Process Work Therapists & Facilitators
You will find short biographies of the main Practitioners of Process Work, including both resident and visiting Process Workers, on the page below.
Arny Mindell
Arny Mindell, Ph. D.(Psychology) and an MSc. (Physics) is in private practice in Portland Oregon. After many years as a Jungian training analyst, he wrote his first book - ‘The Dreambody’ - and developed, with colleagues, Process Oriented Psychology. He is the author of numerous books which have been translated into sixteen languages. He has taught and worked all over the world.
Web: www.aamindell.net
Amy Mindell
Amy Mindell, Ph. D., dipl. PW., is in private therapy practice in Portland Or., and has worked in over thirty countries in the world, and has helped develop process oriented psychology in the areas of ethics, philosophy and dance. She has a Ph.D. in psychology and holds a diploma in Process Work from the Process Oriented Psychology Centre of Zurich. In addition to writing two of her own books - ‘Metaskills’ and ‘Coma’ - and co-writing ‘Riding the Horse Backwards’ with Arny, she has written many papers in professional journals.
Web: www.aamindell.net
Arny and Amy work together as a team, teaching, doing town meetings and working on conflict resolution and organisational development projects. They have been keynote speakers at conferences on conflict and psychology, have been resident teachers at the Esalen Institute in California and have been on local and national TV in the US , Japan, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and other countries. They also support process work activities and conflict resolution groups in various parts of the world where process work centres exist. They are avid travellers, researchers and love skiing and running.
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Arlene Audergon
Arlene Audergon ( PhD, Dipl Process Work) works in the fields of conflict resolution, psychotherapy and theatre. She teaches Process Work in the UK and internationally, and with her husband Jean-Claude, is co-founder of CFOR, supporting community forums in conflict zones and diverse communities. Topics range from post-war issues to building multi-cultural and diverse societies, and community mental health. In Croatia, with Lane Arye, she co-led a post-war, community building project from 1996-2002, supported by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Love of theatre led to developing methods in theatre and other arts – She has worked with groups of actors, directors, puppeteers, musicians, singers and writers in Los Angeles, Berlin and London. She co-directed SPIRIT (2001), with London’s Improbable Theatre (and the Royal Court Theatre), which has played in festivals internationally. She has written a book, The War Hotel: Psychological Dynamics in Violent Conflict, London: Whurr Ltd, 2004, and with Arye L ‘Transforming Conflict into Community’, in Totton, N. Psychotherapy and Politics, London: Open University Press, 2005, as well as articles on mental health, collective trauma and theatre. Arlene lives most of the year in London enjoying work with individuals and organizations.
Voicemail:
020 7 692 7393
Email:
arlene@processwork-audergon.com
Web: www.processwork-audergon.com | www.cfor.info | www.warhotel.com
Jean-Claude Audergon
Jean-Claude Audergon, Liz. Phil. I (Uni Zuerich)., dipl. PW.
I practice in London with individuals, couples, organizations and communities. A co-founder of the UK Training Program, I teach and apply Process Work and World Work (conflict resolution) internationally for students and people interested in its wide spectrum applications. Active since 1977, I’m a co-founder and faculty member of the centers for Process Work in Zurich Switzerland, Portland USA. I’ve focused with my wife and inspiration Arlene over the past decades on applying process work in mental health (individual and family work as well as large staff forums), children’s violence at school, helping teachers to access their potentials. My interest in the arts has led me to focus on coaching artists and develop the Artist’s ‘Arts Atelier’, a place in space and time where artists meeting their limits learn from them rather than shy away. I’ve recently written a chapter on the contribution of process work to body psychotherapy (London: Open Press University - September 2005). I’m currently coordinating setting up the first Process Work Convention in which Process Workers from around the globe will present their findings to a wider public in April 2007 in London.
Email: jc@processwork-audergon.com
Web: www.processwork-audergon.com | www.cfor.info
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Charleen Agostini
Charleen Agostini Dipl. PW, lives and works in Bristol where she runs a practice for individual clients. Other areas of interest and practice are to do with community forums that facilitate interaction that furthers sustainable and creative community, especially in the area of cultural diversity. A new research area for Charleen is to do with the relationship between child and parent focussing on the creative potential for both parent and child. She is also part of the faculty of Process Work in the UK, as well as playing an active part in the running of the organisation. At the heart of Process Work for Charleen it is the deep dreaming level that continues to sustain and enliven her life and practice.
Tel: 0117 9299656
Email: charagos@rspopuk.com
Jill Brierley
Jill Brierley dipl.PW, has a private practise working with individuals and couples. Her work also includes teaching and facilitating group dynamics in community and organisations in both the UK and Ireland. She uses an integrative model of psychotherapy based largely on Process Work but including EMDR, Family Constellations and other therapeutic approaches. She is presently doing an MA in Integrative Arts and psychotherapy for adults and children in London.
Tel: 01452 740409
Fax: 01452 740329
Email: brierleys@freenet.co.uk
Gill Emslie
Gill Emslie Dip PW is an experienced facilitator, drawing on her training
in Process Work and skills developed in the Findhorn Foundation Community and
ecovillage where she lives and works She recently qualified as a diplomate
in Process Work and is delighted to include this in her biography. She works
both as a psychotherapist and organizational consultant and trainer working
with individuals and groups in the business and voluntary sectors in Europe
and Latin America.
web: www.findhornconsultancy.org
Evelyn Figueroa
Evelyn Figueroa dipl.PW., has been studying Process Work since 1990 and is now a diploma holder. She is currently developing a private practice in Paris. She is also a Yoga and meditation teacher and a student of T.K.V. Desikachar, who is a Yoga teacher living in Madras, India. She is especially interested in exploring how inner processes manifest and unfold in our bodies and movement, and how they are related to relationship and world issues. The combination of Yoga and Process Work create a unique framework to study the links between body, mind and the world.
Tel: 00 33 1 4322 60 50
Email: evelynf@club-internet.fr
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Margaret Godwin
Margaret Godwin BA, PWDipl. Margaret is a co-founder member of RSPOPUK and is based in Warwickshire. She works with individuals and couples and facilitates painting workshops for a variety of client groups including the physically challenged, using Process Work. She has a passionate interest in researching and working on the interface between creativity and Process Work and explores paintings of inner and outer landscapes and somatised dreaming images. Her own paintings are exhibited and she has had many solo exhibitions.
Tel: 01926 311356
Email: mail@margaretgodwin.f9.co.uk
Clare Hill
Clare Hill dipl.PW.,has always been searching for the meaning behind situations, and after training as a speech and language therapist, her studies led her to Process Work. Clare currently has a private practice, and she particularly enjoys working with couples together with her partner Conor McKenna. Her work with people with communication difficulties, and the professionals and carers involved, includes bringing a different, more process-like approach to these long term conditions. Now living in beautiful countryside south of Edinburgh, Clare is endeavouring to allow the hills and clouds and birds around her to inform the nature of what she is doing.
Tel: 01361 890329
Email: C2alba@totalise.co.uk
Web: www.ellemfordcentre.co.uk
Edna Holt
Edna is a Process Work Diplomate in the UK and a founding member of RSPOPUK. She has spent all her working life in education. She holds a Diploma in TEFL. She is involved in Bristol in facilitating Process Work Open Forums in Diversity. She also spent 4 years working with people in Coma and recovering from Coma.
Tel: 0117 9567277
Email: egran@yahoo.co.uk
Sally Olsberg
Sally Olsberg, dipl.PW., holds the Diploma in Process Work and has been a therapist in private practice in Manchester and Hebden Bridge since 1987 and was an astrologer for many years. Her special interest now is working with people who identify as having addictions and addictive tendencies. She is currently researching and writing about the process oriented approach to addictions on the individual, relationship and collective levels. She lives in the country and finds her inspiration from the trees and rivers around her.
Tel: 01422 842573
Email:
sal@synergynet.co.uk
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Julie Diamond
Julie Diamond, Ph.D. Diploma in Process-oriented Psychology, RS-POP. Julie's interests include training and education in Process Work, furthering research, and developing bridges between Process Work and other disciplines and organizations. She is the co-author of the MA degree programs in Process Work and Conflict Facilitation at the Process Work Center of Portland Graduate School. Her current areas of research include power, roles and rank, and investigating the psychological aspects of democratization and enfranchisement. She has written numerous articles on Process Work theory and practice, and is the co-author, with Lee Spark Jones, of A Path Made By Walking: Process Work In Practice (Lao Tse Press, 2005).
Tel: (503) 281.8323
Email: julie@juliediamond.net
Web: www.juliediamond.net
Jan Dworkin
Jan Dworkin, Ph.D. is a certified process worker living in Portland, Oregon. She works as a teacher, therapist and group facilitator and conducts training workshops internationally. She specializes in group process and conflict facilitation, relationship work and sexuality. Jan is currently writing a memoir about her journey in process work as a spiritual path. She is also a painter who tries to bring out the deepest essence behind a human face on her large colorful canvases. Jan follows the unpredictable direction of the spirit in whatever she does.
Email: dwork@igc.apc.org
Sara Halprin
Sara Halprin, Ph.D., Diploma in Process Work, specializes in Writing, Creativity, and Research. Her current research topics include aging, appearance, fitness and ways of telling personal stories. Her areas of special interest include fitness, food, music and film. Her publications include SEEMA'S SHOW: A LIFE ON THE LEFT University of New Mexico Press (August 2005); ALTERNATIVE TO WAR, Changing World Press, 2004; "LOOK AT MY UGLY FACE!" Penguin, 1996; her films and videotapes are available from Filmakers' Library in New York, Canadian Film Makers' Distribution Center in Toronto and from Lao Tse Press; she has written numerous articles on process work, creativity, and film.
Tel: 503-274-2371
Email: sara@halprinlong.net
Web: www.sarahalprin.com
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Herb Long
Herb Long, B.A. (Stanford University), B.D. (San Francisco Theological Seminary), Th.D. (Harvard University), Dipl. Process Work (Process Work Centers, Zurich and Portland). Specializes in Counseling: individuals, couples, organizations and Teaching: Introduction to Process Work; The life of the Spirit; Relationships and Learning through Conflict. His interest areas include relationships, mysticism in daily life; ageing and the question, "who am I? " Research includes The Mystic in the World and Quantum Theology.
Tel: (503) 274-2371
Email: herb@halprinlong.net
Conor McKenna
Conor
McKenna. Dip POP … Conor, a founder member of RSPOPUK is both the treasurer
and a member of faculty. He works in private practice in Edinburgh and the
Scottish Borders and facilitates individuals, couples and groups in both the
UK and in Europe. He is deeply interested in the transpersonal and other non-local
events which bring connectedness and meaning into our lives. Currently he is
writing a book on the personal experience of emptiness and how all things and
worlds are manifested through it.
Tel: 01361 890329
Email: conorandclare@rspopuk.com
Web: www.1to1phonecounselling.com
Pierre Morin
Pierre Morin, MD, Ph.D., dipl. PW, lives in Portland, Oregon. He teaches at the Process Work Center and helps administrate the MA degree in Process Work. His interest centers around combining psychology and medicine, and raising awareness to the basic principles of relationship and communication in health care. He uses causal thinking to find better cures and teleological ideas to foster meaning and spirit.
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Mark O’Connell
Mark
O'Connell, dipl.PW. dipl FT. (Family Systems Therapy) practices and supervises
privately in Manningtree, Essex. His private practice also now extends to phone,
Skype, and Videoconference sessions offered both locally and 'non-locally'
(International). He works as a therapist in the Ryes School, a therapeutic
community working
with
children
with emotional
and
behavioural difficulties, as well as with young people labelled with autism,
ADHD, Tourettes Syndrome, PANDAS and other conditions. Here he is exploring
with his colleagues and young people; the meaning of community, and therapeutic
community. A deep interest he shares with wife and partner Marina is in nature
and the environment. They have explored the application of PW to working with
the land, architectural and agricultural dreamings, and considering the relevance
of PW to Ecopsychology in general. They developed a Higher Education course
entitled "HNC in Sustainable Environments - The Ecology of People and
the Land" which is currently not running. Mark enjoys playing guitar,
and making this part of his work, dreaming and play.
Tel: +44 (0)1206 230425 Skypename: markoconnell
Email: mark@rspopuk.com
Gary Reiss
Gary
Reiss holds a Masters in Social Work, a Ph.D and is a certified trainer in
Process oriented Psychology. He has a private practice in Eugene and Portland,
Oregon, and directs a clinic in a small town in Oregon. Gary has been in practice
and teaching for twenty-seven years. He teaches process work worldwide. His
many specialties, working with conflict in hot spots in the world, especially
in the Mid East, family therapy, working with people in comas, addiction work,and
working with anger problems. His fist book, Changing Ourselves, Changing the
World, was released in the fall of 2000 by New Falcon Press. It is soon to
be published by a Japanese publisher. He is also the author of Vital Loving,
a Guidebook for Couples and Families; Angry Men, Angry Women, Angry World,
Moving From Destructiveness to Creativity, Leap Into Living, Moving Beyond
Fear To Freedom, and Beyond War and Peace in the Arab Israeli Conflict, Working
from the Inside Out for World Change. He can be contacted at:
Email: greiss@igc.org
Web: www.garyreiss.com
Max Schupbach
Max Schupbach, Ph.D., dipl.PW., lives half of the year in Oregon, where he teaches at the Process Work Center. The other half of the year, he travels with his partner Ellen, teaching Process Work in over 30 countries. He is a co-founder of the first Process Work Center in Switzerland, the Process Work Center of Portland, and of many other Process Work training programs worldwide, including the UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, and many programs in the US and Europe. His work in the last years has led him into aboriginal communities in Australia, First Nation tribes of the Americas, spiritual groups of various denominations in the US and Europe, Fortune 500 corporations in the US, South Africa, and Germany, and maximum security prisons in Japan, the United States and Australia.
Email: max@maxfacilitation.net
Web: www.maxfacilitation.net
Ellen Schupbach
Ellen Schupbach, Ph.D., is a new PW diplomat who lives half of the year in Oregon, working as a therapist. She has been travelling with her partner, Max, assisting in seminars, and is just beginning to teach. She has recently completed her Ph.D. on the therapist’s spiritual experience while following a client's process, and is now on a path of learning to apply the concepts in her work.
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Jytte Vikkelsoe
Jytte Vikkelsoe Ph.D., dipl.PW., has a diploma in Process Work. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she has her private practice and teaches at the Process Work Center of Portland. She travels internationally, teaching Process Work and has taught in many international centres, including Esalen, Naropa, Omega, Findhorn etc. Jytte is currently researching and writing about the experience of victimhood, warriorship and the area of "woundedness" and its effects on our inner life, relationship-life and group work.
