INSPIRATIONAL DREAM SHARING GROUP

Understanding feelings is an essential part of mental well-being. Dream Sharing is a method whereby one has the opportunity to gain insight and understanding about our feelings. "Know thyself" is the most direct and most helpful route to mastering the many random and chaotic events that assail us daily. Dream Sharing is one tool that we can employ to help us understand ourselves, and therefore, to deal more effectively with life.

Paths, colors, symbols, numbers, animals, creativity, money, anxiety, sex; all are common to dreams. Understanding and meaning of these and countless others are essential to interpreting our feelings toward ourselves, our roles, our relationships, and who we are and what we will become. Explore the landscape of the unconscious. Learn to gather strength by more fully understanding what your dreams are really telling you!

Dream Sharing is one way to access your own creativity and apply meaning to your dreams. The certified group psychotherapist is present to guide the group in sharing of dreams, dream fragments, metaphors and daydreams. The group psychotherapist will not be interpreting the dreams; each individual will attach their own meaning to the dreams and experiences.

The Dream Sharing Group will be structured in the following way to provide safety, predictability and connectedness:

1. A participant will be invited to share their dream.
2. Group participants will ask questions to develop as clear an image as possible of the dream.
3. Once the participants have a clear image of the dream, the facilitator will ask the person who shared their dream (the dreamer), if they are ready to give their dream to the group.
4. The dreamer sharing their dream, will then sit back and listen to the group's reaction to their dream.
5. The facilitator will encourage a go-around. Participants will then describe their reactions, meanings and interpretations to the dream as if it were there own dream.
6. The facilitator will discourage participants from interpreting the dream for each other, but will emphasize, "If this were your dream, what would it mean?"
7. At the end of the discussion, the facilitator will ask the group if they are ready to give the dream back to the dreamer and if the dreamer ready to accept the dream.
8. The dreamer will then take the ideas from the group and share their personal insights and meanings to their dream.
9. As many dreams as time allows will be shared. Sometimes this is several dreams and other times it is only one to two dreams.

As with all of the groups, confidentiality is of utmost importance. What is said in group stays in the group.

Relax, share and get the most out of your Dream Sharing Group.

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