You are invited to participate in a psychological intensive workshop dedicated to the theme of dreams and symbolic communication.
Workshop facilitators and group leaders are members of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA):
Alice Brown, Jeffrey Price, Mikhail Bogomaz, William Watson
"A dream is never concerned with trivialities. We do not allow our sleep to be disturbed by trifles. Apparently innocent dreams can turn out, on careful investigation, to be quite the opposite; if a dream makes use of an innocuous idea as a hint, it is only a case of dissimulation."
Zigmund Freud
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What do our dreams truly tell us?
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Why do the images that emerge at night stay with us during the day—and how are they reflected in relationships, teams, and group dynamics?
A symbol helps to contain an emotion—to translate it into a form that can not only be experienced but also explored. Sometimes it speaks for us, before words even come into play. Just as infants express their feelings through cries, sighs, and movements, in a group we share our states through pauses, images, and bodily signals.
Over three days, we will learn to hear this language.
We will explore how the unconscious communicates with us through metaphors and fantasies—and what can happen when these images meet in the space of a group.
Topics of the intensive will include The Collective Unconscious and Shared Dreams in a Cultural Context.
We will discuss research on the world of dreams that unites people within a single culture, analyze which archetypes and symbols unite people during periods of crisis, and examine which recurring images and motifs reflect the collective fears and experiences of an era. Here, dreams will be considered not as individual phenomena, but as reflections of common social processes in large groups.
Program
Friday-Saturday-Sunday
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5 process groups of 90 minutes each
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2 large groups of 90 minutes each
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3 lectures with discussions on articles, theoretical approaches, and practical cases
November 14, Friday
8:00 AM – 2 PM EST Eastern Standard Time UTC-5
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Alice Brown "What Do Dreams Mean". Dreams have been touted as the royal road to the unconscious and dismissed as merely the processing of the day’s residue. There are many schools of dream interpretation including processes to use in a group setting. This workshop will explore several different views on dream work, including the modern group approach, presenting different techniques for approaching dreams. A demonstration group will be utilized to illustrate modern group methods for dream analysis.
November 15, Saturday
8:00 AM – 2 PM EST Eastern Standard Time UTC-5
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William H. Watson "Dreams, Images, Intuition and the Breakthrough of the Unconscious Mind". As we lower barriers to emotional contact with others in group, we also lower barriers to emotional experience within ourselves. In turn, increased attunement to self and other opens the gateway to intuitive emotional experience and the breakthrough of images and sensations which, if we allow it, make available to us new and deeper connections. In group, we seek to create an environment that encourages members to share all forms of their moment-to-moment experiences including images, body sensations, and "irrational" emotions. In doing so, we make room for our creative intuition, and the group's, to inform and guide us as we begin to dream while awake.
November 16, Sunday
8:00 AM – 2 PM EST Eastern Standard Time UTC-5
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Mikhail Bogomaz "Life as a Dream". Affective Realism, a phenomenon where a person's emotional state influences their perception of reality. For psychologists and leaders, understanding affective realism is crucial as it directly impacts how people interpret situations, make decisions, and interact with one another.
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Ekaterina Belokoskova-Mikhaylova "Dreams of Large Groups". Drawing from Charlotte Beradt's "The Third Reich of Dreams," we see that the dreams of individuals can act as a seismograph for the collective unconscious of a large group. Large groups can regress to a primitive mental state, forming a "group mind’. This phenomenon shows that the ideology of a large group penetrates the very fabric of the unconscious... We will also focus on the format of the "Social Dreaming Matrix" by Gordon Lawrence
Articles for Preparation (will be sent to participants before the intensive):
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Phillis W. Meadow “The Royal Road to Preverbal Conflicts”
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Cohen, P.F. (1996) “Symbolic Communication in Modern Group Therapy”
Faculty
Program Director:
Ekaterina Belokoskova-Mikhailova
Ph.D., Group Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst, Director of the Institute of Psychodynamic Coaching, Member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA).
Instructors and Group Leaders:
Alice Brown
А psychologist in private practice in New York City, specializing in group treatment and training in addition to individual and couples work. She is a Licensed Psychologist, Certified Group Psychotherapist and a long time member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Jeff Price
Master of Arts, Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Addictions Counselor, Member and Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). Co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Broomfield, Colorado. Working in the field for over 30 years, he has been leading many psychotherapy groups focused on training therapists, working with alcohol dependence (and other addictions), as well as leading a supervision group for therapists, and several others groups.
William H. Watson
A clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester.
Mikhail Bogomaz
Director of University of North Florida Counseling Center. Licensed Psychologist, Board Certified in Group Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Target Audience
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Group Analysts
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Coaches
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Psychologists
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Psychoanalysts
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Managers and Business Leaders
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Specialists Working with Groups in Various Modalities
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Professionals Seeking a New Career
You Will Be Able To
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Become a leader or moderator of psychological and psychotherapeutic groups and work with business groups.
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Enhance your qualifications and become familiar with the specifics of psychoanalytic group leadership.
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Organize effective participant interaction and manage the group process.
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Assess the effectiveness of applying different approaches to group psychotherapy and group coaching.
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Make the group an instrument for developing awareness and psychological assistance.
Participation fee
Before October 25th – 400 USD
Oct 26 - Nov 5 – 465 USD
Applications will be accepted until November 5
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Registration
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