A three-day workshop with Halko Weiss & Maci Daye
Melbourne: Fri 27 Feb—Sun 1 Mar 2026
From the Therapy Room to Everyday Life: Deepening Connection, Presence, and Intimacy
As someone with a Hakomi background, you’ve already cultivated the art of attuned, compassionate therapeutic relationships. But how can we bring these invaluable skills into everyday life—into relationships where our needs matter just as much as those of the other person? And how can we help our clients do the same?
This is the terrain of real-life connections—with partners, family members, friends, and co-workers—where the dance between understanding others and expressing ourselves becomes a true art form.
In this immersive workshop, internationally acclaimed Hakomi Trainers Halko Weiss and Maci Daye will guide you in cultivating deeper, more authentic connections for both yourself and your clients through enhanced communication, mutual understanding, and the transformative power of mindfulness.
We’ll begin with tools from Halko’s Hakomi and Aware Relationship Training (HEART®), refined through decades of teaching in Europe and Australia. Then, we’ll explore ways to bring these practices into the consulting room when working with intimate partners. On the final day, we’ll integrate elements of Passion and Presence®, Maci’s Hakomi-informed approach to sexuality. Hakomi’s experiential methods naturally support the exploration of sexual shame, fears, and desires—uncovering and transforming unconscious patterns around intimacy. By centering on felt experience, practitioners can help clients cultivate presence, attunement, and connection—qualities far more essential to fulfilling intimacy than any specific lovemaking technique.
Join us for this engaging and experiential journey, and expand your capacity to relate with greater compassion, consciousness, and skill.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate the distinctive qualities of a mindful therapeutic relationship from those of a mindful real-life relationship within a counseling or therapy context.
- Explain the theoretical framework of the Reciprocal Interaction Loop (RIL), break down its components, and demonstrate its application with clients.
- Employ the skill of “Reporting from the Observer” to help clients disidentify from, befriend, and work constructively with challenging internal states and parts.
- Integrate Hakomi-informed tools into couple’s therapy to help partners navigate conflict, strengthen emotional attunement, and deepen mutual understanding.
- Apply Hakomi principles to foster a sex-positive, embodied approach to addressing sexuality in therapeutic settings.
- Recognize and address the influences of clients’ “sexual operating systems”—shaped by cultural messaging, developmental experiences, shame, trauma, and personal beliefs about sex, pleasure, and worth.
- Differentiate performance-driven sex from embodied intimacy, and cultivate curiosity, playfulness, and erotic energy as sources of vitality and self-discovery.
- Use mindfulness practices to support clients in creating a more present, connected, and fulfilling erotic life.
Date and Times:
Fri 27 Feb 2026: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Sat 28 Feb 2026: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Sun 1 March 2026: 10.00am – 5.30pm
Investment:
Early bird Fee: $950 (GST incl.) by 1.12.25
Full Fee: $1100 (GST incl.) thereafter
2-part payment plan option available.
Deposit to secure place: $250
Morning and Afternoon tea included.
Venue:
VINE AND BRANCHES Personal Growth Centre
27 Bonds Road, Lower Plenty VIC 3093
REGISTRATION:
To register for this workshop, please click here.