Nourishing Communication - Personhood Series- Full-Day Workshop
We thrive on connection with others. How we connect within our many relationships - such as our friends, family, romantic partners, and spiritual communities - may be the most essential aspects of our spiritual growth and personal evolution. Feeling deeply seen and accepted within these relationships is a fundamental human desire.
This workshop will focus on learning how to offer and accept this kind of nourishing communication. It is an opportunity to study and change our habits around giving and receiving nourishment within a supporting container.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Nourishing Communication - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Session
We thrive on connection with others. How we connect within our many relationships - such as our friends, family, romantic partners, and spiritual communities - may be the most essential aspects of our spiritual growth and personal evolution. Feeling deeply seen and accepted within these relationships is a fundamental human desire.
This workshop will focus on learning how to offer and accept this kind of nourishing communication. It is an opportunity to study and change our habits around giving and receiving nourishment within a supporting container.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Nourishing Communication - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Session
We thrive on connection with others. How we connect within our many relationships - such as our friends, family, romantic partners, and spiritual communities - may be the most essential aspects of our spiritual growth and personal evolution. Feeling deeply seen and accepted within these relationships is a fundamental human desire.
This workshop will focus on learning how to offer and accept this kind of nourishing communication. It is an opportunity to study and change our habits around giving and receiving nourishment within a supporting container.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Non Verbal Awareness - Personhood Series- Full Day Workshop
Most of what we communicate with one another is done without speaking. By bringing attention to the subtle and constant flow of nonverbal information between us, we can enhance our ability to understand one another more authentically.
This workshop is an opportunity to practice noticing how we send and receive messages, impressions, stories, and ideas about each other from the ways we present and hold ourselves, our facial expressions, and more. We will also notice how we make guesses or assumptions about each other, sometimes unconsciously, based on things like posture, facial expression, tension patterns, and even energy.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Non Verbal Awareness - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Period
Most of what we communicate with one another is done without speaking. By bringing attention to the subtle and constant flow of nonverbal information between us, we can enhance our ability to understand one another more authentically.
This workshop is an opportunity to practice noticing how we send and receive messages, impressions, stories, and ideas about each other from the ways we present and hold ourselves, our facial expressions, and more. We will also notice how we make guesses or assumptions about each other, sometimes unconsciously, based on things like posture, facial expression, tension patterns, and even energy.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Non Verbal Awareness - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Period
Most of what we communicate with one another is done without speaking. By bringing attention to the subtle and constant flow of nonverbal information between us, we can enhance our ability to understand one another more authentically.
This workshop is an opportunity to practice noticing how we send and receive messages, impressions, stories, and ideas about each other from the ways we present and hold ourselves, our facial expressions, and more. We will also notice how we make guesses or assumptions about each other, sometimes unconsciously, based on things like posture, facial expression, tension patterns, and even energy.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Remembering Wholeness: A Restorative Hakomi Training
Join us in Austin, TX, for an in-person Hakomi training designed to rejuvenate your body and restore a sense of wholeness.
Hakomi is a body-centered psychotherapy that blends mindfulness, somatic awareness, and experiential techniques to promote self-discovery and healing. Participants will explore key aspects:
Mindfulness: Cultivating non-judgmental awareness of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations.
Experiential Techniques: Uncovering unconscious beliefs through guided exploration of inner experiences.
Body Awareness: Using sensations to access deeper emotional and psychological patterns.
Non-Violence: Creating a safe, compassionate space for exploration.
Self-Discovery: Integrating mind and body to foster personal insights and healing.
Nourishing Communication - and Breakfast Tacos!
Austin-area Hakomi folks - nourish your heart and start your day off right by joining us for a Loving Presence check-in, breakfast tacos (and really good coffee) at Lazarus on Airport Blvd. Tuesday mornings, every week, between 9-10 CT. Come see us, and let’s connect about Hakomi!
Nourishing Communication - and Breakfast Tacos!
Austin-area Hakomi folks - nourish your heart and start your day off right by joining us for a Loving Presence check-in, breakfast tacos (and really good coffee) at Lazarus on Airport Blvd. Tuesday mornings, every week, between 9-10 CT. Come see us, and let’s connect about Hakomi!
Nourishing Communication - and Breakfast Tacos!
Austin-area Hakomi folks - nourish your heart and start your day off right by joining us for a Loving Presence check-in, breakfast tacos (and really good coffee) at Lazarus on Airport Blvd. Tuesday mornings, every week, between 9-10 CT. Come see us, and let’s connect about Hakomi!
Free Pain Reprocessing Therapy Demo
Ask the Expert: Free Pain Presentation and Q&A with Mike Williams
This is a great opportunity for anyone you know who's challenged by chronic pain to connect with Mike Williams, Certified Hakomi Practitioner (CHP), and Certified Pain Reprocessing Therapist (PRT), to learn a bit more about the science of chronic pain and how PRT helps, and have a guided group practice teaching them one of the foundational skills in the PRT toolkit.
Ask questions and find out more about how your chronic pain might be solved
Learn about PRT and the neuroscience of chronic pain in a short, interactive talk
Experience a guided Somatic Tracking practice, a key tool for solving chronic pain
Module 2: Loving Presence - Personhood Series - Evening Practice Session
When we are fully present with one another and actively cultivating Maitri (loving-kindness), and Karuna (compassion), we are in a state of mind called Loving Presence. Ron Kurtz, the founder of the Hakomi method, stated that this state of mind is “without doubt the single most important factor” in the success of a therapeutic relationship. Further, it is a way of being open-hearted to one another in any relationship that simply feels nourishing and refreshing and leaves one feeling heard and understood.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn
We can never really be prepared for unexpected events that alter our lives, sometimes forever. Whether it is aging, death, illness, job loss, or lost relationships, sudden changes can feel overwhelming and difficult to navigate. This is an invition to explore these challenges in a Hakomi way.
Module 2: Loving Presence - Personhood Series - Evening Practice Session
When we are fully present with one another and actively cultivating Maitri (loving-kindness), and Karuna (compassion), we are in a state of mind called Loving Presence. Ron Kurtz, the founder of the Hakomi method, stated that this state of mind is “without doubt the single most important factor” in the success of a therapeutic relationship. Further, it is a way of being open-hearted to one another in any relationship that simply feels nourishing and refreshing and leaves one feeling heard and understood.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Medicine Dance
Medicine Dance provides the opportunity for you to consciously explore organic and intuitive movement with a focus on your internal experience rather than an outward expression.
Resourced & Inspired: Presence With Donna Martin and Georgia Marvin
Join Hakomi Legacy Holders Donna Martin & Georgia Marvin as they share new video content of Ron Kurtz's teachings and facilitate experiences and discussion about specific themes. A rare opportunity to learn Hakomi directly from Ron, a master therapist and originator of the Hakomi method.
Module 2: Loving Presence - Personhood Series
When we are fully present with one another and actively cultivating Maitri (loving-kindness), and Karuna (compassion), we are in a state of mind called Loving Presence. Ron Kurtz, the founder of the Hakomi method, stated that this state of mind is “without doubt the single most important factor” in the success of a therapeutic relationship. Further, it is a way of being open-hearted to one another in any relationship that simply feels nourishing and refreshing and leaves one feeling heard and understood.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Module 1: Quieting the Mind - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Session
We spend much of our time in habitual states of mind that keep us striving, busy, and pursuing what we want while avoiding what we don’t want. Much of this happens based on past experiences, emotions, ideas, and beliefs that are largely unconscious to us. When we can bring our attention and compassion to our internal experience, we have an opportunity to increase our awareness of habitual patterns, offering us choices only available through intentional self-study.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
HEN Community Dialogue
Please join us to connect with each other in the Hakomi way as we explore and evaluate how to best ensure that HEN delivers on the promise of being a gentle but powerful force for love and connection in the world.
Here are the topics we will explore:
HEN as an emerging organization (who are we becoming and how might we continue to adapt and expand?)
Continuing the conversations from the 2024 International Congress (broadening the discussions that started in Mexico City)
Module 1: Quieting the Mind - Personhood Series- Evening Practice Session
We spend much of our time in habitual states of mind that keep us striving, busy, and pursuing what we want while avoiding what we don’t want. Much of this happens based on past experiences, emotions, ideas, and beliefs that are largely unconscious to us. When we can bring our attention and compassion to our internal experience, we have an opportunity to increase our awareness of habitual patterns, offering us choices only available through intentional self-study.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Module 1: Quieting the Mind - Personhood Series- Full Day Workshop
We spend much of our time in habitual states of mind that keep us striving, busy, and pursuing what we want while avoiding what we don’t want. Much of this happens based on past experiences, emotions, ideas, and beliefs that are largely unconscious to us. When we can bring our attention and compassion to our internal experience, we have an opportunity to increase our awareness of habitual patterns, offering us choices only available through intentional self-study.
This experiential online workshop will consist of short presentations, along with relational exercises designed to help participants explore new ways to interact with others without the entangling habits of the conditioned mind and heart. The workshop is appropriate for anyone wishing to deepen their practice of self-study utilizing the Hakomi method.
Please note: This module consists of a full-day workshop and 2 evening practice periods to help students deepen their understanding of the content. Registration for the module includes the full day and two evening practice periods. Full registration is required, even if you cannot attend all three offerings. Recordings will be provided to anyone who has registered.
Medicine Dance
Medicine Dance provides the opportunity for you to consciously explore organic and intuitive movement with a focus on your internal experience rather than an outward expression.
Medicine Dance
Medicine Dance provides the opportunity for you to consciously explore organic and intuitive movement with a focus on your internal experience rather than an outward expression.
Nourishing Communication - and Breakfast Tacos!
Austin-area Hakomi folks - nourish your heart and start your day off right by joining us for a Loving Presence check-in, breakfast tacos (and really good coffee) at Lazarus on Airport Blvd. Tuesday mornings, every week, between 9-10 CT. Come see us, and let’s connect about Hakomi!
Nourishing Communication - and Breakfast Tacos!
Austin-area Hakomi folks - nourish your heart and start your day off right by joining us for a Loving Presence check-in, breakfast tacos (and really good coffee) at Lazarus on Airport Blvd. Tuesday mornings, every week, between 9-10 CT. Come see us, and let’s connect about Hakomi!
Flint Sparks June Molokai Intensive
Join Flint Sparks for a week-long intensive at the Hui Ho’olana. Flint is a Zen Buddhist teacher, Spiritual Director, and Hakomi Legacy Holder who leads retreats internationally with an emphasis on the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation.
He is a guiding teacher at both Appamada, a center for Zen practice and inquiry in Austin, Texas, and Open Door Zen Community in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also a guiding teacher in several Zen-informed sanghas in the UK and Switzerland. Flint is a former Clinical Psychologist who specialized in working with people with life-threatening physical illnesses.
NOTE: This intensive has been filled. Please contact jessica@hakomiaustin.com if you would like to be placed on a reserve list.
When Life Takes an Unexpected Turn
We can never really be prepared for unexpected events that alter our lives, sometimes forever. Whether it is aging, death, illness, injury, or lost relationships, sudden changes can feel overwhelming and difficult to navigate. This workshop is designed and led by the Vancouver team to offer space to explore these challenges and to open new pathways in our experience of a changed life.
This online event will be faciltated by some of the members of the Vancouver Hakomi team: Georgia Marvin, Katie and Kenny Askew and Susan Dempsey.
Flint Sparks May Molokai Intensive
Join Flint Sparks for a week-long intensive at the Hui Ho’olana. Flint is a Zen Buddhist teacher, Spiritual Director, and Hakomi Legacy Holder who leads retreats internationally with an emphasis on the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation.
He is a guiding teacher at both Appamada, a center for Zen practice and inquiry in Austin, Texas, and Open Door Zen Community in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also a guiding teacher in several Zen-informed sanghas in the UK and Switzerland. Flint is a former Clinical Psychologist who specialized in working with people with life-threatening physical illnesses.
HEN International Congress, Mexico City
The Hakomi Education Network (HEN) International Congress 2024 is a unique opportunity for our global community to connect, exchange ideas, and share best practices while experiencing the excitement of gathering with colleagues from around the world.
Whether you're new to Hakomi or an experienced Trainer, Teacher, Student, or Organizer, you are warmly invited to join us at this special event. The Hakomi experience will be guided by esteemed "legacy holders" and seasoned training teams from across the globe.
Resourced and Inspired Series: Honoring the Creative Impulse
Join Hakomi Legacy Holders Donna Martin & Georgia Marvin in watching videos of Ron Kurtz talking about specific aspects of the method. Learn Hakomi directly from Ron, a master therapist, and originator of the Hakomi method.
From Pain to Empowered: Transformative Tools For Men Navigating Chronic Pain Recovery
Offered by Mike Williams
Certified Hakomi Practitioner (CHP) through the Hakomi Institute
Certified Pain Reprocessing Therapist
Certified Rolfer®
Chronic pain defines our lives, limits what we can do, and perhaps most importantly, limits what we think we can do.
Recent advances in neuroscience are redefining what we know about chronic pain though. We now know that pain does not necessarily mean that our bodies are broken, or that something is dangerously wrong with us. Pain, in fact, is a complex biological, psychological, and social phenomenon that lives in our nervous systems.
When you learn the basic elements of how your nervous system has constructed your pain, along with some simple tools to take the fuel out of those inputs, you can begin to steadily retrain your brain to return to its normal settings. To turn the tide against chronic pain.
In this 5-week pilot program we’ll be doing just that: deconstructing and simplifying the inputs that go into chronic pain, and practicing simple Pain Reprocessing Therapy tools to take the fuel (and guesswork) out of the pain experience.
The Legacy of Ron Kurtz - Unnecessary Suffering and The Missing Experience
Donna Martin and Georgia Marvin will guide you through video clips of Ron Kurtz explaining aspects of Hakomi, followed by experiential exercises to deepen our understanding of unnecessary suffering and the ways in which new experiences can ignite the healing process and a journey into wholeness.
Resourced and Inspired Series: The Art of Following
In this series, you are invited to watch video of Ron talking about specific aspects of the method, what inspired him in his understanding of the human potential for healing and you will learn Hakomi directly from Ron, a master therapist and originator of the Hakomi method.
The Legacy of Ron Kurtz - Learning from Rare Recordings
Hakomi Legacy Holders Georgia Marvin and Donna Martin will facilitate a two-hour exploration of the Legacy of Ron Kurtz with the aid of rare recordings of Ron teaching. This event will be enriching for both novice and seasoned members.
Quieting the Mind – A Taste of Hakomi
Hosted by the Hakomi Education Network, this program is a weekly program of interactive and experiential practices in pairs and small groups to help us to slow down and become mindful of our inner life. We will spend time noticing what interferes with us being calm, present, and happy. We’ll begin to build awareness of our habitual ways of relating to ourselves and to others and learn to choose how we actually want to behave. This leads to more satisfaction in our relationships and in our lives in general. When we learn to quiet the mind, our emotional lives become simpler, and we can cultivate ease and compassion for ourselves and others.
This program will run weekly from September to early December and will be held in Spanish, English (and French starting in November).
Flint Sparks Molokai Intensive
Join Flint Sparks for a week-long retreat at the Hui Ho’olana. Flint is a Zen Buddhist teacher and Spiritual Director who leads retreats internationally with an emphasis on the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation.
He is a guiding teacher at both Appamada, a center for Zen practice and inquiry in Austin, Texas, and Open Door Zen Community in Madison, Wisconsin. He is also a guiding teacher in several Zen-informed sanghas in the UK and Switzerland. Flint is a former Clinical Psychologist who specialized in working with people with life-threatening physical illnesses.
Saturday Evening Hakomi Tasters With Katie and Kenny
Tasters are events facilitated by the Vancouver training team and are held every other week. Affordable and accessible, these events offer the beginner an experience of Hakomi and current students the opportunity to connect with our community.
“Hakomi is an amazing doorway into the study of the self. Self-study in mindfulness is its core practice. The freedom that can come with this study is our aim, whether negotiating the relative with more freedom or opening to the ultimate in deep practice. Its fruit is Wisdom and Compassion."
~ Flint Sparks