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Vol 6 No 1 · Winter 1994 · 1994 · interview with Arnold Mindell by The Journal
because we have at the same time to quiet our inner social 7 An Interview with Arny Mindell on Extreme States police who want to keep anyone who cannot or will not adapt … Prozac" by Janiese Loeken on page 35. 3. Fastnacht is the name for Carnival in Switzerland. Arny Mindell, Ph.D., the founder of Process Work, is the author of numerous books and a teacher
Vol 4 No 1 · Fall/Winter 1992 · 1992 · interview with Amy Mindell by Fukuda-San
transcribed this interview from an audio tape. It has also been published in Japan in Japanese, —Amy Mindell) Fukuda: Could you explain what P.O.P. is in a very simple manner, in general terms
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Salome Schwarz
mist curls around the cliffs and the waves play with the shore relentlessly, Max Schiipbach, Amy Mindell and a team of process workers facilitate the Lava Rock Clinic, where people can discover the mysterious meaning … facilitate an expanded sense of who we are. The following are interviews with Max Schiipbach and Amy Mindell, the founders and facilitators of the clinic. The interview with Max focuses on current issues
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · Arnold Mindell, Amy Mindell
four Taoist priests built a temple. Three had a conflict and the other loved it! Amy Mindell, Ph.D., is in private therapy practice in Portland, Oregon. She teaches at the Process Work Center of Portland … together with Arny Mindell, gives workshops in many places around the world. She is the author of Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy and Coma: A Healing Journey. When she’s not writing, teaching
Vol 5 No 1 · Spring/Summer 1993 · 1993 · Amy Mindell
process work study as indicated by the growing number of seminars and courses on these themes, Arnold Mindell's newest books (in the rest of the article I will refer to Amy Mindell … many Process Work teachers give seminars and courses in group process theory and practice. See Arnold Mindell's The Year One, (New York and London: Viking-Penguin Arkana, 1989), The Leader as Martial Artist
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Amy Mindell
withdrawn states. Training in working with non-verbal signals, sounds, movements, visualization, body feelings, See Arnold Mindell, Coma: Key To Awakening (Boston: Shambhala, 1989) 97. The reader can find practical tools, theoretical background and case … They seem absent, their memory may be disturbed, and they usually have poor space and time orientation." (Mindell, Coma 55). Mindell, Coma 102. from a lack of familiarity with our own altered states
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · interview with Arnold Mindell by Joy Gates
Interview with Arnold Mindell This interview was first published in Dream Network Journal Volume 18 Number 4, “Preparing for the Millennium.” It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author Joy Gates … changed your life? A book that seemed to call forth spring rain upon your quickening seed? Arnold Mindell's book The Shaman's Body: A New Shamanism For Transforming Health, Relationships, and The Community
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Amy Mindell
turn the switch! Reference Clark, R. Einstein: The Life and Times. New York: Avon, 1994. Amy Mindell, Ph.D., is a certified process worker. She teaches Process Work in Portland and around the world
Or the Grand Picture in the Little Things
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · Arnold Mindell
four feet, first Essence then parts to complete, first you, and then I can meet.” Arny Mindell, Ph.D., is the seminal figure in the development of process work. The author of numerous books
Vol 4 No 1 · Fall/Winter 1992 · 1992 · Amy Mindell
interested they were in learning more about communication, signal exchange and psychological interventions in psychiatry. Amy Mindell, psychotherapist, analyst and founder of Process Work, is author of 12 books. He is a former teacher
Exploring the Connections Between Psychology and Physics
Vol 7 No 2 · 1995-96 · 1995 · Alan Strachan
unique aspects of process-oriented psychology is the degree to which Arnold Mindell has integrated the discoveries of modern physics with the theoretical and practical aspects of process work. Mindell earned an M.S. in physics … working on this integration for over 20 years. In the foreword to his Ph.D. dissertation in psychology Mindell wrote: I concentrated my studies in college on physics, only to become dissatisfied with the scientific lack
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Alan Strachan
dreams. These major dreams pattern our lives, our problems with the world, and our body problems. — Arnold Mindell Are the basic patterns of our lives evident in our childhood dreams? Can the content of childhood … prognosis and formulating a treatment plan, as well as contributing to the healing process. Psychotherapist Arnold Mindell has proposed an even deeper connection between dreams and illness. In contrast to most of the modern studies
Vol 7 No 2 · 1995-96 · 1995 · Reini Hauser
pattern that manifests in both physical and psychological events and in the acausal symmetrical couplings between them (Mindell, 1989). I will try to show how this field, or Tao, is a possible connecting factor between … times, to initiate in those who are oppressed the development of deep inner resources and insight, which Mindell calls spiritual rank (1995). Although the focus of this article is individual development, I believe
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Reini Hauser
Spiritual practice is, in a process-oriented perspective, the quest "to find the missing pieces of reality" (Mindell 1993:114) and to consciously live them in order to become more whole. The approach to addiction … called identified patient mirrors disowned aspects of the family, and marginalized groups live out what society represses. Mindell (1988) calls marginalized individuals and groups "city shadows" because they represent that which cannot live consciously
Vol 6 No 1 · Winter 1994 · 1994 · Moses N. Ikiugu
that should work together for efficiency. This frame of reference is the typical Newtonian approach to life (Mindell 1985a), involving cause/ effect relationships governed by clear natural laws. In this view, the natural laws have … Newtonian physics was challenged when Einstein introduced his theory of relativity and when quantum mechanics was introduced (Mindell 1985a; Hawking 1988). Physicists discovered that physical laws do not explain everything, and that a cause
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) and the Nabokov Blues
Vol 9 No 1 · Spring 2004 · 2004 · Waynelle Wilder
external, material object, Nabokov’s words make sense to me. I also turn to Arnold Mindell and C. G. Jung to help put a frame around my unusual perceptions. I’m reminded of Mindell … catch our attention by (my word) flirting with us before we look at them. (2001: 116) Mindell encourages following a flirt to uncover what he calls, “Dreaming, the sentient essence behind it” (Mindell
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Joe Goodbread
Process Work emerged in Arnold Mindell's psychotherapeutic practice from a background of Jungian analysis sometime around 1973. Although much has been written about this emergence and what motivated it, I wish, from the perspective … still proceeding, and the pattern of its present development is very similar to the model established by Mindell at the very beginning. The dreaming body There are two events which Mindell cites as paradigmatic
Vol 6 No 1 · Winter 1994 · 1994 · Julie Diamond, Gemma Summers
through which groups and communities function. These levels of experience include individuals, relationships, subgroups and large groups (Mindell 1985; 1989; 1992). Working with a group, therefore, means identifying which level a group is currently addressing … relationship work or subgroup work. This idea of working with a group at different levels comes from Mindell's application of channels to group work. The central concept of community building in the process paradigm
Vol 4 No 1 · Fall/Winter 1992 · 1992 · Bogna Szymkiewicz
Process Oriented Psychology, developed by Arnold Mindell during his work with individuals (1984,1985), couples (1987), and later with groups, has been applied to various fields of psychotherapy and life. In this article I would … process, you can feel safe and open, and start with the "beginner's mind." According to Mindell, An explorer with a beginner's mind would see the 'patient'as someone he does not understand, someone
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · Gary Reiss
xiii) This definition is particularly relevant to our discussion of extreme states, as defined by Arnold Mindell in his book City Shadows: The word “state” means for me a momentary picture of an evolving process … discovery is that present problems and issues become their own solutions, their own “cures,” if you will. (Mindell, 1988: 6) Arnold Mindell’s books The Shaman’s Body and City Shadows present the underlying principles
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · George Mecouch
ideas about archetypes have always struck me as among his most brilliant, and combining them with Mindell’s thoughts on sentient essence seemed a wonderful marriage of theory and practical application. Now, as I looked … conversation with some explanation of the idea for Dr. Jung. “Sentient essence is a concept that Arnold Mindell has been impassioned with in the last few years,” I stated. Before I could continue, Jung broke
Vol 7 No 1 · 1995 · 1995 · Gemma Summers
renewed relationship. Conflict can also transform our problems in unexpected ways. The following interview with Arnold Mindell is an edited except from a larger dissertation entitled Conflict: Gateway to Community.\ In this excerpt, Mindell speaks … social science of the nineties. Everybody is interested in conflict resolution in one form or another. Arny Mindell: Conflict is definitely something of the nineties. It's a huge thing that people are beginning
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · Lane Arye
says “No, you are gonna get me!” In process work we call this a missing feedback loop (Mindell, 1988: 38). The person does not pick up or adjust to outer signals. My client also … behavior to us, but we do not change what we are doing to match their communication styles (Mindell, 1988: 39-40). Conventional thinking is that my client was sick and needed to change
Vol 9 No 1 · Spring 2004 · 2004 · Julie Diamond, Lee Spark Jones
early connections with the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. The founder of Process Work, Arnold Mindell, was a graduate of the Jung Institute in Zurich, where he also subsequently served as a faculty member … Process Work model. Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious is an early formulation of Mindell’s (2000) concept of the dreaming field, a non-local background pattern that structures manifest reality. Even though
Vol 4 No 1 · Fall/Winter 1992 · 1992 · Moses N. Ikiugu
will not understand such complicated theories. Unaccustomed culturally to such "madness," she will probably not comply. Mindell, A. (1985). River's Way. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, p. 5. See also by the same author … Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 194-195. Brooks, R. Op. cit., pp. 53-54. See also: Mindell, A. (1982). Op. cit., pp. 10-14 for a discussion of the concept of "The body
A Journey into History Then and Now
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · Lily Vassiliou
This is a personal account of my experience of a seminar conducted by Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell to process a part of world history. This seminar, which took place in Austria from April … inner self, relationships and the world are all [seen as] aspects of the same community process” (Mindell, 1995: 66). In this sense, inner work--working on the outer situation as an aspect
A Revolutionary Concept in Process Work
Vol 7 No 2 · 1995-96 · 1995 · J. M. Revar
term timespirit, coined by Dr. Arnold Mindell, suggests a concept which can help lift the stigma attached to the roles people play in groups. The term timespirit 1 implies that: polarizations are not entirely … groups and that roles are not static but rather change, escalate, diminish, and even disappear with time. (Mindell 1992: 23) When a person presents a problem which may appear personal but which also concerns
Vol 7 No 2 · 1995-96 · 1995 · Various / multi-author
escaping the appearance obsession. Reviewed by Leslie Heizer Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy by Amy Mindell New Falcon Publications, 1995.192 pages, paper, $12.95 If you are at all interested in working with people, this … book is an absolute must! In a loving and playful way Amy Mindell encourages therapists to discover the fundamental feeling attitudes they bring to therapeutic work. She inspires them to delve into their deepest beliefs
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · Pierre Morin
ways to help and treat people in comatose states. In Coma, a Healing Journey, Amy Mindell shares with us her wide experience in this challenging field. Her work is based on pioneering research by herself … husband Arnold Mindell (Mindell, Arnold: 1984). In Part I of the manual, Dr. Mindell provides us with an overview of the different attitudes and concepts of coma through history, different cultures and today’s medical
Vol 6 No 1 · Winter 1994 · 1994 · Joe Goodbread
called to embark upon the journey to redeem the self through the death of the ego. Arnold Mindell's book, City Shadows: Psychological Interventions in Psychiatry (1988), represents a similar position. Working with clients … extreme states of consciousness, Mindell finds that their experiences express the shadow (in Jung's sense) of the society of which they are a part. The experiences of which these clients partake typify just those
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Jan Dworkin
Christ. Their lineage includes shamans and medicine people. The alchemists' task was to facilitate and study transformation (Mindell and Mindell: Chance, Taoism and Alchemy Seminar, March 1994). On a concrete level, some were scientists attempting … lived and studied the creative process (see Dworkin 1984; Eliade 1956; Jung 1944; Lossowski di Rola 1973; Mindell 1985). In the west, the alchemists generally cooked their metals in a vessel. In the east
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Leslie Heizer
attention, the tonal, but to the world of the unknown, the second attention, the nagual (Castaneda 1974). Mindell has expanded these concepts and applied them to working with oneself and the world. Mindell says that … second attention, which notices the unknown, the first attention pays attention to daily life, notices ordinary reality (Mindell 1993: 23). Most of us have been encouraged to develop the first attention more than the second
Vol 6 No 1 · Winter 1994 · 1994 · Dawn Menken
dominant societal order. In my opinion, this treatment certainly did not serve Angela. City shadows: honoring Angela Mindell's central contribution to the field of psychiatry postulates the concept of a "city shadow" which furthers … understanding of socalled psychotic or extreme states and their relationship to the collective. Mindell adopted the neutral term "extreme state" in order to show that certain states are deemed "psychotic,'' "crazy" or "insane" relative
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · Steven Fenwick
twenty-first century, most people have not yet caught up with the discoveries of modern physics. Arnold Mindell takes us on a magical journey into this rabbit hole where physics and psychology meet. Mindell … body symptoms, extreme states (psychoses), relationship and family systems, as well as to group and organizational work. Mindell’s cutting edge theory is known as “process-oriented psychology” or “process work.” Quantum Mind is Mindell
Vol 7 No 1 · 1995 · 1995 · Jan Dworkin
movement today {The Atlantic, October 1993). My 15 year Process Work training and mentorship with Amy Mindell has influenced all aspects of my thinking and relating. And I have learned more than I could have … Process Work. Process-oriented thinking has contributed a great deal to the broad field of relationship work (Mindell, 1987; 1992; 1993; 1995). It chooses not to put forward a developmental theory around intimacy and relationship
Vol 9 No 1 · Spring 2004 · 2004 · Kate Jobe
experiences, all the way to subtle, nearly imperceptible ones. This multileveled view of experience, formulated by Arnold Mindell, was one of the things that helped me resolve the sense of being pulled between paradigms … dreaming, and even psychological systems that use the concepts conscious and unconscious. In Quantum Mind (Mindell, 2000) Arny Mindell first talks about three levels of awareness: Consensus Reality (CR), Dreaming or Dreamland, and Sentient Experience
An Overview of the Struggle between the Sacred and Profane in Medicine
Vol 8 No 2 · Winter 2001 · 2001 · Pierre Morin
they attach to their suffering provide a way to break out of the current limitations of medicine. Mindell (1984) related with his “Dreambody” concept the subjective experience of bodily processes and diseases to symbols, roles … other hand, asserts that every material object has an energy which is inherent within it. But as Mindell (2000b) observes: “Newton’s idea of lifeless matter still prevails in science, since energy is defined mechanically
Developing Second Attention at the Edge
Vol 7 No 2 · 1995-96 · 1995 · Julie Diamond
first attention is the normal awareness we develop to deal with everyday reality, or awareness of what Mindell calls the "victim body," second attention is the awareness necessary to focus on the dreambody. Mindell calls … compassion, wisdom and sobriety. Notes In discussion during the 1993 Extreme States Seminar in Waldport, Oregon, Amy Mindell described addiction as a process whereby the individual "tunnels" under the edge, or bypasses a block, difficulty
Process Work Research in Postmodern Times
Vol 9 No 1 · Spring 2004 · 2004 · Lee Spark Jones
quantitative approach to inquiry, the study investigates the relationship between physical health and “rank,” as defined in Mindell’s (1995) approach to working with diversity and conflict in group and community settings. More examples … development of Process Work theory and practice has come from research conducted in this vein by Arnold Mindell and his colleagues. As a paradigmatic innovator, Mindell has developed the theoretical concepts and practical interventions
Using Happy Accidents in Process Work
Vol 9 No 1 · Spring 2004 · 2004 · Sara Halprin
struck by the similarity between Koestler’s sense of peripheral awareness and Amy Mindell’s discussion of “pre-signals” in her recent article “On the Evolution of Process Work.” She refers to Arny Mindell … spoken about in words. His intuition led him to discover subtle signals and pre-signals” (Mindell, Amy, 2003: 2). In my own practice, discovering and unfolding subtle signals and pre-signals is at the heart
Vol 7 No 1 · 1995 · 1995 · Dawn Menken
Through the experiences of worldwork seminars, where social issues of power and oppression are addressed, Mindell noticed that the power of the mainstream is largely unconscious (1995) .2 Those of us who are part … mainstream seems unable to match the emotional, psychological and spiritual strength of the marginalized group or individual. Mindell has recently explained these group and social dynamics in terms of a ranking system that describes
Vol 7 No 1 · 1995 · 1995 · Emetchi, Rhea
Paradoxically, an oppressed group can have spiritual rank exactly because of the inner experience of surviving oppression (Mindell, 1995: Chapters 3 & 4). Social activism and rank The Civil Rights Movement galvanized blacks and whites … organizations and groups create patterns around themselves that organize what happens in the field of that group (Mindell, 1992:15). The identity and beliefs of a group make up part of its field, but another
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Dawn Menken
Work course in Zurich, Switzerland. I was so deeply moved and inspired by his work with Amy Mindell on some of his physical symptoms that I wrote a chapter about his work for my dissertation … energy from the primary identity is reduced and we are free to be anybody. Mindell has found that people with life threatening illnesses have a powerful individuation process ahead. Something very strong wants to emerge
Vol 5 No 2 · Fall/Winter 1993 · 1993 · Kay Ross
coma are "... wakeful human beings going through one or more meaningful steps in l Arnold Mindell, Coma: Key to Awakening (Boston: Shambhala 1989). C.J. Binninger, P.F. Healy, N.L. Polts, and D.E. Wilson, American Review … NCLEX (Pennsylvania: Springhouse, 1992)445. 3 Mindell, Coma. their process of individuation." He goes on to say that "Most dying people need assistance to experience fully the powerfiil events trying to happen." A brief medical
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · Andrea Courvoisier
article to tell her story and my own parallel story. With it I honor and discuss Arnold Mindell’s work with extreme states and body symptoms, which helped me find compassion for my mother … about something that the collective splits off or separates from its own identity and projects elsewhere (see Mindell, 1991). Arnold Mindell talks about a severely depressed woman, Frau R., in City Shadows: When faced with
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Arlene Audergon
Ibegan cooking on how Process Work and theater connect the first time I saw Arnold Mindell working with individuals in a seminar eleven years ago. As in theater, the group burst out laughing … tapping this source. Process Work adds a dimension to this psychophysical connection with Mindell's concept of the "dreambody" (see Mindell 1985). The "dream-body" refers to the emerging patterns beyond our identity which appear
Vol 8 No 1 · Spring/Summer 2001 · 2001 · Pierre Morin, M.D
norms, and how they may marginalize other experiences. The process work paradigm Process work, developed by Arnold Mindell, Ph.D. and his colleagues, is an innovative approach to individuals and groups. Its view of body symptoms … developed therapeutic skills and metaskills that are helpful for a systemic psychosomatic approach to disease. Dr. Arnold Mindell and Dr. Max Schupbach, pioneers in the field of symptom work and conflict resolution, facilitate clinics
Vol 5 No 1 · Spring/Summer 1993 · 1993 · Kate Jobe
least minimal collective support to go ahead and do what she felt like doing. See Amy Mindell's Moon in the Water: The Metaskills of Process Oriented Psychology as seen through the Psychotherapeutic Work … Arnold Mindell (diss., Union Institute, 1991), for a complete discussion of metaskills. questions "What does it mean?" and "How do I fit it into my life?" questions which have a tendency to lead us back
Vol 6 No 2 · Winter 1994-1995 · 1994 · Jytte Vikkelsoe
demonstrates that often part of the person is still available and wants to communicate (see Bernstein 1979; Mindell 1988,1989). Often, communication difficulties occur because the people around individuals in extreme states don't know … send...thus the process-oriented mode is interesting because you must reverse your normal mode of consciousness. (Mindell 1992: 19) Therapies that tend to stay within consensus reality miss the creativity found in the twilight
Vol 4 No 1 · Fall/Winter 1992 · 1992 · Ingrid Schuitevoerder
clarify some of the ideas and terminology of Process Oriented Psychology as formulated by Dr. Arnold Mindell. The idea that there is a dreaming process which is ongoing and which manifests through dreams, the body … those further from awareness as secondary. "Every secondary process presents us with a sort of identity crisis," (Mindell, 1985a, p. 13) for in becoming more aware of those secondary aspects we are integrating them more