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Tuesday 9am - 5pm Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 5pm

http://www.hakomiinstitute.com/

Hakomi Institute, 865 Albion Street STE #250, Denver, CO (2026)

02/20/2026

What Makes Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy Unique?

90% of communication is nonverbal — and yet the wealth of information that the body communicates is rarely used as a therapeutic tool.

The body’s intelligence knows things that neither we nor our clients know about the source of their unwanted attitudes and behavior.

Hakomi practitioners learn to track and explore subtle somatic cues (i.e., facial expressions, breathing, tensions, postures, and movement patterns) that indicate the presence of unconscious psychological material.

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02/06/2026

Join us for an engaging demonstration and interactive Q&A exploring the core principles of the Hakomi Method. This session offers a live look at how mindfulness, somatic awareness, and nonviolence come together in Hakomi work, with real-time examples from a certified trainer. You’ll gain insight into what Hakomi training looks like in practice, ask questions about the method and training pathway, and get a felt sense of how this powerful, experiential approach supports deep therapeutic change. Ideal for therapists, social workers, coaches, and anyone curious about mindful, body-centered psychotherapy.

Sunday, January 25 from 4 to 5:30pm (Mountain Time)

During the Demo and Q&A, we’ll cover:

- A Brief Demo of the Hakomi Method
- Overview of the training: structure, curriculum, and learning outcomes
- How the hybrid model works
- The role of practice sessions, mentorship, and feedback
- Time commitment, tuition, and payment options
- How to decide if Level 1 is the right fit for you

Hakomi is renowned for its brilliance in working gently and effectively with core beliefs, attachment patterns, and emotional wounds through present-moment, body-based inquiry. What makes Hakomi unique is its integration of mindfulness as a therapeutic tool, its respect for the organic wisdom of the body, and its non-pathologizing, compassionate stance. Therapists love Hakomi for its depth and elegance, its clear structure paired with deep attunement, and its ability to create meaningful, lasting change without force or retraumatization. The method supports both client healing and therapist sustainability, offering a way of working that is precise, humane, and deeply nourishing to practice.

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01/16/2026

Primary Attachment Therapy Training 2026

In Person, Edmonton, AB Canada

June 24 - 28, 2026

P.A.T. therapists support clients in building secure relationships using mindful, immediate engagement processes in a safe and loving therapeutic container.

Primary Attachment Therapy (P.A.T.) provides a comprehensive map for exploring the implicit learning from our earliest development, resolving early attachment wounding and supporting the pursuit of satisfying adult relationship with self, others, and the world.

P.A.T. builds on the principles, tools, and techniques of Hakomi, and is deeply informed by Interpersonal Neurobiology and CIMBS (Complex Integration of Multiples Brain Systems), developed by Beatrix & Terry Sheldon. Working with attachment states as fluid rather than fixed, P.A.T. blends brain science and deep limbic attunement to evolve individual, coupled, and other intimate relationships toward greater stability and satisfaction.

P.A.T. is distinct in locating much of the process in the immediate relationship between client and therapist, deliberately eliciting attachment states and bringing close, caring attention to moment-to-moment dynamics. We often work in mindfulness with eyes open and focus on attachment needs and indicators that arise in the transpiring present moment — in the “room,” within the client, and between the client and therapist — limiting exploration of historic, future, or outside the current context material. This supports brain repatterning and the development of new neural pathways.

Our trainings offer a supportive context for refining your own attachment responses and deepening your capacity for professional intimacy, which can enhance practitioner effectiveness in a range of helping contexts.

P.A.T. is creative, optimistic, loving, simple, nuanced, forgiving, surprising, sometimes paradoxical, and always exceedingly human.

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01/12/2026

Experience the power of Hakomi 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: Gregory Gaiser, PA, CHT

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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01/07/2026

Hakomi Comprehensive Training – Level 1, Hakomi Fundamental Relationship Skills

Brisbane, Australia

Purpose:

The aim of Level 1 Fundamentals is to train psychotherapists and allied health professionals in the fundamental building blocks of the Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy method.

Emphasis is on the development of the self in connection.

Hakomi tools can be applied to therapy, allied health, business settings, coaching, education, and other healing modalities.

Curriculum:

Setting the frame for learning and group cohesion
Skills for respectful and mindful relationship
The Hakomi principles and overview of the Hakomi method
Mindfulness as self-study
Relevant neuroscience of mindfulness in the therapeutic process
Therapist self-awareness and precise tracking skills
Cultivating loving presence in dyadic relationship
Principles of a Hakomi healing relationship
Somatic resourcing for self-regulation in dyadic exchange
Mindful practices for emotional self-regulation
Self-practices for cultivating a grounded therapist seat
Tracking tools to read the subtle cues of the body
Skills for contacting the present moment
Understanding how attachment styles impact relationships
Attunement skills for cultivating a healing relationship
Deepening the process by accessing emotions and sensations
Skills to facilitate and navigate subtle processes in therapy
Facilitating safety and managing deep emotional processes towards resourcing
Differentiating categories of human experience
Managing states of consciousness in the client
Meaning making, integration and completion techniques
Participants:
Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Social Workers, Doctors, Bodyworkers, Massage Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Yoga Teachers, Coaches, Human Resource Managers, Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Cranial-Sacral Therapists, Teachers and other related professions.

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01/02/2026

Experience the power of Hakomi 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: Deah Baird, N.D., L.P.C., 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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12/30/2025

Experience the power of Hakomi 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: 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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12/23/2025

Hakomi Character Training: A Somatic Map of Human Development and Relational Patterns in Therapy

Hybrid - Online and in California

Learn clinical tools and somatic practices for working with early character formation, spanning human development from the perinatal period through adolescence, with special attention to BIPOC and Indigenous child development.

Through the lens of mindfulness, somatic psychology, and Hakomi’s Map of Human Development, you’ll explore the deep roots of personality, survival strategies, and embodied relational patterns. Character strategies, formed as intelligent adaptations to early relational environments, shape how we move, breathe, connect, and perceive ourselves. Over time, these patterns influence posture, emotional regulation, relational habits, and core beliefs about safety, worth, and belonging.

Participants will gain embodied tools to support meaningful change, both in their own development and in their work with others.

This training is suitable for Hakomi students, graduates, and psychotherapists who want to include character theory and maps in their toolkit. It is also open to psychologists, coaches, and educators seeking a practical framework for understanding and working with deeply held character patterns.

Faculty:
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Susan San Tara, Julie Murphy, Pamela Thompson, Ashley Ross, Tara Shannon, Karen Daley.

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12/19/2025

Passion & Presence® Mindful Relationship S*x Therapy Certificate:

Join us for an informal “Meet and Greet” about the program on January 9 from 12:00–1:00 p.m. (Eastern, U.S.)

Visit HakomiInstitute.com/community-offerings for more information and to register

Are you a helping professional who works with intimate partners—or wants to?

Do you sometimes feel uneasy or underprepared to address s*xual issues?

The Mindful Relationship S*x Therapy Certificate is a 16-month, 136-hour live online training that equips you to confidently address the intimate, complex, and sacred terrain of partner s*xuality. Rooted in the Passion & Presence® method—a mindful, experiential, somatic approach—this Hakomi-informed program honors the erotic as a pathway to healing, intimacy, and personal evolution.

You’ll learn how to skillfully support partners through challenges like low or mismatched desire, shame, performance anxiety, and infidelity—while helping them explore pleasure, connection, and creativity beyond “functioning.” Along the way, you’ll grow as both a practitioner and a human being, supported by a heart-full, embodied learning community.

What you’ll gain:

80+ ready-to-use experiential activities for sessions and homework
Mindfulness practices to open deeper explorations about s*x
Expert presenters on marginalized s*xualities, somatic trauma healing, and non-monogamy
Lifetime access to a rich learning portal with recordings, worksheets, and resources
136 AASECT CE credits that may be used for licensure renewal in multiple modalities, with a pathway to certification as a S*x Therapist (if eligible).

Faculty:
Maci Daye, LPC, Senior Hakomi Trainer, Certified S*x Therapist, plus guests

12/15/2025

Join this introductory Hakomi workshop to get a taste of the Hakomi method and experience first-hand the therapeutic power of the loving presence of the Hakomi therapist, their mindful attunement to the present moment, and their client’s body-mind universe. You will gain initial skills to support people in exploring their bodies, emotional wounds, and protective strategies, as well as befriending them with kindness, the latter representing all and in itself a potent healing therapeutic tool.

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.
Pia Charpentier – Psychologist, certfified Hakomi Therapist, certified Hakomi Teacher

WHERE: Rome / Italy

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12/12/2025

Character: In a positive sense, a person’s stable way of making meaning of life through organizing multiple dispositions from metabolic, psychosocial, and structural factors so that the person displays consistent, predicable behavior. In a therapeutic sense, a way of experiencing and expressing oneself in a rigid way, unaware of or unable to make use of a wider range of realistically available choices.

character process: Any one of a number of characterological ways of being in the world that have been delineated in Hakomi and general psychological literature as having identifiable, predictable components (see character above).

character strategy: The patterns, habits, approaches to the world a person has developed to achieve pleasure and satisfaction while avoiding perceived painful situations, given the nature of the person’s particular core organizing beliefs about the world.

Excerpted from Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy; Glossary of Hakomi Therapy Terms, by Cedar Barstow and Greg Johanson.

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