[Libs-Or] Process Work Institute cult? be aware, read this before applying

Charles Wood wuchakewu at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 4 15:22:46 PST 2018 

Hi, I am writing this in response to the post about a job at the Process Work Institute.  I read an article once in the Willamette Week that described this place like a cult in which you cannot graduate unless you have sex with the teachers. Amy and Arnold Mindell, described in the article, are still involved the place.  Please read the article before applying there.  "Dream Academy: And you thought your degree was useless..." by David Shafer.
https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-285-dream-academy.html
They were shut down for a while, but they seem to be open again.  From the article:
"First, the letter claimed that students progress not by completing a course of study but by divining the unspoken requirements of the Mindells and their inner circle of Diplomates. Gaining access to this exclusive clique is key to academic advancement, the complaint alleged, and sex with higher-ups is a common path to success.

Second, the complainant alleged that the academic and therapeutic aspects of the program are so intertwined that violations of confidentiality are inevitable and create an atmosphere of paranoia and palace intrigue.

Finally, according to the complainant, the master's degree is professionally useless even within the Process Work community, its primary purpose being to provide INS protection to foreign students while they earn the much-coveted diploma, which is not a degree recognized by the INS."

"Jason Reynolds, a Northwest neighbor who hosted a French PWCP student two years ago, was appalled by what he saw going on at the school. "Everyone was having sex with everyone else, and some people were being persecuted and traumatized," says Reynolds, who has a background in professional mental health. "There was no sense of boundaries, no sense of professionalism." And Mindell, he continues, "was invested with almost godlike importance.""

Please, please use your library skills to evaluate this "workplace" before applying there.  I understand Pierina may not have known about this history.

There are jobs at the post office.

Thank you,

Charles Wood, MSLIS



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Hi Everyone,

Attached you?ll find the agenda for this Saturday meeting and for the Mock Pura Belpr? Awards event.
Hope that you can make it!


Mart?n Blasco
Outreach Librarian for Multicultural Services
Washington County Cooperative Library Services | 503-846-3210
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From: Pierina Parise <pparise at emporia.edu>
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Subject: [Libs-Or] Process Work Institute - Library Position
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From: PWI Library <library at processwork.org<mailto:library at processwork.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 9:33 AM
To: Pierina Parise <pparise at emporia.edu<mailto:pparise at emporia.edu>>
Subject: PWI Library Position
I wanted to reach out and let you know that there is an open position at our library.  It's a wonderful little library at Process Work Institute, a psychology graduate school, in NW Portland.  I've attached the description here and the contact person is Hellene Gronda  hellene.gronda at processwork.org<mailto:hellene.gronda at processwork.org>
The position is only for 5 hours a week at $25/hr but is very flexible with availability to work from home.  They require a MLS for the job so it would be a good opportunity for someone who would like to supplement their current job and add to their resume :-)
Can you please share with the library community?

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