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| Greetings! |
 It has been a beautiful summer in Portland! We're gearing up for the cool fall weather and hope where ever you are the season is going well.
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| News Notes & Blurbs |
A bit about what people in the PW community are doing all around!
For the first time ever, three program cohorts were here in Portland at the same time: MACFOC Cohort 2, and the newly enrolled Cohort 3, along with the Diploma Program Cohort 1 group. Although a bit crowded at times, the cohorts seemed to really appreciate being able to meet fellow students, and get to know each other.
We still have places open for the 2009 Intensive Course, January 18 through February 19, 2009. We are excited to be hosting participants here in Portland from all over the world, including Germany, Ireland, Turkey, and Mexico. For information and enrollment, call or email the PWI office, or see the information online at http://processwork.org/intensive.htm.
Enrollment is now open for the 2nd Diploma Cohort, to begin in June 2009. Application deadline is March 15, 2009 and for more information about the program, check out http://processwork.org/diploma.htm.
"Healing" Interviews
Certificate student Tamara Scarlett-Lyon has been enjoying her time conducting interviews over the past six months. She has been talking with a variety of practitioners and clients about their beliefs, definitions, and experiences regarding "healing" as a part of her project for earning her Certificate in Process Work.
She says: "While some common themes and ideas have arisen (for example, 'being listened to' is an almost unanimous desire for people when they go to a practitioner), each interview has taken on a flavor and direction of its own, and besides being inspiring and thought provoking for me, each person interviewed so far has said the process of reflecting upon and articulating their ideas about healing has been fun, worthwhile, or both!"
If you are interested in being interviewed, please contact Tamara directly at redcatfam@earthlink.net.
PW in the Community
Izetta Irwin writes "My novice understanding of Process Work illuminates my volunteer mediation work with Resolutions Northwest [a non-profit organization that helps Oregon families and communities resolve conflict]. I work at the St Johns Library, providing Spanish language library outreach and information services. I'm looking forward to class this September."
Projects Featured in Forbes Magazine
Portland Diploma student Will Hall continues his mad pride work with Freedom Center and The Icarus Project - peer mental health organizations.
Freedom Center was recently featured on the website of the international business magazine Forbes, including a new three-minute video. An interview entitled "Healing Voices" with Will as well as the link to the video can be read here: http://snipurl.com/forbesfreedomcenter. | |
| Upcoming Presentation at the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization |
We wanted to extend the great news some of you may have already heard about Salome Schwarz and Dean Yamamoto being invited to present at an upcoming conference for the NHPCO. Here is the message from Dean:
"Salome and I have just received news that the NHPCO [National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization in the US] has accepted our proposal to do a 90-minute presentation at their annual Clinical Team Conference in Dallas, TX, this October.
Of course I'm thrilled personally. And, on a larger scale, thrilled that "THE" mainstream medical community overseeing end of life care in the US is welcoming us with this title: 'Process Work mindfulness: Evoking the Shaman in the Clinician'. There will be 2,000 physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and administrators present.
Yeah for PW blossoming in the world!!!
Love, Dean"
Great work and a big congratuations from the PW community! |
37,000 Feet - New Photo Exhibition at PWI
by Kate Jobe
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PWI is happy to host 37,000: Flying Photographs by Kate Jobe
The artist's statement:
When I see a jet drawing its white path on the sky's ready canvas, I wonder if there is someone in that suspended, out-of-time, in-between-places metal tube, looking down wondering about me the way I wonder about people on the ground when I fly.
I wonder if they, like me, enjoy the sense of "time out" as they drop their daily routine to travel across our globe. Do they reflect on the uniqueness of the moment; the light that, on another occasion, will never be exactly the same, the clouds that will not again form that unique visual poem?
Do they notice the sheer enormity of distance and space? Have they marveled at the miracle of the landscape; the sea, mountains, rivers, cities, towns, villages, fields, and deserts? Or felt blessed by a vantage point that reveals the Earth's profiles and colors crafted by Nature and man?
Are they bewildered by everlasting sunset when traveling West and instantaneous sunrise when going East? The loss of or gain of a whole day when crossing the International Date Line? A sudden reversal of season going North to South?
Do they appreciate the mystery of their humanness when encountering this vista that not evan a bird is blessed with?
This wonder has moved me to try and capture this extra-human experience since the first time I flew with my father as pilot when I was a young girl. My attempts to paint it at the time were a disappointment. Photography has proved a much better medium. This collection has been selected from over 500 photographs taken from airplanes over 10 years. Welcome to 37,000. Buckle your seatbelt. I hope you enjoy the view.
These photos have been taken with a Kodak DC 4800, Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ23 with a Leica Lens, or a Pentax Optio M20 digital camera. They are printed on 17 x 22 matt paper with an Epson 3800 printer.
The show is currently hung at the Process Work Institute. An extended version can be seen at http://www.katejobe.com/37000/photos/index.html.
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Arny & Amy's Coast Seminar Recap
by Jai Tomlin
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 Over 100 people from over a dozen different countries came together for the 'Consciousness and World Change', Worldwork seminar with Arny and Amy Mindell this September in Yachats, Oregon. Whales were jumping, puppets were dancing - it was a magical and fun time! The MACF and Cohort students, facilitators, leaders, teachers, health care professionals, counselors, artists, teachers, and others joined the group from all around the world. It was an incredible weaving of various personalities, skills and energies. The atmosphere was wonderful. We learned new paradigms to deal with the multidimensional nature of rapid change in teams and organizations. We experimented with a new form of multi-sectioned group process, with great results.
While focusing on our facilitator training with basic, widely applicable methods we also used our own unitive consciousness to work with individual, team and world issues. The work was patterned after quantum nonlocality, that is, how the world locations are inseparable, regardless of the distance between them.
We also had a great dance and dinner party. Lots of friendships and connections are formed in this type of retreat setting. It is a pleasure to see our community grow and flourish in this way. We hope you see you at the coast for the next spring or fall seminar. For the schedule of these events please see Arny and Amy's web site, www.aamindell.net.
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