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By Shawn McAndrew Without curiosity, growth is not easy. When we ask questions, we can begin to understand why or how something is the way it is. Why? What? Who? Before we even step foot into the [...]

By Maria Camara What have you learned from the pandemic? This was a question asked in a poll at the recent Hoffman Virtual Conference. The 52 participant answers reveal a great amount of silver [...]

By Hilary Illick and Chris Sansone We live in a rapidly and ever-changing world of social unrest, especially racial unrest. By 2040, white people are going to be in the minority. Because white [...]

By Maria Camara Embracing the reality of change is one strategy for building resilience while facing life’s challenges. Buddhism, among other disciplines, has given special emphasis to the [...]

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. (Henry Van Dyke) By Phoebe Harding We know that standards of perfection and best [...]

By Matt Brannagan These past 12 months have given many of us the opportunity to experience growth and change. So much of the world as we knew it, or as we saw it, has been transformed. At Hoffman [...]

By Raz Ingrasci Your heart is ready to open. You want to experience more light, love, and connection than you ever thought possible. But how can you do it if you’ve spent years keeping your heart [...]

As we pull together all the fabulous panelists and presenters for the first-ever Hoffman Virtual Conference, we’re pondering these questions. Transformation Curious Transformation is about [...]

It’s time… Hoffman’s annual mandala contest is here. The contest was created a couple years ago to engage our graduates (and now our Hoffman Essential participants!) in a fun activity to [...]

By Phoebe Harding I was standing in the middle of the empty road at White Sulphur Springs, appreciating sunlight filtering through redwoods. Suddenly, the foreground came into focus. A single [...]

Be part of our first-ever Hoffman Virtual Conference: Embodying the Spirit of Change, April 1st – 3rd, 2021! We hope you attend the conference (information on that below), and we want to [...]

By Gary Shunk Many years ago, a dear friend recommended a Hakomi counselor to me. Hakomi therapy is very body and feelings based. She told the counselor, “Be ready – he lives in his head.” I did [...]

By Shawn McAndrew How many times a day do you have connections with other people? A dozen? Hundreds? It depends on how many people you interact with, and these days that’s likely to be mostly [...]

By Shawn McAndrew One night, while awake at 2 a.m., the same scenario kept repeating itself in my head: A stressful situation, and I was trying to figure out a solution. If I do this, then this [...]

By Shawn McAndrew When I think of wounds, I think of a cut or scrape that I may have suffered from a wayward knife edge while slicing tomatoes or a tripping over a curb. When I was a child, I had [...]

By Gary Shunk One definition of the word resonance is the ability to evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions. Resonance is something I experienced during the Process and very frequently [...]

By Julie Daley Happy New Year! It’s a brand new year. How did you say goodbye to 2020 and ring in 2021? We decided to celebrate the turn of the year on the Hoffman Podcast by bringing together [...]

By Shawn McAndrew Hoffman Process grad Patti Henry is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice for over 32 years. She began her practice working with women to empower them. When she did [...]

By Shawn McAndrew Fate is defined as a predetermined course of events, whether in general (i.e., a pandemic) or individually (i.e., meeting the person who led me to the Process). Whether you [...]

By BJ Jensen Love. I am moved by the love. It takes my breath away every session, every two weeks when we meet. I look at the faces of six other humans, five of whom were total strangers two [...]