Get to Know Processwork: Free Lecture Series
The Process Work Institute would like to invite you to get to know Processwork by participating in our ongoing free lecture series–NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! In this next distance friendly seminar Pierre Morin, MD, PhD, will be sharing his knowledge and experience of Processwork and how he uses it to make change in the world.
Scroll below for details about each course and how you can participate in person or online! Please note: times and dates of each lecture vary. All times given in Local Portland time (-7 UTC).
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COMING UP…
ME, YOU, & THE WORLD: PROCESSWORK APPROACHES TO WORKING WITH GROUPS AND WORLD ISSUES
Aleksandr Peikrishvili, PWDipl
Friday | February 7th | 6 pm – 7:30 pm PST
This class is meant to:
- introduce and/or refresh a Processwork lens to working and being with groups and the world inside and out.
- create a space and time where we as a group explore what we are learning by applying it to our experience as a group.
- be a reminder of what moves us as facilitators and how it shapes our facilitation style
- provide an understanding of core Processwork beliefs of deep democracy and following dreaming process and practice them
- begin to develop awareness of our and other’s experiences of power and how we use it towards ourselves, others and the world.
This class will have a practice lab and community/world application options depending on the interest and passion of the class participants: we will meet monthly for six months to practice and apply class learning and will create a community event together based on the interest of those gathered.
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“I am inspired and moved to offer the class following my experience of world work seminar in Greece in April, a large group application of Processwork group work, with 540 people gathered together from over 50 countries working together on world issues of refugees, race, gender, economy, sexual orientation, colonialism, creating a space to be together and explore the issues of the world outside as they appear among us-this is a need and a aspiration I have coming back into the field in the US and Portland, with its agonizing history and present political climate.” – A. Peikrishvili
Distance: Live Web Stream – No Registration Required (On the day, click “Join Online Classroom” button above to access the live stream)
Cost: FREE
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Level: All levels of Processwork experience
Stay tuned for more free lectures and get to know Processwork!
PAST LECTURES:
SICKNESS IN HEALTH: THE PREVALENCE OF HEALTH DISPARITIES & ITS IMPACT ON COMMUNITY HEALTH
Pierre Morin, PhD
Wednesday | February 8th | 7 pm – 9 pm
Social marginalization and low rank leads to life challenges and struggles which leads to ill-health. The unequal distribution of social life conditions creates health disparities and the cumulative impact of our inequitable social contracts kills people.
Looking at the healh challenges of underprivileged community members in Portland, Oregon, we will discuss concrete steps to lead change in the important diversity and health equity issues.
About Pierre Morin: Pierre Morin, MD, PhD i s the author of Health-in-Sickness, Sickness-in-Health. He is an international Process Work trainer and clinical director of a refugee mental health clinic. He has always been interested in health as well as in approaches that facilitate awareness in health care for individual professionals, patients, and health care administrators. As a medical facilitator he believes that communication and relationships are basic principles in health care. He recognizes the many competing subsidiary issues that need to be addressed in a communicative dialogue (i.e. rising health care costs, health disparities).
Distance: Live Web Stream – No Registration Required (On the day, click “Join Online Classroom” button above to access the live stream)
Cost: FREE
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Level: All levels of Processwork experience
ACTIVISM AND PROCESSWORK: AN ORGANIC UNION
Dawn Menken, PhD
Friday | August 26 | 5 pm – 6 pm
Process Work has always had a strong draw for activists, people who want to impact our world and make change.
Come join Dawn Menken for a free lecture to learn and discuss how Process Work offers a valuable framework to understand and deepen the process of change and to inspire us in an everyday form of activism.
Distance: Live Web Stream – No Registration Required (On the day, click “Join Online Classroom” button above to access the live stream)
Cost: FREE
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Level: All levels of Process work experience
LEARNING ABOUT OUT-OF-ORDINARY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND HOW TO ENGAGE WITH THEM
Ingrid Rose, PhD
Thursday | September 1st | 7 pm – 8 pm
How do we make contact and join with those who are in far-out states of consciousness such as those found in deep altered states, dementia, coma and near-death? Medical research is only just beginning to acknowledge that the person in deeply altered, vegetative or comatose states, still shows a degree of consciousness. Methods of making contact are generally still being developed.
Processwork, however, has an already established toolbox of techniques and interventions that are used not only to access the profound experiences often found within these states, but to also cultivate an awareness for all concerned of the deep meaning which may be held there.
In this talk, Ingrid Rose, will share with you some theoretical concepts, case studies and examples, highlighting how Processwork methods are used and how they embrace all experiences as valuable for the individual and those around them even when those experiences are disturbing. Not only do we look at how to value these often uninvited guests, but also how to engage with them to unravel deep insights into the unique process of each individual.
Distance: Live Web Stream – No Registration Required (On the day, click “Join Online Classroom” button above to access the live stream)
Cost: FREE
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Level: All levels of Process work experience
POLITICS AND PSYCHOLOGY
Vassiliki Katrivanou
Friday | September 16th | 5 pm-6 pm
In this open forum Vassiliki will discuss the challenges from being a member of the Greek Parliament while Greece is in the midst of deep political, economical and existential crisis, and how Process Oriented Psychology was a resource of helpful insights and support.
About Vassiliki: Vassiliki Katrivanou served as a member of the Greek Parliament for four years and member of the Parliamentary Committee of The Council of Europe for two years. Before that she worked internationally as a therapist, trainer and facilitator in conflict resolution. She holds a Diploma and aMasters in Process Work and a Masters in Conflict Resolution (Portland State). She directed together with Bushra Azzouz the documentary Women of Cyprus (www.womenofcyprusfilm.com).
Distance: Live Web Stream – (On the day, click “Join Online Classroom” button above to access the live stream)
Cost: FREE
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Classroom: Big Room; Process Work Institute | Portland, OR
Level: All levels of Process work experience