Working with Pre-judgment States: An Advanced Hakomi Workshop

In this workshop, participants will learn to work with systems of self-judgment in which clients commonly get stuck.  We will focus on the following steps in the process:

• Understanding some of the evolutionary psychology underneath self-judgment systems
• Tracking for systems of self-judgment, and contacting both the system as a whole and its key parts
• Framing the process—what is happening internally for a client that leads to a judgment system
• Framing the intervention that will be used, and tracking for consent before starting
• Resourcing the client adequately before starting
• Engaging the central intervention: Creative Reorganization at Origin Points (CROP).  This involves slowing down time and exploring the key feeling states present at the moment before the self-judgment process does its “Big Bang” and captures the clients mental framework.
• Studying the client’s experience as these elements are witnessed
• Supporting new experiences that emerge in this process
• Integration skills to bring this into the client’s life outside the therapy space

The workshop will combine lectures, demonstrations, small group practice sessions, and big group discussions.

Learning Objectives

This workshop is designed to help you:

1. Identify systems of self-judgment 
2. Prepare the client for understanding the system and working with self-judgment
3. Utilize supportive interventions for working with self-judgment both in session and applied to the clients life outside of the therapy space

Instructor Bios

Shai Lavie, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, works with adults, adolescents, and families in private practice in San Anselmo, California. He got his Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 1995, and received his MFT license in 1999.

Shai is certified in the Hakomi Method of mindfulness-based psychotherapy, and is a Certified Hakomi Trainer on the faculty of Hakomi Mallorca and the Hakomi Institute of California.  He is also certified in the Somatic Experiencing method of working with trauma, developed by Peter Levine.

Shai has been practicing Vipassana meditation for over 35 years. For many years beginning in 2001, Shai taught meditation in the Teen and Family Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center (see www.spiritrock.org). 

Shai has also led psychotherapy trainings for therapists at numerous agencies and training centers in California.  

Please look for articles from Shai Lavie in the September/October 2011 issue of Psychotherapy Networker (“In Search of a Lost Self”) and in the September/October 2011 issue of The Therapist (“Mindfulness-Based Family Therapy”). These articles can be found on the Hakomi Institute website. Please also look for Shai’s chapter (“Experiments in Mindfulness”) in the new book: Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice (W.W. Norton, 2015). Shai’s newest article, “Held Experience: Using Mindfulness in Psychotherapy to Facilitate Deeper Psychological Repair” published in the Fall 2015 issue of the International Body Psychotherapy Journal.

Shai lives in Fairfax, California with his wife and daughter. He loves wilderness hiking, paddle boarding, climbing, frisbee, martial arts, and music.

Karen Daley, MA, MFT, Certified Hakomi Teacher.  Alongside twenty years of experience in the field of community mental health, she also brings ten years as a senior leadership trainer/organization development consultant with AmeriCorps and various other non-profits.

Karen co-created and for four years directed the Resilience Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, where the goal was to partner with families and build on their own knowledge by introducing both caregiver and child to nervous-system regulation and tracking, to mitigate the effects of stress.

She believes in collaboration and the power of equanimity as we deepen our awareness and understanding of our own social location as well as the social location of others. Karen believes in the transformative power of the Hakomi Method to facilitate deep healing both on an individual and a collective level.

When not with others, Karen can be found tending her garden or going on long walks.

12 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.