shamedabout NOT GETTING IT. Also supporting the part that isso industrious and achieving.CAROL:Because it easy for her to be mindful of the sensations ofsadness (we havent got to the anger yet) she accesses a verypleasant, open and receptive experience and can stay there. Ichecked whether there was room for the sadness in this opennessand yes, the sadness was experienced as a fluid movementthrough this place and there was no resistance to it.SUHARI RESPONDS:The spiritual place is a resting place, a safe space for ashamed and judgmental person. It needs to be supportedand honored. I am also wondering about her mindfulness.Is she truly witnessing or just hanging out in a nice quietspace?Could this turn intoa type of SpiritualBypassing?19IF YOUD LIKE FEEDBACK ON A CASEplease email the HAA News Editor at<haanews@hakomi.org.au> with a shortsummary of your case and your dilemma.CAROL:I am interested in how this could possibly turn into a sort ofspiritual bypassing of what needs to be explored here.SUHARI RESPONDS:The spiritual place is already a bypass. It does not feelonly like witnessing or meditation.CAROL:The character style seems to be Industrious. There is a lot ofsmiling and there is a signature movement in the form of adismissive laugh when we uncover some aspect of her process.It is as if she is constantly dismissing herself.SUHARI RESPONDS:Her formative experience or core belief might be I amnot good enough just for myself / I have to produce inorder to be loved.The supervision really highlights the question howdoes the practitioner work with this transference and whatserves the client? Can I be Buddha for a while until shefinds it in herself? Can I just enjoy her for what she is andat the same time start working on making core beliefsconscious.Her missing experience might be to be simply accepted,to just have loving kindness just because she is a humanbeing.This is very short case and early in the piece. Otherfacets of her being might show up a bit later. Like alwayswe hold our ideas and insights lightly and let them go,should the client choose to explore something else.SUHARI BOHM is a certified Hakomi therapist and Hakomiteacher. She is a qualified medical doctor (Germany) andnaturopath (New Zealand). She leads workshops in HealingRelationship and Loving Presence and is currently teachingon the Hakomi Professional Training in Sydney. Suhari livesin Dunedin, New Zealand, where she offers supervision andteaching days for Hakomi graduates. She has over 20 yearsexperience in the field of personal growth and has a particularinterest in trauma work and clients presenting with psychosomaticsymptoms.Sydney Group Supervisionwith Karen WorkmanSydney-based Hakomi therapist Karen Workman is tooffer a further series of group supervision sessions,commencing February 2006. Aimed at Hakomitherapists and students, the supervision will beoffered in Sydney on the following dates:Fridays, 3.00pm - 5.00pm:February 3February 17March 17April 7April 17These sessions offer a deepening of the underlyingprincipals of the Hakomi method in the realm ofspiritual practice. They include understanding LovingPresence and developing personhood as a therapist.Within the group, we will explore and discuss casesusing both the developmental approach and theSensorimotor Psychotherapy Method for Traumaresolution.The 2 hour sessions will be a mix of case study, discussion,theory and experiential work.To