Deepening Dream Work: Types of Dreams & Cultivating Dreaming (How to Remember Dreams)
New Zealand · CPD points & talks · Psychologists
New Zealand psychologists, elevate your practice with this focused CPD on dream work. This session unpacks different dream categories and their structural characteristics, empowering you to better interpret symbolic density and emotional tones for more insightful therapeutic sessions.
The primary objective of this talk is to enrich professionals' comprehension and recognition of the diverse types of dreams. By honing their ability to discern between different dream categories, professionals can enhance their capacity for insight, empathy, and therapeutic intervention.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
- Identify and classify different types of dreams, including compensatory, transference, mundane, archetypal, anxiety dreams, and nightmares, within clinical and theoretical contexts.
- Describe and compare the structural characteristics of various dream types, including narrative flow, symbolic density, and emotional tone.
- Analyse how dream structure varies according to dream type and psychological function.
- Apply practical strategies to enhance dream recall in themselves or clients, in support of therapeutic dream work.
- Evaluate the relevance and clinical usefulness of recalled dream material for therapeutic exploration.
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