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Worldwork
Worldwork (WW) was developed by Dr.
Arnold Mindell, founder of Process Oriented Psychology or Process
Work and colleagues.
Worldwork is both an experiential training seminar that takes
place usually every 2 years and is also a small and large group
Process Work method/philosophy as explained below.
“Deep
Democracy is our sense that the world is here to help us to become
our entire selves, and that we are here to help the world to
become whole.”
Arnold Mindell |
a) Worldwork is an experiential training seminar in
conflict work and community building. The seminar provides
a unique opportunity for people from all over the world to come
together in a powerful forum for focusing on and working with
social, environmental, and political issues using group process
skills. Between two and three hundred people from over thirty
countries participate in these 6 day gatherings. The large staff
team facilitates a diversity of learning experiences that include
large group focus and interaction, small group meetings, one-to-one
sessions and networking groups.
“Deep
Democracy is the principle behind a community building process
that hears all voices and roles, including our collective experiences
of altered states, and subtle feelings and tendencies. It is
a principle that makes space for the separable, the barely speakable
and the unspeakable.”
Arnold Mindell |
b) Worldwork is a small and large group
Process Work method that uses Deep
Democracy to address the issues of
groups and organizations of all kinds. To resolve reality
problems and enrich community experience, Worldwork methods focus
on finding and employing the power of an organization’s
or city’s dreamlike background (e.g. projections, gossip,
roles, and creative fantasy). Worldwork facilitators listen to
the land, do innerwork, practise outer communication skills involving
role consciousness, signal and rank awareness to enrich organizational
life. Worldwork has been successfully applied to the analysis
of, and work with multicultural and multileveled groups, Aboriginal
communities, universities, small and large international
organizations, city hot spots, in corporations and world conflict
zones. (adapted from www.aamindell.net )
For more information about Worldwork: go to documents
from Worldwork 2008
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