Hakomi Forum Professional Journal
The Hakomi Forum was the professional journal of the Institute, published between 1984-2016.
The Hakomi Forum contains informative articles about Hakomi Therapy, its applications, and its relationship to other psychotherapeutic and healing arts modalities. Explore and read issues below.
ISSUE #28
2016
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial: Many Members of One Body — Greg Johanson
- Merleau-Ponty, Bodily Knowledge and Felt Meaning — Steven L. Bindeman
- Complexes of the Cultural Unconscious: Trance States, Hakomi, and the Re-Creation of the Self — Camillia M. Thompson
- Should We Tell? Living a Good Life in the Shadow of Cancer: A Personal Reflection — Belinda Siew Luan Khong
- Using Hakomi to Mediate Cultural Differences — Sarah Tait-Jamieson
- Applications of Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy in a Non-Profit Setting — Rebecca Lincoln
- Hakomi and the Underserved — Vivianne Shands, Kamal Ahmed, Shai Lavie, Christina Toro, and Micah Anderson
- The M.E.T.A. Counseling Clinic: Hakomi-Infused, Mission-Driven, Affordable — Donna Roy
- Reviewing the Work of Stephen Jenkinson — Susan Shawn
- Book Review: Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture: Thinking Through Psychology by Louise Sundararajan — Greg Johanson
- Poems: Sinixt People and Absolute Attention is Prayer — Carol Ladas-Gaskin
ISSUE #27
2014-15
- Medard Boss’s Dialogue with Heidegger, Freud, Sartre, Buddha and Jung: On Being Authentic — Steven Bindeman, Belinda Siew Luan Khong, Scott D. Churchill, Edwin L. Hersch, Doris McIlwain, Louise K.W. Sundararajan
- Perspectives on the Human Condition: Philosophy, Civilization, and Character — Robert D. Stolorow
- Lifestyle and Mental Health — Roger Walsh
- Oppression Embodied: The Intersecting Dimensions of Trauma, Oppression, and Somatic Psychology — Rae Johnson
- Apologies that Heal — Cedar Barstow
- Poems: Salmon Song; Search for the Pattern; The Key; There is a Stone; Tree — Carol Ladas-Gaskin
ISSUE #26
2013-2014
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Lévinas and the Disruptive Face of the Other — Steven Bindeman
- Hakomi and the Ambiguous Nature of Research — Greg Johanson
- Lost in Translation: “Chi” and Related Terms of Shame in the Confucian Tradition — Louise Sundararajan
- Mindfulness: A Way of Cultivating Deep Respect for Emotions — Belinda Siew Luan Khong
- The Origins of Jewish Guilt: Psychological, Theological, and Cultural Perspectives — Simon Dien
- Attachment and Hakomi — Marilyn Morgan
- School of Hard Knocks, Indonesian Style — Cedar Barstow
ISSUE #25
Winter2012
- Editorial: Hakomi 25th Anniversary
- Working with the Capacity for Connection in Healing Developmental Trauma — Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre
- Do We Find Organicity Even Within Psychosis? — Paris Williams
- Hakomi in Action: A Narrative — Amy S. Marco, Dawn L. McBride, Greg Johanson
- Mindfulness, Emotions, and the Organization of Experience — Gregory Johanson
- “Taking Over” Technique with Veteran Trauma Work — Gregory Johanson
- Poems from Cairns and Realization Point — Chris Hoffman
ISSUE #23-24
Summer 2011
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial: Ripples from a Life Lived
Ron Kurtz (1934-2011) — Greg Johanson - Touch In Therapy and the Standard of Care in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Bringing Clarity to Illusive Relationships — Ofer Zur
- The Pax Medica and Brain–Based Therapy — Lloyd Linford and John Arden
- Dialogue with Boss, Heidegger, Freud, Sartre and Buddha – On Being Human — Bindeman, Luan Khong, Churchill, Hersch, Sundararajan
- Psychotherapy, Science and Spirit: Nonlinear Systems, Hakomi Therapy, and the Tao — Greg Johanson
- Mastering Your Psychology for Success at Work — Nina Cherry
- Ronald S. Kurtz (1934-2011): A Remembrance — Greg Johanson
- Ronald S. Kurtz: Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy — Pringle with Kurtz
- Tributes to Ron Kurtz (1934-2011) — The Community
- Book Review: The Emergence of Somatic Psychology and Bodymind Therapy — Greg Johanson
- Poems — Reynold Ruslan Feldman
ISSUE #22
Summer 2009
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Hakomi Conference Experience — Katy Cofer
- Ron Kurtz USABP Interview — Serge Pringle
- Hakomi Principles in Relation to Systems Theory — Sid Kemp with Greg Johanson
- The Use of Mindfulness in Psychodynamic & Body Oriented Psychotherapy — Halko Weiss
- Humanistic Hakomi and it’s Interface with Non-Linear Science — Greg Johanson
- Hakomi on Campus: Teaching Loving Presence and Mindfulness at a Public University in Mexico City — Fernando Ortiz
- Language and the Ineffable Aspect of the Bodymind — Mark Repplinger
- To Be or Not to Be Transpersonal: Can Hakomi Embrace the Whole Without Embracing the Soul? — Rhonda Mattern
- Book Review: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog — Carol Ladas-Gaskinn & David Cole
- Poems from Bardo & Becoming — Leisha Douglass
ISSUE #19-21
Summer 2008
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial Note and Poems by Frances Richy — Frances Richy
- A Little History — Ron Kurtz
- Rest and it’s Centrality to Psychotherapy — Marlise Meilan
- Childhood Trauma in the Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: Theoretical Considerations & Therapeutic Interventions — Linda Baird
- Towards a Better Appreciation of the “Intimacy” Gap Between Man and Women — Martin Rovers, Robert West, Terry Schmerk, Rene Vandenberg
- The Power Differential & The Power Paradox — Cedar Barstow
- Lao Tzu, Knowing, and Being — Siroj Sorajjokool
- The Principles of Hakomi — Inge-Myllerup-Brookhuis
- Making Hakomi Transpersonal — Keating Coffey
- An Interview with Miriam Greenspan on Moving from Grief to Gratitude — Barbara Platek
- Leisha Douglas USABP Interview — Serge Prengle
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Body Psychotherapy in Outpatient Settings (EABP)
— Margit Koemda-Lutz, Martin Kaschke, Dick Revenstorf, Thomas Scherrman, Halko Weiss, Ulrich Soeder - The Midlife Experience: An Autoethnographic Study — Carole M. McNamee
- Personal Process of the Integration of Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy with Holistic Nursing and Healing Touch — Nancy Lukas Perrault
- Hakomi Therapy with Families — Emily Van Mistri
- Accessing Implicit Material Through Body Sensations — Joe Mowrer
ISSUE #18
Summer 2007
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial: Words & Meaning — Leisha Douglas
- Quotes on “Dealing with Enemies” — Lao Tzu
- Three Recent Essays — Ron Kurtz
- The Buddha’s Influence in the Therapy Room — Belinda Siew Luan Khong
- “Sophistry or Sensitive Science?” An Interview with Martha Herbert — Casey Walker
- Self-No/Self — Robert K. Bornt
- The Lanugage of Neuroception & The Bodily Self — Aline LaPierre
- Nourish the Body, Ease the Mind, and Brighten the Spirit — Kamala Quale
- The Power of Presence in Trauma Work: An Elemental Embrace — Karuna Fluhart-Negrete
- Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist — Robert M. Fisher
- Touching the Spirit at the End of Life — Tria Thompson O’Maille & Roseann E. Kasayka
- POEMS
ISSUE #16-17
Summer 2006
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Five Recent Essays — Ron Kurtz
- Neuroscience & Psychotherapy — Marilyn Morgan
- The Use of Mindfulness in Psychotherapy — Gregory J. Johanson
- Hakomi: Strengths & Limitations: Indications & Contraindications for the Use of Hakomi with Clients with Significant Clinical Disturbances — Uta Gunther
- From Felt-Sense to Felt-Self: Neuroaffective Touch & the Relational Matrix — Aline LaPierre
- In Search of the Embodied Self — Gustl Marlock & Halko Weiss
- Why I Left Psychology (Almost): A Fictional Story that Might Be True — David N. Elkin
- Shifting States of Consciousness: The Re-Creation of the Self Approach to Transformation — Jon Eisman
- How Do I Listen? Applying Body Psychotherapy Principles & Skills in Manual & Movement Therapy — Sol Petersen
- Modified Hakomi: Coaching Clients with IFS and Hakomi Skills — Dave Cole
- Practice Notes — Donna Martin
- Marblehead Minuet & Of Room and Wings — Leisha Douglas
- Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms — Cedar Barstow & Greg Johanson
ISSUE #14-15
Summer 2005
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Editorial: The Changing Neighborhood — Greg Johanson
- Mindfulness-based Self Study — Ron Kurtz
- Hakomi Simplified 2004: A New View Of Ron Kurtz’s Mindfulness-based Psychotherapy — Randall Keller
- Issues Of Attachment & Sexuality: A Case Study From A Clinical Research Study — Amelia Kaplan And Laurie Schwartz
- Minding The Mind’s Business — Belinda Siew Luan Khong
- Categories Of Psychological Wounding, Neural
Patterns, And Treatment Approaches — Jon Eisman - Energy Psychology And The Instant Phobia Cure: New Paradigm Or The Old Razzle Dazzle?
— David Feinstein - Vehicle Of Life — Thomas Pope
- Bringing Mindfulness To Despair — Lorena Monda
- The Healing Power Of Poetry — Leisha Douglas
- Writing The Body: Poetry Therapy’s Resonance With Body-centered Practice — Frederick C. Bryan
- Patience And Letting Go: The Roots Of Compassionate Healing — Carol Ladas-gaskin
- A Journey Towards Awakening — Ray Cicetti
- The Organicity Of Life — Anonymous Wounded Healer
- Fire Building — Leisha Douglas
- Glossary Of Hakomi Therapy Terms — Cedar Barstow And Greg Johanson
ISSUE #13
Summer 1999
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Front Page & Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms — Cedar Barstow & Greg Johanson
- Training Psychotherapists in the Almost Impossible Task of Just Paying Attention — Deepesh Faucheaux & Halko Weiss
- Key Words for Unlocking Our Unconscious — Jerome Liss, M.D.
- Applying Hakomi Principles and Techniques to Mainstream Psychodynamic, Behavioral and Systemic Couples Psychotherapy — Rob Fisher, MA, MFCC & Jaci Hull, MA, CHT
- “Far Beyond Psychoanalysis”: Freud’s Repetition Compulsion — Greg Johanson
- Lightbody Consciousness in Hakomi — Wolfgang Ronnefeldt, MA
ISSUE #12
Summer 1996
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 1st U.S. Conference on Body Oriented Psychotherapy — Lee Strauss
- Using Hakomi in Couples Psychotherapy — Rob Fisher
- Creating Organizations Fit For The Human Spirit Through Hakomi — Karmen Guevara
- Evoking Essence — Dyrian Benz-Chartrand
- Hands-on Psychotherapy — Pat Ogden
- The Birth and Death of Meaning: Selective Implications of Linguistics for Psychotherapy — Greg Johanson
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #11
Autumn 1995
- Editorial: Foundations Revisited — Greg Johanson
- The Origins of the Hakomi Method — Ron Kurtz
- The Emergence of the Other — Halko Weiss
- Boundaries and Psychotherapy Part II: Healing Damaged Boundaries — Tom Whitehead
- Dancing in Neverland: Hakomi Therapy from a Client’s Perspective — Megan Dall
- Transcending Duality in the Therapeutic Relationship: Working with the Unity Principle — Cynthia Jaffe
- Remembering Wholeness: A Model for Healing and Recovery — Donna Martin
- Updating the Foundation of Hakomi — Dyrian Benz
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #10
Autumn 1994
- Editorial: Getting Self Conscious — Greg Johanson
- Realizing the “Between” in Psychotherapy —James V. DeLeo
- Boundaries and Psychotherapy – Part I: Boundary Distortion and Its Consequences —Tom Whitehead
- Ethics: The Right Use of Power and Influence —Cedar Barstow
- Our Multiple Selves —Richard Schwartz
- Aspects of Quantum Psychology — Stephen Wolinsky
- Self: A Living Vibrancy — William S. Schmidt
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #9
Winter 1992
- Editorial: Encouraging Communication — Greg Johanson
- Hakomi in Jail: Programmatic Application with Groups of Psychotic Disruptive Jail Inmate — Tom Whitehead
- On Emotion in Therapy — Eugene Gendlin
- Transformations of Consciousness: Conventional and Contemplative Perspectives on Development. Chapter I – Therapeutic Aims in Psychotherapy and Meditation: Developmental Stages in the Representation of Self — Jack Engler
- Grace in Therapy: What a Therapist Must Trust In — Martin Schulmeister
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #8
Winter 1990
- Current Perspectives on Hakomi Training and Therapy Issues — Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson
- Transference and Countertransference in the Here-and-Now Therapies — David Feinstein
- Helping Through Touch: The Embodiment of Caring — Suzanne M. Peloquin
- Translating the Body’s Language — Pat Ogden and Anne Peters
- The Effects of Pre and Perinatal Trauma — Albert Pesso
- Laughter and Pastoral Care — Stephen Pattison
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #7
Winter 1989
- Editorial: Future Subjects — Greg Johanson
- Hakomi and Metanoia — Cedar Barstow
- Why Body/Mind? — Howard Cole and Meg Blanchet
- The Child State of Consciousness and the Formation of the Self — Jon Eisman
- Hakomi and Adolescents — Greg Johanson and Carol Taylor
- Family: The Next Larger Picture — Dyrian Benz
- Hakomi Therapy Supervision Verbatim — Sheela Lambert
- An Ontological Model of Development — William S. Schmidt
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #6
Summer 1988
- Editorial: A Wider Perspective — Greg Johanson
- The Healing Relationship — Ron Kurtz
- A Curious Form of Therapy: Hakomi — Greg Johanson
- Non-Invasive Methodologies of Studying Neurological Correlates of Human Mental States, in Particular those During Psychotherapy: A Review of Recent Literature — Lakshyan Schanze
- The Hakomi Method in Therapy Groups — Martin Schulmeister
- An Application of the Sensitivity Cycle to Organizational Groups — Chris Hoffman
- Managing to Practice: Supervision — David Patterson
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #5
Summer 1987
- Editorial: In Honor of Carl — Greg Johanson
- On the Uniqueness of Hakomi — Ron Kurtz
- Hakomi and Naturopathy — Mcholas Emlen
- Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in the Neurophysiology of Depression — Jerome Liss
- Hakomi and the Q-Sort Technique — Cori Taggart
- Storytelling for Hakomi Therapists — Halko Weiss
- Yoga and Hakomi: Two Friends Meet — Dyrian Benz
- Hakomi & the Creation Centered Spirituality of Matthew Fox – Path II: Befriending Darkness —Greg Johanson
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #4
Summer 1986
- Editorial: Taking It Home with You — Greg Johanson
- Hakomi in the Trenches — Greg Johanson
- Cancer and Psychotherapy — Ron Kurtz
- The Context for Hakomi in the Treatment of Eating Disorders — Lee Moyer
- Tending Body and Spirit: Counseling with Elders — Cedar Barstow
- Fairies and Ultimacy — Yvonne Notaro
- Hakomi and the Hunt Seat Equestrian — Cady Erickson
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #3
Summer 1985
- Editorial: Bite a Blue Apple — Greg Johanson
- The Tao of Being With — Ron Kurtz
- The Organization of Experience in Hakomi Therapy — Ron Kurtz
- Values and Empowerment — Hugh Smiley
- The Psychotherapist as Faith Agent — Greg Johanson
- Becoming a Full Human Being — Chogyam Trungpa
- Spirituality and Psychotherapy — Cedar Barstow
- Huna, Hakomi, and Spirituality — Stan Hartman
- Hakomi & the Creation Centered Spirituality of Matthew Fox – Path I: Befriending Creation — Greg Johanson
- Brief Personal Perspectives — Amina Knowlan, Reba Townsend, John Lloyd, Dyrian Benz
- Possibilities — Greg Johanson
- Emily Rose — Cedar Barstow
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #2
Winter 1985
- Editorial: When in Doubt, Go with the Principles — Greg Johanson
- Foundations of Hakomi Therapy — Ron Kurtz
- An Overview of the Hakomi Method of Psychotherapy — Cedar Barstow
- Animal Imagery, the Chakra System, and Psychotherapy — Eligio S. Gallegos
- A Note on Hakomi Therapy and Psychodrama — Greg Johanson
- The Use of Biofeedback by Hakomi Therapists — Greg Johanson
- Use of Elements of Hakomi Therapy with Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents — Carol R. Taylor
- Total Satisfaction Massage — Rich Ireland
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
ISSUE #1
Summer 1984
- Editorial: Watzlawick, Wilbur, and the Work — Greg Johanson
- Introduction to the Process — Ron Kurtz
- Being Effective Through Non-Doing — Werner Singer
- Humor and Imagination — Halko Weiss
- The Hakomi Method and Couples — Devi Records
- Intensive Family Services — Greg Johanson