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WORLDWORK: WAYS TO PERSONAL AND GLOBAL WHOLENESS
Guest: Amy Mindell Arnold Mindell Program 2516
Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 3/2/1995 Program Length: 1 Hour
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Program Description: Here is a practical, creative answer to the criticism that psychotherapy focuses too much on individuals' pasts and problems. The Mindells bring the empathetic techniques of their psychotherapeutic background to volatile sociopolitical issues such as gay rights, racism and sexism, as they work with large, polarized groups toward truth-speaking and mutual understanding. "If you want freedom," says Arnold, "there's a price that you have to pay to get it: learning how to bear the difficulties and tensions that really do exist. Without paying that price, freedom doesn't exist." The astounding response to their work speaks of exciting possibilities for finding truth and healing on a larger social scale. 1 hour
The Mindells are psychotherapists and co-authors of Riding the Horse Backwards (Penguin 1992). Arnold is also the originator of "dreambody" psychotherapy, and author of The Shaman's Body <(HarperSanFrancisco 1993) and Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity (Lao Tse Press 1995).
Topics explored in this dialogue:
Taking responsibility for problems around you
The power of "Ouch!"
Dreams, psychology, quantum physics and social action
Town meetings as group psychotherapy on a municipal level
The healing potential of listening to marginalized people
How this dynamic couple originally came together
The "price of liberty" that cannot be paid by legislation
Arny's guerrilla psychotherapy practice in public places
The need for listening to those who are emotionally upset
Questioning your own assumptions about social rank and its effects
