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What is Process Oriented Psychology

Process Oriented Psychology (POP) - also known as 'Process Work' - was founded by Dr Arnold Mindell. This awareness-based approach is applied in a broad range of fields such as counselling and psychotherapy, personal development, couple/relationship work, innerwork/meditation, group process, organisational development, conflict resolution, and ecology. Strongly influenced by Jungian psychology, Taoism, Quantum Physics and Shamanism, the form of process-oriented interventions emerge from feedback and the nature of the moment.

Gary Reiss interview – Child & Family Work with Extreme States – Process Oriented Psychology
If you are interested in working with Process Oriented Psychology with Children and Families in Extreme States you may find my interview with Gary of interest. Gary Reiss PhD PW Dipl has applied Process Oriented and earth-based methods in the field of child and family therapy for many years. He is a regular visitor around [...]
Signal oriented Trauma work with a Child
This moving piece can be found on Arnold and Amy Mindell’s website, and demonstrates how carefully following a child’s signals after the tragic loss of his mother, helped to move a cycling process move on, leading to the child moving from an experience of helplessness to experiencing his strength. Perhaps the example of a child [...]
OCA-Y – Open Channel Awareness – Yes!
I suggested the acronym OCA-Y for Open Channel Awareness – Yes!!, as a fluidity of awareness that we can discover to meet different situations
Held in Mind
Being held in someone’s mind is no small thing. It is known to be a huge factor in child development whereby the child experiencing themself to be held in the mind of their parent becomes increasingly self-aware or self-conscious, learns about the separation and connection of self and the other. When children deal with separation from [...]
The boy with a glint in his eye
A youngish teenage boy came to see me each week in his secondary school. He sloped into the room for his session and lolloped onto his chair. People were concerned about this young man’s low mood and that he had a tendency to being bullied and then not attending particular lessons. I was quite unsure [...]
“A Somewhat Something Moving Dreamlike on the Changing Road”
A three day seminar using a Process Work approach to movement. Conor McKenna & Clare Hill 7 -9 October 2011 Moscow In our day-to-day world, movement is usually just an aid to living and getting around. Our bodies are subject to our will and our need to get things done. Movement itself, however, contains at [...]
A 16 years old life-path explored through vectorwork
I am a sixteen year old girl who suddenly has come to terms, or is trying to, with the fact that every day I am making decisions which will ultimately affect the rest of my life. Without overdramatizing things, I believe that today there is an incredible amount of pressure on young people, and for [...]
Depression & Transformation – let your hands be the medicine.
If you are ever feeling depressed or hopeless or struggling with inner turbulence generally, here is a simple exercise that will help you to resolve it quickly. Trying to understand moods is generally not useful. Relating to the mood or depression through vision and movement usually has much more success. All that is required is that you suspend your normal rational thinking for a few moments only and follow experiences that arise within you – the key to resolution is almost always within the problem itself. Have a piece of paper and pen ready.
Exploring Process Work and Attachment with children and families
Amazing research has been done around the neurobiological development of a baby/child’s brain and the impact of the long-term effect both positive and negative through the relationship experiences of these early years. PW ‘s sensory-grounded signal-based approach for engaging in relationships is an excellent complement and practice to work alongside and with the attachment and [...]
Voiceless
I met a teenage girl at the high school. She would barely speak a word and her body twisted in upon itself like a gnarled tree. What circumstances had caused her to turn-in on herself so? She wanted to see a therapist, but her parents must not know.