Hakomi Professional Training Level 1 (2023)
A Seven-Month Course in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
Hakomi Professional Training Levels 1 and 2 offer an accelerated course of study for mental health professionals, interns and students, as well as those with commensurate education and experience in counseling and healthcare practices who have demonstrated equivalent skills and knowledge. In the first course, Level 1, you’ll learn the principles and practices of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy through brief online video talks, slideshows, demonstrations, and lots of supervised practice in online breakout groups.
Learn more from our brief intro video with Rob Fisher, MFT, lead instructor for this training.
Application Deadlines
Jul 23: Early enrollment application deadline
Aug 18: Final application deadline
Online Session Dates
2023: Sep 8-10, Oct 13-15, Nov 17-19, Dec 15-17
2024: Jan 19-21, Feb 16-18, Mar 15-17
(Dates subject to change)
Zoom Training Sessions
Fri: 1:30-4:30
Sat: 10:00-12:30 and 2:00-4:30
Sun: 9:30-1:00
(All times are Pacific)
This training is open to licensed clinicians or those pursuing a clinical degree. It’s designed for licensed professionals with limited time who would like to integrate portions of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy into their practices.
We will also consider applicants with commensurate education and experience in counseling and healthcare practices who have demonstrated equivalent skills and knowledge.
None
Online via monthly Zoom sessions and self-paced learning on our online Hakomi training platform
In this training, you will learn how to:
- Provide in-depth psychotherapy using the present moment and live experience as a gateway to unconscious material
- Design and use interventions to access and transform clients’ core models of the self, others and the world
- Track subtle nonverbal communication from the unconscious
- Apply mindfulness-centered, experiential methodologies to support enhanced safety, self-regulation and relationship skills
- Employ somatic techniques to access unconscious material not readily accessible through conversation alone
- Support resistance and psycho-emotional defenses instead of opposing them
- Help clients experience and process regressed states to resolve long-term issues and behaviors
Strengthening the Therapeutic Relationship
How to access right brain to right brain limbic connection with the client, paving the way for unfolding into unconscious material; how to use moment-to-moment interventions to address and heal attachment wounds.
Observing the Unconscious
How to notice the workings of the unconscious in present experience and in non-verbal signals; how to use the present moment and the body to build limbic connection and uncover rich sources of psychological information.
Deepening Therapy
How to achieve the depth and exploration that make therapy come alive; practical methods for deeply exploring the psyche; powerful interventions for safely working with thought, sensation, impulse, emotion and memory and exploring their origins.
Using Mindfulness Psychodynamically
How to use mindfulness-centered experiments to surface psychological material not easily accessible through conversation alone; differentiating between traumatic and developmental issues.
Supporting the Defenses and Transforming Core Beliefs
How to work elegantly with resistance and defenses by supporting them; transforming core beliefs and mental models of self, others and the world.
Working with Transference and Countertransference Systems
Practical and effective approaches for experientially working with transference/countertransference enactments that address the core of the client’s psyche.
Hakomi Professional Training Level 1 consists of seven three-day weekends from Friday afternoon through Sunday that take place roughly once a month from September through March via Zoom. Each monthly training module includes self-paced study via video talks, video demo sessions and reading. You’ll receive the first module of online learning materials by August 25, 2023 and will need to complete those materials before your first Zoom session on September 8, 2023. After that, new online training materials will be available on the Wednesday after your live Zoom training each month.
All teaching is experiential and includes time for practice and feedback. Trainers and teaching assistants provide direct and immediate guidance and feedback during supervised practice with an emphasis on specific clinical applications and skills development.
Below is the schedule for each Zoom weekend of this training.
Fridays
1:30-3:00 Learning activities
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:30 Learning activities
Saturdays
10:00-11:15 Learning activities
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Learning activities
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Learning activities
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Learning activities
Sundays
9:30-11:15 Learning activities
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Learning activities
All teaching is experiential and includes time for practice and feedback. Schedule subject to change.


Faculty
Rob Fisher will be the lead trainer, joined by other Hakomi Institute of California faculty.

Rob Fisher, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Trainer
Rob is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 22886) and a consultant and certified supervisor in private practice. He has served as an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University as well as the California Institute for Integral Studies where he co-founded the Certificate Program in Mindfulness and Compassion. He is the founder of Mindfulness-Centered Couples Therapy, which he teaches internationally. Rob is the author of a number of books, chapters and articles including Experiential Psychotherapy With Couples, a Guide for the Creative Pragmatist, which details the use of mindfulness and the body in couples therapy. He has presented his work at the Psychotherapy Networker Conference and has been a master presenter at the annual conference of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He and his wife, Hu Ting Ting, teach mindfulness and nature workshops internationally. He lives in an old farmhouse in the Green Mountains of Vermont where he composes music and writes fiction and poetry.

Dominique Lando, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Trainer
Dominique is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 44542) and an organizational coach. She works with individuals in California and British Columbia and coaches leaders and teams internationally. Dominique is a co-founder of Anam Cara in Berkeley, a community-based therapy center. She also serves as adjunct professor teaching somatic psychology in various graduate programs. She draws not only from her training in somatic psychotherapy, Sensorimotor Trauma Therapy, family systems and EMDR but also from her years of spiritual practice, and working in the field of community development as an activist, eco-psychologist and permaculture farmer. Originally from France, Dominique was raised in a diverse global family and she integrates her multicultural background into her approach. She places a strong emphasis on group synergy, which greatly informs her work as a teacher, coach and organizational consultant.

David Fish, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Teacher
David is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LFMT 52446). He has been a Certified Hakomi Therapist since 1996. Cultivating mindfulness and compassion are central threads that run through all of his work, and since he sees awareness and change as best served by flexibility and the ability to perceive things from multiple perspectives, he also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Focusing, and relational psychodynamic approaches. David teaches Hakomi as an adjunct professor at California Institute for Integral Studies, and also leads DBT groups and sees clients at the DBT Center of Marin, where he helps people who struggle with intense emotions and impulsive actions, or borderline personality disorder. David is a seasoned meditator, and his warm, collaborative, down-to-earth teaching style is lively, well-informed and human.

Ashley Ross, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Teacher
Ashley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 115141), a certified Hakomi teacher and a holistic reproductive health practitioner. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and attended The Wright Institute in Berkeley, where she earned her Master’s in Counseling Psychology. Prior to attaining her MFT license, Ashley provided counseling to adults, couples and children and designed and facilitated support groups in a variety of settings. She has been a part of the Hakomi community since 2006. Ashley is currently in private practice in Los Angeles where she works with individuals, couples and groups. Ashley’s dual training in somatic psychotherapy and holistic health opened her to the benefits of using our bodies to achieve an integrated state of wellbeing. She brings this sense, along with a deep love of our messy humanness, to her work and teaching.

Nicole Heinrich, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Teacher
Nicole is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 35701) working with individuals and couples throughout California. Nicole began her long-term study and love of Hakomi in 1988 with Ron Kurtz and has been on the faculty of the Hakomi Institute of CA since 2011. She holds a master’s degree in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies and has over 25 years of clinical experience integrating somatic, relational, trauma-based and psychodynamic approaches into her work. Nicole has supervised dozens of interns throughout her career and taught graduate level classes at CIIS, JFK University and Antioch University, Santa Barbara. She has years of experience and training in various forms of bodywork, meditation and contemplative movement practices. With deep trust in the present moment, Nicole brings a depth of knowledge and an open heart to her teaching and therapy practice.

Manuela Mischke-Reeds,
MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer
ISITTA Founder and Trainer

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT
Embodywise Founder and Director
ISITTA Founder and Trainer
Hakomi California Co-Director
Hakomi Trainer
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, is a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer, a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist, and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 40823). She trains health professionals in the Hakomi Method in California, Australia and Europe. She recently developed a Hakomi based trauma and attachment training for clinicians in Germany. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy with somatic trauma therapy, attachment psychotherapy, infant mental health and movement therapy.
She serves as a faculty member at John F. Kennedy University and Sofia University (formerly the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology). She holds an MA in Somatic Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a BA in Dance Therapy from the Naropa University.
In addition, she has trained in various methods of working with trauma and counseled survivors of political oppression, torture and trauma. She is a practitioner of Somatic Experiencing, a trauma resolution method developed by Peter Levine. She is a graduate Fellow at the Napa Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program, led by Dr. Ed Tronick. She is a recent graduate of the Child Trauma Institute of San Francisco and has expanded her practice in working with children and parents suffering the effects of trauma.
Manuela has extensive training in the field of movement therapies, and is an authorized Continuum Movement teacher. She has also been a student of Buddhist meditation practice for many years and has authored two books: 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being and Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress.
Early Enrollment: $3,595 for applications received by July 23, 2023
Regular Tuition: $3,995 for applications received by August 18, 2023 (final application deadline)
CIIS Hakomi Student Discount: If you’ve completed the course on Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy offered by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), you can take this training for $1,995 (a 50% discount). An application is required.
Within 7 days after you are notified of acceptance, a $400 non-refundable deposit is due to hold your space in the training. The final tuition balance is due by August 31, 2023 unless a payment plan has been arranged with Embodywise prior to the training start date.
Repeating Participants: If you’ve taken this training before, you can repeat for $1,995 (a 50% discount). No need to apply. To hold your space in the training, pay your $400 non-refundable deposit here.
All participants will need to sign a contract agreeing to the financial conditions of this training.
VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted.
Participants who withdraw before the first day of the training will receive a full tuition refund less a $400 non-refundable deposit. Participants who withdraw up to nine days after the first Zoom session will receive a 70% tuition refund. After that, no refunds will be granted. No refunds will be granted for non-attendance.
Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs. Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. This course meets the requirements for 10.5 hours of continuing education credit per weekend (73.5 hours total) for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. CE approval agency: CAMFT. Provider number: 82187. We will email CE certificates within 30 days after each weekend of the course ends. If you live outside of California, please check with your local licensing board to ensure that they’ll accept this course for CE credit. As an approved continuing education provider, Innate Somatic Intelligence Institute is required to award CE credit for instructional time only; no CE credit will be granted for lunches and breaks. To receive CE credit for a given weekend, you must attend the entire weekend, sign in and out each day, and submit a signed class evaluation form.
This training is approved by Meridian University for the Professional Specialty Program requirements towards a Master’s or Doctoral degree in psychology with a concentration in Somatic Psychology. Additional information about Meridian University’s programs can be found here.


To Apply for This Training
To apply for this training please fill out the application form below and include the $75 application fee.
To Register for This Training
Within one week after acceptance to this training, you’ll be emailed a link to register and pay for the training.
For More Information
Application for Admission: Hakomi Professional Training Level 1
To apply for this training please fill out the application form below and include the $75 application fee. Keep in mind that this training is open to licensed clinicians or those pursuing a clinical degree, as well as those with commensurate education and experience in counseling and healthcare practices. It’s designed for professionals with limited time who would like to integrate portions of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy into their practices.
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