PWI Faculty Spotlight: Dawn Menken The dream that started it Dawn Menken’s first dream was of a man who climbed up out of a sewer and appeared on her television screen. One way she...
PWI Diplomate Spotlight: Hélène Ramos When Hélène Ramos was five she had a near-death experience. Then, at thirteen or fourteen, she had her first out-of-body experience. It’s the kind of experience that leaves a...
PWI Diplomate Spotlight: Cathy Bernatt August 9, 2015. Cathy Bernatt is leaving Portland at 6pm. Three-week wilderness solo ahead. Divorce just final. Third master’s degree in Process Work done. She’s ready to go deep...
Welcome to The Edge, a blog about Processwork in all its applications and manifestations. We hope these posts, by Processworkers in different walks of life all over the world, will draw you in and inspire you to discover how Processwork can support growth, creativity and communication in your own life and work.
Befriending Spiders Corona and Unpredictable Fields When the school and kindergarten in our small village was closed on March 13th this year the practical consequences of the Corona pandemic reached us as well. I...
Maid Servant in a Rich Man’s House Processwork on Roles and Rank Shri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) is one of India’s most revered saints Near Portland, OR, a shrine is dedicated to him and his followers...
Exploring Inner Critics “I can’t. I’m not that skillful. I’m too fat. I screwed up again. I’m too old. don’t have enough energy,” etc. This is the inner critic virus (IC) that clips our...
Innerwork in Public Arenas Innerwork is Facilitating Your Own Awareness In this post, I use the word Innerwork to refer to the Processwork form of Innerwork, as distinct from the many other forms in...
My Path of Heart: Using Processwork to Understand and Nourish my Polyamorous Relationship Believing in My Path of Heart One of the greatest gifts Processwork has given me is the ability to accept my...
Process-Oriented Coaching in Organizations A Process-Oriented View of Organizations In order to thrive in today’s constantly changing environment, most organisations recognise the need to become more agile. They’ve often experienced first-hand the challenges that...
Alchemy of Eros: Unfolding Chronic Pain into a Richer Sex Life A little girl in South Africa let me know my pain had become my identity when she stopped using my name and called...
Falling In Love With Life Staring Death In The Face I Never Thought I would go Public about Dying of Cancer But why not? At our first meeting, the surgeon announced I’m going to...
Treasure Hunting: Finding Meaning in Life with a Disability Why me? Why was I born with a disability? This question came to me suddenly when I was a teenager, and my journey to find...
Hurtful Relationship Patterns and Deep Dreams I had two main traumatic events as a child that affected my mind, body, and spirit, though I didn’t remember either until I was an adult. This is...
PWI Faculty Spotlight: Dawn Menken The dream that started it Dawn Menken’s first dream was of a man who climbed up out of a sewer and appeared on her television screen. One way she...
PWI Diplomate Spotlight: Hélène Ramos When Hélène Ramos was five she had a near-death experience. Then, at thirteen or fourteen, she had her first out-of-body experience. It’s the kind of experience that leaves a...
PWI Diplomate Spotlight: Cathy Bernatt August 9, 2015. Cathy Bernatt is leaving Portland at 6pm. Three-week wilderness solo ahead. Divorce just final. Third master’s degree in Process Work done. She’s ready to go deep...
Double Signals and the Dreambody in Relationship Double signals show the unconcsious conversation happening A big part of what causes conflict in relationships are double signals. Double signals are when one person is consciously,...
Working with the Dreambody Central to the concept of the dreambody is the idea of Your Primary and secondary process Your primary process is how you identify yourself in this moment. Forexample: composed, focused,...
Flirts Engaging life as an oracle Life is flirting with you. Something catches the corner of your eye. Just for a moment. A flicker of light, a shape, a movement. A word from across...
Channels of Experience Processwork uses the body and awareness as an instrument for perceiving reality and unfolding signals Signals express through what’s called channels of sensory experience. Some channels are more conscious or “occupied”...
3 Levels of Experiential Reality Processwork outlines 3 levels of experiential reality When we marginalize one of these levels, we lose access to a great deal of what’s actually going on. We miss the...
Eldership A crutial role in conflict systems and facilitation An elder, in the Processwork sense isn’t someone older or more credentialed. It’s someone who has done enough of their own inner work to be...
4 Phases of conflict Most of us have a complicated relationship with conflict We avoid it, dread it, or get swept up in it. And rarely do we feel skilled in it. Process-Oriented Psychology,...
Rank Power, privilege and oppression Processwork Discusses power, privledge and oppression in terms of “rank” One of Process Work’s most practical and clarifying contributions to conflict facilitation is its framework for understanding rank. Process...
Altered and Extreme States & the metacommunicator About Altered and Extreme States These are processes, not static entities. They are called “states” because people tend to get stuck in them. When viewed as processes,...
