I offer an experiential, relational approach to dreamwork that honors each participant as the primary authority on their own dreams. There is no “right” way to dream here, and no prior experience is needed. Whether you remember your dreams often or rarely, everyone is welcome and everyone dreams.
I aim to create a safe space that is playful, deep, and deeply supportive. We will work with both night dreams and conscious dream states, approaching dreaming as a living, communal practice that is healing and fun.
We begin by arriving together and setting sacred and cozy space. We will provide (but you are also welcome to bring) yoga mats, blankets, bolsters, eye pillows. You may want to bring a journal for note-taking or sketching.
We open the circle with an invocation and a gentle drum journey to help us ground, arrive, and shift out of the pace of daily life. This initial journey supports relaxation, presence, and openness, creating a shared field for the work that follows.
Drums have been used in nearly every culture and across every continent throughout human history as a way of marking rhythm, gathering community, and entering altered states of awareness. Rather than belonging to any single tradition, drumming is part of our shared human inheritance. They are one of humanity’s original technologies for shifting brainwave states into those conducive to dreaming, active imagination, and inner journeying.
In this space, we approach drumming with respect and humility, not as reenactment of a specific lineage, but as a universal doorway into imagination, dreaming, and inner listening.
In my dream circles, drumming supports both conscious dream journeying and dream re-entry. These journeys help us listen inwardly and attune to images, sensations, memories, and insights that arise beyond the rational mind.
To "journey" in this context means to travel beyond this space and time with your conscious awareness utilizing your imagination as the vehicle for your intuition. This can feel a little like daydreaming with direction. Sometimes we "see" ourselves back in the dream the way you can conjure an image of a special place in nature or your childhood home. But seeing is not the only way we can access these spaces. Some of us may feel, hear, or sense our way there. If you do not visualize easily, do not worry. It is not necessary to "see" in order to gather useful information.
It is good to consider this a practice. We come together in community to empower one another to explore. Curiosity is key. There is no right or wrong way to dream.
Our approach blends Robert Moss’s Lightning Dreamwork method with a communal style we affectionately call the Dream Potluck.
Each person is invited to bring a dream (old or recent) or a “dream of their life”, to the circle. Because waking life is also part of the dreaming, you may also bring a real-life situation, question, or experience and work with it as if it were a dream. This allows insight, guidance, and support to emerge from the collective field.
After the initial journey, those who feel called may briefly share:
The main points of their dream or situation
What they are curious about or want to explore
A title for the dream
A short description of the place or moment they’d like the group to re-enter
Not everyone needs to share, and there is no pressure to do so.
Once dreams have been offered, we enter a second shared drum journey usually 5–7 minutes long, where participants may re-enter one dream, several dreams, every dream or simply follow where their own inner experience leads. You may find yourself stepping into your own dream, someone else’s, or something entirely unexpected.
One of our favorite aspects of the dream potluck is witnessing how dreams speak to and inform one another. As each person offers a dream, unexpected connections and synchronicities emerge, like a potluck meal where each dish arrives distinct, yet together forms something nourishing and complete.
When we return, we take a few minutes to jot down notes or images that arose. We then take turns sharing what we received.
To maintain a safe and respectful container:
We do not interpret one another’s dreams
We do not offer advice or symbolic analysis
We avoid consulting generic dream symbols or fixed meanings
Instead, when sharing, we speak as if the dream were our own, using language like:
“In my dream of your dream…”
This keeps the focus on lived experience rather than explanation, allowing each dreamer to discern what resonates for them. We trust that direct revelation is more meaningful than interpretation, and that each individual is the wisest authority of their own dream.
We are also mindful of time. In larger groups, we may not hear or re-enter every dream — and that’s okay. Every dream shared becomes part of the collective field, and participants often find that the dreams they hear are exactly the ones they need.
We close each circle with a final takeaway with a brief reflection and sometimes with optional “dream homework” or home-play as we like to say. This could be a theme or question to collectively dream into between gatherings.
No dreamwork experience is necessary- all mature adults are welcome
You do not have to be "psychic" to participate (although we believe everyone is intuitive)
You don’t need to remember your dreams to participate
Sharing is always optional
This is a communal, exploratory practice not therapy or analysis
Above all, this work is about listening... to dreams, to one another, and to the deeper currents of imagination and meaning that move through our lives!