**Sliding Scale for Members!** – 2-Day Memorial Weekend Workshop
Understand Your Nighttime Dreams
Want to understand your dreams? Want to connect deeply with others?
Come join the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild for a 2-day dreamplay immersion – and bring a dream to share!
In this workshop, we will cover Alchemical Dreamwork Essentials and explore the dreams you bring, with a focus on creativity, art, and expression. Dreamwork can help you find your voice and your muse!
We will also set the group up for a lucid dreaming experiment to be conducted in the 2 weeks after the retreat, to be reported back at our June Alchemists’ Circle.
Questions? You can set up an information call with Benji by clicking here.
Our Alchemical Dreamwork approach is:
- Trauma-Informed
- Visionary
- Transpersonal
- Multi-layered
- Connection-focused
We seek to deeply honor all dreams that are shared, while also realizing their transformative potential. As one of my teachers, Jeremy Taylor, used to say, “All dreams come in the service of health and wholeness.”
Newcomers welcome!
Location & Logistics:
Indoor high-end rural location between Durham and Hillsborough. Address provided after registration.
We collect payments after 5 people are committed to the event. Please RSVP even if you are a “Maybe.”
You can set up an information call with Benji by clicking here.
Important: Please plan to be available the entire weekend!
Doors Open: 9:30 am
Shared meal (included): 1pm
End time Saturday: 6pm
End time Sunday: Sunday has a break from 3-4:30pm, as we transition to a special closing circle at our usual Sunday location for our relational meditation practices, ending at 8pm.
This playshop completes the retreat requirement for Level 1 Certification with the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild.
How to RSVP & Pay:
Members:
This workshop is sliding scale $100-$150 for current coaching clients and community members holding our Heartfire Monthly Membership.
Please RSVP here on Meetup as early as possible. We will cancel the event if 5 people are not registered 2 weeks prior to the event.
Drop-in:
Sliding scale drop-in payment of $250-$450 is via PayPal. If the Meetup Payment link doesn’t work, you can send payment to: https://paypal.me/benjaminwhitehurst/350
If you’re trying to decide what is a good amount to offer, please consider our costs of renting a venue for 2 full days… and balance that with your income. We commit to making our events as accessible as possible to those who are struggling financially, while also asking those who are doing well financially to help us cover our costs.
Important Note on Membership:
Your monthly memberships help make these events possible. Join here → Membership Registration
Your Membership also includes our monthly Dream Alchemists’ Circle, weekly Esoteric Dream Symbolism Training series, Sunday Evening T-Group, and other groups you can see on our calendar or mailing list, plus discounts on upcoming retreats.
Join our mailing list for invites to upcoming events & special offers on our courses & retreats!
Gift Certificates & Private Sessions:
Interested in a private session to go deeper into one of your dreams? If you or a partner is experiencing nightmares, insomnia, powerful spiritual dreams, or other unusual nighttime experiences, we would love to work 1-on-1 with you! Gift certificates are available. Book your private sessions or order a gift certificate here:
https://dreamcircling.com/private-dream-sessions/
Notes & Disclaimers: This event does not involve psychotherapy, medical treatment, or any other form of advice. Instead, the intent of this training in dream symbolism is educational and spiritual. Please be aware that dreamwork can be emotionally intense for some people–check with your doctor or therapist before participating, and be 100% self-responsible for your own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being throughout the session. In practice, this event involves meditating together, sharing dreams with each other, telling one’s story, and receiving feedback from others. May this event be in service of the well-being of our community. This event is a professional offering organized through the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild, a branch of Navigate Change, LLC.
Your host for this event is dream alchemist Benjamin Whitehurst, M.A., founder of the Durham-based Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild (DreamCircling.Com). Benji leads ongoing dream trainings in Durham, NC.
Benjamin holds a 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 journaling his own dreams since high school, having explored 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!
