Stephen Aizenstat
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and healing power that exists within each of us. He is Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has explored the power of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His Dream Tending methodologies extend traditional dream work to the vision of an animated world and his work opens creativity and the generative process. His book, Dream Tending, describes multiple new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World’s Dream, relationships, and the creative process.
He is affiliated with the Earth Charter International project through the United Nations, where he has spoken. Professor Aizenstat has been mentored by and collaborated with many notable masters in the field including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman and Robert Johnson. He has conducted sold-out Dream Tending seminars, workshops and “pop-up” events in the U.S., Asia and Europe.
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Reconnecting with Your Imaginal Intelligence
I have found that when people open their curious mind, something more unfolds. Curiosity invites creativity and, too, imagination. You access something beyond, Intellectual Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence. …
Living an Imagination Centered Life
Over these past months I have been a guest of multiple podcasts, interviews, and media appearances in service to my new book release of The Imagination Matrix. I am asked…
Animation: Experiencing Images as Alive
In Hillmans way of looking at dreams, you go beyond association and amplification to a new process called animation. In animation, you look for ways of experiencing dream images in their living, embodied reality.
Amplification: Discovering the Archetypal Depth
Amplification opens you to the great teachings that are alive and active in dream images. These stories tell about the perils of your situation, the potential positive outcomes, strategic teachings, and the collective wisdom of generations past.
Association: Finding the Hidden Connections
Freud’s “classical” approach, and the dreamworkers who followed in this tradition, associated dream images back to events occurring in the dreamer’s past. In this context, “To associate means to find hidden connections between a dream image and past experience.”