Dawn Menken has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and is a certified process worker. She is a therapist and teacher and has always had a special devotion to relationships and building sustainable community. Dawn has worked in schools, agencies, organizations, small businesses, hospitals, and families. A workshop facilitator, and presenter at conflict and leadership conferences, she enjoys working with people from all cultures and backgrounds. Dawn has been the co-organizer of the bi-annual international worldwork seminars since their inception in 1991. She is the author of Speak Out! Talking About Love, Sex and Eternity, a book of personal essays that explore themes of marginalization, relationship, and the basic essence of community. She has been particularly interested in conflict work among youth and dreams of a day when conflict work and community building are central components to every school curriculum. To this end, she has written a manual called, Teens Do It, a curriculum for middle and high schools students, a work still in progress. The article, "Juice and Doughnuts: Group Process Work with Teenagers" appears in the Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Spring, 1993. Motherhood continues to be a big inspiration for Dawn and has informed her creativity in her approach to group work, social action, and creating world community. One of her favorite places to engage in group process is the local playground. In September of 2006 she performed her one-woman show MamaSpeak, at a local theater in Portland, based on her personal journey and the universal mystery behind birth and the sacred calling to parenthood. Recently, together with Jan Dworkin, she has begun a project to facilitate open forums in the United States around the cultural and political divide. SUMMARY OF WORK IN WORLD Dawn has worked as a psychotherapist for the past 20 years in addition to teaching and facilitating workshops throughout the world. She has worked as a conflict resolution consultant and mediator for schools, agencies, businesses, and social groups. Since 1991, Dawn has been one of the administrators and organizers, as well as a faculty member of the Worldwork Seminars, that have taken place in Bratislava, Switzerland, India, Australia and several locations in the U.S. Together with colleagues, Dawn helped to create the Master of Arts in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change, a new degree offered by the Process Work Institute. She is also a faculty member at the Process Work Institute. Dawn was involved in developing and organizing the following four televised town meetings in Portland, Oregon: "Race, Violence and Community: Building a Multicultural Portland," PSU, 1993. "Race, Economics and Community," Portland Conference Center, May 16, 1994. "Building Community after Ballot Measure 9," Portland State University, Oct. 4, 1993 "Continuing Community Building after Ballot Measure 9" Portland Conference Center, May 23, 1994 Dawn is on the roster of Oregon Mediators and Facilitators. She has presented at the annual SPIDR conference, (Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution), as well as the National Conference for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Oregon Mediation Conference.
Publications: Speak Out! Talking About Love, Sex, and Eternity, New Falcon, 2001 "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: the Quest for Spiritual Rank," Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Lao Tse Press, Volume 7, Number 1, 1995. "Madness as Feminism," The Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Lao Tse Press, Volume 6, Number 1, 1994. "The Nobody Who Could Become Anybody: a Tribute to Tom Hammond," Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Lao Tse Press, Volume 5, Number 2, 1993. "Juice and Doughnuts: Group Process Work with Teenagers," Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Lao Tse Press, Volume 5, Number 1, 1993. "Emerging World Views," Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Portland, Process Press, Volume 3, Number 1, 1990. "Process Oriented Reflections on the Arab-Jewish Conflict," Journal of Process Oriented Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland, Process Press, Volume 1, Number 1, 1988. Teens Do It: A Curriculum for Conflict Work and Community Building for Teens and the Adults Who Work With Them. Unpublished work in progress.
Media: Dawn on KBOO radio 18 Mar 2005: Real Media Format Dawn on KBOO radio on Conflict Resolution: Windows Media Format Dawn & Julie Diamond on KBOO Radio Jan 2004: Windows Media Format
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