Work Life Intruding on Your Dreams?
“Can’t seem to get away from work, even in your wildest dreams? Well, you’re not alone. In a study by Staples, more than half of small-business professionals said that work has actually become part of their dream cycle at night.”
Read the full article at:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080512/NEWS/805120308/1326
Jungian Dreamwork Class in NYC
Maxson J. McDowell, President of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, will present a 5-week class in Jungian Dreamwork Thursday evenings from May 22 through June 19, 2008 at the New York Open Center.
The seminal and highly influential psychotherapist Carl Jung felt that there is an objective source within all of us that speaks to us in our dreams, if we can learn how to listen. Dreams, he said, can show us how we are off-center and challenge us, even suggest ways forward in a crisis or impasse in life, but we need to interpret them carefully or we may project our desires or fears onto them and thus fail to heed their real message….
See further details at:
http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1694/5/
Dream Salons in Minnesota
Dream Salons & International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) Minnesota Members Meetings:
“Once a month or so, there will be an informal presentation and discussion on an aspect of dreaming such as healing dreams, dream incubation techniques or the dream arts. ”
More information at:
www.monkeybridgearts.com/X1ServicesDreamSalons.html
Dream Lecture and Workshop in NYC in June
Justina Lasley, MA, will offer an evening lecture titled Dreams: An Introduction on June 6, followed by a 1-day workshop titled Dreams: Visions of the Night in New York on Saturday June 7, 2008. (The lecture is a prerequisite to attending the workshop.)
In this experiential workshop, Justina Lasley will help you find “the gold” in your dreams. Working in a safe (and confidential) group we will learn to understand the metaphorical language of dreams and uncover their rich meanings.
The skills you will learn include how to: use dreams to move toward personal growth, healthful living and your authentic self; uncover dreams’ spiritual messages; organize dream groups; effectively share your dreams; relate your emotions and actions to those you experience in dreams; use amplification techniques based on Jungian, Gestalt, Art Therapy, and Psychodrama theories to open your dreams to fruitful interpretation. Come discover time-tested, highly effective techniques that will help you turn your dreams into guides for greater personal insight and pathways to a more fulfilling future.
Full details at:
http://www.opencenter.org/content/view/1720/
“Dreaming Like an Egyptian” and Other Workshops
Robert Moss is offering some interesting events during May, including a one-day workshop on May 31 entitled Dreaming Like an Egyptian:
In the hieroglyphs of Egypt, a dream is both a place and an awakening. The ancient Egyptians developed an advanced practice of conscious dream travel. Trained dreamers operated as seers, remote viewers and telepaths. They practiced shapeshifting, crossing time and space in the dreambodies of birds and animals…. (more at http://www.mossdreams.com/dreamarcheology.htm)
About Robert Moss:
Robert Moss is a world authority on dreams, a bestselling novelist and a former magazine editor and professor of ancient history at the Australian National University. His many books include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates and The Three Only Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination. He has also produced the DVD series The Way of the Dreamer and the popular Sounds True audio series Dream Gates: A Journey into Active Dreaming.
Dreaming Like an Egyptian event details at:
http://www.mossdreams.com/text/Calendar/2008may.htm#mystic
Complete Robert Moss calendar:
http://www.mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm
May Dream Workshops in Santa Fe
Upcoming events at the Dreaming Arts Studio in Santa Fe, NM:
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
My Mother, Myself
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Paradox and Puzzlement
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Gift
“The Art of the Dream” workshops access the roots of creative consciousness through guided explorations of universal archetypes that demonstrate how power, medicine and magic can transform the mystery of dreams into deep inner soul work.
In each Tuesday workshop, dreamers create books and fill journals with poetry, prose, collage and image-making.
More details:
http://web.mac.com/victoriadreams/iWeb/
THE%20ART%20OF%20THE%20DREAM/current.html
Call-In Dream Radio Show Hosted by Robert Moss, May 13
“Robert Moss’s next radio show is LIVE on Tuesday, May 13, from 12:00P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Eastern time. Everyone is welcome to call in at 800. 555.5453. The theme is ‘Keys to Everyday Creativity.’ Robert will talk about dreams, coincidence, everyday magic, and any questions you want to raise.”
From http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=2838
Online Virtual Dream Workshop Begins in May
Living Your Best Dreams
“An eight-week virtual dream workshop consisting of a series of e-mails delivered to your inbox and an online forum led by Robert Moss, the pioneer of active dreaming. Each week, you will receive a message from Robert Moss, author of the book “The Three Only Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination” and the article “Waking Up To Your Dreams” in the March/April edition of Spirituality & Health magazine. The e-course will begin in May 2008 and will run for eight weeks.“
More details at:
http://www.spirituality-health.com/spirit/catalog/1/dreamwork
Maybe Dreams Aren’t as Bizarre as You Think
The web site for the Quantitative Study of Dreams mentions this new research paper by G. William Domhoff in its News section:
Bill’s latest analysis of findings on the realistic nature of dreams, challenging the stereotype that everything about them is bizarre, appeared as a chapter in a recent book entitled The New Science of Dreaming
http://dreamresearch.net/Library/domhoff_2007b.html
Dreams: Visions of the Night, Workshop in NYC
Dream Workshops with Justina Lasley, Director of the Institute for Dream Studies
Dreams: Visions of the Night
New York Open Center
Date: Friday, June 6 - Saturday, June 7, 2008
Description: In this experiential workshop, Justina Lasley will help you find “the gold” in your dreams. Working in a safe (and confidential) group you will learn to understand the metaphorical language of dreams and uncover their rich meanings. The skills you will learn include how to: use dreams to move toward personal growth, healthful living and your authentic self; uncover dreams’ spiritual messages; organize dream groups; effectively share dreams; relate your emotions and actions to those you experience in dreams; use amplification techniques based on Jungian, Gestalt, Art Therapy, and Psychodrama theories to open dreams to fruitful interpretation. Come discover time-tested, highly effective techniques that will help you turn your dreams into guides for greater personal insight and pathways to a more fulfilling future. Note: This workshop can be of great value to both complete beginners and experienced dream adventurers, as well as offer very useful skills to counseling and coaching professionals. Friday night lecture is a requirement for the Saturday workshop.
For details, consult the Program Calendar at www.opencenter.org/.
