About
PWI: Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Process Work?
- How does Process Work therapy
compare to other therapies?
- Do I have to be enrolled in
a training program to take classes at the center?
- Are there opportunities to
study at-a-distance or online for your training programs?
- Does Process Work therapy
apply to individuals only?
- How does Process Work relate
to conflict facilitation?
- How can I get in touch with
a Certified Process Work Therapist?
- Do any of the classes offer
CEU's (Continuing Education Units)?
- How can I become involved
in the Process Work community besides taking classes?
1. What
is Process Work?
Please see About
PW for this answer.
2. How does
Process Work therapy compare to other therapies?
Process Work therapy does not
focus on a specific area of psychology or counseling. For example,
there are therapies that may tend to deal with specific areas
commonly experienced as problematic such as emotional or behavioral
issues, addictions, body symptoms, or relationship work. Process
Work can be applied to any area of one's life whether or not
it is perceived as problematic. It is also not limited to individuals
and couples. Process work also applies to families and groups
of all sizes.
Counseling programs also tend
to lean towards a specific framework for viewing the individual
or group: behavioral, cognitive, transpersonal, psychoanalytic,
etc. Process work methods can incorporate all of these viewpoints
and many more. The premise behind process work is that ways of
experiencing the world or dealing with a problem are specific
to each person and his or her natural way ("dreaming")
that is trying to reveal itself. This dreaming can be experienced
in various ways: through a body symptom, through a thought, through
a feeling or emotion, through movement, through a role in the
world, or through a spiritual experience, for example. Process
work does incorporate various theoretical structures in its teaching,
however they cover a broad spectrum of frameworks or ways of
seeing the world.
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3. Do I have
to be enrolled in a training program to take classes at the center?
Not typically. Most classes are
open to the public. Only a few are limited to students enrolled
in our Diploma Program and are referred to as Phase I or Phase
II (Advanced) students and these classes are noted as such. In
these classes, participants who are not formal students must
gain express permission from the teacher to register.
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4. Are there
opportunities to study at-a-distance or on-line for your training
programs?
With some generous donations
we have been able to begin offering more classes in which online
and phone participation are possible. Students enrolled in our
Diploma Program, who do not reside in the Portland area, are
free to take process work classes that occur elsewhere in the
U.S. and internationally and those classes in most cases apply
towards their required credits. We do not, however, have a program
that can be done exclusively at-a-distance or on-line. Students
must be able to come to Portland at various times during their
program and more regularly during the last year of study in preparation
for their final exams.
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5. Does Process
Work therapy apply to individuals only?
No, Process Work therapy can
be applied to individuals, couples, families, small groups all
the way up to large groups of people.
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6. How does
Process Work relate to conflict facilitation?
Conflict facilitation is just
one aspect of Process Work. The two are not synonomous. Students
of process work learn theories and skills to facilitate conflicts
within individuals, among couples, families and groups as part
of their training. Worldwork is an event that occurs every few
years in a different part of the world and is a major compenent
in learning about conflict facilitation with large groups of
people.
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7. How can
I get in touch with a Certified Process Work Therapist?
You can contact PWI by email
or phone and we will give you some referral names and telephone
numbers of Certfied Process Work Therapists (also known as Diplomates)
who are in your area. All of our therapists are independent from
PWI and make their own appointments, set their own schedules
and fee structures. Feel free to also browse our Contact
Diplomates page.
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8. Do any
of the classes offer CEU's (Continuing Education Units)?
We offer CEU credits through
NBCC and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Please
see our Continuing Education page for more
information.
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9. Along with
taking classes and/or being in a formal program of study how
else can I be connected to Process Work and the Institute?
You can find many options to
stay connected through our Staying
in Touch page.
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