Hakomi Ireland offers open multi-level training since February 2017. Multilevel training means Hakomi Introduction and Levels 1, 2 & 3 are all in one workshop. Everybody learns at own level in a group of many levels. Learning Hakomi occurs through deepening into the Hakomi principles and state-of-being. The content of the workshop is carefully structured to support all skill levels. All levels of Hakomi experience and skill are welcome. Anybody wishing to have an introduction of Hakomi can come along to any workshop. Individuals wishing to start the full Hakomi training may attend. People who have had some Hakomi experience and have already partly completed a Hakomi training are also welcome.
Who can attend?
Anyone who has an interest in understanding themselves and others and in working with present mind-body experience can benefit from this training. Note that this is experiential training with a requirement to self-study.
Anyone in the healing professions—psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, allopathic and naturopathic physicians and nurses, homeopaths, body-centered practitioners, and people in care-giving situations—will find within this method techniques to enhance their practice. This training is an ideal add-on for professional development.
The format is 3 * 5 day trainings for 3 years. After completion of 45 days training, a certification of completed Hakomi training will be issued. The training is valuable for developing skills that are applicable in many contexts. Should you however wish to practice as a Certified HEN Hakomi practitioner you will need to complete the certification process. This involves providing evidence of competency in the form of self-critiqued videos of Hakomi sessions.
If you have any questions call or email: Tel: +35386 2606983. info@hakomiireland.ie
To Apply : Please forward your Full name, Contact details (inc mobile phone #) any Hakomi experience or therapeutic training (not necessary but nice to know), Payment Option.
Cost: If All Trainings are paid for by February 1st, €600 per 5 day training Total €1,800 (saving €285)
2018 Dates
February 17th-21st; Caroline Braham. Venue: Vista Primary Care Centre, Naas, Co Kildare.
July 11-15th; Bob Milone.
November 10th-14th; Caroline Braham
Early Bird €650. Full early bird fee due 4 weeks prior to start date of training
Total €695 per 5day training within 1 month of training.
For those who have already completed the 45 day training and wish to repeat training, Cost will be €70 per day.
Payment Options:
Paypal option available send money to info@hakomiireland.ie
Cheque/Euro Draft payable to Hakomi Ireland (Address: Lahorna, Nenagh, Co Tipperary. Ire.)
E-banking & direct debit payment: Bank Details (BIC) IPBSIE2D IBAN: IE94IPBS99073421277155
Our main trainer will be Caroline Braham, an international Hakomi trainer and practitioner www.carolinebraham.com
If you’re considering becoming a student in a Hakomi Training, this short description will acquaint you with the method and what you may experience. By Ron Kurtz
Here’s What You Need to Know About the Method
Hakomi is based on the idea that much of our everyday suffering is in fact unnecessary and is produced by long held, unconscious beliefs that are no longer true or relevant. The method is designed to bring such beliefs into consciousness. It’s not about talking people out of their problems. We don’t have long, speculative conversations with people about their troubles or history. A person’s emotional history—especially the part that has created the unconscious habits and beliefs with which that person meets his or her world—that history is operating right now. It is written in the way the person does things now, his style, his defining characteristics. We use those things to help the person study who he or she is. Hakomi is a method of assisted self-discovery. A Hakomi practitioner brings what are normally inaccessible mental processes—like implicit beliefs and habitual rules and attitudes—into consciousness in a gentle, efficient way. Once these processes are made conscious, emotional relief and revision of beliefs becomes possible. Old, painful experiences are integrated. Beliefs and habits are examined and modified. A more realistic and satisfying way of being begins.
As practitioners, we pay very close attention to the way a person does things. The information needed for the method to work is contained in nonconscious, nonverbal aspects of behavior, such as tone of voice, movements, gestures, posture and facial expressions. By observing these, we get ideas about what unconscious processes are controlling a person’s behavior. On the basis of these ideas and we create little experiments (often only a simple evocative statement) [1] done with the person in a mindful state. (This method of self-study requires short periods of mindfulness. Participants must be able to be calm and centered enough to observe their reactions.) Effective experiments elicit clear reactions, often emotional ones. These reactions are the links to the unconscious mental processes organizing them. These reactions are the necessary prelude to the integration and positive emotional outcomes achieved by the method.
What to Expect
The teaching method is similar to the therapy method. You can expect teaching to be primarily experiential. There will be short lectures, discussions, and demonstrations, but mostly, the group will do exercises designed to convey the ideas being presented in practical, experiential ways. These exercises sometimes bring up emotions, sometimes, very strong ones. In those situations, the trainer and the assistants know how to guide and support the process. Overall, you can expect that you will change in much the same way you would change being a client rather than a student.
What You Need to be Ready
You need to be ready to be with your own present experience. Your reactions to the exercises, some of which are done in mindfulness, need to be studied and reported to your small group partners. You need to be comfortable learning in this way, with your whole body, mind and spirit. You need to be able to stay focused on experience and you need to be ready to go into a calm, inward focused, accepting state, to let things happen that you might normally contain or avoid. You have to be willing to experience some painful emotions. These are your challenges.
There is almost no homework, although it is highly recommended that you read about the work and practice what you’ve learned, either with your fellow students or with people not in the training. The more you practice, the better.
The difference between an expert and a novice is that a novice hasn’t acquired the schemas of an expert. Learning requires a change in the schematic structures of long term memory and is demonstrated by performance that progresses from clumsy, error-prone, slow and difficult to smooth and effortless. The change in performance occurs because as the learner becomes increasingly familiar with the material, the cognitive characteristics associated with the material are altered so that it can be handled more efficiently by working memory.
The Rewards
You will learn a modern, effective scientific approach to helping people change. You will gain a deeper understanding of yourself and others and greater freedom to choose what you will do and feel. You will find greater pleasure in everyday living and will be able to develop richer, happier relationships.
Cancellation Policy: Attendees will receive a full refund minus €80 administration fee when cancelling prior to 30 days before the event; 50% refund for cancellation 14-30 days prior to event. If cancelled within 14 days of workshop no refund available or full payment needed. All fees are non transferable. Should Hakomi Ireland need to cancel any training, full refund will be given.
