Private and Group Therapy Sessions:
Method of working together: If you’re thinking about joining private or group sessions with Adel or the apprenticeship program, this short description will acquaint you with the method and what you may experience.
1.Hakomi & DSAR are models of creative-sensorimotor psychotherapy. It is based on the idea that much of our everyday suffering is in fact unnecessary and is produced by unconscious habits that are no longer relevant, true or necessary. The method is designed to bring such habits into consciousness. It is a method of assisted self-study and discovery. It can bring normally inaccessible mental processes into consciousness gently and efficiently. Once these mental processes (such as beliefs, memories, habits and emotions) are made conscious, they can be examined and modified to provide a more realistic and satisfying way of being. This work of assisted self-discovery requires that clients can enter into short periods (a minute or less) of mindfulness. Because of this, clients must be able to become calm and centered enough to observe their own reactions, as if they were observing the automatic behavior of another person. The therapist pays very close attention to your nonverbal behaviors, such as your tone of voice, movements, gestures, posture, facial expressions and micro-expressions. By observing these, the therapist gets ideas about what unconscious material is controlling your automatic, unconscious behaviors. On the basis of those ideas, the therapist creates little experiments, often just a statement, that are done while you are in a mindful state. These little experiments often elicit clear reactions, often emotional ones. These reactions are the links to the unconscious mental processes that create them. When a reaction is evoked, moments later, memories, beliefs and associations emerge which will help you make sense of the reaction. Once beliefs and memories are in consciousness, they are examined and modified.
2. Tuning Bodywork and DSAR body-mind explorations. Based on what is going on for you or the group at the moment, experiential games or somatic exercises/inquiries will be designed with you and for you.
3. Overall philosophical approach underlying DSAR practice is very much in line with wisdom traditions. And if you have a background related to buddhism, Daoism or other monotheistic religions, it’s possible to integrate the sessions with your faith practice. However the approach overall remains secular.
4. It is recommended to plan for at least 4-6 meetings over a period of 3-6 weeks. Sessions could be arranged either online or in Dali (Yunnan) during 2023. Sessions can be offered in English or Chinese.