Process Oriented Psychology: Advanced Practices for Dispute Resolution

Abstract

This article introduces Process Oriented Psychology – also known as Processwork – a relatively new approach to working with dispute resolution and conflict. Process Oriented Psychology is a comprehensive awareness-based paradigm that seeks to observe, follow, and support the flow of information signals as they emerge and unfold through communication in people, groups, and communities. It is a humanistic, trans-disciplinary approach for developing awareness and change, drawing from Jungian and Gestalt psychologies, sociology, systems and communications theory, Taoist philosophy, indigenous knowledge, and physics.