Passport Category: Talks

Healing (Master)

“Master” refers to a long version audio file on that topic.

Setting the Context for Healing

“With the right state of mind, understanding and compassion come quite naturally, without effort. The healing relationship is developed effortlessly, the method and techniques work easily and the process moves quickly.”

Memory and Prediction

Ron wrote and spoke about Jeff Hawkins’ book On Intelligence in which he described the Memory Prediction Framework.

Kahneman’s Theory of Two Selves

Kahneman was the winner of a Nobel prize in Behavioral Economics. His theory refers to a model of two selves, the remembering self and the experiencing self, that is very useful to understand for the Hakomi practitioner.

Ex. Assisted Stretching

This is an exercise used in Hakomi trainings to teach students to follow their clients. This was undoubtedly inspired by the work of Moshe Feldenkrais.

Feldenkrais

Ron Kurtz was inspired by the work of Moshe Feldenkrais.

Deliberate Practice

Deliberate practice refers to the need for a new behavior to become habitual through conscious action.

Hypnagogic States

Hypnagogic refers to the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep. Towards the end of his life, he began to refer to mindfulness as a hynagogic state.

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

Avoidance Behaviors 2

Avoidance behaviors are unconscious attempts to avoid painful memories and experiences.

Refinements of Hakomi

For further information, we refer you to Ron’s writings on the subject in a book called The Hakomi Way: Consciousness & Healing published after his death from his training notes. Refinements is the last chapter.

Repair and Integration

“Integration occurs slowly as new, more realistic beliefs are formed. Engergy is drained away from the long struggle and becomes available for living this very moment. Confusion yields to clarity. In the process of integration, we witness the natural course of things.” Ron Kurtz

Avoidance Behavior

Avoidance behavior refers to behavior that is an attempt to avoid painful memories and experiences.

Working With Indicators

In Ron’s final decade of life, he was teaching his students how to observe indicators as sources of experiments.

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.

Silence

Ron emphasized the importance of allowing the client the time and space to do their the interior work and the judicious use of silence.

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.

Self Study Phase of the Process

A Hakomi session could be viewed as having three phases: the relationship phase, the self study phase and the healing phase. Ron is talk about the second phase which features precise experiments in mindfulness.

Inappropriate Attention and Stories

Inappropriate attention is a Buddhist concepts: “In Buddhism, inappropriate attention (ayoniso manasikāra) is a misguided focus that  leads to suffering by exaggerating negative qualities or clinging to positive ones.”  

Mindfulness in Hakomi

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

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.

Six Skill Sets with Georgia Marvin

This talk is based on one of the chapters in The Hakomi Way: Consciousness & Heaing. Filmed in 2017 in Georgia’s home in Powell River, BC.

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