Speaker
- Satya Doyle Byock
Organiser
The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies
Website
https://jungian.directory/related_organisation/the-salome-institute-of-jungian-studies/Community Dreamwork + Active Imagination
“Dreams cannot prevent us from the vicissitudes and illness and sad events of human existence, but they seem to be able to give us a guiding line how to cope with them and how to find meaning in our life and how to fulfill our own destiny, how to follow our own star, to realize the greater potential of life within us.”
This practice of community dreamwork at The Salome Institute has been an enlivening opportunity to join with others interested in expanding their relationship with the unconscious, symbols, and dreams. In this series, we’ll continue a similar practice of dreamwork with which we’ve engaged in the past and begin exploring more active imagination together as well.
“We have to take the dream text literally, just as it reads. ...The Talmud states quite correctly: ‘The dream is its own interpretation.’ We can’t do anything but amplify and enrich the dream.”
In each of our six sessions, Satya will host live dreamwork for one or two class members who have expressed interest in “working a dream.” Through a simple, guided process, Satya will invite those present in the live gatherings to support the dreamer to gain an understanding of the dream through back-and-forth dialogue with the dreamer. Whether in the second hour, or mixed in with the dreamwork, Satya will also introduce methods of active imagination as an additional tool for listening to psyche and compassionate self-witnessing.
As always, we’ll establish a compassionate, permissive frame within group and outside with structure for writing down dreams and witnessing the symbol-making function of psyche.
“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.”
Some Details about Community Dreamwork:
Those who wish to work a dream in the group setting will be invited to submit their name in advance of the live meetings. Trusting synchronicity—and past success with this process—dreamers’ names are selected at random and dreamers are notified in advance. The process invites the right dream for all of us at the right time, and often, a conversation between the two dreams each session.
“Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language.”
With each dream, Satya supports the dreamer to settle into their body and “feel into” the dream for associations and amplification of images, inviting personal reflections and self-exploration. After engaging with the dreamer, Satya then invites the community to safely contribute insights through the “if this were my dream…” format: a safe, guided query into the way the dream impacts and resonates with others. Through witnessing and exploring each dream together, we learn more about the process of dreamwork, the symbols that arise from our own psyches, and ways of working with the dreams of others.
Between live sessions, all registered participants are welcome to continue exploring the dream, sharing symbolic references and other thoughts on our online discussion space.
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Brief Overview:
February 19th- March 26th
Sessions will be hosted live online & same-day recordings will be provided -
Number of hours credit:
9