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Listen to Arny Mindell Keynote speech at IAPOP

Watch for book on conference proceedings. Film to follow.

Arny Mindell’s keynote speech at the first conference of the International Association of Process Oriented Psychologists that took place in London in April 2007.

Mindell talks about his experience of the origins of Process Work and his early thinking in the context of the times of early dreambody experience. He tells about his dream that helped him understand the concept of process and talks about his teachers including his hermit friend Klaus.

With his wonderful storytelling he brings us across the span of space and time through the Quantum Mind to his and Amy’s latest development, nano experience and the process mind. He models working on himself in the moment and poses questions that brings us into relationship with our deepest selves, politics, and the past and future of the Universe.

For more information about Amy and Arny Mindell and their work visit them at www.aamindell.net.

Julie Diamond, CPW, Ph.D.

Julie, together with another Process Worker, Liesbeth Gerritsen, formerly of Project Respond, and others, designed a new Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) which trains Portland police officers to work with the growing population of people living with mental illness and without proper care. Its mission is to provide the most effective and compassionate response of police in situations involving people in a mental-health crisis. The CIT partners with Project Respond and other organizations working with the mentally ill to train, consult and assist officers. Untill recently, the CIT training was voluntary. That means that there haven’t been enough officers on the force, who are trained to deal with people in crisis. This, coupled with a lack of education, funding and commitment from a public that still views the mentally ill through a lens of fear and misunderstanding, came to a head last year, in the death of James Chasse, a mentally ill man who died in police custody. Following that incident, Police Chief, Rosie Sizer, mandated that CIT training had to be mandatory training for all officers.

This project with the Portland Police represents an intersection of several of Julie’s passions – communication and conflict work, designing and delivering innovative training, and working with complex organizational issues that involve multiple stakeholders. Her background in communication and conflict goes back to her PhD in socio-linguistics, in which she researched conflict and status (rank) in small group interaction. She has been instrumental in designing many of the training programs in Process Work, including both MA degrees (Process Work and Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change). Julie also works with organizations and communities on issues concerning leadership, team development, and change processes. Between 1999-2001, she worked on an enterprise development project in the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, which brought together labor presidents and representatives from the former communist countries, Swiss and German trade union, and the Swiss Ministry of Aid and Development, to help design a labor education program for Macedonian workers in the new capitalist economy.

Julie had written several articles and books on Process Work, including her recent, A Path Made by Walking: Process Work in Practice, which she co-authored with her partner, Lee Spark Jones. Her articles and essays can be found online on her website, www.juliediamond.net. In her free time, Julie can usually be found outdoors. A great lover of nature, she enjoys all kinds of outdoor activities –biking, running, hiking, mountain climbing, and back country skiing. She’s an avid road bike rider, and loves multi-day, long distance rides.  

This is an interview about this project with Lt. Sara Westbrook Crisis Intervention Training. It is from Street Roots, a Portland paper with the mission of "Advocating fot the homeless, raising social awareness, building community, and creating career and income opportunities for homeless people.