Jamie Fearn Therapy

06/12/2025

Yesterday we had our Introduction to Hakomi online on the theme of rest and I read this gorgeous poem which feels so fitting for the time of year and was a way for me to honour Andrea’s passing earlier this year. I only discovered their work relatively recently and wow!

Instead of Depression
by Andrea Gibson

try calling it hibernation.
Imagine the darkness is a cave
in which you will be nurtured
by doing absolutely nothing.
Hibernating animals don’t even dream.
It’s okay if you can’t imagine
Spring. Sleep through the alarm
of the world. Name your hopelessness
a quiet hollow, a place you go
to heal, a den you dug,
Sweetheart, instead
of a grave.

29/11/2025

One of the things I love most in life is poetry. This past year has been hard at times for different reasons and committing more to my creative poetry writing has been so restorative and joyous! I was delighted yesterday to hear one of my poems has been shortlisted for a book! Please support the crowdfunding if you can - this book will create an UPROAR! 🦁🌈

LGBTQ+ poetry anthology - Up//Roar, Poems of Q***r Resistance, edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon, published by Arachne Press

28/11/2025

Hi all,

I teach an embodied somatic practice called Hakomi, which is a great way to gain more self-awareness. We’re doing a short online introduction next Friday 5th December. We’re asking for a donation for this of £20 and want to make it accessible to all – particularly if you’re interested in finding out more about Hakomi and it would be helpful to have a taste of what we’re about before committing to a full weekend.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

This online session will be made up of experiential Hakomi practices on the theme of rest.

📅 Dates and times: Friday 5th December 10am to 12pm (2 hours)
📍Location: Online
💷Cost: £20
📨Booking: is by Eventbrite 🔗 below

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-hakomi-tickets-1511542156279

You can contact us by email if you have questions (Vicky and I both have access to this): hakomilancaster@gmail.com

You can access further information about the event through my page and I've put a 🔗 in the comments. You do not need Facebook in order to attend – the training will be on Zoom.
If you have any questions, please do get in touch and thanks for reading 😸

24/09/2025

In memory of Ron Kurtz 1934 - 2011
For our next Hakomi weekend, which is the last for 2025, we are focussing in on what Ron Kurtz called the Refined Hakomi Method. As part of the weekend Ron will join us, albeit on screen but very present. There are still a few spaces left for this weekend held at the Lancaster Friends Meeting House 4th & 5th October 2025. For booking details please contact Vicky & Jamie hakomilancaster@gmail.com

12/09/2025

Hi everyone,

Our next multi-level Hakomi in-person training is less than a month away! This is the last of the year and Jamie's first full weekend after a year off. It is for those of you seeking a deep dive into this experiential approach known as Hakomi.

If you’ve attended one of our trainings before you’ll have heard it said, Hakomi is caught rather than taught. Cast your heart net and come gather some creatures from your deep! We use tried and tested, gentle and powerful practices to awaken the body’s knowing and our theme this weekend focuses on the Refined Hakomi method.

Join us for a special Hakomi workshop inspired by the final public teaching of Ron Kurtz - a rare and heartfelt transmission of the method he developed through decades of therapeutic insight.

📅 Dates and times: Saturday 4th October 10am - 5.30pm and Sunday 5th October 2pm - 6.45pm
📍Location: Lancaster Friends Meeting House
💷Cost: £210

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

📨Booking: is by email and bank transfer - hakomilancaster@gmail.com (Vicky and I both have access to this)

You can access further information about the event through my page and I've put a 🔗 in the comments. You do not need Facebook in order to attend.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch and thanks for reading 🍂🍁

12/08/2025

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19/07/2025

Hi all,

I teach an embodied somatic practice called Hakomi, which is a great way to gain more self-awareness. We’re doing a short online introduction on Saturday 16th August. We’re asking for a donation for this of £20 and want to make it accessible to all – particularly if you’re interested in finding out more about Hakomi and it would be helpful to have a taste of what we’re about before committing to a full weekend.

You do not need any prior knowledge or experience of Hakomi and it is open to anyone willing to explore a mindful approach to self-understanding.

This online session will be made up of experiential Hakomi practices, working as a whole group, in small groups and individually with spacious breaks.

The cost is by donation - we invite a donation of £20.
The times are 10am to 12pm (2 hours).
You can book by our Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-hakomi-tickets-1496296596399

You can contact us by email if you have questions (Vicky and I both have access to this): hakomilancaster@gmail.com

You can access further information about the event through my page and I've put a link in the comments. You do not need Facebook in order to attend – the training will be on Zoom.

If you have any questions, please do get in touch and thanks for reading 🌻

21/06/2025

Summer solstice greetings to you! Today is the summer equinox in the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year and the shortest night. This means that the light will start to decrease from today. It has me thinking about the balance of dark and light, that while here it's the longest day, in the southern hemisphere it's the shortest day and how everything is a balance of dark and light, how everything is connected.

I take more time off around this time of year and like to mark the turning of seasons, although the sun is at the height of it's energy here, I'm not sure I feel in sync with that and as I reflect on what's happening in the world around me I see so many challenges; such awful violence and war, oppression and abuse of power. It is grim. How do we find the balance of acknowledging these conflicts and causes close to our hearts that cause such darkness and take care of ourselves and our energy. It is complex and I hope that whatever might be happening in your part of the world, and however these various political and global and local events might be impacting you and I'm curious how you find the balance of activism in life, supporting causes you are close to and managing your energy and resources?

I feel much gratitude for those around me that offer light and I welcome new followers - I'm so glad you're here! I'm hoping to post some updates in coming weeks as I reflect on what's been happening in recent months with my research start to think and plan ahead into the second half of the year.

📸 by Joe on Pixabay, design by Jamie on Canva

13/05/2025

This week I’ll be facilitating a methodology workshop on my doctoral research at the 31st British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy International Research Conference co-hosted by The University of Manchester on Saturday 17th May 2025 on the theme of impact through collaboration.

My research explores co-researcher's embodied experience of recovery from spiritual trauma using embodied Heuristic Inquiry. I'm excited to share with others about my work and I've planned for some exploration and discussion of Heuristic Inquiry and embodied methodologies, identity, my research, bodies and language, creativity and self-care. I'm also looking forward to hearing about others' research.

🗓️ Workshop: Saturday 17th May – Strand 5 (Foster) at 11:00am
📍 Venue: Hyatt Regency, Manchester
🎤 Co-hosted by BACP & The University of Manchester

Thanks to Elizabeth Holt for inspiring this post!

30/03/2025

Always worth a re-share. It can be such a complex day

However this Mother’s Day finds you, I wish for you kindness and care.



Posted • Abel and The Label Happy Mother’s Day whatever you’re going through today, please remember you are worthy and you are loved 💖
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20/03/2025

Today is the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, which marks the first official day of spring when light and dark are in balance ☀️🌙 I've noticed a lot more flowers starting to bloom, especially the daffodils and I'm hearing so much more birdsong 🌱🌷🪻🐦🎶

Today is also Ostara, celebrated in the pagan or wiccan calendar and the name comes from the goddess Eostre symbolising new beginnings, nature's rebirth and themes of renewal, growth, and balance. I like the idea of equilibrium and can feel my energy increasing as the light increases and it feels like a delicate balance between rest and activity at times, I imagine it as walking a tightrope in a way and I wonder how you find equilibrium?

I seem to have a theme running through various activities this week of boundaries and this feels like a great way to find equilibrium. Something has stayed with me from those things I've listened to this week about boundaries which is that they are already there, we just need to listen to them. How do you listen to your boundaries? I think for me, as with a lot of things it comes back to listening to my body-self.

📸 by MabelAmber on Pixabay and design by Jamie on Canva

04/02/2025

Towards the end of last year I was awarded the honour of becoming a Hakomi trainer! This feels such a precious experience to me and my amazing trainers and mentors Vicky and Trudy came to Liverpool to celebrate and we went to my favourite restaurant to eat and share together. Last month I joined with other Hakomi trainers for my first gathering with them. It was lovely to be connected in this way together.

The news is being shared in various places and Vicky shared the news with our Hakomi Lancaster community through our latest newsletter. They will meet this coming weekend and I am sad to miss being with them. If you’ve been following here for a while, you may know I’ve been fortunate to be part of the Hakomi community since around 2012 and this is the longest gap I've taken from being at the weekends.

If you're interested to learn more about my journey with Hakomi, I shared some of this in a recent Hakomi Education Network newsletter and thought I'd also share it here.

There have been so many things in my history that led me to discovering Hakomi; a deep love of biology and a real hunger to understand myself and others were part of that. You might say I’ve always been asking where I stand in relation to the many realms of life. Hakomi was like a missing piece of a jigsaw I didn’t even know I was looking for. Initially I wasn’t that interested in this as something other than a personal journey of self-discovery and a way to meet others. I was drawn to my practitioner certification after some years growing in community as part of Hakomi Lancaster and feeling my practice deepening in different ways; through seeing changes in my day to day life as well as my natural curiosity leading me to discussions with other students and exploring how we understood Hakomi as a practice. In particular, a group of us used to practise and study together - we were very excited to be learning Hakomi and there was joy in doing this together. From this group I came to know one of my closest friends. I also had the privilege of learning from wonderful trainers and mentors: Trudy and Vicky. There was a deep sense of community for me with them, Josh and others. Through my long history in education and a desire to give back to a community I felt was giving so much to me, and through the relationships that had grown between us, it seemed so natural and organic that I became more involved.

Timeline:

• My journey with Hakomi started in January 2012 and I attended weekend trainings in Lancaster as well as some of the retreats in Sheffield and Devon for a longer, more immersive experience.

• I completed my 45 days of training in May 2016 and started practising and studying with three others in a regular group. During this time we offered free sessions to other Hakomi students and anyone interested in exploring themselves in this way.

• I went on to be certified as a Hakomi Practitioner in May 2018 and from then started assisting the Hakomi Lancaster training team. I also started offering workshops, practice groups and coaching groups in-person and online.

• I became a Hakomi Teacher in November 2020 and started teaching with Trudy and Vicky in 2021 as part of Hakomi Lancaster and most recently I have become a Hakomi Trainer, made official in August 2024.

My own explorations are taking me deeper into understanding my own neurodivergence and queerness and how embodied these experiences are. I can see that some of how I stand in relation to the many realms of being human is with some differences and I’m really interested and excited to bring these differences into my Hakomi offerings.

For anyone interested in learning about Hakomi and becoming certified, in the method, I can say this has always been a path of love for me, my only advice is to follow your heart.

In being welcomed into the Hakomi trainers team, I was inspired to write a poem that I think captures something of my process and where I stand in relation to Hakomi:

𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬
𝑏𝑦 𝐽𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛

It was never about becoming,
Or certificates or money.
Never about rubber stamps,
Or change and transformation.
It was never about doing or having or knowing.
Never even about learning, although I suspect that did happen too!

It was always about this different place,
where I meet you;
Right at the edge of where I end and you begin.
It was always about the gentle holding of a heart, or a hand or feet.
The rambunctious bleating and lowing and laughing!
The leaning in to solidity,
And the gruesome willingness to travel together even when it gets hard.
Into the thick of it,
Right to the heart.
It was always about love.

I'm not very good at taking photos at significant points in my life, I try to live in the moment and it's only afterwards I think of it. I wish I had taken one of Trudy and Vicky with me when they visited. Instead, here is a photo I took back in May 2023 of us sitting in the sun in front of the Lancaster Friends Meeting House.