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A Final Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Diploma Program in Process Work, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, 2009
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http://www.processwork.org/files/Finalprojects/Redwood_E_August_2009.pdf
Contextual Essay
As my thesis project for my masters and diploma in Process Work, I have written a book presenting Process Work (PW) inner work tools to an audience with no prior PW or other inner work experience. This contextual essay is intended to present that project to the PW Community, explaining what I have done and why, and describing some of my process during the making of it. I chose to write about inner work because, for me, it is the core of Process Work. My self is the instrument I use for practicing PW in any context, so the more I practice inside my self, the more effective a Process Worker I become. Inner Work is also what brought me to PW, when I first read Arnold Mindell’s Working on Yourself Alone. It seems logical to me then, to begin with inner work when presenting PW to a wider audience, which is my main goal in this project. There are already many books about PW inner work, so why have I written another one? (I asked myself this frequently while writing it.) Firstly, different styles appeal to different people. In this sense, just as is often said, everyone has at least one novel in them, every Process Worker has an inner work book in them. Each of those books would take a different form and convey the principles and tools in forms accessible and appealing to different people, depending on their tastes and learning styles. So there is always room for more PW books, inner work or otherwise.
Contextual Essay
As my thesis project for my masters and diploma in Process Work, I have written a book presenting Process Work (PW) inner work tools to an audience with no prior PW or other inner work experience. This contextual essay is intended to present that project to the PW Community, explaining what I have done and why, and describing some of my process during the making of it. I chose to write about inner work because, for me, it is the core of Process Work. My self is the instrument I use for practicing PW in any context, so the more I practice inside my self, the more effective a Process Worker I become. Inner Work is also what brought me to PW, when I first read Arnold Mindell’s Working on Yourself Alone. It seems logical to me then, to begin with inner work when presenting PW to a wider audience, which is my main goal in this project. There are already many books about PW inner work, so why have I written another one? (I asked myself this frequently while writing it.) Firstly, different styles appeal to different people. In this sense, just as is often said, everyone has at least one novel in them, every Process Worker has an inner work book in them. Each of those books would take a different form and convey the principles and tools in forms accessible and appealing to different people, depending on their tastes and learning styles. So there is always room for more PW books, inner work or otherwise.