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The Unfolding Dream - Exploring your personal myth
The Unfolding Dream - Exploring your personal myth
What are your dreams trying to tell you?
What are your dreams trying to tell you?
We all dream. Most of us forget them by breakfast. This session gives you the opportunity to slow down, share a dream, and see what it might be pointing to - with a small group of curious people and a held structure for growth and learning.
Drawing on Jungian depth psychology, somatic practice, and the world's oldest tradition of collective dream work, we'll help you listen - really listen - to what your inner world is saying. No experience needed. Just bring a dream.
Somatic & embodied
Jungian parts work
Creative arts
Depth and Archetypal psychology
Click here to reserve your place for 24th October
What to expect
DURATION: Half day - 4 hours
GROUP SIZE: Small intimate group -12 people max
FORMAT: In person
EXPERIENCE NEEDED: None - just a dream
WHY DREAMS?
Dreams are not noise. They are signals.
Dreams are not noise. They are signals.
Long before psychology had a name, human communities gathered to share their dreams. In Aboriginal Australia, the ancient Egyptians, and countless other traditions, dreaming was understood not as a private mystery but as a collective resource - a thread connecting the individual to something larger.
Jung called dreams "the royal road to the unconscious." Modern neuroscience agrees that dreaming is one of the brain's most sophisticated meaning-making processes. And yet most of us wake up, check our phones, and let that intelligence dissolve with the morning light.
"The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche." — C.G. Jung
This workshop invites you to open that door - gently, curiously, and in good company.
WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT?
Not just talking about dreams. Inhabiting them.
Not just talking about dreams. Inhabiting them.
Most approaches to dream work stay in the head - analysis, interpretation, meaning-making as an intellectual exercise. This workshop goes further. Informed by the latest thinking in somatic therapy, parts work, and trauma-informed practice, we work with the whole person: mind, body, and imagination.
◎ Collective witnessing
The group becomes a mirror - reflecting back associations you couldn't reach alone.
◎ Parts & depth work
Jungian theory and IFS-informed approaches help you meet the figures in your dreams not as symbols to decode but as parts of yourself with something to say.
◎ Somatic embodiment
We'll do practices like sculpt, draw, move, and embody your dream figure - because the body often knows what the mind is still catching up to.
◎ Nervous system aware
Facilitators are trained in trauma-informed practice. This is a slow, spacious, and safe container - never pressured or performative.
THE SHAPE OF THE MORNING
Four hours, one dream, many discoveries.
Four hours, one dream, many discoveries.
Each part of the session builds gently on the last.
Four hours, one dream, many discoveries.
We begin by exploring what dreams are and why they matter - and meeting the part of us that dreams, so we can start to see beyond it.
At the heart of the morning, each person's dream is held by the group - read, explored, and gently unpacked together, moving from its surface details toward what it might mean for you.
After a break, we turn inward. Working with your own dream through movement, embodiment, and the arts, you'll give one dream figure a physical form - then bring it back into the room to meet the group.
We close together - sharing what surfaced, making something collective from it, and naming what you're taking away.
WHO THIS IS FOR?
All you need is your curiosity.
All you need is your curiosity.
This workshop is open to anyone - whether you've been in therapy for years or you've never thought about your inner life in a structured way. All you need is a dream you'd like to explore. We work in a small group, so there's genuine space and attention for each person.
It may be particularly nourishing if you're in a period of transition, if you've been feeling like something is trying to get your attention, or if you simply want a different kind of morning than your usual Saturday.
WHAT PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS SAY
~ A truly transformative experience.
~ ... you will be gently, skilfully and gracefully guided in how to open up to the deeper aspects of yourself and to engage with those aspects with compassion and recognition.
~ A really heartfelt, safe experience where I was guided to explore deeper among a group of beautiful souls.
Your dreams have been patient.
Now its your turn.
Twelve places. One morning. A conversation with a part of yourself you don't often get to hear.
Click here to reserve your place for 24th October
Places fill quickly.
No prior experience needed - just bring a dream.
Rob Black is an explorer of both inner and outer worlds. His inner journey began in earnest in 1997 and dreamwork was woven in soon after that, meaning he has been doing this work for almost 30 years.
Rob has been running regular retreats and workshops for over 10 years. These include shadow and dream work in nature, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy courses, mindfulness in nature retreats, spirituality in Mental Health for the NHS and mental health courses for Mind. He has been a psychotherapist and counsellor since 2011. Many of his clients enjoy, and are challenged by, the dreams that come to work with them.
During his Masters Studies he focused on Jungian perspectives in Expressive Arts Therapy, Ecotherapy, and counselling. Rob also loves traveling, canoeing and walking in Nature, as well as meditation retreats and camping.
Samantha Darley has been co-leading a monthly dream group since 2019, drawing on contemporary Jungian thought, archetypal psychology, and the work of James Hillman.
Her interest in dreams sits within a much wider practice. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy, has trained in Jungian analysis and dream work at the Society of Analytical Psychology and British Psychotherapy Foundation, and has explored social dreaming at Re-Vision. She is an ICF-accredited coach and has completed psychoanalytic group work with the Tavistock and Institute of Group Analysis.
Alongside this, Samantha has spent over 17 years as an Associate Director at Accenture, one of the world's largest management consultancies, leading teams of up to 500 people across more than 25 countries. She founded Accenture's mental health network and has spent her career helping individuals, teams and organisations navigate change. She knows what it means to hold a group — and to help people find their way through complexity.
A Buddhist practitioner for over 20 years, she brings a contemplative depth to everything she does. She is passionate about what happens when people slow down, turn inward, and listen - really listen - to what their inner world is saying.
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