Arnold Mindell Books

Process work or "pw" (often called "process oriented psychology" or "POP" in Europe and Asia) is a multicultural, multileveled awareness practice. Process work is an evolving, transdisciplinary approach supporting individuals, relationships and organizations to discover themselves. PW focuses on awareness to track "real" and "imaginary" psychological and physical processes that illuminate and possibly resolve inner, relationship, team, and world issues. Process Work theories and methods are available for anyone to experience, and can be tested. There are three levels of focus:
1. At the level of consensus reality, Process Work deals with "real" events, problems, and issues connected with the development of individuals, couples, businesses and cities. Groups and individuals use feelings and facts, to describe conflicts, issues or problems.
2. At the level of dreamland, Process Work deals with dreams, deep feelings, the unspoken truths, "double" or unintentional body signals, "ghosts" (unrepresented figures) and ghost roles in the stories and myths of individuals and organizations. History, visions and transgenerational events are important. Here to, the effects of the future on the present may be sensed.
3. At the deepest nondualistic or "essence" level, Process Work deals with the sense of tendencies which can be felt to move us, but not easily expressed yet in words. This area of human life is sometimes like a subtle atmosphere around people and events, an atmosphere, which can be felt as a moving force, which has not yet explicated itself.
a. Taoism speaks of this level in terms of the "the Tao which cannot be said."
b. In quantum physics, Heisenberg spoke of "tendencies" of the quantum wave function. David Bohm spoke of this area in terms of a system's quantum waves or "pilot waves".
c. This level is non-dualistic: here there are no conflicts. It is a "hyperspace" or detached distance from which we can gain an overview of events.