Iona's Interviews: Olufemi Hughes

06 March 2012

by Iona Fredenburgh

femi and_ionaThis is one of a series of interviews with RSPOPUK’s four trustees. 

Olufemi has been involved with Process Work for many years. She is a poet, writer and storyteller. She is also the founder of ‘Community Dialogue for Change’ a community organisation, that bridges separation by connecting diverse communities through dialogue. She is also an active member of World Family: working on Food Justice and Food Sovereignty in the Global South, as well as at home. I interviewed Femi quite soon after the January 2012 Intensive on Innerwork so we have included some of Femi’s reflections on that event as well as her interest in Process Work.

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Iona's Interviews: Martin Gent

18 May 2011

by Iona Fredenburgh

Martin Gent

Physical theatre

How did you come across Process Work, and who were you at the time?

I had been interested in the idea of transformation for quite a long time as a performer and maker of theatre work and a maker of art. As a performer I studied physical theatre, so I’m a physical performer rather than an actor. I had a performance company called dA dA dUMB, with another Martin who was a dancer, and we made physical atmospheric performance work, devised from scratch.

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Iona's Interviews: Timmy Myers

28 May 2010

by Iona Fredenburgh

Timmy and Lukas

I first remember meeting Timmy at a Forum in East London, and getting a sense of him living in Zurich but having a long familiarity with UK, and also a long and rich experience of Process Work. I loved his humour, heart and enthusiasm, and something ... indefinable - maybe a bit of a shapeshifter. He’s recently become one of RSPOPUK’s Trustees, so it was my pleasure to interview him for Wave. We talked on skype for an hour, and it was fascinating, so I’ve squeezed in here what I can.

Timmy first heard about Process Work around 1986/7 when Roger Housden of Open Gate hosted Arny and Amy Mindell as part of its holistic conference programme. He had trained as a therapist with Nick Totton and Em Edmondson of Energy Stream, was himself recovering from serious disease, and was fascinated by Arny’s focus on working with symptoms. In 1988 he went to a seminar in London with Arlene Motulsky and Amy Kaplan! (Recognise their pre-married names?) “I booked for the seminar and promptly had a dream which was life-changing for me.”

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