Process Work Institute

Process Work Institute We are awareness seekers exploring dreams, body wisdom, relationships and the world through Arnold Mindell's Processwork.

Following nature into the unknown for meaning & transformation. Nonprofit educational institute offering trainings online & in person The Process Work Institute is a non-profit educational institute devoted to research and training in Process-oriented Psychology, also known as Process Work. It is one of many centers worldwide dedicated to furthering our understanding of the fundamental problems fa

cing individuals and groups today, using the methods and spirit of inquiry found in Process Work. The Process Work Institute continues the tradition of Process Work training and research begun in 1982 with the founding of the Research Society for Process-oriented Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland by Arnold Mindell and his associates. In 1989, the Process Work Center of Portland, later renamed the Process Work Institute, was incorporated in Oregon as a center for training and research in Process Work. It received authorization from the State of Oregon to offer a Master of Arts degree in Process Work in January, 1992. A second Master of Arts degree program in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change began in 2004. The Institute currently serves as a center for personal and professional growth, offering several degree and non-degree programs and courses in a wide variety of Process Work applications.

Anyone who has watched perfectly good strategies and solutions fall apart knows what Arnold Mindell is point to here. Wh...
05/29/2026

Anyone who has watched perfectly good strategies and solutions fall apart knows what Arnold Mindell is point to here. Whether at work, in the world, or you personal relationships, usually we have to get deeper. We have to get into the feeling atmosphere where the unspoken and the unspeakable live. The feeling atmosphere is often populated with power dynamics, ghosts of the past, old conflicts that were never resolved and deeply polarized positions. When you can get in there, and address what is present, true transformation can occur.

05/27/2026

June 2nd, and Renee Taylor will be teaching Sitting in the Fire of Race.
Building your understanding of lineage, your capacity for sovereignty and your ability to foster dignity. If you've been looking for deeper tools to be with race, now is your chance.

Register Here: https://community.processwork.org/spaces/23654867/about

"According to Aboriginal thinking, the Dreaming is the basic substance of the material world. The Dreaming gives objects...
05/25/2026

"According to Aboriginal thinking, the Dreaming is the basic substance of the material world. The Dreaming gives objects the energy that attracts and repels your attention. If you neglect the Dreaming, you devalue the material environment because you ignore its basis and thus miss half of life.
The power of the Dreaming is right here, behind the everyday world, as part of every object, the part you sometimes for get to notice...
It is always foolish to oversimplify complex problems. Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of the Dreaming, regardless of the complexity of your life, you can only have one problem– ignoring the Dreaming background to reality. Ignoring the Dreaming means marginalizing the deepest, unformulated experiences that create your actions in everyday life. Everything you ignore sentient, that is, generally unrecognized dreamlike perceptions, something inside you goes into a mild form of shock because you have overlooked the spirit of life, you greatest potential power."

From Arnold Mindell, Dreaming While Awake.

Have you felt that your dreams have messages for you? Dreams can be cryptic, baffling, even scary. But there is a way of...
05/23/2026

Have you felt that your dreams have messages for you? Dreams can be cryptic, baffling, even scary. But there is a way of working with them to uncover gifts and reveal meaningful directions for your life.

Now is your chance to learn to work with your dreams!
Register Here: https://community.processwork.org/spaces/22831488/about

These three classes provide an introduction to the Processwork approach to working with our nighttime dreams and the dreaming process. Together we will focus on process oriented methods, skills and loving attitudes that cultivate a more intimate relationship with the meaning and guidance behind and within our dreams. Methods will include first training skills of signal awareness and structure, with emphasis on beginners mind, imagination and symbolic thinking.

Register Here: https://community.processwork.org/spaces/22831488/about

In conflict, how can BOTH people win? We win when we learn about ourselves. When we are able to hold our position, the o...
05/20/2026

In conflict, how can BOTH people win? We win when we learn about ourselves. When we are able to hold our position, the other person's position and maybe even a third position that asks: What are these two people learning together? What is this conflict helping them to become aware of in themselves, about the other and about the field they are creating? We don't have control over another person, but we can build our awareness of what is really going on.

HAPPENING TOMORROW!! Tuesday, May 19 at 9am pacific time. Online Open to all!Register here: https://community.processwor...
05/18/2026

HAPPENING TOMORROW!! Tuesday, May 19 at 9am pacific time. Online Open to all!
Register here: https://community.processwork.org/events/in-conversation-sitting-in-the-fire-of-race-with-diane-wong-renee-taylor

The upcoming training, Sitting in the Fire of Race: A Sovereign Approach addresses the one thing those tools require in order to function well under racial heat: a sovereign interior. A facilitator who loses themselves in the first moments of racial tension cannot use any of the tools they have. Sovereignty is what keeps the tools available.

In this conversation and Q&A, facilitator's Diane Wong and Renee Taylor from the Racial Justice Collaborative discuss the sovereign interior, lineage, rank and its relationship to the facilitators body, and what to expect from their upcoming training Sitting in the Fire of Race: A Sovereign Approach.

When working with relationships, we often try to impose strategies and techniques. These often only work for a short per...
05/13/2026

When working with relationships, we often try to impose strategies and techniques. These often only work for a short period of time because they are imposed over the actual process happening beneath.
The process is stronger than our everyday minds. It is stronger than a communication tool. It is the real thing happening between two people. When we can become of aware of and work with that, we are in alignment with the true nature of the individuals involved and the spiritual force of the relationship itself.

"Process work means following the way of nature. Process is that which is already happening. Not what should be done...
If we could train ourselves to be aware of processes, we could work with natural relationship forces and avoid the tendency to short circuit life by applying technical strategies or trying programs as short-term solutions...
Process work focuses upon the the intended and unintended processes, upon what is happening and trying to happen, not upon who should be present, what should be happening, or what roles should be filled."

The Dreambody in Relationships

Join us for a FREE, 1-HOUR CONVERSATION on facilitating race from a place of sovereignty, lineage and dignity with and ...
05/11/2026

Join us for a FREE, 1-HOUR CONVERSATION on facilitating race from a place of sovereignty, lineage and dignity with and Renee Taylor 🌹
Register here: https://community.processwork.org/events/in-conversation-sitting-in-the-fire-of-race-with-diane-wong-renee-taylor

Processwork practitioners bring sophisticated tools for tracking field dynamics, navigating conflict, and working with large group process. The upcoming training, Sitting in the Fire of Race: A Sovereign Approach addresses the one thing those tools require in order to function well under racial heat: a sovereign interior. A facilitator who loses themselves in the first moments of racial tension cannot use any of the tools they have. Sovereignty is what keeps the tools available.

In this conversation and Q&A, facilitator's Diane Wong and Renee Taylor from the Racial Justice Collaborative discuss the sovereign interior, lineage, rank and its relationship to the facilitators body, and what to expect from their upcoming training Sitting in the Fire of Race: A Sovereign Approach.

The world and all its problems can seem hopeless, helpless and overwhelming. Sharing this quote from not to diminish t...
05/09/2026

The world and all its problems can seem hopeless, helpless and overwhelming. Sharing this quote from not to diminish the reality of the world's problems, but to provide a bit of . We were born at this time. Your gifts, your way of being are medicine for the collective. The we have when you add us all together has the way to move forward within us. In love. In solidarity. In process 💚

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