Client: Randi
Core Experience: not feeling free to express herself
Nourishment: You can trust yourself.
Hakomi skills that are illustrated by this session:
- How to deal with initial nervous excitement in a session
- Inviting you into the session
- Following the somatic signals of the client
- Using non-verbal experiments to self study
- Using “as if” language to help make guesses about the underlying meaning of somatic signals
- Using the language of the client – eg. “little girl” or “fill the room”
- Using precise experiments towards specific parts OR to the whole being to see what part reacts/responds
- Using a variety of experiments – verbal, non-verbal and imaginal
- Following the client, moment by moment, and being more precise as we move through the session
- How to work with old habits as the re-enter the session towards the end. In this case, it helps to put the degree of anxiety or worry into perspective. This is important for integration, to help the client stay with nourishment for as long as possible.
Guides to Watching this video:
- When a client begins a session with a positive emotion, it is important to invite it into the therapeutic space. It becomes a resource that we can always go back to.
- This session is a good example of the process of reconsolidation of memory – updating memories and experiences. Read Ron’s book “The Hakomi Way: Consciousness & Healing” on the topic.
- Notice how collaborative this session is – Randi’s adaptive unconscious is onboard and really participating in the process
- Notice how explain that we are not trying to convince clients, that we are offering missing experiences
