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Facilitating Race: Anti-Blackness and Emotional Energy in Conflict

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Facilitating Race: Understanding Anti-Blackness and Regulating Emotional Energy in Conflict

with Diane Wong and Renee Taylor

Experiential Online Training

October 6 and 20, 12 noon – 2pm Pacific (3-5pm Eastern) Check your timezone

Livestream and catch up on demand recordings

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Facilitating across race is one of the most challenging—and necessary—skills of our time. Many well-trained facilitators struggle when race enters the room, not because they lack technique, but because they’ve never been taught to hold the historical weight or emotional intensity that racial conflict brings.

This two-session experiential training offers an accessible introduction to anti-Blackness as a foundational system in the West, and to the role of emotional regulation in race-based facilitation. Participants will learn to recognize the energetic patterns that disrupt group process and begin building the internal skills needed to stay grounded, fair, and present in the face of racial intensity.

Hear from Diane and Renee: why this course and what you will learn

Who is this for?

This workshop is for you if …

  • You’ve hesitated in the face of racial intensity during facilitation
  • You want to understand anti-Blackness and how it affects mixed-race groups
  • You’re curious about how emotional energy impacts your presence and leadership
  • You’re ready to grow your capacity to hold race-based truth with integrity

This course is for anyone who wants to hold space for truth and healing without collapsing under guilt, avoidance, or confusion.

This is not about being perfect. It’s about learning to be emotionally awake, historically informed, and energetically aligned—so we can create space for the truth of race to be heard, held, and transformed.

This workshop is designed for Processworkers – students, facilitators, or teachers – but everyone is welcome, no prior Processwork knowledge is required.

Therapists, coaches, and facilitators who want to deepen their racial literacy, strengthen their emotional capacity, and move toward a new level of skill in facilitating race-based conflict are welcome.   

What You’ll Learn

  • What anti-Blackness is, how we all learn it, and why it shapes every conversation about race
  • Why our culture overvalues intellect and devalues emotion—and how that impacts facilitation
  • How to identify your emotional state during moments of racial discomfort or conflict
  • How to use the David Hawkins Emotional Scale to shift into higher-frequency emotions like courage, neutrality, and willingness
  • How to regulate your nervous system in real time to hold the emotional weight of racial truth
  • How to begin using emotion as a source of power in your facilitation—not a liability.

Session One:  Understanding Anti-Blackness, Emotional Energy, and the Role of the Facilitator

This is a nonjudgmental, honest space for white and BIPOC facilitators alike to explore the unconscious ways anti-Blackness has shaped our nervous systems, emotions, and capacity to be fully present during racially charged dialogue.

Participants will receive pre-session readings and video content to begin their learning on anti-Blackness before we meet.

Session Two: Role Play, Emotional Shifts, and Embodied Facilitation

In this hands-on session, we shift from learning to practicing new skills using role play methods.

About Diane Wong and Renee Taylor

Diane Wong is a Processworker, racial justice facilitator, and emotional intelligence guide with decades of experience helping individuals and communities navigate racial conflict with depth, grace, and presence. Her work integrates breath, energy, and embodiment with structural analysis and truth-telling. She is the founder of the Racial Justice Collaborative, a Black led organization dedicated to deep race education, dialogue and bridge building.

 

 

Renee Taylor is a body worker, Christian minister, and spiritual guide who brings the power of trust, belief, and intentional surrender into her healing and facilitation work. A long-time partner in women’s empowerment initiatives, she weaves together embodied presence, spiritual strength, and emotional attunement to guide transformation.

Together, Diane and Renee offer a powerful and grounded container for deep learning, emotional integration, and honest conversation about race, energy, and healing.

 

 

Logistics: where, when, how?

Two powerful experiential online classes over two weeks in October.  

Live participation is strongly recommended, but classes will be recorded and available for catch up on demand.  Class recordings available until January 31, 2026.

Date and Time: 

October 6 and 20, 2025 

12 noon – 2pm Pacific (3-5pm Eastern). Check your timezone

Course Fees: 

Registration: $160

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Equity Rate Registration: $112

Choose the rate that is fair for you.

Use Promo Code FROCT2025EQUITY at checkout. 

 

Dreamdoors and Waking Up with Lane Arye

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Dream Doors and Waking Up

with Lane Arye Ph.D, Dipl.PW

Experiential Online Training

Oct 22 & 29, 2025, 9am-noon Pacific Check your timezone

Livestream and catch up on demand recordings

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When we think about the past or fantasize about the future, we’re not just thinking. Our bodies and emotions react as if we are there and it is happening now. It is like teleportation or time travel. We are here and now but also in another place and time.

In this class we’ll think about and work with these phenomena in two ways.

1)  Dream doors: Our fantasies, the stories we tell, our relationship difficulties, and body experiences are dream doors. They can take us out of normal, everyday reality and into a dreaming reality filled with mystery and meaning. We will learn to recognize and walk through those dream doors

2)  Waking up: Many of us go through life in a trance. Immersed in stories about ourselves, we operate on auto-pilot from childhood conditioning and trauma, reliving past events, or lost in fantasy of how it could be. We can use these experiences as opportunities to wake up to who and where we are right now. 

Come and explore the beauty and mystery of who you are.

Embark on a transformative journey with us as we explore the art of self-discovery and mindfulness. Through stimulating discussions and hands-on exercises, participants will learn to navigate their inner worlds, gaining new perspectives and insights.

Each session provides a secure and supportive space to examine personal narratives and confront the limiting beliefs that anchor us to the past. Together, we’ll develop a deeper awareness of the present, empowering you to embrace a more genuine and fulfilling life.

Whether you seek personal growth, emotional healing, or are intrigued by the mysteries of consciousness, this class invites you to open your mind and heart to your limitless potential. Uncover the power of your story and embrace the adventure of living fully in the present.

What are people saying about learning with Lane?

“I love the work and have been using it with my own coaching clients. I found myself delighting in your skill and awareness. Your work shimmers.”

“Lane is a gifted teacher, able to engage students immediately in the experience of what they’re learning rather than merely in the idea of it. His spontaneous, authentic, light-hearted style creates an environment of mutual discovery and delight in what emerges.

“What I learned was ‘ready to use’ instantly in real situations.”

“New information presented in a way that makes it possible to effectively digest and apply it. ‘Old’ pieces of information falling into places.”

“I really appreciate Lane’s way of teaching: very clear, very simple, personal and concrete. He creates a protected container to explore the theory and to practice the tools with a safety net”

“Online classes with Lane were a great opportunity to continue to learn and to practice the tools he brought to us when he was in Europe. It was great to be able to stay home, and not having to cross the world to be in the US.”

“Lane is deeply honest, beautifully transparent about his skills, his methods, and his limitations, profoundly compassionate, and enviably fluid. I especially admire his gentleness and his patience.”

Who is this for?

This workshop is for you, if:

  • You’re a therapist, coach, or facilitator looking for innovative, process-oriented mindfulness tools to help your clients navigate their inner worlds and present moment experiences.
  • You often find yourself “time traveling” to the past or “teleporting” to the future through your thoughts and emotions, and you want to learn how to anchor yourself in the present moment.
  • You’re curious about how your fantasies, personal stories, relationship patterns, and body sensations can be “dream doors” leading to deeper self-discovery and meaning.
  • You suspect you’re operating on “auto-pilot” from past conditioning or trauma and are ready to “wake up” to your authentic self and embrace a more fulfilling life.
  • You’re committed to personal growth, emotional healing, and exploring the mysteries of consciousness in a supportive and transformative environment.

This training is designed for Processworkers – students, facilitators, or teachers – but everyone is welcome.

No prior Processwork knowledge is required.

All awareness seekers, therapists, coaches, and facilitators who want to deepen their practice and continue developing their skills in following and unfolding their own experience are welcome.

What You’ll Learn

In this course you will learn how to:

  • Recognize ‘dream doors’: Identify how fantasies, stories, relationship dynamics, and body experiences offer pathways to deeper understanding.
  • Navigate ‘time travel’ & ‘teleportation’: Develop practical skills to consciously engage with thoughts and emotions that pull you to the past or future, anchoring yourself in the present.
  • Release old patterns: Understand and begin to free yourself from the influence of childhood conditioning and past trauma.
  • Awaken to your authentic self: Cultivate a profound sense of presence and embrace a more genuine and fulfilling way of being.
  • Integrate mindfulness into practice (for professionals): Acquire innovative, process-oriented mindfulness tools to enhance your work with clients.

Logistics: where, when, how?

Six hours of experiential online training over two sessions.  

Live participation is recommended, but classes will be recorded and available for catch up on demand. 

Date and Time: 

Oct 22 & 29, 2025 

9am-noon Pacific, Check your timezone

Course Fees: 

Registration: $240

Register Now

Equity Rate Registration: $168

Choose the rate that is fair for you

Use Promo Code DWU2025EQUITY at checkout. 

About Lane

Lane Arye, PhD is a senior Processwork trainer and a founding faculty member of PWI. Whether teaching, working in private practice, facilitating community and organizational conflicts, or learning & training alongside social justice groups, Lane partners with people to help create more inner and outer freedom and wholeness. He loves to study the ten thousand signals appearing in every moment and how they are structured by deep, background patterns that lead us to the mystery. Lane does a lot of training, inner work, and writing about race, whiteness and overcoming defensiveness, and is a member of the Racial Justice Collaborative.

Lane has taught at Esalen Institute; California Institute of Integral Studies; San Francisco State University; JFK University; University of Warsaw, Poland; Komenius University in Bratislava; and the Conservatory of Music in Bern, Switzerland.

He is the author of Unintentional Music: Releasing Your Deepest Creativity, and the recently published co-authored book chapter, “Racial Harm in Helping Relationships and an Uncommon Journey Toward Repair” with Yasmeen Rubidge in On Becoming a Racially Sensitive Therapist: Race and Clinical Practice.

​Lane lives near San Francisco with his wife, Lecia, and their two children. He loves to sing, play guitar, and write songs.

Worldwork Lab 2025 with Dawn Menken

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Worldwork Lab: A Learning Exchange

Supervision for your practice with Dawn Menken Ph.D

Register Now: Worldwork Lab

Tues: Nov 25, Dec 2, 9, 16, 10am-11:30am Pacific Check your timezone

What does it mean to do worldwork? 35 years ago Arnold Mindell coined this term to describe Processwork applications to large group multi-cultural facilitation. Since then the skills of group process work have been applied all over the world by a variety of Processwork practitioners in business and organizational work, schools and communities, and in open forums.

During the Lab, Dawn Menken will provide expert supervision and guidance and also facilitate the group exploration of how to support each other in our facilitation practice.

Expect a lively group experience with opportunities to interact online between classes in the confidential course space.

Worldwork Lab will be focused on worldwork practice: our cases and experiences. Participants will be invited to present situations from their work lives or social lives.

The Lab is a follow up to Dawn’s 2024 course, “Worldwork for a Next Generation.”

Participation in the 2024 course is not required for joining the Lab, but it is strongly recommended. So we are offering a special Worldwork Next Gen Bundle which includes discounted access to the 2024 course recordings!

Register Now: Worldwork Next Gen Bundle

This Lab continues to review the spirit in which Worldwork emerged, the tools that grew out of it, as well as where it might be growing, and what might be learned as it continues to evolve through our community of practice.

Worldwork for a Next Generation focused on the roots of worldwork, the impact of social activism on the Process Work paradigm, as well as new challenges and dynamics that are present in organizations, schools, business, and in our politics. The class explored ideas around: social identity, polarization, grievance culture, backlash, call-out and cancel culture, and how we might apply our Process Work skills to those dynamics.

Who is it for?

This course is ideal for people who wish to deepen their existing skills, ideas and practice of Worldwork.  The course assumes a basic understanding and experience of the Processwork approach to groups and conflict facilitation and is oriented toward students and practitioners of Processwork.

Beginners interested in the topic are welcome but we strongly recommend becoming familiar with Worldwork theory and practice prior to this class to get the most out of it. Reach out to us by email pwi@processwork.org if you’d like to discuss with someone how you can prepare for the course.

Confidentiality

Supervision is offered as a confidential, adult learning environment. Participant privacy and confidentiality is extremely important for everyone’s safety and learning. Please ensure that you keep other participant’s personal information private and confidential and do not share identifying details beyond the course participant group.

Case presenters must protect their client’s privacy at all times and carefully avoid providing any identifying information without written prior consent. 

Livestream and recording access

The class is delivered livestream and via catch up on demand recording access. The series recordings will be available for three months after the final live class (March 31, 2026).

What will I learn?

Join this class for:

  • Deepened Understanding of Worldwork
  • Increased ability to Engage with Polarization
  • Engagement with Global and Local Issues
  • Enhanced Facilitation Skills
  • Holistic Perspective on Change

You will:

  • Gain skills in recognizing and meeting polarization with curiosity and understanding, helping groups and individuals move toward resolution and deeper connection.
  • Engage meaningfully with pressing world issues, and discover how to integrate an “activist” spirit with a process oriented approach.
  • Learn practical tools and techniques to navigate and facilitate group processes, addressing conflicts, polarization, and social dynamics.
  • Learn how to embrace both the marginal and central experiences in groups and value the wholeness of interactions as they unfold in real-time.
  • Dream into the future possibilities of Worldwork, exploring new avenues of growth and evolution in community and organizational settings.

Logistics: where, when, how?

Register Now: Worldwork Lab

Six hours of expert supervision and coaching over four interactive sessions.

Live participation is recommended, but classes will be recorded and available for catch up on demand, for three months after the live course ends (March 31, 2026).

Date and Time: 

Nov 25, Dec 2, 9, 16, 10am-11:30am Pacific Check your timezone

Course Fees: 

Registration: $240

Worldwork Next Gen Bundle

Get Worldwork Lab 2025 + access to Worldwork for a Next Generation 2024 course recordings

As a special opportunity and preparation for the Lab, Worldwork for a Next Generation 2024 recording access is being made available through a special Worldwork Next Gen Bundle.

Worldwork for a Next Generation 2024 includes eight recorded training hours, available only exclusively through this Bundle to help you get the most from the Lab. 

Register now for the high value Worldwork Next Gen Bundle to get exclusive access to the 2024 Next Gen course recordings at exceptional value (saving $125 off the original Next Gen course fee) and get most out of your Lab experience.

Register Now: Worldwork Next Gen Bundle

Financial Equity

PWI recognizes the global and systemic forces that unequally impact people’s opportunities to participate.  If you are from an emerging economy or carrying the burden of systemic inequality and impacted by financial disadvantage, choose the rate that is fair for you.  Please register with the equity rate using the promo code at checkout.

Lab Equity Rate Registration: $168

Use Promo Code PWIEQUITY2025 at checkout.

Bundle Equity Rate = $363

Use Promo Code WWBUNDLEEQUITY at checkout.

About Dawn

Dawn Menken, Ph.D., certified Process Worker, (she/her/hers) has been working in the field of psychology and facilitator development for 40 years. She is an internationally respected educator, facilitator, therapist, leadership coach, and conflict resolution specialist. She is a co-founder of the Process Work Institute, where she co-created its masters programs and served as academic dean for more than a decade. Her most recent award-winning book, Facilitating A More Perfect Union: A Guide for Politicians and Leaders, introduces new ideas to support leaders, particularly those in the public sphere. In all of her endeavors she is moved to improve social discourse and inspire more meaningful civic engagement.
Dawn is a thought leader and change agent who brings her gifts to a variety of sectors. Her parenting book, Raising Parents Raising Kids: Hands-on Wisdom for the Next Generation, offers a groundbreaking approach to parenting and has been described as “… a must read for everybody who cares about the state of our relationships and our world.” She is the creator of Teens Rise Up (TRU), a cutting-edge program that empowers and educates young people to step into their leadership, engage in honest dialogue and co-create more welcoming school communities. She is a passionate teacher and facilitator with a special devotion to relationship and building sustainable community. She is based in Portland, Oregon.

Visit Dawn’s website

Explore your life myth with Bill Say

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Get ready for a relational, embodied, transformative and inspiring experience that will help you find your deepest direction.

Discover your Life Myth with Bill Say

Sept 23 & 30, Oct 7 & 21 2025

10am – 12:30 noon Pacific

Check your timezone 

REGISTER NOW 

Registration $395

Equity Rate $285. Use discount code: LIFEMYTH2025EQUITY

Watch now as Bill teaches an introduction to the Life Myth:

Why this class?

The Life Myth can be likened to one’s main dream of life, containing our deepest struggles and gifts, and suggesting our direction and meaning in life. Carl Jung considered knowing your own myth as the ‘task of tasks’.

This deep dive course of 10 training hours over four classes will help you to explore in depth the core features of the Life Myth and how it shows up for you.  You will learn concepts and practice skills to work with your life myth in order to live a more meaningful, harmonious, and sustainable life.

You’ll develop and practice the skill of symbolic thinking: being able to see, unfold and understand the patterns and energies that occur across dreams and dream-like experiences in our lives.

With Bill’s expert guidance, you will learn to use the skill of symbolic thinking to explore your own Life Myth, and how it provides the context and framing for your aspirations, struggles, relationships, work and more.

The course will include ideas and concepts, skill development and experiential work, observation and participation in demonstration work by Bill with participants.

Bill Say is an experienced educator, therapist, facilitator, and author of The Life Myth: Discovering, Following, Living it. Scroll down to see what people are saying about the book.

Who is this for?

This course is for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and their life’s purpose. If you resonate with the following descriptions, this course is a perfect fit for you:

  • Self-Explorers, Seekers of Meaning and Personal Growth: Those who are on a journey of self-discovery and are eager to uncover the deeper meaning behind their dreams, struggles, and gifts. Anyone feeling a sense of restlessness or lack of direction who want to find a more meaningful and harmonious path in life.
  • Individuals interested in exploring their spiritual path and understanding how their life myth influences their spiritual growth and direction. Anyone committed to personal growth who wants to develop skills like symbolic thinking to better understand and navigate life’s patterns and energies.
  • Therapists and Coaches: Professionals who wish to enhance their toolkit with new concepts and techniques to help clients explore and work with their own life myths.
  • Anyone fascinated by Jungian psychology and eager to delve into the concept of the Life Myth as a means of gaining deeper insight into their own lives.
  • Creative Minds: Artists, writers, and other creatives looking to tap into the symbolic dimensions of their experiences to enrich their work and personal expression.

What will I learn?

  • Learn how to use symbolic thinking to begin exploring your overarching dream, or pattern, of your life.
  • Explore the meaning within your own peak experiences, early dreams and addictive tendencies
  • Discover a basic pattern of self and “other” that may reflect itself in key relationships.
  • Identify some common areas where the Life Myth expresses itself
  • Discover how to work with your major life themes to experience more flow during challenging times

What will we do?

  • Exploration of how an earliest dream or memory, and representations of self and others, may suggest a long-term relationship and integration process.
  • Techniques and practices to access the resource of your favorite nature or home spot energy to help offer grounding and perspective as you explore more challenging material.
  • Discovering the meaning of our peak experiences.
  • Learning how addictive processes may suggest what we need to integrate in our lives.

Class by Class

Enjoy a deep dive with four live classes and access on demand recordings available until January 31, 2026.

CLASS ONE Early childhood dreams and memories and the Life Myth 

September 23, 10 -12:30pm Pacific. Check your timezone 

An introduction to the Life Myth and how our early childhood dreams and memories are like ‘snapshots’ of this larger theme. 

CLASS TWO Peak experiences and what they can teach us

September 30, 10 -12:30pm Pacific

We’ll explore how peak experiences are both vivid representations of the Life Myth and also signposts for what we may need to learn or integrate for our own fulfillment. 

CLASS THREE Addictions and unplanned growth 

October 7, 10 -12:30pm Pacific

We’ll explore how addictions, as well as being problematic, may also show us what we need to experience more of in order to become more whole. 

CLASS FOUR The Life Myth and Work 

October 21, 10am – 12:30pm Pacific

Lastly, let’s explore how our work in the world may be influenced by our mythic patterns. 

Where, when, how

Classes are delivered by livestream zoom meetings and recorded for participation on demand.

10 hours of training included.

Access to the course site and recordings for six months following the live classes (until end of February 2025). 

September 23 & 30, Oct 7& 21; 10am – 12:30pm Pacific time, Check your timezone  

Course Registration Fees

$395

REGISTER NOW 

Financial Equity

PWI recognizes the global and systemic forces that unequally impact people’s opportunities to participate.  If you are from an emerging economy or carrying the burden of systemic inequality and impacted by financial disadvantage, we offer an equity rate to increase accessibility.

Equity Registration Fee $285

USE DISCOUNT CODE: LIFEMYTH2025EQUITY

Please choose the equity rate if it is more fair for you by entering the discount code at registration.

About Bill

Bill Say is an experienced educator, therapist, facilitator, and author of The Life Myth: Discovering, Following, Living it.

Bill focuses on the intersection of diversity awareness, conflict resolution, and leadership, team and community development. He has offered training and facilitation to health, mental health, educational and business organizations in the US and abroad, including the Highlander Research and Education Center; BUILD; NAMI; East Bay AIDS Center; Taproot Foundation; UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Computer Science; Contra Costa Mental Health; the Cities of Berkeley, Richmond and San Rafael; Independent Thought and Social Action in India; New Energy in China and UN refugee health organizations in the Middle East (UNRWA). He has taught at UC Berkeley Extension, Esalen Institute, Naropa Institute, the Core Energetic Institute, SEEDS CRC, and the Process Work Institute. In his private coaching practice of over 25 years Bill works with individuals, couples and families. He addresses issues including: life direction and meaning, relationship issues and conflicts, diversity issues, communication problems, workplace conflicts, career paths, and leadership issues. Bill lives in Berkeley, California. He is married to Linda and father to Gabe.

Join our community

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Go deeper into the things that matter together – join our community space!

 

JOIN: Experience Processwork Community Space

We are awareness seekers, therapists, coaches, facilitators, educators and leaders interested in connecting with our deepest selves and finding the meaning and power within even the most difficult and disturbing body experiences, dreams, relationship conflicts and social issues.

Join us to follow your dreams, your body, and the spontaneous signals of our collective dreaming process.

Find Meaning, Transformation, Empowerment, Purpose.

This is a community space for people interested in the work of Arnold Mindell – process oriented psychology, Processwork, deep democracy, worldwork – from curious to expert.

We follow nature into the unknown.

Unpredictable, creative, and sometimes messy!

Transformational.

Hosted by the Process Work Institute (Portland, Oregon).

Go deeper into the things that matter.

Join our Community Space!

 

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Arnold Mindell (1940 – 2024)

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Celebration of Arnold Mindell (1940-2024)

ONLINE COMMUNITY EVENT

ALL WELCOME

August 22, 2pm Pacific

Click on the link above to view in your timezone and RSVP to get event reminders.

Our grief is the expression of deep love, gratitude and respect

Thank you dearest Arny, for your life work that uplifts and gives us hope in the darkest times, for teaching that there is always a meaningful path to unfold, if we can use our awareness, and believe in our experience.  Thank you beyond words.

Arnold Mindell passed away peacefully, June 10, 2024

Amy Mindell shares:

“Some time ago, Arny told me that when he was no longer here in his bodily form, we could connect and talk with him by looking at and communicating with the sea, his beloved sea.

And he said that when anyone dies, they are not just dead. We are not just bodies, we are a spirit and dreaming behind them, so he and all of us are always there.”

Read Amy Mindell’s Facebook Post

Celebrate Arnold Mindell (1940-2024)

ALL WELCOME

ONLINE: RSVP HERE: August 22, 2pm Pacific

Click on the link above to view in your timezone. You can RSVP to get event reminders by making an account, or just bookmark the page and get the zoom link there on the day.

IN PERSON, YACHATS, OREGON, USA

GATHERING TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE ARNY’S LIFE

August 23, 2024

11am Offering of Ashes to the Sea

Offering of Arny’s ashes to the sea in the bay of Yachats (when the tide is relatively low).

4pm Gathering

Gathering and party at the “Lion’s Club” to remember and celebrate Arny. (The Lion’s Club is where Arny and Amy have given seminars for many years in Yachats. It holds special memories for many of us).

If you plan on coming in person:

Please write Susan Kocen (arnycelebrationoflife AT gmail.com) to let her know and receive information about how to get to Yachats, where we will meet, lodging possibilities, etc

Stay in touch: Join the Experience Processwork community

Arny and Amy teaching together (from Facebook)

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Deep in your heart, deep in the quietness of the night, your grandest visions include hope for the future of humanity and the planet earth. Formulate those grand visions now …

After thinking of these visions, consider how you can model them in all that you do.  Imagine right now using your vision, and see yourself modeling it.

 

Amplify your vision with the following ‘addition’: n

ature moves us; our job is to make these movements conscious and useful. Dreams and emotions, love and anger happen.

 

Our job is to guide these feelings so that they enrich our own and everybody else’s life, the life of all sentient beings. This ‘addition’ to your vision implies that life itself is a sacred event, even though it sometimes seems impossible.

 

Life is not just a problem, but a kind of spiritual fighting ring, a temple requiring your utmost ability and wisdom. Nothing less than the grandest part of you is needed in an ultimate situation. The present moment is an opportunity, not only a threatening catastrophe.

 

Amy and Arnold Mindell. (2003). Short recipe for resolving conflict crises. Psychotherapy and Politics International, 1(1), 64–68.