Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi: Listening to the Body

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT Related seminars and products

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT, is a somatic psychotherapist, international teacher of Somatic Psychology, author and consultant. She is the founder of Embodywise and co-director of Hakomi California. She trains and consults professionals in varied fields, including health professionals and business leaders. Her trainings in the United States, Australia, Germany, China and Israel bring together 25 years in-depth clinical practice and teaching. She integrates Hakomi Mindful somatic Psychotherapy, Somatic trauma therapies, embodied mindfulness practices and movement therapies.

Manuela is the founder of ISITTA trauma training. Her trauma teachings are grounded in an inside-out approach that utilizes the depth of the body’s innate healing capacity.

Manuela is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy tools for Trauma and Stress (PESI 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being (W.W. Norton 2015). Visit Manuela’s website to find out more about her work: www.embodywise.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Manuela Mischke-Reeds is the founder of Embodywise and has an employment relationship with Embodylab. She receives compensation as a consultant and royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Manuel Mischke-Reeds has no relevant non-financial relationships.

Objectives

1. Use the key Hakomi concepts of applied mindfulness and somatic awareness to improve outcomes when treating trauma. 
2. Apply attachment- and compassion-based skills that facilitate the experiential process into the body-mind. 
3. Develop an experiential mindset to hold the multilayered complexity of trauma in sessions. 
4. Demonstrate the essential Hakomi personhood skills that help therapists stay grounded and self-regulated while in therapeutic engagement. 

Outline

• Implement the key Hakomi concepts of applied mindfulness and somatic awareness to improve outcomes when treating trauma. 
  • Applied mindfulness is an integrated skills set by the Hakomi therapist to facilitate an in-depth process 
  • Learning to ask targeted questions to facilitate a safe somatic awareness for clients 
  • Not all somatic or mindfulness interventions are suitable for trauma clients, learning to differentiate what tool fits which client is essential for treatment success 
• Apply attachment- and compassion-based skills that facilitate the experiential process into the body-mind. 
  • Hakomi holds the value of loving presence of the therapist as essential to convey compassion to the clients traumatic experience 
  • Applying attachment theory informed interventions to regulate clients internal somatic states 
• Develop an experiential mindset to hold the multilayered complexity of trauma in sessions. 
  • Learn what it means to be an experiential therapist by trying out present moment and safe experiments that include play, breath and movement 
  • Recognise that trauma clients don’t fit one treatment approach size fits all 
• Explain the essential Hakomi personhood skills that help therapists stay grounded and self-regulated while in therapeutic engagement. 
  • The role of the therapist is not just about a skill set but how they embody themselves and stay curious about their own process 
  • Developing a somatic repertoire to stay grounded in the body when clients trauma feels overwhelming or triggering  

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals