Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi: Listening to the Body

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

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, international teacher and speaker, author and meditation teacher. She co-directs and teaches at the Hakomi Institute of California and is the developer of “From Trauma to Dharma,” a somatic trauma training for professionals. Manuela is the author of Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox (PESI, 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness (W.W. Norton, 2015), and was a contributor to Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy.

Manuela brings together 25 years of in-depth clinical practice and teaching in somatic trauma therapies, Hakomi psychotherapy, attachment and infant mental health work, Buddhist meditation practices and movement therapies. Her approach to working with trauma is an inside-out approach that utilizes the depth of the body’s knowledge. Her unique teaching gift is inspiring how we live our lives from the reverence and awareness of interconnection.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial:  Manuela Mischke-Reeds is a co-director and teacher with Hakomi Institute of California.  She maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.  She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Manuela Mischke-Reeds is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
 

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 
  • Recognize 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

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

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