Training in Hakomi is available through both 1 to 3-day introductory workshops and a 400-hour Comprehensive Training. Participants can expect a low student-teacher ratio, a relaxed and participatory learning environment and numerous opportunities to practice new skills with other group members.

Workshops

Workshops are for individuals seeking to add breadth to their clinical repertoire and/or to fulfill the experiential pre-requisite of the Comprehensive Training. Workshops are taught by local and visiting faculty who often tie a specific Hakomi technique to a more general theme, such as:

The healing relationship	· Overcoming "resistance"
The body-mind interface	· Mindfulness in psychotherapy
The neuroscience of change	· Therapy & spirituality"
The Sensitivity Cycle	· Loving presence

Upcoming Workshops

The Myth of the reluctant client (May 5th and 6th)

Comprehensive Hakomi Training

The Comprehensive Training teaches therapists how to use Mindfulness and other states of consciousness to access the key organizers of experience and quickly befriend the client's unconscious. Participants learn how to work with present, felt experience with special emphasis on the information held in the client's body.

The Comprehensive Training helps new therapists bridge the gap between school and real life by giving them hands-on, experiential training in the actual practice of psychotherapy. Both new and seasoned therapists find the Hakomi principles alleviate the worries of "making something happen" and increase trust in the healing process. The use of mindful, co-created experiences provide new ways to explore the places where clients (and therapists) often get stuck. Therapy, thus, becomes more engaging for both parties.

The Comprehensive Training is comprised of 15-18 long weekends over a two-year period.

Topics include:

• Loving presence and use of self
• Establishing a healing relationship
• Working within the five organizing principles
• Inducing and sustaining mindfulness
• Tracking for cooperation of the unconscious
• Creating and using contact statements
• Accessing present, felt experience
• Studying the organization of experience
• Designing little experiments
• Using the body in therapy
• State specific processing
• Recognizing signs of trauma and dissociation
• Facilitating emotional release
• Working with The Child
• Understanding character processes and strategies
• Ethics
• The Sensitivity Cycle
• Jumping out of the system
• Supporting and stabilizing therapeutic outcomes

Each weekend block, students practice new skills in dyads and small groups, receive live supervision and observe demonstrations. In the later stages of the training, special attention is paid to personal style to help fine-tune the creative, individual approach of each therapist. Emphasis here is placed on increasing fluency, refining skills, developing artistry and studying advanced character strategy.

Because the outcome of therapy depends largely on the personhood of the therapist, each day begins with Mindfulness. Students are encouraged to develop a regular Mindfulness practice and a therapeutic relationship outside of the training. Participants also grow through being in the "client" role during practice exercises, and through group process and other experiential activities that are built into each weekend. The intention here is to turn out therapists who are as dedicated to understanding their own process as they are to understanding others.

If you would like a detailed curriculum outline, please contact us for a copy of the catalog. Plans are underway to launch the fourth Atlanta Comprehensive Training early 2007.

Meet the faculty

Morgan Holford, LPC, Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer , is director of Hakomi Southwest in Santa Fe, N.M. She has been teaching Hakomi since 1987 in many cities across the US. She served on the faculty of all three Atlanta Trainings, as Lead Trainer for two of them. Morgan trained in group leadership and brings her fascination with group dynamics and the individual growth that can blossom from group experience to her trainings. She also has a background in body therapies, and incorporates her respect and appreciation for the wisdom of the body into her work with students. She co-created, in 1995, with Hakomi Teacher Susan McConnell, the special application training Hakomi for Bodyworkers. Morgan's spiritual path is the center of her life. She is committed to helping clients and students in integrating spirit into everyday life. She has developed a workshop series entitled Embodying Spirit which reflects this love. Morgan integrates body, mind and spirit in her private practice for individuals and couples and as an adjunct therapist in the Somatics Program at Life Healing Center, a residential trauma treatment center in Santa Fe, NM.

Maci Tater, Ed.S, LPC.,is a Certified Hakomi Trainer on the faculty in Atlanta, Asheville, NC and Washington, DC. Students describe her teaching style as heartfelt, energetic, inspiring and sincere. Maci trained with Ron Kurtz, the founder of Hakomi, for two years and was a member of the Hakomi Institute's Board of Directors. She holds graduate degrees in Education and Counseling from Harvard and Georgia State Universities and is an advanced student of Somatic Experiencing. Maci provides psychotherapy, career planning and life coaching through her company, LifeWorks Seminars and Counseling, Inc, and the Emory University Faculty Staff Assistance Program. Maci's long-term mindfulness practice informs her life and teaching. She enjoys walks with her three dogs and is an avid salsa dancer.

Inge 'Mula' Myllerup-Brookhuis Cand.Psych. LPC, CEAP , is a Hakomi Teacher on faculty in Louisville, KY, Atlanta, Ga, Washington, DC, and Santa Barbara, CAL. Students describe her as brilliant, open hearted and warmly human in her teachings. From her 14 years of yoga asana and mindfulness meditation practice she brings a deep sense of the bodymind and a gratefulness of spirit. From academic studies culminating in doctoral dissertation studies she brings to hakomi an easily digestible and clarifying understanding of human psychological processes from the perspectives of academic psychology, neuropsychology and interpersonal neurobiology. In the recent 3 years Inge 'Mula' has learned directly from Ron Kurtz. From this relationship she brings new clarifications and refinements of the method to the trainings that she partakes in. Inge 'Mula' lives with her dear husband Alex at 'theZenter' in Carrollton, where she specializes in bodymind integrative psychotherapies, trauma recovery therapies and yoga practices. For more information see practitioner bio or look up thezenter.com.