Through the Body:  An Introduction to the Hakomi Method

​Rome, Italy

October 18-19, 2025

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This workshop, ​co-led with Valentina Iadeluca, will be taught both in English and Italian.

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The Hakomi Method is a powerful psychotherapy that combines unique mindfulness-centered methods with somatic techniques, with a focus on present-time experiencing within an attuned relational field.

 

In this introductory workshop, participants will be presented with a powerful way to identify and work with implicit communications, safely engage and re-negotiate client’s core-schemas and organizations, access their deeper core affects, and guide and nourish them towards states of self-coherency, creating deeper and lasting change.

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The workshop is sponsored by the Hakomi Mallorca, and serves as a pre-requisite for longer trainings.  https://hakomimallorca.com/

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To register:  https://hakomimallorca.com/events/through-the-body-intro-to-hakomi-2025/.

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Working with Protectors, Part 2: Learning to Consciously Inhabit Protector Parts and Protected States​

Offered on Zoom through the International Hakomi Institute

January 31- February 1, 2026

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Protector parts include parts that guard us from speaking our truth, protect us from intimacy, or inhibit us from taking important steps to move forward in our lives.

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Do your clients feel held back by their protector parts and want to get rid of them?  Do you often find yourself doing the same–trying to out-maneuver their protector parts, or trying to show them that they are no longer needed?

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And then… do you find that the protector parts return, as entrenched as ever?

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In this workshop, we will learn to engage protector parts as intelligent constellations organizing experience and identity.  We will learn to consciously inhabit protector parts, and through them, the protected states that hide underneath the protectors.

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Building from the first workshop in this series (Working With Protectors, Part 1: How to Go Beneath Judgment States to the Underlying Core Material, which is available for purchase as an on-demand recording for those who missed it), we will review how to provide the context and compassion that will help you re-frame with your client what this work is really about.  

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(Hint: It’s not about expunging these parts of the self.  Rather, it’s about learning to have a conscious relationship with them.  When we can really listen to the protector parts, they no longer have to “grab the steering wheel” in order to get what they really need.)

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In essence, will learn how to build the trust of the protector parts, so that they become allies instead of adversaries.

By consciously inhabiting protector states, in a deeply embodied way, our clients experience an infinitely greater sense of internal space.  These experiences are pivotal, and they deepen commitment to the process of reconciling with both protector and protected parts.  The work becomes highly gratifying for both clients and practitioners.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Identify protector parts

2. Support the client to reframe and engage protector parts as intelligent constellations organizing experience and identity

3. Utilize supportive interventions for working with protector parts both in session and applied to the clients life outside the therapy space

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This Workshop is the second part of a 3-part series (participants who need to catch up on Part 1 prior to joining for Part 2 can add Part 1 in the registration form).

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Working with Protectors, Part 1: How to Go Beneath Judgment States to the Underlying Core Material (Prerequisite available as an on-demand recording plus live practice session)

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Working with Protectors, Part 2 (December 6-7): Learning to Consciously Inhabit Protector States and Protected States

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Working with Protectors, Part 3 (date TBA): Re-Integration of Self—What is the New Self We Discover When We Embody Protector and Protected States in a Collective and Creative Space?

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Note: These workshops are intended to be sequential.  People who have missed a workshop and want to take the next one will have to do an online version of the previous workshop(s).  This will consist of carefully reviewing the workshop video, studying the written materials, and then doing a review session with one of the instructors.

 

To register, please click on the following link:  

https://hakomiinstitute.com/hakomievent/working-with-protectors-part-2-learning-to-consciously-inhabit-protector-parts-and-protected-states/

 

Format and Structure:

The workshop will include big group demos and practice time in small groups with skilled, dedicated assistants.

  

Attendance will be limited to 32 students, to ensure an excellent learning environment and an ideal student-staff ratio.  

 

Working with Protectors, Part 2 will be offered on Zoom through the international Hakomi Institute's Continuing Education program.  

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