Worldwork
Certificate Program

Objectives

  • Understand and be able to apply key concepts of Worldwork, including deep democracy, the conscious use of rank and power, deep diversity, and other key concepts.

  • Understand and be able to demonstrate conflict work in both 1st and 2nd training methods.

  • Learn and be able to demonstrate the basic skills of running open forums.

  • Learn and be able to demonstrate the basic skills of running group processes, including sorting, gaining consensus and building the umbrella, unfolding polarities, working with hot and cool spots, bringing in ghost roles, framing and working with levels, and summarizing and bringing to a temporary end the group process.

  • Learn and be able to apply 2nd training skills, including 4 phase work, working at consensus reality, dreamland, and essence level interventions.

  • Explore the role of shamanism and deep altered states in Worldwork

  • Learn about the connection between body symptoms and Worldwork

  • Know the key elements in a trauma-informed approach to Worldwork

  • Explore the keys to applying Worldwork in different settings, including seminars, all kinds of organizations and businesses, hot spots in the world, street work and the spontaneous need for Worldwork, and other key aspects of application.

  • Explore Worldwork and its relationship to social change

  • Know your basic facilitation styles and how to access and use them in group work

  • Learn about a Process Oriented approach to leadership development

  • Learn a Process Oriented approach to attack training  

Background

More than ever, the world needs facilitation at every level of relationship and in every organization, city, country, and world scene. Worldwork offers powerful tools for training people in facilitation. The three pillars that Worldwork has stood on are conflict work, organizational work, and leadership development.  Mastering all of the related skills is a lifetime of work. The purpose of this program is to introduce people to these approaches and deepen their existing level of skill.

Worldwork has changed as the world has changed. The new approaches revolving around the 2nd training allow for integrating our deep inner states and intuition with the challenges the world brings to us and making Worldwork more trauma-informed.  

Previous Accomplishments

Many on this faculty have been involved with Worldwork since its beginning seminars.  We have utilized this work in organizations at every level, from our own schools to international conflict between countries. In the last several years, we have been offering Healing History seminars in conjunction with regular Worldwork seminars in order to bring forward trauma-based approaches that are both personal and historical.

Recipients

While we are specifically focusing on people interested in conflict work, Worldwork in hot spots, and facilitating in organizations of all kinds, we are also open to anyone who wants to be more effective in changing our world. We need all of the world workers we can get, whether professional or lay person or interested others. Worldwork has always emphasized the importance of the skills of identified facilitators as well as those of participant facilitators.

Theory and Methods

The theory and methods come from Process Oriented Psychology, also known as Processwork. Its focus is on an integration of mind, body, and spirit work along with Worldwork. Processwork emphasizes the deep meaning in our life experiences and that by following nature and our unique processes, we can find important directions and answers to our personal and collective issues.

Topics

  • Deep Democracy, the Conscious Use of Rank and Power, and the Application of Other Key Concepts to Worldwork Interventions

  • Leading Open Forums with All Accompanying Details

  • Leading Group Processes with All Steps Involved

  • First and Second Training Interventions in Conflict Work

  • Creating Effective Social Change

  • The Role of Inner Work in Worldwork

  • Working with NGOs

  • Working with Corporations

  • Worldwork in Hot Spots in the World

  • Worldwork on the Streets

  • Shamanism and Magical Interventions in Worldwork

  • Trauma-Informed Worldwork

  • Developing Your Facilitator Style and Anti-Style

Format

The program will be based on online training as well as in-person training, given in a few different locations in order to reach as many people as possible. Some seminars will be offered in person at the Process Work Center Hawaii.

The seminars will be offered in rotation, and people can take them as they can to complete them. There will be 8 seminars offered in a 2-year period.   

Systems    

As a Certificate Program student, you choose an advisor from the list of diplomates that we will provide, and together you create a learning plan. If you are in the diploma program, you will already have an advisor. The course consists of the following:

  • The list of seminars attended / to be attended

  • A plan for using 15 sessions between personal growth and supervision to hone and polish your tools in these areas

  • Identifying where you need support and supervision for your personal and skill development as a facilitator and Worldworker

  • A Final Project

Within the training, you will develop a project that helps you to apply your learning into your life and shows your contribution to this work.  This can be writing a paper, giving a demonstration, teaching a seminar, producing some kind of an art project, et cetera.  The development of the project will be accompanied and supervised by a chosen mentor.  You need to write a short essay about the project, your ideas, how and where you want to develop and apply them, your interests/motivation, edges and learning as well as the methods you are using.  You will also be asked to prepare a short piece of information about your project for our website.

Formalities 

We need a written application that contains your interest, aims, and individual situation. Please write a summary of why this particular certificate is relevant to your personal and professional life goals. The trainers decide about participation individually. Upon completion of the training, participants have attended at least 15 hours of personal work/ supervision. They will receive a certificate that states their hours and areas of learning.

Fees

Application fee $75.  Registration Fee $250. Fees go towards paying the administrative costs of the program.

Flow of Seminars

Participants can enter the program at any one of these seminars and then follow the flow of seminars until all units are completed.

Worldwork 1–Covering the Basics of Worldwork

This will include the key components of Worldwork as well as the underlying philosophy and principles foundational to this work.  People will learn not only about key concepts such as deep democracy and rank and power but also what it means to live and apply these concepts in our lives and in our work.

Conflict Work—1st and 2nd Training

We will cover the facilitator as “martial artist.” How to develop the basic skills and meta-skills to be able to facilitate conflict whether your own, other individuals, and/or organizations and groups of all sizes. We will learn the importance of “burning our wood” so that we have some detachment when the heat of conflict arises, as well as how to move fluidly in the realm of conflict.  

Developing the Style and Anti-Style of the Facilitator and Building the Facilitator Shield of Facilitation Powers 

Each of us has our unique life challenges and gifts that we come in with and our own life experiences and traumas that we are shaped by. Out of this flow of life experiences comes our facilitating powers that evolve into our main style and our less identified or anti-style. These classes will help you discover, develop, and use your key styles and anti-styles in a broad variety of applications.

Open Forum Work

We will cover how to lead five-minute and regular open forums. We will then cover the basics of how to safely lead open forums in people’s communities on the various topics that are pressing and relevant in their areas.

Group Process Work 1 and 2

We will cover all the basic skills and meta-skills of facilitating a group process. There will be opportunities to practice the key aspects of facilitating and to put these various parts into a unified approach. We will focus our practice in small and large groups in order to master these skills and meta-skills.

Working with Organizations 

We will focus on covering the keys to working with organizations of all kinds using both 1st and 2nd training Worldwork skills. We will also explore the similarities and differences in applying these skills in various kinds of organizations.

Working in Hot Spots and Facilitating on the Streets—Handling the Heat with Safety and Effectiveness

Some of the most challenging Worldwork involves working in hot spots, whether on the street or in cities, or between countries. We will study some of the skills and meta-skills that maximize our safety and success in working in these challenging areas.  

Leadership Development

Processwork has powerful methods for helping us know our greatest leadership powers. Each of us has a calling in this world that we may or may not step into. These classes help to clarify that calling and discover how to walk the path of fulfilling that calling. Most of us are in some kind of formal and informal leadership roles, and these classes help us to further develop our skills and meta-skills as leaders.