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Introduction to Dreamtending
A Seminar with Dr. Stephen Aizenstat
in Santa Barbara, California
Friday, July 11: 9:00am-5:30pm
Saturday, July 12: 9:00am-5:30pm
Sunday, July 13: 9:00am-1:00pm
$325 General Admission
$275 Special Admission
(Full Time Student, Senior (65+), Pacifica Alumni)
$250 Active Pacifica Student
Click Here for Registration Form
The art of DreamTending offers a portal to the poetics of imagination. In tending dreams, images are vivified, the psyche animated. We become curious and open in the process. We befriend the archetypal imagination and are in turn welcomed into the presence of soul. DreamTending, for me, continues to reveal itself as a life path, a “practice.” The curiosity, wonder, and mystery with which I approach the dream is also the attitude that I wish to carry into personal and community engagements—bringing a “witnessing presence” to what life offers. The mode of tending dreams at night becomes a waking practice during the day.— Stephen Aizenstat |
In this introductory seminar, Dr. Aizenstat will help the dreamer find relationship with the archetypal imagination—describing traditional and emerging methods of dream work that explore common dream themes, nightmares, archetypal images, and the recurring dream. Seminar topics include:
The Personal Unconscious:
Dreamwork methods drawn from Freud and the post-Freudians assist us in hearing the voices of the dream in relation to personal history and experience.
The Collective Unconscious:
Archetypal methods of dream analysis based on the work of Jung, Hillman, Woodman, Lockhart, and others aid in reconnecting to the dream in light of the shared stories and archetypal images of the collective human psyche.
The World Unconscious:
Dr. Aizenstat will demonstrate emerging methods of DreamTending which animate the living ecology of the wider landscape, reconnecting us to the realm of imagination and nature.
Ongoing Dream Council:
Participants will meet daily in ongoing dream councils of four persons to apply material learned in the seminar. This provides an opportunity for each member to work with his or her own dreams.
First Day:
Introduction to DreamWork
Orienting Principles of DreamTending
Tools for Remembering Dreams
“Getting Started”—Methods of Association
The Personal Psyche
Exploring Common Dream Themes
Demonstration and Experiential Work
Second Day:
Mythic Imagination and The Archetypal Image
Listening to the Symbolic Language of Dreams
Tools of Working with Puns, Metaphor,and Symbol
“Moving Forward”—Methods of Amplification
The Collective Psyche
Befriending Angels, Ancestors, and Animals in Dreams
Demonstration and Experiential Work
Third Day:
Translating Dream Work into Awake Life Experience
Understanding Dreams as a Form of Archetypal Activism
Tools for Working with Nightmares and Night Demons
“Tending the Living Image”—Methods of Animation
The World Psyche
Attending to Psyche and Soma, Body and Soul
Demonstration and Experiential Work
Conference Location:
The seminar will take place at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Ladera Lane Campus, a few miles south of Santa Barbara, California, in the foothills overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Meals:
We encourage you to participate in the optional on-site buffet meal plan, as the campus is a 10–15 minute drive from the nearest restaurant. The meal plan commences with lunch on Friday and continues through breakfast on Sunday.
Accommodations:
A limited number of rooms are available for participants at the Ladera Lane Campus on a first-come, first-served basis at the rates listed below. Please reserve your room on the registration form below or by contacting Pacifica’s Public Programs office. We have also arranged a special rate at the nearby Best Western Carpinteria Inn, 4558 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013 (tel: 805.684.0473). The rate is $105/night plus tax (single or double). You must ask for the "DreamTending Rate," making your reservations through the hotel no later than June 15th. Rooms at these rates are very limited, so reserve early to avoid disappointment. Other accommodations in the Santa Barbara area may be arranged by calling one of these services: Coastal Escapes at 800.292.2222, or Hot Spot Accommodations at 800.793.7666.
PLEASE NOTE: Participants must provide their own transportation to and from the Ladera Lane Campus.
Scholarships:
If the workshop fee would make it prohibitive for you to attend, a limited number of partial scholarships are available. To apply, send a letter of request with your registration and payment information. If approved, you will be contacted regarding processing your reduced payment.
Youth Scholarships: To encourage the involvement of young people in the way of the dream, we invite people between the ages of 18-26 to send a letter applying for special scholarship consideration.
Continuing Education
15 hours are available through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider
#CEP 7177). Also for MFT’s and LCSW’s (provider #PCE 2278) as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Pacifica Graduate Institute is recognized by the NBCC (provider #5436) to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC continuing education guidelines. A $15 processing fee will be charged for each certificate requested. Please indicate your requirements on registration form and include these fees with your payment.
Registration and Cancellation
To register, please complete the registration
form online or return it with your payment to Pacifica Graduate
Institute, Public Programs, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA 93013;
fax to 805.565.5796; e-mail to publicprograms@pacifica.edu;
or call 805.969.3626, ext. 103.
To obtain a refund, send written cancellation postmarked no later than June 11, 2008. The full fee, less a $50 processing fee per person, will be refunded. No exceptions will be made. For refund on accommodations at the Ladera Lane Campus, cancellation with full refund will be accepted up to 5 days before the event. Cancellations made 1–4 days before the event will receive a 50% refund. There will be no refund for cancellations on the day of the event.
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