Hakomi Therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Hakomi therapy is a mindfulness based guided exploration, a profoundly powerful way to access your core material and thereby transform ways in which you unconsciously organize yourself. It is getting in touch with the inner wisdom of your system that seeks to restore harmony within itself. We do this by connecting with wounded states (or parts of your psyche) and witnessing the burdens they have been carrying, often since early childhood. By resourcing and updating these parts with mindfulness and gaining alliance with protector parts, we can integrate overwhelming experiences to reconnect to the inner wisdom and Self energy available to us all. This creates more connection and harmony in your system and transformation ensues naturally. IFS (Internal Family Systems) is a highly developed specific method focusing on parts work.

"(Hakomi) relies on a form of body-based mindfulness as a primary tool to explore the implicit beliefs that organize life experiences and address attachment injuries that shape our emotional realities. While people are adept at using words to dissemble, the body is far more direct in communicating our inner states to those who are willing to listen. Through the way we move and hold ourselves, we reveal the internalized working models of the world and self that are unconsciously encoded in our brains, which govern our behaviour, perceptions, and feelings" 

    - Rob Fisher