CLASSES & EVENTS

2010 CLASSES

PERSPECTIVES ON DEPRESSION:
CREATIVE EXPLORATION

with Kara Wilde and Susette Payne

Dates - Mondays, September, 20,27 October 4,11, 2010
Time - 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Cost - $180 before August 31, $200 thereafter
Location - Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
To register - Call 223-8188 or email pwi@processwork.org

Process Work opens awareness to unexpected meaning and transformation of depressed states. The impact of your individual experiences, family systems and cultural influences will be explored creatively, and collaboratively shared to co-create new ways of being with your own, lovedone’s or clients’ depression. When you stay closer to hidden creative forces in depression, you can transform issues and make new pathways. We will be using creative
methods including art, writing, sound and movement.
Distance Learning ~ Audio Files available

PERSPECTIVES ON DEPRESSION:
RESEARCH & TRAINING


with Kara Wilde and Susette Payne

Dates - Sat & Sun, Feb 5 & 6, 2011
Time - 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Cost - $108 before January 19, $120 thereafter
Location - Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
To register - Call 223-8188 or email pwi@processwork.org

Along with a brief study of historical methods, philosophies and psychological treatment of depression, participants will practice unfolding experiences of mild to chronic depression using Process Work interventions including: case studies, demonstrations, role play and discussion. We will also look at how dreams, body symptoms, and mythic patterns are reflected in depressions.

PROCESS & THE HEART & SOUL OF CHANGE

with Pierre Morin

Date - JUNE 18TH, 2011
Time - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Cost - $54 before June 1, $60 thereafter
Location - Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
To register - Call 223-8188 or email pwi@processwork.org

Evidence-based practice, practice-based evidence, and outcome-informed care are current slogans informing the discussion about counseling and psychotherapy. What contributes to change and/or is it a desired goal? This class will look at the cultural forces that inform the field of psychotherapy and how they influence everyday practice. It will introduce a process view of change and include theory and case discussion.

PREVIOUS CLASSES

END OF LIFE & PALLIATIVE CARE

with Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss, PhD, LCSW,
Ingrid Rose, PhD, and Stan Tomandl, MA,
assisted by Ann Jacob, B.Ed

Date - July 17,2010 1:00pm-5:30 pm, and
July 18-20, 9:00am-12:30 pm and 2-5:30 pm.
Cost - $430
Location - Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
To register - Call 223-8188 or email pwi@processwork.org

This course focuses on supporting end of life care. It presents Process-oriented coma work techniques to enhance skills for assisting patients and their families experiencing challenging physical, emotional, and spiritual processes at the end of life, such as pain, delusions, grief, and dying. Process Work teaches unique non-verbal communication skills for caregivers to connect with and understand patients when they are in out-of-the-ordinary states of consciousness.
This course aims to help shift the field of palliative care from focusing primarily on the body to caring for the whole person--mind, body and spirit. This shift offers hope and advocates for a new ethical sensitivity which recognizes sentient experiences. The course addresses issues relevant to working with patients, families, and the medical system involved in a patient's care.

COLOR COMPANION TO CHRONIC PAIN:
AWARENESS CREATING CONNECTING WELL-BEING


Kara Wilde, MA , Suzette Payne, MA

In this class we will explore how to companion your chronic pain, to support yourself and your self-healing powers. Using creative expression of your nature and the nature of pain. Research shows creative arts improve health outcomes. No previous art experience is necessary and we use art in a non-intimidating atmosphere within a healing field of community creativity. See Blog:companiontochronicpain.blogspot.com for work from previous
class.

Dates and times:
Saturdays, January 16, 23, 30 & February 6, 2010
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Cost: $100 before January 5th.
Place: Process Work Institute, 2049 NW Hoyt St, Portland, OR 97210
Contact: to register call Suzette at 503-973-5921
or email kara@creativehealing.org or suzettepayne@live.com

Suzette Payne M.A. and Kara Wilde M.A .are graduates in process oriented psychology and are interested in studying ways of exploring our health challenges and experiences using all forms of art and creativity to help us in our everyday lives. Suzette is an Open Studio Project facilitator.

HEALTH EQUITY OPEN FORUM

Date and Time:
February 11th, 2010 7-9pm

Kaiser Permanente Town Hall. 3704 N. Interstate Ave Portland, OR

On January 25th, 2009 we had an open forum you may read an article

We believe in a just and equitable world. Social, racial, and health disparities are societal ills that need our assistance and care. Community conflicts are opportunities to learn and grow stronger together. They require awareness of dynamics of rank and power, where we do not share equal privileges, as well as awareness of the underlying humanity which we all share.

Health Disparity
Studies are suggesting that relative poverty and processes of social comparison explain the high stress burden of individuals in countries with a big gap between the rich and the poor. This high stress is the biological pathway through which rank ot hierarchy factors influence health and cause disease.

USA's Rank in Health Olympics:

* Life Expectancy: 29
* Teen Birth: 28
* Educational Opportunities: 21
* Child Poverty: 25
* Child Abuse Death Rates: 26
* Child Injury Death Rates: 23

A 3-1/2 Day Process Work Conference
About Medicine, Aging, Palliative Care & Health Leadership

Audio tapes available