Using examples ranging from disputes in small organizations to large-scale conflicts in countries around the world, this volume offers practical methods for working with conflict, leadership crises, stagnation, abuse, terrorism, violence, and other social action issues. It brings an understanding of the psychology of conflict and the knowledge that many disputes can be traced back to inequalities of rank and power between parties, providing tools that will enable people to use conflict to build community.

Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity

Politics & Social Sciences

Arnold Mindell

Social Sciences

Lao Tse Press

This introduction to the theory and practice of process-oriented psychology explores this philosophy and places it in the context of other experientally-based therapies. An annotated transcript of an hour-long therapy session and a detailed exposition of the elementary methods of process-oriented psychology give this text a multifaceted view of this new theory.

The Dreambody Toolkit: A Practical Introduction to the Philosophy, Goals, and Practice of Process-Oriented Psychology

Goodbread, Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

Between the participants in any relationship, there exists a kind of enescapable communion whereby they create—dream up—parts of one another's worlds of experience out of each other's dreams. Rather than viewing this as a liability, it is a powerful learning too, offering practical strategies for making even the most difficult or unpleasant interaction a source of growth and new understanding.

Radical Intercourse: How Dreams Unite Us in Love, Conflict, and Other Inevitable Relationships

Parenting & Relationships

Written in 1982, this volume introduced the world to process-oriented psychology and the concept of meaningful connections between nighttime dreams, myths, and body experiences. Mindell traces attitudes toward the body in both Eastern and Western thought, then builds on Jungian theory to demonstrate that our bodies and our dreams carry valuable information that can assist us on our path of personal development.

Dreambody: The Body's Role in Revealing the Self

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mindell, Arnold

Psychology & Counseling

Introducing the concept of meaningful connections between nighttime dreams, myths, and body experiences, this work traces attitudes toward the body in Eastern and Western thought and illustrates the connections between body experiences and universal patterns evident in philosophical systems, fairy tales, and myths. This newly revised second edition contains a new foreward, which locates the original dreambody concept within later developments in process work, including work with relationships, addictions, coma, movement, and worldwork, and theoretical links to modern physics.

Dreambody: The Body's Role In Revealing the Self

Philosophy

Introduced in this groundbreaking work are new ethics, and new skills and metaskills in working with and supporting people in comas. Step-by-step exercises teach how to get in contact with comatose people in a non-intrusive way, and how to establish a way of yes-no communication. An in-depth training in coma work for health care professionals is provided, and methods and support for family members wishing to be close to and communicate with their loved ones thought lost to coma is discussed.

Coma: A Healing Journey

Mindell, Amy

By exploring principles found in psychology, math, physics, and shamanism, it becomes possible to link a cosmic perspective with ordinary life. This comprehensive work ventures into that challenging junction, journeying through the universe on paths of reason and magic, math and myth, bringing together humanity's traditional wisdom and shamanism with contemporary science.

Quantum Mind: The Edge Between Physics and Psychology

Mindell PhD, Arnold

Deep democracy, the inherent importance of all parts of ourselves and all viewpoints in the world around us, is introduced as the concept that fascilitates conflicts in relationships, communities, and the world. Skills and attitudes needed in situations of chaos, attack, transformation and conflict are provided, and examples from all over the world illustrate the theory.

The Leader as Martial Artist: Techniques and Strategies for Revealing Conflict and Creating Community

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Drawing on a large number of case studies, practical applications of the Dreambody theory are described, instructing how to unfold symptoms and other somatic phenomena to reveal the dreamlike and mythical experiences that we usually discount in everyday life. These symptoms may not be merely sickness in need of treatment, but guides to meaning and fulfillment.

Working with the Dreaming Body

Integrating family therapy with dream and body work, the relationship between classical analysis and information theory is explored. Dreambody work is applied to groups of individuals, hologram theory, the collective unconscious, and the discoveries of modern physics and biology, to show how each individual's awareness affects the whole.

The Dreambody in Relationships (Foundation series)

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