This 3 1/2 day facilitator-training seminar focuses on Family, Groups, Business, and International situations involving Ecology, and Diversity Issues of all kinds.

The world needs new leadership; creative facilitators who understand real problems, and have the spirit of elders. For us, elders understand all sides; they have access to “process holism,” i.e. the holistic system and earth rhythms behind all small and large group processes.  Such facilitators are diversity teachers in the inner and outer sense; they are creators of sustainable friendships, groups, and international organizations.

Special educational focus is on holistic community making skills, including the process of dancing with disagreement!  We apply the deepest self to these skills to help everyone move fluidly through complex social, organizational, and political processes even during times when facilitators are strongly polarized by issues.

To learn these new worldwork community making skills -- we shall focus upon:
   A. The reality of diversity issues,
   B. Earth fields and changes in consciousness in small family and global processes, and
   C. Earth dances and “martial arts.” -We explore our understanding of the essence of such dances e.g.   
           Capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music and dance.)

Our Goal is to EXPERIENCE and ILLUMINATE the FACILITATOR'S SPIRIT.

Thus, this seminar is for anyone interested in:
            • Facilitation, with or without processwork skills
            • Diversity problems, ecological difficulties, and sustainable city and world culture.

Expect 1/3 theory, 1/3 supervision and 1/3 team practice, professional facilitator development and personal growth.

- - We briefly discuss worldwork’s 1st training fundamentals, learning about people, roles, and energies.
- - We stress mastery level group facilitation, i.e. aspects of what we call “the 2nd training”, namely its fun, unpredictability + practical “crazy wisdom” applicable to your own, relationship and world problems.

              Day 1. THE FACILITATOR’S CRAZY WISDOM DANCE at HOME:individual +family issues.             
              Day 2. RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS and SUSTAINABILITY: the nonlocality of personal issues.
              Day 3. “DANCE” to IMPROVE WORLD DIVERSITY TENSIONS. Open Forum training:
                           from disagreements to dancing with the atmosphere...
              Day 4. YOUR 2nd TRAINING SCORE BOARD. What’s your next step in facilitation mastery?

Background in process-oriented psychology is helpful, but NOT necessary, as we shall develop worldwork ideas for the beginner and advanced facilitator.  The exercises illuminate the facilitator’s gifts using new processwork approaches stressing dance and movement experience (arts that can be applied in subtler forms to mainstream settings.)

Bring family, organizational + community, and eco problems seeking resolution. 

Scholarships Available - also for family systems!  Please apply from now to 6 weeks early.

Optional background reading: Amy’s “Metaskills,” + Arny’s “ProcessMind” + “Deep Democracy of Open Forums”

Arny and Amy Mindell

Amy and Arny consult and work as facilitators on community and conflict problems for groups and cities worldwide, teach process work, give personal therapy and classes in Portland, Oregon, USA.  Amy is known for her book, Metaskills, The Spiritual Art Of Therapy, and Arny for having written Dreambody, The Shaman’s Body, Sitting in the Fire, The Deep Democracy of Open Forums, and Quantum Mind.  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.