This Year’s FOCUS

This year’s learning focus is on learning and applying the specific Process Work interventions in various contexts. It will include working on diverse epistemologies - various ways in which different cultures create and manage knowledge and the resulting worldviews. 

Our Intensive Courses are full immersion courses, designed to create a lived experience of the Deep Democracy paradigm, which states that our inner lives mirror the processes of the world at large, and vice versa.

In order to understand and interact – facilitate – both, we need to develop different knowledge systems or awareness tools.

In this course, we will show how to use Mindell’s three level approach consistently, and how it can be integrated into diverse global knowledge systems.

The course will include some mini lectures for background, however the main focus will be on hands on experience and practice.

This year, we are excited to study and practice in depth the skills and art of “Process Work Unfolding”. We will work with unfolding individual processes, relationship and community conflicts, and political and geopolitical polarizations.

Process Work Unfolding – the most important term for practitioners and learners of  Arnold Mindell’s  Process Work and Deep Democracy paradigm. Unfolding has become a buzz word these last years, frequently used as a synonym to Unpacking. Process Work Unfolding refers to a skillset of using precise and specific awareness interventions to use disturbances and conflicts as portals to a parallel world, a slight altered state, where radical new perspectives, insights and solutions become a lived experience. Compare this to a lucid dream in the daytime that sheds light on aspects of the conflicts and problems previously in the dark. These portals offer themselves in moments of slightly altered states, for example heated group conflict, unintended communication between rigidified positions, and other disturbances and conflicts, including body symptoms.

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With this radically new perspective, one perceives a hidden cohesion, a potential, that if used becomes the emerging future so to speak. This leads  organically to equally radical, surprising and innovative solutions.  

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The real power of this intervention lies in not having to control or calm down participants, or force them into a linear rational discourse, but use the slightly altered states that are present to facilitate the awareness of the participating parties.