Weekend Workshop · Seattle · May 2–3, 2026
A two-day facilitated experience for people ready to be more at home in themselves — whatever the circumstances.
You've probably spent real time with yourself. Maybe years. Therapy, meditation, workshops, plant medicine, inner work of one kind or another. You have insight. You can name what you do. You can often see it happening in real time.
And still — the same loops. The same reactions. The same ways you disappear from yourself, or can't stop being too much of yourself, in the presence of other people. The knowing hasn't quite become different.
That's not a failure of effort. It's a clue about where the work actually needs to happen.
This two-day workshop is a structured, facilitated space for experiencing yourself differently — not just understanding yourself better. The work happens in the room, in real time, with others present. Because that's where it actually lives.
Seeing what's actually running — the patterns, the inner narratives, the ways you arrive in a room already braced. Not as a concept. As lived experience.
Learning to stay with yourself while genuinely being with others. The thing most people experience as impossible — holding your own ground and staying in real contact simultaneously.
Discovery itself shifts things. When a pattern is truly seen — not analyzed, but seen — something becomes available that wasn't before. This is the work.
Worth being precise about, because the landscape is cluttered with things that look adjacent.
Most approaches to inner work operate at the level of understanding. You come to know your patterns better. You develop tools to manage them. You have peak experiences that open something for a while.
TIGD works at a different level. The premise is that patterns formed in relationship can only be re-patterned in relationship — in the live presence of other nervous systems, while the pattern is actually running.
The other people in the room aren't witnesses to your process. They're the field in which the process becomes possible. That's the structural difference. That's what this weekend is built on.
This isn't for everyone, and it's worth being honest about that. Some things to sit with before applying.
You don't need to have done years of inner work. You do need to be genuinely curious about what's running in you — and willing to be in a room where that becomes visible.
Dirk will have a brief conversation with everyone before confirming participation. Not an evaluation — a check for fit, in both directions.
What to bring: Comfortable clothes you can sit and move in. A journal if you like to write. Water bottle. Yourself — that's enough.
Entry: Application plus a brief conversation with Dirk before confirming. Payment due upon confirmation. Full refund if you withdraw before May 1st.
Facilitator
Thirty years of working with people's bodies taught Dirk something that chiropractic adjustment alone couldn't reach: the patterns in the body and the patterns in relationship were telling the same story.
The physical holding — the bracing, the collapse, the chronic tension — wasn't a physical problem. It was a relational one. Formed in the presence of other people. Requiring other people to be met differently.
That observation led to years of Hakomi training, work with men's and women's circles, and close attention to the gap that kept appearing: people doing genuine, committed inner work, and still showing up the same way in relationship.
Dirk's role in the room is not to teach, guide, or fix. It's to hold the container steady — and to notice what's actually happening before anyone else does.
Eight spots. A brief conversation before confirming. No evaluation of readiness — just a check that this is the right container for where you are right now.
Reach out at IntegrationGym.org or reply by email.
Dirk will follow up to schedule a short conversation.