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We coach and mentor people on dream coaching, Dreamwork,
lucid dreaming and on how to apply these skills in coaching and therapy.
Dreamwork together (ho'omoe in Hawaiian) is an integral
part of our systemic coaching.
In Your Dreams
We help people understand and change themselves, their
emotions, their relationships and their lives! One way that we coach people is
in their dreams - our Dreamwork extends our
systemic coaching. We use it mostly to help people sort out complex issues for
which people do not have the conscious resources - e.g. challenging goals,
difficult emotions, limiting beliefs and demanding relationships.
We help people test and verify their dreams with
their own experiences. Thus, our exploration of dreams, whether daydreams,
repetitive dreams or
nightmares, takes the form of a structured interactive dialogue that can
explore beliefs, emotions and relationships.
We have helped hundreds of people explore
both sleeping and waking dreams. We consistently find that people are only
partly aware in their waking life. If we explore your dreams, we explore all areas
of your life. Through our Dreamwork, we can help you learn to anticipate problems,
become more fully
aware, and deal with parts of life that you tend to overlook or
ignore.
Dream Team
It can be fascinating to notice themes that are
many dreams share. There are often significant links between dreams, and more recent
dreams may modify earlier dreams. Dreamers can learn to be aware that their
dreams may present their history during a dream. Some dreams seem to offer
or integrate key events from the past and present them in dreams.
Some dreams present material that the dreamer has
overlooked or ignored. Dreamers can use their dreams to be more alert to their
lives. Dreams often offer a deep wisdom for waking life.
We help people explore their beliefs,
emotions and habits in their dreams - where they can be changed. Limiting
beliefs, unpleasant emotions and unwanted habits cannot be easily changed
by willpower alone. They are often taboo. But they are also the basis of
decisions about reality and life direction.
Deep beliefs are often the root cause of problems
that cannot be discussed - rather they continue as family taboos. Such deep
beliefs were often gained by people approaching
a success that threatened or challenged the beliefs of accepted authorities.
Many strange beliefs are accepted as truths because they are communicated by parents,
teachers, doctors or other established authorities.
Rejecting beliefs from important people is close to rejecting
those people, with a risk of being rejected ourselves.
Thus, while these beliefs shape ourselves and our reality, we cannot reconcile
them with our ideals, which may trigger dissatisfaction and failure. If our
potential achievements may contradict these
accepted beliefs, then we may block or sabotage our success and chances of
happiness.
Our Dreamwork explores these blocks in ways that
show their dynamics and structure. We help people unlock those blocks to
open the doors to achievement and more satisfying lives.
Are You the Dreamer? ... Or the Dreamed?
My interest in dreams and Dreamwork began in Hawaii in the
1980's, with two friends who were also studying huna with native Hawaiian
healers. Together we researched Moe 'Uhane and Ho'omoe - dreams and dreaming
together
of pre-contact Hawaii ... and we explored some strange realities.
Dreaming may be older than human consciousness. When I
watch sleeping babies and sleeping animals move their limbs and body, while
making unusual sounds, I assume that they are dreaming. Dreams seem to
assimilate or integrate events, and perhaps evaluate future possibilities.
Since ancient times people have searched for the meaning of
dreams. Dreams seem to be one way that people connect their emotional reality
to the physical world. Psychologists say that an awake human mind is limited
to holding about seven things in consciousness. It seems that a sleeping
human mind (unconscious, subconscious or body-mind) can simultaneously manage
thousands of things ... for example, the details of dreams.
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In ancient Egyptian healing,
one relief for mental problems was to sleep in a temple. The island of Philae
(near Aswan) was said to be a center of temple sleep. Dreams would be
influenced by the temple atmosphere and the expectations of supernatural powers;
and were interpreted by priests.
Temple at Philae (Photo: Przemyslaw Idzkiewicz) |
Many books are available about interpreting the content
of dreams, which are often written as if every reader uses the same symbols
as the author, regardless of their history, family and cultural background.
I am wary of the claims of dream analysts ... whose dreams are they analyzing?
Daydreams, Meditations & Visualizations
Can you imagine yourself on a beach in Hawaii?
Or shopping in Paris with a platinum credit card? If you feel out of sync with
the world, you can create some retreats. Can you
picture and feel yourself in places you'd like to go to, or doing things you
might like to try? Driving a new Mercedes convertible? Parachuting? Climbing
Mount Everest? Sailing in the South pacific ... with somebody special?
Athletes often power-dream before competitions. They imagine
themselves winning a race, or skiing a challenging hill or moving through their gymnastic
movements. They see themselves doing each move perfectly ... (and if they are
smart they also see themselves gaining awards or recognition).
If you remember the touch and feel of a lemon ... cool, heavy
and a bit greasy ... and how your fingers feels when you peel it ... and now
imagine biting it. Probably you mouth fills with saliva. Your body glands are
responding to your imagination ... your dream ... not to external reality.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Hawaiian Dreamtime: Moe Uhane
In old Hawaiian shamanism, unusual or recurring
dreams were considered significant, and worthy of exploration. To better recover
the details of a dream, and to find the meanings, an expert (kahuna)
might join people within their dreams. Hawaiian Dreamwork is called
moe'uhane - dreams of the spirit or lucid dreaming - and is a
potent key to open the door of
Hawaiian Spirituality.
I have been exploring moe uhane and developing Dreamwork
since 1988, and I developed some very useful methods for exploring and changing dreams in coaching,
psychotherapy and personal development. The feedback and responses are
persistently positive and often phenomenally so.
Many anxiety attacks or depressions
are like waking nightmares, and the methods I developed for changing dreams are
often valid. Hawaiian shamanism
and ho'omoe
includes awaiku - angelic
assistance.
We help many people resolve unpleasant dreams and recurring
nightmares during our Dreamwork.
(I integrated dream coaching into our systemic coach training ...
we teach it on our Systems 3 training.)
Dreamscapes & Nightmares
If you have nightmares
connected to ongoing relationship violence - please
seek advice from appropriate professionals about how you can resolve
the violence.
We often help people dissolve nightmares, which often reflect
relationship and emotional issues. We may offer to dream with you.
We may gently enter your dreamscape with you, and together we can explore and understand
the often-confusing and sometimes scary imagery. In this way, we offer possibilities
for helping you integrate your
conflicts, clarify your relationships or assimilate trauma.
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I had terrible dreams about a demon - I was avoiding sleep and becoming
ill.
Since your dream coaching
... I can enjoy sleeping again. Zagreb, Croatia |
Dreamwork is particularly useful when we help people change
limiting beliefs, unpleasant emotions or dysfunctional relationships. Our dream
coaching also helps people find lasting solutions for unpleasant or disturbing
dreams and recurring nightmares. If your nightmares are due to anxiety about some
crisis or traumatic event, we can ask your unconscious mind what solutions you want!
Our Dreamwork Coaching: Dreaming Together
Entering dream reality is like entering Pandora's Box. Neither
of us know what to expect. First, forget any books of
interpretations of dream symbols, at least for now ... we usually find that events and
symbols in your dreams have many messages, not only one. Also, many scary dreams
are those of inner children - split off parts
of you that got stuck in some crisis or trauma and never grew up.
Dreamwork is no place for arrogance! We can have such interesting dreams, filled with
layers of rich symbolic meanings and emotional significance, often reflecting
our relationships, goals and emotions. Then, in dreamtime, we can
dream dreams that can change reality.
Are you curious about some unusual, repeating or well remembered dreams?
If you have unpleasant or recurring dreams of monsters or misery -
why not contact us?
Caution: exploring the nightmares
of disturbed people can be
traumatic for unskilled or inexperienced helping professionals.
We also coach and mentor therapists in our Dreamwork.
We can help you change unpleasant or recurring dreams.
Online Dreamwork Coaching and Mentorship
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