HAKOMI METHOD

The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy is a body-centered and mindfulness-based psychotherapy first developed by Ron Kurtz. Hakomi encourages us to examine our core beliefs and how we might have organized our persona around painful developmental experiences. Hakomi gently helps us shift the way we experience ourselves and the world around us, freeing us to more fully be ourselves.

Hakomi is grounded in five principles:

Mindfulness  –  Slowing down and paying close attention to our present-moment experience helps us discover and explore what is happening internally, all by itself.

Organicity  –   Recognizes that people, are creative, self-organizing, and self-directed. By offering compassionate support, the therapist helps you move towards organic growth and unfolding of your own inner-healing abilities.

Non-violence  –  Creates an environment of understanding and respect towards our defenses. We follow your internal intelligence to support and understand “defenses”as the automatic ways we protect ourselves. We allow them to gently and willingly yield and be reintegrated, creating change without force.  

Unity  –  Greater wholeness comes from recognizing all of the parts of ourselves and our interconnectedness to other people.

Mind-Body Integration  –  Because mind and body influence and interact with each other, working with our felt-sense body experience and its stored meaning allows us to identify and work with core beliefs.