Soulcentric Dreamwork Training – June, 2022

An application is required for this training. (Application deadline is April 27, 2022 – applications received after this date will not be reviewed – thank you!)

This training program is open to those with a background in soul work and lots of previous experience doing their own dreamwork, as well as experienced dreamwork facilitators. Ideally, you will already have participated in an Animas Dreamwork Intensive.  For those primarily seeking guidance in working on your own dreams, please join us for our Soulcentric Dreamwork Intensive, earlier in June, 2022.

There are many methods of working with dreams. Soulcentric Dreamwork holds the view that the soul wants to initiate us into our soul path by familiarizing the ego with the nightworld or underworld. Other forms of dreamwork might attempt to import some images from the nightworld of soul into the dayworld of personality — to support the ego’s healing, therapy, self-understanding, or entertainment. But in Soulcentric Dreamwork, we commit ourselves to an extended stay in the soul’s mysterious domain, permitting the dream to do its formidable work on us rather than the more common approach of doing our work on the dream. For further information about soulcentric dreamwork, please see Bill Plotkin’s book Soulcraft, chapter 7.

During this training, we apprentice ourselves to the mystery held within dreams. With a variety of modalities — including direct dialogue with the dream itself, expressive arts and movement, deep imagery, and wandering on the land with (and in) our dreams — we will seek the “underdream” that lies beneath the everyday conscious self.

We’ll employ lecture, discussion, experiential demonstrations, and — most importantly — lots of supervised dyadic and small-group practice in dreamwork guiding.

We’ll explore several themes and principles including: guidelines for individual and group dreamwork, soulcentric attitude, intuitive abilities, understanding archetypal themes and dream characters, working with sub-personalities, subjective (Jungian), archetypal (Hillmanian), and other approaches, identifying specific middleworld work to be done in preparation for underworld journeys, incorporating dream symbols in the design of ceremonies, designing soul tasks from dreams, employing the windows of imagination and feeling, identifying Sacred Wound themes, use of poetry in dreamwork, and expressive arts in dreamwork.

NOTE: We acknowledge the higher cost for this training due to having a total of four guides/ trainers in order to enable individualized supervision of dreamwork practice by all trainees. We would like to remind any prospective applicants of the possibility of submitting a scholarship application to help offset this cost. 

CAMPO ALTO, LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST

Tucked away high atop the Cerro Noroeste you’ll find solitude, serenity and unsurpassed scenery as you lose yourself in a pleasant grove of Jeffrey pines at Campo Alto Campground. Campsites are spacious, the air is filled with a pine-sweet scent, and you will enjoy end-of- the-road privacy. Invigorated by the fresh air your inner hiker will hunger to head out on the Vincent Tumameit Trailhead to enjoy the scenic mountain vistas.