What you'll get:
- Visual and audio presentations on the following topics:
- Why work with dreams?
- How to recall and record dreams.
- What are the most common dreamwork practices today?
- How are they backed by research?
- How do you understand different kinds of dreams?
- How do you understand dreams as metaphors?
- ... and more.
- 6 live and recorded sessions featuring dreamwork demos. These sessions will be available on Zoom
You can download the complete syllabus here.
According to current participants in this course:
Leslie’s online dream course is incredibly well put together – comprehensive, elegant and thought provoking. Personally I loved the overview it gave me. What was new for me was some of the dream/brain information. I was also introduced to some new approaches with which I was not familiar. It is great to be given new threads to pull in. I have felt very engaged with the material and have loved the way it has reanimated my dream work in my office.
- Louise Mina, Clinical Psychologist, Cape Town, South Africa
I loved the course! Leslie’s presentation was clear, superbly presented, and the format easy to navigate. Her manner & voice are easy to listen to and engage with. The course offers a reassuringly solid foundation and great practical information on working with dreams. The dream-centred (and client-centred) approach very much resonated with me. I feel more confident and better equipped to guide therapy clients who often mention their provocative dreams with the hope of new insight.
- Shaila Patel, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Coquitlam, Canada
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This course with Leslie has been an engaging, stimulating learning experience that I can highly recommend. At the heart of the course is Leslie's excellent, just-published book on dreams, drawing on her years of experience as a therapist who is passionate about dream theory and dream-work. Well-structured around this strong core are discussion sessions which expand on the book chapters, or zoom in on pertinent topics in a chapter - such as the benefit of working with trauma-related dreams. The theoretical and clinical content covered in this way is complemented elegantly by live sessions of experiential dream-work to which participants can bring their own dreams.
Leslie presents in a well-modulated, soothing voice that carries the recorded commentary sessions and the live interaction sessions very well. She is a calmly-confident and organized teacher who is clear and concise in her outlining of concepts. She demonstrates an excellent grasp of the broad swathe of dream literature her clinical training and work has taken her through...from Carl Jung to contemporary neuroscience. Leslie is skillful in her facilitation of the live dream-work sessions, ensuring a sense of participant safety while encouraging and containing the group's participation with an attitude of openness and respect.
I can highly recommend both Leslie's book and this online course. I have come away enriched and expanded by this learning opportunity.
Catherine Johnson, Psychologist, Cape Town, South Africa
Dreaming is a fascinating but hard field to explore. Leslie is an enthusiastic and experienced pioneer. Her book and course help me find a torch and a map. As a therapist, I use these tools to help my clients go into their experiences and hearts. Highly recommended.
--Sicong Cao, psychotherapist, Wuhan, China
Here is an outline of the content for the book and the courses:
PART ONE:
Chapter 1. Fast-track to deep waters: Why work with dreams?
Chapter 2. Bringing it home: Inviting dreamwork into your practice, and your life
Chapter 3. Common Factors: Toward universal approach to working with dreams
Chapter 4. Mapping the route: The science of dreaming
Chapter 5. Understanding the terrain: The dream is born in metaphor
Chapter 6. From ordinary to sublime: Kinds of dreams
Chapter 7. Navigating the dream divide: Woman in the mirror dream
PART TWO
Chapter 8. The central quest: Finding the life force inherent in all dreams
Chapter 9. Avenues of exploration: Visual art and technology
Chapter 10. The inner journey: Dreams and the body
Chapter 11. Perfect storms: Working with nightmares and bad dreams
Chapter 12. Fellow travellers: Working with dreams in groups
Chapter 13. How dreams enlarge us: Big dreams
Chapter 14. Transformation: Applying neuroscience to dreamwork
For more information, go to:
https://drleslieellis.com/about/