Join us at:
24-27 February 2010
Portland Oregon USA at PSU Smith Memorial Union
We will be presenting on Thursday February 25th, 2010
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Concurrent Sessions # 2
Color Companion to Chronic Pain
“Art and Co-creating Community as Medicine" – workshop
Kara Wilde, MA, Dipl PW & Suzette Payne, MA, Dipl PW
This is a workshop for individuals suffering from chronic pain, their family members and those with a professional interest in working with chronic pain. Using the methods of Process Work and community art-making, the powers of chronic pain to victimize, isolate, create hopelessness and other negative moods are diminished. These tools can positively change our relationship to chronic pain: not only for the individual but for the healing of the participant community, and perhaps, our world community.
We have worked with two groups of chronic pain clients for eight weeks. Our exciting research shows how a healing field,(which Arny Mindell names Process Mind) emerges and can move a co-creating community toward awareness, meaning, and less suffering around multiple issues of chronic pain.
We will include a skill building exercise for interested individuals to integrate and experience these methods to use with clients or themselves, developing comfort with art materials in a subjective and non-intimidating way.
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