Our Faculty
Founding Trainers
Maci Daye, Certified Hakomi Trainer
Certified Hakomi Trainer, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Sex Therapist who lives in Hamburg and Mallorca.
She has degrees in Education and Counseling from Harvard and Georgia State Universities and a doctorate in Human Sexuality.
In addition, Maci completed the Intermediate Level of the Somatic Experiencing training. She began her Hakomi journey in 1985 and joined the faculty in 2001. She was the Lead Trainer in Asheville, North Carolina, for nearly a decade and taught in Atlanta, Minneapolis, Princeton, Charlottesville, and various European cities.
Maci also developed a Hakomi-informed program on mindful sexuality and has led couple’s retreats and professional courses on her work in the U.S.A., Australia, and Europe since 2010.
Her book, “Passion and Presence: A couple’s Guide to Awakened Intimacy and Mindful Sex,” was released in 2020 by Shambhala Publications.
Halko Weiss, Ph.D., DBH, Dipl.-Psych.
Ph.D., DBH, Dipl.-Psych., accredited Clinical Psychologist and lecturer on mindfulness, couples therapy, and body-centered psychotherapy.
He authored 20 professional publications and ten books, gave more than 50 congress contributions, including keynotes, and won the Alice K. Ladas Research Award by the USABP in 2005. Halko co-founded the Hakomi Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and the Hakomi Institutes of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and was instrumental in developing the Hakomi Method and its curricula worldwide
In addition, he helped establish a successful coaching training program and an Emotional Intelligence training for executives in Germany. Halko also developed two comprehensive programs on couples therapy, and interpersonal skills taught internationally.
The hope of harmony in today's world lies in a clearer understanding of our sheer diversity.
Core Faculty
Julia Corley
Shai Lavie
Keren Tzarfaty
Valentina Iadeluca
Pia Charpentier
Teachers-in-Training
Visiting Faculty
Please see upcoming events for a full listing of our visiting faculty.
Donna Roy
Donna Roy is a licensed professional counselor and Certified Hakomi Therapist and Trainer.
After a 20-year career in international non-profit management and intercultural communication, Donna wanted to help people explore their interior and relational worlds.
To prepare for this she earned an advanced counseling degree, Hakomi certification and a state license to practice. Her subsequent years of work as a Hakomi therapist and trainer led to collaboration with a colleague in developing an experiential attachment approach, Primary Attachment Psychotherapy.
Donna lives in Oregon with her husband of many years, her son’s family, and regularly returns to her home state of Maine where her daughter’s family settled and is a proud grandmother.
She has a focused counseling and consulting practice, is active on the board of the international Hakomi Institute and was the founder of a local affordable counseling clinic in Oregon.
Our Business Team
Maci Daye
Halko Weiss
Pia Charpentier
Valentina Iadeluca
