Work With me not On me: Process Work Facilitation Lab for educators, teachers, clinicians, therapists, support practitioners

For support and care practitioners, teachers, clinicians, coaches, therapists and their learning guides.

We all know these moments, when our enthusiasm for the person’s process runs ahead and suddenly oops – where is the person? How to follow actual information signals in the moment, versus recipes? When to come in, when to wait? When to go slow, when to speed up? When to leave things be? What intervention goes along with  the phase the person is in?  How to cross over from your own perspective, and get to see, feel and be amazed by the view from the other person’s space? How to deepen from action-reaction to a space of momentary spontaneous calm and revival where obvious next steps naturally appear in signal based information? Framing the talent and strength you see and are amazed by, so it can be loved and appreciated more. It’s a complex playground of identities, and cultural ghost-like influences.

In other words, Process Work facilitation skills! Specifically, for:

*gaining/deepening  awareness skills to support an individual’s access to their dreaming signals (described below) and navigation power to steer their own boat

*relieving a person’s experience of not being good enough and the pervasive pathologising energetic field from social, cultural and global influences the person is immersed in

* being moved by the reciprocal nature of the educational/therapeutic relationship, while using the influence of your positional role to make systemic change

Using ourselves to practice, we will learn the love language of the field as it appears in us, in the person we are working with, and in the broader environment so that it can show its navigation path. An individual process is simultaneously mirrored in the collective. Personal themes, dreams and resistances mirror larger social, justice, geo-political and ecological trends.

* Diversity of Process Work experience – newcomers welcome,  qualified Process Workers welcome and everything in between.

* Diversity of practitioners, leaders, learning guides, social workers, clinicians etc working with individuals, teams and systems – and already have a systemic and transpersonal, threefold or shamanic interest/orientation to their work, practice and developmental growth path AND are excited to learn to track the currents in signal based information systems.

May especially be beneficial for teachers, therapists, coaches, support workers, social workers, health care practitioners – their learning guides and leaders – seeking a more wholesome,  human centred approach to challenging situations.

 Every person brings a living mix of their presented situation, context, history, dreams, relationships and conflicts, loves and hates, body experiences and deepest nature – which is entangled with our own in their presence. This lab uses a Process Work approach to create space for the person, the practitioners, and the field as one interactive and meaningful ecology to interact and reduce build up of unresolved tensions.

Arnold Mindell, pioneer of Process Work, deconstructed experience into three interconnected parallel worlds:

Tangible experience (facts, events)

Subjective experience (feelings – relative, non measurable)

Dreaming source (deeper, mythic life themes – flickering, momentary unity)

This dreaming pattern is our deepest nature trying to find an entry point into our world of experience. It has incredible vitality and navigation power. When suppressed, it can reappear in body symptoms, relationship problems, and not feeling at home in yourself. We call these appearances “dreaming signals”. If unfolded, they strangely show a path to new potentials.

The awareness skills you will practice help to leverage your natural talents and strengths for moving more fluidly between parallel worlds in working with an individual.

These parallel worlds don’t naturally touch each other due to the collapsing of the dreaming experiences in everyday reality. But when they do, our lives can naturally become more whole and wholesome, even in the midst of impossible situations. This seminar highlights and trains specific awareness skills to bring parallel worlds back together through following precise information signals from the person, the field, and your internal experience.

 Awareness skills simply put, means the practice of noticing. Awareness skills open the way for moving more fluidly between these worlds, so life can feel more whole and wholesome, even in the midst of an impossible outer situation. Facilitation means making it ever to flow between worlds and be inwardly strengthened and enlivened in a way that life blossoms.

This lab focuses on the practitioners development with skills to facilitate the stuck-flow dynamic in this process, while enriching both themselves, the client and the larger field they are interacting in.

Process Work Facilitation navigates the interaction between:

The dreaming pattern within you and your client, that has internal navigation power, and can found in sensory and bodily information signals, relationship tensions and frictions, the larger environment, moods, dreams and peak experiences, and in momentary flickers of noticing that take you by surprise. In both helper and helpee the dreaming pattern has a timeless mythic imprint that is a source of vitality and new content for accessing potential solutions.

The collective energetic field that both helper and helpee are immersed in (such as family, class, team). This field also has a dreaming pattern – a system mind that is rich with influences and atmospheres that can assist or hinder the person’s blossoming. The energetic field is powerful and illusive. It constellates communication and self-criticism and contains systemic forces that can hold the person back from accessing their inner nature to navigate with.

Inner tensions and outer frictions that provide potentials for deepening the learning and growth and access to inner powers for practical fruits.

• Develop your personal facilitation talents for working with one person’s internal and external experience

Day 2 – Field Focus
• Expand awareness to the collective field’s dreaming pattern and its impact on the individual