF has grown into a full community of practice: offering workshops, intensives, retreats, online sessions, challenges, and resources — all in service of cultivating true movement artistry, echoed in both personal exploration and authentic expression.
In this workshop, you benefit from years of experimenting, peer learning, and seeing what helps people feel more free, expressive, and confident in their voice.
Jess Linick, PhD
Jess Linick, PhD, SEP, is a clinical psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, and lifelong dancer. Trained in a variety of styles (e.g., ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, salsa, modern, contemporary), Jess took her love of movement to the pole in 2011 while living in Los Angeles. After taking her first FYF class in 2012, she immediately felt at home. In 2014, Jess and Tracee co-created Pole Speak, an improvisational-based pole dance company, and in 2017, she joined the Finding Your Freestyle team. Since then we’ve hosted many retreats, weekend immersions, and workshops together.
Jess brings her training as a clinical psychologist directly into this work, combining her knowledge of mind-body integration with FYF movement practices. To Jess, freestyle movement is more than just “dancing”– it is a way of being in the world, of interacting with space and time; a way of living. Unencumbered, open, and vulnerable, we are invited to harness intuition, follow our inner compass, locate embodied joy, and express ourselves in ways that ring true for us most clearly.
This Is:
✅ 3 modules: guided practice and learning frameworks
✅ Interactive: you’ll move, observe, teach, and reflect
✅ A supportive environment where experimentation is encouraged
This Isn’t:
❌ Just throwing out random prompts (or saving 5 minutes at the end of a class) and hoping students move
❌ A one-way lecture without space for your own exploration and ideas
❌ A technique- or trick-focused training (although that’s probably obvious by now)
Hey there, Resistance!
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Hey there, Resistance! 〰️
Resistance to movement exploration is normal and expected — in fact, it’s part of the practice. It can show up as laughter, blankness, over-thinking, or even avoidance. As teachers and facilitators, our role is not to erase resistance but to create containers where it can soften, be acknowledged, and maybe transform into curiosity.
There is a reality of resistance — hesitation, self-consciousness, or discomfort can (and likely will) arise when students are invited to explore. You’ll learn how to recognize it, normalize it, and offer pathways through it, so resistance becomes part of the process rather than a barrier.
What People Are Saying
“Tracee Kafer and Finding Your Freestyle have been accompanying me on my movement journey for over half a decade … she has impacted my life in a way that goes far beyond dancing.”
— Alisa, Berlin Studio Owner
“Dosed with her very specific brand of power and gentleness, always nudging me toward the most intuitive and extra-sensory aspects of myself.”
— Brandi, FL Studio Owner
“Tracee Kafer was not only incredibly kind and fun, but a great instructor. I’ve taken quite a few workshops … but this workshop was different. I didn’t walk away with just some tricks — I walked away with a feeling, an understanding. For the first time, I truly danced. I needed this.”
— Jess, Chicago Student
Reserve your spot today and step into a new dimension of teaching.
Whether you’re looking to elevate your teaching, create more student-centered experiences, or simply diversify your approach, this training provides both practical tools and embodied practice for professional development. You’ll leave with new structures, language, and confidence to empower your students’ creativity and autonomy.
SPACE IS LIMITED. IF FULL, EMAIL TO BE ADDED TO A WAITLIST.
Cancellation Policy
Because this is a special one-time event, we’re unable to offer refunds. If you cannot attend the training modules live, you will be provided with recordings to review the training on your own time.