A workshop for dreamers and practitioners

One question can create a total shift in your relationship to your dreams - one that can lead to rapid and positive life changes:

What is the dream asking you for?

Join Christopher Sowton, ND, to explore his dynamic dreamwork method and learn how to use it yourself and with clients in this one day workshop and training.

Author of Dreamworking: How to Listen to the Inner Guidance of Your Dreams

Learn:

• how to re-enter your dreams while awake

• how to move dreams forward towards change and growth

• how to transform repetitive bad dreams and nightmares

• strategies to work with sleep paralysis

Saturday, October 28

10:00am - 12:00pm Dreamwork

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm Dreamwork

2:30pm - 3:00pm Break

3:00pm - 5:00pm Dreamwork

Terms of ticketing:

Heal Gently Inc. abides to The International Association for the Study of Dreams ethics statement. With the purchase of a ticket participants also agree to the terms of the statement.

IASD Dreamwork Ethics Statement

IASD celebrates the many benefits of dreamwork, yet recognizes that there are potential risks. IASD supports an approach to dreamwork and dream sharing that respects the dreamer’s dignity and integrity, and which recognizes the dreamer as the decision-maker regarding the significance of the dream. Systems of dreamwork that assign authority or knowledge of the dream’s meanings to someone other than the dreamer can be misleading, incorrect, and harmful. Ethical dreamwork helps the dreamer work with his/her own dream images, feelings, and associations, and guides the dreamer to more fully experience, appreciate, and understand the dream. Every dream may have multiple meanings, and different techniques may be reasonably employed to touch these multiple layers of significance.

A dreamer’s decision to share or discontinue sharing a dream should always be respected and honored. The dreamer should be forewarned that unexpected issues or emotions may arise in the course of the dreamwork. Information and mutual agreement about the degree of privacy and confidentiality are essential ingredients in creating a safe atmosphere for dream sharing.

Dreamwork outside a clinical setting is not a substitute for psychotherapy, or other professional treatment, and should not be used as such.

IASD recognizes and respects that there are many valid and time-honored dreamwork traditions. We invite and welcome the participation of dreamers from all cultures. There are social, cultural, and transpersonal aspects to dream experience. In this statement we do not mean to imply that the only valid approach to dreamwork focuses on the dreamer’s personal life.

Our purpose is to honor and respect the person of the dreamer as well as the dream itself, regardless of how the relationship between the two may be understood.

Prepared by the IASD Ethics Committee
Carol Warner, Chair
Association for the Study of Dreams
Spring, 1997

For more information on the IASD, please email mara@healgently.ca