An  Introductory  Workshop  with  

 

Lorena  Monda,  DOM  Certified  Hakomi  Trainer  

&  Rupesh  Chhagan,  LAc  Certified  Hakomi  Practitioner  

 

      Austin,  Texas    

18  PDAs    /  18  CEUs    

Hakomi  Skills  for  Oriental  Medicine  

Practitioners  

About  Hakomi

Hakomi  is  a  mindfulness-­‐based  therapeutic  method,  rooted  in    the  understanding  that  the  body    is  the  gateway  to  unconscious  core  beliefs—beliefs  that  organize  our  experience  on  all  levels.  Core  beliefs  are  like  the  basic  operating  system  of  a  human  being—driving  our  behavior,  shaping  our  bodies,  our  qi,  and  our  symptoms,  and  influencing  our  capacity  for    healing.    Hakomi  works  in  the  present  moment  with  mindfulness  and  direct,  felt  experience.  The  goal  is  to  help  patients  become  aware  in  mind  and  body  of  how  they  con-­‐struct  their  experience.  A  success-­‐ful  outcome  of  Hakomi  work  in  an  OM  treatment  context  might  look  like  this:  a  patient  walks  away  with  a  felt-sense  under-­‐standing  of  ha-­‐bitual,  formerly  unconscious  pat-­‐terns,  and  how  these  relate  to  their  qi  and  symptoms—and  more  im-­‐portantly,  with  an  ability  to  inter-­‐rupt  unhealthy  habits,  to  notice  other  options,  and  to  make  choices  that  lead  to  greater  health  and    happiness.  

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Rupesh  Chhagan  

512.917.3404  

Faculty  LORENA  MONDA,  DOM,  LPCC,  CHT  has  been  a  psychotherapist  since  1977  and  a  DOM  since  1984.    She  is  a  trainer  for  the  Hakomi  Institute  and  an  adjunct  faculty  member  of  the  AOMA  Graduate  School  of  Integrative  Medicine.  Lorena  is  the  author  of  the  book,  The  Practice  of  Whole-­‐ness:  Spiritual  Transformation  in  Everyday  Life.  She  lives  in  Placi-­‐tas,  NM  and  teaches  Hakomi  in  the  US  and  Japan.    

RUPESH  CHHAGAN,  LAc,  CHP  has  been  practicing  OM  for  over  10  years  and  weaving  in  the  Hakomi  Method  for  the  past  8  years.  He  lives  in  Austin,  Texas  where  he  has  a  private  practice,  teaches  at  the  AOMA  Graduate  School  of  Integrative  Medicine,  and  helps  facilitate  Hakomi  trainings.  He  is  a  student  of  Zen  Buddhism,  learning  to  bring  the  wisdom  and  compassion  tradi-­‐tions  of  the  East  into  our  modern American  life.  

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LOVING  PRESENCE  &  THE  HEALING  RELATIONSHIP  In  Oriental  Medicine,  the  etiology  of  internal  disease  is  linked  to  the  emotions.  Psychological  studies  reveal  that  a  primary  influence  in  successful  treatment  is  the  rapport  between  practitioner  and  patient.  Treatment  method  is  often  less  relevant  in  its  effect  on  outcomes  than  the  interpersonal  connection.  What  are  the  quali-­‐ties  of  that  connection  that  facilitate  healing?  In  Hako-­‐mi,  we  call  these  qualities  loving  presence:  rooted  firmly  in  the  present  moment,  receiving  the  patient’s  personhood,  noticing  what  energy  is  needed,  adjusting  internally  to  invoke  the  missing  energy.  This  shift  in  the  practitioner  starts  the  healing  process.  

SEEING  DEEPLY:  TRACKING    Being  attuned  to  our  patients  allows  this:  an  ability  to  sense  the  qi  in  the  moment,  to  see  what  is  really  hap-­‐pening,  to  recognize  what’s  working  and  where  there’s  some  adjusting  of  the  qi  needed.  Being  attuned  in-­‐cludes  things  like:  hearing  the  fluctuations  and  quality  of  tone  and  speed  in  speech;  cognitive  perceptions  like  noticing  themes  and  emotions  underlying  the  story  being  told;  and  watching  various  gestures  and  postures  that  relay  the  movement  of  qi  and  tell  the  inner  story  behind  the  patient’s  symptom  presentation.  In  Hakomi  work,  this  deep  observational  skill,  which  we  call  tracking,  is  refined  to  a  sophisticated  degree.  We  no-­‐tice  small,  often  unconscious  (to  the  patient)  shifts  in  body,  mind,  and  emotion  that  are  indicators  of  under-­‐lying  patterns,  and  then  bring  them  into  the  patients  awareness  (contact  them)  so  they  can  be  studied,  worked  with,  and  if  necessary  shifted  toward  more  functional  and  healthy  balance.

CONTACT  The  skill  of  contact  sets  up  a  collaborative  relationship  between  practitioner  and  patient,  empowering  the  pa-­‐tient  to  be  a  primary  part  of  his  or  her  own  healing  process.  While  many  practitioners  say  that  this  is  a  goal  of  working  with  their  patients,  few  have  in-­‐the-­‐moment  skills  that  make  this  collaboration  happen.  Contact  is  the  moment-­‐to-­‐moment  verbal  acknowl-­‐edgment,  in  short,  simple  statements,  of  the  patients  present  experience—including  the  things  arising  that  the  practitioner  is  tracking,  which  the  patient  might  not  be  fully  conscious  of  (gestures,  posture,  emotions,  attitudes,  themes,  and  so  forth).    

MINDFULNESS:  DIRECTING  AWARENESS A  fourth  Hakomi  skill—working  in  mindfulness—is  the  hallmark  of  the  Hakomi  Method.  Mindfulness  is  a  present-­‐centered,  receptive  state  of  mind  where  one  observes  what  is.  Mindfulness  is  a  gateway  to  discover-­‐in  and  resolving  the  complexity  inherent  in  chronic  disease  patterns.  For  example,  we  can  start  with  the  pain  a  patient  feels  in  her  stomach  area.  From  here,  we  guide  the  patient’s  awareness  to  “stay”  with  the  direct  experience  of  her  bodily  sensations  in  the  moment.  With  the  spaciousness  and  curiosity  that  mindfulness  provides,  other  channels  of  information  about  the  cur-­‐rent  “held”  pattern  become  available:  thoughts,  emo-­‐tions,  images,  and  memories.  By  staying  with  the  pre-­‐sent-­‐moment  experience  that  is  arising  around  the  symptom,  practitioners  can  translate  present  experi-­‐ence  back  into  qualities  and  movements  of  qi,  in  order  to  aid  both  the  practitioner  and  patient  in  constructing  effective  and  efficient  treatment  plans.

Hakomi  Skills  and  Oriental  Medicine