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ABSTRACT
After Dreaming, Explore That Aspect Which Has Eluded You.
Sandy Ginsberg, M.S., L.M.F.T.
sjginsberg@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/sjginsberg
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC32670) with a private
practice in Encino, California working with individuals, couples, families
and groups. My emphasis is in accessing creativity to help in healing
through dreamwork and art therapy techniques. I have studied Dreaming and
Dreamworking for the last 25 years. My desire is, "Helping you to find
yourself the way you want to be."
I believe in honoring the dream with action. In this way, an
additional message from the dream's offering can be accepted. As a
psychotherapist, I often suggest following through with a dream by
honoring the message. This might include making an object, doing an
activity, or creating artwork which is suggested from within the dream.
Summary of Presentation
This experiential workshop will offer an opportunity to examine a
specific aspect in your dreaming that has haunted or eluded you. After
intimate discussion, we will spend the balance of our time creating
representations of those aspects in material form, thereby honoring the
dream, and concretizing the internal. Come with goodwill for the unknown.
Learning Objectives.
1.) To recognize that all parts of the dream can hold wisdom and are
worth exploration.
2.) To develop physical methods for exploring the message of the
dream.
3.) To befriend and deepen the understanding of an aspect of the
self, which comes to the dreamer as an elusive aspect in a dream and
confounds understanding.
Evaluation questions:
1.) Why do you believe that even seemingly unimportant aspects of
dreams can hold some truth for the dreamer?
2.) How has working the dream physically helped your understanding of
the dream’s message?
3.) Why do you think this particular aspect of your dreams was
so elusive to you?
Abstract
Beginning from the premise in the Spring 2000 DreamTime
article "Honoring the Dream," this hands-on workshop is
offered as an exploration of that unowned aspect of ourselves which
often turns up in our dreams as the elusive character or strange object.
In some dreams it’s the thing that doesn’t make sense, but to which
we are drawn none-the-less. The image seems to stick in our memory. It
toys with us, but it sometimes feels as if the meaning of this aspect is
just going to be missed. "It’s not worth all the work to get
to the meaning." "It just doesn’t seem to make sense."
There will be an introduction to the Gestalt approach of dreamwork,
explaining the process of exploring various aspects within a dream with
the "I AM …" method. After a demonstration, we’ll discuss
the nature of our own "elusive aspects" in small intimate
groups. We’ll use the Gestalt approach via Montegue Ullman’s "If
it were my dream…" very respectfully. That may trigger some
deepening understanding. Then we will switch gears.
Working individually now, we will use a variety of materials
including brought objects (especially from your home, knowing what
elusive dream aspect you’d like to explore), found objects, imagery
for collage, assemblage, and perhaps clay. The purpose is to build or
create a remembrance of the elusive aspect of the dream which can be
more fully understood if it is honored by a creative action.
Afterward, we will share our efforts (if we choose), and do closure
on the process.
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