Yes, I've been to a handful of his workshops and completed the level one dream teacher's training. I would have liked to have gone to the level two one being held north of Seattle this coming week, but have my son's wedding to attend it a couple of weeks and all that travel and money wasn't doable right now.
He is an amazing man and the dreamers who attend never disappoint. If nothing else, it's a great meet-up of like-minded individuals fully embracing their creativity and weirdness. Robert says weird comes from the word wyrd and means spiritual, so when someone prefaces something they're going to say with, "This is going to sound really weird, but..." prepare yourself for a spiritual account.
I visited an IFS therapist for a number of years and also attended a group for five years, all of us talking "parts," and have found it to be the most helpful form of therapy--especially, when partnered with psycho-drama. There is something so revealing and healing, watching others act out your individual parts in a drama. I have been able to make peace with many shadowy beliefs that create automatic and unconscious behaviors. At the same time, I suppose it's a lifetime of work unraveling all that lies within our psyche's and it seems the more work one does, the more difficult it becomes to willingly and happily submerge ourselves in regular, societal ways of being.
Yes, the dream was powerful. I've been working through a shadow dream book and paying even more attention to my dreams in answer to those shadows. My freewrite post today was very synchronistically related and the photo too. Probably more than I'll write here, but miraculous in what can happen when we truly honor the dreams.
All was happening within my childhood homes' garage. I imagined Robert would have said, "Open the door and walk out." He has such a way of reframing via the lightning dream process in a positive and powerful way.
Anyway, he also has writing/dream workshops that last a week. I've never been, but would probably be very good.
I did run a dream group here in Astoria for a time along with an ecstatic dance class, but go many more takers for the dance class. I think the dream work can be scary for people. This past week I ran into a woman who'd come to one and said she had had such a powerful experience with her dreams and nightmares after that she'd decided not to come back and wondered if I was still holding space, as she was now ready to come back.
Perhaps, this fall when wedding and potential move are more ironed out I'll step back into something similar.
So, here I am writing you a novel ;) Does feel like we have much in common and I definitely admire your writing ability and thought processes!
Kimberly