Dreaming pathways in psychotherapy. ‘Shamanic Dreamwork’
How to use shamanic dreamwork an aproach to resources of our client’s soul. All humans, in every culture and every country, dream…every night. During dreaming more areas of the brain are active than in our daily awareness. Artists and scientists trust in their dreaming to encourage their power and creativity. For about seven years, Bernhard Schlage has researched the dream abilities of indigenous cultures in northern america and Siberia. He has had lessons in dream practise from European Gypsies and he was astonished to find mystic traditions in Greek phytagorean culture who worked with dreams in total darkness! From this research he created his so called ‘shamanic dreamwork’ wich is more than psychoanalytic dream interpreteation: it uses 8 different ways of working with dreams: for example working with the dream body, lucid dreaming, and connecting with ancient dream teachers. In this workshop he will follow the interests of the participants to show some of his topics. Maybe it will be possible to evoke, for one night, the miracle of the ancient ‘dream temple’ from greek asclepios cult and to find a way to realise the deep, wide and complex structure of our consciousness.
