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Process Work Institute We are awareness seekers exploring dreams, body wisdom, relationships and the world through Arnold Mindell's Processwork.

Following nature into the unknown for meaning & transformation. Nonprofit educational institute offering trainings online & in person The Process Work Institute is a non-profit educational institute devoted to research and training in Process-oriented Psychology, also known as Process Work. It is one of many centers worldwide dedicated to furthering our understanding of the fundamental problems facing individuals and groups today, using the methods and spirit of inquiry found in Process Work. The Process Work Institute continues the tradition of Process Work training and research begun in 1982 with the founding of the Research Society for Process-oriented Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland by Arnold Mindell and his associates. In 1989, the Process Work Center of Portland, later renamed the Process Work Institute, was incorporated in Oregon as a center for training and research in Process Work. It received authorization from the State of Oregon to offer a Master of Arts degree in Process Work in January, 1992. A second Master of Arts degree program in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change began in 2004. The Institute currently serves as a center for personal and professional growth, offering several degree and non-degree programs and courses in a wide variety of Process Work applications.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/24445985/aboutWorldwork can be lonely. You're the one h...
10/19/2026

LEARN MORE & REGISTER: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/24445985/aboutWorldwork can be lonely.
You're the one holding the room.
And afterwards there might be no one nearby who can help you process, debrief, learn and grow from your experiences.

Worldwork Lab 2026 is group case supervision with Dawn Menken.
LEARN MORE & REGISTER: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/24445985/about

You bring situations from your professional, organizational or community life and we work on them in a community of practice.

You will get to learn from your cases and from everyone else's.
You will get to know people doing this work all over the world.

We start Monday, October 26.
There is still room to join.
Let's worldwork!

"Conflict - whether a simple argument with a friend or an international dispute - has enormous power for positive transf...
10/16/2026

"Conflict - whether a simple argument with a friend or an international dispute - has enormous power for positive transformation. An argument can bring new and creative thoughts to life. A good fight, conducted fairly with opponents of comparable strength, is a great way for two people or groups to get to know each other.

But this potential is seldom realised. A funny thing happens on our way to conflict- as often as not, we are submerged in the sea of emotions that threatens to defeat us before we ever face an actual opponent. Emotions when unprocessed cloud our minds and possess our hearts. They blind us to our own power and inflate the apparent power of our opponents. When conflict finally erupts, t takes place as if in a dream, autonomous and unstoppable. It may end in seemingly irretrievable acts of violence or cycle viciously for generations."

Joe Goodbread , Befriending Conflict

A well-facilitated conflict lets the feelings have their say, and the people in it start to wake up. They can finally meet. What comes out of that meeting is often something neither side could have planned.

How Non-Ordinary Awareness Helps Us Meet World Problems | Dawn Menken: https://youtu.be/3q86BfrNP9YThe problems facing t...
10/14/2026

How Non-Ordinary Awareness Helps Us Meet World Problems | Dawn Menken: https://youtu.be/3q86BfrNP9Y

The problems facing the world are often approached with the same awareness that helped create them. In this conversation, Process Work Institute co-founder Dawn Menken explores what becomes possible when we step outside that everyday awareness.

For anyone working with conflict, community, or change, starting Oct 26 will be teaching Worldwork Lab 2026: A Learning Exchange:
https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/24445985/about

Worldwork is learned through practice. This Lab offers a rare opportunity to receive expert supervision on your own facilitation cases while learning alongside fellow practitioners.
What will I learn?

Join this class to:

🌍 Be part of a rich learning community in which we can share and celebrate our work
🌍 Deepen our understanding of Worldwork in its varied applications
🌍 Engage with global and local issues as they emerge in case presentations
🌍 Share our ideas and experience in a highly motivated group exchange

Logistics: where, when, how?

Six hours of expert supervision and coaching over four interactive sessions.
Live participation is recommended, but classes will be recorded and available for catch up on demand, for three months after the live course ends (February 20, 2027).

Date and Time:
Oct 26, Nov 2, 9, & 16, 10am-11:30am Pacific

🌍 Worldwork Lab with Dawn Menken: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/24445985/about

"What the therapist feels and how she uses these feelings in her work defines who she is and how she responds to life. H...
10/12/2026

"What the therapist feels and how she uses these feelings in her work defines who she is and how she responds to life. Her deepest beliefs and feelings are the earth from which all techniques spring.

The therapist's world view and attitudes make a direct statement about human interactions. Her feeling interactions in turn create lasting effects on the people she works with and their subsequent relationships. We must ask ourselves: "What kind of world do we want?" and "How do we manifest this world view in practice?"

Without conscious awareness of her changing feeling attitudes, the therapist may act depressed or superior. She may get attached to one particular feeling mode and subsequently complaint of "burn out."

A therapist may act wise, for example, when she feels like a fool. She might sit back in a detached way when something inside her would like to be more active. How can she hope that her client will become more free if she herself is not?"

~Amy Mindell, Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy

What is your unconscious trying to make conscious?Cultivating the Inner Witness:Authentic Movement and the Body's Hidden...
10/11/2026

What is your unconscious trying to make conscious?
Cultivating the Inner Witness:
Authentic Movement and the Body's Hidden Wisdom
Making Meaning From Mess Series: October 2026
with

REGISTER HERE: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/23914108/about

A slower practice space for people who do this work every day,
or those who are just getting started.

In this month’s Making Meaning from Mess workshop, you’ll use Authentic Movement and simple awareness practices to slow down and track those signals as they arise.

The practice is noticing, and letting the body show you what your thinking hasn’t caught up to yet.

Think of it as scuba diving below the neck.

Cathy Bernatt will be leading you through it. She has a way of making this kind of exploratory innerwork feel easy to step into. People leave her classes feeling more at home in themselves.

3 Meeting Options!

Online Options (Streaming Only, No Recording Available):
Oct 12, 4pm-6pm PDT
Oct 13, 8am-10am PDT

In Person Option at PWI:
Oct 15, 6:30pm-8:30pm

Level: All Levels Welcome. No previous Processwork experience required.
Details and Register: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/23914108/about

Dear friends, our beloved mentor, teacher, colleague, muse and treasured friend Ingrid Rose passed away a few days ago. ...
10/11/2026

Dear friends, our beloved mentor, teacher, colleague, muse and treasured friend Ingrid Rose passed away a few days ago.

Those of you who knew Ingrid know that she was a unique blend of seeming opposites. A yoga teacher devoted to social justice, A dreamer and a realist. Calmly loving and inspiringly fierce. She could go as deep as the process was capable and still end perfectly on time.

On a personal note, she was my advisor during my 5 years studying at PWI. I was able to drink from her wisdom and rest in her warmth.

I used to joke that she had the best fashion sense in the building. Or that she used her witchy powers to put us in a trance that made her inner works go the deepest. It always felt like a major achievement to make her laugh.

She held me through all the usual troubles of becoming a new therapist. She would pat my hand and call me honey and give some brilliant advice that tied my current issue back to my over arching mythic process and all would feel manageable again.

She lived an incredible, full, rich life. Inspiring on so many levels. As she is surely dancing down the rainbow bridge, released into oneness and joy, I grieve for the loss to us all. For the space her passing leaves. And I fill it with gratitude to have been able to know her and be gifted with so many moments, enjoying her essence, learning from her brilliant mind receiving the depths of her heart.

And I grieve with all of you who may have been touched by her or her work in some way.

We love you Ingrid.
And wish you good passage,
maraya

There's a group process in our field about Processwork and trauma.One voice says Processwork, as a training and a modali...
10/05/2026

There's a group process in our field about Processwork and trauma.

One voice says Processwork, as a training and a modality, falls short when it comes to working with trauma safely and skillfully. Another says that following subtle signals makes Processwork trauma-informed by its very nature. And a third keeps asking what we even mean by trauma, now that the word is used for so much.

What's your take? We'd like to know in the comments!

The Processwork Trauma Symposium is a place to have this conversation out loud. It runs online November 14 and 15, 9AM–12PM Pacific, with a keynote by Arlene Audergon and breakout streams for clinical and group/worldwork practice. Recordings are available.

REGISTER HERE: https://experience.processwork.org/landing/2026traumasymposium

- Connect with others navigating these same questions
- Hear how advanced practitioners who work with trauma are using Processwork tools
-Discover how others are bridging Processwork with diverse trauma-informed approaches
- Share how you are working at this intersection

Burnout haunts the corners and creases for many therapists in their work. Arny and Amy Mindell suggested that some antid...
10/03/2026

Burnout haunts the corners and creases for many therapists in their work. Arny and Amy Mindell suggested that some antidotes to burnout could be:

1. Returning to the original dream or vision you had about your work. Often this still holds some aliveness, a map showing you what you were initially excited about or interested in that you may have gotten away from.

2. Beginner's mind. Approaching your work with ongoing curiosity. Forever researching and learning. Tuning into the subtle details in the feeling atmosphere. In the smallest body language.

3. Crossing your own edges. Our work can become reinvogorated when we link it with our personal process. How are you using your time as a therapist to deepen your connection to and understanding of your unique style? How are you crossing your own growth edges?

🖐️ Why Am I Jealous of My Partner's Ex? | Ask a ProcessworkerSee Niyati's Response here: https://youtu.be/HDJyUCi4DfcIn ...
09/30/2026

🖐️ Why Am I Jealous of My Partner's Ex? | Ask a Processworker

See Niyati's Response here: https://youtu.be/HDJyUCi4Dfc

In this month's Ask a Processworker, Niyati takes on jealousy and what it might be trying to show us.

Most of us have been there at least once. You go looking for pictures of the ex, the coworker, the friend. You pick yourself apart. You compare.

Jealousy is one of the most common feelings we have. And one of the least talked about. So what is it made of, underneath it all? And what might be some ways to move through it?

Have a question you want answered?
👉 Submit them to: [email protected]

🎉 47 Days until the Processwork Trauma Symposium And a limited time to get 20% off a 2-day pass!Use this coupon: PTSEARL...
09/28/2026

🎉 47 Days until the Processwork Trauma Symposium
And a limited time to get 20% off a 2-day pass!

Use this coupon: PTSEARLY
Register: https://experience.processwork.org/landing/2026traumasymposium

🌿 Explore the leading edge of process-oriented trauma work.

🌿 A focused two-day think tank bringing together those working at the the leading edge of process-oriented trauma work.

🌿 This symposium creates space for an important conversation that has been unfolding in our community for years.

🌿 Together we will deepen our understanding, share practices, and evolve how we hold individual, collective, and systemic trauma.

🌿 Expect meaningful connection, fresh insight, and renewed capacity to integrate these worlds in your work and personal growth.

The symposium will take place on Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, 2026 from 6pm to 10pm CET | 7pm - 11pm CAT | 9am - 1pm Pacific

Use this coupon: PTSEARLY
Register: https://experience.processwork.org/landing/2026traumasymposium

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