Join the Triangle’s Only Professional Dreamwork Training Course, offering the depth of a university education combined with six months of personal exploration of sleep, dreams, and states of consciousness!

In this 6-month live Alchemical Dreamwork Initiation and professional training, you will deepen your experience of dreams and dreaming to levels that may surprise you. This initiation is for complete beginners—even if you have never remembered a dream in your life; and will also convey significant depth to long-term dream practitioners and professionals looking for new ways to work with dreams. You will also build lasting friendships with other local dreamworkers, as part of the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild.

The intensive experiential training includes the following and other topics of particular interest to the group:
• Dream Essentials: The basics of remembering and interpreting your dreams
• Nightmares: How to transform sleep paralysis, nightmares, and repeated dreams
• Spiritual Dreams: How to respect and understand visions and mystical experiences that occur during sleep
• Lucid Dreaming & Out of the Body Experiences: Use dream consciousness as an inroads to powerful healing and mystical experiences
• Visitation Dreams: What does it mean when we dream about our deceased loved ones?
• Dream Re-entry and Re-enactment: Exciting experiential techniques for ascertaining deep meaning in dreams
• And much, much more!

The Alchemical Dreamwork Initiation EarlyBird Package includes:

Ten in-person experiential training sessions
Integrated three-day weekend dreamwork retreat ($995 value!)
Daily dream practice with accountability partners
Six 1-on-1 private dream mentoring sessions, ($900 value!)
Custom-designed training notebook!
Access to all Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild Dream Groups from January through June! (A $534 value!)
Continuity: 3-Month Access to the Online Esoteric Dream Symbolism Training from June through August (A $190 value!)

Each 2.5 hour training session will include an hour discussion of the topic, followed by experiential dreamwork practice. Our experiential practice time will be split between personal and group dreamwork practices. Daily practice sessions include dream journaling, weekly dream experiments, and sharing dreams with a partner.

The size of the group will be a minimum of five participants and capped at 10 participants to ensure rich opportunities for direct practice and sharing. There are multiple ways to practice dreamwork, and we will practice several different formats, ranging from traditional interpretive dream circles, to dream theatre (roleplaying), to interpersonal meditations (authentic relating).

There will also be learning opportunities between sessions in the form of group experiments, personal dreamwork practice, and required readings. Participants may request a certificate of completion upon meeting the course requirements. This Initiation serves as a prerequisite for more advanced courses & facilitator training with the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild.

CEUs & Contact Hours: Depending on your participation in optional dream practice sessions, this course offers 24+ training contact hours (the retreat includes an additional 16 contact hours), with a certificate of completion available upon request.

Level 1 Certification Requirements: To earn your Level 1 Certification through the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild, you will need to complete the following:

a) Full attendance at 6 out of 8 of the Initiation sessions, including the last session
b) Completion of all Alchemical Dreamwork Initiation exercises and readings
c) Full participation in one weekend Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild retreat
d) Full participation in 20 dream group sessions hosted by Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild Facilitators

The Package we are offering below provides ample opportunity to meet these certification requirements.

Note: This training is in experiential dreamwork techniques. Only a small of the Initiation training involves dream interpretation or symbolism training, as we explore dream symbolism weekly in our Esoteric Dream Symbolism training series. The retreat will synthesize these two areas.

Where: Near downtown Durham, NC–please contact Benjamin at (303) 847 5263 for details. The 3 day sleep-at-home retreat will take place within 30 minutes of Durham, NC.

EarlyBird Package Price: $1550 ($1925 after December 1)

We are currently offering a special package price for the 6-month Initiation + Weekend retreat + 3-months Dream Symbolism Training for $1,550 through November 30, 2023. Payable via PayPal, Square, or Personal Check. As an additional early registration incentive, we are including a free monthly 1-on-1 Private Dream Coaching session for the six months of the Initiation to the first five people who register, a $900+ value! (See here for more details of what these coaching sessions will be like). The retreat is currently scheduled for Memorial Day weekend – Friday, May 24 – Sunday, May 26, 2024! This package also includes 3 months (13 sessions) of the weekly Dream Symbolism Training after the close of the Initiation, for an added value of over $250. It’s a great package to help you fully immerse yourself in dreamwork for over six months in 2024!

Please register by 12/15/2023. If 5 people are not registered by this date, the Initiation will be postponed until 2025, to respect everyone’s calendar.

Registration: To register, please mail a check for US$ 1,550 made out to Navigate Change, LLC to:
Navigate Change, LLC
PO Box 21371
Durham, NC 27704

You can register online via credit card using our convenient online scheduling software:

Current HeartFire Members: To thank you for your membership, please take $300 off the special package price, above. Only valid for those who have been HeartFire Members since 10/1/2023 and who register before December 1, 2023. This means: $1250 EarlyBird prior to December 1, or $1925 after December 1.

To receive this discount, please plan to continue your HeartFire Membership during the extent of the Initiation, through June, 2024.

Registration: To register prior to 12/1, please mail a check for US$ 1,250 made out to Navigate Change, LLC to:
Navigate Change, LLC
PO Box 21371
Durham, NC 27704

You can register online via credit card using our convenient online scheduling software:

When: Alternating Wednesday evenings from 6:30-9:00pm, beginning January 24, 2024. The dates are: Jan 24, Feb 7, Feb 21, Mar 06, Mar 20, Apr 03, Apr 17, May 1, May 15, May 29. Retreat: Friday, May 24- Sunday May 26 (Memorial Day Weekend so you have some downtime the day after the retreat!). In the case of snow or venue closures, we may choose to move one of the sessions to Zoom for continuity.

Please contact me at ready@navigatechange.org or via Meetup, if you are considering joining the next Initiation!

Where: Location to be finalized… We are speaking with a beautiful venue in Cary to host us! It starts with you letting us know you’re interested – we plan to our audience!

Lucid Dream Groups Durham with Benjamin Whitehurst

Your host for this training is Benjamin Whitehurst, M.A., Dream Alchemist & Founder of the Durham-based Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild (DreamCircling.Com). Benji leads ongoing dream trainings and retreats in Durham, NC.

Benjamin holds a clinical Masters of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University along with certification in Integral Circling from the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado. Benjamin studied Gestalt Dreamwork with Betty Cannon, Jungian dreamwork with Nancy Ortenberg, dreamwork with Rev. Jeremy Taylor, and has been teaching and leading dreamwork for 9 years.

An experienced guide, Benjamin has been dream journaling since high school, exploring thousands of his own dreams–including lucid dreams, precognitive dreams, out-of-body experiences, and sleep paralysis experiences, over a period of 20 years. Benjamin is also NC/TN Regional Representative for International Association for the Study of Dreams–reach out with any dream questions!

You can set up an information call with Benji by clicking here.