Queer Dreams Online Workshop
Queer Dreams is an online live video workshop to explore the personal, social, and collective meaning of dreams. I offer 4-12 week series on an intermittent basis to provide people the opportunity to engage more actively and in community with their dreams.
The next Two workshop will take place on:
4 Mondays 7-8:30pm PST, from 8/26/19 to 10/7/19, skipping 9/16/19
This is a space to learn more about your own dreaming and explore how we make meaning out of dreams. Both upcoming workshops are open towards anyone who feels called, with an eye towards learning how to be a more thoughtful, creative, and intuitive listener when someone shares a dream with you.
All Queer Dream Workshop series are pay what you want from $0-$30/meeting, and participants have paid an average of ~$10/meeting or nothing. Read below to learn more, and register here to reserve your spot. Can’t make it this time, but want to express interest in future workshops? Go here. Happy dreaming.
“All dreams speak a universal language and come in the service of health and wholeness.”
Jeremy Taylor
FAQs
So how does this work? Each series consists of a weekly online video meeting that occurs on the same day and same time each week. Participants log on from their own computer, tablet, or phone to meet in real time with myself and the other participants. In order to participate you need a quiet, private place to be, Internet (ideally high-speed), and an electronic device with video and audio-capability.
Do I have to come for the whole series? Yes. And no. In order to participate in the series you must participate in the first week’s meeting, and participating in each meeting is strongly encouraged. I ask that you have no more than one anticipated absence for the whole series. If the time/day doesn’t work for you, let me know what would, and keep an eye out for a future series.
Ok so I can come for the whole series, but what will we actually be doing during the hour and a half? The first meeting will be an introduction to the specific form of group dreamwork that I use and a chance to introduce yourself to the other participants. We will start “working” (i.e. exploring the meaning of a participant’s dream) as a group in the first meeting so you can get a feel for the process. Then, in each subsequent meeting, participants will bring in dreams for us to work, usually working with 2-4 dreams per session on a rotating basis so that everyone gets a chance.
What is this form of dreamwork? I work using a model developed by an exceptional and now deceased man named Jeremy Taylor. His model of dreamwork is based on social consciousness and a Jungian perspective. You can learn more about him and his work here or by reading his book The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life. And, dreamwork is versatile, and each participant and myself will bring their own ways of working with dreams.
What if I don’t dream/don’t remember my dreams? Come anyway! Paying attention to dreams in waking life is a great way to start remembering dreams. Also, in the first meeting I will review some well-worn tricks and tips for remembering your dreams.
What does “Pay what you want” mean? Can I pay nothing? Can you just tell me how much to pay you? Why do you do it this way? Pay what you want means what it says! You can pay what you think the experience is worth; you can pay a portion of the worth that is affordable for you and your budget; you can pay nothing if that’s what you want to do or if money is a barrier to you participating. Yes you can pay nothing and no I won’t just tell you how much to pay me. I do it this way because I love dreams and dreamwork, want everyone who is called to this to be able to participate without cost being a barrier, and think that engaging deeply with how we value one anothers’ work and balance our often tenuous or absent financial security is a valuable exercise in reflection and exploration of alternative economic systems.
Why is it called “Queer Dreams”? Do I have to identify as queer to participate? Dreams are what Freud called “overdetermined,” meaning that they are caused by multiple factors, and indeed there is value in exploring meaning through multiple layers and webs of significance. Maybe queerness is the same. I believe both dreams and queerness are liberatory. Also dreams are queer.
Most of all, it’s called Queer Dreams because this workshop prioritizes the voices and perspective of queer people and is offered with a feminist and anti-oppressive lens. You do not need to be queer to participate, and I do ask that you come with awareness of your target and non-target identities, positions in society, privilege, and a willingness to watch and manage your own growing edges around being in shared space across difference.
Disclaimer
Queer Dreams Workshops are not therapy groups, and I am not offering participants psychotherapy services of any kind. These workshops are for educational purposes only.