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Dreamwork
Photo: Adam King
Dreamwork elements
Individual sessions. In-person or online.
Sessions can be booked as a series or single-sessions following dreams of significance.
I strongly recommend a period of work to allow dreams to shift into conversation with each other and see the effect of taking action in daily life.
Dream journal
Practices for remembering your dreams, setting intentions, creating a physical dream altar object and considering your journal as an altar. Considering your personal beliefs of where dreams arise from. Practical and spiritual aspects of preparing yourself to enter into a deeper relationship with your dreams.
Re-entering the Dream
Moving beyond analysis. Meeting the dream relationally, with wonder and somatic deepening. Cultivating an openness to what we don’t already know. Tracking patterns of meaning-assumptions we ‘jump-to’ and patterns of resistance including shame and fear. Considering dreams through a relational lens. Unfold the layers of wisdom and guidance.
Creative Expression
Drawing, poetry, collage, dance and clay. Listen, honor and dream the dream forward. Using easily accessible art practices - Feel the supportive alliance of dreams and let them inform your waking life. We can explore how to begin a conversation between art and then next dream coming.
Relationship with Nightmares
Nightmares can hold great wisdom and even tenderness, but it is hard to be in relationship if we are overwhelmed. Developing skills to remain grounded, regain agency and use self-compassionate forms of enactment for resolution. Creating altars of intention can be helpful, as well as resourcing objects such as a dream-guardian or self-soothing toolbox.
Nightmares: We will start with the basics to build safely towards work with more difficult material.
Where nightmares cause high distress I may ask that the person engage with
trauma-informed therapy along-side these sessions.
Approach to dreamwork.
My dreamwork approach is shaped by learning with:
Shannon Wills - Red Earth
Anahata Giri - Soul River
Briony Tronson - Seedpod Creative Arts Studio
Adding to personal experience in dream circles over the last 10 years, reflecting traditions of Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Robert Moss, and Jungian approaches.
Individual dreamwork sessions in Transpersonal and Soulcraft traditions.
Expressive arts practices learned with Cornelia Elbrecht - Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy
And of course, my own dream-weaving style.
Resources-
(coming soon)