Process Work Institute

We experience this principle in terms of our own curiosity about ourselves!

The next time something in you catches your attention, a dream fragment or a feeling you can't place, you might follow it for a moment. That interest in yourself could be how the larger world gets to know itself.

When a dream stays with you into the afternoon, or you notice your hand moving before you decided to move it, there's a small pull to wonder what that was. Most of us brush it aside and get on with the day.

Processwork asks us to stay with that wondering a little longer. The curiosity you feel about yourself may be part of a much older curiosity, the world's own interest in becoming aware of itself, working its way through one person at a time :)

✅ Just Released: Forgetting to Remember
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For all those folks out there who love the calm and kindred space Stan Tomandl and Ann Jacob hold, this one is for you! There's a short lead time, starting on October 6 already, but a topic close to many of our hearts, whether personally or through the ones we love: Forgetting to Remember.

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We are always more acutely aware of where we have low rank than where we have high rank. You can probably think of many situations where you felt like the abused, but few where you were the abuser. As Arnold Mindell says, the more rank you have, the less you know it's there.

What does it mean to bring this understanding into our world work and our relationships? Maybe something about being aware of our various ranks. Working with the spirits in the field. Taking feedback from others about our impact serious and tending to our own unconscious behavior. As Arnold Mindell says, "In warning others not to abuse power, we are heard best when we remain aware that our own use of power can be blind and addictive."

"The origin of your thoughts, observations and dreams is happening right now, in the background of everyday consensus reality. As you become more lucid during the day, you can predict what you're going to think, dream, and do before you go to sleep at night.

Perhaps the only reason nighttime dreams sometimes seems so difficult to understand is that usually do not pay attention to tendencies, vague sensations, hunches, feelings, aches and pains. You notice the Dreaming, only when it gets to the point of unfolding, only when a body sensation already hurts. You probably pay attention to your ideas only when they're almost formulated. The more lucid you become, the more you will note your experiences before they reach the level where they can be clearly felt, thought about, and remembered.

The psychological reason for ignoring the Dreaming is that you learn to separate yourself from these elementary tendencies, sensations, preverbal feelings and thoughts. Thus today you tend to neglect and dissociate from whatever you cannot comprehend with your ordinary mind.

In other words, dreams are difficult to understand not because they're naturally mysterious, but because you've dissociated yourself from your their source. From our developing perspective of lucidity, dreams are the products of Dreaming, just as a tree is the result of a seed in the ground."

Arnold Mindell, Dreaming While Awake

Looking for new ways of understanding your triggers? Not simply as problems to manage, but as signals carrying information, perspective, and possibility?

Tracing Our Triggers: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/23914107/about
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This Workshop is For You if You've Ever…

✨Been surprised by the intensity of your reaction.

✨Wondered why certain people push your buttons.

✨Found yourself replaying conversations long after they ended.

✨Felt stuck in recurring emotional patterns.

✨Reacted in ways that didn't make sense to you afterward.

✨Wanted more choice when strong emotions arise.

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Most approaches treat triggers as something to manage, control, or overcome.

This workshop takes a different approach.

What if your trigger is carrying information?

What if the irritation, defensiveness, hurt, frustration, or strong emotional charge is pointing toward something important that wants your attention?

Together we'll explore how triggers show up in the body, how they shape our perceptions and reactions, and how awareness can help us move from automatic reaction toward greater choice, understanding, and perspective.

Because sometimes the thing that activates us most strongly is also the thing with the most to teach us.

We feel this fire everywhere right now. It's in our families, our institutions, our own nervous systems.
The question Processwork asks is how to stay with it, how to work with it. And what is it's message.

Staying with the trouble is hard. Every instinct says to look away, cool it down.

But fire that's ignored or suppressed spreads and scorches.
Fire that's met with awareness and skill can become warmth and light.
The thing a community gathers around.

At this time, as a human collective, we need more than ever to sit in the fire.
To stay in conflict long enough for it to resolve rather than turning away.
That means being present. Listening deeply, even to what we don't want to hear.

Something new can emerge from the space between opposite perspectives, but only if the diverse perspectives can withstand the heat long enough to stay in the room.

What shows up in an individual body or dream is never separate from what's happening in the larger field around them. Personal and collective aren't two different categories, they're the same process, seen at different scales.

Dreaming with a Conscious Universe starts September 11!
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Don't abandon your inner mystic...

This series is for you if:

🌀 You wish to go beyond dream interpretation into the heart of the eternal conversion between the individual and the cosmos.

🌀 You crave experiential learning that brings you into and out of deep altered states, allows you to embody archetypical energies, and moves you into your childhood dream to explore its larger mythological context

🌀 You seek second training practice to sit in the silence “between” worlds so that you can recognize and weave together multi-channel information strands into a pattern of coherence.

🌀 You are curious about what mainstream science has to say about altering brain and behavior patterns and how dreams are a key to unlocking this in novel ways.

🌀 You want to understand more about the timeless frameworks of the Shamanism, alchemy, myth, and story to investigate the collective dimension of consciousness.

🌀 You work with individuals who have faced trauma and want to understand how dreams can be used to identify when and how people might be ready to explore these difficult experiences.

🌀 You are interested in understanding how science, the mainstream and upstream communities have framed the idea of a conscious universe in the past, how it is emerging now and how the Processwork paradigm intersects with the now.

🌀 You want to explore, have fun, and internalize complex concepts in an open learning ecosystem.

DON'T MISS OUT: Dreaming with a Conscious Universe begins September 11
Details and Register: https://experience.processwork.org/spaces/23678614/about