Jan's writings lectures and thoughts

Articles, books and manuscripts

  • 2006. The Cost of Dreaming: A Process Work Memoir. Jan Dworkin. Unpublished book.
  • 2006. Some Thoughts on the Development of Worldwork. Jan Dworkin and Lesli Mones. Download (PDF format, 188Kb)
  • 2002. "Intercultural Counseling." Jan Dworkin, Joseph Goodbread and Sonja Straub. Eisteach: A Quarterly Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Volume 2/22.
  • 2001. "The Hollow; Bone: An Interview with Robert King." Jan Dworkin. The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology. Volume 8/2.
  • 1997. "Avoiding Burnout." Jan Dworkin and Robert King. Eisteach: A Quarterly Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy.
  • 1995. "Radical Relationships: Pushing the Boundaries of Gender, Power and Sexuality." Jan Dworkin. The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology. Volume 7/1
  • 1994. "The Daemon Creativity: My 800 Year Old Soul." Jan Dworkin. The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology. Volume 6/2.
  • 1994. "Return to Sender. The Spirit in Abortion." Jan Dworkin. The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology. Volume 6/1.
  • 1990. Group Process Work: A Stage for Personal and Global Development. Jan Dworkin. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Process Work Institute library.
  • 1984. Living Alchemy: The Creative Spirit in Process. Jan Dworkin. Unpublished M.A. thesis . Process Work Library.

Lectures

  • What's gender got to do with it:
    Facilitating conflict between men and women
    Process Work Institute May 2005
    Commonly held assumptions about the two gender system lead us to certain beliefs and conclusions about men, women and how we relate. In this lecture, I discuss mainstream psychological theories of gender and introduce a more process-oriented approach. Using case examples, I show how power, privilege and internalized oppression create conflict and misunderstanding between people of any gender.
    Download what's gender got to do with it (PDF format, 268Kb)
  • Where history, culture and dreaming collide: An introduction to Process Work with issues of violence against women
    Donegal, Ireland 2005
    Violence against women is a worldwide problem. Consensus reality solutions and legal measures are essential. Battered Women's Syndrome was one such measure. In this lecture I discuss some pitfalls of this "diagnosis" and introduce a process-oriented approach, which includes dreaming and non-consensus-reality solutions.
  • Uncontrollable passions: A Process Work approach to addictions
    Process Work Institute, Nov. 2004
    Addiction can be a doorway to our dreaming process. There is potential for wholeness and creativity hidden within our addictions and addictive patterns. This lecture introduces Process Work with addictions, compares it with the 12 step approach and shows how the two can inform and complement one another.
    Download uncontrollable passions (PDF format, 184Kb)
  • Painting and dreaming
    Portland, Oregon, 2003
    Discussing art and psychology together is controversial, and can be limiting and reductive, depending on the approach. Over-analyzing can kill creativity. Art cannot be reduced to psychology. In this lecture, I discuss how artists can go beyond their known world by learning to use various forms of awareness and perception when making art, including non-ordinary and
    altered states of consciousness.
    Download painting and dreaming (PDF format, 184Kb)

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