Drawing on perspectives from Processwork and weaving in wisdom from contemporary thinkers and indigenous cultures, this presetation corresponds to a webinar that explores the relevance of Processwork as an awareness raising paradigm to the sustainability agenda. Specifically, it will address awareness within individuals, relationships, groups and the design process to uncover and then follow unconventional paths towards more uncommon solutions and wisdom. The webinar can be viewed: https://youtu.be/8uMe0FxgxZI This webinar present ideas significant to social & worldview dimensions of Gaia Education’s EDE curriculum tho with relevance to economic and ecological dimensions: • A deeper democracy of interbeing – reality as multi-dimensional, conflict as crucial • Nuts, bolts & whistles of awareness, process and following nature • Regenerating and reconnecting to our Native ways of knowing – dreambody awareness • Dreaming the dream on – exploring edges of the known, deepening into unknowing • Slowing down and expanding time – why awareness is crucial to the sustainability agenda More information about Gaia Education: http://www.gaiaeducation.net

1. Gaia Education
At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education
Expanding Time
Towards Awareness Oriented Societies
Presented by Paola Vidulich
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Gaia Youth Activities Guide Teacher´s ManualEDE Curriculum
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4. EXPANDING TIME
T o w a r d s A w a r e n e s s O r i e n t e d S o c i e t i e s

5. The times are urgent

6. Crises in our ways of knowing

7. Crises in our ways of meaning creation.

8. How can
we revive
our ways
of being
alive?

10. The Times are urgent.
Lets slow down. Shamans of Nigeria & Bayo Akomolafe
Clinical psychologist, poet, coordinator IAL

11. Slow down time
Stop time
Expand time

12. What is Processwork?
 Awareness paradigm & practise based on the phenomenon of signals
 Originally developed as a therapeutic paradigm in the 1970s and 80s by
Jungian analyst, physicist and author Arnold Mindell, along with his wife
Amy Mindell and colleagues
 Roots include Jungian psychology, quantum physics, Taoism, Earth based
psychology of aboriginal and shamanic wisdom
 Applied in settings from individual, couple and family therapy, to coaching,
organisational work, group conflict, medicine, art, coma work, group work,
politics.
 Continually evolving as a theory and as a practise
 Simply stated, Processwork is about following nature.…

13. A d e e p e r d e m o c r a c y o f I n t e r b e i n g
Ma instrea m Perceptions of Rea lity
 What the majority say it is, what is ‘normal’
 What can be scientifically proven
 Our primary ways of knowing and gaining knowledge
 Limited to predominantly intellectual & academic pursuits

14. Consensus Reality
Objective & measurable
facts; evidence based
Dreamland
Subjective, feelings,
non-rational, dream-like
Essence
Connectedness,
oneness, spiritual
A deeper democracy of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional
Deep Democracy

15. Consensus Reality
Objective & measurable
facts; evidence based
Essence
Connectedness,
oneness, spiritual
Dreamland
Subjective, feelings,
non-rational, dream-like
A deeper democracy of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional

16. A deeper democracy of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional

17. A deeper democ rac y of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional

18. A deeper democracy of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional

19. A deeper democ rac y of Interbeing
Reality as Multi-Dimensional

20. “… WHEN I AM ON THE MARGIN OF
SOCIETY, I WILL BE DEPRIVED OF
THE GREATEST POWER OF ALL:
THE POWER TO SAY WHAT
IS REAL AND WHAT IS NOT.”
JOE GOODBREAD
“LIVING ON THE EDGE”

21. A deeper democ rac y of Interbeing
 From the Vietnamese term Tiếp Hiện
 Tiếp "being in touch with" and "continuing."
 Hiện means "realizing" and "making it here and now.“
 Interbeing – translation coined by Thich Nhat Hanh
 “we are inseparate from the universe, and our being partakes in the
being of everyone and everything else” Charles Eisenstein
 A verb, an act of doing, a way of being

22. A deeper democ rac y of Interbeing

23.  Freud, Jung, depth psychology
 Gave birth to Popularised the notions of the individual conscious and unconscious
 Jung extended to the collective conscious and unconscious – ie, groups
 Conscious and unconscious being what is known and unknown
 The unconscious expresses itself through night time dreams
 Dreams are a birth right, a rich source to tap into our multi-dimensional nature
and the dreaming field of the collective
 Night time dreams reflected in physical symptoms & other human phenomena
R e c o n n e c t i n g t o o u r n a t i v e w a y s o f k n o w i n g
Drea mbody a wa reness

24. R e c o n n e c t i n g t o o u r n a t i v e w a y s o f k n o w i n g
Drea mbody a wa reness
The Dreambody:
A dreamlike, unifying field that gives expression to
dreams & physical symptoms alike.
 It includes our night dreams, physical symptoms, body sensations,
relationship and group disturbances, the outside world
 We can become awareness of its signals and the channels in which
these signals appear

25. A dreamlike, unifying field
that gives expression to
dreams & physical
symptoms alike.
R e c o n n e c t i n g t o o u r n a t i v e w a y s o f k n o w i n g
Drea mbody a wa reness

26. R e c o n n e c t i n g t o o u r n a t i v e w a y s o f k n o w i n g
Drea mbody a wa reness
Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland

27. D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
see, imagination,
visions, dreams,
fantasy
Physical feelings, body sensations,
internal world of feeling
A u d i o
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
W o r l d
V i s u a l
R e l a t i o n s h i p
M o v e m e n t
collective, global, social
or political events.
synchronicity
what we say & the way
we say it, sounds
Experiences in relationships
with others
All movement, body
language

28. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals

29. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
R e l a t i o n s h i p

30. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
M o v e m e n t
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
R e l a t i o n s h i p

31. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
M o v e m e n t
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
R e l a t i o n s h i p
A u d i o

32. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
M o v e m e n t
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
R e l a t i o n s h i p
V i s u a lA u d i o

33. Consensus Reality
Essence
Dreamland
P r o p r i o c e p t i v e
M o v e m e n t
D r e a m b o d y A w a r e n e s s
Channels & Exploring Signals
R e l a t i o n s h i p
V i s u a lA u d i o
W o r l d

34. D r e a m i n g t h e D r e a m O n
Exploring Edges of the Known
Consensus Reality
Essence
Known
Who we think we & others are
How we identify ourselves &
others
Unknown
Unknown, rejected,
emerging parts of ourselves
and others
Dreamland

35. D r e a m i n g t h e D r e a m O n
Exploring Edges of the Known
Consensus Reality
Essence
Known
Who we think we & others are
How we identify ourselves &
others
Unknown
Unknown, rejected,
emerging parts of ourselves
and others
Dreamland

36. D r e a m i n g t h e D r e a m O n
Exploring Edges of the Known
 Growth happens at the edges
 Conflict & Disturbances
 Between levels
 Between known and unknown
 Indicates marginalised & minority voices within
ourselves and the groups
 Consciously going into conflict
 But how about the good stuff?
 Emerging - tendencies, flirts, flickers
 Deepening into Unknowing

37. D r e a m i n g t h e D r e a m O n
Deepening into Unknowing
 The Dreambody does not only get roused by conflict &
disturbance
 Subtle signals - tendencies, flirts, flickerings – can take
us into emerging & unknown parts of ourselves
 Choose to do this consciously
 Deepening into Unknowing

39. Awa reness & the Susta ina bility
Agenda
Regenerative System
“Humans PARTICIPATING AS nature – co-evolution of the
whole system”
Bill Reed
 The question is, how do we do this? How do we forge regenerative
cultures?
 Using awareness to design with nature in co-evolution of the whole
 Using awareness to connect to our Native ways of knowing
 Using awareness to regenerate our Native ways of knowing

40. R E F E R E N C E S & F U R T H E R E X P L O R A T I O N
ARNOLD & AMY MINDELL – WWW.AAMINDELL.NET
BAYO AKOMLAFE – WWW.VIMEO.COM/111948332
CHARLES EISENSTEIN – WWW.CHARLESEISENSTEIN.NET
DANIEL WAHL – WWW.DANIELCHRISTIANWAHL.COM
JAN DWORKIN – WWW.JANDWORKIN.COM
GAIA EDUCATION – WWW.GAIAEDUCATION.NET
JOE GOODBREAD
LIVING ON THE EDGE. LIVING ON THE EDGE (2011, NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, INC.)
JULIE DIAMOND – WWW.JULIEDIAMOND.COM
JULIE DIAMOND & LEE SPARK JONES
A PATH MADE BY WALKING. (2004, LAO TSE PRESS)
MANISH JAIN - WWW.SWARAJ.ORG/SHIKSHANTAR/

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T o w a r d s A w a r e n e s s O r i e n t e d S o c i e t i e s

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