dream work & tarot

Exploring symbol, oracle and archetype

Facilitators:

Martha Crawford‍

& shea in the catskills

Arcanum must be actively present in our unconscious

- or even in our subconscious

in order to render us capable of making discoveries, engendering new ideas, conceiving of new artistic subjects

Meditations on the Tarot

What do dream work and tarot have in common? Are they discreet or complimentary practices?

How might spontaneously produced symbols that emerge in night dreams relate to the synchronicity of pulling arcanum from an oracle deck?

Both offer the opportunity for contemplative and creative practice

But they are community and collective processes too.

Dreams may focus on an individual conflict or desire, but they may also be about the land we sleep on and our wider social and political environment.

What if we are part of the action of a card, but the action isn't necessarily happening to us? What changes when we depersonalize the message of an arcana and see it as a larger cultural messenger?

Random, non-linear, and other-than-rational processes are how the oracle—the tarot, dreams, the world—speaks to us. Imagining into a meaning-full relationship with the world is a human endowment.

We will gather to consider the archetypes we are negotiating in the waking dream of everyday life

CO-FACILITATOR

shea in the catskills is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator + contemplative.

Their work centers on unlearning the ways that compulsory education in the global north has conditioned us to be obedient + compliant workers + consumers.

From 2010-2019, they lived in full-time residential training at a zen buddhist monastery, where they did a lot of meditation + liturgical training and experienced the joys + challenges of communal religious living.

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To learn more about Martha Crawford’s work, who is co-facilitating with shea- click here

  • This workshop is six sessions,

    each session is 75 minutes long, via Zoom

    LATE AUTUMN

    Tuesday Afternoons

    November 3, 17
    December 1, 15, 29
    January 12

    4:00 Pacific, 5:00 Mountain, 6:00 Central, 7:00 Eastern

    (dates/times subject to change)

  • This is a discussion based group - organized around themes that emerge from a card pull and/or shared dream.

    At the end of the six session we will consider options to continue if there is sufficient interest.

    • This is not a psychotherapy group and this group and does not take the place of proper psychotherapeutic, medical or psychiatric care. Nothing discussed in this group should be considered clinical guidance.

    • Those struggling with active or passive suicidal thoughts or gestures, or severely disruptive traumatic symptoms should not enroll in this workshop without active support from treatment providers.

    • Also: this workshop does explore various spiritual, religious perspectives on vocation from an agnostic and respectful perspective–if such discussion is offensive or annoying to you, this workshop may not be a good fit.

    This group actively welcomes members of different professions, races/ethnicities, gender identities and socioeconomic realities, spiritual/religious beliefs and practices.  The expectation is that we come together to try to hold each other’s diverse experiences with mutual respect.

    I facilitate my workshops according to a modified model of community group processing derived from Quaker practice that emphasizes the freedom of each participant to regulate their own participation according to their needs.

    We do not require cameras on at all times and we try not to pressure quieter members to share although it is certainly nice to see faces and hear from everyone, and we will occasionally check in on people who are more reserved to see if they have anything they want to share.

    We do not gather to persuade, correct or change other’s points of view, but to listen and understand how differing perspectives may exist together.

    Participants are welcome to take breaks as they need, no one is pressured to participate in the contemplative exercises that are offered, and may choose to sit in silence or use that time for personal reflection if they so chose.

    We expect workshop members to be able to rely on their personal and professional supports to process feelings and ideas that emerge after or in between sessions - although we will touch base at the beginning of each group about anything that emerged for anyone in the “in between” that they choose to share.

    • $528 is the suggested but flexible donation for those who are financially comfortable (6 sessions/7.5 hours of programing approx $70 an hour)

    • for those who are financially comfortable

    • If you are experiencing financial hardship you are welcome to attend for half or a quarter or an eighth of the suggested donation or whatever is affordable based on your financial circumstances.

    • I expect to offer up to four free/pro bono seats in my workshops depending on group size/enrollment

    • Please visit the donation page to see why this decision is entirely up to you.

    • If you are in a position to do so, please consider making a donation to provide scholarship funds to community members who have interest but do not have resources. For example: a $100 donation subsidizes one full scholarship seat in the group, and $25 covers a quarter of the cost of a full scholarship

    • These are not clinical services, and insurance will not reimburse for any part of this content

This group actively welcomes members of different professions, races/ethnicities, gender identities, socioeconomic realities, spiritual/religious beliefs and practices. 

The expectation is that we come together to try to hold each other’s diverse experiences with mutual respect.

After we receive the registration questionnaire below, you will receive email confirmation that a space has been reserved for you with links and details

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