—Ron Kurtz, Hakomi Founder. Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology is a mindfulness, somatic and experience-based approach to change.The Hakomi Method is used both as a psychotherapeutic process as well as in educational settings to facilitate self-exploration and personal growth. For example, the client may be invited to notice the effect of standing in a certain way, or the internal impact of a relational exchange. The Hakomi Method allows the client to distinguish between the two, and to change willingly the patterns that constrict his or her innate wholeness.Human consciousness is an ongoing river, with various specific states of consciousness providing distinct currents to the flow. The experiments always include mindfulness, and thus provide a careful study of the impact and meanings of the experience. He began leading workshops and trainings in the mid-1970’s. It’s not something you can know with the intellect. Pursued in this felt way, events and their causative core material can be spotlighted, summoned, evaluated and transformed.Core material is comprised of memories, images, beliefs, neural patterns and deeply held emotional dispositions. This framework then translates into concrete clinical skills and thoughtfully designed interventions. Such new experiences may be complex or simple, but generally reflect unmet childhood learning and relational needs: for example, being held, being listened to, being allowed to explore, feeling protected or supported, and so on.Having such a new experience provides a template for living differently. Such a bond allows the client to feel confident and supported in turning inwards, to pursue the transformational journey.The first task, then, is to build respect and safety. Create safety within relationship and within the client Great care is taken to establish an effective working relationship, marked by safety, curiosity, warmth and mutual engagement. It’s not just about who you think you are. These, in turn, allow for a greater range of mental, physical, and emotional coherence and behavior.Finally, we help the client to integrate these new beliefs, modes and choices into everyday life. Transformation begins when awareness is turned mindfully toward felt, present experience; unconscious material unfolds into consciousness; barriers are attended to; and new experiences are integrated that allow for the reorganization of core beliefs. Often, clients will simultaneously experience both their present day mindful observer and the younger state of perception and feeling that was present when psychological injury took place.
These essential qualities allow for cooperation with the unconscious.
Hakomi is grounded in five principles:
The work here is to stabilize and anchor any positive, powerful new experiences, insights and discoveries.Eventually, we help the client to practice the new modes of organizing that they adopt, and to integrate these modes into their daily lives. He led the first training in the Hakomi Method in 1977. Today, Integrating scientific, psychological, and spiritual sources, Hakomi has evolved into a complex and elegant form of psychotherapy that is highly effective with a wide range of populations. Living differently is the only real measure of actual change, and it is here, in fact — in the ability to transform the new possibilities discovered in the office into ongoing actualities in daily living — that real change happens.The completion phase allows clients to emerge from the intensity of self-focused inner work, and to orient again towards the outside world. It’s not opinion. During this time, many new advances have been integrated into our work by Ron, various Hakomi trainers and numerous practitioners. Ron Kurtz is the original developer of the Hakomi Method. The “old” story is updated, forgiven or transformed.
Equally important, holding the client in this perspective, he or she may then be able to internalize these principles as an ongoing source of inner guidance.
)• To follow those experiences towards the core material that generates them• To pursue ways to heal and evolve the core materialHakomi, a leader in the use of mindfulness and the body, holds an especially strong somatic orientation. Once discovered in this experiential manner, core material can be examined, processed, and transformed.
These essential qualities allow for cooperation with the unconscious.
Hakomi is grounded in five principles:
The work here is to stabilize and anchor any positive, powerful new experiences, insights and discoveries.Eventually, we help the client to practice the new modes of organizing that they adopt, and to integrate these modes into their daily lives. He led the first training in the Hakomi Method in 1977. Today, Integrating scientific, psychological, and spiritual sources, Hakomi has evolved into a complex and elegant form of psychotherapy that is highly effective with a wide range of populations. Living differently is the only real measure of actual change, and it is here, in fact — in the ability to transform the new possibilities discovered in the office into ongoing actualities in daily living — that real change happens.The completion phase allows clients to emerge from the intensity of self-focused inner work, and to orient again towards the outside world. It’s not opinion. During this time, many new advances have been integrated into our work by Ron, various Hakomi trainers and numerous practitioners. Ron Kurtz is the original developer of the Hakomi Method. The “old” story is updated, forgiven or transformed.
Equally important, holding the client in this perspective, he or she may then be able to internalize these principles as an ongoing source of inner guidance.
)• To follow those experiences towards the core material that generates them• To pursue ways to heal and evolve the core materialHakomi, a leader in the use of mindfulness and the body, holds an especially strong somatic orientation. Once discovered in this experiential manner, core material can be examined, processed, and transformed.