Unlock the Transformative Power of Your Nightmares

May 28, 29, 30, 2025

Nightmares can often feel overwhelming and impossible to navigate. But what if the darkest dreams held transformative potential? The Dream Tending Nightmare Workshop 2025 offers you an immersive, hands-on opportunity to explore and understand nightmares through the lens of Dream Tending—a proven, methodology for transforming nightmares into powerful sources of insight and healing.

This workshop is designed for individuals and professionals in the fields of psychology, social work, counseling, and those with an interest in self-development, mythological study, and dream work. You’ll gain both practical tools and a deeper theoretical understanding of nightmares, enabling you to work with these intense, often life-changing images.

Schedule

Wednesday, May 28th 9 AM – 6 PM Pacific Time
Thursday, May 29th 9 AM – 6 PM Pacific Time
Friday, May 30th 9 AM – 3 PM Pacific Time

What You Can Expect

  • Live Demonstrations: Witness the Dream Tending process address nightmares and intolerable images, offering insight and support
  • Group Discussions: Engage in dynamic, community-focused conversations
  • Hands-On Practice: Apply the Dream Tending methodology in a triad experience, building confidence in working with dreams
  • Intolerable Image: Learn how to work with an intolerable image, in a way that transforms fear into insight
  • Daily Praxis and Personal Growth: Understand how regular practice of Dream Tending helps develop a deeper connection to the unconscious and strengthens your ability to navigate nightmares
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Transformative Takeaways

  • Master the six-step method of Dream Tending for nightmares.
  • Understand the core differences between nightmares and night terrors.
  • Gain powerful techniques for confronting and transforming nightmarish images.
  • Develop somatic practices to help you ground yourself and find strength during emotional challenges.
  • Uncover the connections between nightmare images and psychological states, enhancing your professional practice.
  • Gain new insights into the relationship between nightmares and mental health, providing you with advanced tools for working with clients.

Workshop Topics Include

  • The Six-Step Dream Tending System: Learn the framework for transforming nightmares.
  • Psychopathology and Nightmares: Explore the links between nightmares and mental health.
  • Nightmares vs. Night Terrors: Understand the difference and how to address them.
  • The Role of Nightmarish Figures: Discover how to work with challenging dream figures as allies.
  • Somatic Grounding Techniques: Connect to core strength to face fear and build resilience.
  • The Underworld Consciousness: Understand how the deepest parts of the psyche inform our dreams.
  • Creating Separation & Finding Ally Figures: Techniques to stand your ground and find support in the face of nightmares.
  • Connecting Dreams to Personal Growth: Explore how dreams mirror current emotional states and provide valuable insight into personal development.

Who Should Attend

  • Mental Health Professionals
    Social Workers, Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists
  • Dream Workers looking to deepen their practice
  • Anyone in Personal Development
    Coaches, Spiritual Practitioners, Wellness Experts
  • Those interested in exploring the intersection of psychology, dreams, and mythology

Earn 15 Continuing Education Credits

15 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.

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.

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

*Continuing Education Credits
15 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.

Continuing Education Credit Details
This program meets the qualifications for 15 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 15 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 15 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.

Module Learning Objectives:

  1. Differentiate nightmare images from other dream images in at least two ways.
  2. Describe three ways nightmare images can be considered the most alive dream images.
  3. Identify one way a continued daily praxis enhances Dream Tending.
  4. Differentiate nightmares from night terrors in two ways.
  5. List one way nightmare images can mirror current mental health symptoms.
  6. Describe at least one way to connect to core strength via somatic/grounding techniques.
  7. Select and list three supportive figures that can be used during tending of nightmares.
  8. Compare similarities and differences between the Dream Tending methodology and Hillman’s method of working with dreams.
  9. Explain the connection between psychopathology and nightmares.
  10. List at least four of the steps in working with nightmares.
  11. Identify a supportive dream figure that has a protective quality.
  12. Describe the psycho-diagnostic qualities of nightmares.
  13. Explain two ways to work with a threatening animal dream image.
  14. Demonstrate one way that the personal unconscious and collective unconscious intersect in relation to nightmares.
  15. Discuss at least three examples of current literature and research in the field of nightmares and dream work.
Cancellation Policy:
Deposits and full tuition payments for Dream Tending Programs are refundable up to 60 days before the program start date, minus a $100 administrative fee. After this period, any payments made can be applied as credit toward future Dream Tending programs.

Dream Tending reserves the right to cancel any program or expel participants at any time. If a program is unexpectedly canceled, a full refund will be issued, minus a $100 administrative fee. In the event of expulsion, refunds will be considered on a case-by-case basis, also subject to the $100 administrative fee.

Refund Policy:
Refunds will be issued up to 60 days prior to the start of the program, minus a $100 administrative fee. After this period, any payments made can be applied as credit toward future Dream Tending programs. No transfers or refunds will be given after the program start date.

Confidentiality
The Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate program is a professional training program offered under the auspices of the Continuing Education Program of Pacifica Graduate Institute. Participants are encouraged to present material from their personal dreams for discussion during seminar sessions with the understanding that the ensuing dreamwork is part of an educational opportunity. The Program is not psychotherapy and will not provide the “container” of the therapeutic consulting room. Thus, there is no legally protected confidentiality for a “psychotherapist-client” communication. Although the presenter is a Clinical Psychologist and licensed psychotherapist, he will be working as seminar leader and instructor in this training program. While there will be a continuing relationship among the participants over the nine months of the seminar series, the focus of this experience is educational rather than therapeutic. Participants will want to keep this in mind in deciding what to share during seminar sessions.

As a part of this training, seminar participants will work with their own and each others’ dreams in meetings of the entire group as well as during triad and small group sessions. Triad and small group sessions have their own confidentiality, and participants must reach a mutual agreement before sharing material from these smaller meetings in the general sessions of the entire group. What participants share and learn from each other must remain within their agreed upon limits of confidentiality and does not fall under the responsibility or liability of Dream Tending.

Seminar participants who wish to include case material from their clinical practices in this training program may do so. If you choose to do this, you must present the material in a manner which obscures the client’s identity and otherwise preserves the client’s confidentiality rights.

Disability Support
It is the goal of Dream Tending to make programs and experiences accessible to all members of the community. It is the participant’s responsibility to contact Program@DreamTending.com directly if accommodations are desired. Each person, disability, and situation is unique, so needs will be considered individually.

All reading materials in the Dream Tending Certificate program are formatted to be compatible with read-aloud programs.

Anti-Discrimination Policy
Dream Tending will not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender, race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age or other prohibited basis. Dream Tending does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in its programs.

Grievances
We want to ensure your experience in the Dream Tending Certificate programs is educational and enjoyable. The Dream Tending Program Coordinators will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner when submitted by program attendees in writing to Program@DreamTending.com or call (805) 680-3774.

FAQs

Who can I contact with any questions?
Please get in touch with a Dream Tending Program Coordinator at Program@DreamTending.com or call (805) 680-3774.