Dr Leslie Ellis
Embodied Experiential Dreamwork:
finding help through direct experience
An international online workshop
delivered direct from British Colombia, Canada over 2 half-days
Thur 27 & Fri 28 MARCH 2025
Introduction
Embodied Experiential Dreamwork is a way of engaging with dreams through direct experience of the dream. Rather than trying to figure out a dream intellectually, this process meets the dream as it presents itself. Practices include re-entering the dream through the subjective experience of its characters and elements, encouraging dreamers to pick up the felt sense of what the dream is offering and carrying that forward.
Workshop Overview
‘EE’ Dreamwork is useful for gleaning the creative intelligence inside dreams, offering an approach in which dreamers are invited to deeply experience the rich tapestry of their dreams. It’s a process that teaches dreamers to listen deeply to both the internal and external world that’s represented by dreaming. In this workshop, Leslie will offer you a comprehensive introduction to this approach to dreamwork and to nightmare treatment. Over the 2 days, she will offer you a rare opportunity to gain both a theoretical understanding of the approach and a rich personal experience of it, both as a dreamer and a companion listener.
What Leslie will offer you:
Day 1
- An overview of Embodied Experiential Dreamwork
- Discussion on the notion of finding help in a dream and how this impacts the process of dreamwork and nightmare treatment
- Clinical examples, a demonstration and facilitation of work in pairs
- A question and answer session
Day 2
- Presentations on:
- being a dream element: the history, methods, pros and cons
- active imagination, nightmare re-scripting
- the evidence-based how and why treatment of nightmares and clinical considerations
- A demonstration, closing discussion and resources for further learning
What you can expect to walk away with:
- A fuller, experiential understanding of the power of dreams to open up new ways of seeing and to catalyse change
- The most-often recommended steps for the treatment of disturbing dreams and nightmares
- A simple, yet profound, set of practices for working with dreams that can be integrated into any way of working
Who Should Attend
Practitioners who have a desire to deepen their own dreamwork and to help others to do so
The Details
Dates: Thur 27 & Fri 28 MARCH 2025
Time: Please join at 9.15 am to iron out any technical issues
Workshop: 9.30am to 12.30pm AEDT ( break times will be accommodated)
Location: online via zoom (registrants will receive an invitation to participate and all the details they require in advance of the date)
Cost: $320 (flat rate in AUD)
CPD Hours: 6
Dr. Leslie Ellis is a leading expert in the use of experiential and somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and offers online training in embodied, experiential dreamwork and nightmare treatment. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a somatic specialization, and a Masters in counselling psychology with a focus on depth/Jungian approaches. She worked as a therapist in private practice in Vancouver, BC for more than 25 years. She is a former adjunct faculty member at Adler University, and past president of The International Focusing Institute, where she is currently a Certifying Coordinator. Dr. Ellis has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on the use of focusing and dreamwork in psychotherapy. Recent journal articles include reviews on nightmares and the nervous system, and on the alarming nightmare-suicide link. She has presented her work worldwide at conferences, in the media, as a guest on many podcasts, and through her own teaching and writing. Her web site is at drleslieellis.com
