We will learn through lecture, sharing with others, and individual work.

Goals:

• Particpants will exhibit an understanding of the history and cultural context of dream work by describing where their own belief system falls within the spectrum.
• Participants will learn several ways of recording dreams and sicover what combinations work well for them.
• Participants will begin to see patterns in their own dream life by keeping a dream diary of the course of six weeks.
• Participants will explore aspects of specific dreams through use of creative activities such as writing, painting and dramatics.
• Participants will interact with dream time reality through meditation and guided imagery techniques.
• Participants will leave having the tools needed to continue dream exploration on their own.

Session Agendas

• 6:30 - 7 Get to know one another by answering questions about our perceptions of dreaming, dream work and our hopes for learning in this workshop setting
• 7 - 8 Overview, What is dreaming (medical/spiritual)? What is dream work (historical/cultural)?
• 8 - 8:30 Break for questions, browsing books and snacks.
• 8:30 - 9:30 Ways to record our dreams. Dream worksheets. Handouts and examples.

Second Session

• 6:30 - 7:30 How did the process go? Where you able to remember your dreams? Where you able to write them down? Did you share them with others?
• 7:30 - 8:30 Freud, Jung and the angels. Images and how we get them.
• 8:30 - 9:30 The collective unconscious - what is stored there. Mythology and icon.

Third Session

• 6:30 - 8:30 Each participant takes 20 minutes to share dreams recorded and share feelings about the process of doing this.
• 8:30 - 9:30 Interpretation of dreams. Images and what they mean. How dream images resonate. Practice.

Fourth Session

• 6:30 - 7:30 Sharing our process.
• 7:30 - 9:30 Other ways to honor the dream record. Take an image and work with it (individual and group work). Making connections and finding meaning.

Fifth Session

• 6:30 - 7:30 How are your dreams changing? Checking in.
• 7:30 - 9:30 Bringing the dream world and the waking world together. Guided meditation and active dreaming. Next time, be sure to have all your dream records with you.

Sixth Session

• Individuals set up their dream records and creative spin-offs. Are there patterns?
• What did your dream life tell you these last six weeks?
• Sharing and working.
• Summary of what we learned. Where to go from here.