Benefits of Dream Work

Benefits of Dream Work for Individuals, Businesses and Communities

Dreams herald change in our lives.  They reflect strong emotions and concerns, emerging problems as well as creative solutions for our well being.  By becoming aware of your dreams and working with the information they provide, you increase your ability to recognize unhealthy patterns in yourself and in organizations, and create powerful alternatives. (see How Our Dreaming Mind Speaks to Us) 

Individuals:

The birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a new marriage, the loss of divorce, career shifts, changes in our emotional and physical health, mid-life course corrections, developing new talents, retirement, all of these human experiences occur because of change within us and our relationships, or force change upon us.  Our reactions to changes make all the difference in whether we empower ourselves to create the life we want, or feel victimized and battered.  Dream work is a life-long skill that can dramatically change the way you view yourself in relation to the world, and transform the choices you make.  

Businesses:

Businesses, like people, must change and evolve, not only to simply meet the demands of the market place, but also to discover and develop creative new products and solutions.  Dream work is a simple yet powerful tool, to access the collective creative capacity of your product teams, solve problems and uncover unconscious concerns or beliefs that may be blocking your company’s success. 

Communities:

Social and community organizations, councils, communal-living groups, churches, families and other co-operative associations working toward a common goal, can use dream work as a tool for visioning and problem solving.  Tribal societies have long revered the dreams of their members, as vital to their collective well being and used them to inform their group decisions.  Dream work within a close community, can be a powerful tool to tap the shared wisdom of the group.

     

  

The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dreamt the words for the beautiful poem Kubla Khan.

 

Chemist Friedrich Kekule, falling asleep dreamt how the benzene ring was formed.

 

Physicist Neils Bohr, was lead by images in his dreams, to discover the structure of the atom.

 

Jack Nicklaus reported that he improved his golf swing after dreaming of a new way of holding his club.

 

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, wrote that he got many of his best stories from his dreams.

 

 

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