Creative
Dreamwork: A Bridge To New Patterns Of Symbolic Thought
Victoria Rabinowe is an
artist and educator. Her nationally exhibited art work and her
teaching career span thirty years. Victoria has facilitated over
four hundred workshops, retreats and dream sharing groups in The
Art of the Dream using the original Rabinowe Method. She is a
graduate of the Advanced DreamTending Program at Pacifica Graduate
Institute.
Jill Markus, EdM, MA, is
an artist, art teacher and art therapist with over 20 years of
experience facilitating deep imagery work with groups and with
individual clients. She brings the wisdom of dreams to life by
creating books filled with drawings inspired by dreamwork
workshops in the Rabinowe Method.
Freya Diamond is an artist
with a background in design and painting. For the past ten years
she has incorporated her dreams into three-dimensional book
structures. Recording her daily dreams and participating in over
350 weekly dream group workshops in the Rabinowe Method are the
sustaining and essential practice in her life.
Abstract
By creating new links in patterns
of symbolic thought, the expressive arts can build a strong,
connective bridge between the paradox of the dream and the clarity
of understanding. Each dream is a journey, a rite of passage, yet
most dreams are filled with mysteries which the rational mind can
rarely solve. The Rabinowe Method offers a process of dynamic
translations in which collage and creative writing will reveal
emotional, physical, spiritual or psychic levels of consciousness.
Each participant’s dream will be re-created as a Bridge where
dreamers will be given gentle guided exercises to open up the
imagination. Non-threatening and non-invasive, the Rabinowe Method
promotes full immersion private work in a group setting. Dreams
will be deconstructed and realigned in response to thought
provoking questions that unite the universal, archetypal workshop
theme of a Bridge with the dream of the individual. The project is
playful, intuitive, and experimental. The resulting dream work is
written and illustrated in a language that is at once narrative,
symbolic and mythic. The work is carefully guided to shift the
dreamer’s relationship to frightening or out of control imagery
with gentleness and humor. Sorrow, confusion, grief or
disappointment may be transformed into bittersweet joy.
The study of dreaming arts offers
guidance into the realm of enchantment, the landscape of myth and
the genius of the night mind. Directed, creative arts act as a
bridge to memory and emotion where obstacles can be crossed over,
disconnections can re-connect and solutions to difficulties will
be explored. The use of the common archetypal theme of a Bridge
will provide a center to the group focus. By the end of the
session, all dreamers will share a common bond with a positive
outcome of healing & wholeness.
