Hello and welcome to Ron Kurtz Hakomi Educational Materials website. I will be managing this site and adding to the educational materials as we get them organized and edited into various formats, DVD’s, writings and audio CD’s. I am diligently working with Dennis Remick, Ron’s camera man for the past six years of his working, reviewing and cataloging hundreds of tapes of session, trainings, workshops and interviews. Ron has left an amazing amount of materials for us to share in his brilliant body of work. It has been a blessing and a comfort to have so much of Ron here in this awesome legacy he has left for us. Please keep checking as we add to the materials that will be available.
Terry Toth
November 11, 2011
Ron Kurtz is the original developer of the Hakomi Method, beginning thirty-nine years ago. He originally began leading workshops and trainings in the mid-1970′s. He led the first training in the Hakomi Method in 1977. In 1981, along with Pat Ogden, Ph.D. and Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, Ph.D., he founded the Hakomi Institute. Together, they did the first Institute training.
For his work developing the Hakomi Method and the Refined Hakomi Method, Ron received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The US Association of Body Psychotherapy. He began to describe his work as Mindfulness-Based, Assisted Self-Discovery. In July of 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
Ron published three books in English and three others in Japanese. The first book was The Body Reveals, written with Hector Prestera, M.D., was published in 1976. It was about reading the body for psychological information and it contained numerous photos and illustrations. His second book, Body-Centered Psychotherapy, published in 1991, described the Hakomi Method. The third was Grace Unfolding, written with Greg Johanson. Ron has also written many essays, handbooks, and manuals on training.
In recent years, the method has been refined and expanded. It is now called, The Refined Hakomi Method. This version is taught by trainers and teachers of the Hakomi Educational Network (Int’l) whose trainings are available in the U.S, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Argentina, England and Ireland.
After leaving the Hakomi Institute, Ron Kurtz founded Ron Kurtz Trainings, Inc. and with trainers Donna Martin, Bob Milone, Flint Sparks, Georgia Marvin, Jeff Chernove and several others, founded the Hakomi Educational Network (Int’l).
Pat Ogden, Ph.D. started her own training organization, the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.
