Community-Based Dreaming for Recovery
In the deepest sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung
Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of years, early traditional people saw dreams as oracles that could help one navigate life, in the Soul’s Body webinar. She added that these include the Greeks, Romans, Native Americans, and even some contemporary groups. Community-Based Dreaming is my …show more content…
Reiss taught a course called Community-Based Family Therapy using Process Work methods that I attended in winter 2015. I learned a new approach to working with family systems than opened my heart and connected me to my inner compass and sense of compassion for people suffering from addiction. The community-based healing approach includes whole community participation to support healing the family. There is a strong resonance with my ideas for Community-Based Dreaming as I envision it. I would like to explore different models for community building and bringing the dream back into the culture with Dr. Reiss and the PWI …show more content…
In Fragility of the World’s Dream (2012), depth psychologist Aizenstat says there is serious danger for people who do not have contact with the imaginal realm. Aizenstat defines the imaginal realm as, “the world's dream, the imaginal world behind the world or what Henri Corbin called the mundus imaginalis" (p. 178-179). Community-Based Dreaming hopes to address this danger by providing people with some basic skills and tools to work with the world behind the world and be grounded in their communities as they do so. For individuals interested in a deeper exploration, Embodied Dreaming and Fairytales and Synchronicity will follow the introductory group.
Community-Based Dreaming for Recovery also helps bring dreamwork back into the recovery community. Originally, psychoanalysis tried to address the issues of addiction. It searched the contents of the unconscious for origins and sought cures beneath symptoms. According to Morrison (1990), a psychologist, in Dream Mapping Chemical Dependency Recovery, “Chemical dependency (alcoholism and drug addiction), however, failed to respond to the burgeoning psychotherapies of the early twentieth century. It refused to be ‘cured’” (p. 114). Morrison
In the deepest sense, we all dream not of ourselves, but out of what lies between us and the other. – CG Jung
Community-Based Dreaming is a curriculum that has been in development for some years to offer experiential dream circles within a community setting. It blends depth psychology, somatic psychotherapy, fairytale theory, and community building as part of a wider mission to infuse modern culture with imagination. Stromsted (2015) noted for thousands of years, early traditional people saw dreams as oracles that could help one navigate life, in the Soul’s Body webinar. She added that these include the Greeks, Romans, Native Americans, and even some contemporary groups. Community-Based Dreaming is my …show more content…
Reiss taught a course called Community-Based Family Therapy using Process Work methods that I attended in winter 2015. I learned a new approach to working with family systems than opened my heart and connected me to my inner compass and sense of compassion for people suffering from addiction. The community-based healing approach includes whole community participation to support healing the family. There is a strong resonance with my ideas for Community-Based Dreaming as I envision it. I would like to explore different models for community building and bringing the dream back into the culture with Dr. Reiss and the PWI …show more content…
In Fragility of the World’s Dream (2012), depth psychologist Aizenstat says there is serious danger for people who do not have contact with the imaginal realm. Aizenstat defines the imaginal realm as, “the world's dream, the imaginal world behind the world or what Henri Corbin called the mundus imaginalis" (p. 178-179). Community-Based Dreaming hopes to address this danger by providing people with some basic skills and tools to work with the world behind the world and be grounded in their communities as they do so. For individuals interested in a deeper exploration, Embodied Dreaming and Fairytales and Synchronicity will follow the introductory group.
Community-Based Dreaming for Recovery also helps bring dreamwork back into the recovery community. Originally, psychoanalysis tried to address the issues of addiction. It searched the contents of the unconscious for origins and sought cures beneath symptoms. According to Morrison (1990), a psychologist, in Dream Mapping Chemical Dependency Recovery, “Chemical dependency (alcoholism and drug addiction), however, failed to respond to the burgeoning psychotherapies of the early twentieth century. It refused to be ‘cured’” (p. 114). Morrison