About Amy and Arny Mindell

Dr. Amy Mindell is in private therapeutic practice in Portland, Oregon and teaches in many countries in the world. She helped developed process oriented psychology in the areas of coma, creativity, and dance. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology and is a diplomate of the Process Oriented Psychology Center of Zurich. She wrote Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy, Riding the Horse Backwards with Arny, Coma, a Healing Journey, and An Alternative to Therapy as well as many papers in professional journals. Her work with art, music and puppets appears in her newest book “The Dreaming Source of Creativity”. Her studies of the feeling skills in therapy, or "metaskills", are at the core of much of her work.

Dr. Arny Mindell is also in private practice in Portland, Oregon, and teaches with Amy in many places. He is known for his development of the "dreambody" and "process work" (process oriented psychology). He is the author of 19 books in 21 languages, including Dreambody, The Shaman's Body, Quantum Mind, and Quantum Mind and Healing. Arny has an M.S. from M.I.T., was a Jungian training analyst, and has a Ph.D. in psychology. He is also known in the area of conflict management for his Sitting in the Fire and for his integration of psychology and physics, work on dreams, bodywork, relationships, and for interventions in near death situations.

Amy and Arny are often keynote speakers at international conferences on therapy, psychology, physics, and conflict work and have been on local and national radio and TV in many other countries. They work together as a team, teaching, doing town meetings, and working on conflict resolution and organizational development projects for small and large businesses, cities, and Aboriginal communities. They have been resident teachers at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Ca. Members of scientific and Aboriginal communities have applauded Arny and Amy's trans-disciplinary work.

They are avid researchers, and love skiing, running and hiking. They reside part of the year in Portland Oregon, where they give classes at the Processwork Institute with many other colleagues. They live part of the year on the Oregon coast where they do residential seminars and watch whales.

Education, Awards and Affiliations

Amy Mindell

• To Amy and Arny Mindell, The New Dimensions Broadcaster Award, “Casting Seeds in a Wide Arc”, for vision, commitment, and contribution to humanity and the planet, October 17, 1998

• Process Work Trainer, 1984-

• PhD - educational focus, Clinical Psychology. Union Institute 1991

• Diploma in Process Oriented Psychology, Zurich ProcessWork Institute, 1984

• Masters of Arts, Psychology, Antioch University, 1985

• BA, Dance and Theatre, Antioch, 1981.

Arny Mindell

• “Quantum Mind and Healing” was in the top best 10 of four thousand five hundred books on Mind, Body and Spirit in 2005 rated by the independent award judges of New Age Retailer Narcissus Group.
• To Amy and Arny Mindell, The New Dimensions Broadcaster Award, “Casting Seeds in a Wide Arc”, for vision, commitment, and contribution to humanity and the planet, October 17, 1998
• Gold Medal recipient -Gem of Alternative Medicine/Shiromani (for outstanding contribution in the field of holistic health and education from Indian Board of Alternative Medicines, Calcutta.) Sept 8, 1996
• Process Work Trainer, 1980- ·
• Training Analyst, Jungian Psychology, 1977
• PhD. Union Institute, Psychology, 1971
• Diploma in Analytical Psychology. Jung Institute, Zurich, 1970
• Research: Time Reversibility in Physics, E.T.H. Zurich, 1964-66
• Masters in Science, M.I.T., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, 1964
• B.S. and B.A. (summa cum laude)in Science and Languages, Union College, 1962
• Nominated to the Sigma Xi, Honorary Society for research in Science and Engineering, 1962
• Nominated to the Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary Society for Academic Achievement. 1962
  

Clients

Some of the client organizations who have ask for the Mindells' assistance have been the Amani counseling and Training center, Nairobi Kenya, the US Government, BP (British Petroleum), HP, (Hewlett Packard), GM (General Motors), Nokia, Specialized Hospitals, Psychological and Growth organizations, various Universities around the world, as well as Aboriginal communities and many smaller companies.

Further details

From Switzerland to the USA; in 1990 after beginning a process work center in Zurich Forschungs Gemeindschaft fuer Prozess Orientierte Psychologie( www.prozessarbeit.ch ) Amy and Arny moved from Switzerland to Portland, Oregon (USA). Together with many friends founded the Process Work Institute (in Portland).

Professional Status; Arny and Amy are registered professional psychologists in Japan. They both belong to the international association of process workers. Swiss Diplomates in Process Oriented Psychology are insurance-licensed in Switzerland, as well as in other countries.

Jungian Connections. Arny teaches and writes for Jung Institutes and Jungian societies worldwide.

Recent Presentations: The names of the recent international conferences where Amy and Arny have been keynote speakers can be found under the News category found on the home page.

Presentations in the early 1990's. Amy and Arny gave keynotes speeches for the Humanistic Psychology Assocition, For Transpersonal Psychology Conferences, the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution, …

Awards: In 1998, Amy and Arny were awarded the New Dimensions Broadcaster Award from New Dimensions Radio Network. (For vision, commitment, and contribution to humanity and the planet)

Past Employment in Science. In the late 1960's Arny worked for the General Electric Atomic Power Research Laboratories in upstate New York (on electron-gun memory systems), for M.I.T on the aerodynamics and biophysics of aquatic wave-like propulsion systems. In Switzerland he worked at the E.T.H on the theory of nonlinear coupled (Onsager) processes and at Sulzer Corporation, on chemical physics research.

Today's Goals: A+A's are interested today in bringing together psychology, physics, biology, theatre, politics and consciousness studies using the philosophy and principles of Deep Democracy (see the article about this on this web site). They call themselves, "psycho-social activists" seeking a new social and scientific ethics.

Organizational, Diversity and Conflict Work
Some of the many conflict situations A+A have facilitated in open forum, organizational and community settings (for groups, communities, universities, cities and international organizations) have included:

• Aboriginal Land Rights Issues in Australia, the U.S. and Canada

• Terrorist/ Freedom Fighter themes in Ireland, Israel, and the U.S.

• Diversity issues such as Black Panther themes, Latino-Anglo relationships, Israeli- Palestinian understanding, Gay rights, Revolution-tensions during pre-revolutionary times in Russia and S. Africa, Diversity issues for the U.S. Army, East Asian- Korean-Japanese-Chinese forums in the US, Japan, India, Germany, Switzerland, U.K….

• Sexual misconduct, power abuse and financial corruption allegations in many places including spiritual communities.

• Australia, Adelaide, Cairns, Sydney
• Austria, Vienna
• Brazil, Manaus, Rio de Janeiro
• Canada, Haida Gwaii, Vancouver
• France, Evian, Les Bains
• Germany, Frankfurt, Wurtsburg, Hamburg
• Greece, Athens
• India, Mumbai
• Israel, Haifa, Tel Aviv
• Italy, Cisternino, Rome
• Ireland, Belfast, Dublin
  
• Japan, Fukuoka, Kobe, Kyoto, Tokyo
  
• Kenya, Mombasa, Nairobi
  
• Mexico, Mexico City
  
• Poland, Warsaw
  
• Russia, Moscow, St. Petersburg
  
• Slovakia, Bratislava
  
• S. Africa, Cape Town, Johannesburg
  
• S. Korea, Seoul
  
• Scotland, Forres
  
• Spain, Barcelona
  
• Switzerland, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Zurich
  
• UK, Bristol, London
  
• USA, Albuquerque, Ann Arbor, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Cincinnati, Dallas, D. C. , Denver, Honolulu, Houston, LA, New Orleans, NYC, Phil., Portland, Rhinebeck, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Seattle, Yachats.

(A more detailed list of their background is available upon request. See books for more theory)