Therapeutic dream-sharing group
Are you interested in your dreams? Would you like to explore your dreams in the company of others? Are you able to commit to attending regular fortnightly sessions for a minimum of one year?
Dreams are a rich and often neglected creative resource. Your dreams offer you potential insights into your interior world, your relationships and the wider social world.
Dream sharing is a therapeutic approach to working with dreams in a group, with the support of an experienced psychotherapist. It is a co-creative space where dreamers gain from the support, reflections, associations, insights and perspectives of other group members as well as from me as the therapist.
What happens in a therapeutic dream-sharing group?
Working therapeutically with your dreams and the dreams of other group members provides you with a safe and co-creative space to express your thoughts, feelings and preoccupations and receive the support, associations, reflections and insights of other group members as well therapist.
You and your fellow group members will have the opportunity to share your dreams in the group. To assist in this process, you are invited, between sessions, to experiment with keeping a dream journal. There will be opportunities before you join the group and during sessions to receive support with your journaling.
In the group, we will draw on different techniques from transactional analysis and gestalt psychotherapy to help us explore the dreams. Creative associations and the use of fairytale, myth, poems, music and images are welcomed. From time to time, I will offer space for you to experiment with some creative techniques to support your dreamwork practice.
Central to the work of my therapeutic dream-sharing groups is dialogue with other group members. This may take your dream material in unexpected and sometimes surprising directions, as other group members share their personal associations and resonances with your dream.
It is, therefore, worth mentioning here that hearing the dreams of another is often of benefit to ourselves as well as the original dreamer. You may find the dreams of your fellow group members resonate with your own dreams or with experiences in your waking-life, shedding light on your own struggles or perhaps helping you to see a way through current difficulties.
How can this group help you?
Participating in this therapeutic dream-sharing group can support you in:
- learning to work therapeutically with your dreams
- utilising the contents of your dreams and the dreams of others to reflect on past and current events in your life, the lives of your fellow group members and the wider social world
- exploring social themes through your own and the group's resonances and associations with the dream material
- working through your current problems and difficulties with the encouragement of others
- gaining new insights into your own experiences from hearing the varied experiences, perspectives and contributions of fellow group members
- making new connections and igniting your creative spark
Is Creative Dreamers right for you?
To benefit from this group, you will be interested in dreams, willing to listen respectfully to the dreams of others and open to sharing some of your own dreams.
To get the most out of this group, you will be willing to commit to regular attendance and open to receiving the insights, resonances and reflections of others, as well as offering your own thoughts and insights.
Practicalities
Sessions will take place twice monthly, on Wednesday evenings from 7.00 -8.30 PM.
Participant numbers are limited to eight, plus me as the group therapist. The fees for this in-person group are £30 per 90-minute session. For as long as you remain a member of the group, you will have access to a dropbox of PDF resources to support your dreamwork.
This is a new group, please enquire now for more information and to arrange a free, initial consultation.