HQP Teacher Profile
Sharon Kennedy
 Process
Teacher Sharon Kennedy loved dance from the time she was a child.
She studied classical and modern dance, with a focus on the Martha
Graham technique. While dance was a passion from an early age, so
were psychology and spirituality. She combined these interests and
earned a B.S. degree in Dance and Dance Therapy at the University
of Wisconsin, and a Master’s degree in Dance Therapy at Hunter
College in New York City.
Sharon practiced as a psychotherapist and dance therapist in New
York for several years. During this time she completed a three-year
certification program in Psychosynthesis, an approach to personal
growth and selfrealization that combines psychology and spirituality.
It was during this training that Sharon met Linda Hartka- Reiss.
Surprisingly, both Sharon and Linda would later become Hoffman Process
teachers.
After leaving New York for Massachusetts, Sharon and Linda formed
a therapy-consulting group. “I was searching for a breakthrough
way of doing therapy, something that would result in a quantum leap
in the therapeutic experience of healing and growth,” Sharon
said.
During that time, much to her surprise and horror, Sharon noticed
that some of her behavior with her daughter Katy was similar to
how her mother had treated her. “I had done lots of different
things during the previous 20 years and had made a lot of progress,
but there was a part of me that just wouldn’t budge. I had
a sense of being imprisoned somehow, a deep feeling of being stuck
and of self-hatred.” While fighting her intellect all the
way, Sharon experienced the Process in 1993. “Thank goodness
I let my deeper self get me to the door.”
When asked what she got from the Process, she responded: “I
got a miracle! I no longer hated myself… I learned to love
myself, which was astonishing. The sense of movement and freedom
I experienced by stepping out of my own ‘prison’ is
what I lovingly call my divinely choreographed experience. The great
challenge was met.”
Sharon has been a Process teacher since 1995. “I get nourishment
and huge satisfaction experiencing others getting free, breaking
out, loving themselves, and moving forward in their lives. Teaching
is like being a midwife, supporting others to experience themselves
in a way they never have, to realize that there is more to them,
the world, the universe than they ever knew.”
Sharon shared an experience she had when Katy was seven. She asked,
“What is it that you do, Mommy?”
Sharon replied, “I teach people to love themselves.”
Katy stopped and looked at her mom quizzically. “People don’t
love themselves?”
Sharon thought, “AWESOME!”
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