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MINDFULNESS & THE BODY INTRO

Mindfulness and the Body in Psychotherapy:

An Introduction to the Hakomi Method

for counselors, psychotherapists, social workers, body and energy workers and other helping professionals

September 11-12, 2010                                                                  Hakomi Educational Resources  

9:30 am-5:30 pm on Saturday;                                                      2523 W. Lunt Avenue

9:00 am to 4:30  pm on Sunday                                                      Chicago, IL  60645

Psychotherapy deals with how we organize our experienceand how we might creatively reorganize it by modifying core narrative beliefs that unconsciously affect our perception and expressio 

What aspects of life are organized?

All aspects:  thoughts, feelings, relationships, dreams, the body

 This workshop will explore how the body can be used as a “royal road to the unconscious”.  It is an immediately present and powerful road that has not been overused (as has talking in ordinary consciousness).  Mindfulness is the context in which studying the organization of experience is maximized.  Mindfulness, as a state of consciousness, turns attention toward present, felt experience in a way that is curious, without judgment or pre-conception.  It slows us down, brings consciousness to a place where we can get distance from our automatic and habitual ways of being, and brings compassionate wisdom to bear.

Through mindfulness we study the organization of experience.  We learn to lower the “noise” in order to enhance sensitivity to organic signals.  In this workshop we will learn to mine the wisdom of the body, through mindfulness and help clients to reconnect to the wisdom within them.

This workshop will introduce you to the principles underlying Hakomi Therapy: Unity, Organicity, Mind-Body Holism, Mindfulness, and Non-Violence.  In Hakomi, transformation occurs when awareness is turned mindfully toward felt, present experience; hopes and fears unfold into consciousness; barriers to new ways of being are attended to; new experiences are integrated, allowing for the re-organization of core beliefs.  Such transformation facilitates a greater range of mental, physical and emotional coherence and movement.

Course Objectives.  Participants will learn to:

• Use mindfulness to study the organization of experience
• Use mindfulness to bypass the automatic and habitual as well as the boredom of storytelling
• Use right brain questions and directives to deepen experience
• Access the body for revelation of core material, the unconscious
• Use the body to paradoxically support defenses rather than confront them
• Lower the noise to enhance sensitivity to organic signals through the “Taking Over” technique
• Work with barriers to transformation (“organizing in” new experiences)

The Instructor: Greg Johanson, PhD, LPC, is a Trainer of the Hakomi Institute and Internal Family Systems ,and  is editor of the Hakomi Forum.  He is published widely including (with Ron Kurtz) the acclaimed Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of the Tao-te ching.  His article, “"Nonlinear Science, Mindfulness, and the Body" was published in The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2009, and “A Survey of the Use of Mindfulness in Psychotherapy” in the summer 2006 edition of theAnnals of the American Psychotherapy Association.

 Continuing Education Credits:  12 CEU credits available NBCC; NASW.  We adhere to the Continuing Education Guidelines of the National Board of Certified Counselors (Provider #5476) and the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886484280).

 To register: Send name, address, phone number, email address and occupation with check enclosed for $255 to Hakomi Educational Resources, 2523 W. Lunt Avenue, Chicago, IL  60645

 For Further Info:   Contact Hope Johanson at (773) 338-9606) or email at

Visit  these websites: gregjohanson.netor the Hakomi Institute website:  www.hakomi.org.

Workshop Registration Form

Mindfulness and the Body in Experiential Psychotherapy                Chicago, IL             Sept 11-12

£$245 if registered by August 15th   £$275 thereafter.         Refunds only on cancellations 72 hours prior to program (less $45 registration fee)

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                                                2523 West Lunt Avenue, Chicago, IL  60645-3201