Beyond Words: Learn the Powerful Language of
Shape & Form That Transforms Lives

Master the Ancient Patterns That Create Lasting Change

Master a profound language of transformation that creates immediate shifts in your clients' state of being
Guide clients beyond talk therapy into direct, embodied breakthroughs that cognitive approaches can't reach
Access an ancient wisdom tradition that bypasses the analytical mind to create lasting change
Learn to read and work with the subtle energies of shape, form, and metaphor to facilitate deep healing
Develop your capacity to hold sacred space and serve as a bridge to higher guidance
Join a lineage of practitioners bringing this potent work into a world hungry for authentic transformation
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For the past 30 years, Dr. Kim Hermanson has revolutionized the field by developing unique, specialized techniques that utilize the language of metaphor as a gateway to higher knowing.

"Not since Carlos Castenada's books 40 years ago have I had such a strong reaction. This is very powerful stuff."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

New York Times bestselling author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and co-founder of the field of Positive Psychology

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This training program is for...

Therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals seeking powerful new tools for client transformation

Somatic practitioners looking to deepen their work with embodied wisdom

Art therapists and expressive arts facilitators wanting to expand their understanding of metaphor and form

Teachers, workshop leaders, and group facilitators interested in accessing right-brain intelligence

Coaches and consultants seeking to guide clients beyond cognitive approaches into lasting change

Creative professionals who want to help others access deeper levels of creativity and insight

Anyone working in a helping capacity who wants to facilitate transformation through aesthetic form

Healing arts practitioners looking to incorporate metaphoric imagery into their practice

This program will be
live in August 2025

"Kim's approach is refreshingly different from anything I’ve ever done. She taught me how to create immediate, profound shifts in clients' states of being that years of traditional therapy couldn't touch. This work bypasses cognitive processing entirely, allowing me to guide clients into direct experiences of transformation."
Evelyn A
Depth Psychologist
"After years of practicing somatic therapy, this work is entirely different. Kim taught me how to be a bridge to higher wisdom, allowing me to guide clients beyond mental processing into profound embodied shifts. My clients experience more transformation in a single session than they did in years of traditional therapy. This method accesses an entirely different layer—one that operates beyond the analytical mind where patterns are stored."
Elina W
Somatic Practitioner
"As a therapist for 25 years, I was amazed at how this method creates immediate breakthroughs. Rather than analyzing or interpreting, I learned to perceive and articulate subtle energetic qualities that catalyze deep change in my clients. I’m now able to guide clients to places they have no other way to access."
Rachel M
Psychotherapist

FAQs

Everything you need to know about integrating this work into your practice.

No – MetaphorMind is actually a profound language of the right hemisphere, not a technique. Rather than learning a set of steps or procedures, you'll be developing fluency in the universal language of shape, form, and metaphoric imagery. This language allows direct access to transformative states of being that cognitive approaches can't reach.

Unlike guided visualization or traditional imagery work, this is not about analyzing or interpreting images. The practitioner plays an essential role as a bridge – it's through your own perception and articulation of the energetic qualities present that clients experience profound shifts. When you speak what you're seeing and feeling, it awakens those same qualities within your clients, catalyzing deep transformation.

No prior experience with metaphoric work is required. What's most important is your openness to developing your intuitive capacities and your willingness to trust in the wisdom that emerges through direct experience. The training will help you cultivate the sensitivity and skills needed to work effectively with this language.

The training focuses on developing your capacity to perceive and articulate subtle energetic qualities. As you become more fluent in this language, you'll naturally find yourself able to create the conditions for transformation. Unlike mechanical techniques, this work grows organically as you deepen your own connection to the intelligence of the field. Your authentic experience and engagement with the work is what enables you to guide others.

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About Kim

Dr. Kim Hermanson is known as a thought-leader for her unique mind-shifting techniques that help people access the right hemispheres of their brains. An educator and adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Kim’s work unveils the untapped intelligent field of profound beauty that lies beyond thought in the mind’s third space. She has helped thousands of creatives, pioneers, therapists, and seekers of all kinds achieve breakthroughs in jumpstarting their mental health, learning, and creativity. Kim has written three books on the non-cognitive, visionary, and creative space that lies beyond our thinking mind: Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches, and Mentors, Deep Knowing: Entering the Realm of Non-Ordinary Intelligence, which won a 2022 National Indie Excellence Award, and Sky's the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, which received an Independent Publisher Book Award. She has also co-authored articles and book chapters with the late Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and co-founder of the field of Positive Psychology, who described her work as "pioneering."

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