Dream Workshop

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and liberatory practice

The map to a new world is in the imagination, in what we see in our third eyes, rather than in the desolation that surrounds us.

~ Robin D. G. Kelley

This is an educational/experiential workshop designed to support mental health professionals, artists and writers, those engaged in spiritual practices and anyone who wants to learn to work with their dreams in service of healing, creative or contemplative processes.

I advocate an agnostic processes of working with dreams (daydreams/synchronicities/imaginal content)- sitting in relationship to symbols & emotions they surface, amplifying and exploring them, without trying to “decide what they mean” or without dismissing them as nonsense or worthless. Paying attention to what our bodies and our psyches have to say helps us live in better alignment with our intuition and our values.

Dreams offer us a powerful shared symbolic language for connecting to personal and collective intuition in an era of dissociation, disinformation, challenge and transformation.

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WinTER-SPRING - Section ONE: FULL

Wednesday evenings

at 4:00pm Pacific, 5:00pm Mountain, 6:00pm Central, and 7:00pm Eastern,

Via Zoom for 1 hour - for 10 sessions

on March 27th, April 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, & May 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th /2024

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SPRING-SUMMER - SECTION TWO: ACCEPTING MEMBERS


Tuesday evenings

at 4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, and 7:00 Eastern

Via Zoom for 1 hour - for 10 sessions

on May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16 /2024

Those who complete either of these 10 session workshops are invited to participate in an ongoing Weekly Dream Circle as openings permit.

Content

The workshop will introduce subjects such as:

  • the structure and relationship between consciousness and the unconscious,

  • understanding archetypes

  • the personal unconscious.

  • Jung’s method of dream “amplification,”

  • “Big dreams” and dreams of the collective,

  • a review of contemplative and creative exercises that can help expand upon dream themes

  • an exploration of dreaming and synchronicity,

  • and the relationship between the creative process and dream work.

  • We will explore not only the useful aspects of Jung's thoughts on dreaming, we will also confront and challenge the Eurocentric, and misogynistic notions that exist in these texts and theories.

  • We will look at the notion of collective archetypes and the through line to liberation psychologies.

This workshop includes didactic teaching and discussion as well as respectful and boundaried exploration of dreams that are either shared by a participant or selected from the available readings.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Remember that this is a peer group not a therapy group.

Examining dreams may shed light on conflict or complexes or challenges which may be better processed in a therapy or counseling process than in a workshop. This group is supplemental to other therapeutic, creative, or contemplative processes - and not a replacement for appropriate therapeutic services, professional supervision or spiritual direction. 

Standard Donations, PAy-WHat-You Can, and ScholarshiP FUNDS

  • The suggested donation for those who are financially comfortable is $615

  • Those who are experiencing financial challenges are welcome to consider reducing donation by a half ($307) or a quarter ($153) of that amount or whatever is affordable.

  • If you are in a position to do so, please consider making a donation to provide scholarship funds to community members who have interest but do not have resources. For example a $52 donation subsidizes one scholarship seat in the group.

Materials

I will forward each registered workshop member:

  • a syllabus of optional readings to explore before and after the workshop.

  • a pdf of my e-booklet of brief teaching essays compiled for this workshop

  • Some essays from my public blog will also be suggested.

  • All reading is optional and made available for those who are interested.

Application

This group actively welcomes members of different professions, races/ethnicities, gender identities and socioeconomic realities, spiritual/religious beliefs and practices.  The expectation is that we come together to try to hold each other’s diverse experiences with mutual respect.

In order for me to make sure that members receive what they need from this group please fill out the application form below.

All answers will be confidential. 

I am usually able to respond promptly so please check your spam folder if you don’t receive confirmation in a day or two:

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