Hakomi Therapy online Training  April 2021

April 10th &  11th  Sat-Sun.  Caroline Braham ~ Trainer    Early Booking Advised

Hakomi Ireland are delighted to offer you 2 two day Hakomi Training online weekend in April 10th & 11th, 2021. An ideal opportunity to get a taster of Hakomi as a beginner if you are curious about the method. And an ideal opportunity to re connect id you have already been part previous Hakomi trainings. Note these days count as training days.

February   6th & 7th   Sat & Sun. Sabine Volkmann ~ Trainer       FULLY BOOKED OUT

With Online Zoom trainings we can meet with everyone visible to each other on a shared screen. Breakout rooms facilitate Smaller groups to practice in a quiet, private space. In this space Trainers can enter breakout rooms to offer guidance, support and coaching. Amazing what technology can do, all from the comfort of our own homes. These online days count as training days.

The time frame for the 2 days are as follows (lots of breaks to avoid screen fatigue)

Saturday Zoom orientation 9.45-10am

10:00 – 11:15         Zoom Session

11:15 – 11:45        Break

11:45 – 13:00        Zoom Session

13:00 – 14:30        Lunch Break

14:30 – 15:45        Zoom Session

15:45 – 16:15        Break

16:15 – 17:30        Zoom Session

 Cost:

€170 for two days ( €50 deposit secures place)

Payment Options:

Paypal option available  send money to info@hakomiireland.ie

Cheque/Euro Draft payable to Hakomi Ireland (Address: Lahorna, Nenagh, Co Tipperary. Ire.)

E-banking & direct debit  payment:  Bank Details    (BIC) IPBSIE2D     IBAN: IE94IPBS99073421277155

Who can attend?

Anyone who has an interest in understanding themselves and others and in working with present mind-body experience can benefit from this training. Note that this is experiential training with a requirement to self-study. This is an ideal add on training for psychotherapists/counsellors that have an interest in body centered therapies. CPD hours available. Anyone in the healing professions—psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, allopathic and naturopathic physicians and nurses, homeopaths, body-centred practitioners, and people in care-giving situations—will find within this method techniques to enhance their practice. This training is an ideal add-on for professional development.

If you have any questions call or email: Tel: +35386 2606983.   info@hakomiireland.ie

To Apply: Please forward your Full name, Contact details (inc mobile phone #) any Hakomi experience or therapeutic training (not necessary but nice to know), and your choice of Payment Option.

 

If you’re considering becoming a student in a Hakomi Training, this short description will acquaint you with the method and what you may experience. By Ron Kurtz

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Method

Hakomi is based on the idea that much of our everyday suffering is in fact unnecessary and is produced by long held, unconscious beliefs that are no longer true or relevant. The method is designed to bring such beliefs into consciousness. It’s not about talking people out of their problems. We don’t have long, speculative conversations with people about their troubles or history. A person’s emotional history—especially the part that has created the unconscious habits and beliefs with which that person meets his or her world—that history is operating right now. It is written in the way the person does things now, his style, his defining characteristics. We use those things to help the person study who he or she is. Hakomi is a method of assisted self-discovery. A Hakomi practitioner brings what are normally inaccessible mental processes—like implicit beliefs and habitual rules and attitudes—into consciousness in a gentle, efficient way. Once these processes are made conscious, emotional relief and revision of beliefs becomes possible. Old, painful experiences are integrated. Beliefs and habits are examined and modified. A more realistic and satisfying way of being begins.

As practitioners, we pay very close attention to the way a person does things. The information needed for the method to work is contained in nonconscious, nonverbal aspects of behavior, such as tone of voice, movements, gestures, posture and facial expressions. By observing these, we get ideas about what unconscious processes are controlling a person’s behavior. On the basis of these ideas and we create little experiments (often only a simple evocative statement) [1] done with the person in a mindful state. (This method of self-study requires short periods of mindfulness. Participants must be able to be calm and centered enough to observe their reactions.) Effective experiments elicit clear reactions, often emotional ones. These reactions are the links to the unconscious mental processes organizing them. These reactions are the necessary prelude to the integration and positive emotional outcomes achieved by the method.

 

What to Expect

The teaching method is similar to the therapy method. You can expect teaching to be primarily experiential. There will be short lectures, discussions, and demonstrations, but mostly, the group will do exercises designed to convey the ideas being presented in practical, experiential ways. These exercises sometimes bring up emotions, sometimes, very strong ones. In those situations, the trainer and the assistants know how to guide and support the process. Overall, you can expect that you will change in much the same way you would change being a client rather than a student.

What You Need to be Ready

You need to be ready to be with your own present experience. Your reactions to the exercises, some of which are done in mindfulness, need to be studied and reported to your small group partners. You need to be comfortable learning in this way, with your whole body, mind and spirit. You need to be able to stay focused on experience and you need to be ready to go into a calm, inward focused, accepting state, to let things happen that you might normally contain or avoid. You have to be willing to experience some painful emotions. These are your challenges.

There is almost no homework, although it is highly recommended that you read about the work and practice what you’ve learned, either with your fellow students or with people not in the training. The more you practice, the better.

The difference between an expert and a novice is that a novice hasn’t acquired the schemas of an expert. Learning requires a change in the schematic structures of long term memory and is demonstrated by performance that progresses from clumsy, error-prone, slow and difficult to smooth and effortless. The change in performance occurs because as the learner becomes increasingly familiar with the material, the cognitive characteristics associated with the material are altered so that it can be handled more efficiently by working memory.

The Rewards

You will learn a modern, effective scientific approach to helping people change. You will gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others and greater freedom to choose what you will do and feel. You will find greater pleasure in everyday living and will be able to develop richer, happier relationships.