Topics Covered

• Work experientially and somatically with developmental injuries, characterological issues and core beliefs as well as inherent resources
• The therapist's mind and attitude in the therapeutic relationship
• Understand and utilize the psychology of the body in the clinical setting
• The specific applications of mindfulness to psychotherapy
• Working with present experience as a direct route to core material
• New approaches to befriending defenses and resistance
• Learn interventions you can immediately use in your practice
• Use of the body to access and process core material in safe, non-invasive ways
• Learn to creatively transform therapeutic impasses and deepen the work
• Understand how to recognize and use character strategies in therapy
• Utilizing the Sensitivity Cycle as a concrete map to moving the client through stuck places
• Attachment Patterns in relationship to Hakomi therapy application
• Differentiating emotional charge and reactivity from traumatic activation
  

Style of Teaching
This training is taught through short talks and experiential excersises, supervised practice and live demonstration. Emphasis is on application of the method to existing clinical situations and building of clinicial skills. The training is designed for students to have a confidence level with the Hakomi method in their practice and application of the work.

For Whom
This training is for health care professionals. Note: To practice psychotherapy in the State of California, one needs to be licensed by the state as a marriage and family therapist, social worker, psychiatrist or psychologist.

Dates

Module One: 2010: March 20-21, April 17-18, May 15-16, June 19-20, September 11-12

Module Two: 2010: October 16-17, November 20-21,
2011: January 15-16, February 12-13, March 12-13.

Cost
Early Enrollment: $2,000 for each module ($4,000 for both modules) for those who send in their $400 non-refundable deposit by February 1, 2010 for Module One. Normal Registration: add $200 per module. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Repeating students may enroll for one half the cost of tuition. Limited student scholarships available.

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Times
9:30am to 5:30 pm each day with a 1 1/2 hour for lunch.

CEU’s Offered
MFT & LCSW: This training meets the requirments for 65 units per module of continuing education for MFT's and LCSW's in California.
Nurses: Eva Geidt, RN, (Provider #14707) is co-sponsor of this training, which is approved by the California Board of Nursing for 65 hours of continuing education credits per Module.

For More Information or To Apply
Please contact Sharon Gardner, M.A, Administrative Director, Hakomi Institute of California · 415 839-6788, or Rob Fisher, MFT · 415 389-6340 (lead trainer) contact@hakomicalifornia.org.

Refund Policy
Any student who withdraws from the Training before it begins will receive a full refund minus the $400 non-refundable deposit.
Any student may withdraw from the Training within one week (7 days) after the end of the first training weekend will receive an eighty (80) percent refund of the tuition minus the non-refundable deposit of $400. After that, no refunds will be granted. Students will be held to this agreement, regardless of future attendance and/or completion of the training

Rob Fisher, MA, MFT is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer . He specializes in consultation as well as individual and couples experientially oriented, psychodynamically informed psychotherapy. He is an adjunct professor at JFK University where he teaches Marriage and Family Therapy and an adjunct professor at CIIS where he teaches the Theories of Body Psychotherapy.

He also teaches at the post-graduate level in a number of agencies and is a speaker at conferences and workshops around the country such as CAMFT and USABP. He publishes the Couples Psychotherapy Newsletter, is the author of Experiential Psychotherapy With Couples, and the author of a recent chapter in Couples and Body Therapy. Phone: 415 389-6340. E mail: robfisher@hakomicalifornia.org

Manuela Mischke Reeds, M.A., MFT, certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, and Somatic Psychotherapist. She trains health professionals in the Hakomi Method in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia.

Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy, attachment therapy, pre-perinatal psychology, movement therapy and somatic trauma work. She is adjunct faculty at JFK University, Institute Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto and CIIS, San Francisco. She co-developed "Waking up from the Family Trance", a somatic approach to exploring and transforming internalized Family Systems. Manuela is an authorized Continuum Movement Teacher leading regular Continuum classes in SF and abroad.

She holds a MA in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a BA in Dance Therapy from the Naropa Institute. In addition she has trained in various methods of working with trauma, counseled survivors of political oppression and torture and victims of trauma. She is an SE Practioner in the Trauma Resolution method developed by Peter Levine. Manuela has extensive training in the field of arts, movement/dance, Buddhist meditation. She maintains a private practice in Menlo Park working with individuals, couples and children. Phone: 650-862-3010. Email: ManuelaMR@hakomicalifornia.org

Julie Murphy, Certified Hakomi Trainer, has been training professionals in Somatics for 17 years. Bringing together years of professional experience in the fields of anthropology, somatics and the arts, Julie developed the Mythic Body and co-developed Waking up from the Family Trance. She holds a degree in Anthropology, has pursued graduate studies in Contemplative Psychology at the Naropa Institute and has years of training in Movement, Somatics and Buddhist meditation practice. Julie has presented at numerous conferences including the American Massage Therapy Association, the Hakomi Institute International Conference, and most recently for USABP at Johns Hopkins University. Julie teaches internationally. Phone: 831-458-2142. Email: juliemurphy@hakomicalifornia.org.