ON-DEMAND COURSE

How to Work with Dreams in Your Clinical Practice

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Leslie Ellis
TOPIC
Dreams
Format
6 class course
DURATION
6 hours

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

When a client brings you a dream, how do you help them to understand it? Dreams have exceptional healing and diagnostic potential.

They point to what matters most to our clients, and when we attend to them in sessions, it deepens and accelerates the process of psychotherapy. In this course you will learn an engaging, experiential way to talk about dreams with your clients. We will also look at the clinical benefits to dreamwork, and how the current science of dreaming supports its use.

Course Description

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The journey into clinical dreamwork begins with a look at the clinical benefits to dreamwork, and how the current science of dreaming supports its use. Research from the last decade has advanced our understanding of what dreams do. Dreams appear to have a role in regulating emotion and consolidating memory, which also describe the process of psychotherapy. Learn why dreamwork is essential to your clinical practice.

We have also advanced our understanding of trauma-related nightmares and how to reliably treat them. You will learn simple ways to reduce the distress that nightmares cause, and to promote safe integration of the challenging emotions that disturbing dreams carry with them.

Dreamwork practices have become increasingly experiential, allowing clients to arrive at their own understanding of the meaning of their dreams. This course offers clear, practical experiential dreamwork methods (with lots of clinical examples) that will deeply engage clients in their own growth and change processes. You will leave this course with a clear sense of how to confidently help clients navigate their dreams safely, constructively and in a way that leads to growth and change.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Develop confidence in working with client dreams, and help them recall, record, and engage with their dreams in an experiential manner. 
  • Learn strategies to reduce the frequency and distress of nightmares, including trauma-related dreams, by understanding their nature and implementing safe, constructive approaches.
  • Utilize current dream and sleep science to inform your clinical practice, enabling you to work with dreams to diagnose and monitor client progress.
  • Understand the fundamentals of focusing-oriented-embodied dreamwork, fostering a deeper, more fluid engagement with both clients’ and your personal dreams.
  • Encourage clients to engage experientially with their dreams, tapping into their healing potential for a richer, more meaningful therapeutic experience.
  • Embrace the idea that disturbing elements in dreams may unlock pathways for transformation and facilitate profound changes in your clients’ lives.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
6 video & 6 audio recordings
Companion Guide & Handout
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Leslie Ellis

Dr. Leslie Ellis, PhD, is an author, teacher, speaker and clinical dreamworker. Her book, A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) offers therapists a primer in modern, experiential dreamwork.

Scholarships

We here at Jung Platform want to make these programs available to anyone. If you would love to participate yet can’t pay for the full course, then please send us an email at scholarships@jungplatform.com and describe why you feel you qualify for a scholarship, how much you can pay, and what you will do to help the Jung Platform promote this and other programs.

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