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Counseling and Psychotherapy
Seminars & Workshops
About Process Work
About Thanatology
Coma and Brain Injury Recovery
Counseling and Psychotherapy
Seminars & Workshops
About Process Work
About Thanatology
Coma and Brain Injury Recovery
About Coma Work
Coma Work is one of many applications in Process-Oriented Psychology (Process Work). Process Work assumes that issues which appears to be disturbing or problematic, when approached with curiosity and respect, reveals to us valuable information and messages to facilitate our wholeness and growth. Process Work offers both practical and feeling approaches for following and unfolding processes at hand. Based on the same principles and methods, Process Work therapists often work with people with different states of consciousness, including those who are dying, minimally responsive, and in coma.
In Coma: Key to Awakening (1989), Dr. Arnold Mindell reports various cases in which people in a coma near death responded to the Process Work approach and appeared to have enhanced experiences of self-transformation. Some of these people woke up from their coma and, before they died, reported on their inner experiences. The focus of process-oriented coma work is not to awaken people from a coma (although this does sometimes happens during the course of the work), but instead to relate to the comatose person in ways adapted to their altered state and to assist them to follow their own inner experience. The application of Coma Work is not limited to people near death. The method is applicable to people whose primary mode of communication is not verbal, including those who are in seemingly unresponsive or minimally responsive states caused by brain damage, who are withdrawn, or with dimentia.
For more details including the step-by-step guide to Coma Work methods, please refer to the above work by Dr. Arnold Mindell, and Coma: A Healing Journey (1999) by Dr. Amy Mindell.
I offer training workshops for people who are giving care to patients, family members and friends who are minimally responsive /seemingly non-responsive states, or for those who would like to gain deeper understanding of such states.
