OPEN FORUM TRAINING. (at The U.N. University)
Process Oriented Open Forum Training
Theme: Dealing with Nuclear Energy Questions
for a more sustainable future.
What does sustainability mean considering problems due to a large aging population, environmental and energy problems, and economic challenges? This will be an OPEN-FORUM training, originally for UNESCO, now with “UN University and Kumamoto University” .
Our goal is to create more teamwork between various viewpoints.
Our main focus will be open forum training, focused on questions about nuclear energy. Expect brief talks about deep democracy and its applications to today’s problems. This will be followed by innerwork training about how to deal with conflicts, inside and out. There may be speakers on various sides of Energy questions. This will leads into a discussion-dialogue integrating worldwork skills.
Focus will be on deep democracy training, vision and sustainability in Japan and worldwide; How do psychology, natural science, ecology and dreams create a better world?
Participants may include: community leaders; mediation researchers and practitioners from academia and NGOs, government and industry persons, and UNU-IAS community, and staff, M.Sc. students.
AGENDA
9:30am -12:30 Open Forum theory and training.
1) Keynote greeting by Prof. Govindan Parayil. Director of UNU-IAS
2) Dr. Darryl Macer (UnitedNationsUniversity and Kumamoto University)
3)Prof Takao Takahashi, (University of Kumamoto)
10.15-12.30 Drs. Arny and Amy Mindell (PWI) will introduce the ideas of deep democracy and worldwork for open forums. Expect training and ideas about system mind, role play, and team-building in small groups and inner work exercises.
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break (with possible optional tutorial-discussion)
1.30-2.45 Introduction and Open Forum on: THe Future of Nuclear Energy
2.45-3 short Tea break.
3-4 Small Group Training including learning summaries.
4.00-415 pm Discussion, discoveries, future learning plans and outer changes
Location:
United Nations University — Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) Website: www.ias.unu.edu
Address: 6F International Organizations Center, Pacifico-Yokohama, 1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-8502 Japan
Tel: +81-45-221-2300
Please Note: this is a 1 day workshop. It is the 2nd day of a 3 day (May8-10) event to research and create communication and dialogue methods and develop plans for a series of dialogues
- Possible reading; Arny’s “Deep Democracy of Open Forums” (will be published in Japanese end of April)
- For more information and registration: (this may possibly be a closed UNU event)
- Special thanks to Dr. Akiko Ishihara, Dr. Darryl Macer, Dr.Takao Takahashi,and others for their co-creation of this event. Also many thanks to Kumamoto University and UNESCO Bankok for co-hosting the event
Dr. Darryl Macer,
Regional Advisor on Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific,
Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP),
Previously from UNESCO Bangkok:
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.unescobkk.org/rushsap
Dr.Takao Takahashi, PhD
Professor of ethics, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Kumamoto University
[email protected]
Dr. Akiko Ishihara, MA MPH
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Kumamoto University
[email protected]
Organisation Sustainability and Process Support
Insight and support for political and organizational processes. (Not public classes or seminars)
Connect with [email protected] for Details
SPRING CLASSES
Amy Classes: Wednesdays May 22 from 9:15am-12:15 and May 29 from 9:30-12:30
Your Unique Style and Dreaming Nature as Therapist/Facilitator
In this class we’ll continue to explore special aspects of your unique style and creative nature as a therapist/facilitator/coach, etc. Through discussions and exercises we’ll explore such questions as: How does nature speak through you? What special style and dreaming is trying emerge in your work and how does it enhance your learned skills? Distance accessible via teleconference. May 29 class will include MAPW Cohort 3.
=============================
Arny’s Fri Afternoon 3.30-6.30 Classes May 17, 24:
INNER WORK’S
2nd TRAINING MYSTERY,
PRACTICE, SUPERVISION, and Tao Te Ching EXPERIMENTS
With Work In the Center
Inner work is as much a method (1st training) as it is meditative or spiritual practice (2nd training). Recognize your own favorite innerwork “styles”, use them with your skills and belief systems. What is your style? Do you sit and meditate, or do you watch people at the outdoor cafe? Do you speak to the heavens? Each has her own style! If you do innerwork all night, why not do more during the day?
In a way, all forms of helping others are forms of “innerwork supervision”. So be prepared to learn methods and explore “your true nature”, that is your processmind found in nonlocal “Tao Te Ching” fields. Your inner work will also help you help others==>
- May 17; 2nd Training in Innerwork +Supervision in the Center
- May 24; 2nd Training in Innerwork as Public Conversation. Is innerwork outerwork?
================================
Arny’s Fri Evening Classes May 17, 24, 31 7.30-9.30P,M.
Fri 17 Diplomate Supervision
(For Dips. only)For those meeting face to face, the place is at the Process Work Institute.
For diplomates joining from a distance by phone, please first contact Kamisia at [email protected]
===============================
Fri 24 Supervision: severe illness, near death, 1 to 1, family, organizations.
Focus on inner development and outer work with severe illness and near death, then one to one, family,and organizational situations
Open to Public, also Distant Learning via telephone conference, audio and/or video streaming. Contact [email protected]
===============================
Fri 31 Case crystallization for groups and organizations(and if time, families, 1-to 1, illness…)
Focus on inner development and outer work-understanding with all stakeholders in family, organizational, human rights issues and political systems.
Open to the Public, also Distant Learning via telephone conference, audio and/or video streaming Contact [email protected]
2 Hour Diplomate Supervision on Fri Evening.
We shall continue focusing on personal work, therapy, organizational issues, and teaching questions.
We shall briefly reconsider the use of webex to connect internationally etc.
For those meeting face to face, the place is at the Process Work Institute.
For diplomates joining from a distance by phone, please first contact Kamisia at [email protected].
Conflict Resolution and Open Forum Experiences for sustainable world processes.
Amy and Arny will share in this free open public discussion evening, some of their
Conflict resolution and open forum methods and experiences
in places such as Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, U.K., U.S. (US military, racial diversity, climate change..), and most recently with U.N. University in Japan. (They focused on nuclear energy there.)
What are sustainable organizations and world communities? Topics will include ideas about nature of conflict, the meaning of “resolution”, open forum methods, small and large group processes.
Expect a Relaxed 1 hour talk followed by time for questions and discussion. (If time, there will be a short innerwork exercise on conflict work.)
Venue: Yachats Oregon, In the “Commons”
Corner of 101 and 4th St, Multipurpose Room.
August 30, 2013 6:30-730 talk, questions 7.30-745 or 8.
Suggested donation of $5.- to cover organization by the “Yachats Academy for Arts and Sciences.”
For more on the Yachats Academy, see http://www.youtube.com/user/YachatsAcademy
The TAO of CONFLICT and PEACE: Lao Tse’s 2nd Training
THE TAO OF CONFLICT AND PEACE
How Your Personal Myth Facilitates Social +Organizational Issues
Yachats Oregon, Sept 6-8, 2013
LAO TSE’S 2nd TRAINING and Taoist teachings
to work 1 to 1, and with SMALL GROUPS and OPEN FORUMs
Personal and Organizational visions like that of the United Nations are meant to help our world live and work together. Yet the U.N., as all of our organizations, may need special methods that deal realistically with troublesome conflicts. We need basic 1st training cognitive skills and 2nd training wisdom.
To be realized, relationship, organizational, and world visions can benefit
from process-work ethics and methods.
In this seminar we link
new Personal Myth and System Mind Methods
with the teachings of Lao Tse’s “Tao Te Ching”.
to update our methods to work with complex personal +world issues.
EXPECT:
- this seminar to be useful for beginners and those advanced in processwork.
- Supervision of new Personal-Myth and Music Work that helps facilitate (and dance with
) face to face conflict. - Report on recent learning working at the United Nations University with Nuclear Energy problems in Japan
- 2nd Training Award Announcements for those who pass this year.
DAY 1. YOUR PERSONAL LEADERSHIP MYTH and TAOIST MUSIC: Your innate power to help the world.
DAY 2. THE TAO + ETHICS OF ORGANIZATIONS: Inner work and open forum practice.
DAY 3. 2nd Training INTERNATONAL +SOCIAL ISSUE FORUM: Self-testing (and certificate discussion).
For possible updates check: back here by mid June.
- To Register on Line, Click:http://tinyurl.com/Tao-Conflict-Peace
- For ***Contact Dr. Jai Tomlin at [email protected]
- Tel USA 541-265-9210
- Scholarships available! Apply by latest, July 1
- Venue: Oregon Coast; The Lion’s Club, 4th Street, Yachats, Oregon, USA;
- Timing: Fri Sept 6: 1-7pm, Sat Sept 7, 10-7 (Vegetarian dinner included) Sun Sept 8, 9:30-4:30pm
- Background reading (possible but not necessary): Amy’s Metaskills, Arny’s Dance of the Ancient One, and the Deep Democracy of Open Forums
==> This seminar connects with Process Work Institute of Portland programs
==>CE Credits, that is, continuing education credits are available for this seminar. (Process Work Institute is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and a co- sponsor of this event/program. Process Work Institute may award NBCC-approved clock hours for events or programs that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP maintains responsibility for the content of this event.)
Fall Classes Portland
Amy Classes: September 18 and 25 9:15-12:15
MOODY PUPPETS AND SPIRITS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Grumpy, happy, critical, spacey? Moods and atmospheres are powerful and often unseen forces that contain seeds of creativity. In this class we’ll put them into living form by creating colorful and imaginative puppets. We’ll interact with them, discover their teachings for our personal and group lives, and even learn how they can interpret dreams! (No art experience necessary! $10 for materials if possible)
==========================================================
Arny’s Fri Afternoon 3.30-6.30 Classes Sept 13, 20, 27 :
The TAO and MUSIC of BODY SYMPTOMS
A POST COPERNICAN 2nd Training with the Dreaming Body
Allopathic or “realistic” approaches to the body are important but based upon the consensus reality view which sees symptoms as mainly “BAD”. Because consensus reality approaches can submerge dreams and “the whole person”, such approaches are not always sufficient.
But who is this “whole person”? The 2nd training in body work integrates the “real” and the cosmological/quantum logical reality of “healer” and “client.” Processwork, in its broadest sense involves “modeling” relationship to the universe. Thus, in this class, symptom work will include the mystery and Tao of Symptoms,
including singing+ dancing
Our dreaming bodies have both classical and dreamlike “quantum logic”. Understanding the “logic” behind symptoms can be relieving. We shall apply new insights to how Symptoms and Social issues are connected
-
Class 1: THE MELODY OF YOUR SYMPTOMS, Social Issues and Health
-
Class 2: THE TAO OF LIFE (and death) and Why there may be No “Symptoms”
-
Class 3: DYING TO LIVE, SING and DANCE. Symptoms +Relationships
Where? At the Processwork Institute in Portland, on line, via audio and video streaming.
Register and more info at [email protected]
==========================================================
Arny’s Fri Evening Classes 7.30-9.30
Sept 13 Organizational Case Crystallization for groups and organizations(and if time, families, 1-to 1, illness…)
Focus on inner development and outer work-understanding with all stakeholders in family, organizational, and political systems.
Open to the Public, also Distant Learning via telephone conference, audio and/or video streaming Contact [email protected]
Sept 20.Supervision: severe illness, near death, 1 to 1, family, organizations.
Focus on inner development and outer work with severe illness and near death, then one to one, family,and organizational situations
Open to Public, also Distant Learning via telephone conference, audio and/or video streaming. Contact [email protected]
Sept 27 Case Crystallization for all
Focus on inner development and outer work with one to one, family,and organizational situations, then if time severe illness and near death,
Open to Public, also Distant Learning via telephone conference, audio and/or video streaming. Contact [email protected]
================================
Arny’s Sunday Evening Class 7.30-9.30pm
Fri 29 Diplomate Supervision
For those meeting face to face, the place is at the Process Work Institute.
For diplomates joining from a distance by phone, please first contact Kamisia at [email protected]
===============================
2 Hour Diplomate Supervision
Portland, Oregon
6-8 pm Portland Time Sunday Evening.
We shall continue focusing on personal work, therapy, organizational issues, and teaching questions.
We shall briefly reconsider the use of webex to connect internationally etc.
For those meeting face to face, the place is at the Process Work Institute.
For diplomates joining from a distance by phone, please first contact Kamisia at [email protected].
World Issues, “Leadership” support
November and December; research, writing, and
World Issues, “Leadership” support for those trying to help their organizations and nations.
Connect to [email protected]