Saturday October 22, 2016
An Online Class Facilitated by Leslie Ellis
Part of the Focusing Highlights International Series
According to Gendlin, "A dream is alive." Discover what he means by this evocative statement, and how dreams can help you and your clients use dreams to find a life-forward path that may be surprising. Dreams offer creative, and sometimes highly alternative points of view that can move us out of our everyday way of seeing things. They can help us move forward from places of trauma and stagnation, and bring with them a felt sense of awe and wonder.
Join Dr. Leslie Ellis for a brief sojourn into the world of dreaming. In this two-hour presentation, Leslie will cover the basics of focusing-oriented dreamwork (FOD), present her research into treating PTSD nightmares using FOD, provide clinical examples and answer your questions about how to work with dreams in an embodied way. This class is open to all.
Bio:
Leslie Ellis, PhD, is a coordinator with The Focusing Institute. She has a PhD in clinical psychology with a specialty in somatic approaches. She has worked in private practice for almost 20 years using a combination of dreamwork and focusing to help her clients recover from depression, anxiety and the effects of trauma. She is the author of many journal articles and book chapters on focusing and dreams, including a chapter on focusing-oriented dreamwork for the recently-released book, Working with Dreams and Nightmares: 14 Approaches for Psychotherapists and Counsellors. She has a Masters in Counselling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she studied the practice of therapy from a depth-oriented, experiential and Jungian perspective. She has taught focusing, dreamwork and trauma work in her home town of Vancouver and worldwide, and is an adjunct faculty member at Adler University.