Client: Christina
Title: Sexual Abuse
Indicator or core experience: inability to move forward, self doubt
Nourishment: “I believe you” and reconsolidation of memory
Hakomi skills that are illustrated by this session:
- Contact statements
- How to explain how to self study using Hakomi
- Patience and silence
- How to introduce an experiment in the imagination
- Watching for big emotion that indicates deeper material
- Checking in with the client to report her experience
Guides to Watching this video:
- Identify the three phases of the session using time tags
- Using the desire to move forward for an experiment – notice that the data turns a little abstract
- When a client is trying to problem solve, how do you move into deeper territory?
- Notice the effect of holding her back in the imagination
- What to do when collapse occurs – be sure to create a safe holding space
- Phase 3 begins when I sense that this is trauma and she needs to run
- How to reconsolidate memory using experiments in the imagination
- Notice the last experiment “I believe you” and what happens for her
- How to create the possibility of deliberate practice
