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About Jan DworkinJan's professional background
She works as a teacher, therapist and group facilitator and conducts training workshops and public seminars internationally. In her private practice, areas of special expertise include relationship work, sexuality, addictions, eating disorders, creativity and awareness training for athletes. She has had many pet projects on Worldwork themes. She has taught conflict resolution to teens in the schools. She conducts a yearly training course with a group of Catholic missionaries from Africa, Asia, Europe and South America on issues such as racism, homophobia and sexuality. She is involved with a cross-border project in Northern Ireland. She facilitates town hall meetings on various hot topics. For example, shortly after the 2005 London tube station bombing, she facilitated a Town Hall meeting in Beeston, Leeds, in northern England. One of the "London bombers" was from Beeston and a diverse group of local community members gathered to address the growing tensions between Muslim, Christian and Jewish groups. Jan’s most recent worldwork project is called “Girl Pride,” a self-esteem and anti-bullying program for girls, which took place in the Portland public schools. “In Process Work, awareness is the key… Awareness inevitably reveals new steps that can transform even intractable conflicts.” Jan’s art backgroundJan is also an artist. She graduated from Antioch College in 1981 with an art degree. At that time, painting, photography and performance were her passions. Shortly after graduating, en-route to an MFA, her dreaming path led her to Switzerland to study with Arny Mindell. She spent the eighties in Switzerland and earned her PhD in clinical psychology in 1989. In the last ten years, she has found her way back to painting. Her colorful canvases explore the deepest essence behind the human face. In November 2005 she had an exhibition at the Pepper Gallery in Portland's Pearl district and in June 2006 her paintings were shown at Silverado in northwest Portland. To view Jan's paintings, check out The Gallery. “There is only one question: how to love this world.” Other interests and hobbies
Jan is a city girl and a nature lover. She grew up in the suburbs of Manhattan and finds the intense, urban vibe inspirational. But she feels blessed to live in the beautiful state of Oregon, with it's wild coastline and undisturbed wilderness. She feels closest to herself and to spirit when she is near the sea. Jan has just completed a memoir about her spiritual path in Process Work. The manuscript reveals how Jan uses Process Work to unfold her life experiences. She describes the book as being about sex, food and god. Currently she is working on a manuscript about relationships. Above all, she tries to follow the mysterious and unpredictable path of her Dreaming.“Without dreaming you are living only half your life and seeing only half the world.” |
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Jan Dworkin, PhD is a certified Process Worker living in Portland Oregon. One of Arny Mindell’s original students, Jan is a pioneer and co-creator of Process Work theory and practice. She has been developing, researching and refining process work for over twenty years. She serves as Dean of Students for the Process Work Institute’s degree programs and is a senior faculty member of the Diploma program in Process Work as well as the Masters in Conflict Facilitation. She has co-founded and co-authored various Process Work training programs both in the U.S.A. and abroad. She is a co-founder of the Process Work Institute in Portland and the Global Process Institute. 
Jan loves to work-out. She was a runner for twenty years and has more recently taken up yoga. She has become totally passionate, if not obsessed, with long distance road cycling. Every spring and summer she trains for an intense and challenging, multi-day cycling trip which she does in early fall.