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12 Steps of Conflict Work and Worldwork Year Long Training, Process Work Center Hawai'i
2025-07-10 00:00 - 2026-07-10 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online + worldwide
This is an intensive training program in Worldwork and specifically conflict facilitation. This is for Process Work students, facilitators, therapists, meditators, coaches, organizational, corporate, and government leaders. Learn the steps of intervening and facilitating conflict in organizations. Learn 1st and 2nd Training Process Work facilitation skills. Be part of an international group of people learning. Get intensive supervision for your live group facilitation of this group, plus case control for your facilitating outside of the classroom. Learn to apply these skills in organizations, corporations, spiritual communities, and in local, national, and international conflict. These classes are all online. This is an ongoing training you can join at any point.

Mastery Program in Process-Oriented Psychology, Process Work Center Hawai'i
2025-07-10 00:00 - 2026-07-10 23:59 (Europe/London) | Online + worldwide
This is an ongoing program. Most people sign up for a year at a time to enjoy a price break. This is an ongoing series of classes in all the major areas of Process Work plus electives. Classes cover 1st and 2nd training. Recent classes include Body Symptoms, Altered and Extreme States, Relationships and Sexuality, Trauma Work, Worldwork, Dreamwork, Movement and Process Work. Next class begins in August on Process Work and Creativity. Taught by senior faculty members of PWCH. Special rates depending on which country the students reside in.

https://www.processworkcenterofhawaii.com/mastery-program
All classes online

Resilience and Personal Power - Within and Around Us: DDI Kenya with b-onfire
2025-08-10 00:00 - 2025-08-12 23:59 (Europe/London) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
Deep Democracy Facilitation (or Process Work) by Arnold Mindell
DDI-KE and B.ONFIRE are excited to announce the seminar ‘Resilience and Personal Power – Within and Around Us’, happening in Kenya and hosted by DDI-KE, on the 8-10 of August 2025, at the Four Points Sheraton, in Hurlingham, Nairobi.
It is a space to slow down, turn inwardly, and explore how resilience and personal power arise when we allow all parts of ourselves – and the world around us – to speak.
In Process Work, we see resilience not as something we “achieve” but as something that emerges when we are relating with the signals, tensions, and hidden potentials within and around us. Personal power is not about control, but about being in touch with the deeper currents that carry us, even in times of uncertainty.
In this training, we invite you to:

listen to your body signals and inner feedback,
discover how your personal history shapes your experience of power and powerlessness,
work on your life myth and its main challenges (edges)
meet inner critics and marginalised parts that influence your resilience,
explore how your power can flow more naturally when you follow your process,
and experience how moments of stuckness and conflict can open new pathways for connection and co-creation.

Together, we will move between inner work, relationship work, and group reflections – learning not from fixed models, but from the unfolding processes in ourselves and between us. This is a space to experiment, to listen deeply, and to honour both your struggles and your strength.
Ultimately, it’s a journey into eldership –
the attitude to stand beside ourselves with compassion, and recognise that all our parts – strong, vulnerable, visible, or hidden – have a place and a voice.
Main facilitators: Devkos Bradley (Smith)/DDI Kenya and Stephanie Bachmair /B.ONFIRE Germany
About Process Work:
Process Work (or Deep Democracy), developed by Arnold Mindell, is an awareness-based approach to personal and collective transformation. It teaches us to follow the process, trusting that every symptom, every conflict, and every edge carries hidden information needed for change. Whether working with individuals, relationships, or whole groups, Process Work invites us to engage with what is marginalised, to listen more deeply, and to access the wisdom inherent in each moment.
For signing up and questions you can use the form below
Schedule:
Friday: 10 – 5 pm EET
Saturday: 9.30 am – 5 pm EET Open Forum: 7-8.30pm
Sunday: 9.30 am – 1 pm EET
Cost:
300 € (plus VAT if you live in Germany)
Scholarships are available upon request.
Contact:
In Kenya: deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com
For signing up and questions you can use the form below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTu-CsPjGwhsoq0YSqBtqCk2uJggjmdjjEz134eZCJjs8Liw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=101882829480888045829.
or Internationally: info@b-onfire.com and signing in via https://www.b-onfire.com/shop

Intensive Course in Process-Oriented Psychology, Process Work Center Hawai'i
2025-09-20 00:00 - 2025-09-27 23:59 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Process Work Center Hawai’i
This September 22 to 29 ,come join people coming from all over the world to an Intensive Course on the Big Island Hawai’i.
All the major teachers at the Process Work Center Hawai’i will be present. We will train in all the major areas, then take breaks to swim and snorkel, to go to the live volcano at Volcano National Park, and learn from indigenous healers and kahuna shamans. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity. Write greissoffice@gmail.com for more information.

Intensive Course in Process Oriented Psychology

Sept. 20-27th
Organizer Gary Reiss. LCSW, PhD, Certified Process Worker, and Binah Lefer, organizer
https://www.processworkcenterofhawaii.com/events
In person, Big Island Hawai’i, Process Work Center Hawai’i

WorldWork Journalism - Stephie Bachmair + WWJ team
2025-09-20 09:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online + worldwide
WorldWork Journalism. Intimate. Co-creative. Public. Deep Democracy in action.
Since more then 2 years, we are exploring and experimenting with a new form of co-creative/ interactive writing called Worldwork Journalism. It combines the immediacy of the worldwork group process (depp democracy facilitation) with the reflective space of writing, followed by an invitation to a wider audience to join in, here on substack.
We will now go in a next round. There are still a few seats left. Interested?
The process’s starting point is a two-hour virtual session with a globally spread group of around 15 people. We will open a facilitated space for sorting the topic, and a group process, which then flows into individual writing prompts. These prompts will open the next level of a broader dialogue. They will be posted online where our group can continue unfolding the process.
Then we will invite others as readers and/or co-writers to add to the conversation. We will do this here on Substack, a ‘free-style journalist/everyday writers’ platform. This online interactive space will be actively facilitated over 2 to 5 days.
When

20th of Sept – 9 am Berlin (CEST) / 10 am Nairobi, Vilnius, Kyiv, Moscow / 2 pm Bangkok / 6 pm Sydney. Then bi-monthly (dates to be confirmed)

Please note that there will be a ‘lightsaving time change’ for some of us, so you might better check on your local time taking Berlin time as reference.
What you need to bring:

interest in worldwork (the world’s burning issues)
a curious mind,
love for experimentation,
interest in creative expression.

We cannot wait to step into this next worldwork endeavor, meeting people worldwide and co-creating dialogue inside out. This participation in this group of Worldwork Journalists is at no cost; so, book now to reserve your place!
Book your place here!
We are more than grateful to more than 70 pioneers (over the last 2 year) who walked with us through the four rounds co-creating 12 articles! The next group is currently constellating. We are proud of always having a beautiful diversity of participants – from Thailand, Kenya, Egypt, India, Australia, Finland, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, the US, Germany, Italy, Spain and Lithuania (and I am sure I did not mention them all) on board.
Apart from co-creating in this worldwork journalist group, we invite you to read and join the conversation hereon Substack. We are grateful for every contribution as it enriches our conversations and supports this tender plant to grow.
Initiators of this space
Stephanie Bachmair (B.ONFIRE/DD Alliance) is a communication enthousiast, facilitator, leadership coach, and process work diplomat. She supports individuals, teams, and organizations to explore and craft their stories, tell them with impact, relate to their audience, and increase their transformative power through dialogue.
Penny Watson (MACF) works as a coach, group facilitator and community development worker. She loves working with people in nature using process-orientated earth-based practices. She lives in Mparntwe, Alice Springs, and is deeply inspired by the people and lands of the Central Australian Desert. Penny is currently taking a WWJ sabbatical.

IAPOP Training Council meeting
2025-09-27 06:00 - 08:00 (Europe/London) | Online + worldwide
In-house meeting for IAPOP affiliated Processwork schools and diploma program representatives, to network, support, and evolve programs across the world in diverse regions and contexts.

The Spirit of the Land and the Force of Dreaming: Co-creating Alternatives. Deep Democracy Institute International
2025-10-06 00:00 - 2025-10-12 23:59 (Europe/Vilnius) | Merchants Club, Vilnius Lithuania, Gedimino pr. 35,, Vilnius LT-01109, Lithuania
We Follow Geographical Pricing – Please Inquire about Special Fees for Your Region. Scholarships are available! Please write to mpere@deepdemocracyinstitute.org***
7 Day Process Work and Worldwork Clinic, an Individual and Collective Alchemical Experiment, a Large Group Facilitation and Coaching Training. Practicing Process Work Awareness methods in the search for wholeness in our life—through crisis, illness, conflicts, and wars, with Drs. Ellen and Max Schupbach, DDI Team and Everyone. Our Intensive is both a training event and a hands-on experiment for creating alternative narratives for individuals, teams and communities. We are each living tales written by the universe, and they rarely match the dominant storyline. The clinic is a space to practice the discipline of differentiating the Process-oriented Awareness Modes including multi-dimensional Process Work rank awareness modes, which changes perspectives, narratives and outcomes of an individual and community work.We focus on letting go of “personal history”—the old stories we carry from the past that block us from the magic of the present—so we can facilitate from where we truly are, here and now.
Untamed Ecology

The 2025 Intensive confronts the deepening fault lines of global polarization — manifesting as political fragmentation, regional and continental wars, resource-driven trade battles, escalating climate crises, and the rising specter of unpredictable pandemics.
Around the world, political and interest groups are locked in a battle of narratives, vying for the hearts and minds of everyday people. But our two decades of work bridging the Global North and Global South have revealed something quieter — and more powerful — beneath the noise: a deeper reality where human connection transcends ideology.

Diversity and Interdependence

Outside the glare of media cycles and political framing, people from vastly different worlds come together — not despite their differences, but because they see through them. Like ecosystems that thrive through diversity and interdependence, these grassroots collaborations emerge across boundaries, supported by something more ancient than any narrative: the enduring spirit of the land itself.

Our inspiration

draws from the enduring wisdom of surviving Indigenous cultures — teachers in the art of listening to and living by the spirit of the land. In our view, this seamlessly converges with Arnold Mindell’s Earth-based Psychology— a path that weaves together the insights of modern physics with the depth of intercultural awareness, grounding transformation in both the seen and unseen forces of life. As community builders, we are called to rediscover this voice together, to sense its presence in the rhythm of daily life, and to let its guidance shape both our personal paths and our shared futures.

2025 Intensive Themes

The Spirit of the Land and the Indigenous Voice – Path to Collective Alternatives

Innner Work for Watershed Moments in Life – Creating Alternatives for Yourself

Alternatives in Relationships: The Creativity of Conflicts

Migration, Territories, Borders, Wars and Indigenousnes – Alternatives to Mainstream Narratives of Polarization

Death, Life and Creativity – the Alchemy of Body Symptoms

This Clinic is an initiative of the Deep Democracy Institute International. We are members of the Deep Democracy Alliance, an alumni network of DDI colleagues from East Africa, West Asia, Southeast Asia, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Australia, and the USA, all of whom have completed a Process Work Diploma program.
​Our annual Intensive courses are regularly attended by co-learners from our global community — an essential expression of our organization’s core purpose and the meaning behind our logo: Unity in Diversity.
​We are a member of the International Association of Process-oriented Psychologists (IAPOP) and our training program follows their guidelines.
​We broadly indentify also with the Pluriverse Movement, whose core idea is based on the concept that there is no single universal way to live well, organize societies, or relate to nature. Instead, it honors diverse worldviews, cosmologies, and ways of knowing and being.

Transitions: Crossing under, over and beyond – Curate your inner toolkit. DDI Kenya
2025-11-01 00:00 - 2025-11-02 23:59 (Europe/London) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
We call it the joy ride!

Join us to explore transition capabilities and rediscover the tool kit that has always been with you!
Inner tools help us know when it’s time to take a bus, an underpass or spread your wings and fly! You can try to borrow someone else’s toolkit, but at some point you may find it is easier, more fun and nourishing to curate your own! Remember how you grew up from a child to an adult. You may not know but you made it!
At this seminar, each participant will be able to curate a unique inner tool kit to support your navigation powers.

Universe vitamins
Slow power
Agile perspective shifts
Collective allies
Resistance navigators

In this seminar we explore our beautiful inner tools that we can tap into when we feel the road is not possible. The world is constantly shifting, with endless streams of information from social media, podcasts, and even ancestral wisdom. Yet at the heart of it all, the story that truly matters is you own – how you bring your unique essence to nurture yourself and contribute to the world in simple, meaningful ways.
Remember the tool kit you had as a young person and has been with you always. If you are a millennial or Gen Z. you have already many tools. We can try borrowing each other’s tool kit, but at some point, it won’t work. At this seminar, we are going to curate our own toolkit – down memory lane, with friends, detours life gave me, our dreams …. to find what works.
Come to our seminar to explore transitions in life!
When: 1-2 November. Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-4pm
Where: Four Points Sheraton, Hurlingham, Nairobi.
Cost:
1.⁠ ⁠Professional (ksh 40,000/ 300€)
2.⁠ ⁠Grassroot Activists (Ksh 15,000 / 100€)
3.⁠ ⁠Students ( Ksh 3,000 / 20 €)
5.⁠ ⁠Partial payment (whatever amount you can)
Scholarships available on request via this registration form below
Contact: In Kenya: deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com
More information and registration here on this form:

Contact: In Kenya: deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com
More information and registration here
Facilitators: Daisy Nkudu, Julia Wolfson and DDI Kenya team

IAPOP Training Council meeting
2025-11-29 06:00 - 08:00 (Europe/London) | Online + worldwide
Please note: The time 6am is UK time.
You can check your time zone here
Topic to be announced on TC email string.

Dreambody Alive, Dead, and Ecstatic / Dreambody Informing Our Lives - Process Work Institute Lithuania
2025-12-05 00:00 - 2025-12-07 23:59 (Europe/London)
The Dreambody seminar is an experiential leadership training for pioneers, coaches, and changemakers. It uses the “dreambody” concept from process-work to explore how the body’s subtle signals and energy patterns hold valuable insight. Through embodied group work and somatic awareness, participants aim to unlock inner resources, creativity, and relational capacity — supporting personal growth and organisational impact.
Our bodies are more than flesh and bones. They are living maps of our dreaming process, carrying signals, symptoms, and energies that often go unheard. In daily life, many of us treat the body mainly as something to cure, train, or maintain. Yet, when pain or discomfort breaks through, it can become a surprising doorway into deeper awareness.
In Processwork, following Arnold Mindell’s dreambody approach, we explore how symptoms are not just problems but meaningful messages. They are invitations to listen differently, to discover hidden aspects of our dreaming, and to unfold new dimensions of ourselves.
This lab offers:

Quick access to the dreaming process through body experiences
Practical tools for relating to symptoms as signals, not just disturbances
A chance to encounter the dreambody as a rich companion in everyday life

The journey is adventurous, alive, and sometimes ecstatic. It invites us into a fuller relationship with ourselves—where the body is not only cared for medically but also honored as a source of wisdom.
Who it is for (who can attend)
The seminar is for everybody interested in embodied leadership, process work, personal growth and organizational impact.
Organising PW-school or diplomate/team
The seminar is run by the team behind PWI Lithuania with Stephanie Bachmait (DE) and Gabrysia Basiuk (PL)
Organiser (person and contact email)
Main contact: processworkinstitutelt@gmail.com
Location
Vilnius, Lithuania.
Date: 5.-7.12.2025
More info here: https://www.b-onfire.com/shop/p/deep-democracy-lab-vilnius-dreambodyy?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Please note: this exploration does not replace medical care. If you experience symptoms, take good care of yourself and consult a doctor to clarify them on the consensus reality (CR) level.
Come discover the dreambody—an everyday companion, a source of insight, and a doorway into the deeper dreaming that moves through us all.
SCHEDULE:
Friday 6-8 pm
Saturday 10-6 pm
Sunday 10-4 pm
PRICE: 300 €
Scholarships on seminar tuition available. Please, contact anna.gabryjelska@gmail.com.

Advanced Clinical Practice 2026 with Dawn Menken-Process Work Institute Portland
2026-01-28 00:00 - 2026-06-19 23:59 (Europe/London) | Online, United States
Advance Clinical Practice 2026 with Dawn Menken
This six-month course series offers a deep, experiential immersion into the Process-Oriented approach for working with the most complex and charged topics that arise in therapeutic practice. Designed for experienced therapists, facilitators, coaches, and leaders, this is not a course on entry-level techniques, but an advanced exploration of the underlying processes—the Deep Democracy—that shape human experience, conflict, and potential.
Time and Dates: 6 Modules (registration for the bundle or individual modules) 10am-12noon PST
January 28-30: Your Role as Therapist/Facilitator, Dreaming Up, Multiple Roles and Challenges in the Client/Therapist Relationship
February 25-27: Working with Diversity Issues and Social Oppression
March 25-27: Working with Death, Grief, Suicide and Depression
April 22-24: Working with Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Addiction
May 20-22: Exploring Sexuality
June 17-19: Working with Kids, Parents and Families
Location: Online, can attend and/or receive recordings.

Deep Democracy Lab - Dare to Meet: How facilitating within and around us helps to stand our ground and unlock unexpected potential - B-Onfire team
2026-01-29 00:00 - 2026-02-01 23:59 (Europe/London) | Hamburg, Germany, Germany
“Dare to Meet” is a 3-day Deep Democracy seminar by B.ONFIRE in Hamburg for people interested in transforming conflict through conscious dialogue. It helps participants learn how to navigate differences and tensions with awareness and presence — turning conflict into opportunities for connection, vision, and collective change.
How facilitating within and around us helps to stand our ground and unlock unexpected potential
Who it is for (who can attend)
The seminar is for anyone who wants to navigate conflict with more clarity, groundedness, and awareness — especially people interested in dialogue, difference, vision, and conflict facilitation.
Organising PW-school or dipl./team
The seminar is organised by B.ONFIRE, k
Organiser (person and contact email)
Main organizer: Stephanie Bachmair (and team at B.ONFIRE).
Email: INFO@B-ONFIRE.COM
Date: 29.1.-1.2.2026
Location
Hamburg, Germany.
Website address for organisation
https://www.b-onfire.com/
Website for event and/or link to register
The event listing is on https://www.b-onfire.com/events — there you find “Dare to Meet” with a registration link.
“Dare to Meet” is a three-day seminar rooted in the Deep Democracy / process-work tradition. It’s designed to support individuals in dealing with conflict, difference, tension — whether internally or socially — by cultivating clarity, grounded presence, and conscious dialogue.
Participants are invited to explore and transform conflict — not by suppressing or ignoring it, but by approaching it as an opportunity for deeper connection, new perspectives, and co-creative future vision. Through group work, dialogue and facilitation practices, the seminar aims to help people hold and navigate polarities, differences, and tensions in a way that fosters understanding, presence, and collective intelligence rather than avoidance or polarization.
It is well suited for people who see themselves as pioneers, changemakers, facilitators, coaches — or anyone wanting to deepen their capacity for relational presence, conflict transformation, and conscious leadership in groups or organizations.

Make your relationships a gift. Conflict on Stage by Process Work Institute Lithuania / B-onfire
2026-03-06 00:00 - 2026-03-08 23:59 (Europe/London) | Vilnius Waldorf Green School, Malūno str. 39, Skirgiskes, Vilnius, Lithuania
Make your Relationship a gift. Conflict on Stage: Practice to wisely use tension to move into connection and co-creation
Conflict is happening — in teams, relationships, and society.
This seminar explores conflict as a living, relational process by bringing it onto the stage. Through embodied practices, participants develop awareness, presence, and the ability to stay connected in moments of tension and difference.
Wherever people meet, conflict is present—in visible disagreements as well as in subtle tensions, unspoken emotions, and polarized positions. Often, these dynamics remain hidden or are acted out indirectly, limiting connection and understanding. In this seminar, we bring conflict onto the stage—not to perform it, but to work with it. By giving form to tension through drama, movement, and relational exploration, conflict becomes visible, tangible, and open to reflection.
Participants explore how conflicts unfold through roles, power dynamics, projections, and inner contradictions. We focus on developing awareness of one’s own patterns of engagement and avoidance, as well as readiness for conflict work. Especially in polarized contexts, the capacity to stay present with difference while maintaining boundaries is essential.
Facilitators: Stephanie Bachmair & Zbigniew Milunski
Dates: March 6th (6-8 pm), Centre for Healthy Ageing, Strazdelio str. 3, Vilnius, Lithuania (tbc)
March 7th (10 am-6 pm), March 8th (10 am-4 pm), Vilnius Waldorf Green School, Malūno str. 39, Skirgiskes, Vilnius, Lithuania
Key Learning Fields:

Making hidden tensions visible and workable.
Personal patterns of engaging with conflict: readiness, resistance, and avoidance.
Inner conflict and its impact on outer dynamics.
Working with polarity, power, and projection.
Dramatic and playful methods for exploring conflict safely.
Staying connected in moments of difference and tension.

Who it is for: Open to anyone interested in conflict resolution, teams, and personal development (Processwork students, practitioners, and the general public).

Breaking the shell: A Horizon View Into Dream Work and World Work by DDI-KE
2026-03-28 10:00 - 2026-03-29 17:00 (Africa/Nairobi) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
Breaking the shell: A Horizon View Into Dream work and World work.
This seminar offers an introduction to process work and invites participants to work with the challenges and joys of life from a place of intention, presence, and connection to the deeper processes shaping our lives. This will be experienced through linking X and U dynamics between dreams, body symptoms, group dynamics, and world work.
Facilitators: Smith Mboya and Daisy Nduku.
Dates: March 28th – March 29th, 10:00am to 5:00pm
For info and registration, reach out via; deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com

Dream Lab – A Space for Night Dream Exploration by B.ONFIRE
2026-04-18 08:00 - 2027-01-16 09:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online + worldwide
Dream Lab – A Space for Night Dream Exploration
Dreams speak in images, sensations, and moods. Some linger long after we wake up, asking to be met again.
Dream Lab is a monthly experiential space for people who want to explore their night dreams together, in a supportive, curious, and respectful environment. Rather than interpreting dreams from the outside, we approach them as living processes that want to be felt, embodied, and related to.
The work draws on Process-Oriented Dreamwork, yet no prior experience is required. Through dialogue, body awareness, role exploration, and relationship, we follow the dream itself and allow it to show what it needs.
The Dream Lab is not a supervision group. It is a learning and experience space focused on your own dreaming life— playful, deep, and grounded in presence.
Who it is for: For anyone who wants to engage with dreams as a living, meaningful process — no prior training required.
👉 You can join session by session or book the full year (discounted annual rate available).
Facilitators: Stephanie Bachmair, Zbyszek Milunski, and Martin Hemsley
Dates: Every 3rd Saturday of the Months throughout 2026;

March 21st
April 18th
May 26th
June 20th
July 18th
August 15th
September 19th
October 17th
November 21st
December 19th

Time: (8am-9amCET / 5pm-6pm AEST)
Cost: 15 Euros
Scholarships Available

Working with Conflict in Groups by ANZPOP.
2026-04-22 00:00 - 2026-04-23 23:59 (Australia/Sydney) | Online + worldwide
Working with Conflict in Groups
A short sharp learning opportunity that covers how to address tension; build your confidence, recognize where to intervene and find your own version of what to say.
Facilitators: Dr. Jane Martin and Beck Ronkson
Location: Online
Date: April 22 & 29.
Time:9.30am-12.30pm AEST
School: ANZPOP

Welcome To Life As It Is! Discovering the beauty of a complex world in everyday life experiences: DDI Thailand
2026-04-25 00:00 - 2026-04-26 23:59 (Europe/London) | St Gabriel’s Foundation of Thailand, Thong lor 25, Bangkok, Thong lor 25, Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Welcome To Life As It Is! Discovering the beauty of a complex world in everyday life experiences

Venue: St Gabriel’s Foundation of Thailand, Thong lor 25, Bangkok
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Date: Sat-Sun 25-26 April, 2026
Time: 10.00-17.00
Contact: lynn dot chalobon at gmail dot com
Fee: 5,600 baht *Please inquire about scholarships
Language: Slow English and Thai translate when necessary or requested
See our facebook page: DDI Thailand
What is this seminar about?
When we imagine life as a wild garden tending to itself, not only a series of problems to be solved, we may discover amidst the “weeds” of our lives, the conflicts, the pains, the interruptions, a nutrient-rich soil. Any garden is affected by weather. At times we get caught in the weather, we might fight the weather, we can decide to stay home, we can play around in it, and we might discover a ray of sunshine after a storm.
This seminar offers learning tools to grow from, based on an attitude of welcoming life as it is. This attitude is at the heart of Process Work’s deep democracy, an attitude and practice for navigating personal and collective experiences. The practices at the seminar are meant as tools in discovering the hidden symmetry and beauty between inner and outer life situations, even those that may appear chaotic.
Mindell, founder of Process Work developed a unique approach to listening to the “undercurrents” of reality. He differentiated three simultaneous worlds of experience that we move through: dealing in the material world, navigating our emotional life and accessing our dreaming – our deepest aspirations that give life meaning.
The “all-weather” practices at this workshop develop awareness in the flow between these worlds. Here, every disturbance is a doorway to a deeper version of ourselves and our community. What seems to disrupt us can also contain a hidden flower for our garden to bloom.
This seminar is a living laboratory for awareness – a taste of the foundations of Process Work. We will explore how our private inner feelings and the outer world are connected, and bring to life the ancient wisdom that awareness in ourselves can help the world around us.
Welcome To Life As It Is! A learning space for trying out some all-weather tools using your unique style and life situation.
What will happen?
Each day we will practice an inner work tool and an outer tool that you can apply straight away in your life
Day 1: Decoding inner weather signals to facilitate my inner garden
In Mindell’s Dreambody concept, our bodies and our dreaming are connected. Unfolding body experiences with process-oriented awareness, can offer new possibilities for everyday life situations across a wide spectrum of life situations.
Day 2: Decoding collective weather signals to facilitate the collective garden
We shift our focus to Mindell’s Worldwork and energetic social field theory. We will introduce a collective approach for engaging with social and community issues. We will learn to frame and unfold a polarisation on a given theme of mutual interest. In getting to know diverse roles and cultural influences that are present and felt, but often hidden we may gain a new appreciation for the complexity and beauty within a difficult situation.
Our learning approach:
Short presentations, group discussion, live demonstrations of practices and guided exercises, exercise practice with a partner, large group processes on a topic of collective relevance.
Yes! to a symptom. Yes! to a disturbance. Yes! to Life! When we give life as it is a chance to reveal its wisdom, we open a door to invite inner wholeness as a way of being. We look forward to learning together!
Meet the Facilitators:
DDI Thailand faculty: Lynn Chalobon, Joe Pluemjit; Bo Winitra; Numthip Ketsumpan.
Guest facilitator: Julia Wolfson
Julia is a facilitator and coach, and lifelong student of Process Work. She works and teaches internationally with leaders, teams and learning communities navigating complex transitions and group dynamics, especially in education, care and residential support communities.
https://deepdemocracydiploma.com
https://deepdemocracyalliance.com
www.turningforward.org

Facilitation Masterclass Series by ANZPOP
2026-05-20 09:30 - 2026-07-22 12:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online + worldwide
Facilitation Masterclass Series — 5 live modules online
Built on five of the key issues that often trouble facilitators and the corresponding competencies that enable truly transformative group work. Includes: mastering your inner compass, focusing where it matters, working the learning edge and leading from your strengths with true power awareness.
Facilitators: Dr. Jane Martin and Beck Ronkson
Dates:

20 May
3 June
17 June
01 July
22 July

Time: 9.30am-12.30pm AEST

Love and Loss: 5-day intensive with Claire Hill and Mark O'Connell in Georgia. OPORA Russian+Swiss Process Work Institute
2026-06-10 00:00 - 2026-06-15 23:59 (Europe/Moscow) | Georgia, Georgia
Organising school: International School of Process-Oriented Psychology “OPORA”

Organisers, Julia Pritchina, Tatiana Shipulina, Lidia Smal
A five-day intensive surrounded by the Caucasus Mountains and expansive skies, where we will gather to explore love and loss as two sides of the same living feeling. This retreat includes:
• An intensive introductory day to process work: master classes, games, and practices.
• A three-day A five-day intensive surrounded by the Caucasus Mountains and expansive skies, where we will gather to explore love and loss as two sides of the same living feeling. This retreat includes:
• An intensive introductory day to process work: master classes, games, and practices.
• A three-day seminar by Claire and Mark on the nature of love, pain, forgiveness, and hope.
• Integration work in small groups — to translate the experience into personal discoveries and inner movements.
Schedule
June 10 — Intensive “Introduction to the Process Approach”
Facilitators: Tatiana Shipulina, Lydia Smal, Yulia Pritchina
• Before lunch: Check-in. Getting acquainted. Introduction to process work — ideas, methods, inspiration
•    After lunch: Introduction to process work, process games — practices and physical experiments to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of living research
June 11–13 — Seminar “Love and Loss” with Claire Hill and Mark O’Connell
Love and loss are profound, inevitable human experiences that contain both vulnerability and strength. We explore them through a process approach — a method based on respect for the multi-layered nature of experience: from bodily sensations to dreams, from everyday situations to transcendent states.
Process work allows us to look beyond the familiar story, to find hidden impulses of life even in pain, to hear the voice of the body, the subconscious, rhythm, and ritual.
In this seminar, we will explore together:
• how we experience love and loss — in the body, in speech, in dreams, in field contact,
• how grief can become a portal to the unknown,
• and how group support and awareness help to accommodate the impossible.
Content and approach
This is not therapy in the classical sense, but a living research group where each participant can move at their own pace, be seen and heard. We will draw on key elements of the process approach:
• Working with the edge: exploring the boundary where personal history becomes a field of transformation
•     Body signals: attention to micro-movements, somatics, breathing, nonverbal reactions
• Imagery and dream work: what cannot be expressed in words can be told through images
• Field consciousness: recognizing that we are more connected than we think
•     Working with roles and subpersonalities: exploring inner figures such as the One Who Holds On and the One Who Lets Go
Seminar topics:
• The nature of love—how it manifests in our bodies and in the field
• Losses: partners, health, meaning, familiar identities
•    The presence of spirit alongside pain
• Grief as a personal and collective experience
• What does it mean to “let go” — and is it possible not to hold on?
• Defense mechanisms: fear of loving again, fear of losing again
•    Transition from grief to transformation, creativity, connection
June 15 — Integration in small groups
Facilitators: Tatiana, Lydia, and Julia
• We help participants make sense of, reflect on, and deepen their experience of the seminar, and outline further steps and ways of providing internal support.seminar by Claire and Mark on the nature of love, pain, forgiveness, and hope.
• Integration work in small groups — to translate the experience into personal discoveries and inner movements.

Channeling Our Awareness Through Ancestral Eldership: The Concept of Rank, Power and Privilege by DDI-KE
2026-06-13 00:00 - 2026-06-14 23:59 (Africa/Nairobi) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
Channeling Our Awareness Through Ancestral Eldership: The Concept of Rank, Power and Privilege.
This seminar deepens awareness of systemic and personal power. Participants explore how privilege, marginalization, and unconscious rank shape group and individual dynamics, and how eldership can offer a path toward healing.

Facilitators: Julia Wolfson, Daisy Nduku and Smith Mboya
Event Date: June 13th-14th, 2026
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Four Points Sheraton, Hurlingham Argwings Kodhek Road, Nairobi, Kenya

For info and registration, reach out via deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com

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Dreaming In A Conscious Universe - The Eternal Conversation Between the Individual + the Cosmos Presented by PWI, Portland, OR
2026-09-11 13:00 - 2026-11-13 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online + worldwide
Go beyond dream interpretation into the heart of the eternal conversation between the individual and the cosmos, what Arnold Mindell called Dreaming While Awake. Learn to cultivate lucid awareness so you can bring the power and magic of the dreaming into the everyday world. Together, we will develop an ongoing and conscious conversation with our small self and our Big Self – the Universe itself.
In the eight modules we’ll discuss the dreaming as the oldest and most personal oracle, levels of dreaming, types of dreams, how to embody and unfold dreams, cultivating a symbolic attitude to expand our frame of reference, scanning the science of dreams, and exploring ideas of the conscious universe through time.
Module 1 What is Dreaming?
September 11, 1-3PM
Module 2 Why Do We Dream?
September 18, 1-3PM
Module 3 Animating + Amplifying the Dreaming
September 25, 1-3PM
Module 4 Open Mentorship Session
October 2, 1-2PM
Module 5 Scanning the Science of Dreams
October 23, 1-3PM
Module 6 Interface with Other Theoretical Frameworks
October 30, 1-3PM
Module 7 The Conscious Universe Through Time
November 6, 1-3PM
Module 8 Open Mentorship Session
November 13, 1-2PM

The Path of The Warrior - Exploring Conflicts in Inner and Outer Worlds by DDI-KE.
2026-09-12 00:00 - 2026-09-13 23:59 (Africa/Nairobi) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
The path of the warrior – Exploring conflicts in inner and outer worlds
This seminar explores conflict as a meaningful part of life and as an opportunity for growth and transformation, whether crossing personal edges, navigating relationships, or engaging in community life. We introduce Process Work’s conflict phases as awareness tools for facilitating escalation, de-escalation, re-escalation, and the unfolding from hotspot to cool spot.
Facilitators: Stephanie Bachmair, Daisy Nduku and Smith Mboya
Event Date: September 12th-13th, 2026
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Four Points Sheraton, Hurlingham Argwings Kodhek Road,, Nairobi, Kenya

The Core of Our Cultural Authenticity and Freedom; Fulfilling the Dreamers Path by DDI-KE
2026-11-21 08:00 - 2026-11-22 17:00 (Europe/London) | Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Hurlington, Nairobi, Kenya
The Core of Our Cultural Authenticity and Freedom; Fulfilling the Dreamers Path
Finding My Path This seminar focuses on dreaming as a guide for both individual growth and community leadership. Participants will explore life myths, inner dreaming figures, and symbolic guidance.
Facilitators: Ruth Weyermann, Daisy Nduku and Smith Mboya
Event Date: November 21st-22nd, 2026
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Four Points Sheraton, Hurlingham Argwings Kodhek Road,, Nairobi, Kenya
For info and registration, reach out via deepdemocracyinstituteke@gmail.com
