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Hoffman Process

Disciplines:
psychotherapy
personal development
psychotherapy/trauma healing
psychology/group process

Summary

Intensive week-long therapeutic retreat developed by Bob Hoffman in 1967 — which uses a combination of cognitive, emotional, physical, and spiritual processes to identify and break negative behavioral patterns inherited from parents.

Core Contribution

Provides the most intense and structurally rigorous week-long personal development intervention — addressing the fundamental insight that most adult psychological patterns are repetitions or reactions to parental patterns — and has been attended by many Silicon Valley executives and creative figures.

Historical Influences

Bob Hoffman Claudio Naranjo

Intellectual Lineage

Transpersonal Psychology Humanistic Psychology Group Therapy

Contemporaries & Peers

Esalen Institute Internal Family Systems MDMA therapy

Minds Influenced

Intensive therapy retreat genreSilicon Valley executive development culture

Intellectual Posterity

Hoffman Process Negative Love Syndrome

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