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

November 15, 2023 – April 24, 2024

The interactive certificate program will occur online.

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate II Program introduces the cutting edge of Dr. Stephen Aizenstat’s new work on the imagination matrix in relation to Dream Tending. This certificate program includes a time of creative incubation—a time to imagine, innovate, and tend dreams as portals into deep imagination. The work will be deeply personal as well as community-oriented. As part of this new cohort, you will journey into the universe of the dreamtime.

Throughout the four sessions of Certificate II, you will have access to individual and group mentorship within residential and online mediums. Over the months of the program, particular attention will be given to creating and deepening our heartfelt Dream Tending community. In fact, community building and networking will be a primary emphasis of our gatherings. With this protection and care, we will embrace the love, pain, and fun that come with tending dreams and deep imagination.

Schedule

November 15, 2023 – April 24, 2024

Interactive program hosted by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat

The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate II 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

Dream Tending and Deep Imagination

November 15, 16, 17, 2023

Expand beyond the personal, collective, and world unconscious. Here in deep imagination, learn skills, tools, and methods of working in the realm of the autonomous psyche.

Module One Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the concept of how dream images are a form of emergent phenomena from a multi-dimensional psyche.

  2. Demonstrate the skill of animation.

  3. Identify the difference between the skills of animation and illumination.

  4. Apply an understanding of the difference between personal, collective and world unconscious and how they relate to Jung’s Red Book journey.

  5. Explain Dream Tending’s tool of “The Dig,” which is a method for accessing deep imagination.

  6. Create a personal daily praxis that accesses the “underworld dimension of the unconscious,” as described by Jung in The Red Book.

  7. Evaluate three live demonstrations of Dream Tending techniques using various styles of animating and illuminating dream images.

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 module will be online.

Module Two

Dreams, Nightmares, and Underworld Consciousness

January 10, 11, 12, 2024

Pursue the intelligence of the nightmare image into the underworld. Deepen into relationships with ancestors, elders, and angels.

Module Two Learning Objectives:

  1. Utilize the application of Dream Tending’s 6-steps to working with nightmare images.

  2. List the six steps of working with nightmares.

  3. Identify three skills of illumination.

  4. Differentiate Jung’s Red Book journey from your personal Red Book experience.

  5. Develop a personal, daily praxis that accesses the metaphorical underworld dimension of the unconscious as described by Jung in the Red Book.

  6. Identify one way literature is expressed in nightmares.

  7. Identify one way mythology is expressed in nightmares.

  8. Identify one way the presence of evil as expressed in nightmares.

  9. Critique how the use of film, poetry, and literature influence new perspectives on the meaning and vitality of dream images on a collective, social and cultural level.

  10. List three methods of how to create a dream council.

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 module will be online.

Module Three

The Imagination Matrix

March 6, 7, 8, 2024

Explore the confluence among deep ecology, depth psychology, new technology, and Indigenous cosmology. Enter the cycle of the deep imagination matrix. Participate in a working laboratory, complemented by individualized supervision.

Module Three Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the Imagination Matrix technique.

  2. List the four quadrants of the Imagination Matrix.

  3. Describe the healing potential of working with deep imagination.

  4. Identify two ways  the skill of illumination adds to the healing potential of working with dreams.

  5. Compare dream images from the perspective of the four quadrants of the Imagination Matrix.

  6. Identify similarities between indignenous traditions of working with dream and imagination and the Dream Tending method.

  7. Describe the similarities and differences of the autonomous imagination and guided imagination.

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 module will be online.

Module Four

Sanctuaries of Healing: An Imaginal Approach

April 22, 23 & 24, 2024

Learn to open the portals offered by dream. Through the healing powers of the illuminated image, apply medicines of the soul to emotional and physical affliction.

Module Four Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate the skill of illumination and how it can be used for healing.

  2. List three advanced uses of how dream images can be used as medicines.

  3. Describe two ways dream images, when illuminated, can help with emotional and physical affliction.

  4. Explain three ways images and physiological symptoms can be correlated.

  5. Define addiction and describe how the Dream Tending method of association, amplification, animation, and the advanced method of illumination can be used to work with addictive syndromes and chronic illnesses.

  6. Identify one “wounded image.” Describe how illuminating wounded images can transform wounded archetypes into internal allies.

  7. Develop a personal method to use dream images to help in your healing journey.

  8. Critique the healing powers within dreams as a method to psychic healing.

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 module will be online.

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 $40 fee will be charged for each certificate requested.

Certificate II Benefits

  1. Certificate II extends dreamwork into the realms of deep imagination
  2. Students learn the unique practice of journeying and accessing imaginal intelligence
  3. Graduates of Certificate II become eligible to apply to Certificate III
  4. A live and interactive experience with Dr. Stephen Aizenstat

Join the Certificate Cohort Community

Schedule a time to talk

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.

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

Schedule a Time to Talk

To learn more about the Dream Tending Certificate program, please email Program@DreamTending.com to discuss questions, program price, and payment plan options. One of our Program Coordinators will get back to you shortly.

*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 $40 fee will be charged for each certificate requested.

Module One Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the concept of how dream images are a form of emergent phenomena from a multi-dimensional psyche.

  2. Demonstrate the skill of animation.

  3. Identify the difference between the skills of animation and illumination.

  4. Apply an understanding of the difference between personal, collective and world unconscious and how they relate to Jung’s Red Book journey.

  5. Explain Dream Tending’s tool of “The Dig,” which is a method for accessing deep imagination.

  6. Create a personal daily praxis that accesses the “underworld dimension of the unconscious,” as described by Jung in The Red Book.

  7. Evaluate three live demonstrations of Dream Tending techniques using various styles of animating and illuminating dream images.

Module Two Learning Objectives:

  1. Utilize the application of Dream Tending’s 6-steps to working with nightmare images.

  2. List the six steps of working with nightmares.

  3. Identify three skills of illumination.

  4. Differentiate Jung’s Red Book journey from your personal Red Book experience.

  5. Develop a personal, daily praxis that accesses the metaphorical underworld dimension of the unconscious as described by Jung in the Red Book.

  6. Identify one way literature is expressed in nightmares.

  7. Identify one way mythology is expressed in nightmares.

  8. Identify one way the presence of evil as expressed in nightmares.

  9. Critique how the use of film, poetry, and literature influence new perspectives on the meaning and vitality of dream images on a collective, social and cultural level.

  10. List three methods of how to create a dream council.

Module Three Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the Imagination Matrix technique.

  2. List the four quadrants of the Imagination Matrix.

  3. Describe the healing potential of working with deep imagination.

  4. Identify two ways  the skill of illumination adds to the healing potential of working with dreams.

  5. Compare dream images from the perspective of the four quadrants of the Imagination Matrix.

  6. Identify similarities between indignenous traditions of working with dream and imagination and the Dream Tending method.

  7. Describe the similarities and differences of the autonomous imagination and guided imagination.

Module Four Learning Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate the skill of illumination and how it can be used for healing.

  2. List three advanced uses of how dream images can be used as medicines.

  3. Describe two ways dream images, when illuminated, can help with emotional and physical affliction.

  4. Explain three ways images and physiological symptoms can be correlated.

  5. Define addiction and describe how the Dream Tending method of association, amplification, animation, and the advanced method of illumination can be used to work with addictive syndromes and chronic illnesses.

  6. Identify one “wounded image.” Describe how illuminating wounded images can transform wounded archetypes into internal allies.

  7. Develop a personal method to use dream images to help in your healing journey.

  8. Critique the healing powers within dreams as a method to psychic healing.

 

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 24 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.

Enroll Today
To enroll and secure your place, we encourage you to call or write Samantha, the Program Director now in order to explore enrollment options.  Please email programs@DreamTending.com, or call 805-770-0195.

Schedule a Time to Talk
Please feel free to schedule a time to contact Samantha Eddy, the Program Coordinator by clicking here, or email with any questions at programs@DreamTending.com or call 805-770-0195.

Payment Plans Available
Please contact programs@DreamTending.com regarding payment plans.

Location
Use of Pacifica Graduate Institute Lambert campus is pending on Pacifica’s campus reopening plans.

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.