Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program

November 4, 2024 – May 14, 2025

Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program is a limited-enrollment program that takes place over four separate three-day sessions. The four courses reflect the multiple dimensions of psychic life and the dream. Learning in dream theory and methodology is both content based and experiential. Much of the learning will also take place in the dimension of dream life that is sensitive to aesthetic perceiving, poetic imagining, shamanic intuiting, and the art of not-knowing.

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Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate II Program

November 15 - 17, 2024

Exploring the Imagination Matrix

This program offers an introduction to Dr. Stephen Aizenstat’s pioneering work on the Imagination Matrix and its connection to Dream Tending. This program invites you into a time of creative incubation—a space to imagine, innovate, and tend to dreams as gateways into deep imagination. The experience will be both deeply personal and community-centered, as participants explore the vast universe of dreamtime together.

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2024 Montana Exclusive Dream Tending Retreat

February 19-23, 2025

2025 Winter Montana Exclusive Dream Tending Retreat

This limited-enrollment, intensive Dream Tending workshop and retreat takes place at the B Bar Ranch in Southern Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. Exploring dream theory and methodology, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat will showcase unique examples of Dream Tending practice as he works with one of each participant’s dreams. He will encourage participants’ engagement through association, amplification, and animation. Clinical perspectives will be included when appropriate.

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Discover how you can optimize the power of your imagination to unleash your innate genius and build a better world.

If ever there was a time and a place to reconnect with imagination, that place is here, that time is now. For anyone looking for a new way forward for yourself, your community, and our struggling planet, Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., offers a powerful message of hope. The trailblazers are people like you—the seekers, creatives, dreamers, doers—who are willing and ready to tap into a collective purpose so vital, so vibrant, so resonant in the world of today.

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“You have within you a limitless source of creativity waiting to be unleashed. Its promise is nothing less than the next evolution of human consciousness.” — Stephen Aizenstat, PhD.

In The Imagination Matrix, Aizenstat expands upon his world-renowned Dream Tending method to present a step-by-step process for unlocking your potential. He reveals how anyone can gain access to the “source code of imagination” which energizes your capacity to innovate new outcomes, evolve real-world solutions, and nurture your well-being. The book explores:

Opening the Curious Mind—a new method to engage imagination and wonder
Answering the call of your Innate Genius
Growing your capacities of Imaginal Intelligence
Maintaining your humanity in an increasingly technological world
Claiming your creativity and purpose to meet the pull of the future

The Imagination Matrix offers a practical and uniquely personal path for becoming more purposeful, resourceful, and resilient–even when we feel overwhelmed as individuals—while developing a profound connection to the creative force that animates and flows through us all to become the agents of change that our world needs today.

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Meet Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D.

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., has devoted his life to understanding the profound wisdom and elemental power that exists within each of us. Through our dreams and imagination, we can access limitless creativity and innovation, improved relationships, and ultimately our human potential.

Professor Aizenstat’s Dream

Tending dreams and tending deep imagination will allow thousands of people to unlock their creative potential, increase emotional and intellectual bandwidth, and realize personal and professional goals.

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What Is Dream Tending?

Activate dreams and imagination to unleash your innate genius, express creativity, and contribute to the world around you through a new and dynamic perspective.

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Tending Tuesdays

I’m excited to share with you that I am starting a weekly offering called Tending Tuesdays. Tending Tuesdays was inspired by a pull to sustain the value of what happens when we come together as a community. Each Tuesday, an email will come to you with a link to a new video on a Dream Tending or depth psychological topic in the form of current writing and research, interviews, discussions with colleagues, and clips of tending dreams.

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Recent Tending Tuesdays

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Volume CXLVII – We Stand Once Again at Another Crossroad

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Volume CXLIVI – The Role of Community in the Healing Journey

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Volume CXLIV – Explore What’s Unfolding

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Volume CXLIV – Exploring the Imagination Maxtrix

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Volume CXLIII – The Emerging Possible: The Next Evolution

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What People Are Saying

”The Dream Tending Certification Program strengthened my personal dream practice and bolstered my confidence to engage my community in dreaming. I now feel empowered to help re-awaken dream in the world!
Barbara BainM.A.

”The experience has been the most powerfully moving experience in my continuing education and growth as a therapist and as a human being. I learned so much about myself, which is the missing link in much of the trainings I’ve been participating in…thank you!
Christa JohnsonMFT

”Outstanding program! The facilitator has incredible knowledge and skill in this field and is an excellent guide and teacher as he helped us to open to dreamwork, and how we may use this work in our own practice to facilitate our clients’ healing.
Marilyn O’BrienPsy.D., Psychologist

”It exceeded my expectations. I expected a good experience but had no idea the trainings would provide such a rich personal experience and that dream tending would add so much depth to my work with dreams.
Alexa FosterPh.D., Psychologist

Dream Tending asks us to experiment with a worldview that playfully and soulfully sees the world as alive and always dreaming. . . within an attitude of wonderment, curiosity, and presence.

Lectures, Workshops & Events

Do you want to ignite your creativity and have a greater understanding of the human experience? Do you want to help your clients find their life purpose, tend their nightmares, and befriend frightening reoccurring dream images? Do you long to be part of an extended community of like-minded psychotherapists and people in the healing professions who are called to the value of imagination and dreams?

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Join other creatives, innovators, and seekers at one of our Dream Tending experiences and discover what all the buzz is about!

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Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program with Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D.

January 6, 2025 - June 25, 2025

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program is a transformational journey that invites you to explore the depths of your inner world and cultivate a profound relationship with your dreams. This program is designed to awaken your innate ability to access the wisdom and guidance that resides within your dreams, and to use these insights to deepen your understanding of yourself, your relationships, and your life path.

Dream Tending Retreat 2024

October 21 - October 23, 2024

The Exclusive Dream Tending Student Retreat is a limited enrollment intensive that takes place over three days at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. The Retreat is a special Dream Tending immersion workshop. This will be a deeply personal time together where we will be working in depth with dream and imagination.

Exploring the Imagination Matrix

November 15 - 17, 2024

Over the course of three days, you’ll engage with mentors in an interactive online environment, with a special focus on building and deepening our Dream Tending community. Community connection will be a central theme, providing support as we explore the creative sparks, confront challenges, and embrace the love that emerges from the realms of dreams and deep imagination.

2025 Winter Montana Exclusive Dream Tending Retreat

Sold Out - February 19-23, 2025

During the retreat, Dr. Aizenstat will personally tend each persons’ dream and hold space for it to come to life within the community. The small group will participate in Dream Tending in the mornings and evenings, share delicious meals together in the warmth of the lodge dining room, and have afternoons free for solitude, rest, strolling, hiking, hot tubing, art, conversation, creative work, journaling, and more.