Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist Training Program
The Therapist Training Program that is being developed is going to be a 2-3 year program consisting of three semesters a year. The cost of the program is yet to be determined
The curriculum will include Prerequisite Classes before entering the program:
Prerequisite Classes
- The Introductory Classes are for those with a curiosity to learn more about Archetypal Dreamwork and what it might mean to enter into the therapy.
- Choosing a Therapist and entering into the personal journey of being guided to explore the unconscious through one's own dreams.
- Joining the Dreamers Groups that are held in Vermont on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 pm.
- Attending our retreats where in small groups we spend the days and evenings journeying deeply into our experience of our own and each other's dreams.
The classes will be taught in a classroom setting via video conferencing where two experienced teachers from North of Eden will introduce how we approach working with dreams. There will be writing assignments and experiential exercises.
The classes will be limited to six people which allows for an intimate setting to begin a personal exploration of the inner world and relationship with the Archetypes.
Our books will be introduced: The Deep Well Tapes, The Secret of the Pomegranate, and Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio. These are written by Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster and Susan Marie Scavo.
These classes are available through video conferences and conference phone format. They are designed to continue the study of the work in an experiential way as an adjunct to the therapy. People find that it deepens and concentrates their therapeutic process. They are groups of up to 10 people with 2-3 experienced teachers.
Therapist Training Program
For people who come to a place of knowing that they want more, they may be called to become a therapist. At this point the individual would enroll in the Practitioner Training Program. This would involve:
- Continuing the Therapeutic process with your Practitioner on a regular basis.
- Attending Institute Dreamers Groups.
- Attending required classes offered by the Institute to be announced.
- Attending all of Marc Bregman's Supervision Classes. These classes can be viewed on the website.
- Having an experienced mentor/teacher that is assigned to you who will guide the process and create a structure for your learning that is personalized.
- Attending all retreats at North of Eden Retreat Center.
Conferencing will be available for those attending remotely.
Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist Training Class
Working with another person and their dreams is a sacred act requiring of the dreamwork therapist the highest levels of integrity and respect for the dreamer and the process that the dreams create for the dreamer.
The role of the Archetypal Dreamwork therapist is to stand with the dream and the Archetypes, advocating the message of the dream for the dreamer at the same time as standing and honoring the dreamer. To do this, a therapist must be able to stand in his or her own work.
This course is a master course for student Archetypal Dreamwork Therapists. Using role play and lecture, each class explores real moments in client therapy to challenge and deepen our understanding of the incredible intelligence and intentionality of the dream. Challenging us to feel into the places that keep us from facing into the challenges our clients face as well as challenging us to hone our intuition and skills as therapists.
This class is taught by founder and master teacher Marc Bregman with teachers Christa Lancaster, Bill St.Cyr, Susan Marie Scavo, Karla VanVliet and Annie Wattles.
Upcoming classes are:
- June 13
- June 27
- July 11
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The following are videos of past classes. This class is password protected and available only for students of the class.
To View the Class Videos
The Practice of Presence with Self, Other and the Divine II - Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist Training
Susan Marie Scavo, Director of North of Eden Press, Co-Editor of Deluge and Archetypal Therapist/Teacher, Bill St.Cyr, Director of Submit a Dream Program and Annie Wattles, Co-Director of the Center and Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist/Teacher
How do you teach the unteachable? The dream is the baseline of every session with every client. In this course we will work with the material of the dream in a direct and visceral way.
This will be a course for students who are working with clients or who want to be working with clients. We will learn experientially, working with our own work and with the homework process. We will practice staying open, learning to fine tune the process of tracking where we are in ourselves in order to stay open to guidance and inner direction. When we can stay truly present with our core selves in relationship to the Archetypes, we are able to be present for the client.
In the process, we will fine tune what we know about our own edges about our work, our reactivity, our openings. We will explore how to deepen our relationship with our own work, staying present with ourselves as well as within the structure of others in the class.
Credits: 3
For more information or to register:
Annie Wattles
802.229.4786 office
802.272.9009 cell
email: annie@northofeden.com
Audio Library of Previous Classes
For Students in Presence 1 Class, go here to listen to previous classes (please note that the audio of past classes are password protected):
The Basics of Archetypal Dreamwork: Presence III
Taught by Christa Lancaster and Marc Bregman
Prerequisite for Presence III - Presence I and II
How do we prepare for the rigorous challenge of being a student in the practice of Archetypal Dreamwork Therepy – of being present with ourselves, with the Divine and with another working with their dreams? Presence III continues with the practice of discovering how to be present in our own work but takes it to the next level of how does this fit with the requirements of being an Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist.
This course is designed for the advanced student who has the maturity to take correction and grow into a multi-faceted individual who can meet the diverse needs of the client. A prospective candidate for this course needs to demonstrate a capacity to take criticism, accept direction, and understand that the client's needs, rather than their own, take precedence. This really means the student must be willing to change their personal patterns of relating to others and grow beyond their own limitations to meet the client in their darkest pathology and deepest feeling. Meeting these scary moments in the therapeutic process requires absolute commitment, on the part of the student therapist, to face their own fears in order to stay on course with the intention of the dream itself.
The course will cover these essential elements:
1. Getting and keeping turf.
2. Learning and applying dream associations as preparation for the supervision session.
3. Learning the basic tools of the trade.
4. Applying dream information to person centered, client relationship.
5. Understanding dream intentionality and being able to reflect that in interactions with clients.
6. Learning about the discrepancy between dream mandates and the possible conflict within the student in fulfilling them.
7. Find out about your personal struggle as they arise in delivering the mandate of the dream to a client.
8. Beginning with a new client: the critical first three sessions.
Specific tools include the following:
1. Singularity work with client.
2. Rules of proximity and antagenic resistance as well as projected resistance.
3. Discrepancies and seams in dreams.
4. Dream splicing.
5. Differences between Stage One and Stage Two clients and their processes.
6. Differences between the processes of men and women.
Readings will be drawn from The Deep Well Tapes, Volume One.
Archetypal Dreamwork and Gender
Taught by Bill St.Cyr and Susan Marie Scavo
How does the role of Gender affect our working with dreams? How does our own gender affect our work? Why do the Archetypes come in dreams in gendered roles? How is this work different for men and women?
In this class, we will delve into the complex and rich issues of gender and Archetypal Dreamwork. We will cover the following topics, both in conceptual terms and also their relationshiop to each of us around our specific work and our specific gender:
- The Animus and The Anima
- The Boy and The Girl
- Sexuality for Men and Sexuality for Women
- Gender Roles
- Relationship Issues
We will explore these issues through discussion of our own work and through explorations of some of the mythological stories, including Peresphone and Hades, The Garden of Eden, The Prodigal Son, The Hero – Theseus and the Minotaur.
Drawing on the Work and Letting the Work Draw You
Taught by Susan Marie Scavo, Director of North of Eden Press, Co-Editor of Deluge and Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist/Teacher and Karla VanVliet, Co-Editor of Deluge and Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist/Teacher
In this class, we will explore the power of how creativity can draw us deeper into our work, deeper into our feelings and deeper into our connection with the Divine.
We will work with our dreams and our work as the starting process for the creative endeavor – whether it is with a brush in the hand, pastels, crayons or pen.
Each class will offer time and materials to open your work through expression – learning how to step into the process of opening the work through the sensuality of color, image, language.
Note: There is a materials fee for this class
Astrology II - The Application of Astrology to Archetypal Dreamwork
Taught by Christa Lancaster and Marc Bregman
Prerequisite for Astrology II - Astrology I or Summer Review of Astrology I
This course is required for those interested in how astrological tools will help in the therapeutic process.
We will cover:
- How to apply astro meanings to specifc astro symptoms
- Learn how to recognize these symptoms on a chart - Manic depressive disorder, hysteria, sociopathic behavior, paranoid delusional, obssesive compulsive disorder, and other pathological obstacles
- Recognize archetypal and emotional growth opportunies as reflected in dreams and the chart
- Understand how the birth chart is sounding board for dreams in all aspects of human experience, both spiritual and worldly
- Learn how to apply dreams to birth charts
Readings will include:
Hubris of the Heavens
Dane Rudhyar Books