Dream Techniques Class - Online April 1
RCWilk
Windows On Your Dreams: A Course in Dream Discovery
Techniques.
April 1st - Register TODAY
http://cybertowers.com/ct/dlc/classes.html
Course Description:
From Ancient Thrace to Cyberspace, this course offers a wide spectrum of
techniques to explore the meaning and value of your dream imagery. You
will have the latest tips on how to become a lucid dreamer, you will know
the most popular dream sharing venues on and off the Internet, you will
discover the easiest ways to recall and creatively explore dreams and you
will learn the fascinating connections that dreams share with
anthropology, psychology, mythology, spirituality and science.
Learn about lucid dreaming, dreams and shamanism, dream sharing groups in
Cyberspace and more.
Instructor:
Richard Catlett Wilkerson is a dream educator with a background in
counseling adolescents in San Francisco Bay Area treatment facilities.
Last year he coordinated the Internet and Computer Training and Exhibition
Center for the Association for the Study of Dreams International
Conference XIII in Berkeley, California. Presently he is an editor for
Electric Dreams and the Director of DreamGate, an organization that
facilitates dream education and other global projects on the Internet.
These courses are offered in the Cybertowers Distant Learning Center's
Online Classrooms.
You will also receive 12 lessons via email, as well as meeting each
saturday online in real time Chat Room forums that you can get to very
easily from any Web browser.
When you register you will be given a password to enter the course
facility. Courses will be held here generally once per week begining
April 01, 1997.
http://cybertowers.com/ct/dlc/classes.html
More on the Classes:
Overall Course Objectives:
o Trace the historical development of approaches to the dream.
o Develop the tools used in individual and peer-relationship dream
sharing.
o Explore the individual, group and computer mediated dream sharing
venues.
Also please note that there will not be any psychotherapy practiced in
this class. Although we will explore many clinical procedures and
theories, any examples are for demonstration use only and not to be taken
as therapy.
Module 1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations
Approach
Module Objectives: Participants will
o Gain an overview of the direction and emphasis of the class.
o Understand the limits of dream sharing.
o Be able to develop and implement a dream recall plan.
Points of Particular Interest:
1. Differences between clinical and peer-relations dream work.
2. Techniques for enhancing dream recall.
3. Tips for safe and healthy dream work.
Module 2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
Module Objectives: Participants will be able to
o Trace the major influences on dream sharing in Western Civilization
before the 19th Century. o Identify the major religious & cultural
influences on modern dream interpretation techniques.
o Know how to differentiate between systems that give meaning and
systems that don't.
Points of Particular Interest:
1. The development of the dream-as-message approach was used by the
Babylonians, the Ancient Hebrews, the Ancient Egyptians, and the Ancient
Greeks.
2. The ancient technique of dream Incubation in Egypt and Greek
Asklepions.
3. The dilemma posed by visions and dreams for the Early Church and how
this lead to the suppression of dream sharing.
Module 3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
Module Objectives: Participants will be able to
o Identify the major elements from Freud's dream theory.
o Apply variations of free-association in a peer-relations context.
o Use the idea of the unconscious to view dream material.
Points of Particular Interest:
1. The difference between latent and manifest dream content.
2. How the dreamwork operates to disguise an undesirable thought.
3. How free association reverses the disguised dreamwork and reveals the
wish.
Module 4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Amplify a dream image
o Tie a dream image in with a meaningful myth or folktale
o Approach dream imagery in a way that supports wholeness and
individuation.
Points of Particular Interest
1. The difference between Free Association and Thematic Association.
2. How a Jungian dream symbol reveals insight rather than disguise
desires.
3. How myths and other stories contribute to the meaning and value of a
dream.
Module 5. Other Pre- 1960's Dream Theories
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Approach a dream using techniques learned from Alfred Adler.
o Approach a dream using techniques learned from Medard Boss.
o Approach a dream using techniques learned from the Surrealists.
Points of Particular Interest
1. Medard Boss and the meaning in the surface of the dream.
2. How Alfred Adler saw our personal styles revealed in dreams.
3. How the Surrealists used the dream to enter surreality.
Module 6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Identify Gestalt dream techniques.
o Apply variations of Gestalt techniques in peer-related settings.
o Apply variations of Gestalt techniques
Points of Particular Interest
1. How to take the parts of the dream subjectively.
2. Why Perls had group participants dramatize different parts of the
dream.
3. How the dream help us to "Be where we are".
Module 7. Mindell and Gendlin: The DreamBody
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Identify dream body techniques
o Use the body as a touchstone of insight with dream imagery.
o Shift from a dream content to dream process approach.
Points of Particular Interest
1. Focusing and how is it used with dream imagery.
2. The dreambody and its relation to dreams.
3. The differences between process work and dream content work.
Module 8. : From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork
Movements
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Identify the major elements of the dreamwork movement.
o Differentiate between clinical and peer dreamwork techniques.
o Apply modern dreamwork to individual and group shared dreams.
Points of Particular Interest
1. Popular non-authoritarian and non-objective dreamwork techniques.
2. Application of the partnership model in dreamwork.
3. The settings that are more appropriate for Interview, Re-entry and
Comment Methods.
Module 9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal &
Pro-active Dreaming.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Differentiate between objective and non-objective dream psi
(paranormal).
o Identify the elements of pro-active and mutual dreaming
o Apply techniques used to bring about lucid dreaming and lucid dream
control.
Points of Particular Interest
1. What lucid dreaming is and how can it be learned.
2. Dream activities that can be planned ahead of the dream.
3. Mutual and Telepathic dreaming.
Module 10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Identify the major areas of dream research.
o Apply these studies to enhance dreamwork.
o Separate true dream science from dream scientism.
Points of Particular Interest
1. How REM gave birth to modern dream science
2. The major theories on dream recall.
3. The scientific arguments about the meaning of dreams
Module 11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Identify influences of culture on dream imagery .
o Judge the relative cultural position of various dream techniques &
theory.
o Identify the influences of dream interpretation on culture.
Points of Particular Interest
1. The difference between the personal and cultural level of meaning in a
dream.
2. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century changes in anthropological assessment
of what aboriginal people believe about dreams.
3. How the Senoi influenced our techniques in dream work.
Module 12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the
Internet.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to
o Connect with the major venues for dream work dream on the Internet.
o Identify the major issues surrounding the controversy of online dream
sharing.
o Create online dream groups using the peer-relations model.
Points of Particular Interest
1. The advantages and challenges of dreamwork with e-mail, message boards
and other delayed response venues.
2. The advantages and challenges of dreamwork with IRC, IPhone, Pow-Wow,
Chat Rooms and other real-time teleconferencing venues.
3. The new categories of Web based dreamwork, and possible future
developments
Windows On Your Dreams: A Course in Dream Discovery Techniques.
April 1st - Register TODAY
RCWilk
I wanted to get back to all of you who have responded to the class -
thanks for your notes and hope to see you soon! To answer some of the
questions:
1. No, the course is not accredited at this time - hope for that later!
2. There will be *no* psychotherapy practiced - though we will discuss the
historical use of dreams in psychotherapy.
3. Yes, we do meet online once a week, though you will get the lessons via
email and are free to go at your own pace.
See you all soon! - Richard
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Windows On Your Dreams: A Course in Dream Discovery
Techniques.
April 1st - Register TODAY
http://cybertowers.com/ct/dlc/classes.html
Module 1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations
Approach
Module 2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
Module 3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
Module 4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
Module 5. Other Pre- 1960's Dream Theories - Surrealism, Adler,
Phenomenology
Module 6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
Module 7. Mindel and Gendlin: The DreamBody
Module 8. From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork Movements
Module 9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal &
Pro-active Dreaming.
Module 10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
Module 11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
Module 12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the
Internet.
Module 1. Introduction and Basic Recall Skills: The Peer-Relations
Approach
Module Objective: Participants will gain an overview of the direction and
emphasis of the class,
understand the limits of dream sharing and be able to develop a dream
recall plan.
Module 2. Ancient Dreams: Messages from the Gods
Module Objective: Participants will be able to trace the major influences
on dream sharing in
Western Civilization before the 19th Century and identify the major
religious & cultural
influences on the major dream interpretation techniques.
Module 3. Sigmund Freud: The Dreamwork of the Unconscious
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify the major elements
from Freud's dream
theory and apply variations of free-association in a peer-relations
context.
Module 4. Carl Gustav Jung: Mythic Dreams and Wholeness
Module Objective: Participants will be able to amplify a dream image and,
tie it in with a myth in a
way that supports wholeness and individuation.
Module 5. Other Pre- 1960's Dream Theories
Module Objective: Participants will be able to approach the dream using
techniques learned from
Alfred Adler, Medard Boss and the Surrealist Movement.
Module 6. Frederick (Fritz) Perls : Gestalt Dream Techniques.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify Gestalt dream
techniques and apply
variations of them in peer-related settings.
Module 7. Mindel and Gendlin: The DreamBody
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify dream body
techniques and use the body
as a touchstone of insight with dream imagery.
Module 8. : From Couch to Culture: Grassroots & Modern Dreamwork
Movements
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify the major elements
of the dreamwork
movement and differentiate between clinical and peer dreamwork techniques.
Module 9. Non-Interpretive Dreamwork: Lucid, Mutual, Paranormal &
Pro-active Dreaming.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to differentiate between
objective and non-objective
dream psi, identify the elements of pro-active and mutual dreaming, as
well as understand the
basic principles of lucid dreaming and lucid control.
Module 10. Dream Science and Dreamwork: Friends or Foes?
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify the major areas of
dream research and
apply these studies to enhance dreamwork. Participants will also be able
to separate true dream
science from dream scientism.
Module 11. Dream Anthropology: How Culture Influences Dreamwork
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify influences of
culture on dream imagery and
judge the relative cultural position of various dream techniques & theory
and how they developed.
Module 12. Dreaming In Cyberspace: New Trends in Dream Sharing on the
Internet.
Module Objective: Participants will be able to identify the major venues &
controversies of dream
work on the Internet and other computer mediated communication networks.
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RCWilk
Class Dates Moved to Start May 1, 1997
Windows On Your Dreams: A Course in Dream Discovery Techniques.
http://cybertowers.com/ct/dlc/classes.html
The Cybertower Distant Learning Center is upgrading our technologies to
serve you better during the course sessions. The new class start date will
be May 1st
Thanks, RCW