Dreams and symbols

Are you interested in dreams and symbols from a personal and a professional level? In this full day workshop, we will explore the meaning and use of symbols, the symbolisation process and enter the symbolic territory of the dream. Dreams are meaning laden events and understanding how to analyse them is useful not only within your practice, but also in terms of your own self-realisation.

Many clinicians generally associate symbols with Jungian practice and theory but symbolisation itself, and the therapeutic engagement with symbols, is manifest in all therapeutic work. Even transforming an emotion into a word is a symbolising process, as is a client turning thoughts into a narrative. Essentially we live in a symbolic world and we are co-creators in this as we layer and apply meaning and consciousness to the world of image around us.

In this interesting workshop, we will open up the mind to the magnificent realm of symbols and how they create and contain personal meaning and how they can we worked with in a client context. We will focus on the definition of symbols and their interpretation as we gain an understanding of the meaning laden quality of symbolisation. We will apply understanding to dreams giving consideration to key theorists in this area and a model of dream analysis and interpretation will be shared. To amplify understandings of symbols and dreams, we will be using personal and case examples and will also look at the meanings held within the tarot.

Please contact me to book your place.
CPD certificates are available on request.