Faculty Member of Processwork UK

Sue Milner

I am a Processwork Diplomat whose passion for spiritual practice and social activism came home in the discovery of Processwork 25 years ago. I now see individuals, couples and groups at my practice in Totnes, Devon and on Zoom, and am continually inspired by the creative nature of emerging processes. My spiritual life is centrally important to me and systemic awareness is part of this – bringing direct experience of interconnectedness and relationship. My particular interests are in issues of diversity, mental health and long term dreaming processes held in the body, and how these hold seeds of knowledge for all of us.

As a student of Processwork I was based at in my local GP practice where I explored the dreaming process of symptoms, and their interface with a medical approach. I work now with chronic symptoms but also continue to explore this interface with other approaches.  I represent ProcessworkUK at the Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College, within UKCP, and the last 2 years have chaired the HIPC Equality, Diversity and Intersectionality Committee. In this we seek to find consensus for ways to embed diversity within the heart of all HIPC psychotherapy trainings.

I run retreats and vision quests for women on the land, and explore internalized oppression through group work. My spiritual journey is informed by earth based spiritual practices. Some of my teachers work with the Medicine Wheel as a map of consciousness, and together with my husband I have developed a training programme focussed on a synthesis of the earth wisdom of the Medecine Wheel with Process Work.

More recently in light of global awareness around sustainability issues I am working with organisations who seek to be creative agents of change, with increased awareness of rank and power dynamics. I am deeply interested in the systemic nature of climate change and its relationship to the historic and collective abuse of rank and power issues.

Through living with my partner of 18 years I have come to see the path of relationship as central to all that I do, and believe it to be the foundation for deep and inspiring ecological and social change. I live on a small holding with him and our sometimes at home flown daughter and am grateful for the chance to discover all our conflicts as a way of going deeper.