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process work
channel examples
psychospiritual approaches
definition
see preliminaries:
process paradigm
process work: basic principles
process work: glossary
process work: observation
Beginner's mind is an extremely important quality in interacting with anyone's process. Whereas other schools stress analytical awareness, interpretation, reductionism, etc., process encourages the use of the beginner's mind and careful exploration of multidimensional channels, where psyche and soma are one. Observing from which channel the person's answer/response originates suggests the very channel in which the work needs to proceed. Thus heartfelt curiosity, beginner's mind, and careful and skillful attentiveness to feedback are a process worker's best tools, and allow one to be in the stream as the person's process unfolds.
For example, if a patient has a headache, the practitioner would want to unfold how that person experiences the headache:
» Can you see the headache?
» Can you hear the headache?
» Can you feel the headache?
» Can you move like the headache?
» Can you show me with your hands how the headache makes contact?
» Do you get this headache with respect to a person or a world issue?
Let's use the comments a patient might make about their headache to illustrate:
» "I have a pounding headache." -> movement channel
» "I have a burning headache." -> proprioception channel
» "I came down with a blinding headache." -> visual channel
» "My ears start ringing and then it moves inside my head." -> auditory channel (probably more important than the kinesthesia also indicated)
» "My husband is giving me a headache." -> relationship channel
» "I feel like the hand of god is coming down behind my eyes." -> world channel
The relationship channel is a composite; it is made up visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and proprioception, plus the specific relationship aspect.
The world channel is also a composite; it includes the above, relationships and the additional world aspect.
In the last two examples above, you can start out with the aspect that is most significant to the patient (like the experience of the moving hand, or ask the patient right away to be "god", e.g., the symptom-maker.
Observing which channel the person's answer/response is in suggests the very channel in which the work needs to proceed. Thus it is most important to ask each individual person what their experience is. The clue is to find out how the person experiences the symptom, and work with that process.
(Mindell, training seminars)
(Burg, Mische', Schuepbach)
see:
process work: interventions
process work: working with signals
process work: working on the edge
process work: interview
footnotes