In this excellent course Dr. Leslie Ellis, an expert in focusing and dreamwork, shows you how to sense into your dreams and find help in them. Leslie reveals, one step at a time, the great power of this gentle way of feeling into a dream, and through it, your own life.<\/p>\n
Dreams begin in the body. With their own language they give us an honest picture of what\u2019s unlived or off balance in us and our world. They also show us a world of possibilities where anything can happen. With somatic dreamwork we learn to find help in unexpected places in a dream. We begin to get a feel for where our next growth step might be.<\/p>\n
Eugene Gendlin developed a pioneering method of getting a sense of yourself from the inside called \u201cfocusing\u201d. Gendlin also created an experiential approach to dreams that synthesizes the work of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Fritz Perls. Dreamwork and focusing are both doorways to the body\u2019s immense and subtle implicit knowledge.<\/p>\n
Dr. Leslie Ellis has decades of clinical experience integrating Gendlin\u2019s focusing and dreamwork methods with the work of other contemporary pioneers in the field of dreamwork. She incorporates the latest research on somatic trauma therapy and rescripting nightmares into her work.<\/p>\n
In Leslie\u2019s classes we witness how life changing it can be to sense inward, find what\u2019s present and that \u201csomething new\u201d that wants to come forward. Join Leslie as she digs in deep for the clinician, and at the same time offers simple guidelines that anyone new to working with their dreams can use with great results on their own.<\/p>\n
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Course Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n Class 1. Short course in Focusing<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n In this class Leslie takes us through the steps of a focusing session, and explains how it is a unique path to dreamwork.<\/p>\n Focusing looks for a felt-sense in the body, this is the body\u2019s take on any aspect of our lives. Focusing develops an ability to be in touch with something that\u2019s still outside of our awareness.<\/p>\n Following this nebulous sense as it evolves into something recognizable is an ideal way to explore dreams as they unfold.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 2. An overview of Gendlin\u2019s philosophy<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n In this class Leslie discusses the more theoretical aspects of Gendlin\u2019s work. She presents a segment from his book<\/p>\n \u201cLet Your Body Interpret Your Dreams\u201d.<\/p>\n We learn that a dream is an altered state that is not fully embodied, that\u2019s why we need to work with the dream when we\u2019re awake. Focusing brings the new possibilities of the dream into our full-bodied lives. If we don\u2019t work the dream we may not bring that new life into actuality. Embodying the life energy in dreams is the main point of working with dreams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 3. Gendlin\u2019s 16 questions to guide dreamwork<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n In this class Leslie explains the 16 questions developed by Gendlin that synthesize the ideas of different schools of dream work of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Fritz Perls. The questions are grouped around the themes of associations, elements of the drama, decoding, working with characters, and dimensions of development.<\/p>\n These questions form the core of experiential dream work. Leslie encourages us to play with them as pathways back into the dream. Leslie gives us examples of how to take these questions into your body, and see what the body does with them.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll need to try them for yourself and see which questions work for you and which don\u2019t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 4. Finding the help in a dream<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n In this class Leslie shares several poignant stories of finding help in unexpected places in a dream. You\u2019ll hear inspiring examples of how dreamers located helpful elements that weren\u2019t clear at first glance. Sensing into these elements the dreamers found new energy in their bodies that became new ways of moving in their lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 5. Embodying dream characters and elements<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n Embodying dream characters and elements is a powerful experiential practice. Leslie gives examples of dreamers who accessed sources of vitality and adaptability that had in fact already protected them in their lives without their awareness.<\/p>\n As Gendlin said: \u201cWhat is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes!\u201d In Jungian terms, this is the shadow work of reowning projections and facing what\u2019s been rejected. This feeling work of integration brings new colors, resilience and emotional range within your reach.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Class 6. Allowing the dream to continue<\/b><\/p>\n Available now<\/i><\/p>\n In this class you\u2019ll learn how dreams and even nightmares can offer practical, hopeful ways of dealing with hard life situations when you carry the dream forward.<\/p>\n Leslie talks about ways of rescripting dreams and nightmares. She follows Jung\u2019s view that dreams are alive and on-going, even after we wake up. You\u2019ll also learn in this class how dreaming the dream on is a very effective way to treat nightmares and PTSD symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this excellent course Dr. Leslie Ellis, an expert in focusing and dreamwork, shows you how to sense into your dreams and find help in them. Leslie reveals, one step at a time, the great power of this gentle way of feeling into a dream, and through it, your own life. Dreams begin in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":105091,"template":"","level_of_course":[982,981],"class_list":["post-105090","courses","type-courses","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","level_of_course-intermediate","level_of_course-introductory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n