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Hakomi Institute, 865 Albion Street STE #250, Denver, CO (2025)

09/25/2025

"In a socially intelligent model of power, heart and strength work together, and the focus is on collaboration and inclusivity, resolving conflict peacefully, and treating all
with respect and dignity.

Right Use Of Power is the use of personal and role power to prevent harm, heal harm, repair harm, and most importantly to promote well-being. Right use of power behaviors and. sensitivities are the essence of the field of ethics. Ethics is a set of values, attitudes and skills intended to have benevolent effects when applied through professional. behavioral guidelines, decision-making processes, and the practice of compassion." ~Dr. Cedar Barstow, the founder of the Right Use of Power and Hakomi trainer emeritus

Join us for an exploration of:
Ethics and the Power of the Space Between Us
October 24 from 9am to 5:30pm (CST)

In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore the nuances of boundaries that provide the foundation for safe and successful therapeutic relationships.

With ample experiential exercises, you’ll learn about healthy, healthy, responsive, and flexible boundary setting through exploring your own relationship to interpersonal boundaries.

This process will deepen your self-awareness and enhance your ability to recognize and enhance your own boundary setting patterns, fostering profound healing for both you and your clients.

Learning Objectives:

*Identify the impact of emotions on our ability to set a health boundary

*Explore power dynamics in therapeutic relationships

*List the characteristics of healthy boundaries in a clinical setting

*Develop mindfulness as the foundation of ethical practice

*Develop a felt sense of a healthy, safe, and effective boundary with yourself and clients in a clinical setting

*Understand self-care as an ethical responsibility

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09/23/2025

Think about it for a moment.

Which would be more satisfying: discussing the chocolate cake you ate sometime during the last week, or sinking your teeth into a piece of rich, moist, chocolate cake with swirls of butter cream frosting?

There is obviously a world of difference between reporting about an experience and having one.

There is also a significant difference between polite conversation and psychotherapy, yet much of contemporary therapy relies on the former, while neglecting the power and aliveness of direct experience.

By taking therapy from the realm of second hand reports about events that have occurred in the lives of your clients to the realm of actual experience, you will increase your therapeutic power and depth exponentially.
..By using the body and present time experience, therapy takes on a visceral quality that transcends the cognitive.

By staying with live experience clients are able to more deeply and easily access core material.

They have a sense of connection with themselves and their internal worlds that begins to permit them to reorganize how they participate in intimate relationships.

Excerpted from Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples: A Guide for the Creative Pragmatist by Robert M. Fisher, M. A., M.F.T. in the Hakomi Forum – Issue 18, Summer 2007

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09/18/2025

Loving presence is a way of being and of relating that offers a particular quality of therapeutic relationship, one that is safe, accepting, and appreciative. All by itself, loving presence can be transformational and healing. As the basis for psychotherapy, it increases effectiveness immeasurably.

~ Donna Martin

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09/16/2025

This introductory workshop offers participants the opportunity to experience how Hakomi identifies and works with clients’ subtle, deeply ingrained, and largely automatic patterns.

It does so by engaging these patterns safely, accessing their deeper emotional roots, and ultimately helping clients re-negotiate them.

This whole process supports states of enhanced self-coherence, fostering more profound and more lasting change.

Participants will learn how to use the body as a source of insight and inspiration in therapy: a doorway into a richer, more complete understanding of their clients’ humanity, and, ultimately, into their transformation.

Participation in this workshop counts as a prerequisite for admission to the Hakomi Comprehensive Foundation Module.

Faculty:

Valentina Iadeluca: Licensed Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist, Certified Hakomi Teacher, Full Member of European Association of Body Psychotherapy, AISC and CBT Italia.
Shai Lavie: M.A., M.F.T, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer Certified Hakomi Trainer, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and Massage and Bodywork Therapist.

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09/10/2025

Hakomi is a unique form of psychotherapy that combines mindfulness, somatic techniques, neuroscience, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and compassionate exploration resulting in profound healing and self-discovery.

For over 40 years, Hakomi has pioneered the psychodynamic use of mindfulness in the therapeutic process, using mindfulness to access unconscious psychological material that’s not easily accessible by conversation alone.

People are often surprised at how quickly they can access deeply unconscious material using the mindfulness-based methods that infuse every phase of our work.

Hakomi practitioners use the body as a doorway to the psyche.

Hakomi is grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience.

Hakomi helps to develop the practitioner’s inner state.

Hakomi works with expanded states of consciousness.

Join a community of worldwide practitioners dedicated to creating a more conscious, compassionate and connected humankind.

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09/08/2025

Experience the power of the Hakomi Method with an Introductory Workshop.

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Faculty: Hiromi Willingham, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Certified Hakomi Trainer

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

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09/04/2025

The experiential nature of Hakomi often allows professionals to access key unconscious patterns quite rapidly, as mindful, somatic techniques are integrated with talk therapy.

Although safe and gentle, this experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take deeper ownership of core material, its transformation, and resulting changes.

As Frieda Fromm Reichman says, “The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.”

Transformation begins when awareness is turned mindfully toward felt, present experience.

Unconscious material unfolds into consciousness, barriers are attended to, and memory re-consolidation takes place.

New experiences are integrated that allow for the reorganization of core beliefs and neural patterns.

These new experiences allow the client to choose to change material that restricts their behavior or experience, and we help the client to integrate these new beliefs and choices into everyday life.

It is here - in the ability to transform new possibilities discovered in therapy into on-going actualities of daily living - that real change happens.

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09/02/2025

“Power is simply the ability to have an effect, or to have influence. However, the right use of this influence is complex. The right use of power in positions of trust is not simply the result of good intentions. It is also the ability to act sensitively, creatively, and effectively in the service of others and yourself. This requires engaging attention, relationship mastery, and a lifetime involvement in increasing sensitivity to the impact of our use of power.” ~Dr. Cedar Barstow, the founder of the Right Use of Power and Hakomi trainer emeritus

In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn and explore the nuances of boundaries that provide the foundation for safe and successful therapeutic relationships.

With ample experiential exercises, you’ll learn about healthy, healthy, responsive, and flexible boundary setting through exploring your own relationship to interpersonal boundaries.

This process will deepen your self-awareness and enhance your ability to recognize and enhance your own boundary setting patterns, fostering profound healing for both you and your clients.

Learning Objectives:

*Identify the impact of emotions on our ability to set a health boundary

*Explore power dynamics in therapeutic relationships

*List the characteristics of healthy boundaries in a clinical setting

*Develop mindfulness as the foundation of ethical practice

*Develop a felt sense of a healthy, safe, and effective boundary with yourself and clients in a clinical setting

*Understand self-care as an ethical responsibility

6 CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

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08/28/2025

Our bodies, thoughts, emotions, habits, actions, and the core beliefs we hold about ourselves, others, and the world are shaped by the systems larger than ourselves. We are shaped by the experiences, messages, and meanings from the family, cultural, societal and global systems which form the contexts for our lives.

This shaping begins before we have a developed sense of self and identity.

Traditionally, psychotherapy has focused on the family system as particularly impactful, but we cannot forget that the family system is shaped by the standards and norms of cultural, societal, and global systems, and can be a carrier of the messages and core beliefs embedded in those systems (in addition to intergenerational messages and corebeliefs). This shaping can be limiting and/or generative.

In this experiential workshop we will use mindfulness to bring awareness to the systems that have shaped us, and explore possibilities for healing and transformation of the limiting core beliefs arising from our experiences within these systems.

We will learn about and cultivate the practice of Loving Presence, in order to hold our own and each other’s experiences with reverence, openness, and love.

This workshop is dedicated to the development of allies and resources on the path to personal and collective liberation.

“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

―Reverend angel Kyodo williams

Faculty: Lorena Monda, DOM, LPCC, Certified Hakomi Trainer

Target Audience

This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

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08/06/2025

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

August 22 - 24 (Online - live via Zoom, Mountain Time)

Faculty: Gregory Gaiser, PC, Certified Hakomi Trainer

Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues.This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from the faculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and Supervision.

Audience: This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

Learn more at hakomiinstitute.com

07/31/2025

"From mindfulness, to spaciousness, we begin to see more clearly, and to open to new possibilites of how to be nourished, to feed the soul.

This kind of non-ego centered nourishment fills us up and radiates out as loving presence, providing the ground and context for healing to unfold spontaneously."

~ Ron Kurtz and Donna Martin

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07/29/2025

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: Comprehensive Training

FACULTY: Jaci Hull, LMFT, Certified Hakomi Trainer & Therapist; Anna Harland, MSW, Certified Hakomi Teacher & Therapist

Levels 1 and 2

September 2025 – February 2027

Hybrid: Online and in Calgary, AB

In this training, students learn to develop an exquisite sensitivity and attunement to others, and to convey this understanding. This empathy and responsiveness helps to create a deep sense of safety and connection, and facilitates the effectiveness of the therapy. The self-development of the therapist coupled with Hakomi’s highly innovative techniques, form the core of the training.

Using non-dualistic principles of mindfulness and gentle, open curiosity, the Hakomi therapist creates an atmosphere of safety for deep and sophisticated processing. This helps the client yield their defences safely and willingly to be examined, re-evaluated and transformed into more functional choices and behaviors.

The relief, increased self-awareness and freedom provides the client with a sense of personal empowerment, choice, and a richer appreciation for life.

Our Calgary team is made up of two principle faculty, Jaci Hull, LMFT, lead trainer and Anna Harland, MSW, RSW, Senior Teacher. Along with other guest faculty from Hakomi of Canada, Jaci has been teaching in Calgary for over 20 years and has trained over 100 students. Jaci welcomed Anna Harland on board in 2017. As a team, Jaci and Anna share a high standard for teaching The Hakomi Method, for developing and maintaining the health of the learning cohort and the support and promotion of diversity in the Hakomi Professional Community of Canada

Discounts available for Groups, Agencies and for BIPOC and Those Working with Underserved Populations. Please contact us with your needs.

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