Sundays, April 16, 23, and 30, 2023
2 to 4 pm ET ( 11am to 1 pm PT, 7 to 9pm London, 8 to 10pm Paris/Amsterdam)
$100 Patreon Members / $125 General Admission

 PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for those who cannot attend in real time, but it is highly recommended that you attend the classes live for the richest experience.

Our dreams are telling us our own unique, personal story, every single night. Just as fairy tales and myths use the language of symbols and archetypes, so too do our dreams. When we use the tools of dreamwork, shadow work, recognizing waking life synchronicities, and learning our own personal archetypes, we begin to understand the language of our unconscious. When we learn the language of our unconscious, we can tap in to the innate wisdom and guidance that lives within the unchartered waters of our hearts. We can then weave these deeper insights into waking life and open into a more deeply integrated understanding of who we really are – not who we think we are, or what other people tell us we should be.

What is your authentic story? What is the quest you have been given for this human life? Collaborating with your unconscious self in creating your own unique fairy tale can show you aspects of yourself you had no idea existed. It is like a magic spell that invites in more vitality, love, courage and joy. You are the hero of your own story, and you get to create your story in every moment of your life.

In this class, educator, dream worker, artist, and interfaith minister Tristy Taylor — daughter of renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor, co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and dream artist Kathryn Taylor — will guide you through the process of crafting your own personal myth or fairy tale. We will begin with your past, incorporating childhood traumas and joys, as well as remembered dreams from that time in your life. We then come into the present and weave in archetypes and symbols that are showing up in both your dreams and waking life, in the here and now. Then we move into the future and craft manifestations of where you want your story to go. And finally, we craft the story of your own death, which can be as fantastic or dramatic as you want it to be!

All mediums are welcome. If you are not a writer, you can paint your fairy tale, or sculpt it, or collage it, or sing it, or dance it. Whether you are a professional artist, a dabbler in creative pursuits, or fear that you aren’t creative at all, this class series has something vibrant and valuable to offer you. There will be space in the class for students to share their process every week (but not required). By the end of the class, students will have the start of, or a complete personal fairy tale, based on their own unique dream symbols, synchronicities and archetypes.

Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based dream worker, teacher, ordained interfaith minister and counselor. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor - co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams - and dream artist Kathryn Taylor, she has been working with her dreams from the very beginning. Before she could write, she was drawing and talking about her dreams at the breakfast table, and grew up with a deep connection and an ever-deepening wisdom in how the dream world works. She has been leading dream groups since she was 15-years old, and over the last three decades, she has grown her own dream work offerings to include art making and ritual as guided by the dream world, as well as opening into the rich secrets of nightmare imagery. She has a Master of Arts in Transformative Arts from the Graduate School of Holistic Studies at John F. Kennedy University, and along with being the resident dream teacher for Morbid Anatomy Academy, she also teaches Ritual, and Death and Dying classes for the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Ministry. She has a thriving counseling practice, and she facilitates an annual 10-week, online Dream Circle every January. Find out more about her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.CreateWithSpirit.com.

IMAGES

1. “The Snake Charmer” by Henri Rousseau, 1907,

2. "Tailleur pour dames" by Remedios Varo (1957)

3. "The Bedside Book" by Leonora Carrington (1956)

4. "Grandmother's Aromatic Kitchen" by Leonora Carrington (1975)

5. Ralph Steadman's illustration for the 150^th Edition of "Alice in Wonderland" (1973)

6. "Fatality" by Jan Troop (1893)