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Tuesday, September 10th at 11 AM Pacific.

Meet Dr. Stephen Aizenstat - the Visionary of Dream Tending

This is your opportunity to connect personally with Dr. Aizenstat as he offers tools and techniques to help you remember your dreams. Discover the life-changing programs designed to take your dreamwork to the next level, from introductory courses to advanced certification.
Join a passionate community of individuals dedicated to exploring the depths of the unconscious and harnessing the wisdom of dreams for personal and collective transformation.

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INTRO TO DT

Friday and Saturday, September 27 & 28, 2024

Introduction to Dream Tending and Deep Imagination

We invite you to join the upcoming Introduction to Dream Tending and Imagination Workshop. This online workshop will provide you with resources and methods you will need to tend to your personal dreams as well as those of others. During this workshop, Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., will demonstrate his approach of Dream Tending by working with dreams of participants’ live. He will then describe what tools he used and how these methods were utilized.

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Dream Tending Retreat 2024

October 21 – October 23, 2024

Exclusive Dream Tending Student Retreat

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 exclusive Dream Tending immersion workshop open only to past Dream Tending Certificate Students. This will be a deeply personal time together where we will be working in depth with dream and imagination.

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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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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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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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Amplification: Discovering the Archetypal Depth

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Association: Finding the Hidden Connections

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9 Important Terms to Understand the Meaning of Dreams

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6 Books About Dreams You Need on Your Shelf

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How Dreams Can Help You Work Through Trauma

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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 CXL – Dreams and Healing

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Volume CXXXIX – Awakening to your Calling

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Volume CXXXVIII – The Dream Theme of “Falling”

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Volume CXXXVII – Switzerland – The Journey Continues

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Volume CXXXVI – Reflecting on Switzerland with Wonder & Joy

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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?

Be a part of the experience.

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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Upcoming Events

Meet Dr. Stephen Aizenstat – the Visionary of Dream Tending

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 @ 11:00 AM Pacific Time

This is your opportunity to connect personally with Dr. Aizenstat as he offers tools and techniques to help you remember your dreams. Discover the life-changing programs designed to take your dreamwork to the next level, from introductory courses to advanced certification. Join a passionate community of individuals dedicated to exploring the depths of the unconscious and harnessing the wisdom of dreams for personal and collective transformation. Discover the life-changing programs designed to take your dreamwork to the next level, from introductory courses to advanced certification.

Introduction to Dream Tending and Deep Imagination

Friday and Saturday, September 27 & 28, 2023

We invite you to join the upcoming Introduction to Dream Tending and Imagination Workshop. This online workshop will provide you with a toolkit of methods you will need to tend to your personal dreams as well as those of others. During this workshop, Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., will demonstrate his approach of Dream Tending by working with dreams of participants' lives. He will then describe what tools he used and how these methods were utilized.

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

November 4, 2024 - May 14, 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.

2024 Fall Montana Exclusive Dream Tending Retreat

October 9 - October 13, 2024

This limited-enrollment, intensive Dream Tending workshop and retreat takes place at the B Bar Ranch in Southern Montana, near Yellowstone National Park. Engaging in dream and imagination, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat will showcase unique examples of Dream Tending practice as he works with each participant’s dreams offering clinical perspectives when appropriate. Dr. Aizenstat will guide participants as they work independently and in the group. The striking Montana landscape plays its own part, bringing the psyche of nature into the work. A unique ritual created by the group is presented at the conclusion of the retreat.

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.

Imagination Matrix

A Certificate II Preview – Dream Tending and Deep 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

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.

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