Working with Dreams to Help Heal Trauma
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
In this session with Dr. Albert Wong, we will explore how to work with dreams as a gateway to helping heal trauma. Students will learn how to work with dreams as symbolic representations of inner fragmented states. Through an embodied approach to dreamwork, students will learn how to listen to, inhabit, and use dreams as gateways to healing. Please bring a dream image or dream excerpt to class.
Some tips to help remember your dreams:
Invite a dream before sleeping and make the intention to remember your dream upon waking.
Pause before opening your eyes to try to recall aspects of the dream. Anything that captures our attention immediately after waking can interfere with dream recall.
Record your dreams (audio record with phone or write in journal). Keep a notepad and pen by the bed.
Even if you do not think you can remember a dream, take just a minute to see if there is any feeling or image you can use to describe it.
What you'll learn:
At the end of this course, participants will be better able to…
Apply principles of embodied dreamwork to their work with clients.
Use contact and dialogue with dream fragments in order to process and integrate unmetabolized residual material.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Dr. Albert Wong
Dr. Albert Wong is the Former Director of Somatic Psychology at JFK University. A Marshall Scholar, he has longstanding interests in the intersection of somatics, psychotherapy, and scalable technology. He has served as residential staff at the Esalen Institute and Core Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Dr. Wong has been featured on PBS, in Time Magazine, and in the book The American Soul Rush. He was educated at Princeton, Oxford, and the University of Tennessee, and is the recipient of numerous national awards (Westinghouse Science Talent Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship). He maintains a private counseling and consulting practice centered around somatic psychotherapy and is the founder of the online somatic education platform Somatopia: www.somatopia.com.