In the Saturday workshop, Dr. Aizenstat will expand upon the concepts presented Friday night. He will further elaborate on the idea that images are alive and, at root, elemental – part of Nature’s Dreaming. Participants will learn methods of phenomenological dream animation and tools to work with the “indigenous image.” Attending to these potent “seed” images enhances psychological health and authentic being. This workshop combines DreamTending demonstrations by Dr. Aizenstat with experiential activities. Also, he will offer training in skills intended to help participants work with their own core images.

Related Lecture: Dream Tending

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, which offers programs in psychology, mythological studies, and the humanities. As a licensed clinical psychologist and credentialed educator, his focus includes depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology. His original research centers on a psychodynamic process of “tending the living image,” particularly in dreamwork about which he has conducted seminars for over twenty-five years throughout the world. DreamTending: Teachings for a Dream-centered Life, will be released this fall. Other publications include : “Dreams are Alive” in Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field, edited by Slattery and Corbett, and “Jungian Psychology and the World Unconscious” in Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Earth, edited by Theodore Roszak, et al.