More about Process Work

“I am yet to meet a guru or wise, enlightened, educated, shamanistic, mediumistic person who is as intelligent as the process that unfolds in the channels of your own perception”

Arnold Mindell, founder of Process Work

Process refers to

A flow of experience constantly occurring and potentially emerging in oneself, in relationships, the community, the environment and the world. By directing attention to what is just beyond our everyday awareness, solutions naturally reveal themselves and can bring forth healing, growth and insight as well as an enhanced wholeness through the recognition and integration of diverse and marginalised parts of ourselves.

Process work is

Humble

I am not focused diagnosis or analysis rather I guide you to follow and align with your own wisdom and momentary capacity. Your uniqueness is inherently respected. Seemingly dysfunctional or negative experiences can be expressions of our system trying to come to repair.

Non pathologising in it’s essence

Process work can be an effective complement to conventional medicine. It holds the view that the coping and healing mechanisms of the psyche are intelligent, intricate, diverse and not just disordered or broken. This provides a chance for experiences to be listened to in their own right, which is nurturing of self acceptance and is hugely de-shaming.

Besides easing psychological and emotional distress, this modality commonly provides relief from psychosomatic ailments and body symptoms or creates a change in the way we relate to them. It can uncover the underlying pattern or reason for say, a headache, address the underlying psychologogical meaning and alleviate things. Process work is structured and technical and can also be imaginative, mysterious, playful or deep and meets the personality of the client.

My role is to assist you in tracking and unfolding your experience from the more clear to the subtle levels to discover your inner strength and wisdom to meet disturbances or challenges. By bringing awareness to, and not marginalising or disregarding aspects of ourselves we can bring about greater access to our whole self. As with an ecosystem, diversity and relationality brings resilience and richness. Facilitation with trained and trauma informed awareness, allows integration and alchemy.

Deeply authentic

If called for we work beyond the everyday mind and identity which tends to govern what we express and how we express it, hence can create barriers. If not called for we don’t. There isn’t a need to try to be authentic, it just happens. We may stick with talk therapy or go into movement, somatic experience, dreams, meditations, parts work, use sound or connect with the environment around us and let the earth and nature assist us. We could work on an everyday challenge such as deciding on a study path or procrastinating about paperwork or we could go deep and delve into life purpose and myth or conditioning from childhood. I accompany you, following your lead but understand how to navigate. I use my awareness of present observable signals to enhance your experience, work with challenges and enliven your journey.

Process work draws on

Taoism, Jungian psychology, Quantum Physics and Indigenous healing traditions.

Process work has a structure and set of specific techniques and tools. It is also flexible and fluid.

Many thanks to Arnold Mindell (B.A, B.S., M.S. Ph.d) for putting together this modality from a wealth of study and life experience. Also Amy Mindell, Susan Hatch, Julia Wolfson, Dawn Menken, Sylvia Camastral, Elsa Henderson and the other elders and teachers of Process Oriented Psychology.

Themes I work with