Organicity refers to the fact that complex living systems, such as human beings, are self-organizing and self-directing. This means that, as practitioners, we can assume there is a life-positive, self-directing, self-healing energy and intelligence at work within a client. Our task is simply to create the setting, the emotional climate that facilitates the emergence of this natural impulse toward health and to remembering wholeness.
Mindfulness refers to the understanding that real change comes about through awareness, not efforting. When we are truly aware of our experience, it naturally reveals its inherent meaning, and it continues evolving in a self-directed, life-positive direction. As practitioners, we trust that if we assist the client into her present-moment somatic experience, then her own awarenss will facilitate whatever change or next step needs to occur.
Non-violence is being mindful of the principle and presence of organicity. It’s the recognition that there is a natural way that life is unfolding, and aligning ourselves with this organic, intelligent process. As practitioners, this means we have no agendas or intentions of our own that we aren’t willing to abandon at once if they somehow conflict with what is emerging from the client. It means we support the client’s so called defences; we don’t offer advice or interpretations; and we don’t ask questions unless doing so serves the client.
Holism refers to the complexity and inter-relatedness of organic systems, including human beings, with our minds and bodies, hearts and souls. It is what allows us to holographically read a person’s life story in her posture or tone of voice, to infer an entire childhood from a single memory, to suspect certain core, organizing beliefs from simple repetitive gestures or words.
Unity reminds us of the inter-connectedness of all things, of all life, of all events. It’s holism on a universal scale. As practitioners, unity reminds us of the ever bigger picture, of the fact that we are intimately connected to each other, and connected to our culture, our environment, our world.
As you learn Hakomi method, if you ground yourself in the five principles, a particular style and feel and way of being with others will naturally emerge.
Loving presence is an attitude that will naturally emerge in us as we come to deeply understand these universal spiritual principles, principles that are, in effect, the true theoretical underpinnings of Hakomi.
From Ron Kurtz (2018) “Hakomi Way: Consciousness & Healing: The Legacy of Ron Kurtz”