For the first time in the Bay Area, we  are presenting a series of two-hour evening introductions to the Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychology. The meetings will provide an overview of the Hakomi Method as well as cover the different programs offered by the Hakomi Institute of California. The same information will be presented each evening.

The cost of these evening introductions is $10 and the registration fee includes:   
    • Two continuing education units for MFTs and LCSWs
    • Tea and snacks
    • A $10 gift certificate for future Hakomi workshops sponsored by the Hakomi Institute of California.
Register today, Space is very limited.

For Whom
The workshop is open and relevant to both clinicians and the general public and serves as prerequisite hours for The Hakomi Comprehensive Training and Hakomi Professional Training.

"A visionary contribution in bringing mindfulness to our therapeutic community." — Daniel Siegel, M.D., author of The Developing Mind and The Mindful Brain.

"Hakomi Experiential Psychology specializes in training therapists to touch people's hearts. Using the present moment as a gentle route to deeply held models of the world, Hakomi feels like going on a sweet journey deep into the psyche. Hakomi Experiential Psychology teaches psychotherapists how to become friends of the soul" — Rob Fisher, MFT, Hakomi Trainer.

The Hakomi Method is an elegant, comprehensive and highly effective approach to human change and development. Hakomi is an in-depth, mindfulness-based psychotherapeutic modality. Its techniques are effective throughout a wide range of therapeutic applications such as individual, couples and family therapy, and group work. It is backed by thousands of hours of clinical applications and volumes of evidence research into the neurological underpinnings of mindfulness and core psychological belief systems.

For over 30 years Hakomi has pioneered and integrated the use of mindfulness in the psychodynamic process. Hakomi utilizes the present moment as a rapid and experiential access route to unconscious material. Guided by the principles of Mindfulness and Non-violence, the Hakomi Method is a gentle, repectful, compassionate and powerful form of psychotherapy that uses the wisdom of the body to deepen therapy beyond insight and words. Hakomi follows Frieda Fromm Reichman's advice "The patient needs an experience, not an explanation." Typical therapeutic outcomes include lasting change in deeply held emotional attitudes, beliefs, and behavior.

While primarily developed as a psychotherapeutic modality, Hakomi has continued to evolve in its applications and is easily and effectively adapted to many other professions and settings including counseling, coaching, employer/employeee relations, mediation, ethics, creativity issues, theater arts, dance, poetry, naturopathy, acupuncture, parenting, gender issues, politics, corporate relations, sports performance, hospice, and spiritual issues and practice.

For more information about Hakomi, please see the About Hakomi section.

"Hakomi is an excellent system for learning key emotional intelligence skills." — Daniel Goleman, author of the bestseller, Emotional Intelligence.

BERKELEY

Date: Thursday September 23, 2010
(changed from Sept 16)
Time: 7:00-9:00 PM
Location: Martin Luther King near Ashby, Berkeley.
Please register to reserve a space and to obtain the full address.
Teacher: Dominique Lando, MFT

Tuition: $10 per event

The $10 registration fee includes:
    • Two continuing education units for MFTs and LCSWs
    • Tea and snacks
     • A $10 gift certificate for future Hakomi workshops sponsored by the Hakomi Institute of California.

To Register: Please call Sharon Gardner at (415) 839-6788 or email her to reserve a space. Please register early as space is very limited.

Cancellation Policy: No refunds are available for this program

CEU’s Offered: This workshop meets the requirements for 2 units of continuing education for MFT's and LCSW's in California.

For More Information: Contact Sharon Gardner at (415) 839-6788 or email her at sharongardner@hakomicalifornia.org.

Dominique Lando, M.A., M.F.T. is a certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher as well as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has a private practice in Berkeley, where she sees individuals and couples. She is the Co-Founder of Anam Cara Healing Center in Berkeley, a community-based therapy center. She draws not only from her training in somatic psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Trauma work and EMDR but also from her years working in the field of Community Development.