Welcome To Life As It Is! Discovering the beauty of a complex world in everyday life experiences

Venue: St Gabriel’s Foundation of Thailand, Thong lor 25, Bangkok

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Date: Sat-Sun 25-26 April, 2026

Time: 10.00-17.00

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Fee: 5,600 baht *Please inquire about scholarships 

Language: Slow English and Thai  translate when necessary or requested

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What is this seminar about?

When we imagine life as a wild garden tending to itself, not only a series of problems to be solved, we may discover amidst the “weeds” of our lives, the conflicts, the pains, the interruptions, a nutrient-rich soil. Any garden is affected by weather. At times we get caught in the weather, we might fight the weather, we can decide to stay home, we can play around in it,  and we might discover a ray of sunshine after a storm. 

This seminar offers learning tools to grow from, based on an attitude of welcoming life as it is. This attitude is at the heart of Process Work’s deep democracy, an attitude and practice for navigating personal and collective experiences. The practices at the seminar are meant as tools in discovering the hidden symmetry and beauty between inner and outer life situations, even those that may appear chaotic. 

Mindell, founder of Process Work developed a unique approach to listening to the “undercurrents” of reality. He differentiated three simultaneous worlds of experience that we move through: dealing in the material world, navigating our emotional life and accessing our dreaming – our deepest aspirations that give life meaning. 

The “all-weather” practices at this workshop develop awareness in the flow between these worlds. Here, every disturbance is a doorway to a deeper version of ourselves and our community. What seems to disrupt us can also contain a hidden flower for our garden to bloom. 

This seminar is a living laboratory for awareness – a taste of the foundations of Process Work. We will explore how our private inner feelings and the outer world are connected, and bring to life the ancient wisdom that awareness in ourselves can help the world around us.

Welcome To Life As It Is! A learning space for trying out some all-weather tools using your unique style and life situation. 

 What will happen? 

Each day we will practice an inner work tool and an outer tool that you can apply straight away in your life 

Day 1: Decoding inner weather signals to facilitate my inner garden 

In Mindell’s Corps de rêve concept, our bodies and our dreaming are connected. Unfolding body experiences  with process-oriented awareness, can offer new possibilities for everyday life situations across a wide spectrum of life situations.

Day 2: Decoding collective weather signals to facilitate the collective garden 

We shift our focus to Mindell’s Worldwork and energetic social field theory. We will introduce a collective approach for engaging with social and community issues. We will learn to frame and unfold a polarisation on a given theme of mutual interest. In getting to know diverse roles and cultural influences that are present and felt, but often hidden we may gain a new  appreciation for the complexity and beauty within a difficult situation. 

Our learning approach: 

Short presentations, group discussion, live demonstrations of practices and guided exercises, exercise practice with a partner, large group processes on a topic of collective relevance. 

Yes! to a symptom. Yes! to a disturbance. Yes! to Life!  When we give life as it is a chance to reveal its wisdom, we open a door to invite inner wholeness as a way of being. We look forward to learning together! 

Meet the Facilitators:

DDI Thailand faculty: Lynn Chalobon, Joe Pluemjit; Bo Winitra; Numthip Ketsumpan. 

Guest facilitator: Julia Wolfson 

Julia is a facilitator and coach, and lifelong student of Process Work.  She works and teaches internationally with leaders, teams and learning communities navigating complex transitions and group dynamics, especially in education, care and residential support communities. 

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