diverse states of getting along
Process Work Community Conference
Keynote presenter: Mark Yettica-PaulsonFri & Sat, 22nd & 23rd August 2025
on the land of the Yugambeh language people, Gold Coast, Queensland
Working out how to get along has never seemed so necessary and so difficult...
These times are calling for our best work together.
Calling for us to show up, tolerate discomfort, and find sustainable and equitable paths along our shared future. All whilst honouring the ways we're radically different.
But honestly, how do we actually make that work? What does that look like in action?
How do we work across differences when they involve sometimes contradictory ways of being in the world, altered states, power dynamics, and when we simply have to get things done?
Developed over forty years across more than 40 countries, Process Work has developed many powerful insights and techniques for working across differences. Tools and awareness for working with different levels and concepts of reality, contradictory communication signals, and group dynamics. And at the same time, the heart of Process Work - its greatest strength and energy conductor – is working with what isn’t yet known, unfolding disturbance to find what is emerging.
This year’s Process Work Community Conference focuses on the practice and application of process-oriented skills and mindsets for getting along - across, despite, and because of our differences.
These times are calling us to learn together in our diversity, to build our collective muscles, and practice navigating our differences. Join us for a deeply experiential, practical, and emergent two-day conference of presentations, experiential practices, groupwork, and teachings, beginning with an interactive keynote presentation by Mark Yettica-Paulson.
SESSION 1 KEYNOTE - MARK YETTICA-PAULSON
We are honoured to have Mark Yettica-Paulson presenting the keynote session this year. Mark is an experienced intercultural leadership and collaboration specialist, and an Australian Indigenous leader from the Birrah, Gamilaroi and Bundjalung peoples, from South East Queensland and North East NSW regions. Mark has combined his own wisdom and knowledges with Process Work methods as part of his work with Deep Collaboration – finding new ways for First Nations and Other Multicultural Australians to lead together.
He is the founder and Chief Director of Super Native Unlimited, specialising in creative and cultural leadership development, and is the Deep Collaboration Lead for Collaboration for Impact, Australasia’s leading capacity building and learning network for responding to complexity through effective collaboration. Mark brings decades of wisdom from his career in leadership development and community education across the corporate and government sectors, where he has facilitated leadership programs and advised organisations such as National Australia Bank, Australian Football League, Medibank Australia, Australia Post and The Foundation for Young Australians. Mark was also the CEO of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, a senior leader at Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal Corporations, and continues to support the work of the Victorian First Peoples’ Assembly for Treaty in Victoria. We are very excited to both learn from, and explore with, Mark as part of this conference.
SESSION 2 - INTERACTIVE GROUP PROCESS "SEEDING AFTER THE FIRE"
A facilitated live group process that further explores the theme of Mark’s morning session. Expect to dive deep, sit together in the discomfort and be moved by what’s emerging. Following the group process we will have a debrief with Mark and other Process work facilitators to discuss the structure of what unfolded.
Facilitated by Mark Yettica-Paulson and Jane Martin.
SESSION 3 - BLURRED BOUNDARIES: PERSONAL & SYSTEMIC SHIFTS IN GROUP DYNAMICS
When is an issue personal, and when is it systemic? This interactive presentation digs into the fractal dynamics of group work, where the personal and systemic are intricately intertwined. In any group setting, we exist both as individuals and as part of the collective, often blurring the boundaries between personal experience and systemic patterns. Why do people tend to shift focus - leaning into the personal when facing systemic challenges, and vice versa? Through lessons learned from their recent experiences working on conflict transformation within climate and social justice movements and experiential practices grounded in Processwork, Beck Ronkson and Bec Lang offer practical insights on how to hold both personal and systemic realities in group facilitation.
SESSION 4 - BEYOND WHAT WE SAY: THE GOLDEN POTENTIAL IN MIXED MESSAGES
Why don't our actual conversations match what we rehearse in our minds? Process Work diplomate Grzegorz Zielinski demonstrates how subtle unconscious cues create complex dynamics in our interactions. Learn how amplifying rather than controlling mixed signals in our relationships can bring forth their deeper purpose. Embrace a deeply democratic perspective by acknowledging all aspects of your expression, and make your communication more purposeful as a result.
JOIN US IF YOU WANT TO...
Learn about and experience culturally transformative ways to collaborate and facilitate work across diverse perspectives.
Learn and experience techniques for uncovering emerging energy in unusual places.
Feel more effective in your social, healing and environmental change work.
Practice new skills for working at depth on challenging differences.
Learn about Process work and its applications to this topic and connect with a community committed to this way of working.
Find a deeper connection to your unique way of contributing to social change.
CONFERNCE DETAILS
DATES AND TIMES
Friday and Saturday, 22nd and 23rd of August, 2025
Day 1: 10am-1pm and 2.30pm-6pm
Day 2: 10am-1pm and 3pm-5pm
WHERE
The conference will be held in person in the beautiful learning surroundings of Southern Cross University, on the land of the Yugambeh language people, the Gold Coast, Queensland.
ACCESSIBILITY
The venue confirms it is accessible to people using wheelchairs, through the provision of lifts, accessible parking, and accessible toilets.
There is a non-gendered disabled-access bathroom and two gendered bathrooms.
All printed materials will be in large print and any electronic presentations will be emailed to participants several days ahead of the conference.
Accessibility needs are of course diverse, so please use the accessibility section on the registration form to let us know if there are additional things we can do or confirm to make the event more accessible to you or contact us to confirm requirements prior to registering via
CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations seven or more days before the first session will receive a full refund.
Cancellations with less than seven days but more than two days notice will receive a 50% refund.
Cancellations with two or less days notice will not be refunded.
You're welcome to transfer your ticket to someone else any time before the conference starts - just let us know so we can welcome them properly.
REGISTRATIONS
To register for the conference, just select the appropriate payment category below. If you're organisation is paying, chose the 'organisation rate'. If you are paying for yourself and earn the median Australian income or higher (or are asset rich), choose the 'individal rate'. If your income is lower than that, choose the 'concession rate'. If you're really drawn to come but the concession rate is out of reach, just email us to arrange a more suitable rate:
Individual Rate - $490
Concession Rate - $230
Organisation Rate - $680
ANZPOP acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Aboriginal Australian, and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the Maori First Nations peoples. We pay respect to their elders across time. We give thanks for the Indigenous knowledge that has informed the Process Work approach. We honour the courage, resilience, and spirit of First Nations peoples to counter the ongoing impacts of colonisation on their culture, well-being, and sovereignty.
