Live, interactive, online workshops with
Linda Mastrangelo, Justina Lasley & Guest Speakers
and the Institute for Dream Studies
Enjoy the creativity and wisdom of your dreaming mind, and give yourself the gift of meaning.
Explore your dreams with a community of dreamers from around the world.
Upcoming Events:
An IDS Online Course
Spiritual Emergence: Initiation and Integration Through Dreams & Other States of Consciousness
Presenters: Linda Mastrangelo & Christina Oshier Andrews
When: Friday, NOVEMBER 13, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM -12:30 PM PACIFIC TIME/1:00 PM- 3:30 PM EASTERN TIME
Cost: $55
Where: ZOOM LIVE ONLINE
CEUs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies
IDS is recognized by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR) to offer continuing education credits to counselors, marriage and family therapists and psycho-educational specialists. Students throughout the US have been successful in using our credits, but we would encourage each participant to check with one’s regional or professional organization, as regulations vary.
CEUs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies
IDS is recognized by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR) to offer continuing education credits to counselors, marriage and family therapists and psycho-educational specialists. Students throughout the US have been successful in using our credits, but we would encourage each participant to check with one’s regional or professional organization, as regulations vary.
“It is a dark page in human history when people make others bear their shadow for them. Men lay their shadow upon women, whites upon blacks, Catholics upon Protestants, capitalists upon communists, Muslims upon Hindus. Neighborhoods will make one family the scapegoat and these people will bear the shadow for the entire group. Indeed, every group unconsciously designates one of its members as the black sheep and makes him or her carry the darkness for the community. This has been so from the beginning of culture.”
-Robert Johnson-from Owning Your own Shadow
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Join us LIVE on Zoom for an exploration of how spiritual emergence can spontaneously awaken and unfold through altered states—including dreams, visions, psychedelic experiences, psychopompic & ancestral journeys.
Participants will come away with a deeper conceptual understanding and capacity for sensitive, grounded holding of both their own and their clients’ experiences. Together, we’ll explore ways to cultivate new pathways of meaning, connection, and spiritual growth within the community.
CE Course Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Define spiritual emergence and distinguish it from spiritual crisis and mental health disorders, including recognizing common signs, phases, and experiences of spiritual emergence.
Explore dreamwork as a tool for accessing insight, supporting spiritual growth, and integrating spiritual emergence experiences.
Apply nature-based practices as tools for grounding, spiritual connection, healing, and integration in both natural and urban environments.
Describe the potential benefits, limitations, risks, contraindications, and ethical considerations of plant medicine in the context of spiritual emergence.
Demonstrate grounding and integration practices, including ritual, creativity, meditation, embodiment, and experiential connection with the natural world.
Identify ethical boundaries, scope of practice, safety considerations, and the role of community and professional support when assisting individuals experiencing spiritual emergence.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Describe historical and contemporary perspectives on the Winter Solstice and identify themes of transition, reflection, renewal, and meaning-making that may be relevant to therapeutic work.
Explain the concepts of intention-setting and dream incubation and discuss how they may be used as reflective practices within appropriate clinical contexts.
Demonstrate at least two experiential reflective practices that can be adapted for use with clients, including intention-setting and dream-focused inquiry.
Apply a culturally responsive, client-centered framework when considering the integration of ritual, spirituality, symbolism, or dream material into psychotherapy.
Develop one practical strategy for integrating intention, dream reflection, or meaning-oriented practices into work with clients experiencing transition, loss, identity exploration, or questions of purpose.
Solstice Dreaming: A Workshop for Self-Discovery
Presenters: Linda Mastrangelo & Alejandra Perez Reguera
When: Friday, December 11, 2026
Time: 10 AM-12:30 PM PACIFIC TIME/1:00 PM- 3:30 PM EASTERN TIME
Cost: $55
Where: ZOOM LIVE ONLINE
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
As the Winter Solstice approaches, we enter a season long associated with reflection, transition, renewal, and the return of light. Across cultures, solstice traditions—including Mayan traditions, Saturnalia, Yule, and Shabe-Yalda—have used storytelling, ritual, fire, feasting, and celebration to mark endings and beginnings. This workshop invites participants to explore the solstice as a symbolic framework for considering themes of transition, letting go, hope, and renewal in both personal and clinical contexts.
In this experiential IDS workshop, participants will explore intention-setting, dream incubation, ritual, symbolism, and reflective practices as potential resources for meaning-making and self-discovery. Through guided exercises, meditations and discussion, participants will consider how these practices may be thoughtfully incorporated with clients navigating transitions, grief, identity development, life changes, or questions of purpose.
No experience necessary.
If It Were Our Dream: Examining and Experiencing the Collective Nature of Dreams
Presenter: Tzivia Gover
When: Friday, October 16, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM- 3:30 PM EASTERN TIME
Cost: $55
Where: ZOOM LIVE ONLINE
REGISTRATION LINK HERE
2.5 CEs available
CE Provider: Institute for Dream Studies
IDS is recognized by the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (SCLLR) to offer continuing education credits to counselors, marriage and family therapists and psycho-educational specialists. Students throughout the US have been successful in using our credits, but we would encourage each participant to check with one’s regional or professional organization, as regulations vary.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
It is common in group dreamwork to offer guidance to the dreamer using the phrase, “If it were my dream.” But what if dreams belonged both to the one who dreamed them and also spoke to issues that affect the wider community? While Western psychological approaches to dreamwork tend to approach dreamwork as a way to resolve individual complexes and heal personal wounds, traditional dream practices across cultures often embrace the collective nature of dreams to connect us with ancestors and offer information and warnings to help communities survive and thrive.
In this participatory workshop, we’ll start with the premise that dreams know no boundaries; they come to people across every border of geography, language, culture, socioeconomic condition, race, and religion.
Participants will leave with practical tools for ancestral dreamwork, including dream incubation practices, journaling prompts, and ways to listen more closely to the messages that arrive while we sleep.
