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 Facilitation
We are often employed to work with large and mixed
groups. We use methods like Open Space, World Cafe and many other
processes.
We have a background in process
Work
or Process Oriented
Psychology which is
an
awareness
and facilitation practice. It is a method we use with individuals,
couples, families, groups, teams and organisations. A concept called
'Deep Democracy" is central to this method.
Deep Democracy values and includes the views and roles
from the margins and uses facilitated processes to unfold and hold a
dialogue with all the parts.
“Process work is a cross-disciplinary
approach to support individual and collective change. It developed in
the 1970s and 1980s when Dr. Arnold Mindell, a Jungian analyst in
Zurich, Switzerland , began researching illness as a meaningful
expression of the unconscious mind. Also known as process-oriented
psychology (POP) or dreambody work, Process Work offers new ways of
working with areas of life that are experienced as problematic or
painful.
Physical symptoms, relationship problems, group conflicts and social
tensions, when approached with curiosity and respect, can lead to new
information that is vital for personal and collective growth. With its
roots in Jungian psychology, Taoism and physics, Process Work believes
that the solution to a problem is contained within the disturbance
itself and provides a practical framework through which individuals,
couples, families, groups and organisations can connect with greater
awareness and creativity.”
This description from the process work
institute, Oregon USA
We are continually incorporating new learning
from process work into all aspects of our group work. We also work
therapeutically with individuals, families and groups and we are
finding that
process work is giving us a theory and language to explain some of what
happens in person centred planning sessions and in other types of group
facilitation.
Process work, developed by Arnold Mindell is used in many
different countries and in different ways.
We are particularly interested in the
exploration of process work theory and practice in our work with people
who are at risk of exclusion and who suffer marginalisation because of
labels of disability, particularly learning disability. See our article
on rank, health and disability on the resources
page of this site.
Both Andy and Pat are registered psychotherpists with
UKCP. The Research Society for Process Oriented Psychology in
the UK (RSPOPUK) is a member organisation of UKCP (the United Kingdom
Council on Psychotherapy) which holds the national register of
psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors.
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