Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program
November 3, 2023 – June 30, 2024
4 Live Modules | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program is a limited-enrollment program that takes place over four separate three-day sessions. The four modules reflect the multiple dimensions of psychic life and the dream. Learning in dream theory and methodology is both content based and experiential. Much of the learning will also take place in the dimension of dream life that is sensitive to aesthetic perceiving, poetic imagining, nuanced intuiting, and the art of not-knowing. Space is limited for this special event and you will not want to miss this experience!
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
Live and Interactive Schedule
This is a live and interactive program hosted by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat
November 3, 2023 – June 30, 2024

Module One
The Living Image Tool Set
Learn essential skills and methods of understanding and tending dreams.
November 3, 4, and 5, 2023
This live module will be online.

Module Two
Nightmares: Tending the Intolerable Image
Develop a practical approach to discovering the healing possibilities that exist in the nightmarish images of dreams.
February 9, 10, and 11, 2024
This live module will be online.

Module Three
The World’s Dream and Methods of Animation
In these uncertain times, filled with both destructive and generative impulses, discover a way of listening to the world’s psyche speak through the figures of dreams.
April 19, 20, and 21, 2024
This live module will be online.

Module Four
Medicines of the Soul: Cultivating a Dream Healing Practice
Experience an Asclepian sanctuary of dreams to learn about the healing power of dreams in relation to physical illness.
June 28, 29, and 30, 2024
This live module will be online.
Earn 40 Continuing Education Credits
40 continuing education credits are available for MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs through the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (provider #67021), for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177), and for psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014). Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Full attendance at the program is required to receive a certificate. A $30 fee will be charged for each certificate requested.
Certificate I Benefits
Recent Testimonials
“The experience has been the most powerfully moving experience in my continuing education and growth as a therapist and as a human being. I learned so much about myself, which is the missing link in much of the training I’ve been participating in . . . thank you!”
~ C.J., MFT
“I wanted to share for others that the experience in the Dream Tending Certificate program was like entering another realm, a realm that is overflowing with interconnection, love and compassion. Even in nightmare, the dream is like a sweet love note from psyche. In this program it became abundantly clear to me that psyche is only interested in offering balance, suffering and joy can coexist, and we will survive, really and thrive. Experiencing Steve in the field is truly a gift, the blessing of the collective dream-space manifest days or weeks later but, is so rich. Since the training, dreamwork has come to me. I am finding my clients, women of color, are bringing in their dreams more and more. This training has opened a portal for me personally and professionally. I am extremely grateful.”
~ C. Hardwick
“It exceeded my expectations. I expected a good experience but had no idea the training would provide such a rich personal experience and that Dream Tending would add so much depth to my work with dreams.”
~ A.F., psychologist
“The Dream Tending Certification Program strengthened my personal dream practice and bolstered my confidence to engage my community in dreaming. I now feel empowered to help re-awaken dream in the world!”
– B. Bain
“The Dream Tending Certificate program helped me deepen my connection to the dream realm, and maintain daily access to the extraordinary healing, support and creativity that is inherent in this realm. It also taught me how to impart that access to other people through clear and applicable techniques. Dream Tending has helped me build a sturdy bridge to my soul. In today’s world of strife and uncertainty, this bridge has become invaluable. “
~ L. Rosager, Writer and Creative Coach
Schedule a Time to Talk
Program Details
Dates
November 3, 2023 – June 30, 2024
The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program is a limited-enrollment program that takes place over four separate three-day sessions. The four modules reflect the multiple dimensions of psychic life and the dream.
Registration Fees
To learn more about the Dream Tending Certificate programs, please contact Myka or Samantha at programs@DreamTending.com or 805-770-0195 and schedule a phone call or Zoom video meeting to discuss questions, program price, and payment plan options. Limited spaces are available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
- $30.00 CECs (40 CEC hours)*
*Live attendance at all Zoom sessions is required for verification of CEC hours (no partial CEC Certificates are offered). Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs
Module One Learning Objectives:
- Describe three psychological and physiological benefits and risks when exploring deep imagination.
- Demonstrate advanced Dream Tending techniques of working with horrific images.
- Apply and practice advanced Dream Tending techniques of image regression, active imagination journaling, and engaged mindfulness.
- Develop a methodology for a daily praxis of working with dreams applying advanced Dream Tending techniques.
- Explain the correspondence between somatic experience and dream work.
- List two elements of the Story-Web of Deep Imagination.
- Discuss, evaluate, and critique current literature and research in the field of dreams and dream work.
- Develop interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions that are sensitive to working and holding horrific images.
Module Two Learning Objectives:
- List the two advanced techniques of image regression, active imagination, journaling, and engaged mindfulness.
- Compile a daily praxis of Dream Tending techniques that help gain access to deep imagination.
- Differentiate between somatic experience and embodied dream work.
- List three psychological and physiological benefits and risks of exploring deep imagination.
- Demonstrate advanced Dream Tending techniques using the model of the Imagination Matrix illumination as evolution.
- Discuss, evaluate, and critique current literature and research in the field of dreams and dream work in relation to deep imagination.
- Develop and expand small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.
- Create a community-based group project that illustrates an understanding of how to access and work with deep imagination.
Module Three Learning Objectives:
- Describe the concept Veils of Love in relation to the psyche and self axis.
- Discuss how the Eros and Psyche myth has played out in your personal life.
- Apply and practice the advanced technique of tending love-based images in dream work.
- Create a Dream Tending praxis of working with the Eros and Psyche myth.
- Describe three aspects of the process of descent by C.G. Jung and Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn.
- Critique and evaluate current literature on the myth of Eros and Psyche.
- Identify two ways that the Eros and Psyche myth can be used as a method to help people come into contact with compassion.
- Develop and expand small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.
Module Four Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the deeper meanings of animal images in dreams.
- Describe three ways that dreams can tell of things that may happen in the future.
- Master a skills-set of working with dreams in relation to changing and evolving circumstances in the world (ex: pandemic, economics, war).
- Differentiate the curious mind as opposed to the rational mind.
- Discuss the impact the intolerable image can have on individual, societal, and cultural behaviors and norms.
- 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
- Compile personal significant images of landscape and animals. Discuss how landscape and animals add meaning and depth to dreams and dream work.
- 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.
General Information
Location
Hosted Online
Cancellations
Cancellations 14 days or more prior to the program start date receive a 100% refund of program registrations. After 14 days, up to 7 days prior to the program start date, a 50% refund is available. For cancellations made less than 7 days of program start date, no refund is available.
Continuing Education Credit
This program meets qualifications for 40 hours of continuing education credit for Psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014) Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Full attendance is required to receive a certificate.
This course meets the qualifications for 40 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (#60721) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.
For Registered Nurses through the California Board of Registered Nurses this conference meets qualifications of 40 hours of continuing education credit are available for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177). Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.
Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for each program and its content. Full day attendance is required to receive a certificate.
Continuing Education Goal. Pacifica Graduate Institute is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice. Course completion certificates will be awarded at the conclusion of the training and upon participant’s submission of his or her completed evaluation.
CECs and Online Program Attendance: Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
For additional information, including travel, cancellation policy, and disability services please visit our general information section.
Registration Details
November 3, 2023 – June 30, 2024
- CECs: 40
If you have any questions please email us at Programs@Dreamtending.com and one of our Program Coordinators will get back to you shortly.