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Hakomi Professional Training Level 2 (2023)
A Seven-Month Course in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy
In Level 1 Hakomi Professional Training, you immersed yourself in the basic principles and practices of the Hakomi Method. In Hakomi Professional Training Level 2, you’ll expand your skills in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy in three important ways: by developing your “selfhood,” refining your therapeutic strategy, and by working your personal edges as a therapist through in-depth supervised practice.
In Hakomi, developing your “selfhood” means expanding your capacity to work with even the most challenging clients and situations from a deeply mindful and compassionate state. Through targeted experiential exercises and supervised practice, our Level 2 training will help you explore your organization as a therapist and surface and transform unseen patterns that limit your effectiveness with clients. Therapists often remark that the deep personal work that unfolds during their second year of Hakomi training profoundly impacts not only their therapy sessions, but their personal relationships as well.
In Level 2, you’ll also refine your therapeutic strategy by learning to choose the tools and interventions that are most appropriate for your clients. Through brief lectures, demos, and in-depth supervised practice, you’ll learn to use Hakomi’s principles and practices to support clients much more confidently, fluidly and effectively. One participant said, “By the end of the second year of Hakomi training, I couldn’t believe how my skills and self-awareness had grown, and how much deeper I was able to take my clients. I also felt like a more humble, peaceful and compassionate human being.”
2023 Schedule
Registration Deadlines
Jul 23: Early enrollment deadlineÂ
Aug 25: Final registration 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)
Online Session Times
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)
For Whom
This training is open to mental health clinicians as well as psychotherapy interns and students.
Prerequisites
Hakomi Professional Training Level 1
(or Hakomi Comprehensive Training Level 1 and permission of the instructor)
Location
Online via monthly Zoom sessions
What You Will Learn
In this training, you will:
- Become mindful of how your core issues impact your clinical effectiveness
- Learn how to make deeper contact with your clients through trusting your inner knowing
- Use our simple diagnostic map, the Hakomi Sensitivity Cycle, to tailor your interventions with greater precision
- Develop therapeutic strategies that allow you to access core material more quickly
- Review and deepen your skill in working with child states to bring about lasting transformation
- Have time to discuss how to apply Hakomi to clients in your current caseload
Because we tailor our trainings to participants’ in-the-moment needs and development, the curriculum above is subject to change.
Training Format
Hakomi Professional Training Level 2 consists of seven three-day weekends from Friday afternoon through Sunday that take place roughly once a month from September through March via Zoom. The monthly training modules might include online advance preparation video talks and/or readings, for you to complete at your own pace prior to the Zoom weekend.
Teaching Style
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.
Class Schedule
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
Schedule subject to change. All teaching is experiential and includes time for practice and feedback.Â
A visionary contribution in bringing mindfulness to our therapeutic community.
Hakomi is an excellent system for learning key emotional intelligence skills.
Faculty
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.
Dominique Lando will be the lead trainer, joined by other Hakomi Institute of California faculty.
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.
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.Â
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.
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.
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.Â
Susan San Tara, MA, LMFT
Certified Hakomi Therapist
and Trainer
Susan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT 43157) and Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer. She has been in private practice seeing couples and individuals since 2000. In 2007, Susan co-founded Anam Cara Therapy Center, in Berkeley, CA. Susan teaches Hakomi to clinical professionals and the general public, and also has served as adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University, where she received a master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling. In addition to body-centered and mindfulness-focused psychotherapy, Susan has studied eco-psychology, Amazonian shamanism, energy systems and earth-based healing approaches for over 30 years. Weaving wisdom from the natural world, the poetry embedded in the body, a love of the divine mystery, and a profound respect for the human creature are the cornerstones of her work. Essential to Susan’s therapeutic and teaching work is her warm, nurturing, and friendly style, which sets the tone for a dynamic growth environment.Â
Tuition
Early Enrollment: $3,595 for registrations received by July 23, 2023
Regular Tuition: $3,995 for registrations received by August 25, 2023
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).Â
All participants will need to sign a contract agreeing to the financial conditions of this training.
VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted.
Cancellation Policy
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.
Continuing Education
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.
Academic Credit
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.Â
Hakomi Certification
A common path toward certification in the Hakomi Method is to take two years of Hakomi training followed by a period of practice and supervision. Level 2 Professional Training offers a helpful next step to any clinician interested in becoming a Certified Hakomi Therapist.
Hakomi practically invented mindfulness in psychotherapy.
Hakomi is the absolute cutting edge of modern therapeutic technique.
To Register for This Training
If you’ve taken Hakomi Professional Training Level 1, or if you’ve taken Hakomi Comprehensive Training Level 1 and have permission of the instructor, you are eligible to register for Hakomi Professional Training Level 2. Please pay your $400 non-refundable deposit to hold your place in the training.
For More Information
For more information, including accommodation for special needs and details about our grievance process, contact our administrator at
415-839-6788
or info@embodywise.com.
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