Course Introduction

Whether you remember or not, every night you enter a rich and immersive reality beyond your physical senses.

Unconstrained by the limitations of waking thoughts, beliefs and actions, dreams can offer us and our clients creative insights, resources and possibilities which can enrich our inner and outer worlds.

This workshop is designed to familiarise you with the purpose of dreaming (including lucid dreaming) and how they can be utilised to cultivate greater self-understanding.

We will explore various techniques that can be used to benefit both yourselves as therapists and your clients.

We will show that dreamwork in the therapeutic encounter can be both brief and solution-focused, dispelling the long-held myth that dreamwork is overly-complex or a long-term therapy.

Develop your skills and confidence with this way of working.

What You Need to Know:

Topics included in this workshop include:

• Understanding the purpose and forms of dreaming, including the latest scientific research.
• Exploring the borderlands of hypnagogic and hypnopompic perceptions and how these are utilised within hypnotherapy.
• Understanding and resolving nightmares, sleep paralysis, and some parasomnias.
• From interpretation and analysis to integration – dreams as the mirror that changes itself.
• Cultivating the core conditions within the dreamstate.
• Active re-entry into dreaming (increasing recall, finding patterns, significant symbols and emotions and understanding life context).
• Saying No to dream dictionaries – promoting the individual and dreaming in context.
• Becoming an active participant in your dreaming life through lucid dreaming.
• Life is a dream so what’s the message?
• This fascinating and rich subject area will not only enhance your therapeutic work and toolbox, but open deeper layers of understanding of your client’s process

How This Training is Useful to You

The workshop will be presented online using Zoom and will be presented using a blended learning approach.

This is an experiential course with opportunities to practice the techniques in a safe and supported environment. .

Numbers will be restricted to ten participants in order to allow appropriate interaction, practice of the techniques and in-depth discussion and reflection.

Expert Guidance

Your trainer for this weekend is Luigi Sciambarella; a graduate of the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.

Luigi has been working with dreams, and lucid dreaming in particular, for nearly 20 years and has been teaching meditation and dreamwork for over a decade to groups around the world.

This workshop is a distillation of his understandings and applications in personal development and working with clients. We will, therefore, equip you with an array of knowledge and techniques so that you can competently and confidently work with dreams.

The Workshop Covers:

• Establishing a felt connection online
• Effective inductions online – how to use and or modify your favourite inductions for this format, plus explore some that may be new to you
• Structuring sessions online – timing, rhythm and pacing are different and important for this format and we will be exploring this in depth
• Bringing a grounded presence to the online situation – practical mindfulness techniques for you and your client
• Exploring our own process around this area – what is the nature of the online encounter? How is it different to the live situation?
• Explore the impact of non-verbal communication in the online setting
• Using technology to get the best from this setting
• Online empathy – the power of imaginative connection