Saturdays: May 7, 14 and 21, 2022
3-5 pm EST/NewYork City time (Noon to 2 pm PT, 8-10pm London time, 9-11pm Paris/Amsterdam time)
$125 / $100 (Patreon Member $5/and above)

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

Our dreams are a treasure trove of information, guidance and insight that we are gifted with every single night. Everybody dreams (whether you remember your dreams or not!) and the imagery, feelings, and stories our dreams show us can be harnessed in our waking lives for healing, guidance and transformation.

Regardless of how you feel about Sigmund Freud, he was the first to bring the concept of tracking and working with dreams to the forefront of consciousness. Freud called dream interpretation the “royal road” to the unconscious, saying: “It is the 'King's highway' along which everyone can travel to discover the truth of unconscious processes for themselves.” Through his initial work with Freud, Carl Jung then took dream work leaps and bounds further, saying “Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.”

Whereas Freud saw dreams as a way to analyze and diagnose psychological disorders in others, Carl Jung took the practice of dream work leaps and bounds further, seeing our dream lives as a personal world that everyone could explore on their own, with or without a professional analyst. Jung in fact, had his own creative practice around working with his dreams, which is documented beautifully in The Red Book, which was Jung's own private dream art journal 

In this class, educator, dream worker, and interfaith minister Tristy Taylor—daughter of renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor, co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams--will provide powerful and accessible tools you can use right now to be more present and aware of your dream life. Together, you will learn how dreams communicate, how you can start to track and understand your own personal archetypes, and discover the jewels that can be found in a nightmare. Through practicing the tools you learn in this class, you can become an expert in your own personal dream language, and you may be surprised to discover that through your waking life actions, your dream life will respond, thus creating an authentic “living” conversation with your dream life that will last a lifetime.

We will begin with some history of how dreams have been worked with over the centuries, and then dive into the many ways you can work with your own dreams, including keeping a dream journal, making art with your dreams, and the basics of lucid dreaming. Handouts will be provided so you have reference guides for everything taught in this class.

There will also be space in the class for students to bring their own dreams and dream imagery to explore with the group, if desired (but not required). By the end of the class, students will have a solid foundation to work with their own dreams, and be able to live a richer and wiser life through the dance of dreamwork.                                                                                                            

Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based dream worker, teacher, ordained interfaith minister and animal communicator. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor 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 therefore 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 the rich secrets of nightmare imagery. She has a Masters of Art & Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University, and she is currently adjunct faculty at the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Ministry, where she teaches Dreamwork, Ritual Crafting, and Being with Death and Dying. She sees clients one-on-one and also facilitates online dream workshops every season. Find out more about her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.createwithspirit.com.

Images, in order: The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781, public domain; El sueño del caballero, or The Knight’s Dream, ca. 1655, Antonio de Pereda, public domain; ; Tatiana Larina’s dream, 1891, Ivan Volkov, via Wikimedia Commons; Chiki Ton Pays (detail), Leonora Carrington, oil, tempera and ink on canvas, 1944, via Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City