Pierre Morin
My vision is for all of us to open ourselves up to learn from people who go through these states. In my view, they are teachers as are the families and caregiver teams. Coma Work is a co-learning process. Coma is not just a pathological state that we need to fight; it is a meaningful experience for all of us. It comes with a lot of challenges and pain and it is inspiring. It touches on big questions of spirituality, and your beliefs about life and death. For us as communities and a society, coma presents a learning opportunity. Comatose people may help us revisit our ordinary everyday view of life. They help us get in touch with other levels of our lived experiences.
Gary Reiss
I see three major directions in Coma Work. The first one I see is that we are deepening and developing many more approaches to working with comatose states. Process–oriented Psychology is always developing new theory, depth, and approaches, and all of these changes need to be integrated into the Coma Work. Then we need to take this material and train coma workers, hospice workers, physicians, nurses, and family members of those who are in coma, and whoever else wants to learn. Second, we need more research to back up the effectiveness of what we are doing. Third, we need hospitals and nursing homes to welcome us in and to make this more a part of the regular, ongoing treatment of coma patients. My congratulations go especially to my Process Work colleagues in Poland who are now working closely with a new hospital being built in Warsaw specially to treat young people in coma, where Process Work will play a central role in the coma and family therapy work that happens there. I would like to see hospitals all over the world incorporate these methods.