Sentient Care™

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 …

Body Symptoms from Illness to Memory Loss

Sentient CareTM explores the messages, the dreaming, and the meaning contained in body symptoms including forgetfulness, short term memory loss, Alzheimer’s, dementia, stroke, aging; and physical body symptoms from illness to injury. All body symptoms contain messages about our lives that are trying to reach awareness. Until these messages are received and acted on, they will continue to be sent, intensify and possibly change forms to try to get through. …

Tom Richards

Tom Richards evolved from a corporate executive (BS in electrical engineering, Cornell University; MBA in marketing, University of Chicago; and CPA, University of Illinois) 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 for the past twenty years. Tom uses his awareness abilities to follow …

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 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 contained in sentient perceptions and sentient …

Ann Jacob and Stan Tomandl

Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD (Process Work Diplomate) and Ann Jacob, BA Ed, of Coma Communication and Process Oriented Facilitation, have specialized for over 20 years in working with, researching, and teaching about people in altered consciousness: illness, dementia, traumatic brain injury, coma, grief, and other fragile and strong times in our living and dying. They are instructor and student under the mentorship of Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell at the …