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Dreamwork and Dream Interpretation

We have all been endowed with the mysterious gift of dreaming—a deep infinite source of wisdom that comes through us in the dark dead of night. In the ancient world, dreams were understood as a subtle yet powerful avenue through which to receive insight, guidance, embodied knowledge, higher states of awareness and healing. But in today’s modern world, dreams as a sacred form of knowing has been lost and sorely neglected. Rarely, are dreams understood as a primal activity of the soul that comes to us in service of health and wholeness. There is a profound higher intelligence at work in dreams and all we need do to access it, is to just slow down a little, turn inward and pay attention to what is being shown to us. Dreams tell us everything we need to know about ourselves and our lives, situations and relationships, if we are just willing to look. 

Like anything in life, we get out of it what we put into it. And so if dreams are not valued to begin with, then nothing will be gained. These luminosities of the night cannot exert their natural healing power, influence and secrets unless they are highly valued and worked with. When we say yes to working with the gifts dreams offer, we work in service of health, healing and wholeness and for our higher good. When we accept dreams invitations, we begin to unwrap uniquely tailored soul letters.

Interpreting the symbolic language of dreams requires an approach that the western mind is simply not used to. Here in the west, people want to know what something means as soon as possible. Now! This is not how it works with dreams. Coming to understand what dreams mean is a slow, energetic, organic and intuitive process, so it is vitally important to allow this to unfold over time, and to just let it unravel itself. Dreamwork is soul work, and soul is very sensitive to the rational world, so any attempts to understand too early or interfere too quickly destroys the process. Read more about dream interpretation.

  

Soul Care in Clinical Settings

Spiritual Care in Hospice and Palliative care

  • Skilled psychological, emotional and spiritual care and support for individuals living with terminal illness and facing death

  • Spiritual counseling

  • Spiritual and existential assessments in the planning and implementation of care

  • Compassionate presence and reflections on life and death

  •  Accompanying individuals throughout the stages inherent in the dying process

  • Grief counseling

  • Interactive relations with multi-faith traditions and honoring personal beliefs, non-belief, values and individual, diversifying philosophies

Dreamwork with the Dying

There is an intimate relationship between dreams, dying and death but this is not well understood. Throughout time, the occurrence of end-of-life phenomenal events such as transpersonal healing dreams, visitation dreams, experiences with light, waking visions and death-bed encounters were well known and their impact known to be profoundly meaningful. But these experiences are rarely talked about or assessed fully within medical and scientific communities.

In my holistic practice, I carry out what I call a five-dimensional assessment on physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual and relational levels, to help distinguish between medical-related phenomenal occurrences (given the organic nature of some diseases) and more natural phenomenal emergences that carry significance and meaning for the dreamer.

There is a depth and beauty to dreamwork when caring for the dying as dreams are a potent avenue into naturally opening out conversations and reflections on life and death. Sharing deep night dreams often allows for the exploration of diversifying religious, non-religious, agnostic, atheist and spiritual belief systems—as well as personal philosophies and experiences of god-consciousness. This type of deep inner exploration can be liberating and comforting, especially if individuals lived experiences of God are contrary to familial and cultural conditioning.

Dreamwork also allows for the release and expression of heavy emotions such as deep sadness, grief, existential distress, psychological pain, fear and anxiety. These components of pain can be hard to reach and treat but dreams carry their own medicine with natural healing properties that when worked with help guide, revitalize, comfort, and heal—all of which helps facilitate more peaceful deaths.

Lecturer and Speaker

The Importance of Dreamwork in Care of the Dying

Talks include:

  • Introduction to Dreams and the Therapeutic Value of Dreamwork

  • Pre-Death Dreams and Visions: The Psychological and Spiritual Value of Working with End-of-Life Phenomenal Experiences

  • An Integral Approach to Working with Total Pain

  • Addressing Spiritual Aspects of Palliative Care through the Exploration of End-of-Life Dreams, Visions and Death-Bed Encounters

  • Holding Dream Space: Practical Tools for Clinicians in Dream Tending

 

Dream Retreats: Education,Counsel,Practice

Workshop Offerings

  • The Art and Practice of Dream Recall

  • Approaches to Working with Dreams

    • Indigenous, Jungian, Somatic, Creative

  • The Art and Practice of Dream Interpretation

  • Dreams and Synchronicities

  • Dreams, Dying and Death

  • Practical Tools for Clinicians in Dream Tending

  • Types of Dreams: Ordinary and Extraordinary (Lucid, Psychic, Precognitive)

  • Working with Phenomenal Experiences between Sleeping and Waking Realms

  • Dreamwork as Spiritual Practice