Dream Practice
and Regression Therapy
Maria Volchenko, PhD,
(Philosophy, Logic), is a certified member of the International
Board for Regression Therapy. She teaches dreamwork to students of
psychology in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She is author of two
books on dreamwork and a number of papers (more at
www.dream-art.ru).
Abstract
The workshop will introduce an
efficient way of dream incubation. It is based on long-term
experience in teaching dreamwork and practicing regression
therapy. A meditation based on archetypal images connected to
shamanic dreaming traditions will lead to the dream-like state of
consciousness. In this state the participants' memory will be
oriented by questions towards deeper vision of personal life
aspects, and their origin. The process is similar to questions
used in the process of regression (restoring memory). Participants
should be ready to write down their answers to the questions, and
other thoughts, image descriptions, and ideas that will arise in
the process of the workshop. They will be free to share them or
keep them secret. The next meditation will lead to a daydream
state of consciousness close to lucid dreaming. It will help to
see a fragment of a dream story, connected to the information
received at the previous stage. Some ways of integration of this
experience will be offered. The workshop leader and her students
have been using this approach to dream incubation and dream
re-entry for private dream work sessions, dream groups, and dream
therapy for some years. Finally, participants will have an
opportunity to share, and to ask questions concerning the workshop
leader's experience in combining dreamwork and regression methods
for both teaching and therapy.
