The World is Alive and Dreaming.
Like an underground river, a symphony going on just below the level of "normal" hearing, everything in the world is speaking to us. Dreamwork is our chance to shift our stance from ever growing busy-ness and to-do lists, towards a softened gaze. When we engage the dream, we drop in a bit deeper to a place that lives within and around us that is filled with magic and meaning. The dream offers us the wisdom we so deeply long for. Through tending the dream we are entering into a co-creative relationship with forces that feed life and consciousness. By learning from the dream, we create a new us, a new world, a new relationship based on mutuality.
Dr. Stephen Aizenstat says this about Dream Tending:
Dream Tending is an applied approach of working effectively with dreams and imagination. This potent methodology orients around four essential ideas:
How Do I Tend a Dream With You?
First, we begin with your work at home...
1) Make a commitment to not only remember your nightly dreams, but to record them, either in writing or by voice memo.
Then, in our Dream Tending Session...
2) Read the dream aloud in a session in the present tense. It is as if I am blind and you are walking me through the landscape. describing in as much detail what you see, hear, feel and sense.
3) I begin to ask you questions about the details of the dream, emotions and transitions where the dream changes.
4) I reflect back to you, as "If it were my dream...", because I cannot ever be the "expert" of YOUR dream, but I can say what I see in terms of patterns, meaning and mythologies that show up for me in my projection of your dream.
5) You reflect on my offering and see if there are things that resonated with you or did not, and specifically if more memories are triggered in that telling, we go deeper. We ask more questions.
6) Together we look into the dream and wonder about where you might carry the dream into your daily life.
Is there research to do on some part of the dream?
Is there a place in the landscape of your world you want to visit because you were called to it by the dream?
Is there come kind of ritual or action the dream seems to be asking of you?
7) Continue to remember your nightly dream and when you tend them over time, you build an inner language of story that is unique to you and deepens over time.
"The recurring message that I receive from my dreams is “Don’t ignore us. We will help you whether you remember us or not. We will assist you whether or not you work with us. We will honor you whether or not you discuss us with other people. But if you remember us, honor us, and work with us, the benefits will astound you.” And I continue to be astounded by my dreams." ~ Stanley Krippner
Like an underground river, a symphony going on just below the level of "normal" hearing, everything in the world is speaking to us. Dreamwork is our chance to shift our stance from ever growing busy-ness and to-do lists, towards a softened gaze. When we engage the dream, we drop in a bit deeper to a place that lives within and around us that is filled with magic and meaning. The dream offers us the wisdom we so deeply long for. Through tending the dream we are entering into a co-creative relationship with forces that feed life and consciousness. By learning from the dream, we create a new us, a new world, a new relationship based on mutuality.
Dr. Stephen Aizenstat says this about Dream Tending:
Dream Tending is an applied approach of working effectively with dreams and imagination. This potent methodology orients around four essential ideas:
- The Psyche is Multidimensional.
- Dreams are Alive and Embodied.
- In an Animated World everything is Dreaming.
- Dreams and Imagination exist in the Immediacy of Presence.
How Do I Tend a Dream With You?
First, we begin with your work at home...
1) Make a commitment to not only remember your nightly dreams, but to record them, either in writing or by voice memo.
Then, in our Dream Tending Session...
2) Read the dream aloud in a session in the present tense. It is as if I am blind and you are walking me through the landscape. describing in as much detail what you see, hear, feel and sense.
3) I begin to ask you questions about the details of the dream, emotions and transitions where the dream changes.
4) I reflect back to you, as "If it were my dream...", because I cannot ever be the "expert" of YOUR dream, but I can say what I see in terms of patterns, meaning and mythologies that show up for me in my projection of your dream.
5) You reflect on my offering and see if there are things that resonated with you or did not, and specifically if more memories are triggered in that telling, we go deeper. We ask more questions.
6) Together we look into the dream and wonder about where you might carry the dream into your daily life.
Is there research to do on some part of the dream?
Is there a place in the landscape of your world you want to visit because you were called to it by the dream?
Is there come kind of ritual or action the dream seems to be asking of you?
7) Continue to remember your nightly dream and when you tend them over time, you build an inner language of story that is unique to you and deepens over time.
"The recurring message that I receive from my dreams is “Don’t ignore us. We will help you whether you remember us or not. We will assist you whether or not you work with us. We will honor you whether or not you discuss us with other people. But if you remember us, honor us, and work with us, the benefits will astound you.” And I continue to be astounded by my dreams." ~ Stanley Krippner
"Any which way, from the north or the south, the east or the west, story is more powerful than salt. Or plutonium. Or stardust. Or blood. It is ancient and bold, fierce and unafraid. And it is born from the mouth of gods again and again and again recreating itself and shapeshifting through you, through me, through the world in its own happy jig through time and place, body and memory, imagination and dirt." ~Stasha Ginsburg from the wild matryoshka
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