Protector parts include parts that guard us from speaking our truth, protect us from painful feelings or situations, or inhibit us from taking important steps to move forward in our lives.
Shadow parts, according to Carl Jung, are the unconscious, hidden, and repressed “dark side” of the personality, containing qualities a person deems socially unacceptable, shameful, or weak. It includes repressed primal instincts, resentment, and undesirable traits, but also hidden creative impulses and positive potential.
In Part 3 of the Working with Protectors series, we will explore protectors and their shadows. We will develop skills for embodying both protector parts and shadow parts. And we will learn to track, contact, and immerse in the life force hidden in the shadow realms.
This workshop is building from the first two workshops in this series (which are available for purchase as on-demand recordings for those who missed them). In those workshops, we covered:
In Part 3, we will continue to develop these skills from the first two workshops, while learning how to engage another level of self-integration through shadow work.
Learning Objectives:
This Workshop is the third part of a 3-part series. Participants who need to catch up on Part 2 and/or Part 1 can do so (through video recordings) by adding these on the registration form.
Working with Protectors, Part 1: How to Go Beneath Judgment States to the Underlying Core Material
(This prerequisite is available as an on-demand recording plus live practice session.)
Working with Protectors, Part 2: Learning to Consciously Inhabit Protector States and Protected States
(This prerequisite is available as an on-demand recording plus live practice session.)
Note: These workshops are intended to be sequential. People who have missed a workshop and want to take the next one will have to do an online version of the previous workshop(s). This will consist of carefully reviewing the workshop video, studying the written materials, and then doing a review session with one of the instructors.
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.
Emmy Akiyama is a Certified Hakomi Teacher and has been studying and practicing Hakomi since 2016. She is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 51047) and Registered Art Therapist (ATR), with a private practice based in Southern California. She has experience in hospital and community mental health, as well as school-based settings, providing psychotherapy and case management services for a diverse portfolio of patients. Emmy’s appreciation for the Hakomi Method continues to deepen as she experiences how it powerfully transforms clients, as well as the beings of the practitioners themselves.
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.
