“What a gem! ...such a heartwarming presentation. Thank you for sharing with our group how to make stories from our dreams.”
Immersive workshops and retreats are for individuals and groups wanting to explore both the inner life and outer vision. My goal as a facilitator is to share practices and empower others to internalize the work that can transform the way we carry forward our individual and collective stories. We can learn to attune and align ourselves to a collective dream, the goals, objectives, collaborative styles and culture of an organization or a community. The relationship building between our inner life and outer world is an important element of dreamwork. Through dreamwork we can explore both the intrapersonal and interpersonal perceptions we carry and how we envision our creative life and our place in the world. How can we transform adversity into a vision for the future? How do we mirror ourselves as being part of a larger story that expresses both an individual and collective dream? This collection of workshops are designed to answer deeper questions and facilitate renewed desire and commitment to our own creative life and vision for the future.
who benefits?
individual seekers
Spiritual Directors and Pastoral Caregivers
Leadership Teams
Wellness and Bodywork Practitioners
Community Organizations
Counselors, Caregivers, and Volunteer Groups
Creatives and design teams
Dream Group Leadership Training
Facilitating dream groups is a moving role suited best in therapeutic, caregiving, or spiritual/faith-based settings. Leaders in these career-paths will experience dreamwork to be a way to build bridges, offer healing guidance, and acknowledge the story that continues to evolve within us, calling us to know and experience depth and meaning. Dream group leadership training is a series of workshop encounters best for leaders who have experienced dream groups as a participant.
Dreaming Theatre
STORY AND STAGE
In this workshop series participants will learn about the transformational practice of sharing our stories through the convention of theatre. Dreams offer guidance. We will learn about the compelling dreams that arise from the unconscious and offer a Call. Using a combination of dreamwork, fairy tale writing, devised theatre, storytelling, and more, we will bring the guidance from dream to story to stage. This series of transformational creative embodiment practices is especially beneficial for leaders working with communities who’ve experienced adversity and are seeking agency, voice, healing and renewal.
Movement & Imagination
EMBODIED STORYTELLING WITH DREAMS
This creative embodiment practice explores our inner imagery, poetry, and story. Discover relationship between the symbolic language of dreams and the physical language of the body. The practices learned will reveal the depth of the healing capacity of our soma and dreams. In this multi-session workshop: learn how movement exploration accesses the body’s intuition and expresses a soul language similar to dreams, explore how physical language, like dreams, is rooted in storytelling, and discover a practice for Carl Jung’s active imagination using intuitive movement and dream imagery. How do we reclaim our creative life, the innate wisdom of our body, and the roots of our story? ….through Movement and Imagination.
Dream Guardians
MEMORIES, EPHEMERA, & NEW STORIES
As we move into our late twilight years, stories become even more meaningful, a way of time traveling to significant memories. Sometimes our memories show up in our dreaming, things we once loved to do or friends and family we spent time with. Autonomy and agency are important, yet, often our life situation may feel as though it’s all in the past. We forget that our elders are the guardians of story and memory. In dreams, we may experience images, memories, or people as though we are gazing through a looking glass. Dreams also offer new material and are a fount for making new stories. Images and symbols arise like ephemera. Dreams and dreamwork play a vital role in supporting curiosity, memory, story-making, and communication. Dream sharing is accessible and effective for engagement with both individuals and groups. This workshop can be designed for multiple or ongoing workshops or for leadership training with art or recreational therapists in a variety of community settings.
“go to the woods someday and weave a wreath of memory there…” - I Never Saw Another Butterfly