Dream Group to Work on Everyday Dreams
Art
Funkhouser earned his PhD in digital picture processing (Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, 1979) and his diploma as a
Jungian psychotherapist in 1981. Besides seeing clients in his
private practice, he leads a seminar in dreamwork at the C. G.
Jung Institute near Zurich and a dream group in Bern,
Switzerland.
Abstract
A dream group
is an amazingly effective way to work on dreams. It is important,
though, that an atmosphere is created in which each person feels
safe. There is thus no coercion to tell a dream nor to accept what
anyone says about the various dream images that are presented in
the group. All dreams are to remain in the group and are not to be
discussed with persons outside the group during or following the
conference except with the dreamer’s express permission. Each
person has her or his own dream “language” and the group will
learn how to ask questions and listen to what the dreamer says in
such a way that the message of the dream emerges in a natural way.
