This 5-week journey invites you to explore the creative and transformative potential of your dreams and the liminal states of sleep. Using a gestalt lens, the course emphasises awareness, presence, and dialogue with your inner world. We will experiment with ways of contacting dreams — lucid and non-lucid — as living experiences rather than abstract symbols. By engaging with the “bookends of sleep,” poetry, and journaling, you will cultivate practices that support your wellbeing, relationships, and creative expression.
The course is not about analysing or interpreting your dreams, but about meeting them in the here-and-now, discovering how they reflect your unfinished business, polarities, and emerging possibilities. The main aim is to support you in developing a personal nocturnal practice that fosters spiritual, psychological, and creative growth.
What we will explore together:
- Awareness of sleep states and dreams: cultivating presence with different states of consciousness as resources for daily life.
- Dialoguing with dreams: contacting non-lucid dreams as living figures that carry meaning, vitality, and guidance.
- Lucid dreaming practice: exploring the history, science, and methods of lucidity, and how lucidity can deepen awareness and integration.
- Dream incubation: experimenting with intentional dreaming to illuminate questions, problems, and creative blocks.
- Bookends of sleep: discovering the creative thresholds of falling asleep and waking
- Creative expression: engaging with poetry therapy, writing, and journaling as forms of integration and dialogue with dream material.