NEW RELEASE ~ The Healing Power of Awareness
How to Recover Faster and Less Painfully Using Sentient Awareness
This new book demonstrates the healing power of sentient awareness when applied in concert with surgical procedures and rehabilitation, and suggests an intriguing new healthcare paradigm. The benefits to patients often include faster re- covery, diminished pain, and reduced chance of relapse or recurrence.
Tom’s new book has an “Ah Ha!” quality to it that can inspire people to just step into …
Interview with Tom Richards, co-author of An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party
Question: Alzheimer’s disease is devastating for individuals, caregivers, and families. What message does your research have for these folks?
“Our research explores the mystery, and dispels the stigma, of Alzheimer’s dementia by revealing its potential for meaningful communication, intimate relationship, and spiritual healing. We offer hope and meaning in the midst of one of life’s scariest and most difficult processes.”
Question: How do you do that? How do you work with …
Classes & News from Stan Tomandl & Ann Jacob
TELEPHONE CLASSES ~ for participation with people from around the earth:
FORGETFULNESS & DEPRESSION
Dates: 1/10, 2/14, 3/13, 2012 Time: Tuesdays; 12-2pm pst USA
DEEP DEMOCRACY & DEEP ECONOMICS
Dates: 5/8, 6/12, 7/10 2012 Time: Tuesday; Time: 12-2pm pst USA
REGISTRATION: The Process Work Institute Graduate School: 503-223-8188
INQUIRIES: Ann.Stan 250-383-5677
The treasure of distance learning. One World.
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ANAMCARA PROJECT:
HEALING PRACTICES at the END OF LIFE
Year long training program
REGISTRATION: SACRED ART OF …
Eldership and Advocacy in Palliative Care
ELDERSHIP AND ADVOCACY:
Exploring Personal Barriers
to Social Action and Spiritual Healing
in Palliative Care Situations
Presented by Tom Richards
International Association of Process Oriented Psychology
IAPOP 2010 Conference
Description of Transcript
This Process Work research paper inspires eldership and practical advocacy in senior care situations and institutions; chronicling facilitation experiences, dilemmas, ghost roles, breakthroughs, and practical recommendations. Personal barriers may include:
● working with a senior on a symptom, relationship issue, or deep inner state …
Training Resource ~ An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party
“Speaking as a professional psychologist, teacher, and trainer, I highly recommend An Alzheimer’s Surprise Party as an exceptional training tool not only for professionals, but also for family members, friends and caregivers.
It is exceptional because Tom and Stan have made it interactive. They do not simply present abstract psychological concepts, but develop detailed reality based personal experiences enhanced with clear concise observations, structure, and …
Nine Near Death and Coma Work Tips for Helpers and Family
Some of the tips we provide below may be useful for helpers and family who ponder what to do in end of life states. Follow these tips if they are useful, but please don’t use these suggestions as commandments.
Please value feeling skills or meta-skills (feeling attitudes that you bring with your deeply centered presence) as much as skills.
There are no firm procedures and may never be any fixed rules in …
Coma Work and Palliative Care
Coma Work and Palliative Care is an introductory communication skills manual for people living in delirium, dementia, coma, and end of life processes.
This is a definitive resource for communication techniques and care etiquette in these difficult and sacred situations.
Remote, minimally responsive states of consciousness do not equate with lack of sensitivity. On the contrary, people in these very far out remote states of altered consciousness can be very delicate and …
Tom Richards
Tom Richards evolved from a corporate executive in the surgical instrument industry (BS in electrical engineering, Cornell University; MBA in marketing, University of Chicago; and CPA, University of Illinois), and director of marketing in the publishing industry to a researcher, author, educator, publisher, and independent sentient care consultant, working with senior health issues, patient advocacy, and people in deep inner states of consciousness.
He has studied, researched, and applied Process Work …
Hot Topics for Presentations, Workshops, & Training
ELDERSHIP AND AGING: A SACRED CAREER
Celebrating intergenerational awareness
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THE HEALING POWER OF AWARENESS FOR SURGERY AND REHABILITATION
How to recover faster, and less painfully using sentient awareness
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SOCIAL ACTION & SPIRITUAL HEALING
Facilitating patient, family, hospital, Medicaid, nursing home, and hospice processes
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ANTI-AGING: REVERSING ENERGY LOSSES
For persons interested in higher energy and
the spirit of youthfulness.
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DREAMING ALL DAY LONG
For persons interested in exploring their
life patterns and dreaming spirits.
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Sentient Care™
Sentient Care™ is the name of our organization, and our name for the style of sentient awareness facilitation that we practice; learned from its innovators Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell, founders of Process Oriented Psychology (Process Work).
By sentient we mean being subtly, sensitively, and finely attuned to perceiving minute flickerings of body feelings, movements, sounds, and images that catch our attention.
Sentient awareness explores the messages, the dreaming, and the meaning …
