An Embodied Leadership Intensive · Limited Cohorts
Becoming
AWARE
An 8-week embodied leadership intensive for high-achieving professionals who are tired of leading from depletion — and ready to lead from aliveness.
The body never lies. It knew I was running on empty long before my mind was willing to admit it.
Tracy N. Frederick · Founder
This
Work
The Origin
This program began on a
backroad in Minnesota.
Driving home after a board meeting, experiencing my first panic attack — that was the alarm I could no longer ignore. I had spent years treating my body as a vehicle for my ambitions. Pushing through exhaustion. Ignoring the signals. Performing competence while my nervous system quietly unraveled.
Burnout doesn't arrive all at once. It accumulates in the thousand small moments when you override what your body is telling you because the meeting can't wait, the team needs you, the organization is counting on you.
The turning point didn't come through a new strategy or better time management. It came through learning to listen — really listen — to what was happening in my body when I was leading, deciding, avoiding, performing. That listening became a practice. That practice became a transformation. And that transformation became this program.
Who This Is For
You've done
all the work.
And you're still stuck.
You've read the books. You understand the nervous system, the stress response, the neuroscience of change. You can articulate the theory of embodied leadership with precision. You've been to the retreats, done the workshops, maybe even trained others in this work.
And yet — something isn't moving. Not at the level that matters. Not in the moments when it counts. The knowing and the living of it remain two different things. That gap is not a failure of understanding. It's an invitation into a different kind of work.
"I know exactly what's happening in my body. I just can't seem to change it in real time."
Intellectual fluency without somatic integration
"I've done enough inner work to know what's in the way. I just keep meeting the same wall."
Insight without new ground to stand on
"Under pressure, I become someone I don't recognize — and I know better."
Habituated patterns that override conscious intention
"I'm doing all the right things. I still feel like I'm leading from a half-empty tank."
Practices without nervous system recalibration
"I teach resilience. I coach others through this. My own body hasn't gotten the message."
The helper who hasn't been held in this kind of container
The Framework
Five dimensions.
One integrated whole.
AWARE is not an acronym layered onto a pre-existing model. It is an ecosystem — five dimensions of embodied leadership that are always present, always interacting, and never fully separable.
Who are you as a leader when you're not performing? Your body already knows the gap between who you are and who you present.
What does your nervous system need to sustain genuine leadership presence? Are you running on reserve, or leading from fullness?
Is there coherence between what you value and what your body does under pressure? Where does the gap live, and what does it cost?
Not toughness. Flexibility. Your capacity to move through challenge and return to center — how wide is your window?
How does your embodied state shape the people you lead? Are you creating an environment where others can bring their full capacity?
The Journey
Three phases.
Eight weeks.
A lifetime shift.
Establishing honest self-knowledge and somatic literacy. You map your current embodied landscape — not the résumé version, the full, sometimes exhausted, always alive version.
Building the nervous system capacity that makes change possible and sustainable. Without this phase, transformation is insight without ground.
Turning inward work outward. How your somatic shifts ripple into your team. Your Leadership Manifesto is witnessed by the cohort in a ceremony of becoming.
What's Included
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
- 8 weekly 90-minute live group sessions — somatic learning containers, not webinars
- 2 private 1:1 coaching sessions (Weeks 4 & 7) focused on your specific embodied edge
- Weekly 15-minute audio-guided micro-practices between sessions
- Accountability triads: peer coaching groups that continue for 90 days post-program
- AWARE Self-Assessment — pre and post program somatic portrait
- Your Leadership Manifesto: the program's central identity artifact
- Somatic Field Journal: daily 3-minute body check-in practice
- 90-day community of practice with monthly group touchpoints
"Burnout doesn't arrive all at once. It accumulates in the thousand small moments when you override what your body is telling you — because the meeting can't wait, the team needs you, the organization is counting on you."
Tracy N. Frederick
Investment
What it costs to
stop leading from depletion.
Program Investment
$3,000
Payment plans available. A limited founding member rate is offered to the first 4 leaders who enroll in each cohort.
You leave with
A new relationship with your body — somatic tools you'll use every single day of your leadership
Your Leadership Manifesto — a living covenant, witnessed by peers, that will outlast this program by years
An expanded window of tolerance — real nervous system capacity, not just better coping strategies
A community of practice — peer leaders who know your work, your patterns, and your becoming
90 days of continued accountability — because sustainable change requires more than eight weeks
The knowledge that your leadership is contagious — and now, it will spread aliveness instead of depletion
Your Guide
Tracy N. Frederick
Founder, AWARE Coaching + Wellness
I grew up in systems perfectly designed to produce high performance — until those systems broke me. What I found on the other side wasn't a better productivity hack. It was a completely different relationship with my body, my leadership, and what it means to truly show up for the people who depend on me.
My work lives at the intersection of somatic leadership, embodied coaching, mindfulness, and the science of the nervous system. I've spent years studying what Strozzi-Heckler calls the body as the seat of leadership habits — and building programs that help leaders move from performing leadership to inhabiting it.
From the yoga mat to the boardroom. From depletion to aliveness. This is the work I was made to do. And I believe it is the work our organizations desperately need.
ICF Certified Coach · PCC
Strozzi Somatic Leadership
Registered Yoga Teacher · 200hr
HeartMath Certified Mentor
Rolling Enrollment · 12 Seats Per Cohort
Ready to lead
from aliveness?
This program accepts leaders on a rolling basis as cohorts form. Reach out below, and Tracy will personally be in touch within 48 hours to explore whether this is the right next step for you — and when.
This is not a form that goes into a void. It's the beginning of a real conversation about whether this program is right for you, right now. No commitment required. This is a conversation first.