Process Work What is Process Work? Books about Process Work Enjoy some quotes from Process Work books:
"...I would also expect a processworker to let things transform as they want to and not try to organize them herself. To do this she will have to discover the pattern behind the process of a given individual situation and base her work upon the nature of this pattern and its flow."
Arnold Mindell: "RIVER'S WAY / The Process Science of the Dreambody"
"The term 'process' in processwork refers to the shamanistic act of journeying directly with the river. ... The focus in processwork and shamanism is not developing the ego further but rather upon developing awareness of change."
Arnold Mindell: "THE SHAMAN'S BODY / A New Shamanism for Transforming Health, Relationships, and the Community"
"Processwork expands individual therapy because it has an ethical belief in connecting individual work to political, environmental and group work."
Amy Mindell: "METASKILLS / The Spiritual Art of Therapy"
"Processwork is descriptive, rather then prescriptive; by being accurate enough in her (processworker's) observations of the client's psychological, behaviorally manifest processes, she can connect the client with the incipient changes which are trying to take place and which, since they're usually blocked, tend to cause the client trouble."
Joseph Goodbread: "THE DREAMBODY TOOLKIT / A Practical Introduction to the Philosophy, Goals and Practice of Process-Oriented Psychology"
"The central element behind all process work applications is the concept of nature, that the flow of even painful or difficult events such as illness, psychosis, or hate can become useful if we follow them exactly, compassionately, and with awareness."
Arnold Mindell: "THE LEADER AS MARTIAL ARTIST / Techniques and Strategies for Resolving Conflict and Creating Community"
"As worldwork develops, it is taking psychology beyond personal work into the areas of social consciousness and revolution. Further, it takes politics beyond mundane problems to creating community, the most sacred and perennial interest of human beings. Worldwork combines ecology's interest in the environment, psychology's focus on the individual and social theory's comprehension of historical change."
Arnold Mindell: "SITTING IN THE FIRE / Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity"
"Process-oriented psychology, because it has focused explicitly on many of the issues contributing to dreaming up, is particularly rich in methods for following dreaming-up processes and helping them complete themselves. The interested reader will find throughout the literature of process work a whole assortment of tools and techniques for working with dreamed-up reactions."
Joseph Goodbread: "RADICAL INTERCOURSE / How Dreams Unite Us in Love, Conflict and Other Inevitable Relationship"
"Only the total process is really healing. Following a client in process oriented psychology means not only following the part which the client identifies with in the moment, but following the total process, that is, with both primary and secondary signals (the part which the client does not identify with in the moment)."
Arnold Mindell: "CITY SHADOWS / PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN PSYCHIATRY"
"This method assumes that the person is not simply lost to coma, but is going through potentially meaningful inner experiences, and that, after all possible medical emergencies and causes are cared for, we can communicate with the person through special methods."
Amy Mindell: "COMA - A HEALING JOURNEY / A Guide for Family, Friends, and Helpers."
"What shall we do with our aggression if we forbid it in our personal life? If we repress it goes into the body. Since our world sanctifies national conflict, much of our aggression finally overflows into our interest, fascination and investment in war. Without our being aware of it, our anger gets channeled into national conflict, which is not close to home. War becomes a way for us to have our anger at a distance, impersonally. Unprocessed information and experience poison the body and the environment."
Arnold Mindell: "THE YEAR ONE / GLOBAL PROCESS WORK"