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Get Certified in Processwork

You already carry the map

Certification supports your deepest knowing

Processwork is depth psychology for everyday life. It is a framework for reading the signals hidden in your body, your dreams, your relationships and the world around you. Learning it changes how you see everything. Training supports you to find your unique style and gives you grounded tools to navigate the complexities of life. 

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What is Processwork

Most of what shapes reality

is happening just beneath the surface.

"I am now working with troubled teens in a psychiatric hospital and my process work tools have literally helped to save many lives and support young patients in building their awareness, connect with inner strength, and their wisdom and drive for life. "
Agnieszka Olsewska
PWI Alum, Poland

For Professionals.

For Seekers.

For anyone who feels there's more.

Training supports you to grow your capacity in every dimension of your personal and proffessional life. Processwork has found its way into therapy offices, boardrooms, conflict zones, hospitals and living rooms. What draws such a diverse range of people isn’t a single application. It’s the underlying paradigm.

Once you can read the signals in your own process, you can read them in others. In groups. In systems. The skills are transferable in ways that are beyond what you can anticipate until you’re in them. 

Testimonials

Words from our gradutes

My training at PWI helped me develop highly advanced knowledge, skills and awareness in working with individuals, teams and organizations. I have my own company and I am an executive, team, and systems coach. I work as an external consultant inside organizations to help them effect sustainable change.

Cathy Barnatt

Organizational Consultant

I gained facilitation skills to work with individuals and couples as well as to facilitate groups and organizations that strive to be more equity-focused. In addition, these skills have enabled me to create trainings in equity and race work with youth and adults.

Lolo Halmon

Facilitator

PWI equipped me with amazing psychotherapeutic and facilitation skills. I am now working with troubled teens in a psychiatric hospital and my process work tools have literally helped to save many lives and support young patients in building their awareness, connect with inner strength, and their wisdom and drive for life.

Agnieszka Olsewska

Couselor

who this is for

A wide range of people from all over the world and all walks of life
have choosen to study Process Work

Therapists and counselors who already have clinical training often come to Process Work because it fills in gaps they feel in their existing training, or deepens their existing theoretical and practical foundation.

  • Symptoms, body signals, and even severe or “extreme” states are treated as meaningful processes: as a framework, Processwork asks what a symptom or altered state is trying to express, rather than how to suppress it
  • Processwork is trans-theoretical and somatic, braiding together depth psychology, physics, Taoism, earth-based psychological approaches and body-oriented work – it gives therapists tools for working with dreams, body sensations, and movement in an integrated practice
  • Processwork is deeply democratic and multi-level. Certification includes focus on individual, relationship, group, and organizational work — and includes in-depth conflict facilitation. Therapists doing couples or group work, or wanting to bring conflict-facilitation skills into community or organizational settings, often study Process Work specifically for this piece.
  • Innerwork and personal-development are a cornerstone of Processwork: certifications involve therapists doing their own inner work (following their own process, edges, and roles), an invaluable skill complementing and deepening clinical skills
  • PWI’s highest level of training is globally recognized by the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology, awarding students with an international credential that supplements their existing license, with a distinct specialization.

For some, Processwork is simply a philosophical fit — Arnold Mindell’s (the founder of Processwork) framing of the “dreaming” underneath ordinary reality resonates with clinicians already leaning toward transpersonal, somatic, or Jungian orientations who want a more coherent theoretical home for that sensibility.

Executive and life coaches gravitate towards Processwork because it offers tools that conventional coaching programs do not cover:

  • Group and organizational work from a deep democracy perspective: Process Work gives coaches a methodology for reading team dynamics, conflict, and power and rank in a room, useful for coaches who get pulled into team offsites, leadership conflict, or culture work rather than pure 1:1 coaching.
  • Rank, power and privilege dynamics: The Processwork approach to rank (whether social, positional, psychological or spiritual) gives coaches concrete language for something they’re constantly navigating with executive leaders: how power actually moves in a room, why certain people’s input lands and others’ doesn’t, how a leader’s blind spots about their own rank create friction in their team. Coaches doing diversity-adjacent or culture-change work in particular are drawn to Processwork of this.
  • “Disturbances” as data rather than noise: In Processwork terms, the thing that seems like a distraction or an edge case (for example an offhand comment, recurring tension, the awkward silence) is often the most meaningful signal in the room. This reframes a coach’s job: instead of steering a conversation back to the agenda, they learn to follow what’s actually alive, which many executive coaches find sharpens their facilitation – and in turn their clients’ – edge in the boardroom.
  • The executive is a whole person: Processwork’s somatic, dreaming and relational components, such as working with body signals, personal myth, and “edges” (the point where someone approaches but pulls back from something) gives coaches a way to work with what’s happening beneath a leader’s stated goals, especially with clients who are articulate and self-aware but stuck in patterns they can’t quite name. Coaches are able to help clients access their deeper motivations and align with their inherent potential.
  • Differentiation and depth: Processwork training brings a distinctive level of depth and mastery to executive coaches, differentiating their skillset in a crowded and competitive field.
  • PWI’s highest level of training is globally recognized by the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology, awarding students with an international credential and distinct specialization.

Facilitators and organizational consultants find Processwork to be a native fit with their existing toolkit. The Processwork approach to group work and conflict is  based on worldwork, Arnold Mindell’s (founder of Processwork) large-group and organizational application:

  • The worldwork framework works directly with hot and/or polarized conflict, viewing conflict, tension, and even eruptions as islands of marginalized, but needed, information in groups. Processwork gives facilitators tools to work with the heat, and importantly, stay present in the heat.
  • Explicit tools, language and methods for working with power and rank (whether positional, social, psychological, or spiritual) – as it plays out in a room. Facilitators learn how power differentials shape whether a “resolution” actually resolves anything, or is a cover-all. For consultants doing culture-change work, this is often the single biggest reason to study Processwork. 
  • Frameworks for working with roles and ghost roles. Processwork includes the idea that in any group, certain positions or perspectives (roles), including unspoken or absent ones (ghost roles), are “in the field” and need to be voiced for the group to shift, whether or not any individual identifies with them. Facilitators gain concrete techniques for surfacing the “thing” everyone senses but nobody’s saying, rather than relying on their own intuition alone.
  • A framework that scales across individual, relationship, and group levels. A facilitator who already senses that a team’s stuck conflict mirrors something happening in individual members, or that an organization’s culture has a felt “atmosphere” worth working with directly, finds Processwork gives a coherent theory connecting those levels instead of needing a different framework at each one.
  • The group process itself is intelligent and purposeful: rather than something to be managed toward a predetermined outcome, rather than engineering consensus or box-checking trainings, facilitators trained in Processwork follow what’s actually alive in the room, supporting groups to form more authentic – and therefore more resilient – agreements. 
  • PWI’s highest level of training is globally recognized by the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology, awarding students with an international credential and distinct specialization.

The dreambody concept in Processwork is the idea that body symptoms, sensations, chronic pain, and even illness carry meaningful information. That is, Processwork views the body as an intelligent system and has specific techniques, for unfolding what a symptom is “trying to teach or show us” rather than just tracking or releasing it.

Processwork offers a detailed channel theory  — proprioceptive, visual, auditory, kinesthetic, relationship, and world channels — which gives practitioners a precise map for how experience moves through and beyond the body. For someone trained in a single modality, Processwork can offer a significant expansion, since it explains why work in one channel sometimes needs to be picked up in another to actually land.

Practitioners from dance/movement therapy, Authentic Movement, or similar traditions often recognize Processwork’s approach to following even the most subtle signals and movements as a deeply complementary to something they were already sensing and doing, but might not have full language or a completion-oriented structure for.

Extreme and altered body states, chronic illness, near-death states, and coma: Arnold Mindell’s approach to coma work is of particular interest to body-based practitioners who’ve encountered the limits of what conventional body or somatic therapy offers when a client is in an unresponsive or  in an extreme state, and who want tools for staying in relationship with the body even there.

The dreambody concept connects the individual body to relationship and group process without changing frameworks. A body-based practitioner can use the same channel and edge concepts to track signal and work with signals where they appear.

Process Work gives change-makers, leaders and activists a name and method to work with dynamics they’re already living inside every day, working with power, exclusion, and conflict at a systemic level.

  • Processwork is committed to Deep democracy and  utilizes techniques for working with groups to value and support all voices, including marginalized, minority, or unpopular viewpoints in a room or a movement. For activists frustrated by movements that preach inclusion but still reproduce the same silencing patterns internally, this gives concrete practice, not just aspiration.
  • Rank theory gives precise, usable language for power. Instead of “privilege” as a static or accusatory label, Arnold Mindell’s (founder of Processwork) framework treats rank as fluid, contextual, and something everyone carries in some form (social, positional, psychological, spiritual). Many leaders and activists find this approach more workable for actually shifting behavior beyond the binary of oppressor/oppressed framing, without abandoning a clear-eyed analysis of structural power.
  • Processwork offers a way to work with conflict as generative. Worldwork treats polarization, hot conflict, and even breakdown potentially transformative – if a group can stay with it rather than avoid or suppress it. For people leading through genuinely divided spaces, whether communities, coalitions or boards, this reframes conflict from a failure of leadership into an opportunity for growth and deepened cohesion.
  • For activists specifically, burnout, despair, grief and rage  can be difficult to manage. Processwork’s focus on innerwork, somatic experiences, and dreaming gives activists tools to access inner resources and resilience to sustain their outer work.
  • For leaders and change-makers wanting to shift culture rather than just strategy, worldwork gives a methodology for reading and working with the “field” of an organization or movement as a whole — its atmosphere, its ghost roles, its unspoken tensions — rather than only its stated goals and structures, which is often exactly the layer where real change gets stuck or unstuck.

Along side exploring the intersection of psychology and expression, artists and creatives are drawn Processwork for its multidimensional exploration of self, other, and the world around them.

  • Processwork treats altered states, dreams, and even the strange or “irrational” impulses that show up in the creative process as meaningful signals rather than a distraction. Arnold Mindell’s concept of “dreaming up” and working with the dreambody gives artists language for something they already know experientially – something pulling them somewhere unplanned, a recurring image or obsession, etc.
  • Taking this a step further: because Processwork is fundamentally about staying with what’s unfolding, it shares tools and methods to unfold these experiences. In this way, it resonates with artists who are more interested in where the work takes them than in executing a predetermined vision. This is especially true for people doing improvisational art forms where “the making” is the point.
  • Processwork shares tools for working with blocks and edges. The idea of an “edge” (the place where someone approaches the limit of their current identity or knowing and pulls back, or gets ‘stuck’) maps directly onto the concept of a creative block and the fear of a piece going somewhere too raw or too unfamiliar. Artists studying Processwork often do so specifically to understand their own blocks or edges, and to help other artists (as teachers or facilitators) work through theirs.
  • Body and movement are treated as primary channels of expression, not secondary to verbal or visual output. This draws in artists working in dance, movement, performance, and body-based art, since Processwork has a whole vocabulary (channels, double signals, amplification) for translating body sensation and movement into expressive form.
  • Drawing on lineage: Mindell’s own roots in Jungian thought, Taoism, and physics give Processwork an intellectual depth and mythic essence which appeals to artists already working with symbol, archetype, or altered states of awarness in their practice — it offers a coherent cosmology for that sensibility rather than treating it as merely subjective or “woo.”

Processwork has a specific appeal to people who senses that their dreams, symptoms, life experiences and relationships are trying to tell them something.

  • For people already immersed in depth work — Jungian analysis, archetypal psychology, dreamwork — Processwork often reads less like a new field and more like where that lineage was always heading. Arnold Mindell trained as a Jungian analyst, and Processwork picks up core depth concepts including the unconscious as purposeful, the reality of dreams and symbols, and the collective unconscious and extends them somewhere classical depth psychology usually doesn’t go: the body, relationships, groups, and even physics.
  • Dreaming is treated as continuous and everywhere, not confined to sleep. Processwork’s idea of the dreambody means the same unconscious material is showing up right now — in a body symptom, in the tension of a relationship, in what a group keeps circling around without naming. Processwork depth practitioners a way to keep doing depth work even when a client has no dream to report.
  • The unconscious is treated as intelligent and purposeful, lining up closely with a Jungian sensibility that already resists reducing the unconscious to repressed content. Processwork pushes this further into a lived, moment-to-moment following rather than retrospective interpretation — depth workers drawn to active imagination in particular often find Processwork gives that same stance a more developed, in-the-moment method.
  • There’s a strong pull from the Essence and Sentient levels — territory beneath ordinary personal identity, prior to the arising of a symptom, feeling, or role. For depth psychologists already working with concepts like the Self, non-dual awareness, or the numinous, this gives a concrete, teachable way to work with that layer directly, rather than only gesturing toward it philosophically.
  • Mindell’s grounding in Taoism and physics gives depth work a broader cosmological frame without abandoning rigor. People drawn to Jung’s own engagement with alchemy, synchronicity, and his collaboration with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli often find Processwork a natural continuation of that thread — a place where depth psychology, Eastern non-dual thought, and science are held together rather than kept in separate rooms.

And it takes individuation out of the consulting room. Classical depth work can stay largely intrapsychic and dyadic; Processwork treats the same individuating process as happening through relationship conflict, body symptoms, and even social and world-level tension (worldwork), which appeals to depth-oriented practitioners who’ve started to feel that confining the unconscious to one-on-one analysis leaves out most of where it actually shows up in a person’s life.

Processwork’s rich tapestry of origins and makes it one of a few contemporary frameworks that takes the felt sense of carrying a gift or having a calling, seriously.

  • Arnold Mindell’s work on extreme states and spiritual emergency gives explicit permission and method for experiences such as visions, a felt sense of purpose bigger than oneself, unusual sensitivities, mystical or “irrational” experiences. Processwork’s basic stance is that these experiences carry meaning and are signal that something is trying emerge.
  • The Processwork concept of the Essence or Sentience level gives language for a calling as an actual pattern seeking expression.
  • Processwork trains people to sense the underlying pattern beneath a feeling, symptom, or impulse and follow it toward its own form, trusting it contains an inherent wisdom or message.
  • As an awareness training paradigm, Processwork trains people to follow subtle and nuanced signals, giving seekers a structured practice for something they may already do intuitively, or yearn to do. The rigorous focus on innerwork helps students identify and differentiate sources of their hunches, enhancing their trust in what to follow, and what to leave.
  • The Taoist thread of Processwork, which includes following nature, wu wei,  reframes a calling as something to be discovered and followed rather than willed into being. This resonates strongly with people who feel a gift as something moving through them that they’re meant to be in service to, not something they manufacture or perform.
  • There’s also a real container and lineage on offer. People with strong sensitivities or unusual experiences can feel isolated, and Processwork’s community — along with its roots touching shamanic and indigenous traditions — gives that a professional and communal home, alongside structured training that includes doing one’s own inner work rather than only acquiring external technique.
  • And for those whose sense of calling points outward — toward the world, not just their own development — worldwork gives a path from personal gift to larger service: a way to carry a felt sense of purpose into community, conflict, and global-scale work, with rank theory built in so a strong gift or presence can be held with awareness of its impact rather than exercised without that awareness.

At PWI, learning is guided by one's dreams, passions and the living intelligence of the process itself.

Dimensions of

The Processwork Paradigm

Learn frameworks that help you make sense of what is happening and know what to do about it using your unique gifts

01. Somatic Work



Following the body, learning to read chronic symptoms, body language and sensations as meaningful signals to be integrated into wholeness.

02. Dreams



Unfolding the figures and experiences in night time dreams as messages from the deep psyche. And relting to waking life as a "dreaming" process rich with information and meaning.

03. Inner Work



Work with your own experience to attune your awareness and understand your emotions, creativity, life myth, building an achored foundation.

04. Relationships



dentify the dynamics beneath couple and family conflict to discover the deeper truth underneath the friction. A wealth of skills for moving through conflict and creating deeper intimacy.

05. Groups & Organizations



Find the wisdom in the marginalized voices and experiences most organizations try to ignore. Use the systems intelligence of the group to find the way forward.

06. World & Social Issues



Using deep democracy, open forum facilitation and conflict work to get to the emotional realities underneath social polarization and build relationship across difference.

07. States of Consciousness



Flowing with diverse alter states in yourself and others with skill and presence. Gain skills for extreme states, trauma, addiction, coma and near-death.

08. Advanced Practitioner Skills



Supervision, ethics, professional development, advanced skills you can use in practice right away. And the conceptual architecture that holds it all together.

choose your journey

Two Learning Pathways

Both programs are self-guided,
globally accessible and designed around
your individual learning process. 

01

Certificate in Processwork

  • For those who have dabbled in Process Work and are ready to explore more
  • Designed to be completed in one year. 
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02

Self-Guided Diploma in Processwork

  • For those with a foundational understanding of Process Work who are ready to to gain embodied facility of the paradigm.
  • Requires a certificate or equivalent experience. 
  • Designed to be completed in 2 years. 
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Certificate in Processwork

A year-long program designed for therapists, coaches, counselors, facilitators and seekers at every level. This certificate gives you the language, the lens and the lived practice to read what’s beneath the surface of your relationships, your body, your recurring patterns. Practitioners find they work differently with clients. Seekers find they move through the world differently. You leave with the ability to track what’s unspoken in a room, to follow a signal towards meaningful insight, to hold complexity in yourself and in others. 

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Self-Guided Diploma

Some people arrive at Processwork and recognize it as the structure beneath things they’ve always sensed but couldn’t name. The Diploma is for those people. It is the path toward becoming someone who can work fluently with human experience in its most alive, difficult and mysterious forms. The skills of the program can be applied to the area you are most interested in working with. 

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Begin Where You Are

The Certificate is the recommended first step for most students.
The Diploma begins with a conversation.
Start the process today.