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Hoffman Process

January 28, 20251 min readByRobert Dobrow
Meditation
Curious if anyone in this network has done the Hoffman Process, an intense personal development, self-help 7-day retreat that uses, in part, visual meditations. More at hoffmaninstitute.org

Hoffman Process

January 28, 20251 min readByRobert Dobrow
Meditation
Curious if anyone in this network has done the Hoffman Process, an intense personal development, self-help 7-day retreat that uses, in part, visual meditations. More at hoffmaninstitute.org
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K_ Homsi•recently•edited
Thanks for posting this!̦ Robert. I've taken part in the H0ffman Process and, like Nina (below), I struggled with many of the exercises. It seemed like the majority of practices involved some visualization. Toward the end of the 1st day, I mentioned to one of the facilitators that I couldn't see anything in my mind's eye. Her paraphrased response: trust the process - "it'll come". Though the dreaming did during the week, the visualisations never did. I wonder if in the ensuing years that more of the Process facilitators have taken aphantasia into account in delivering their curriculum? This links to preprint of a paper addressing 'The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences' [Nov. 2024]: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/f6h5q_v1
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Nina Holland•recently•edited
Yes. I've done the Hoffman Process. Since figured out I have aphantasia, which explains why I struggled with so much of the week's content!
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Sean K•recently•edited
No. Not sure it would work for me. I cannot "visualize" in the first place.
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