Book chapters

In Book: 2025 On Becoming a Racially Sensitive Therapist: Race in Clinical Practice, edited by Kenneth V. Hardy

This is our story of a rupture that ended our Process Work / Worldwork coaching relationship that was built on a spark of mutual recognition, understanding, years of deep work, and trust. It is written by Yasmeen, a Black and Muslim woman who grew up in segregated Coloured townships in South Africa, and Lane, a white Jewish man who grew up in all-white neighborhoods in redlined America. We chronicle what happened when an invitation to write this chapter brought us face to face across an abyss. It is our steps forward, pauses, and reversals as we commit to a healing journey and establish new ways of relating across race.

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In Book: 2022 The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, edited by Kenneth V. Hardy

This chapter dives deeply into one example of the Process Work / World Work concept of social rank. It focuses on White centrality to highlight how the centering of White people and Whiteness, externally and internally, with or without our awareness, pushes Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to the margins of society, of relationships, and of White people’s priorities, with disastrous results. It critically and comprehensively explores how the centrality of Whiteness affects our daily lives and cross-racial relationships.

In Book: 2019 Independent Thinking in an Uncertain World. A Mind of One’s Own. edited by Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris, and David Waltner Toews

This chapter is written for leaders, clinical advisors, facilitators and practitioners in residential care agencies. A case example showcases a Process Work approach to facilitating a team meeting with staff perplexed by a resident’s love of eating, and wanting to reverse their reflex of reprimanding for changed behaviour – which they are exhausted from . The group process unfolds and deepens in real time, showing various team members stepping into various roles and ghost roles, and growing in awareness while shifting from hotspot to coolspot and deeper insight into a plan . The case is framed with Process Work descriptions about life myth patterns and the symmetry of individual and collective tensions in the care system context. This helps to illuminate the facilitation of the group process, in every day language for a broad readership.