CSP 741 - 1 unit
Instructor: Jeremy Taylor
Phone: 415.454.2793
Email: [email protected]
Class Schedule:
Spring 2003, Wednesdays, 6-8:30pm
Course Description:
After a brief review of the basic guidelines for working with dreams in groups, this course will move on to explore more advanced theories and techniques for exploring and identifying the salient features of unconscious life through a focus on the dream. This will provide a basis for extensive self-exploration and increased conscious self-awareness.
Course Objectives:
To cultivate leadership skills in group dream work; to further explore archetypal theory underlying the work; to explore intermediate and advanced individual and group expressive techniques for discovering deeper layers of meanings in dreams. In addition to the personal context, dreams and symbols are explored in an historical, cultural and political context.
Course Requirements:
1. Attendance - 65%
2. Weekly Reading, as evidence by discussion in class - 25%
3. Final Projects – 10%
Remaining current with dream recording; active, intelligent, open, helpful participation in group process; nature and quality of questions asked and answered; quality of attention to, concern and support for other seminar participants; ability to help others recognize the potential symbolic significance of shared dream material, and to relate these insights to established theories of unconscious dynamics.
Recommended Readings:
Taylor, Jeremy: The Living Labyrinth, New Jersey:Paulist Press, 1998
Taylor, Jeremy, Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill, New York, Warner, 1992
Taylor, Jeremy: Dream Work, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1983
Handout: The Basic Dream Work Tool Kit
Outline: Calendar of themes: (subject to the instructor's changes)
Themes will follow a natural intellectual progression and evolve out of class discussion. The following will be covered:
Review of basic guidelines for group dream work
Historical perspective on dream exploration
Scientific developments in the field of dream work and dream recall
Group dreamwork in class
Exploration of Jungian archetypes and the universal language of dreams and symbols
Exploration of types of dreams (nightmares, recurrent, etc)
Dreams and creation spirituality
Dreams and the body and health – the responsibilities of a facilitator
Dreams and therapy – how to understand when therapy is needed
Learning to facilitate difficult groups
Facilitating groups in environments such as hospitals, prisons, with the dying, the aged, with children and teens, with your spouse, etc.
Useful References:
Bulkeley, Kelly, (1997) An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming. Praeger
Bulkeley, Kelly (1995) Spiritual Dreaming: A Cross Cultural and Historical Journey. Paulist Press
Beaudet, Denise (1990) Encountering the Monster: Pathways in Children's Dreams, Crossroad Pub. Co.
Berne and Savory, Louis, (1991) Dream Symbol Work - Unlocking the Energy from Dreams and Spiritual Experiences. Paulist Press
Cunningham, Scott, (1992) Sacred Sleep - Dreams and the Divine. Crossing Press
Eliot, Alexander (1990), Universal Myths. New American/Meridien
Foulkes, D (1982) Children’s Dreams, Wiley-Interscience
Garfield, Patricia (1984) Your Child’s Dreams
___________ (1988), Women’s Bodies, Women’s Dreams . Ballantine, NY
Hopke, Robert, (1990) Men’s Dreams, Men’s Healing, Robert Hopke. Shambala, Boston & London
Jung, C.G., & von Franz, M.L. (editor) (1964) Man and His Symbols. (continues to be in print)
Siegel, Alan and Kelly Bulkeley (1998) Dreamcatching: Every Parent's Guide to Exploring and Understanding Children's Dreams and Nightmares, Random House:Three Rivers Press
Signell, Karen (1990), Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Women’s Dreams. Bantam Books, NY
Storr, Anthony (editor) (1983), The Essential Jung. Princeton Press
Wiseman, Anne Sayre (1989), Nightmare Help, Ten Speed Press