45 training days in the Multi-Level Format — at your own pace, beginning with any workshop you choose. A professional training aligned with the international Hakomi curriculum, opening the path to certification. Authorized organizer: Istanbul Healing Academy.
There are no formal prerequisites for beginning the training. Whether you are meeting Hakomi for the first time or already have experience with the method, you can begin exactly where you are.
The training is suitable for therapists, psychologists, counselors, body-based practitioners, coaches, educators and health professionals, as well as anyone drawn to personal growth and mindful relational practice.
What is asked of participants:
The training is taught by international Hakomi trainers; Turkish translation support is provided.
The Hakomi Education Network offers a flexible and distinctive path to becoming a practitioner. People with different levels of Hakomi experience learn together in the same training environment. The training is designed to support each individual's natural pace of learning.
The Foundational Hakomi Practitioner Training concludes with the completion of 45 days. You may complete these days at a pace that suits you.
You do not need to begin at a particular point in the training cycle. You may set out with whichever workshop you choose.
One of the strengths of this format is that students at different stages of learning practice together.
This flexible structure lets you stay connected to the training while honoring the real demands of your life. Workshops typically unfold across roughly three years — but this is a customary rhythm, not a requirement.
Hakomi is most deeply learned through direct experience. Much like learning a new language, playing an instrument or mastering a craft, Hakomi is absorbed through:
Rather than learning Hakomi merely as a set of techniques, students step inside the Hakomi way of being — a mindful, compassionate and respectful approach to self-discovery, healing and transformation.
A core part of the training is learning to make a choice about one's own state of mind. Hakomi practitioners learn to meet each person as a source of inspiration: not as a problem to be fixed, but as a whole human being who makes sense once their inner world is understood with care.
This way of being includes:
Within this supportive context, practitioners learn to offer simple, carefully chosen experiments that invite mindfulness and allow unconscious material to emerge gently. These experiments help make visible the beliefs, memories, emotions and bodily patterns that shape experience. When these patterns are met with care, they can open toward emotionally nourishing new possibilities.
The curriculum follows Hakomi's international training standards. These themes are not covered in a fixed sequence but arise within the flow of the workshops, according to the needs of the group. Expand to see the main themes.
Workshops bring together experiential practice, group review, theoretical understanding and trainer guidance. Participants practice in pairs, in small groups and sometimes as a whole group.
Each practice may involve many elements of Hakomi:
Trainers highlight whichever elements are most meaningful for the group's learning in that moment. The same practice can offer different levels of learning depending on each student's experience and readiness.
After each practice, students are invited to share their questions, discoveries and learning with the group. These conversations are an important part of the training: they allow students to integrate their experience, learn from one another, and connect practice with theory. Theory is often offered in response to what arises in the group, so that learning stays alive and grounded in direct experience.
The training includes both in-person and online workshops. Because each format offers valuable learning opportunities, students are encouraged to experience both. Online workshops support accessibility and continuity, while in-person workshops allow for embodied and relational learning in a shared physical space.
Attending part of the training in person is required. This is chiefly because learning how touch can be used safely, ethically and respectfully within Hakomi is only possible in a shared physical setting.
Completing the foundational training and becoming a certified practitioner are two distinct stages.
By the end of the 45 days, students are expected to have a clear grasp of the main elements of a Hakomi session and how these are brought together in practice. Those who complete it receive the Foundational Hakomi Practitioner Training Certificate of Completion.
For those who wish to become certified, an additional certification process follows the foundational training. It involves submitting a video demonstrating your ability to conduct a Hakomi session, completing a written self-assessment, and receiving evaluation and feedback.
Certification demonstrates your competence in practicing the Hakomi method. It is based not on accumulating hours but on demonstrated proficiency in the method — a model closer to an apprenticeship or a craft.
Workshop places are limited; enrollment is taken in order of application.
Fill in the form on the contact page or send us an email. Briefly share your experience with Hakomi and your motivation.
An online conversation with the training coordinator; your questions are answered and we discuss together which workshop is the right one to start with.
The enrollment agreement and payment plan are shared; you secure your place and begin with whichever workshop you choose.
We learn by listening deeply. We follow what is emerging. We make room for new and nourishing experiences. And we allow learning, healing and growth to happen in their own time. Hakomi trusts experience to unfold organically — the same trust guides the training itself.
Our training coordinator will be glad to answer all your questions.