Continuing Education: Inside and Out

by Maraya Karena

Manuscript, 2019

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Available

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MANUSCRIPT KARENA, M.

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A Contextual Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Diploma in Process Work, Process Work Institute, Portland, OR, 2019

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https://www.processwork.edu/files/Finalprojects/Karena_M_July_2019.pdf

This contextual essay explores my creative process leading up to and throughout the
creation of three educational event series. Two in-person event series were developed, one titled
The Anatomy of Truth exploring psychological dynamics from a Process-Oriented perspective;
and another titled Psychological Stretching enacting embodiment exercises engaging dream body
material. The third event series, STARK: A Learning Group About Relationships, Intimacy and
Sexuality, took place via the digital learning platform Processwork Online.
This project introduces three primary contributions. Firstly, the project was crafted as a
way of addressing one of my earliest memories in education. In going into a specific moment of
educational trauma, I discovered a passion for developing experiential pedagogy that brought out
the salient wisdom of the learner. I attempted to use these events as a way to create educational
experiences and feel myself as a teacher towards alignment with my deeper values. I used the
mythic themes of my childhood memory as a template for designing courses and approaching the
personal development potential of my facilitation skills. This suggests a new application of
mythic work to constructing classes and teaching the Processwork paradigm.
Second, the project enabled me to express Processwork through my own creative lens and
enhance the praxis between my learning and personal process by creating courses that brought
together concepts with my direct experience. Throughout the development of these events, I
worked to find what is meaningful to me and the core of what I have to teach. It is the
uncovering and sharing of that central self-understanding that is the heart of my project and my
unique contribution.

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KAR002
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