Dreamwork and Dream-Arts: Healing, Creativity, and Personal Growth:
Level III: Advanced

Please note: This workshop is part 3 of a three part Dream-Arts Certificate and requires completion of Dreamwork and Dream-Arts: Healing, Creativity, and Personal Growth: Level I and Level II.  

Facilitated by: Angel Morgan, PhD, Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams

Dates: Friday October 15, 6:30 – 9:30 pm AND: Saturday October 16, 10:00 am – 1pm
Times are PDT.
Hours: 6 hours: presented in 2 – three-hour sessions.
CEs: 6 CEs available
Location: Online via Zoom

Join us on Friday for an evening that includes review of a variety of methods for individual and group dreamwork that you practiced in Level II (a prerequisite for this workshop), more discussion about individual dream language, individual and group exercises with visual Dream-Arts, extraordinary dream categories, and a discussion of 14 approaches to dreams and PTSD nightmares.

Description

Dreamwork and Dream-Arts are helpful doorways to individual and group creativity, which leads to healing and personal growth. This workshop offers various methods of dreamwork and creative dream expression for both individual and group work. Lecture and discussion will lead to experiential group and individual activities. Bring your dream journal if you have one. Together we will cultivate a respectful space for creative dream exploration, and you will gain valuable new tools for your practice. Background for Dreamwork and Dream-Artsincludes Kilton Stewart’s Senoi Dream Theory, Montague Ullman’s Appreciating Dreams group method (aka The Ullman Method), Fritz Perls’ Gestalt Dreamwork, Gayle Delaney’s Dream Interview Method, Wilma Scategni’s Dream Psychodrama, and Angel Morgan’s Dream-Bridging Method with Dream-Arts.

This is part three of a three part Dream-Arts Certificate.

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss the healing power of dream sharing.
2. Utilize a variety of methods for individual dreamwork.
3. Utilize a variety of methods for group dreamwork.
4. Identify the dream language of individual dreamers.
5. Create Dream-Arts through the process of Dream-Bridging.
6. Explain how Gestalt psychology, Dream Psychodrama, and Improvisational Dream Theater can intersect to help dreamers find insight, healing, and wholeness.

Required Reading: One or more of these books (available for purchase online):

• Krippner, S., Bogzaran, F., & de Carvalho, A.P. (2002). Extraordinary dreams and how to work with them. State University of New York Press.
• Lewis, J.E., & Krippner, S. (Eds.). (2016). Working with dreams and PTSD nightmares: 14 approaches for psychotherapists and counselors. Praeger.
• Morgan, A. K. (2018). Dreamer’s powerful tiger: A new lucid dreaming classic for children and parents of the 21^st Century. The Dreambridge.

Final Assignment to complete the Dream-Arts Certificate:

Write a 500 – 1,000 word essay in APA style (see Publication Manual of the APA, 7^th ed.) describing what you have learned about Dreamwork and Dream-Arts during this 3 part series of workshops in relation to something that stands out to you in one (or more) of the required books listed above.

Angel Morgan, Ph.D. founded Dreambridge (thedreambridge.com) in 2008. She
specializes in dreams, creativity, and the connection between the two (Dream-Arts).
She has worked with adults, children, teens, and parents as a Dream-Arts educator
since 1995. An interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, she received her Ph.D. in
Psychology after completing the Dream Studies and Creativity Studies programs at
Saybrook University. Before that, she received an M.A. in Human Development from
Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a B.A. in Theater, Film, and Television from
UCLA, and is a graduate of the Idyllwild Arts Academy.