ON-DEMAND COURSE

Imaginal DreamWork

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Robert Romanyshyn
TOPIC
Dreams
Format
4 class course
DURATION
4 Hours

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Enhance your imagination as a legitimate and valuable way of knowing and being.

An imaginal approach to dreamwork emphasizes that, in the night theater of soul, we are truly stuff that dreams are made of. A key question for dreamwork is then: How does one work with dreams in the day theater of one’s own life or therapy room? This course explores replies to this question.

Course Description

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What do dreams mean? How to work with dreams? This course explores an Imaginal approach to dreamwork. 

An Imaginal approach to dreamwork does not replace methods of dream interpretation. It is, however, the first step in working with a dream. Letting the body guide the dreamer into the dream, the work of interpretation that follows amplifies the dreamer’s sense of the dream. It also deepens insight into a living, felt sense of the dream as another world in which a dreamer can audition as it were to play the many possible characters encountered in that far country of the dream.

Robert Romanyshyn had the idea for Imaginal dreamwork in the late 1980s, when he had a number of actors and theater folk in his therapy practice. As he worked with them, he wondered if how an actor gets into character and then embodies a story might be a way to work with dream images and their story. During the 1990s he explored that possibility and developed this imaginal approach to dreamwork.

In this series of four classes he shows how this Imaginal approach draws on the traditions of Jung’s psychology and existential-phenomenology. From the side of Jung, an Imaginal approach regards the dream world as another country (underworld, other world, subtle world) whose landscapes, figures and language are as real even as they are different from the landscapes, persons and language of waking life. 

From the side of existential-phenomenology, an Imaginal approach regards the dreamworld as a nightly education inviting the dreamer to try on, like an actor gets into character, a new body of understanding through embodied enactment of the dream figures. This approach opens a space for the dream to make sense of the dreamer before he/she makes sense of it.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Explore different ways of working dreams, after having already done some dreamwork .
  • Experience and understand the role of the body in dreamwork.
  • Learn how attending to the mood of the dream can be a bridge between the unconscious world of the dream and conscious world of waking life.
  • Deepen and enrich your waking life by attending to the dream as offering possibilities to be imagined.
  • Recognize the value of symbolic thinking as a thread between the spirit of the times and the spirit of the depths. 

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.
4 video & 4 audio recordings
Handout ‘The 9 steps of Imaginal DreamWork’
Auto-generated subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Robert Romanyshyn

Robert D. Romanyshyn is an Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, an Affiliate Member of The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and a Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform. 

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