In Hakomi training, students learn to develop an exquisite sensitivity and attunement to others, and to convey this understanding. This empathy and responsiveness helps to create a deep sense of safety and connection, and facilitates the effectiveness of the therapy. The self-development of the therapist coupled with Hakomi’s highly innovative techniques together form the core of the training. Using the Buddhist principles of mindfulness and gentle curiosity, the Hakomi therapist creates an atmosphere of safety for deep processing that helps the client’s defences to be willingly yielded and examined, rather than confronted or overpowered. The relief and empowerment of increased self-awareness and freedom provides the client with a sense of personal empowerment and a richer appreciation for life.

Faculty: Pamela Thompson, Magi Cooper, and Dennis Brown

Per preference of the team training staff, the Edmonton Comprehensive Hakomi Training of 2025-2027  will include both Levels 1 and 2 and will cover the same curriculum covered in those trainings which are divided into Levels 1 and 2.

Curriculum for Year 1 Includes:

• The Hakomi Principles and how to embody them
• The body as map of the psyche
• Developing the healing relationship
• Character theory and developmental issues
• Working with the Child State of Consciousness, core issues, and emotional release
• Ethics and right use of power
• Resolving Trauma using Hakomi and other Somatic Techniques
• The precise use of touch
• Specific therapeutic techniques for eliciting information, awareness, and healing through the body
• Jumping out of the system—transference and counter-transference
• Barriers to Nourishment, clarity, and completion
• How neurobiology is shaped by past wounds and how therapy can impact brain structure in a positive way

Level 1-Dates TBA soon

Level 2-Dates TBA