You are welcome here.

If you are a therapist, coach, bodyworker, or wellness practitioner looking to deepen your relationship with yourself and cultivate your presence and skills you are in the right place.

We offer hybrid trainings ranging from weekend long Introductory workshops in Hakomi to our Comprehensive Level 1 and 2 programs. This structure combines bimonthly live-online sessions with four day in-person intensives to give you the best of experiential learning in a format that works with the fullness of your life.

Our Trainings Offer

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    Live supervised practice sessions from qualified trainers, teachers, and teaching assistants

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    Self-paced videos introducing key concepts in the method

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    High quality real time lectures followed with question and answer sessions

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    Two in person intensives in either Boulder and Philidelphia focussed on deepening your experience with Hakomi and creating connection as a group

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    Connection to a community of like minded individuals who are equally committed to their continued self-growth as well as professional developement

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    Biweekly virtual meetings full of experiential learning and opportunities for implementation of new techniques and skills

Introductory Workshops 2025 & 2026

  • November 7th and 8th in person in Boulder, CO

    Online training in early winter, dates coming.

  • Online: $295 early bird : $335

  • Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

    Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of the Hakomi Method, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation.

    We develop exquisite sensitivity and attunement, using empathic skills to read and contact subtle, unconscious cues. When integrated into the session with unique Hakomi techniques, it creates a rapid, experiential access route to unconscious core beliefs and implicit memories that invisibly shape our lives and behavior. Once conscious and directly experienced, these are available for memory re- consolidation and transformation, including the healing of attachment issues. This experiential process evokes a powerful “felt sense” for the client, allowing them to take ownership of core patterns as they emerge, and to integrate new options.

    This workshop provides an immersive introduction to the Method, this includes lectures from thefaculty, experiential exercises, demonstrations, discussion, group process sessions, and supervision.

    Target Audience

    This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

    Objectives

    • Introduce the unique application of mindfulness that supports access in therapeutic settings

    • Practice skills to enhance the therapist’s self-regulation & embodiment & the therapeutic relationship

    • Utilize Hakomi principles, e.g. nonviolence in therapy, to create safety for the client

    • Discover the importance of the exploratory (experimental) attitude as a key component of the Hakomi Method

    • Recognize the power of noticing the subtle somatic cues of the body & using this as the basis to build on the therapeutic relationship

    • Observe the application of Hakomi skills & principles in the experiential process as a way to access unconscious core material

     

    CE Information: 12 NBCC or ASWB CE hours 

    NBCC (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. 

Comprehensive Training Level 1 * 2026

  • Hybrid Fridays: 8am - 2pm PT / 9am - 3pm MT / 11am - 5pm ET 

    March 13 & 27 : April 10 & 24: May 1: Jun 5 & 26: July 10 & 24: August 7 & 21: September 11: October 16 & 30: November 6 & 20: December 5 & 6

    In Person Immersions: Wed/Thu/Fri 9:30am - 5:30pm / Sat 9:30am - 3:30pm

    In either Boulder, CO or Philadelphia, PA

    May 13th-16th

    September 30th- October 3rd

  • Regular Tuition: $5495

    Early Registration Payment Plan:$5195 with nonrefundable $500 deposit if paid by January 9th, 2026

    Early Registration Pay in Full:   $4995 if paid in full by February 20, with nonrefundable $500 deposit by January 9th. 2026

    *Scholarships available. Email northeasthakomitraining@gmail.com for more information

  • Level One offers a thorough grounding in the theories and techniques of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy. Level One includes in-depth coverage of the Hakomi principles, Hakomi theories, maps and models as well as specific techniques. Training weekends include a mix of didactic material, experiential exercises, discussion, movement/embodiment exercises, group maintenance time and supervised practice times.

    This training is for professional therapists, clinical social workers, and counselors, students and interns of clinical social work, counseling, and psychotherapy, licensed healing arts practitioners, and people transitioning into the field of somatic psychotherapy who want to learn the method in its entirety.

    The goals of the Training are to provide students with: first, a deep understanding of the principles of the Hakomi Method and the ability to work within them in an attitude of loving presence. Second, an understanding of the techniques of the Hakomi therapeutic process and the ability to use these precisely and appropriately. Third, an understanding of the organization of personality and character into patterns that reveal developmental and cultural wounding, and the ability to use this understanding discriminatingly. Fourth, an understanding of one’s own inner organization and the process of using self as an instrument for therapy.

    Learning Objectives:

    A. Hakomi Principles

    • Apply the Hakomi principles of unity and nonviolence in therapy to create safety and build a relationship of equality between therapist and client

    • Apply the Hakomi principles of body-mind integration to discover unconscious psychological information in the body

    • Apply the Hakomi principle of organicity to tailor therapeutic interventions to each client’s unique situation and transformation process.

    B. Hakomi Skill: The Therapeutic Relationship

    • Utilize the practice of Loving Presence to enhance the therapeutic relationship and create safety.

    C. Hakomi Skill: Mindfulness

    • Utilize psychodynamic mindfulness do bring clients into deeper experience and self-awareness

    • Demonstrate the ability to be mindful (as therapist) while facilitating the session

    • Demonstrate the ability to guide the client from a focus on presenting verbal content to experiential awareness, including mindfulness of key themes and “indicators” of unconscious material in the body

    • Assess when the client is mindful and when they are in ordinary consciousness.

    D. Hakomi Skill: Tracking

    • Demonstrate the ability track subtle, somatic cues in the body and habitual patterns

    • Demonstrate the ability to track for emotion

    • Demonstrate the ability to track the client for safety and to make adjustments in the process that allow the work to safely deepen.

    E. Hakomi Skill: Contact

    • Utilize verbal contact to create safety and collaboration with the client

    • Utilize verbal contact to bring client’s unconscious material to consciousness and deepen the client’s experiential process.

    • Demonstrate the ability to verbally contact the many aspect of the client’s experience (eg. thoughts, emotions, body cue, themes, barrier)

    F. Hakomi Skill: Identifying Themes

    • Identify key themes in the client’s presenting issues to create access routes to core unconscious material

    • Assess the client for ‘missing experiences’ and unmet development needs

    G. Hakomi Skill: Working with Regressive (Child) States

    • Identifying regressive (child) states in the client

    • List the differences between Child Consciousness and Adult Consciousness

    H. Therapeutic Interventions

    • Demonstrate the ability to help the client to safely stay with somatic awareness, with emotion, and with unconscious material as it emerges

    • Apply Hakomi skills and principles in the therapeutic process

    • Work experientially to allow the client to “take ownership” of the process

    • Demonstrate the ability to use the mindfulness experiments of verbal probes and taking over and explain the difference in these interventions, so as to make clear therapeutic choices.

    • Create experiments in mindfulness to help the client access explore unconscious core material

    • Utilize experiments in mindfulness to uncover client’s unmet developmental needs and to provide corrective experience to the client.

    • Revise experiments as new information arises from the client’s exploration, so as to deepen and expand the clients experience.

    • Utilize experiments in mindfulness that work with a variety of client experiences: emotions, thoughts, introjected voices, memories, and bodily experience, so as to expand the client’s ability to tolerate and process these experiences.

    I. Transformation: Working at the Nourishment Barrier

    • Identify ‘nourishment barriers’ in the client, so as to work with ‘resistance’ to change.

    J. Integration

    • List and utilize integration techniques to help the client accommodate and solidify new experiences.

    K. Stages of the Hakomi Process

    • List the stages of the Hakomi Process: Safety, Accessing, Deepening, Processing, Transformation, Integration, Completion

    L. Trauma

    • Describe traumatic activation

    • Identify traumatic activation when it arises in a client so as to make appropriate therapeutic decisions.

    • List the ways that traumatic activation differs from developmental wounding

    • Explain the “Window of Tolerance”

    • Apply appropriate therapeutic interventions to help client return to Window of Tolerance

    CE Credits
    60 CE’s available for Licensed Therapists and Social Workers 
    Hakomi Institute is an Approved Continuing Education Provider for NBCC. 

Comprehensive Training Level 2 * 2027

  • The next level 2 training will be scheduled for 2027 after the enrollment of Level 1.

    The time commitment and structure will mirror that of Level 1.

  • Pricing and Payment Plan options will be available when dates are confirmed.

  • Level Two Curriculum  

    1-  The Hakomi Developmental Character Map: Etiology of each adaptive strategy, the developmental map, therapist style adjustments for the 9 Character Styles

    2-  Jumping Out of the System: How to recognize and jump out of relational patterns and interpersonal systems that a client engages in life and in the therapeutic relationship. 

    3 -  Work with your own Characterological Edges: Learn about the strengths and edges related to your core adaptive strategies and how to navigate these in the therapist role 

    4 -  Deeper Work With the Child and Memory Reconsolidation:  Deeper dive into working with implicit and explicit memories. Learn to integrate child work into adult transformation.  

    5 - Working with Specific Emotions: Distinct teachings on working with shame, anger, fear and sadness from a Hakomi framework.   

    6- Post Traumatic Growth:  Mindfulness and somatic self-awareness as resources for post traumatic growth. How to support resilience with clients who are recovering from trauma. 

    6 - Deeper Integration of Hakomi Maps:  Sensitivity Cycle, Character Strategies, Stages of the Process, Meaning/Experience Interface. 

    7 - Deeper facility with the foundational elements of the method: Tracking, Contact, Psychodynamic Mindfulness, Accessing, Experiments, Working with Nourishment Barriers, Processing Core Material

    8 - Strong focus on practice:  How to navigate longer sessions and expand your options at choice points 

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • For links and to apply, see our full application page HERE

    1- Completion of a 12 hour Introductory workshop is required. *

    2- Applicants must fill out the application and provide a resume

    3- Pay a $75 application fee.

    *Note, you may sign up for any 2 day Introduction to Hakomi workshop offered by the Hakomi Institute. It does not need to be the ones offered by the Colorado Northeast team.

  • Before each training meeting you will receive a pre-recorded 30-60 minute lecture that introduces the next topic or skill. There are also regular short reading assignments. Most students do not find these pieces to be a significant burden at all. Because the bulk of this work and our teaching style is experiential, showing up to class and participating fully is the most important part of learning the method.

  • We offer a limited number of partial scholarships for the training and workshops. Priority in awarding scholarships is given to students who identify as a member of a marginalized group.

    Workshop specific: Partial scholarships may be available for anyone with membership within a community of color or other marginalized group. Please reach out to the contact person listed for the workshop for details. 

    Training specific: Scholarship requests can be submitted via email by students who have applied for a training and paid the application fee. Each training has specific parameters, please reach out to Melissa Grace at northeasthakomitraining@gmail.com for the Colorado / Northeast Comprehensive Training 

    You can learn more about how we’re embodying our commitment to addressing systemic oppression by clicking here.

  • Especially for newer therapists, Hakomi offers practitioners the chance to learn the relational skills that foster a felt sense of safety and security in a therapeutic relationship, which is essential for somatic trauma work to take place.  

    While Hakomi works in depth with memory reconsolidation so clients may heal and rewire the core formative experiences and patterns that create their unconscious beliefs, with traumatic activation we diverge from going into deeper unconscious material and support resourcing and getting back in the window of tolerance.  We teach students how to recognize traumatic activation and to support  basic resourcing. If you intend to work with populations that experience shock trauma, severe PTSD or C-PTSD (relationship trauma), we recommend taking additional trauma training with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, etc.  

  • Certification is proficiency based, rather than completion based. There is not a guarantee of becoming certified. Most students who pursue certification either take an Advanced Training or join a supervision group with a Hakomi Trainer after completing Levels One and Two. 

    This process typically takes an additional year or two after completing Levels 1 & 2.  To become certified, you must demonstrate full proficiency in the Hakomi Method with two different Hakomi Trainers. The timeline of Certification differs from person to person, and is best viewed as a next educational step, and not as a testing process.

  • The Hakomi Method is taught in a sequence. Each segment builds on techniques and information taught in previous segments. Absences can have a significant impact on learning, as well as on group cohesion. Students are required to attend all hours of the training, except in the case of emergency, illness, or other events that cannot be otherwise scheduled (e.g. weddings, births, graduations, etc.)  We understand that occasionally schedule conflicts arise, and a student may miss several hours of the training. We expect you to make every effort not to schedule things during training hours. 

    If you miss more than 15 hours in each level of the training (30 total over Levels 1 & 2) you will be required to hire a TA to tutor you on the missed material, and supervise practice sessions. 

    Your Lead Trainer must be notified of absences in advance, unless it is an emergency. 

  • You can still become a Hakomi Graduate, and participate in Advanced Training or Supervision Groups in pursuit of being a Certified Hakomi Practitioner if you’re not licensed. 

    To become a Certified Hakomi Therapist requires a graduate degree and state licensure, or being on a path toward licensure.

    The context of your own practice with clients, and the title you use, must follow the laws of your state. Almost all states require a license to practice psychotherapy. Even if you’re a Hakomi Graduate, and certified in the Hakomi Method, you are not fully qualified to practice psychotherapy. This requires a graduate degree, internship, and many hours of supervised practice. States vary somewhat in their requirements. There is more information on this in the Terms and Conditions in our website's Directory of Practitioners.

    You can integrate many aspects of Hakomi into a holistic healing practice, coaching practice or other professional practice. We often suggest that non-degree practitioners take additional graduate level psychology courses.