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Dawn Menken/USA Healing History General theoretical article chapter from Speak Out! Talking About Love, Sex and Eternity, New Falcon Press, 2001. This chapter addresses the emotional level of healing historical, social pain, the edges around the process of forgiveness and the deep need for learning.
Lee Spark Jones/USA Unlearning Speciesism General theoretical article

This workshop presentation (Worldwork, Newport, OR, 2003) looks at how speciesism affects our relationships with animals, and explores practical ways of strengthening interspecies relationships in everyday life.

Julie Diamond/USA "A Democracy Dialogue. Getting to the Essence of Freedom." The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, vol. 8/2:66. General theoretical article Deep democracy means using democratic methods to achieve democratic outcomes and challenges our self-development; we come to experience the deep meaning of freedom as the process of self-actualizing, not only as the freedom from constraint.
Lane Arye, Arlene Audergon/USA, UK Transforming Conflict into Community: Post-war Reconciliation in Croatia General theoretical article This chapter/article describes a five-year project that brought together Serbs, Croats, and Muslims after the war in Croatia. Using Deep Democracy, the authors facilitated large group processes that focused deeply on issues that continued to divide the country. Work with mistrust and symmetrical blaming led to connection. Work with trauma allowed people to go into and beyond the wounds of war. Work with issues of personal and collective accountability helped participants to transform their notions of responsibility, and therefore take fuller leadership in their communities.This project can be seen as a possible model for post-conflict reconciliation efforts.
Jean-Claude Audergon and Arlene Audergon/UK Multi-cultural Forum in Banska Bystrica Slovakia, Four day Forum, September 2004’ General theoretical article

This four-day forum focused on the meaning of Slovak identity, differentiating ethnic nationalist identity from political multicultural identity. A main focus involved issues facing Roma (Gypsies) in Slovakia and throughout Europe. Other themes included tensions between Hungarians and Slovaks, sexual orientation and homophobia, generational conflict relating to communist and post-communist periods, and fundamentalist religion. The project was sponsored by ANNWIN Center for Support and Development of Human Potential in Slovakia, EMF The European Multicultural Foundation and CFOR Community Force for Change. CFOR promotes forums with the premise of deep democracy, for violence prevention, reconciliation and to build multicultural civil societies. 

Jan Dworkin and Lesli Mones/USA Some Thoughts on the Development of Worldwork General theoretical article A research article written after studying videotapes of the the  2004 Worldwork seminar in Newport. Article focuses on  the evolution of  Worldwork from a social activism orientation to a truer practice of deep democracy
Gary Reiss/USA Working with Humiliation and Revenge in Conflict Work General theoretical article

In this article, I discuss what Worldwork brings to the table on topics of humiliation and revenge, and also bring in what some other theorists and activists have to say on these  two topics that are so crucial to world peace.
Michelle McClintock/Australia Deep Democracy: Parts I & II & Celebrating Difference General theoretical article

Written initially for gay and lesbian newspaper in Queensland, these short articles (written 18 months apart) introduce and explore Arnold Mindell’s concept of deep democracy; they are written informally to appeal to a general audience. Supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities through education, new ideas and inspiration is a personal passion. I have been using Process Work ideas, applying them to relevant issues and distributing them to the queer community through short articles for almost 3 years.
Amy Mindell/USA Discovering the World in the Individual: The World Channel in Psychotherapy General theoretical article

Many therapists today are raising questions about psychotherapy's contribution to politics, its responsibility, view, and influence on the world. This article addresses one aspect by elucidating the reciprocal relationship between the world and the individual as this relationship appears in individual therapy. It offers a process-oriented theory in which the individual's relationship to the world appears in what is called the "world channel."
Michael Toms/USA The Monticello Dialogues, Part VI: Cradle to Cradle; Going Green General theoretical article

Cradle to Cradle begins by showing how our ecological efforts today are doomed by the four Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle and regulate. Braungart and McDonough say if humans are truly going to prosper we will have to imitate nature’s highly effective cradle-to-cradle system in which the very concept of waste does not exist.

Michael Toms/USA We the People: Jefferson Lives General theoretical article

A Conversation with Thom Hartmann Based on an interview with Michael Toms

 

 

 
Arlene Audergon/UK ‘Collective Trauma: The Nightmare of History’, Psychotherapy and Politics International. 2 (1) 2004, Whurr Publishers, John-Wiley. General theoretical article

Whole communities are traumatized and dynamics of trauma involve all of us. We need an orientation to understanding trauma that is at once personal, communal and political. Understanding trauma is essential to understanding dynamics of revenge, the silence accompanying atrocity and historical revisionism. This paper looks at the importance of understanding dynamics of trauma for facilitators in zones of conflict. It also considers that, in addition to International Tribunals and Truth Commissions, there’s need for community forums, throughout society to work with issues of accountability and collective trauma, concerning past and current conflicts.

Bogna Szymkiewicz/Poland Wounded States of Consciousness General theoretical article About Pain, Anger and Unconscious Use of Power in Relationships This book is focused on the “here and now” of hurtful situations. Its goal is to present a “map” that helps one navigate through “wounded states of consciousness.” By “wounded state of consciousness” I refer to the altered states of consciousness that occur when people feel that their feelings were hurt. The study is based theoretically on Process Oriented Psychology; it also includes certain academic findings and ideas about sub-personalities from various theories, as well as different psychological approaches to altered states of consciousness. It describes what happens with the flow of subjective experience; what the typical patterns of communication between the parties involved are; and it shows some ways out of being stuck in a one-sided perspective and back into the flow. Hurt happens in relationships .We feel we share some kind of reality, but the behavior of the other seems to destroy this feeling. After a moment of shock the roles of a “victim” and an “oppressor” begin to organize the field. Quickly, other roles such as an avenger, terrorist, hero or savior get constellated. Often the everyday identity looses its position of governing the process and a person identifies with one part of the experience, thus going into a subtle altered state of consciousness with its own rules, patterns and unfinished stories that want to be played out. The observer is usually missing and there is no one to facilitate the process within and without. If we follow the experience with awareness, we may transform the interaction ruled by unconscious pain and power into a deep human encounter. The book is in Polish. You can go to check it on: http://www.eneteia.pl/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=121&category_id=35&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=40
Kalpana Tanwar/USA/India The Jungle of Deep Democracy Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc.

a fairytale about deep democracy
Michal Wertheimer-Shimoni/Israel An Ongoing Dream of Worldwork Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc.

A short memory and some questions about what is WW and how to apply it in Israel.
Jayne Do/UK The Background No! Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc. This is a description of an inner work on a waking dream. The content is about healing the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. There is also a strong spiritual element to the story.
Christo Nel/South Africa It Takes a Village Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc. Collection of poems
Sara Halprin, Ursula Hohler/USA, Switzerland Alternative to War: Creative Aftermath of Worldwork 2004 Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc.

This is an anthology of poems, pictures, journal writing and essays arising from the experience of participants and staff at the worldwork conference held in Newport, Oregon in March, 2004.

Eitan Daniel/Australia Deep democracy, deeper respect Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc. personal artistic expression through poetry
Karuna Thompson/USA Offering Poem Personal artistic expression, including poetry, pictures, collages, inner work, etc.

personal expression through poetry