Curious about what your dreams are saying? Wonder how you can work with your dreams on your own?

WHY DREAM WORK?

Early psychoanalysts like Freud and Jung recognized the potential of dreams to illuminate conscious and preconscious conflicts. Dreams are a potential untapped source of insight: they can show us things about us we might not otherwise know. Working with dreams can build our intuition—connecting gut feeling with a felt sense of consensus reality.

YOUR DREAMING BRAIN

Dream work helps people bypass internal editing processes and normal defenses to reach emotional and preconscious material at a deeper level of the psyche. The neuroscience behind this is that during sleep, our prefrontal cortices, which are responsible for rational thought and executive functioning, shut down for the night.

WHAT IS THIS CLASS?

This two-hour experiential class will take you through an eclectic process of dream work, providing you tools for working with your dreams on your own. We will need volunteers to go through various techniques, so come prepared with a dream (even if it's one sentence), as well as note-taking material if that's helpful. These techniques have been researched and utilized by John in psychotherapy private practice, and are drawn from various sources including Jung, Gestalt, and Eugene Gendlin.

All classes are recorded. A link to the recording is sent out to the ticketholders the day after each event. These links stay active for 30 days.

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John Moletress (they/them) is a queer, somatic psychotherapist, ecotherapist, artist, author, and witch currently occupying unceded Lenni-Lenape land in Philadelphia. As a performance and sonic artist, they have toured the US/Europe. They received their MFA from George Washington University, MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Naropa University, and Certificate in Ecopsychology at Pacifica University. Insta: @kraftwich; www.JohnMoletress.com