Karen Nimmo and Kay Young identified and shared interest in dream work and have been working together to develop this workshop with Gestalt Therapist and Trainer, Mary Turner. We hope you find this invitation as exciting as we do. The workshop details are below, with a description from Mary.

 

Practical Details

When: 22 - 23 February 2025 (Sat 10 - 4.30pm and Sun 10 - 1pm)

Where: Dialogue and Space, 64 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QZ

Cost: £80 (see Terms and Conditions below)

 

Workshop Description

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” Carl Jung

 

Dreams, like art and poetry can be understood from a Jungian perspective as a communication from the unconscious. Jung believed that the unconscious extends beyond the individual mind and connects human beings with the collective unconscious as well as spiritual or archetypal forces. 

 

Dreams access out of awareness processes where we enter an imaginary world outwith the habitual and known, opening to new creative potential. This mysterious opening to our inner worlds and other realms of knowing has always been a key aspect of what Gestalt  Therapy offers as part of a rich creative methodology for working with emergent experience.

 

This workshop will take a transpersonal approach to dreamwork and offer an invitation to experience our interconnectedness with others and the greater whole, as an alternative to the sense of separation and isolation that is so much the human experience. Maybe dreams are a bridge between the material and spiritual worlds? if you are interested in a spiritual dimension beyond our material experience then working with dreams invites you into this world of possibilities.

 

Over the two days there will be opportunities to develop confidence and skills in bringing this approach to your work with clients. We will look at how to build the ground for this type of exploration and refresh the rich menu of the possible ways gestalt therapy offers to respond to client’s dreams. The same dream can have multi-layered meanings depending upon how we look at them, including inviting the dreamer to discover the personal significance of a symbol, a character within a dream, or the dream as a whole or to make meaning of the existential message in the dream and thereby re-own and integrate hidden aspects of self that can then be expressed in waking life.

 

About Mary

MSc (Gestalt Psychotherapy), Dip GPTI, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist and Training Supervisor, Training & Supervising Member GPTI

 

Mary was originally trained as a teacher of english and drama and worked as a lecturer and manager in adult education. She has been working as an independent Gestalt practitioner in Lancaster since 1990 offering therapy to individuals, couples and groups, and providing supervision within organisations and for individual practitioners. Her work as a trainer and group facilitator took her into the NHS, social services and voluntary organisations and included many years training Gestalt psychotherapists as a primary tutor at Metanoia Institute, London and a member of the training faculty at The Edinburgh Gestalt Institute.

 

She is influenced by the relational approach within Gestalt and in particular in working with the way Gestalt supports the moment to moment emergent process by staying with not-knowing and uncertainty leading to the recovery of the presence of being by opening directly to experience. Her current approach is supported by her commitment to Zen Buddhist practice and integrates relational and creative exploration with contemplative methods of inquiry and practice and supports for psychospiritual growth.