They teach how to use our symptoms and life threatening illness including fears, fantasies and pains as windows towards enlightenment. Arny is also known for his work in psychiatry and near death interventions. Amy has helped further with her contributions in the area of philosophy, dance and ethics. The Mindells gave a general introduction which illustrated their approach in relationship to Jungian analysis as well as Gestalt therapy. They introduced how Jung connected with dream work and they went on to discuss the connection between dreams and the body, and extended their views of body symptoms and how they relate to world issues.
Symptoms are direct expression of the dreaming body.
During the presentation Amy and Arny demonstrated how to work with symptoms in a holistic way, unraveling their meaning in a person's life. Deeper dimensions of those symptoms can be found in a comatose state and in near death experience. During the workshop Arny and Amy worked with participants on unfolding their individual dreaming processes during which time relationship and community process become integrated. This process leads not only to the acknowledgment of the richness of one's life but also to healing. The initial phases of the dream work are reminiscent of the process of Focusing.