This coming Wednesday, join us at the Living Centre form 7pm-9pm for a workshop: Creative Dreaming: Take Control of Your Sleeping World, presented by myself, Rob Read, as part of the Inner Transition group.
This workshop, based strongly on the work of Patricia Garfield, will be a practical session that teaches you basic techniques to:
1. Remember your dreams
Everyone has them (4-5 per night), and remembering them is a learned technique that can be practiced until achieved.
2. Control the content of your dreams
Guide what you'll dream about, control nightmares, get creative insights.
3. Become lucid in your dreams
Advanced control in realtime as you realize you are dreaming, but instead of waking, influence what's happening in your dream.
Through group exercises, we'll then bring together these insights to address how our dreams can assist us during this time of transition from 'business as usual' to a future lower on petroleum resources, but higher on working together in communities to enrich local economies and lifestyles, and working with and protecting our ecosystems.
I read Patricia Garfield's book Creative Dreaming about 15 years ago, and it's one of those rare books that has stuck with me in a very clear way over the years. This workshop won't be about interpreting dreams (which, I believe, is best done by the person dreaming the dream), but will give an overview of Garfield's research on creative dreaming, and the techniques she suggests. With audience participation, we'll tie this into the Transition model, and leave the workshop with ideas for 'homework' dreams to work towards.
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