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Process Work
Process Work or Process Oriented Psychology is an
awareness and facilitation practice that we use with individuals,
couple, families, groups, teams and organisations. Process Work can
look and feel like psychotherapy, mediation, coaching, conflict
resolution or even like a walk in the park. Pat has been practicing as
a qualified diploma holder in process work since 2007 and Andy is
currently in the last stages of his training. Organisations, families
and individuals employ us as therapists or facilitators to use Process
Work methods.
“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 our learning
from process work into all aspects of our group work. We also work
therapeutically with individuals, families and groups and are
supervised by process worker teachers in this work. 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.
“....innovative work on the connections
between dreams and body work, relationship work, coma work, psychiatry,
and large group conflict management and has published twelve books
which have been translated into seventeen different languages”
Quantum Mind 2000
 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. This is a rich
and exciting exploration which we are both beginning to write about,
look out for forthcoming articles on this site.
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