Dream Tending is a life practice that healers, storytellers, and poets have known by many different names for thousands of years.
Participants in this three-day workshop will build practical skills grounded in traditional and emerging methods of dreamwork. The Dream Tending methods developed by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat build on the methods of association, amplification, and animation pioneered by Freud and Jung, and expanded upon by James Hillman and Marion Woodman. Dream Tending puts animation into practice and allows us to experience dreams in their living, embodied reality.
Workshop participants will:
• Learn how to remember dreams and examine recurring dream themes
• Practice dream tending skills with nightmares
• Explore the multiple dimensions of psyche—the personal, collective, and world unconscious
Animate dream images and form relationships with figures in dreams
• Discover how living images impact and inform our moods, behaviors, and perceptions
• Learn how dreams can support and improve physical and psychological health
Participants will meet daily in four-person Dream Kivas to practice their dream tending skills. During these sessions, each member of the group will have the opportunity to work with their own dreams.
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