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Participants in this two-day Online Workshop will build practical skills grounded in traditional and emerging methods of dreamwork. The Dream Tending methods developed by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat build on the methods of association, amplification, and animation pioneered by Freud and Jung, and expanded upon by James Hillman and Marion Woodman.

The current Coronavirus Pandemic has been called the “Umbra Mundi”—a shadow passing over the world, and we can all feel the heightened fear and vulnerability that this shadow of death constellates in the personal as well as collective psyche.

Witchcraft is a term with a terrifying and contested history while being subject to profound revisioning in recent decades. It is practiced on the margins by the marginal. It is overlooked in the sense of being pushed out of officially sanctioned knowing, and also over-looked-at in the sense of being scrutinized too harshly by mainstream authority.

In 1933, the Berlin Jewish journalist Charlotte Beradt began collecting dreams of ordinary Germans until 1939, when she fled to the United States. Beradt’s remarkable compilation shows how the ordinary objects and experiences of daily life can suddenly “turn traitor” in their transformation into monstrosity.

PGIAA Board President, Pacifica Alumn, and Founder of New Earth, Harry was on the TEDxSantaBarbara stage in 2018 and returns to talk about the confluence of COVID and Social Justice. We’ll discuss understanding the transformation that needs to happen as we come to grips with the amount of work facing us moving forward.

Our accompaniment of each other and of the natural world weaves the fabric of a caring society, the cloth essential to creating commons. Accompaniment requires radical availability, steadfast witnessing, self-reflexivity, attunement to others’ needs and desires, and committed response-ability.

This Zoom presentation (no fee required) featuring keynote speaker and moderator, Linda Carter, along with 5 panelists, focuses on the value of interconnection and companionship through the Jungian method of amplification through story and image with the goal of decreasing isolation. Art, image, story, ritual and myth have served to transmit culture, connect to ancestors linking generations and have the potential to offer comfort through a sense of belonging and community in the here and now.

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat will host a live online workshop that will teach participants how to manage fear, anxiety and sleepless nights, based on the tools of Dream Tending. Participants will learn how to manage their stress and anxiety, regulate their fear, boost immunity with dream tending skills, and work with nightmare themes. The program will be held in a live, online format.

A Limited-Enrollment Intensive with Stephen Aizenstat. The Dream Tending Certificate Program is a limited-enrollment program that takes place over four, four-day sessions.

Featuring Donald Kalsched, Mark Epstein, Pat Ogden, Ruth Lanius, Allan Schore, Joseph Cambray, Jeffrey Kiehl, Fanny Brewster, Jeffrey Kripal, and Elizabeth Krohn