Dreams express our preoccupations and conceptions of the world, ourselves and other people. In our busy lives, we often find it difficult to stop and check in with ourselves. I designed this series of four sessions (one 1-hour session per week for four weeks) to help you learn to work with your own dreams to enhance your understanding of yourself and others. The workshop is a positive, upbeat exploration of dreaming which provides lots of fascinating information and is a practical way to bring insight into a process we all experience every night of our lives. I keep these workshops small (4 people maximum) so that everyone can participate if they want to; I also respect shyness and people who feel more comfortable not talking much! (The workshop may or may not lead into participation in a dream group, which is an 8-session continuing series which meets every other week.) Please email me for the start date of the next workshop: drtonay@veronicatonay.com.

Session one: We introduce ourselves, answer general questions, then delve right in to general principles of dream interpretation, including the "inner versus outer" ways of looking at dreams, how to identify symbols, how to discover your own pattern of dreaming, and how to incubate dreams to solve problems.

Session two: In this session, we explore: everyday and numinous/archetypal dreams and the ways in which interpretation of these kinds of dreams differs; how to tell how your dreams are similar and different from other people's dreams; and how to know if you are overinterpreting your dreams or missing something important.

Sessions three and four: Grounded in the basics, we move on to learn how to identify dream themes, watch them develop, and unlock their meaning as they change over time.

Fees

Four-Session Dream Workshop: $200.00 ($50.00 per week).

Ongoing, 8-session dream group: $50.00 per week.

Credentials

Please see the FAQ on my psychotherapy practice. I was featured as a dream expert on the Discovery Health miniseries, Dream Decoders.

News

I regularly give dream workshops at Rancho La Puerta spa in Tecate, Mexico. Please see their website for more information, or feel free to write to me at drtonay@veronicatonay.com!

For More Information...

For more information and tips on emotional well-being (anxiety, sexuality, depression, relationships, and more), please click here. For tips on dream recall and better sleep, as well as excerpts from my books, please click here. I can be reached by clicking here. Sweet dreams!