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

October 10, 2022 – June 28, 2023

Prerequisites: None. Some experience with tending dreams is preferred.

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.

Led by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat and Mentors of Dream Tending, this program offers a supportive and creative space where you can engage in practices that cultivate your imagination, intuition, and emotional intelligence. Through a combination of experiential learning, group discussions, and individual reflection, you will learn how to honor the wisdom of your dreams and work with them as a source of guidance, inspiration, and healing.

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program is structured around a series of four modules consisting of three days each. These modules will guide you through how to create a dream journal, establish effective dream practices, engage with nightmares in a constructive way, and explore the symbolism and meaning of your dreams. You will also discover how to use active imagination techniques to deepen your connection with your dreams and engage with them in a more embodied way.

As you progress through the program, you will have the opportunity to work with dream images and themes that are relevant to your personal and professional life. You will learn how to use these insights to gain clarity on your goals, develop new perspectives on your challenges, and cultivate a greater sense of self-awareness and self-compassion. Practicing clinicians will gain skills to support clients in working with nightmares and dream images.

At the end of the Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program, you will receive a professional certificate and the option to purchase 40 continuing educational credits. You will have the opportunity to continue your learning journey through our advanced Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate II program, which builds off Certificate I and deepens your understanding through focusing on the wisdom and innate intellect within imagination and how to access it. For clinicians, creatives, and those in the healing arts, the Certificate II program invites you to discover the cutting-edge work of the Imagination Matrix. This method connects you to your innate genius. It is a proven way of accessing the multidimensional intelligence of imagination that can enrich your personal and professional life. Explore beyond you and your clients’ otherwise perceived limiting beliefs.

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Anyone may apply. Please reach out with any questions.
The live Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program offers 40 Continuing Education Credits.

This program is ideal if you want to:

  • Connect with a sense of calling, purpose, and belonging
  • Establish a connection with your dream life and deep imagination
  • Be able to recognize what the callings of soul are asking of you
  • Learn about a relational approach to your dreams, nightmares, and waking life experience

By the end of this program, you will:

  • Have deepened the relationship between your soul life and the soul of the world
  • Be able to establish intimate relationships with your soul companions
  • Be able to tend dreams and imagination in the many ways that express their desires

Live and Interactive Schedule

This is a live and interactive program hosted by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat

October 10, 2022 – June 28, 2023

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I Program is a limited-enrollment program that takes place over four separate three-day modules. The four modules reflect the multiple dimensions of psychic life and the dream.

To learn more about the Dream Tending Certificate program, please email Program@DreamTending.com, and one of our Program Coordinators will get back to you shortly.

Module One

October 10-12, 2022

The Living Image Tool Set
Learn essential skills and methods of understanding and tending dreams.

Day 1: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 2: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 3: 9:00-3:00 Pacific Time
This live module will be online.

Module One Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify association and list its components, purpose, and uses.

  2. Identify amplification and explain its components, purpose, steps, and appropriate uses.

  3. Identify the method of animation and explain its components, purpose, and uses.

  4. Compare two  live demonstrations of Dream Tending techniques in association, amplification, and animation tools.

  5. Apply techniques of active imagination, dream journaling, and engaged mindfulness.

  6. Identify a daily praxis working with dreams applying two basic Dream Tending techniques into the daily praxis..

  7. Evaluate one piece of  literature or research in the field of dreams and dream work.

  8. Acquire at least two small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.

  9. Identify two  methods of how to remember your dreams.

Module Two

January 23-25, 2023

Nightmares: Tending the Intolerable Image
Develop a practical approach to discovering the healing possibilities that exist in the nightmarish images of dreams.

Day 1: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 2: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 3: 9:00-3:00 Pacific Time
This live module will be online.

Module Two Learning Objectives:

  1. Distinguish nightmare images from other dream images

  2. Identify how nightmare images are  considered the most alive of dream images.

  3. Design a daily praxis working with dreams applying Dream Tending techniques.

  4. Compare the difference between nightmares and night terrors.

  5. Explain the connection between psychopathology and nightmares.

  6. Identify the six step system of working with nightmares.

  7. Identify a supportive dream figure to use with nightmare work.

  8. Distinguish two of the psycho-diagnostic qualities of nightmares.

  9. Specify a technique for working with a threatening animal image.

Module Three

March 6-8, 2023

The World’s Dream and Methods of Animation
In these uncertain times, filled with both destructive and generative impulses, discover a way of listening to the world’s psyche speak through the figures of dreams.

Day 1: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 2: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 3: 9:00-3:00 Pacific Time
This live module will be online.

Module Three Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain dream council

  2. Identify two uses of dream council.

  3. Identify three personal dream council members.

  4. Apply two techniques of Dream Tending in dyads under observation of instructor and/or TAs.

  5. Explain the anima mundi and its connection to night-time dreams.

  6. Explain the difference between tending a personal dream and tending the world’s dream.

  7. Identify shadow figures and explain their role in dream council, personal psyche, and the world’s dream.

  8. Evaluate one piece of current literature or  research in the field of dreams and dream work.

  9. Organize a dream council.

Module Four

June 26-28, 2023

Medicines of the Soul: Cultivating a Dream Healing Practice
Experience an Asclepian sanctuary of dreams to learn about the healing power of dreams in relation to physical illness.

Day 1: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 2: 9:00-6:00 Pacific Time
Day 3: 9:00-3:00 Pacific Time
This live module will be online.

Module Four Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to self.

  2. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to community.

  3. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to planet.

  4. List two uses of dream images as medicines and explain how dream images can represent rhythms of psyche and soma.

  5. Explain how dream images can be categorized as homeopathic remedies.

  6. Explain at least three ways images and body symptoms can be correlated.

  7. Identify how Dream Tending methods of association, amplification, and animation can be used to work with addictive syndromes and chronic illnesses

  8. Identify the “wounded image” in a dream and give two examples of a wounded image from lectures and live demonstrations.

  9. Evaluate one piece of current literature or  research in the field of dreams and dream work.

Earn 40 Continuing Education Credits

40 continuing education credits are available for MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs through the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (provider #67021), for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177), and for psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014). Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Full attendance at the program is required to receive a certificate. A $30 fee will be charged for each certificate requested.

Certificate I Benefits

1. Certificate I provides a full immersion into the craft of Dream Tending
2. Students gain competency to work with their and other people’s dreams
3. Graduates of Certificate I become eligible to apply for Certificate II
4. A live and interactive experience with Dr. Stephen Aizenstat
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Recent Testimonials

Karla Refoxo
Randal Lea
Lev Krasnoselskiy
Chanin Hardwick

“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 training I’ve been participating in . . . thank you!”
~ C.J., MFT

“It exceeded my expectations. I expected a good experience but had no idea the training would provide such a rich personal experience and that Dream Tending would add so much depth to my work with dreams.”

~ A.F., psychologist

“I wanted to share for others that the experience in the Dream Tending Certificate program was like entering another realm, a realm that is overflowing with interconnection, love and compassion. Even in nightmare, the dream is like a sweet love note from psyche. In this program it became abundantly clear to me that psyche is only interested in offering balance, suffering and joy can coexist, and we will survive, really and thrive. Experiencing Steve in the field is truly a gift, the blessing of the collective dream-space manifest days or weeks later but, is so rich. Since the training, dreamwork has come to me. I am finding my clients, women of color, are bringing in their dreams more and more. This training has opened a portal for me personally and professionally. I am extremely grateful.”

~ C. Hardwick

“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!”

– B. Bain

“The Dream Tending Certificate program helped me deepen my connection to the dream realm, and maintain daily access to the extraordinary healing, support and creativity that is inherent in this realm. It also taught me how to impart that access to other people through clear and applicable techniques. Dream Tending has helped me build a sturdy bridge to my soul. In today’s world of strife and uncertainty, this bridge has become invaluable. “
~ L. Rosager, Writer and Creative Coach

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To learn more about the Dream Tending Certificate program, please email Program@DreamTending.com and one of our Program Coordinators will get back to you shortly. Our Program Coordinators can schedule a meeting to discuss questions, program prices and payment plan options.

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Meet Dr. Stephen Aizenstat


Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is the Founder of Dream Tending, Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences. He is a world-renowned Professor of Depth Psychology, an imagination specialist, and innovator. He has served as an organizational consultant to major companies, institutions, Hollywood films, and has lectured extensively in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He is affiliated with the Earth Charter International project through the United Nations where he has spoken. He has collaborated with many notable masters in the field including Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and Robert Johnson.

General Information

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To learn more about the Dream Tending Certificate program, please email Program@DreamTending.com and one of our Program Coordinators will get back to you shortly. Our Program Coordinators can schedule a meeting to discuss questions, program prices and payment plan options.

*Continuing Education Credit
40 continuing education credits are available for MFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs through the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (provider #67021), for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177), and for psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014). Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Full attendance at the program is required to receive a certificate. A $30 fee will be charged for each certificate requested.

Module One Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify association and list its components, purpose, and uses.

  2. Identify amplification and explain its components, purpose, steps, and appropriate uses.

  3. Identify the method of animation and explain its components, purpose, and uses.

  4. Compare two  live demonstrations of Dream Tending techniques in association, amplification, and animation tools.

  5. Apply techniques of active imagination, dream journaling, and engaged mindfulness.

  6. Identify a daily praxis working with dreams applying two basic Dream Tending techniques into the daily praxis..

  7. Evaluate one piece of  literature or research in the field of dreams and dream work.

  8. Acquire at least two small group interpersonal skills through dyad work and group discussions.

  9. Identify two  methods of how to remember your dreams.

Module Two Learning Objectives:

  1. Distinguish nightmare images from other dream images

  2. Identify how nightmare images are  considered the most alive of dream images.

  3. Design a daily praxis working with dreams applying Dream Tending techniques.

  4. Compare the difference between nightmares and night terrors.

  5. Explain the connection between psychopathology and nightmares.

  6. Identify the six step system of working with nightmares.

  7. Identify a supportive dream figure to use with nightmare work.

  8. Distinguish two of the psycho-diagnostic qualities of nightmares.

  9. Specify a technique for working with a threatening animal image.

Module Three Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain dream council

  2. Identify two uses of dream council.

  3. Identify three personal dream council members.

  4. Apply two techniques of Dream Tending in dyads under observation of instructor and/or TAs.

  5. Explain the anima mundi and its connection to night-time dreams.

  6. Explain the difference between tending a personal dream and tending the world’s dream.

  7. Identify shadow figures and explain their role in dream council, personal psyche, and the world’s dream.

  8. Evaluate one piece of current literature or  research in the field of dreams and dream work.

  9. Organize a dream council.

Module Four Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to self.

  2. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to community.

  3. Explain what “dreaming the world forward” means to planet.

  4. List two uses of dream images as medicines and explain how dream images can represent rhythms of psyche and soma.

  5. Explain how dream images can be categorized as homeopathic remedies.

  6. Explain at least three ways images and body symptoms can be correlated.

  7. Identify how Dream Tending methods of association, amplification, and animation can be used to work with addictive syndromes and chronic illnesses

  8. Identify the “wounded image” in a dream and give two examples of a wounded image from lectures and live demonstrations.

  9. Evaluate one piece of current literature or  research in the field of dreams and dream work.

 

Continuing Education Credit

This program meets the qualifications for 40 hours of continuing education credit for Psychologists through the California Psychological Association (PAC014) Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing education for psychologists.  Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Full attendance is required to receive a certificate.

This course meets the qualifications for 40 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.  Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (#60721) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs.  Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.  Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.

For Registered Nurses through the California Board of Registered Nurses, this conference meets qualifications of 40 hours of continuing education credit are available for RNs through the California Board of Registered Nurses (provider #CEP 7177).  Full attendance is required to obtain a certificate.

Pacifica Graduate Institute is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs.  Pacifica Graduate Institute maintains responsibility for each program and its content.  Full day attendance is required to receive a certificate.

Continuing Education Goal.  Pacifica Graduate Institute is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.  Course completion certificates will be awarded at the conclusion of the training and upon participant’s submission of his or her completed evaluation.

CECs and Online Program Attendance: Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.

Payment Plans Available
Please contact Program@DreamTending.com regarding payment plan options.

Fees
The tuition for the Dream Tending Certificate program includes instruction and selected reading material.

Scholarships
A limited number of partial scholarships are available to those who find it prohibitive to pay the full cost of the seminar. To apply, send a letter of request explaining the situation with your application. Please be specific regarding your financial circumstances.

Location

All Modules will be held online via Zoom.

Cancellations

Cancellations 21 days or more prior to the program start date receive a 100% refund of program registrations. After 21 days, no refund is available, but the balance will be transferred to a future program.