2008-2009 Classes:
Summer Institute

Learning at the Edge: Summer Institute in Process Work for Personal and Professional Development

Join us at our new Summer Institute - a series of training courses for individuals and professionals who want to apply Process Work's cutting edge tools in their personal and professional lives. Come to Portland to study with others from around the world, network with professional colleagues, deepen your understanding of Process Work, and expand your skill base in these new graduate credit courses.

The Summer Institute provides professional development training to social workers, counselors, psychologists, human resource professionals, medical and health care professionals, conflict resolution practitioners, teachers, and other professional working with people and groups in their daily work. Experienced trainers guide participants in exploring Process Work methods for use in their various fields. Participants learn innovative methods, while expanding their knowledge and skills in a participatory and interactive learning environment.

Our graduate certificate courses in Process Work specifically designed for professionals in their workplace. Courses below listed as Graduate Certificates offer one half (.5) graduate credit, and Continuing Education credits for certified counselors, as well as continuing education credits for MFTs and LCSWs for students from California. All courses can be applied for credit towards a Certificate in Process Work. For details see www.processwork.org/Certificate.htm

Graduate Certificate in Process-oriented Leadership Part I: Cultivating Effective Leadership
Stephen Schuitevoerder, Ph.D.
To lead well not only requires skills but personal development and self awareness. We need to lead by example, to have access to our visions, and to remain flexible to changing demands and situations. Part I of the course focuses on developing ourselves as leaders. Topics include:

• Rank and power and how they might be used effectively.
• Discovering and cultivating our own leadership styles
• Deep democracy: developing awareness, fluidity, and centeredness.
• Beyond leadership and the development of wisdom and eldership.
  

Friday, April 24, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Saturday, April 25, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Sunday, April 26, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm.
Cost: $520 for both workshops before April 3; $580 thereafter.
Note: Individual workshops can be attended, but will not count towards the Graduate Certificate. Inquire at pwi@processwork.org for individual workshop cost.

Graduate Certificate in Process-oriented Leadership Part II: Coaching, collaborating and conflict management
Julie Diamond, Ph.D.
As leaders, our success depends on others' performance. Leading others means coaching, collaborating, and creating an environment of trust and teamwork. This seminar focuses on skills for collaborating, leading teams, coaching, and managing conflict. Topics include:

• Creating a coaching partnership to bring out the best in others,
• Giving and soliciting useful feedback and constructive criticism
• Leading teams, and leveraging the creativity implicit in difference
• Learning how to surface difficult issues and address conflict where power differentials are at play
  

Friday, June 12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Saturday, June 13, 10 am - 5:00 pm, Sunday, June 14, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $520 for both workshops before April 3; $580 thereafter.
Note: Individual workshops can be attended, but will not count towards the Graduate Certificate. Inquire at pwi@processwork.org for individual workshop cost.

Introduction to Process Work: Week Long Intensive Training in Process Work and its Applications
Jan Dworkin, Ph.D., Ingrid Rose, Ph.D., and assistants.
This new introductory course offers an opportunity to learn about Process Work's many applications and most recent developments. This five-day course presents a comprehensive introduction to the essentials of Process Work philosophy, skills, and metaskills in topic areas such as dream work, body work, relationship work, inner work, group and organizational work, and working with non-ordinary states of consciousness and addictions. From Monday through Friday, morning sessions focus on the applications of Process Work, and afternoon classes help participants further their understanding of the material through exercises, skill training, case discussion, inner work, and group process. This course can be applied towards credit in the Certificate Program in Process Work. For details, see www.processwork.org/Certificate.htm.
Monday - Thursday, June 22 - 25, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm; Friday, June 26, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cost: $725 before June 5; $790 thereafter.
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Deep Inner States Awareness Training: Graduate Certificate in End of Life care for professional and family caregivers
Dr. Pierre Morin, Gary Reiss, Ph.D., Ingrid Rose, Ph.D., and Stan Tomandl, M.P.W.
This course focuses on developing our abilities to connect with patients in nonverbal states and to support communication with, and understanding for patients' experiences. It will present practical Process-oriented coma work techniques which will enhance your skills for relating to loved ones and patients in out-of-ordinary states of consciousness, such as dementia, depression, autism, illness, vegetative states, coma and end of life states. We will teach by demonstration, theory, case examples, video study, supervision, and hands on practice.
Friday, June 26, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, and Monday, June 29, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Cost: $520 before June 12; $580 thereafter.
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Process Work and the Alchemy of Trauma: Graduate Certificate in Abuse and Trauma Work for Counselors and Mental Health Practitioners.
Emetchi, M.A., and Gary Reiss, Ph.D.
Process-oriented trauma work is applicable for working with childhood abuse, domestic and sexual violence, natural catastrophes and war. In this course, we shall bring new awareness and tools to working with abuse and trauma, including signal based communication and the latest process-oriented quantum methods of sentience, vectors and Process Mind to help transform the agony of traumatic experience into a deepened realignment with life. Course methods include theory, readings, exercises and case studies.
Tuesday, June 30, 6:00 - 9:00 pm, Wednesday, July 1 and Thursday, July 2, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, and Friday, July 3, 9:00 - 2:00 pm
Cost: $520 before June 12; $580 thereafter.
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Befriending Conflict™: Tools for Making Conflict Safer, More Productive, and More Fun. Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution and Facilitation
Joe Goodbread, Ph.D.
In this course, we will practice techniques for mining the positive potential of conflict in our personal, organizational and social endeavors. Topics for working with conflict include:

• Taking your own side more effectively;
• Staying clear and aware in the midst of conflict;
• Loosening the hypnotic grip of remembered and anticipated conflict;
• Power imbalance: leveling the playing field;
• Practicing safer conflict; and
• Making conflict more satisfying and less addictive
  

Monday July 6 - Wednesday, July 8, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Cost: $520 before June 19 $580 thereafter.
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Bodywork and Psychology: Graduate Certificate in Process-oriented Somatic Movement and Body Work
Kate Jobe, M.A., Dipl. P.O. Psych, C.M.A., R.S.M.T., R.S.M.E.
With its holistic approach to body, mind, and spirit, this certificate course is for those looking to deepen their work with new approaches to psychological, emotional, and spiritual experiences that emerge from body work, movement work, and healing methods. This course will introduce essential Process Work philosophy and skills for helping clients unfold meaning found in the body and apply it to their everyday life experience.
· Unfolding body experience and the role of dreams in the body
· Focusing on life myth and deeper purpose
· Barriers, edges, and blocks and the client who doesn’t change
· Facilitator’s inner work, where your growth and your client’s growth
intersect
· Integration – bringing it back to life experience
This course is intended for body workers, movement workers, health care practitioners interested in holistic medicine and body experience.
Friday, July 10 - Sunday, July 12, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Cost: $520 before June 19; $580 thereafter.
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