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Portland Fall Classes in Portland

Amy Classes: Sept. 20, 27 and Oct. 4 pwi@processwork.org.
9:15-12:15 . “DISCOVERING YOUR GIFTS: An In Depth Exploration Of Your Personal Therapeutic Style”

Our greatest gifts as therapists are often hidden or unseen. These gifts accompany us yet we are not always aware of their presence and how to use them best. In this class we will explore the beauty and challenges of our personal style through exercises, poetry, and special forms of interpersonal supervision.

Arny’s Friday Classes: Sept. (not 15) 22, 29, Oct 6.
Available-At-A-Distance + Online
3.30.-6.30 DEATH: The LAST ENEMY? Aging and Incarnation, How to Live with Life and Death in Mind. New Approaches and Practices to Eternal Questions.

In the everyday practice of any therapist, around the world, Death is one of the most challenging and important common themes. Death is also a worldwork issue: a plague in the 14th century killed 75 million people. Bird flu threatens today. Death is central to the meaning of life, our goals, and how we identify ourselves. How do we come to terms with aging, severe illness and our physical end? What does process theory say about the states and processes of life and death? About time, (re-)incarnation, and awareness in near-death states?
Death appears frequently symbolized in dreams and in the media by skulls, angels, tombstones, as heaven or hell or the "grim reaper". These sybols correspond to specifc common life time experiences I will explore in this class with the help of don Juan (in Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan") who says, "Death is the last enemy of the man of knowledge." But don Juan also calls "Death the greatest ally." In Buddhism, Taoism and ancient Greece, death is the greatsest teacher of process; "Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed" (Greek philosopher Heraclitus 536-470 BCE).
We will explore state changes including alterations of time, space and identity. These three 3-hour classes include: theory, work in the center and exercises around the following themes:
1. Death as Life's Advisor; How Death fears and the Earth "Heal" symptoms.
2. Liberation & Death; Physics-Arrow of time, Dreamtimne, Annihilation the Grim Reaper
3. Tombstones, Burial, and Coma; Yoga, and Altered State work with Fatigue, Dementia, etc.

Note 1. Please contact Arny before the class if you would like to work on death fears or near death experiences you have or have had.

Note 2. Exercises involve strong altered states; you can be a part of class and learn about altered states without doing the exercises.

This foregoing class of Arny's is open to the general public and to the public at-a-distance via INTERNET/PHONE
Contact pwi@processwork.org. “Distant Learning Access” to classes is “live” through phone bridges, and after the event via audio-recordings of the class available. If you want to sign up for a class with distance access, contact the PWI office at pwi@processwork.org. Please sign up as early as you can to be on the phone bridge and/or the audio-file download. If you have more questions about distance access, connect to leesparkjones@earthlink.net. Connect to amy@aamindell (add .net) to be on the “Pw-Theory and Practice” string for after class discussions.

Case Crystallization. Also-Available-At-A- Distance
7.30-9.30

For phase II and Diplomates (to keep the group small). Supervision of work with Individuals, couples, teams, and groups.
NOTE last class October 6 will be open to those working clinically with the Dying. pwi@processwork.org.

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