This training presents the skills and principles of Hakomi Experiential Psychology, and the unique intervention and treatment strategies which follow from them. Participants will be trained in the precise moment-to-moment elegance of working with mindfulness in psychodynamic psychotherapy.

In addition, because Hakomi is dedicated to the aliveness of both client and therapist, great emphasis is placed both on the attachment based nature of the therapeutic  relationship, and on the ground of being from which the therapist works.

Topics Covered

• To provide brief, in-depth psychotherapy using the present moment and live experience
• How to design and utilize interventions to access and transform core models of the self, others and the world
• To apply the art of tracking non-verbal communication from the unconscious
• To apply mindfulness and experiential methodologies to address safety, self regulationand relationship skills
• To use the body to access unconscious material
• Approaches to working with content, movement, gesture, voice and pace
• Non-invasive techniques to work directly with resistance and psycho-emotional defenses without opposing them
• Techniques to deepen towards core psychological material
• To work with transference/countertransference systems in respectful and experiential ways that enhance curiosity and aliveness in the relationship
• To utilize the attachment relationship within the therapeutic container
• Contemporary neuroscience models for Mindfulness based interventions
• To distinguish developmental vs. traumatic injuries
• Mindful tools to renegotiate trauma states. And proven techniques for somatic resourcing
• To help the client embody and process regressed states towards resolution of long term issues and behaviors
• To design interventions to access and transform core models of the self, others and the world
• Sophisticated maps for understanding client psychological predispositions.
  

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.

2011 Dates

Module One: January 22-23, February 26-27, March 19-20, April 16-17, May 21-22.

Module Two: June 25-26, July 16-17, September 17-18, October 15-16, November 19-20.

Times
9:00am to 5:00 pm each day.

Cost
Early Enrollment: $2,000 for each module ($4,000 for both modules) for those who send in their $400 non-refundable deposit by October 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.

Location
Nevada City, CA

To Apply
Download an application, fill it out, and sent/email it along with a $75 non-refundable application fee to: Hakomi Institute of California, 5758 Geary Blvd, #160, San Francisco, CA 94121, contact@hakomicalifornia.org.

For More Information
Please contact Hakomi Institute of California · 415 839-6788, or Rob Fisher, MFT · 415 389-6340 (lead trainer) contact@hakomicalifornia.org.

Application available soon

CEUs

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.

Refund Policy
Any student may withdraw from the Training within one week (7 days) after the endof the first training weekend and receive an eighty (80) percent refund of the tuition less the non-refundable deposit of $400. After that, no refunds will be granted.

Module One

Weekend 1
Underlying Principles, Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship. The art of tracking non-verbal communication from the unconscious. Core models of the world. Internal organization of the therapist
Weekend 2
Stages of the therapeutic process. Categories of experience. Contact: working with the present experience. Joining with the client at the level of their experience-deeper than words. Attachment Theory: implications for Intervention and Assessment.
Weekend 3
Deepening techniques towards core material. Use of Mindfulness in psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Weekend 4
Experimental attitude of the therapist. Working with story and storyteller. The experimental therapist: how to generate and use present moment experiments. Working with content, posture, movement, gesture and voice. The use of touch in psychotherapy.The unfolding of the psyche.
Weekend 5
Understanding defenses: working with resistance without opposition. Working with barriers to nourishment.

Module Two

Weekend 6
Transformation. Working with the body. Body Reading. Deciphering internalized meaning levels. Balancing between insight and experience. The Missing Experiences in the client: developing a repertoire for self-inquiry and nourishment. Developmental neurobiology.
Weekend 7
Resourcing the regressed client. Mindfulness based Interventions for trauma states.Reading the cues of the traumatized client. Somatic approaches to trauma resolution. Differentiation of activation levels. Strategies for modulation and regulation. Supervised practice.
Weekend 8
Integrating therapeutic gains into everyday life. Completion of therapy. Working with difficult clients. Supervised practice.
Weekend 9
Transference/countertransference systems and how to work with them. Introduction to character theory for assessment and intervention. Supervised practice.
Weekend 10
Review, personal assessment, supervised practice, selected applications, 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.

Scott Eaton, MFT, a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, has been facilitating groups and trainings in the U.S. and Europe for over 30 years. A licensed psychotherapist for 20 years, Scott specializes in gay and lesbian issues, spirituality, shame reduction, PTSD, work with anger and relationship dynamics. An avid world traveler, Scott has also been a long-standing teacherof meditation. You can email Scott at scotteaton@hakomicalifornia.org

Jon Eisman, CHT, is one of the Founding Members of the Hakomi Institute, and Director of Hakomi Institute of Oregon. Jon teaches throughout North America and Europe and is the creator of R-CS,Re-Creation of the Self, a powerful and innovative tool for working with psychological parts in therapy, in group work, and in spiritual practice. An Oregonian, Jon teaches frequently in the Bay Area. You can email Jon at joneisman@hakomicalifornia.org