Comprehensive Training

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In the Hakomi training, students learn to develop an exquisite sensitivity and attunement to others, and to convey this understanding.  This empathy and responsiveness helps to create a deep sense of safety and connection, and facilitates the effectiveness of the therapy. The self-development of the therapist coupled with Hakomi’s highly innovative techniques, form the core of the training. 

Using non-dualistic principles of mindfulness and gentle, open curiosity, the Hakomi therapist creates an atmosphere of safety for deep and sophisticated processing.  This helps the client yield their defences safely and willingly to be examined, re-evaluated and transformed into more functional choices and behaviors.

 The relief, increased self-awareness and freedom provides the client with a sense of personal empowerment, choice, and a richer appreciation for life.

The training is 17 blocks long (approximately 20 months) and each block builds on the previous block's curriculum and  follows the Stages of the Hakomi Process.

Learning occurs through a combination of lecture, practice,  witnessing one's own and each other's personal work aided and refined by the groups intelligence and wisdom. 

Hakomi trainings focus on expanding the practitioner’s range of skills and abilities while also creating a safe container in which to explore and more fully understand ourselves as therapists healers and as individuals.  Students are exposed to a few different faculty in order to see the varied but closely aligned style differences in approaching the method.

Who is this training for?  

Hakomi is an excellent base for any therapeutic modality and so we support students in finding their own style and creativity in the unique application of the work. 

It is open to  those in the field of psychotherapy, counseling, social work, depth-oriented group leadership, depth-oriented coaches, seasoned body workers, clergy, health practitioners, educators,  and those transitioning into the field of mental health.  Potential students must demonstrate some experience in the field, the capacity for healthy group membership, and an aptitude for learning the principles, techniques and the emotional depth required when using the Hakomi Method.  

Cost: 

• Full Training: $8,550 CAD (+GST)
• Paid in full: 5% savings
• Paid in 2 payments 5% savings
• Monthly payment plans

Discounts available for 

Groups, Agencies

and for BIPOC and Those Working with Underserved Population

Please contact us with your needs.

All potential students must  attend at least one introductory workshop and complete an application (see below).

If you apply and are unable to attend a workshop, we prefer that you have one session with one of our Certified Therapists and complete an interview with one of our faculty. 

With a non-refundable fee of $50CDN payable via e-transfer to hakomicalgary@gmail.com

An additional interview may be required.

We look forward

 to hearing from you!

• The Hakomi Principles and how to embody them.
• The Body as the Map of the psyche.
• Developing the Health of the Learning Group.
• The integration of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the practice and teaching of the Hakomi Method.*
• Developing and maintaining  the Hakomi Healing Relationship in specific detail.
• Personal integration of the Principles and the Functional State of Being of the Hakomi Therapist.
• Neurobiology and The Hakomi Method.
• Working with Traumatic Activation.
• Guiding the client towards core organizing material with specific techniques.
• Using Experiments in Mindfulness to increase safety while  gathering deeper information.
• Working with the Child State of Consciousness, core issues, family and cultural wounding and  providing emotional release.
• The Precise use of Touch. 
• Jumping Out Of the System—transference and counter-transference, cognitive looping and attachment wounds.
• Family Systems and uncovering Barriers to Clarity,  Action, Satisfaction, and Completion.
• Understanding the Various Maps used in the Hakomi Method including the stages of Contact, Accessing, Deepening, Transformation, Integration and Completion.
• Live supervision throughout each stage.

In the later stages of training, more attention is paid to each therapist’s personal character and style to help them fine tune their own creative, individual yet aligned approach.  Emphasis is on increasing fluency and flow,  refining skills and theory learned in YEAR ONE with the addition of Hakomi Developmental Character Theory as a guide to inform and enhance the therapeutic process.

 FIND  APPLICATION BELOW!

Due by July 1, 2025

* Regarding the Justice, Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion 

Curriculum of the training:  

This particular curriculum is a work in progress. The Hakomi Institute and Faculty is still  predominantly cis-gendered and white, with the exception of a few, but growing, BIPOC and LGBTQ members.   We are working hard to develop clear, respectful and connected pathways through the devastating  and demoralizing legacies of the field of psychotherapy. It's imperative to the Institute that we co-create the correct lexicon and curriculum that matches the real world and the huge variety of human being.

Comprehensive Training Structure

Approx. 322.5 hrs        51 days. 

 Hybrid Design-Zoom and In-Person

Zoom Schedule

 Friday: 12:30 - 6:00  

 Saturday: 9:00 - 6:00 

  Sunday: 9:00 - 1:30 

   (Includes bio and lunch breaks, tea and snacks provided when in-person) 

In-person Location

 St Andrews Hall

2504 13 Ave NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1L8

except for the last weekend which will  be at a different location TBA. 

3 In-Person Block Schedule

Friday:  5:00  lite dinner provided 

6-8:30 Class 

Saturday: 9:30 - 5:30 

Sunday: 9:30 - 5:30

Monday-9:30-5:30

Tuesday- 9:00-1:30 simple lunch provided

   (Includes bio and lunch breaks, tea and snacks provided) 

Dates

2025

Blocks 1-2: Sept. 19-23 Immersion

Block 3: Oct. 24-26 On-line

Block 4: Nov. 7-9 On-line

Block 5: Jan. 9-11 On-line

2026

Block 6: Feb. 13-15 On-line

Block 7: Mar.  13-15 On-line

Block 8: Apr.  17-19 On-line

Blocks 9-10: May  22- 26 Immersion 

Block 11: June 19-21 On-line

Block 12: Sept. 19-20 On-line

Block 13: Oct. 23-25 On-line

Block 14: Nov. 13-15 On-line

2027

Block 15: Jan. 15-17 On-line

Block 16-17:

Feb. 26-Mar.2 Immersion 

(No training blocks in July or August)

ADVANCED TRAINING: 

For those who choose to achieve Certification in the Hakomi Method and join the global ranks of our Certified Hakomi Therapists; or for those who just want to continue deepening and perfecting their skills, we provide a 4-block advanced training offered by invitation.  This smaller group meets approximately every three months (as the calendar allows) and offers the chance  to both practice skills and work through any obstacles to perfecting the flow of the Hakomi session.  Two different trainers share the weekends so that students are exposed to the different stylistic approaches to the method.  It also gives  the trainers a chance to give comprehensive feedback to each student

PAP Policy

A note to those currently practicing or interested in practicing psychedelic guide work and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy (PAP): Because of widespread reports of harm within the psychedelic assisted psychotherapy (PAP) and underground medicine guide community, the Hakomi Calgary Training team has made a decision to not accept applicants who are not licensed in psychotherapy, counseling, or mental health and have indicated that they want to use Hakomi training to support their practice as psychedelic guides outside of the auspices of a legal body that will supervise their work. 

Working with substances that increase suggestibility while decreasing boundaries and capacity to advocate for oneself increases the potential for harm, and our training team is not in a position to ethically and responsibly supervise Hakomi students engaged in such work. The Hakomi Institute has recently developed a policy regarding psychedelic assisted therapy and medicine guide work. You can find it here: https://hakomiinstitute.com/hakomi-psychedelic-assisted-psychotherapy 

However, we have good news! 

For additional training in Hakomi and Psychedelics, go to https://embodywise.com/psychedelic-therapist-training/   

If you still intend to join our training and practice legal psychedelic assisted psychotherapy— please provide information in your application regarding the legal body that will oversee your work.