A Professional Training in Mindful, Somatic, and Experimential Coaching

Hakomi-Informed Somatic Coaching (HISC) Certificate

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Hakomi-Informed Somatic Coaching Program (HiSC) is a professional training that brings the mindfulness-based, somatic, and relational principles of Hakomi into the practice of coaching.

This experiential online program teaches coaches to bring mindful attention to present-moment experience – including the body, emotions, beliefs and patterns that emerge within the coaching conversation. Participants develop both their own capacity for embodied presence and practical skills for supporting greater awareness, choice, and meaningful change in their clients.

Through Hakomi’s gentle, curious, and experiential approach, coaches learn to listen beyond the content of what a client is saying and become more attuned to how clients are experiencing themselves in the moment. Rather than interpreting, fixing, or directing, coaches learn to create conditions that support clients in discovering more about themselves and accessing their own wisdom.

HISC is designed for both experienced coaches who want to deepen their work through a somatic and mindfulness-based approach and newer coaches who want these principles to be part of their coaching foundation.

Will ICF CCEs be offered?

Hakomi-Informed Somatic Coaching is approved by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) as a Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) program. Participants who successfully complete the program receive 40 ICF CCEs. (34 Core Competencies, 6 Resource Development). CCEs can be used to apply for ICF Certification through the portfolio path.

Receiving ICF accreditation is a significant achievement that underscores our commitment to providing high-quality, ethical, and professionally designed coaching programs. This accreditation validates that our program adheres to the highest industry standards, equipping our coaching with the necessary skills, knowledge, and competencies to deliver exceptional coaching experiences.

The ICF accreditation process is rigorous, involving a thorough evaluation of our program’s structure, content, instructional methods, and alignment with the ICF’s stringent core competencies and code of ethics. By meeting these exacting criteria, we demonstrate our dedication to fostering an environment of continuous learning, growth and professional development for our coaches.

Learning Outcomes

What is Hakomi?

What is Coaching?

Coaching vs. Psychotherapy

HiSC will support you to:

Apply core Hakomi principles and practices within a coaching framework.
Deepen your somatic self-awareness so you can remain grounded and present in the coaching relationship.
Track clients' verbal and nonverbal experience with greater sensitivity and curiosity.
Bring mindful attention to patterns, beliefs, emotions, and embodied presence as they emerge in the present moment.
Use experiential practice and mindful explorations to support client awareness and discovery.
Develop a trauma-sensitive approach to coaching while maintaining appropriate scope and boundaries.
Support client autonomy, choice, and access to their own inner resources.
Join a community of coaches committed to mindful, somatic, and relational practice.

The Hakomi Method is a mindfulness-based, somatic approach to self-study that has been practiced around the world for more than 40 years. Rooted in the principles of mindfulness, nonviolence, organicity, mind-body holism, and unity, Hakomi offers a gentle and experiential way of exploring how we organize our experience.

Hakomi pays particular attention to what is happening in the present moment—our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, impulses, beliefs, and habitual patterns—and approaches all of these with curiosity rather than judgment.

These principles have powerful applications within coaching. They can help coaches slow down, listen more deeply, attend to the whole person, and support clients in discovering patterns and possibilities that may not emerge through conversation alone.

HiSC adapts selected Hakomi principles and practices specifically for use within the scope and ethical framework of professional coaching.

Learn more about the Hakomi Method.

Here is how the ICF (International Coach Federation) defines coaching:

Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.

ICF coaches see clients as the experts of their lives—naturally creative, resourceful and whole.

Partnering with a coach can change your life, setting you on a path to greater personal and professional fulfillment. Coaches will work towards your set goals and overcome the challenges that are intrapersonal. The coaching process will help develop self awareness and increase the capacity to take meaningful actions.

In HISC, we understand coaching as a collaborative process in which clients remain the experts of their own lives. The coach's role is not to diagnose, prescribe, or provide answers, but to create conditions that support awareness, learning, choice and movement toward what matters to the client.

How is Coaching different from Psychotherapy?

Both coaching and psychotherapy support clients in navigating the normal, and sometimes painful, ups and downs of the human condition. Both professions can help clients gain more clarity, take action, and feel more satisfied in their work and lives.

Psychotherapists have an additional role and responsibility as mental health clinicians. Psychotherapists are trained to diagnose and treat a wide range of clinical mental health conditions that are outside the scope of coaching.

Ethical coaches understand the boundaries of their scope of practice, recognize when a client's needs may be better served by a mental health professional, and develop trusted resources for consultation and referral.

Program Curriculum: 40-Hour Live Online Training

HiSC is a 40-hour live online program.

Teaching will be both didactic and experiential with practice groups in between each module. Please note that the curriculum is subject to change.

Module 1: The Being of Coaching

Step into the essence of what it means to be a coach—not just someone who “does” coaching.

Ground yourself in the Hakomi principles of Mindfulness, Unity, Organicity, Mind-Body Holism, and Nonviolence, weaving them into the foundation of your practice.
Cultivate loving presence and compassion to foster trust and safety, so clients feel seen, accepted, and supported.
Learn the arc of the Hakomi-informed coaching process while embodying the qualities of a collaborative partner who supports awareness, learning and change.

Module 2: Trauma-informed Coaching

Bring a trauma-informed lens to coaching with safety and care.

Develop a trauma-informed coaching lens.
Explore somatic resourcing practices that can support grounding and present-moment awareness.
Practice Embodied Wisdom™ self-regulation and embodied presence.

Module 3: Somatic Tracking

Develop the art of listening to the body as deeply as you listen to words.

Practice attuning to your client’s subtle physical cues, gestures, and shifts in embodied presence.
Explore somatic tracking as a mindfulness practice for both client and coach.
Deepen your ability to listen to the nonverbal realm of experience, where new awareness and insight can emerge.

Module 4: Contacting the Present Moment

Explore present-moment awareness as a foundation of Hakomi-informed coaching.

Practice bringing attention to present-moment experience.
Learn contacting practices that invite deeper awareness and exploration.

Module 5: Applied Mindfulness

Bring mindfulness into every layer of your coaching.

Cultivate relaxed, nonjudgmental awareness in yourself and support this quality of awareness in your client.
Support clients in bringing mindful awareness to experiences that may not emerge through ordinary conversation.
Practice simple yet powerful ways of inviting mindfulness into the coaching conversation.

Module 6: Accessing Techniques

Help clients explore beneath the surface with gentleness and curiosity.

Practice inviting attention to the body as a pathway to insights, images, emotions, and other aspects of present-moment experience.
Learn to recognize and explore beliefs and inner narratives as they emerge in the coaching process.
Support clients in accessing their own inner resources through somatic practices.

Module 7: Mindful Explorations

Cultivate curiosity and experiential learning.

Use mindful explorations to deepen awareness and invite new learning.
Understand the purpose, principles, and intention behind mindful explorations.
Practice somatic and experiential explorations that invite client discovery.

Module 8: Coaching Barriers

Meet barriers with curiosity and compassion.

Deepen your understanding of common barriers and challenges that arise in coaching.
Explore beliefs and patterns that may be limiting choice and possibility.
Work with choice points to suggest greater awareness, clarity and choice.

Module 9: The Emerging Experience

Learn to recognize and support new possibilities as they emerge in the present moment.

Learn to attune to the body as a source of insight, learning, and emerging possibility.
Notice and support new experiences as they arise, opening space for greater freedom, choice, connection, and aliveness.
Support embodied awareness so that emerging experiences can be noticed, explored and integrated.

Module 10: Integration & Action

Support insight to become embodied learning and meaningful action.

Apply integration practices that help clients recognize and anchor their learning.
Support mindful integration as clients move toward completion.
Support clients in identifying practices and tangible actions that bring their learning into everyday life.

Module 11: Completion & Practice

Close with intention and support what comes next.