Training Schedule 2025

Multilevel Training in-person

Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd February with Sabine Volkmann

Friday 23rd – Monday 26th with legacy holder Donna Martin from Canada

Friday 7th – Monday 10th November with Caroline Braham

Venue
An Tairseach, Ecology Centre, Wicklow town
Accommodation is available for €70 per night

Multilevel Training days online

Sunday 20th July with Sabine Volkmann

Sunday 14th September with Sabine Volkmann

Payment
Early Bird: €100 when paid 2 months before the training day
Fee after that: €115

Hakomi Circle in-person

Saturday 15th March with Sabine Volkmann

Sunday 29th June with Sabine Volkmann

Sunday 27th September with Sabine Volkmann

These days offer an opportunity to watch three live Hakomi sessions. After each session there is space for discussion, feedback, and for asking questions about the method.
Three participants will be clients. The rest of the group are witnesses. Witnesses are an essential part of the process through their presence and as support.
Anybody is welcome. No previous Hakomi experience needed.

Venue
8 Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire
Payment
€95 per day

Next Training modules

Friday 21st – Monday 23rd February in An Tairseach, Wicklow town
with Sabine Volkmann

Payment
Early Bird: €300 when paid before 31st January
Fee after 1st February: €345

Friday 23rd – Monday 26th May in An Tairseach, Wicklow town
with Donna Martin 

Payment
Early Bird: €400 when paid before 31st March
Fee after 1st April: €460

Information & Booking: info@hakomiireland.ie

 

What is Hakomi?

Hakomi is a Hopi Indian word and means “Where do I stand in relation to all these different realms?” or simply put “Who am I?”. It is described these days as “Assisted self-discovery based on Mindfulness”.
Hakomi helps people to study themselves in a mindful way in order to reveal habits, or ways they organize themselves in the world. The practitioner holds a state of mind of Loving Presence that allows safety, curiosity and acceptance of anything emerging within a session.

Unconscious core beliefs that we developed in childhood or through traumatic events in our lives and that influence our daily action, are often outdated and can cause unnecessary suffering. These emotional habits show up non-verbally and can be brought into consciousness through a process of exploration involving the body, mind, emotions and upcoming memories. Through becoming aware of these unconscious limiting patterns we can find new ways of being that weren’t available to us before. With the practice of Hakomi we can gain more choice and feel more freedom in our everyday life.

The Personhood Series

The Personhood Series is considered the foundation of the Hakomi method. Ron Kurtz created practices for four fundamental aspects of the Hakomi Method. Originally taught in the first year of the training these exercises are the base of all further Hakomi explorations and are therefore useful and important for the understanding of and deepening into the method.
From the beginning of the Hakomi journey and as the understanding of the method deepens throughout the training these practices provide an ongoing source of information for ourselves. Going back to basics of assisted self-study is essential on all levels. The further we are on the path the deeper we can delve into the beginning.
The four aspects of the Personhood series are:

Loving Presence 

Loving presence is a state of mind that is the basis of all Hakomi explorations. We look for what is nourishing in a person rather than what’s wrong. This way of being creates safety, a deeper and more open way of relating and allows our more vulnerable parts to emerge. The practices help to create, sustain and deepen into this compassionate and way of being while present with another person.

Quieting the Mind 

In order to explore and get access to the unconscious parts of ourselves we need to be able to connect to and sustain a calm, sensitive, present-centred state of mind. We will practice and develop our capacity for Mindfulness. This helps us to calm and regulate our nervous systems and to be more present and compassionate to ourselves and others. And we will explore our habitual tendencies, beliefs and non conscious habits that disrupt this state of mind.

Nonverbal Awareness (Wisdom Without Words)

Our habitual nonverbal communication expresses who we are, indicates our present moment experience as well as embodying deeply held beliefs about ourselves and how the world works. We will learn to pay attention the signs the body offers us all the time to get a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. This opens up the possibility of choices we can make and begins to release us from old habits of perception that can cause us unnecessary suffering.

Emotional Nourishment (The Art of Comforting)

To be nourished and sustained by life is something we all yearn for. Unconscious beliefs about ourselves and the world can get in the way of taking in the goodness that is always around us and therefore cause unnecessary suffering. We will uncover some of these habits by using Hakomi experiments in mindfulness to gain more awareness and choice in our ability to receive nourishment as well as being able to respond to others who need comfort and reassurance.