Process Work

Process Work has evolved into a diversified methodology and psychotherapeutic practice with applications in medicine, psychiatry, individual counseling, relationship counseling, organizational and community development, conflict facilitation and mediation

It's philosophy is originally positive as it believes in a meaningful process that manifests itself continuously in manifold "dreamlike" ways. Illness, complexes, relationship difficulties, and social conflicts. They are painful and in need of healing or alleviation. They are also an opportunity for bringing awareness into the dreaming reality and a potential for enriching growth and development.

Process Work believes in inner and outer diversity as a path towards compassionate understanding of oneself and the world. It is deeply evolutionary in its quest for meaning and community building.

Process Work grew out of Arnold Mindell's never ending curiosity and interest in integrating physics, social sciences and psychology.

As a young physics graduate from the MIT Arnold Mindell went to Zurich, Switzerland to continue his research in theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute.

Bothered by bad dreams he started therapy with Marie Louise von Franz a leading Jungian analyst at the time. When she asked him about his dreams he returned the question: "can't you tell? Why is it that they are not obvious to you or anyone else?"

Von Franz encouraged him to study that question and for Arnold Mindell this became the initial step of an ongoing journey into the world of night dreams and the living dreams, the manifestation of the dreaming in relationship difficulties, physical symptoms, altered states, coma, and world conflicts.

His path led him to study psychology, become a training analyst at the Jung institute in Zurich, found his own school of psychology (Process Work), develop methods of working with large groups and organizations (World Work and Deep Democracy), return to physics and apply quantum mechanics to medicine and the body.

He is now considered as the most innovative Jungian theorist and most read Jungian author.
Please visit his website at: http://www.aamindell.net/

DREAMBODY WORK
The dreambody is a concept developed by Arny Mindell in the early 1970’s. In Arny’s words: “The dreambody appears as sentient, generally unrecognized sensations that eventually manifest in dream images, body experiences, and symptoms. The dreaming bridges the gap between our measurable, physical bodies and the immeasurable experience of the so-called mind. What we see in our dreams we feel in our bodies. Likewise, what we experience in our bodies we can find in our dreams.”

You dream of one state and wake up in a mood and with some physical experience. All the various states/worlds/bodies are present in a given moment. In waking life we have a tendency to marginalize many of the more subtle states and concentrate on our everyday personality/identity.

But, can we ever say what it IS? At this level we can refer to the dreambody as: the Tao, the Self (Jung), the Mysterium Tremendum (Rudolph Otto), God, Consciousness, Ground of Being, or the sentient realm, It manifests as the vital energy ("élan vital" - Bergson) connecting the entirety of the universe, Bohm uses the term implicate order, Rupert Sheldrake describes it as the morphogenitic field, the underlying pattern manifesting in particular bodily forms

The Dreambody from a general perspective is the process of dreaming or the organizing principle in the background. When we talk about the specific Dreambody concept, about the body and its dreaming we differentiate between three levels in which the dreaming body manifests itself, you can also think of parallel bodies:

1. The CR (consensus reality) body or the physical body with its material, biological and physiological processes - the body of our skin, fluids, organs, and bones. The body that we take care of by caring for our diet, taking our supplements, exercising, going to the doctors or other health care practitioners etc…

2. Then there's the vital or dreaming body which refers to the subjective and energetic quality of our physical experience. This might be like the burning and itching sensations accompanying a rash including our night-time dreams of, e.g., a fiery and scratching cat.

3. The essence body - the experience of a guiding force or general direction in life. It expresses itself in flirts and tendencies, a felt sense that we can't quite describe in words.

While we distinguish between the essence, vital/dreaming, and physical bodies, we can't make any absolute separation between them. We can describe them as co-inhering or super-posing in one another.

We experience ourselves in parallel worlds or in super-positions of these parallel worlds.

By learning to follow body experiences Process Work enables unfolding of the wisdom and meaning in coma, end of life processes, and grieving.

Process Work offers methods for working with minimal signals that we can use to overcome communiciation barriers and relate to individuals in deeply altered and remote state of consciousness.

Discovering the basic direction, or life myth, also plays an important role in working with the dying, and assisting people who are grieving. Grief counseling works on the belief that the childhood dream and life myth reflect the non-measurable essence of a person’s life.

By discovering, relating to, and integrating the essence of the person that we have lost, we have less of a sense of separation and isolation during the grieving period.

This course presents methods and concepts for working with coma, near death and grief. It is designed for both professionals and individuals and families who have experienced coma, loss, and near death experiences.





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		PROCESS WORK Process Work has evolved into a diversified methodology and psychotherapeutic practice with applications in medicine, psychiatry, individual counseling, relationship counseling, organizational and community development, conflict facilitation and mediation It's philosophy is originally positive as it believes in a meaningful process that manifests itself continuously in manifold "dreamlike" ways. Illness, complexes, relationship difficulties, and social conflicts. They are painful and in need of healing or alleviation. They are also an opportunity for bringing awareness into the dreaming reality and a potential for enriching growth and development. Process Work believes in inner and outer diversity as a path towards compassionate understanding of oneself and the world. It is deeply evolutionary in its quest for meaning and community building. Process Work grew out of Arnold Mindell's never ending curiosity and interest in integrating physics, social sciences and psychology. As a young physics graduate from the MIT Arnold Mindell went to Zurich, Switzerland to continue his research in theoretical physics at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute. Bothered by bad dreams he started therapy with Marie Louise von Franz a leading Jungian analyst at the time. When she asked him about his dreams he returned the question: "can't you tell? Why is it that they are not obvious to you or anyone else?" Von Franz encouraged him to study that question and for Arnold Mindell this became the initial step of an ongoing journey into the world of night dreams and the living dreams, the manifestation of the dreaming in relationship difficulties, physical symptoms, altered states, coma, and world conflicts. His path led him to study psychology, become a training analyst at the Jung institute in Zurich, found his own school of psychology (Process Work), develop methods of working with large groups and organizations (World Work and Deep Democracy), return to physics and apply quantum mechanics to medicine and the body. He is now considered as the most innovative Jungian theorist and most read Jungian author. Please visit his website at: http://www.aamindell.net/ DREAMBODY WORK The dreambody is a concept developed by Arny Mindell in the early 1970’s. In Arny’s words: “The dreambody appears as sentient, generally unrecognized sensations that eventually manifest in dream images, body experiences, and symptoms. The dreaming bridges the gap between our measurable, physical bodies and the immeasurable experience of the so-called mind. What we see in our dreams we feel in our bodies. Likewise, what we experience in our bodies we can find in our dreams.” You dream of one state and wake up in a mood and with some physical experience. All the various states/worlds/bodies are present in a given moment. In waking life we have a tendency to marginalize many of the more subtle states and concentrate on our everyday personality/identity. We focus on the dominant tone and marginalize the sub/over-tones. But our essence is the sum of all our sub-tones/states. We feel best if we don't marginalize our overtones. When all facets of our bodies are combined we feel like we are on the right path. What do we mean when we talk about the dreambody (click to open a word file with a more detailed description) or the dreaming body? At one level it refers to the Mystery that's beyond the physical realm including the physical body we experience moment by moment. One way of experiencing the mystery is to ask the question: What is this hand, e.g., that I'm looking at? We can describe it as: something we see, an experience as a feeling or a movement or analyze as being comprised of various chemical components. But, can we ever say what it IS? At this level we can refer to the dreambody as: the Tao, the Self (Jung), the Mysterium Tremendum (Rudolph Otto), God, Consciousness, Ground of Being, or the sentient realm, It manifests as the vital energy ("élan vital" - Bergson) connecting the entirety of the universe, Bohm uses the term implicate order, Rupert Sheldrake describes it as the morphogenitic field, the underlying pattern manifesting in particular bodily forms The Dreambody from a general perspective is the process of dreaming or the organizing principle in the background. When we talk about the specific Dreambody concept, about the body and its dreaming we differentiate between three levels in which the dreaming body manifests itself, you can also think of parallel bodies: 1. The CR (consensus reality) body or the physical body with its material, biological and physiological processes - the body of our skin, fluids, organs, and bones. The body that we take care of by caring for our diet, taking our supplements, exercising, going to the doctors or other health care practitioners etc… 2. Then there's the vital or dreaming body which refers to the subjective and energetic quality of our physical experience. This might be like the burning and itching sensations accompanying a rash including our night-time dreams of, e.g., a fiery and scratching cat. 3. The essence body - the experience of a guiding force or general direction in life. It expresses itself in flirts and tendencies, a felt sense that we can't quite describe in words. While we distinguish between the essence, vital/dreaming, and physical bodies, we can't make any absolute separation between them. We can describe them as co-inhering or super-posing in one another. We experience ourselves in parallel worlds or in super-positions of these parallel worlds. COMPLEX GRIEF By learning to follow body experiences Process Work enables unfolding of the wisdom and meaning in coma, end of life processes, and grieving. Process Work offers methods for working with minimal signals that we can use to overcome communiciation barriers and relate to individuals in deeply altered and remote state of consciousness. Discovering the basic direction, or life myth, also plays an important role in working with the dying, and assisting people who are grieving. Grief counseling works on the belief that the childhood dream and life myth reflect the non-measurable essence of a person’s life. By discovering, relating to, and integrating the essence of the person that we have lost, we have less of a sense of separation and isolation during the grieving period. This course presents methods and concepts for working with coma, near death and grief. It is designed for both professionals and individuals and families who have experienced coma, loss, and near death experiences.
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