Around the world, people are awakening to disturbing changes in the environment due in part to the industrial revolution and continuing abuse of the earth’s resources.

While the issue of environmental abuse is not new, ecology’s research dealing with changes at the surface of our planet is a new trans-disciplinary study. According to our research and communication with centers for ecological studies in the United States, it seems that there is at present no clear model for planetary processes that include human psychology, conflict resolution, economic analysis, reduction of war machinery, etc.

We all need to support research in this important area by at least by asking , “what is the nature and future of our earth.”  Your pondering and sharing this almost unanswerable question with others, is a valuable contribution to our planet.

Process oriented ecology or POE is part of our present (2012) research, training and Arny’s new book Space-Time Dreaming. POE is the study of and contact with system mind theory and practice derived in part from spiritual traditions and in part from modern cosmology and quantum theory.

These two videos occurred while arny and I (amy) were studying ecology. They show arny playfully researching gravity and ecology and come from his less academic side!   It was I, amy, that wanted to post them. Hope you enjoy them! The videos are part of an upcoming series on process oriented psychology and ecology.

WHAT IS GRAVITY?

GRAVITY AND KIDS

We were touched by the way in which the environmental activist, poet and writer Louis Alemayehu describes the earth in his~The Holy Land is All the Earth~. Click here to see his poetry: the-holy land is all the Earth Louis.Alemayehu@gmail.com

Why are gifted professional facilitators often not able to use their methods when dealing with their own very personal issues?

We are exploring “second trainings” for innerwork, relationships, large group and ecological processes. In first trainings, we learn methods to bring people together, who have usually agreed to follow given peacemaking procedures. Worldwork has been devoted to these situations, (as well as to situations where people are not ready to speak peacefully with one another, or may not even want to come together).

Now we are exploring a mastery level “second” facilitation training that works not only with groups, but also with difficult personal, relationship, family and environmental scenes as well. Second trainings apply deep inner experience to resolve troubled personal and outer situations.

Updated 1 year later; April 2010

These past months, processwork practice for both of us has involved large scale tense conflict around the world, helping with severe illness, as well as everyday troubles. These human realities inspire our research, classes and our “2nd Training” seminars.– What innerwork, what kind of spirituality if any–actually helps deal with complex inner and world problems!? Those with second training experience using the processmind seem at least at this point to be best at all this.

We enjoyed this video (thanks to Phyllis Kramer) because it shows how two very different types of animals — a dog and an elephant– connect beyond differences.  click here.

In this 25 page article, Amy Mindell comes out of the closet with her politics of dreaming. Written for the intellectual and also for the artistic mind, focused as well on the general public, Amy clearly makes her point.

The world is run without awareness or consciousness of the deepest, most creative parts of our souls. That is, Dreaming is an organic and necessary element of all world process. Dreaming changes group atmosphere, deepens interactions and creates sustainable change.

Download “World Work and the Politics of Dreaming” (2.6MB)

An Unedited Interview With Amy and Arny Mindell,
by MS Linda Ceriello braveboldnow@yahoo.com
12/26/2007

We appreciate Ms Linda Ceriello for her interest in bridging gaps between people of different belief systems.  Her interview refers to a large open city forum, that occurred in Portland, Oregon several years ago. That forum was created by the Process Work Institute of Portland. Amy and Arny were co facilitators. The theme was about the relationship between the Oregon Citizens alliance, (a conservative Christian political activist organization) and Lesbian and Gay Rights. Her interview with A+A was excerpted from a longer interview. See the attached file, worldwork and religion.

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Thanks to the late Ms. Wilma Jean Tucker for having created the Oakland California open forum setting. Because of her, we were able to process some of the public’s feelings, both the hurt and heartfulness connected to racial issues in the United States. This forum occurred just before the “Rodney King Trial”, 1992. Mr King had been unfairly beaten by police, in a widely publicized video, sent by TV around the world at that time. A few days before the trial,  the public atmosphere in Oakland California, was highly charge just as other largely African American cities were around the US. For some amazing reason, Oakland was one of the few places which did not break out into riots after that trial.

We hope that the large open forum gathering and people’s ability to express and deeply relate to one another, may have contributed to the possible outer lack of riots. Our hope is that learning to process large open public forums on difficult, historical topics, may contribute to a better world for everyone. See the attached link San Francisco Chronicle article by Mr Don Lattin who reported on that forum. (because the newspaper article was difficult to scan, the text is reproduced from the original. Click here to see the article.

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A reader of Arny’s Sitting in the Fire, recently asked about Chapter 3 which discusses rank. She wanted to know why Arny capitalized the names of many peoples, such as Aboriginal Australians, Latinos, Africans, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, but did not capitalize whites?

The answer is that in the mid 1990’s, Arny was (and still is) trying to compensate for the overwhelming rank given to white people over others in many parts of the world. But the more complete answer is that compensating for rank, by lowering one’s status (e.g. from White to white)  is only the beginning of social action.  It is not sustainable, because in the grandest sense of deep democracy which includes all worlds, everyone has equal value.  Moreover, every experiential level has equal value, (even if we still occasionally emphasize Dreaming over consensus reality ).