Online Dream Workshop

What to Expect

There is no prior experience necessary to join. This group will help you gain a deeper understanding of your dreams while enhancing your self-awareness. In addition to working on dreams (every member will have an opportunity to bring forth their dream), we will also engage in brief meditations and discussions of dream related themes. There is no prior experience necessary to join. This group will help you gain a deeper understanding of your dreams, connecting how unconscious imagery  enhances your self-awareness and opens self exploration from new perspectives. In addition to working on dreams (every member will have an opportunity to bring forth their dream), we will also engage in brief meditations and discussions of dream related themes. Participants who have already completed the group are invited to join an ongoing dream circle on a separate day, more information below.*

A Bit of History

Literal invites you to bring your dreams and engage with them as the purest form of psyche’s expression. The most formal methods of dream analysis began in the medical field back in the 1900’s with Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and father of psychoanalysis. However, the work of dreams has developed since from multiple disciplines. In this dream circle, we will base our theory from Jungian narratives which not only view dreams as a direct channel to the unconscious, but also connect them to our personal symbology. Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, would argue that all of psyche’s symbols are branches of collective archetypes, blueprints that Jung designated as the primordial psychological instincts. Within this framework, dreams go far beyond being random movies that play in our brains at night; rather, they speak to us of an emotional reality that coexists with conscious living. Some would even claim that the inner world dreams point us to feels far more real than the physical dimension we wake up in every day. Whether it be a feeling of curiosity, a yearning to go deeper or a pull towards greater personal understanding, we open our doors for you to find something new, something different and just maybe, something important.

Your facilitator

Lorís Simón experienced her first encounters with dream analysis over 20 years ago. Since then, she has achieved multiple certificates on depth psychology, sand tray therapy and dream tending. Today, Lorís works as a Jungian oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Houston, TX. She has been a contributor of Literal for over 10 years as a writer as well as director of Literal’s visual media engagements, such as Literally Short International Film Festival and Literally Everything podcast. With Literal as a producer, Lorís wrote and directed the award-winning documentary Ensoulment: A Diverse Analysis of the Feminine in Western Culture in 2013. She later published the anthology Ensoulment (2016) with Chiron Publications. Lorís’ latest work leans into men’s issues after the publication of her master’s thesis The Inner Life of Men (2022).

Pricing & Schedule

8-Session Program
Every Wednesday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. CST
January 22 – March 19, 2025, no class on February 12
$240 or $120 monthly

* Continuing Dream Circle (must have taken 8-week program previously)
Every other Friday 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. CST
Beginning January 2025, 2025
$80 monthly

Registration

• In hopes of creating a close and personable group, there will be a limit of 8 participants.
• If this is your first time attending a Literal workshop, please contact Lorís Simón simonloris@outlook.com for a quick and friendly introduction & discussion on expectations.

Disclaimer: Dream work can evoke emotional topics that may be difficult to work through without proper support. Since this workshop does not attempt to replace a therapeutic space, we recommend having additional therapeutic support outside of this group.

Posted: August 3, 2024 at 9:15 am