2026 Spring Intensive and Supervision Seminar | April 2nd – 19th

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You are invited to join PWI’s 2026 Spring Intensive and Supervision Seminar this April, in Portland, Oregon. Designed to be taken individually as single 17 day training, the Intensive and Seminar together deliver both a deep experience and journey into self and other, guided by experienced processwork practitioners, a grounded, hands-on and supportive opportunity to practice applying these tools yourself.

At a Glance

SPRING INTENSIVE
Engage in an immersive journey of personal transformation and deepened personal awareness. Learn more | Rates

SUPERVISION SEMINAR
Deepen, strengthen and expand your capacity in the profound tools of process work. Learn more | Rates

REGISTER

 
 
 
 
SPRING INTENSIVE
April 2 – 8, 2026
 
SUPERVISION SEMINAR
April 9 – 19, 2026
 
LOCATION
Process Work Institute
2049 NW hoyt St
Portland OR, US
 
LANGUAGE
English

The Spring Intensive | 2-8 April, 2026

The 7-day Spring Intensive is for anyone interested in personal growth and transformation. The experiential immersive program will use inner work, body symptoms, movement, group work and following nature as guides to deepen personal understanding and unfold meaningful transformation. 

The Intensive will run from Thursday, April 2nd – Wednesday, April 8th with an experienced, diverse teaching team, and including over 39 hours of immersion in Process Work teaching.

This carefully facilitated learning space provides a unique opportunity for accelerated learning in an intimate setting. The Intensive will offer an experiential  introduction to Processwork and introduce essential concepts and skills.

Who is it for?

The Intensive attracts awareness seekers of all kinds – therapists, facilitators, activists, teachers, leaders and nonprofit workers across diverse ages, cultural backgrounds, and social identities.

Participants share deeply personal journeys, including with illness, activism, and spiritual exploration. They seek to co-create a supportive, transformational community dedicated to awareness.

The Intensive is for you if you want an immersive community learning experience to:

  • Develop skills to guide yourself and others through transformative processes.
  • Learn Processwork techniques and apply them personally or professionally.
  • Build confidence in addressing group dynamics and societal challenges.

Faculty

Amy Mindell, Lane Arye, Venetia Bouronikou and others. View faculty bios here.

“To go really deep together, to work on ourselves, work on our relationships and what bubbles up between us in the group … to study what happens and learn together. 

There is something very magical that happens, that I really can’t explain … a deep learning that we don’t always get in our ordinary lives. 

I just love it … ” Amy Mindell

Spring Intensive Rates | Register

Pay-it-forward Rate
$1,400

For those who have the financial capacity to contribute at a higher level. This rate helps sustain the workshop and supports reduced-cost access for others in the community.

Standard Rate
$1,250

The standard workshop rate.

Early Bird Rate | End 1/31 – 2/25
$900 – 1,150

If you have financial capacity, consider paying the standard rate instead to help sustain the workshop and support reduced-cost access for others in the community.

Save $195 with Spring Intensive & Supervision Seminar Bundle rate.

Cancellation Policy

About the Supervision Seminar | 9-19 April, 2026

The 10-day Supervision Seminar is for those seeking to deepen their understanding and application of processwork tools by grounding it in application. The Seminar will have two tracks: 
 
  • The Pathway Track: theory, supported practice, and supervision will be woven together for more beginner and intermediate students
  • The Advanced Track: advanced processwork students and practitioners can expect a more rigorous invitation to deepen their skills and master their craft. 

Who is it for?

Supervision Seminar Pathway Track, as are PWI certificate students, newer students on the diplomate Pathway, and those who have attended various online courses.
 
Advanced Track of the Supervision Seminar Space in the advanced track is limited. Priority admission and discounted tuition will be granted to advanced students on the Diplomate Pathway. MAPOF graduates and processwork Diplomates are also invited, as are prior participants of the Cohort Experiences who have demonstrated an advanced mastery of core processwork skills and methodology.

Faculty

Amy Mindell, Dawn Menken, Bill Say, Rhea, and others. View faculty bios here.

Supervision Seminar Rates | Register

Pay-it-forward Rate
$2,650

For those who have the financial capacity to contribute at a higher level. This rate helps sustain the workshop and supports reduced-cost access for others in the community.

Standard Rate
$2,450

The standard workshop rate.

Early Bird Rate | Ends 2/15
$2,250

Early bird tickets. If you have financial capacity, consider paying the standard rate instead to help sustain the workshop and support reduced-cost access for others in the community.

Save $195 with Spring Intensive & Supervision Seminar Bundle rate.

Cancellation Policy

2026 Spring Intensive & Supervision Faculty

Faculty for the Spring Intensive and Supervision Seminar are Processwork trainers and Diplomates, certified Process-oriented therapists. They include group facilitators, therapist,  coaches and teachers who conduct seminars and training workshops throughout the world. Trainers hold academic degrees in fields such as psychology, medicine, theology, art, physics and other disciplines.

Amy Mindell. PhD, Dipl PW

Amy is a process work therapist and teacher in Portland, Oregon and has taught around the world with her wonderful partner and husband, Arny Mindell. She developed the concept of “Metaskills” in the 1990s and has further developed process work in the areas of movement, coma work, creativity, supervision, and more. She is the author of 7 books and has published numerous journal articles. Her latest books focus on the unique style of the facilitator and and include 130 short stories about Arny. 
 
Amy has a BA in dance and theater, an MA and PhD in psychology, and is a diplomate of the research Society for Process Oriented Psychology in Zurich (FGPOP). She is also a singer-songwriter, artist, and dancer, and loves to create puppets of all kinds! In recent times she created an animated video about Worldwork in 40 short lessons. 
 
Most of all, she is passionate about dreaming together with others and loves to explore the boundless beauty of nature.

Dawn Menken, PhD, Dipl PW

Dawn Menken 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 master’s 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.

Bill Say. MA, Dipl PW

Bill brings over twenty years of experience to the intersection of diversity awareness training, conflict resolution, and leadership/team/community building, including work in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. His organizational consulting experience is with health, mental health, and educational organizations in the US and abroad including with the Cities of Berkeley, Richmond and San Rafael; Alameda County Human Resources; the Highlander Research and Education Center; UN refugee health organizations in the Middle East (UNRWA); New Energy in China; and Independent Thought and Social Action in India. He is an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies, the Wright Institute and JFK University. Bill is a Mindell Process Work Diplomate. He is Japanese Korean American, cis and male and straight identified, middle-class-ish, spiritually oriented, socially introverted, married to Linda and parent to son Gabe.

Lane Arye. PhD, Dipl PW

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.

Rhea. MA, Dipl PW

Rhea is a therapist and trainer on faculty at PWI. She says: I have a background in improvisational theater, meditation and activism. I am always interested in supporting the theater of everyday life and a deeper democracy in everyday activism. I am grateful to Process Work for bringing me back to my own deep dreaming nature and happy to share that learning and support that process in all of us.

Venetia Bouronikou, MA, Dipl PW

Venetia is a Psychologist and a Certified Processworker (MA, DIpl in Process Oriented Psychology). She has more than 20 years of experience working as a therapist with individuals and couples, as a group facilitator, and adult trainer. In the last years she has worked extensively with organizations who support refugees in Europe; LGBTQI+ folks and their families; and she has trained therapists and group facilitators in awareness practices.
 
She has co-authored a Graphic Novel on group facilitation and conflict resolution, based on the Worldwork seminar held in Greece in 2017. The Graphic Novel is titled “Dreaming Into Community. A Guidebook to Worldwork”.
 
Venetia is very interested in bringing awareness in the social context and she is passionate about the interconnectedness of personal and social change. She believes that working in cultivating awareness is transformative and healing.
 
Nature is her powerful teacher. Venetia loves swimming in the sea, walking in the forest and staring at the universe.

 

 

Further Information

Workstudy Opportunities

PWI acknowledges that systemic injustices contribute to a person’s economic status. We recognize social differences and economic disparities between different regions, countries and also within countries themselves.

PWI offers a limited number of workstudy opportunities in exchange for a partial discount on registration fees.  Please be aware that we receive more workstudy applications than we can accommodate. We recommend you apply early and share evidence of need to support your application.

Workstudy opportunities include:

  • Audio/Visual support
  • Room set up for classes and celebrations
  • Room clean up for classes and celebrations
  • Kitchen duties
  • Key holder (opening and closing of the building)
  • Classroom helper

To apply for a workstudy opportunity, click here. 

Partial Scholarships Available

Systemic oppression has devastating impacts on people around the world. In recognition of this, we offer partial scholarships to increase equity and participation. To apply for a scholarship opportunity, click here. 

Register for the 2026 Spring Intensive and Supervision Seminar

Cancellation and Refund Policy

Please make sure the Intensive and/or Supervision Seminar is right for you before applying. However, we understand that unexpected emergencies can impact your plans.  Registration fees paid are fully refundable (less $200 administrative fee) for cancellations received before March 1st, 2026. From March 1st to March 15th, a 50% refund is available. No refunds are granted for cancellations received after March 15th, 2026.

Should the the Process Work Institute need to cancel the program, participants will receive a refund of their tuition, but no reimbursement for bank fees, booked flights, or other travel or program-related expenses.

Logistics

The Spring Intensive and Supervision Seminar will be held at the Process Work Institute, located at 2049 NW Hoyt, Portland, Oregon 97209.

Meals

There is a small kitchen at the Process Work Institute where participants can prepare lunch. For participants who wish to dine out or grab a take away, PWI is centrally located – restaurants, cafes, grocery stores and a comfortable park are within a short 5 to 10 minute walk from the Institute

English Language Proficiency

Expect a multilingual group with very diverse experiences in English, and a process that focuses on understanding one another in large and small group environments. It is up to the participant to ensure a comfortable level of understanding within English conversation and instruction.

Accommodation Options

There are many accommodation options near PWI, many used by past Intensive participants. Please contact the location for current rates.

NW Portland Hostel
Offers discounts for Intensive participants!
Located at 425 NW 18th Ave. (corner of 18th & NW Glisan St.), Portland, OR 97209.
Very close to PWI.
To reserve your discounted room, please contact Tracy by email info@nwportlandhostel.com or by phone at 503 241 2783.

The Portland International Guesthouse
The Portland International Guesthouse at 2185 NW Flanders Street, (a few blocks from the center), offers European-style accommodations for the budget minded traveler.  Facilities include six clean, private guestrooms that share three baths.  We also offer a fully furnished, private, one-bedroom garden level apartment.  Call (503)-224-0500.

Hotel DeLuxe
Located at 729 SW 15th Avenue, Portland, OR 07205; a short walk to PWI.

The Inn at Northrup Station
Located at 2025 NW Northrup, Portland, OR 97209, a short walk to PWI

The Park Lane Suites
Located at 809 S.W. King Ave, Portland, OR 97205, a short walk to PWI