Sentient Care™

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 …

New book in the works . . .

Soon to be published . . .
The Healing Power of Awareness for Surgery and Rehabilitation:
How to Heal Faster and Less Painfully Using Sentient Awareness
This book will demonstrate the applicaiton of Sentient Care to enhance the healing of both chronic and acute body symptoms including surgery, injuries, and rehabilitation; and will include self-help exercises.

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Early Stage Alzheimer’s

AN ALZHEIMER’S SELF PORTRAIT

This “picture of Alzheimer’s” was drawn by a 76 year old woman in her third year of early stage Alzheimer’s, who was still capable of living in an independent living facility.
Her “self” portrait depicts her personal experience of Alzheimer’s as “outside float” and “floating around” like “Casper, the friendly ghost.”
Six months after Sentient Care work with her and her family, which included this sketching exercise, her daughter …

Coma Work Theory: Awakening to Inner Work

FOR INFORMATION ON PHONE CONSULTATIONS AND CLASSES;
AND REMOTE VIDEO (SKYPE) BEDSIDE COMA COMMUNICATION AND CARE;
CONTACT STAN TOMANDL AND ANN JACOB;  250-383-5677 (CANADA)
Coma Work Theory: Awakening to Inner Work
Even though comatose patients may be dramatically impaired, process oriented coma workers believe coma can call people to deep inner work. Remote states of consciousness, …

Recovery from stroke and metabolic coma

Gladys Steele, the ninety-two year old matriarch of the family suffers a stroke with accompanying high fever, and lapses into a metabolic coma.
After Sentient Care including Coma Work, she is awake and responding, though still experiencing speech impairment.
She fully recovers her speech with four more sessions.
During this work the family is overjoyed to discover wisdom and eldership, not “sickness”, emanating from her fragile condition.

A detailed description of this work is …

Alzheimer’s & Dementia Inner Experience

There exists a complex spiritual growth process in the background of Alzheimer’s, dementias, and other states of altered consciousness. Knowledge and awareness of this process offers hope and relief to patients, family members and care givers alike. Sentient Care explores the messages and meaning contained in these processes. These messages trying to reach awareness are both personal to the identified patient and universal for the family and community. Until the …

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 …