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Process Work
Process-Oriented Psychology or Process Work (PW) can be described as becoming aware of what is already there in the spontaneous occurrences of our nature, and following and unfolding these signals into the meaningful direction they want to take.
In Process Work we can change fluidly between different levels of communication in the individual, the group and the "world-field" and explore the relationship between them. Inner and outer, action and meditation, personal body symptoms and politics. PW is developing a basic set of ideas for working with and understanding the radical inter-connectedness between all these levels. Based on the idea that it must be possible for example to communicate with anybody or any process in any state, PW has created an amazingly creative and effective set of tools, reaching from working with comatose patients and addictions to large group transformation.
My own background with Process Work
What touched me from the beginning is the deep understanding that POP has for the fact that trainers, leaders and therapists themselves are part of the process of change of a client, group or system. They themselves are challenged all the time to change and to be open about their process. When doing so, they automatically model a new type of leadership. I was first inspired by colleagues in Holland and with one of them, Paula Teutscher, I ran a psychotherapy group during several years in the eighties, based on POP, Psychosynthesis and Voice Dialogue. From about 1990 I participated in many workshops with Max Schuepbach & Jytte Vikkelsoe, Jan Dworkin, and Arnold & Amy Mindell, all renowned POP-trainers.
Much of my way of working with the group-process in Voice Dialogue trainings throughout the years has been inspired by POP. The "addiction work" that comes from POP is usually well-remembered by those who participated in a Voice Dialogue yeartraining. It also helped me to integrate other aspects more naturally, like meditation, dreamwork, relationship -, body - and breathwork, in myself, as well as in my work.
Frans Kocken, 1998