Family Trance Workshop

"Understanding the family system is fundamental to practicing psychotherapy. The matrix of the family defines a young child's reality and continues to impact his or her development into adulthood. This weekend we will explore family dynamics using body-centered tools, and then we will reach beyond the nuclear family into the myths and transmissions received from previous generations. Here, we can discover how we as individuals have been shaped by our family lineage. Only when we can identify the roles and relationship styles, beliefs and guiding myths we have inherited from our ancestors, can we wake up from the family trance and live our lives more choice fully and authentically."

~ Julie Murphy & Manuela Mischke Reeds

This workshop presents a model of the Family Trance through short lectures, demonstrations and experiential exercises. We will use contemplative and creative practices inspired by the Hakomi principles of mindfulness, organicity and nonviolence to understand, embody and transform our personal lineage. This workshop will provide participants with personal insights, transformative exercises and professional skills.

Participants will learn and experience:

• A unique body-centered approach to highlighting limiting family dynamics and facilitating change

• Immediately applicable mindfulness and movement-based techniques for working with Family Trance in therapy

• Recognizing the matrix of previous generations as a basis for personal beliefs

• Somatic patterning indicative of the family trance

• Theoretical models drawn from the Hakomi Method, Family Systems Theory and Developmental Psychology.

12 LCSW & MFT CEU Units Available

San Francisco Theological Seminary, Room Geneva 100, San Anselmo, CA

Hours: Sat. (2/8/03), 9-5pm; Sun (2/9/03), 9am - 4pm

COST: $195.00 (before 1/10/03; $230 thereafter)

VISA & MASTERCARD ACCEPTED

To register: please send a check (payable to The Hakomi Institute of San Francisco) or your credit card # and expiration date to: Hakomi Institute of San Francisco, 2425 Fillmore St., Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94115. You may also leave a message with the workshop name and date and your credit card information at 415-835-2122, ext. #1.

*This workshop qualifies as a pre-requisite for the Comprehensive Training that begins March 2003

Manuela Mischke Reeds, M.A., Certified Hakomi Trainer, is Lead trainer of the SF Comprehensive Training and Lead trainer in Sydney, Australia. Manuela specializes in integrating somatic psychotherapy, movement therapy and trauma work. Having earned an MA in Somatic Psychology (CIIS) and a B.A. in Dance Therapy, (Naropa), Manuela teaches Hakomi and her own somatic movement process in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Japan. An authorized Continuum Movement © Teacher, Manuela teaches classes throughout the Bay Area. She has a private practice working with individuals and couples .You can email Manuela at manuela@sfhakomi.org.

Julie Murphy, Certified Hakomi Trainer, is the Director of Hakomi Santa Cruz and the Lead Trainer for Hakomi trainings in Santa Cruz, CA and Perth, Australia. She holds a degree in Anthropology, studied Contemplative Psychology at the Naropa Institute, and has years of training in Movement and Somatics. Julie maintains a private practice in Santa Cruz, integrating body-centered psychotherapy with creative expression and spiritual practice, and offers consultation in somatic psychotherapy. You can email Julie at: juliemurphy@sfhakomi.org.