“The meanings evoked by touch are often unconscious or nonverbal, and they often manifest somatically and/or relationally before the client is able to articulate anything about them.” (Barstow, RUOP, p.81).

One of the most powerful and healing elements of the Hakomi Method is the ethical application of touch in a therapy setting. Touch supports access to the felt sense and wisdom in the body, can directly access the unconscious and can offer a direct experience of support for the client (missing experience).

Hakomi techniques using touch and the body, while adaptable to online environments through imaginal work, carry increased power and depth in an in-person environment. In person, these techniques offer a shortcut to deepening and transformation in a way that supports the organic and holistic unfolding of the client’s process.

Since the recent movement towards online training in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy, many of our graduates have not had the opportunity to learn and experience the full potency of the formalized Hakomi somatic techniques (taking over, physicalizing, peace with gravity and other somatic explorations) and the actual use of therapeutic touch. This workshop will provide the opportunity to deepen your exploration of these somatic techniques through demos, practice, and supervision—and we think you will be blown away by the power and effectiveness of this work in person!

This on-the-ground experience will expand your skillfulness and capacity to attune and explore somatically and to experience the profound deepening this offers to the therapeutic process. 

This workshop is for Hakomi graduates who have trained online, as well as those who would like to brush up on the use of these powerful somatic techniques.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate the ability to track for thematic material in a session
• Demonstrate the ability to guide the client from a focus on presenting verbal content to experiential awareness, including mindfulness of key themes and somatic experience
• Create somatic explorations in mindfulness to help the client access, deepen into, and explore unconscious core material 
• Demonstrate the ability to use the mindful somatic explorations of taking over, physicalizing, verbalizing, exaggerating
• Describe the deepening potential of somatic accessing techniques when applied in-person.

This workshop is for:

-Graduates of Hakomi Level 1 or Level 2 who trained online.

-Any Hakomi Student or Graduate who wants an in-person refresher on Hakomi Somatic Techniques including the use of touch.

Faculty: 

Lorena Monda, MS, DOM, LPCC, Certified Hakomi Trainer

Deah Baird N.D., L.P.C., CHT, Certified Hakomi Trainer

22 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. 

Optional Advanced Supervision Day: Working at the Nourishment Barrier on Monday, November 10th

We are offering a day of Advanced Supervision for Working at the Nourishment Barrier.  Many students in the certification process get stuck on demonstrating working with the nourishment barrier. This day will focus on a review of the nourishment barrier (exploring the barrier, working with the missing experience, and crossing the nourishment barrier toward transformation) and supervised practice. 10 am – 6 pm. Limited to 8 students.

$300 for attendees of the Somatic Techniques workshop (Regular price $400)

      Advanced Supervision Day Learning Objectives:

• Describe the components of the Nourishment barrier
• Define the three steps of working at the Nourishment Barrier
• Demonstrate the ability to use Hakomi Mindfulness Techniques to clarify, explore, and cross the nourishment Barrier

6 CE’s available for the Advanced Supervision Day. (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.