Our Faculty
Gary Reiss, LCSW, PhD
Dr. Gary Reiss holds an LCSW, PhD., and is a certified trainer in Process-oriented Psychology. Gary has a private practice in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and teaches Process oriented Psychology worldwide for more than 35 years. His specialties include family therapy, sex therapy, working with coma patients, Worldwork in hot spots in the world, organizational development, and integrating Process work with different spiritual traditions. Gary is the director of the nonprofit The International Peace Group. He is the founder and director of the Rivers Way Community Clinic in Portland, Oregon. He has published 14 books including Healing History, The Dance of Sex; Dreaming Money, Families that Dream Together, Love, Power, and Wisdom, Process Oriented Facilitation, and Getting off the Wheel, a Process Oriented Approach to Personal and World Liberation.
Ingrid Rose, PhD LPC Dipl.PW
Ingrid’s guiding inspiration for her life work stems from her history of growing up in South Africa, where as a child, perceiving the injustice around her, she decided early on to devote herself to individual and social change. Ingrid has been in private practice for more than 35 years working with a large range of presentations, as well as being a clinical supervisor and international group facilitator. She has taught at college level, and has had extensive experience teaching Processwork to many groups in Portland, Oregon and all over the world. She has a long history of yoga and meditation practice and a strong interest in shamanism, adding to the depth of her work.
Sage Emery, LMFT
My name is Sage Emery. I have a master’s degree and license as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I am the co-founder of the Hawaii Center for Consciousness Studies. I have been the director of Cottage Grove Counseling Clinic for 25 years, and private practice for the same. My travels and teaching have taken me to over 15 countries. My studies include Process Oriented Psychology for 25 years which includes being certified in the Second Training with Arny and Amy Mindell. I specialize in combining my Process Work and Systems Theory with my multidimensional training I have done for 30 years. My philosophy is an eclectic approach to mind, body and spirit.
Anat Sheinman D.O, Dip.PW
Anat Sheinman is a practitioner of integrated osteopathic medicine with 35-year experience, a certified process worker, and a yoga and Qigong teacher.
Anat is a student and practitioner of Buddhist meditation and psychology (over 35 years) and a long-time student of nonviolent communication.
Using a multidisciplinary approach in her therapy sessions and classes in Israel and overseas, she integrates “body-wisdom” perspectives, process work, meditative principles, touch and movement to assist individuals and groups to embrace change, transformation and wholeness.
Jai Tomlin
Dr. Jai Tomlin is on faculty at the Process work Institute of Portland and is a Diplomate member of IAPOP, the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology. She has been a chiropractic physician and functional medicine doctor for over 30 years. As a facilitator and coach, she helps individuals and organizations to develop leadership skills, embrace change, and transform conflict. She is dedicated to raising awareness and empowering people in their own unique leadership style.
Lea Misan
Lea Misan is an accomplished consultant in process-oriented psychology who is passionate and dedicated to helping people involved in conflict, abuse, trauma and leadership. She is also a Facilitator, Trainer, Coach and Founder and Director of the mental health charity, Act for Change.
Healing History is her greatest passion: to equip people with the ability to shed the history embedded in one’s present that no longer serve and to take charge of their lives and their own resources to shape their future.
The focus of her communal work has been community conflict, trauma, community building and leadership in a range of faith communities and local authorities. Lea co-facilitates small public forums on diverse social issues and runs a monthly group exploring the impact of child abuse within an institutional setting; and another group on the presence of our histories in our day-to-day lives.
The background of her work has been laid down through her life experiences growing up in the international community of Geneva and now working in the multi-cultural and diverse city that is London, England where she lives with her husband and 3 children. A firm believer in continuous learning and development, Lea holds an LLB in Law from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow in Holocaust Education with the Imperial War Museum and a Fellow with the School of Social Enterprise. Lea is the author of two books, ‘A Body’s Call to Presence’ and ‘Emerging Figures’ (publication due in early 2023).
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg has been deeply enthusiastic about Process Work since 2015 when he first had a session following a family bereavement. Having previously attended seminars in London and Zurich, he completed his Master of Arts in Process Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies at the Process Work Institute in Portland in 2022. He adores working with dreams, exploring body symptoms and facilitating role switching in relationship conflict. He is very passionate about large group work and since 2018 has been facilitating a group called Angels of History to process intergenerational Jewish taruma. In September and October 2022, he was a co-teacher of the Healing History group. He is originally from London, UK and now lives in Denver, Colorado with his husband.
Emmanuel Karisa Bay
Bill Say
Bill Say holds an M.A. in psychology, and certification in Process Work and Core Energetics. He is an adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, JFK/National University, Process Work Institute and the Wright Institute. He brings many years of experience to private therapeutic practice, diversity awareness training, conflict resolution and community building, with work in the US, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. His organizational consulting includes work with the Cities of Berkeley, Richmond and San Rafael; Alameda County Human Resources; the Highlander Research and Education Center; Sustainable Economies Law Center; UN Refugee health organizations (UNRWA); New Energy in China; and Independent Thought and Social Action in India. Bill is Japanese Korean American, cis and male and straight identified, middle-class, spiritually oriented, socially introverted, married to Linda and parent to Gabe. His website is: http://www.billsay.com
Anuradha Deb, MSc, B Ed, MA, PW Dipl, PM (ISABS) & IFC-accredited coach
Mumbai based psychotherapist and transformational coach Anuradha Deb has been studying, practicing and teaching process work since 1992.
The first Indian PW Diplomate from Process Work Institute, Portland, Oregon, she founded the Process Work Institute of India in Mumbai, India in 1996. Currently she is on the board of IAPOP.
She has attended and taught in all the World Work seminars that were held and was a member as well as President for a while on the Board of Global PW Center before it merged with IAPOP.
Anuradha has been teaching PW for three decades and has offered many classes as open to Public classes, teaching through PWI and other schools like the Zurich PW Centre etc. Teaching, supervising and mentoring PW students as well as working in areas of Racism and all other Isms has been her focus.
She has specialized in the application of PW concepts specifically in the areas of Organisational Development, Leadership Development and coaching have a richness of experience that she considers rare and valuable in this field. Interweaving this experience with eternally applicable Indian and Eastern philosophical / psychological thought she enriches the experience of leadership training and coaching.
When not being in CR she loves to dance, listen to music and wonder about the life in general.
Kas Robinson PhD, Dipl PW, ACC
Kas is originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand. She has been a faculty member at the Process Work Institute of Portland since 2007, she has a small private practice, and is a clinical director within a behavioral healthcare agency. She has particularly focused on working with altered and extreme states, trauma, leadership coaching and conflict work. Kas loves process work methods for discovering meaning, empowerment, accessing altered states, addressing conflict, and grounding healing and insights into our everyday lives. Kas is deeply committed to Process Work’s awareness of diversity issues, anti-oppressive lens, and diving into the challenges of life.
Marissa Seiler, MA, Dipl.PW
Marissa grew up in Oakland, California, and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the last 15 years. She is assistant faculty at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she teaches a leadership, equity, and ethics course for the Collaborative Design graduate program. She is a Process Work Diplomate and holds a master's in conflict facilitation from the Process Work Institute. She has worked with public and private sector organizations as a consultant and facilitator for the last eight years. Marissa spends her free time drinking hot ginger tea and seeking treasures in Portland’s thrift stores. You can often find her in the water.
Min Yoon
Min Yoon translates to “Citizen Truth”. They are a somatic therapist, conflict facilitator, and artist working with Process Work, somatic therapy, and butoh dance. They are dedicated to exploring new pathways to uncover the deeper, more intuitive nature in how we relate to our beings within extremes of social constructs and divides.
They are currently teaching on specific themes such as violence, breaking the patriarchal feminine, archetypes for poetic justice, and improvising together with awareness of physical impulses and relational patterns. They are devoted to creating a sense of spaciousness around topics of social justice, to create room for sustainable movement and change. They have been living in their connections to the Korean / American / immigrant / non-binary / POC / mixed-privilege / trauma-healing / European immigrant / outsider experiences. They have been working around the topic of social justice through activism, facilitating and participating to raise awareness of and dismantle white-dominant, patriarchal structures in organizations, and creating social art pieces.
Teaching Experiences:
Min has spoken and taught with non-profit and for-profit organizations, community mental health institution in Finland, interfaith and spiritual communities, Felt Sense Conference, Immersive Design Summit, and various theaters, art centers, and schools internationally, to name a few.
Specialties:
conflict resolution in the style of Process Work // somatic therapy // individual and collective trauma using expressive arts // communities
Min questions and honors institutionalized learnings and credentials, and has trained with ~
MA, Process-Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies at Process Work Institute
ArtCorps Scholar at Tamalpa Institute of Anna and Daria Halprin
RSMT / RSDE Registered Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator at The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)
Dancer at Jinen Butoh School
BA, Rhetoric and existential Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley
Paola Vidulich
Integrating backgrounds as an elite athlete, trained psychotherapist, group facilitator, mediator, software engineer, product developer, and sustainability designer, I bring a unique perspective to people growth and product development. I get a kick out of solving problems, am passionate about our potential as human beings, and love that technology is increasingly less work and more play.
I'm fortunate to have lived and worked in South Africa, the US, Europe and South East Asia at the corporate and startup levels, in digital agencies, edTech, education, telecoms, sustainable community design and for non-profits.
In my role as founder and product strategist at Dreamaker.io, I get to weave these diverse experiences together, delivering a unique perspective to hands-on video study, signal analysis and performance review.
Susan J. Newton, PhD
I first met both Processwork and Aikido as part of my doctoral program in transpersonal psychology in 1992. Following licensure as a Clinical Psychologist in CA, and honoring my dreams, I traveled to Tokyo to deepen my Aikido practice in its home culture. While serving the international community as a psychotherapist, I had the great good fortune to study for 10 years with Kato Hiroshi Shihan, 8th dan, a direct student of Ueshiba Morihei, Osensei. In 2007, I was drawn more deeply into Processwork, moved to Portland to immerse myself, completed first the MACF, then MAPW, and earned my Diploma. Now living in Kapa’a, HI, I work internationally as a psychologist / processworker, educator, and consultant in private practice, as a free-lance editor, and continue to deepen my Aikido and PW practices.
My 30 years in Aikido combined with immersion in PW have heightened my awareness of how I move in the world. Speaking personally, I feel gifted and most fortunate in meeting practices that richly inform my experience. Processwork is an awareness paradigm, teleological at its core. One’s experience has meaning, and is often surprisingly supported by the dreaming process as it unfolds in moment-by-moment practice. What is in common between them is that both seek to integrate one’s experience of body, mind, and spirit, and they are diverse in how they relate to the world. The internal focus of Aikido has encouraged me to connect with my heart as I move in relationship with self and other. Processwork has expanded the worlds I move within, adding awareness of dreaming and essential levels to my consensual experience.