2007 Classes by Subject: Core Curriculum

Sacred Portals I: Navigating the Rapids: Delirium During Health Traumas and End of Life
The watery thin places between the worlds including delirium, confusion, forgetfulness, perseveration, stupor, depression, agitation, and "impossible" situations; they provide entry points to realms of altered consciousness, opening opportunities for insight, soul healing, spiritual renewal, relationship transformation and personal enlightenment. This class will present bedside techniques for chaplains, nurses, social workers, physicians and other professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with those in states of memory loss, dementia, traumatic brain injury, vegetative state, and coma.
Coma, Death & Dying; Core Curriculum; Distance Only; CEU
Cost: $95.00 before January 4; $105 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
Thursdays, January 11, 18, 25, 10 am - 12 pm

Movement Work, Body Symptoms, and Altered States of Consciousness
Body experiences bring with them many unusual, altered or confused states of consciousness. From a Process Work perspective, body experiences and the altered states and subjective experiences that accompany them are rich sources of information about our personal process and mythic life patterns. Learning how tofollow and make sense of these states offers us an opportunity to gain deeper awareness of our process and to develop lucidity in movement and proprioception.
Somatic Psychology; Behavioral Health and Non-ordinary States of Consciousness; Core curriculum; SBGI Certificate; CEU
Cost: $230.00 before January 11; $255.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Ingrid Rose, Ph.D.
Friday, January 19, 10 am - 5 pm; Saturday, January 20, 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday, January 21, 10 am - 1 pm.

Comparative Systems of Psychological and Spiritual Thought and Practice: Module I: DepthPsychological Approaches to Clinical Practice
This is Module I in a year-long series covering the three forces of Western Psychology (Psychodynamic; Existential-Humanist; Behavioral-Field/Systems) as well as diverse spiritual traditions and how all compare withProcess Work theory and methodology. Each module can be taken separately and all are geared to Phase I exams and for students working or collaborating within other modalities. Module I is a theoretical and hands-on class of Process Work applications in clinical practice focusing on therapist-client dynamics such as resistance, transference and counter-transference, and how to work withabuse, anxiety, depression, suicidality and extreme states. Comparisons of Jungian and Psychodynamic approaches with Process Work theory and interventions will be addressed through case studies, role plays, demonstrations, and discussion.
Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $195 before January 15; $215.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Ingrid Rose, Ph.D.
Mondays, January 22, 29, February 5, 12 & 19, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Dreaming Mind in Body Symptoms
From an eternal viewpoint symptoms are not only a disturbance but a powerful way to discover our wholeness and multifaceted selves. We will learn and practice methods that work with somatic problems in experiential ways. Heartfulness and wonder allow us to explore our unique gifts that are encoded in our bodies. When we live closer to the mysterious force behind our symptoms we discover insights that can guide us intransforming health issues and our connections to others.
Somatic Psychology; Dreaming; Spirituality & Shamanism; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $195.00 before January 16; $215.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Salome Schwarz, Ph.D.
Tuesdays, January 23, 30, February 6, 13 & 20, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Out of a Clear Blue Sky: Creating a Final Project
This class will help you plan your final project as a creative synthesis of personal dreaming and course requirements. Don't let outdated ideas about research put you off or weigh you down! Learn inner work methods and outer strategies for creating the final project of your dreams.
Core Curriculum
Cost: $140.00 before January 19; $155.00 thereafter
Lee Jones, Ph.D.
Fridays, January 26, February 9 & 16, 9 am -12 pm

The Process Mind: Processwork in a New Nutshell
This class presents a new framework for Process Work, a new "nutshell" called the "process mind." Outlining its presence in daily life creates a new view and summary of Process Work. Content includes field theory, process structures and metaskills. Each of the four Friday afternoons will contain equal amounts of theory, demonstrations and innerwork, focusing on:
1. The Appearance of Process Mind
2. Process Mind Metaskills
3. Your Presence
4. Synaesthesia and Essence
Course content subject to change. Please check http://www.aamindell.net/schedule-2007.htm for updates
Core Curriculum; Distance Accessible; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before January 19; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Arny Mindell, Ph.D.
Fridays, January 26, February 2, 9 & 16, 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Case Crystallization
Core Curriculum; Advanced Curriculum, CEU
Cost: $30 per class before January 19; $35.00 per class thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Arny Mindell, Ph.D.
January 26: Focusing on Organizational Supervision, open to all.
February 2: Focuses on Death and Dying, open to hospice workers, Phase I, II, and Diplomates
February 9 & 16: Supervision with individuals, couples, teams, and groups, for Phase II and Diplomates.
Fridays, January 26, February 2, 9 & 16, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Clay in the Hands of the Spirit - Inner Work and Supervision
Native Americans know that life is a spirit journey, where every experience becomes meaningful when we understand its timeless teaching. We will use this approach to accelerate and deepen our learning, our work with clients, our inner work and how to make transference and counter-transference experience more meaningful for both sides. The class has dyads, one-on-one fishbowl supervision and inner work exercises. For everyone interested in working or training as a therapist, facilitator or coach or simply interested in the meaning of their lives.
Dreaming, Spirituality & Shamanism; Core Curriculum
Cost: $185.00 before January 24; $205.00 thereafter
Max Schupbach, Ph.D.
Wednesdays, January 31, Feb 7, 14 & 21, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Introduction to Process Work
Rooted in Jungian psychology, philosophical Taoism and quantum physics, Process Work offers a way to integrate psychological and spiritual perspectives in the midst of our daily life. In this course we will explore how disturbances in our personal lives, our relationships, our groups and in the world become allies on our life's journey. This introductory course is for professionals in education, the social services and for those wishing to explore issues of faith and relevance.
Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before January 26; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Herb Long, Th.D.
Saturday and Sunday, February 3 & 4, 10 am - 5 pm

Cooperating in Conflict: Facilitating Inner Conflict
As unpleasant as conflict may be, beneath it lays the key to security and cooperation. Conflicts can lead us to our common root and become a swift path to self-knowledge, relationship and community. Process Work focuses on awareness rather than action as a tool for unlocking conflict's potential. It teaches us to harness altered states as powerful tools for transformation. Its model of rank and privilege provides a path to identifying with the deepest source of power, while preventing escalation. This is a three part series. While it is recommended that the series be taken in its entirety, individual modules may be taken on their own.
Spring: Facilitating Relationship and Family Conflict with Sonja Straub
Fall: Facilitating Group and Community Conflict with Jan Dworkin
Community and Family Conflict Facilitation; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before February 9; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Joe Goodbread, Ph.D. and Kate Jobe, M.A.
Saturday and Sunday, February 17 & 18, 10 am - 5 pm

Crossing the Bridge-A Practical Training for Working With Organizations and Businesses
This course will have a "how to" focus for working with organizations and businesses. We'll study the challenging and exciting process of entering into an organization: making initial contacts, developing authentic relationships with clients, building a working contract, dealing with "resistance" and the challenges of sustaining momentum, conducting interviews, gathering data and presenting your findings and feed. back to your client. Learning will draw on cases/experiences from those present as well as my own work.
Leadership and Organizational Development; Core Curriculum; Distance Accessible
Cost: $155.00 before February 22; $170.00 thereafter
Lesli Mones, M.A.
Thursdays, March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Finding Meaning in Panic
Panic attacks are terrifying experiences that disrupt everyday life. Parallel to investigating the biomedicalaspects of the experience, it is also important to investigate its dreamlike aspects (a person's subjectiveexperience of the panic attacks), which are doorways into the meaning of the experience for the person's life. This workshop is a theoretical and experiential introduction to a Process-oriented approach to panic attacks, which is based on developing awareness of the multidimensionality of individual experience.
Behavioral Health and non-ordinary States of Consciousness; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $185 before February 23; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Lily Vassiliou, Ph.D.
Saturday and Sunday, March 3 & 4, 10 am - 5 pm

Sacred Portals II: Case Consultation for Palliative Care: Soul Pain, Agitation, Aggression, Hallucinations, Wandering, Estrangement, Staff Distress
An opportunity to focus on patients' problems, care-giving dilemmas and caregiver care. We will also practice techniques to bring awareness to clients in unusual states of consciousness, provide methods tounfold and gain new insight from these states, and tie these insights to daily life, relationships, and community life. For nurses, chaplains, social workers, physicians and other professional, family, and volunteer caregivers that work with memory loss, dementia, depression, traumatic brain injury, vegetative state, and coma.
Coma, Death & Dying; Core Curriculum; Distance Only; CEU
Cost: $95.00 before March 15; $105.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
Thursdays, March 22, April 26, May 24, 10 am - 12 pm

The Gifts of Grief - An Introduction to Process-oriented Grief Work
Every human service worker encounters clients dealing with issues concerning loss and change. This course will provide theoretical information and practical applications for working with the bereavementprocesses. Special focus will be on cutting-edge developments in grief counseling, including recent research on transformative aspects of bereavement and some new approaches for working with death anddying, grief and loss, and life transitions.
Coma, Death & Dying; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before March 16; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Hitomi Sakamoto, Ph.D.
Saturday and Sunday, March 24 & 25, 10 am - 5 pm

Coma Work, Awareness and Love
A training for hospice and hospital personnel, volunteers, family members and students. Most people in coma and minimally conscious states fear isolation and lack of awareness more than death. Learn sensory grounded techniques to help those with brain trauma, advanced dementia, and metabolic coma near death. Coma Work techniques can help people with: personality transformation; completing unfinished business; harvesting life experience; relating to loved ones; forming spiritual connections; and making lifeand death decisions.
Coma, Death & Dying; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $110.00 before April 6; $120.00 thereafter (tuition includes the training manual Coma Work and Pal liative Care. (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
Saturday, April 14, 10 am - 5 pm

Beyond the Moon: Working with Traumatic Loss and Grief
Traumatic grief due to the loss of a loved one from an accident, suicide, or other apparent tragedy, can be devastating. Finding meaning again, in the aftermath of such grief, may seem impossible. It requires aprocess understanding and view of life that reaches beyond everyday reality. This course presents methods and concepts for working with extreme grief, and is designed for both professionals and individualsand families who have experienced a traumatic loss.
Coma, Death and Dying; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before May 4; $205 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Pierre Morin, M.D. and Kara Wilde, M.A.
Saturday and Sunday, May 12 & 13, 10 am – 5 pm

Comparative Systems of Psychological and Spiritual Thought and Practice: Module II: Existential-Humanist and Spiritual Approaches to Psychotherapy
This is Module II in a year long series covering the three “forces” of Western Psychology (Psychodynamic; Existential-Humanist; Behavioral-Field/Systems) as well as diverse spiritual traditions and how all comparewith Process Work Theory and Methodology. Each module can be taken separately and geared to Phase I exams, and for students working and collaborating within other modalities. The Spring Module compares the basic similarities and differences between Process Work and Existential-Humanist thought as well as between diverse spiritual traditions. Some body work approaches will beincluded, especially Reichian and Bioenergetics. Such Humanistic schools as Gestalt, Rogerian, T.A., and Psychosynthesis, will be covered along with Existential and Transpersonal, including Rollo May, R.D. Laing, and Ken Wilber. Spiritual systems like Zen, Rumi, Crazy Wisdom, and Native American spirituality will also be explored. Theoretical comparisons will involve demonstrations, role play, case studies, open forum style debates, and class discussions.
Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $195.00 before May 7; $215.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Robert King, M.S.W.
Mondays, May 14, 21, 28, June 4 & 11; 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Video Study
One of the best ways with which to sharpen awareness of signals and edges is through video study. Studying our work on tape offers an opportunity to not only learn to work with process structure, but to also observe our own therapeutic style and patterns, particularly those aspects which may be further from ourawareness. This class will be a great way in which to expand our skills and deepen our work.
Core Curriculum
Cost: $230.00 before May 8; $255.00 thereafter
Ingrid Rose, Ph.D.
Tuesdays, May 15, 22, 29, June 5 & 12, 10 am – 1 pm

Sitting in the Lotus and Becoming Enlightened: Metaskills, Buddhism & Process Work
The beautiful lotus lives and grows in the mud. This central symbol of Buddhist practice depicts the para dox between enlightenment and the difficulties of everyday life we encounter (judgment, fear, fury, revenge, jealousy). As the lotus unfolds the heart awakens and magic happens. We’ll apply Buddhist teachings to our inner and outer experiences as process workers, connecting with the metaskills or feeling attitudes thatunderlie our abilities as practitioners and potentially enlightened beings.
Dreaming, Spirituality & Shamanism; Core Curriculum
Cost: $195.00 before May 8; $215.00 thereafter
Rhea, M.A.
Tuesdays, May 15, 22, 29, June 5 & 12, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The Alchemist’s Tools: Process Work With Abuse and Trauma
This class will examine the roles that emerge in the field of abuse and trauma, and how they holographically occur in both client and therapist. We will address sociopolitical issues of safety, justice, sanity and community, psychological dynamics and impact issues, and Process-oriented methods, including signal work, feedback and edges, as well as recent methods of myth, vector and sentient work.
Behavioral Health and Non-ordinary States of Consciousness; Somatic Psychology; Dreaming, Spiritualityand Shamanism; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $155.00 before May 10; $170.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Emetchi, M.A.
Thursdays, May 17, 24, 31, June 7 & 14, 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Night Asylum: Love, Streetpower and Deep Democracy
We will learn together with individuals who live on the margin of society to celebrate the inexplicability of life, to value the powerful experiences in our own “nightlives” and to understand nature’s own moral code. Class format includes direct street-work, inner work, dyads, participant interviews, relationship work andgroup process. We learn as therapists, coaches and facilitators to work on the inner conflict between social acceptance and following the unknown, and last but not least develop our streetpower.
Community and Family Conflict Facilitation; Dreaming, Shamanism and Spirituality; Core Curriculum
Cost: $185.00 before May 16; $205.00 thereafter
Max Schupbach, Ph.D.
Wednesdays, May 23, 30, June 6 & 13, 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Supervision: Many Styles; One Practice; No Therapist
A supervision class with special focus on learning to be “no one,” and helping individuals in relationship and near-death experiences. Updated theory and techniques of 1) innerwork, 2) teamwork, 3) workingwith fear and panic, and 4) coma work.
Core Curriculum; Distance Accessible; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before May 18; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Arny Mindell, Ph.D.
Fridays, May 25, June 1, 8 & 15, 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Case Crystallization
May 25 & June 1: Supervision with individuals, couples, teams, and groups, for Phase II and Diplomates.
June 8: Focusing on Organizational Supervision, open to all.
June 15: Focusing on Symptoms, Death and Dying, open to hospice workers, Phase I, II, and Diplomates.
Core Curriculum; Advanced Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $30 per class before May 18; $35 per class thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Arny Mindell, Ph.D.
Fridays, May 25, June 1, 8 & 15 , 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Magical Powers: Your Unique Style as Therapist, Facilitator, or Teacher - Part II
The deepest part of you manifests in your unique style as therapist, group facilitator, and/or teacher. It breathes magic into your skills, makes you effective, and helps you feel at “home” while working with others. Continuing from an earlier class, we’ll explore new forms of inner work and supervision to experiencethe magic of your deepest self in action. Attendance at previous class not required.
Core Curriculum
Cost: $140.00 before May 23; $155.00 thereafter
Amy Mindell, Ph.D.
Wednesday Mornings: May 30, June 6 & 13, 9:15am - 12:15 pm

Cooperating in Conflict: Facilitating Relationship and Family Conflict
As unpleasant as conflict may be, beneath it lays the key to security and cooperation. Conflicts can lead us to our common root and become a swift path to self-knowledge, relationship and community. Process work focuses on awareness rather than action as a tool for unlocking conflict’s potential. It teaches us to harness altered states as powerful tools for transformation. Its model of rank and privilege provides a path to identifying with the deepest source of power, while preventing escalation. This is the second of a three part series. While it is recommended that the series be taken in its entirety,
individual modules may also be taken on their own.
Core Curriculum; Community and Family Conflict Facilitation; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before May 25; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Sonja Straub, Ph.D.
Saturday and Sunday, June 2 & 3, 10 am – 5 pm

Process-oriented Pain Management - Through Parallel Worlds and the Tao of Wholeness
Explore Process-oriented methods to understand and deal with both acute and chronic pain. Working with ongoing pain in a clinical setting or within one’s own body can be challenging and exhausting. Learn ways to cope with and transform pain, both in oneself and in the outer world. Six hours of CE in pain management offered, using both somatic and psychological methods.
Somatic Psychology; Core Curriculum; CEU
Cost: $95.00 before June 1; $105 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Jai Tomlin, D.C.
Saturday, June 9, 10 am – 5 pm

Working With Body Experiences in Professional Practice
Through case study, supervision, exercises, video analysis, and discussion, participants will learn how to use Process Work methods for working with body experiences in professional practice. Process Work with body experiences is used for diverse situations, including life-threatening illness, chronic symptoms, pain, health issues related to aging (e.g. dementia), and states found in the dying process. This class is designed for psychotherapists and counselors, alternative and traditional medical providers and all those interested in integrating a holistic approach to mind-body experiences in professional practice.
Somatic Psychology; Core Curriculum; SBGI Certificate; CEU
Cost: $185.00 before June 11; $205.00 thereafter (add $20.00 for CEU credit)
Pierre Morin, M.D.
June 18, 19, 20 & 21, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The Cultivation of Effective Leadership
Effective leadership is both a challenging and rewarding process with the opportunity for tremendous learning, personal development and growth. It requires skill and sensitivity to feedback, awareness of our positional and social rank, and effective modeling of flexibility to change our goals with the varying organizational needs. This course will focus on the cultivation of Process Leadership skills and is designed for those in organizational leadership positions, consultants, coaches and students.
Leadership & Organizational Development; Core Curriculum
Cost: $250.00 before June 14; $275.00 thereafter
Stephen Schuitevoerder, Ph.D.
Friday, June 22, 5 pm – 9 pm; Saturday, June 23, 10 am – 5 pm; Sunday, June 24, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Pacing the Research Process: Working With Your Project Over Time This online class will connect Process Work researchers around the world with each other. It will provide instruction in planning, carrying out and presenting a final project (or other Process Work research project), an ongoing on-line environment for peer feedback, and concentrated focus on typical knotty
problems and ways of unraveling them.
Core Curriculum; Distance Only
Cost: $155.00 before June 18; $170 thereafter
Lee Jones, Ph.D.
June 25-29 - View the flyer

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Core Curriculum
Advanced Curriculum
Distance Courses
Community & Family Conflict Facilitation
Behavioral Health & Non-ordinary States of Consciousness
Coma Work, Death and Dying, and Palliative Care
Dreaming, Shamanism and Spirituality
Electives
Leadership & Organizational Development
Somatic Psychology: Body Work, Symptoms and Illness, and Movement Work