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A Doctor’s Touch – Yeshe Donden

This article is an excerpt from Richard Selzer’s book “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery” (New York, Simon & Shuster, 1976).

Following the Healing Process

“The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client…We are not the healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.” Ron Kurtz

Dropping Self Concern

Loving presence is a foundational practice in Hakomi. Ron referred to it as “non-egocentric nourishment.” As a way of teaching loving presence, Ron sometimes encourages his students to drop their self concern.

Contact in Hakomi

Contact is a skill in Hakomi that Ron Kurtz borrowed from Carl Rogers. Ron says, “His idea was to take what client said that was emotionally charged and do two things: he would name the person’s experience in a sympathetic voice and possibly restate what had been said in simpler, less charged language.” Ron extended […]

Assisted Self Study Clip

In his later years of teaching, Ron referred to his “Refined Hakomi Method” as assisted self-study. He was attempting to move Hakomi outside of the sole realm of psychotherapy.

Mindfulness in Hakomi

Ron considered that his use of precise experiments in mindfulness was the signature contribution of Hakomi to the field of psychotherapy.

Experiments and Healing

Precise experiments in mindfulness, a hallmark of Hakomi, is used to spark a healing process by bringing into consciousness that which was hidden from the client.

Adaptations and Core Beliefs

Rather than thinking about behavior as deviant, Hakomi refers to behavior as adaptive given the situation in which it arose. Core beliefs refer to the underlying habitual structure of the mind that generate behavior.

The Importance of Experience in Hakomi

Refering to Richard Feynman’s book Six Easy Pieces, Ron suggests one simple statement that would carry the maximum information about psychotherapy: “All experience is organized by the nervous systems we were born with and the habits our history has left us with.” Please note: a full transcript of The Readings is available in the SHOP.

The Healing Process 2008

“The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client. Our job is to evoke that healing power, to meet its tests and needs, and to support it in its expression and development. We are not the healers. We are the context in which healing is inspired.” Please note: a full transcript […]

Experimental Attitude

This short clip is from an advanced class in 2010 at Bodhi House, Olympia, Washington.

Evolution of Hakomi

Speaking in 2001, Ron is explaining how Hakomi evolved from techniques to a method, to the qualities of a healing relationship to the state of mind of the therapist. At the end of this short video, he comments, “I don’t know where it’s going next.” That was the spirit of Hakomi from the founder’s perspective […]

Experimental Method 2009

What makes the Hakomi process work is that we test our ideas. Hakomi is an experimental method. Ron Kurtz wrote: “The unique contribution of Hakomi is that the method contains, as a necessary element, precise experiments done with a person in a mindful state, the purpose being to evoke emotions, memories and reactions that will […]

Freedom

Ron Kurtz is speaking to a group of students in 2001 and talking about his mission which he calls his “main job,” a lifetime mission to inspire people to see what is possible and to provide a wider range of freedom in their lives. He quotes Chogyam Trungpa: “The basic work of health professionals in […]

My Mission

Ron Kurtz tells the story of his visit with Swami Rama in which the Swami told him that he had a mission to create a new psychotherapy.

The Healing Relationship

Ron describes his understanding of the healing process that changed from intrapsychic to interpersonal. Please note: a full transcript of The Readings is available in the SHOP.

Personhood: Warmth and Wakefulness

“…of all the factors that make psychotherapy effective, the most important one is the client. The second most important thing is therapist personal factors. Mahoney calls that Personhood.” This is a wonderful essay on the importance of the personhood of the therapist with quotations from Mahoney (Human Change Process), Bergen and Lambert, Jean Liedloff, David […]

Becoming a Student of Hakomi

This document is very userful to help students or clients of Hakomi what to expect when they are either learning the method or experiencing it in a therapeutic setting.

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