COUNSELLING families of those in coma and dementia and people formerly in coma.

FACULTY with the Sacred Art of Living Center and the Anamcara Project. 

FACULTY (Stan) with the Process Work Institute Graduate School 

PRESENTATION of workshops, seminars, and inservices across North America in person, and around the world by telehone conference; to nurses, care aids, volunteers, social workers, clergy, body workers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, counsellors, psychologists, physicians, teachers, trainers, and families.    

COMA COMMUNICATION is our organization located in Victoria, BC, Canada. We practice coma work as originated by Drs. Amy and Arnold Mindell. Coma communication means lovingly noticing and encouraging verbal and nonverbal communication of people in altered consciousness. We believe that as long as there is breath, there is consciousness and communication.

"The purpose of life is to know the divine, to be with it and connect it somehow with other humans, so love is something that organizes everything we do. Love means openness to all states of consciousness. Love means openness to a person in the midst of dreaming and coma." ~ Arnold Mindell, Ph D, author of Coma: Key to Awakening.

Coma work is taught under the larger discipline of Process Work, also known as Process Oriented Psychology. The main North American centre is the Process Work Institute located in Portland, Oregon. Process Work operates through the deeply democratic belief that all parts of a person, the environment, relationships, groups, and the world are valuable and meaningful. We work with a diversity of issues through body symptoms, mental and emotional difficulties, relationships, families, small and large groups, businesses, non government organizations, systems, politics, and global issues. In Process Work we rely on finding the seeds of life and growth within difficulties and diversity. 

COMA WORK ORIGINS
Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell, psychologists working in Zurich, Switzerland in the 1970’s and 1980’s, developed coma work from observing and researching how to communicate with people in coma and other states of altered consciousness. Now living in Oregon in the United States, they continue to train colleagues and have published two books on coma. See the Resources section.

We hold immense gratitude for patients and their families who have taught the Mindells and us and our colleagues so much about altered consciousness. Many relatives and friends who sit day after day with loved ones in coma and coma like states will notice many small changes in behavior, and what those changes are in response to. They have often half invented coma work by observation, love, and perseverance to their belief and perceptions that someone is indeed home within the person lying before them in bed.

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AWARENESS, TRAINING, AND COMMUNICATION METHODS

For more information contact:

Stan Tomandl, MA, PWD & Ann Jacob, B.Ed
COMA COMMUNICATION ~ PROCESS ORIENTED FACILITATION
#502--620 View Street, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1J6
1.250.383.5677   annstan@islandnet.com   www.comacommunication.com