Online Dreamwork and IFS Workshop for Thoughtful Professionals

You’ll be a great fit if you are:

• Perceptive, thoughtful, and care about the world around you

• Professionally established and ready to invest seriously in your personal growth and overall wellbeing

• Interested in the creative arts, depth psychology, and/or contemplative traditions  

• Wanting to work experientially, not just intellectually, with your body and dreams  

• Willing to bring honest curiosity to your inner world, even if parts of you feel unsure

This experience will not be a good fit if you are looking for:

• General self-help, quick tips, or entertainment  

• Therapy or crisis support  

• A purely cognitive, solution-focused style of work without embodied practice  

• A large event where you can stay fully disengaged 

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a way of understanding the psyche as made up of “parts”. These parts can be distinct thoughts or feelings that each have their own perspective and role. Instead of trying to get rid of these parts, IFS invites you to meet them with curiosity and compassion, so that they can relax and take on less extreme roles. In this workshop, we’ll draw on IFS practices to help you notice and start to understand your parts, within a coaching and educational container rather than a full IFS therapy process.

“Somatic” simply means “of the body.” In this weekend, somatic coaching refers to practices that pay attention to how your experiences show up physically,  in breath, posture, tension, and sensation, and not just in your thoughts. Rather than analyzing everything in a purely cognitive manner, we’ll invite you to notice and gently experiment with how your body is holding stress, overwhelm, and meaning, so that you can access more groundedness and choice in real time.

Dreamwork, as practiced in this workshop, is a way of entering and staying with dream images — not translating them from the outside, but allowing them to speak through curiosity, imagination, and the body itself. You do not need to be an active dreamer or to remember your dreams regularly. We will work with whatever emerges — images, sensations, memories, or the dreams you do have. If you recall one or two recent dream images, bringing them can be helpful, but it is not a requirement for meaningful participation.

Nervous system literacy is the skill of recognizing how your nervous system is responding in the moment — whether you’re edging toward fight‑or‑flight, feeling collapsed or shut down, or actually in a more regulated, present state. Instead of just labeling yourself as “stressed” or “fine,” you learn to notice specific cues in your body and behavior, and to work with them more intentionally. In this weekend, we’ll introduce simple ways of tracking your own patterns and practicing small adjustments, so you can catch dysregulation earlier and support yourself more effectively in daily life.

Yes. No prior experience with Internal Family Systems (IFS) or somatic practice is required. Both will be introduced in an accessible, experiential way, so you don’t need to arrive with any prior knowledge. What matters more than background is a willingness to engage with your inner world with curiosity rather than expertise. If you are thoughtful, open, and ready to work at a slower and deeper pace than most professional development or wellness experiences offer, you will find this weekend accessible and worthwhile.

Yes — and you are exactly who this workshop was designed for. Both facilitators work with people who carry the particular complexity of straddling worlds: those who have lived across cultures, languages, or contexts, and who have found that no single place or community fully holds all of who they are. Dreamwork, IFS, and somatic practice offer a way of listening to what that experience has left in the body and the imagination — not to resolve it, but to understand it more deeply and live with greater groundedness and meaning.

Many accomplished individuals facing ongoing stress find that tending to their dreams changes their relationship to fear, worry, and overwhelm. As cultural mythologist Michael Meade writes, “anxiety is the name for the distance between the ego and the deep Self.” In that sense, anxiety sometimes signals that something unconscious is asking to be acknowledged. Dreamwork offers one way of approaching that distance: by giving form to the images, stories, and bodily experiences that arise from the deeper self, and allowing you to be in conversation with them. In this weekend, our focus is on everyday forms of stress, overextension, and restlessness that many thoughtful professionals carry, rather than on acute or diagnosable anxiety disorders or crisis situations, which are best supported in a therapeutic context. Within that scope, the practices taught in this workshop can help you feel more connected with a deeper sense of direction and meaning.

After you apply, Darlena and Rani will review your application. If we have follow-up questions, one of us will reach out to schedule a consult call with you. This call is to ensure alignment for the experience and to answer any other questions you may have. (Alternatively, if you wish to have a consult call with us, you are welcome to schedule one!)

After that, you’ll receive everything you need to prepare for the weekend, including the link for our sessions and next steps for completing registration.

To get the most out of the weekend, we recommend:

• Bringing a journal or notebook and a pen  

• Wearing comfortable clothing for gentle movement and somatic practice  

• If you recall your dreams: noting 1–3 recent dreams beforehand  

• If you don’t recall dreams: simply bringing openness to working with images, sensations, and whatever emerges in the space 

No prior background in psychology, mythology, or somatics is required, just your existing curiosity and care.

We accept payment by credit or debit card only.

We understand that plans sometimes change. Because of the preparation involved for each participant, including application review, consult calls, and tailored exercises, we are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made after June 27th, 2026.