Program Description

This program is ideal if you want to:

• Connect with a sense of calling, purpose, and belonging
• Establish a connection with your dream life and deep imagination
• Be able to recognize what the callings of soul are asking of you
• Learn about a relational approach to your dreams, nightmares, and waking life experience

By the end of this program, you will:

• Have deepened the relationship between your soul life and the soul of the world
• Be able to establish intimate relationships with your soul companions
• Be able to tend dreams and imagination in the many ways that express their desires

Program Details

Module One Learning Objectives:

1. Describe three psychological and physiological benefits and risks when exploring deep imagination.
2. Demonstrate advanced Dream Tending techniques of working with horrific images.
3. Apply and practice advanced Dream Tending techniques of image regression, active imagination journaling, and engaged mindfulness.
4. Develop a methodology for a daily praxis of working with dreams applying advanced Dream Tending techniques.
5. Explain the correspondence between somatic experience and dream work.
6. List two elements of the Story-Web of Deep Imagination.
7. Discuss, evaluate, and critique current literature and research in the field of dreams and dream work.
8. Develop interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions that are sensitive to working and holding horrific images.

Module Two Learning Objectives:

1. List the two advanced techniques of image regression, active imagination, journaling, and engaged mindfulness.
2. Compile a daily praxis of Dream Tending techniques that help gain access to deep imagination.
3. Differentiate between somatic experience and embodied dream work.
4. List three psychological and physiological benefits and risks of exploring deep imagination.
5. Demonstrate advanced Dream Tending techniques using the model of the Imagination Matrix illumination as evolution.
6. Discuss, evaluate, and critique current literature and research in the field of dreams and dream work in relation to deep imagination.
7. Develop and expand small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.
8. Create a community-based group project that illustrates an understanding of how to access and work with deep imagination.

Module Three Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the concept Veils of Love in relation to the psyche and self axis.
2. Discuss how the Eros and Psyche myth has played out in your personal life.
3. Apply and practice the advanced technique of tending love-based images in dream work.
4. Create a Dream Tending praxis of working with the Eros and Psyche myth.
5. Describe three aspects of the process of descent by C.G. Jung and Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn.
6. Critique and evaluate current literature on the myth of Eros and Psyche.
7. Identify two ways that the Eros and Psyche myth can be used as a method to help people come into contact with compassion.
8. Develop and expand small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.

Module Four Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the deeper meanings of animal images in dreams.
2. Describe three ways that dreams can tell of  things that may happen in the future.
3. Master a skills-set of working with dreams in relation to changing and evolving circumstances in the world (ex: pandemic, economics, war).
4. Differentiate the curious mind as opposed to the rational mind.
5. Discuss the impact the intolerable image can have on individual, societal, and cultural behaviors and norms.
6. Describe possibilities of community action in relation to Dream Tending, Deep Imagination, and Embodied Dreamwork. Examine the principles being advocated through the United Nations Earth Charter International Initiative as related to dream work and imagination
7. Compile personal significant images of landscape and animals. Discuss how landscape and animals add meaning and depth to dreams and dream work.
8. Critique, discuss, and evaluate current literature and research in dreams and where more research is still needed to move the field forward.

Meet Dr. Stephen Aizenstat

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the Founder of Dream Tending, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences. He is a world-renowned Professor of Depth Psychology, an imagination specialist, and innovator. He has served as an organizational consultant to major companies, institutions, Hollywood films, and has lectured extensively in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He is affiliated with the Earth Charter International project through the United Nations where he has spoken. He has collaborated with many notable masters in the field including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Robert Johnson.

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