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International Society for Embodied Imagination
Governing 5 Programs:
Shanghai, Los Angeles, Sydney, Tokyo, Online
Los Angeles Program
Since 1972, Zurich-trained Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak has led dream groups and
explored dreaming with individuals in both analytical and didactic contexts, developing
he technique called: Embodied Imagination
Embodied Imagination, in the work with dreams and waking memories, is practiced individually
and in groups in psychotherapy, medicine, theater, and art and creative research. It is a
rehearsal technique of the Royal Shakespeare company in England, and applied in medical
research and psychotherapy in Japan, China and a variety of locations in the Western world.
Robert is an author of several books, such as A Little Course in Dreams,
Christopher’s Dreams, and Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming. His latest
book: Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art, and Travel will be
out in June, 2007.
Robert is an instructor of embodied imagination worldwide, and co-founder of
both the National Nightmare Response Line (1-866-DRMS911) and www.cyberdreamwork.com the first website
dedicated to audio/visual interactive work on dreams and imagery on the Internet. He was past president
of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and a visiting professor of clinical psychology
at Kyoto University in Japan. After having been in private practice in Cambridge, Mass. for 25 years, he
is currently based in Sydney, Australia.
Robert is a co-founder of the International Society for Embodied Imagination
Jill Fischer, M.S., APRN, B.C., a Jungian
psychotherapist, is a board certified, advanced
nurse practitioner and clinical specialist in
psychiatric nursing. With over forty years of
clinical experience, she is in private practice
and has taught embodied imagination worldwide.
In 1997, Jill became a founding member of
www.cyberdreamwork.com the premier voice
program on the Internet for interactive work on
dreams and imagery. As the site's webmaster,
she coordinates all group programs, plans
activities and trains embodiment therapists.
In September, 2001 along with Robert Bosnak and IASD (the International
Association for the Study of Dreams), Jill co-founded The National Nightmare
Response Line (1-866-DRMS911). As the Executive Director, she works with 40 volunteers who assist callers, 24hrs./7 days a week. She is a past member of
the IASD Board of Directors.
A long time veteran to Embodied Imagination, Jill conducts several dreamgroups in both live and virtual reality. A schedule of on-going dream groups can be
found at: www.cyberdreamwork.com/2007calendars.html
Jill is a co-founder of the International Society for Embodied Imagination.
LOS ANGELES PROGRAM
This is a three year training program, leading to an international certification as an Embodiment Therapist or Embodiment Coach, depending on previous training.
The first 2 years of the training is general; in the 3rd year, the trainee follows a therapy or a creative arts track.
The training will be part in person, during three intensive Thursday through Monday sessions in the Los Angeles area; and partly through interactive online video classes.
Embodied Imagination is a technique applicable to psychotherapy, treatment of trauma, medicine (triggering the self-healing reflex,) and creative endeavors such as theater (character embodiment,) film, writing, and research.
Embodiment is the coincidence of body and image preceding separation between body and psyche.
The first principle of embodied imagination is to encounter images from the point of view of dreaming, not waking.
From this perspective an image is a live environment that surrounds us and presents itself as self-evidently real
and embodied. Images belong to the involuntary imagination and embody their own intelligence.
This program explores images in dreams, flashback
memories, perception, active imagination and art,
the physical body, and relational fields.
Trainees will learn to access images by way of the
hypnagogic state of consciousness, which naturally
exists in the borderlands between waking and
sleeping. In this state, consciousness is capable
to re-enter images by way of flashback memory.
Since hypnagogic awareness is by its nature
highly dissociable, it is possible to identify with
personages and elements other than the ego
subjectivity. In this way a variety of subjective
positions can be explored, leading to a
multiplicity of embodied states. Each state can
be anchored in the body by way of a sense
memory technique.
In this way multiple embodied states can be
experienced simultaneously leading to bursts of
creative intelligence while triggering the self-
healing reflex.
The academic areas covered in the training consist of:
*The neuroscience of dreaming
*The scientific study of the placebo effect
*Complexity theory
*Imagination in gender, race and ethnicity, and in other political issues (e.g. ecology)
*Phenomenology
*Alchemy as a metaphor system of embodied imagination
*A study of mimesis and theater
*Enactment in relational fields
*Trauma and dissociation studies
*A history of dream incubation and intentional dreaming
*A history of psychoanalysis via the Jungian, post-Jungian, and relational schools
*Groups [psychotherapeutic and dream groups that
explore the imagination.]
Year One
Three, four day, face to face sessions to include Theory, Dreamwork,
and Supervision
The First Three Sessions:
Friday, November 2, 2007 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday, November 3, 2007 9:30 AM-10:00 PM
Sunday, November 4, 2007 10:30 AM-6:30 PM
Monday, November 5, 2007 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Friday, January 25, 2008 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:30 AM-10:00 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2008 10:30 AM-6:30 PM
Monday, January 28, 2008 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Friday May 23, 2008 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:30 AM-10:00 PM
Sunday, May 25, 2008 10:30 AM-6:30 PM
Monday, May 26, 2008 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
Example of Schedule for Day Session
9:30 AM -10:30 AM Theory/Lecture
10:30-11:00 AM Discussion
11:15-Noon Image work [memories, dreams]
Exercise/Demonstration
12:15– 1:45 PM Lunch
1:45-4:45PM Image work [memories, dreams]
Demonstration/Exercise/Casework
5:00-6:00 PM Discussion/wrap-up
Additional Training In:
1. Brief Depth Intervention:
Embodied Imagination is a radically new technique which views
imagery – dreams and memory flashbacks -- as embodied
environments in which we find ourselves. Working on images
from this perspective stimulates unfamiliar states of consciousness
and helps to contain them in expanded body awareness. Combined
with incubation techniques from the dawn of Western medicine, this
method has demonstrated healing effects in people with physical
illness and survivors of trauma, giving rise to creative bursts in artists,
as well as n-depth solutions to psychological and relational problems.
2. Two, 2 hour, Joint Group Supervision sessions, over the Internet
with the Online EI Trainees.
3. Six 90 minute supervision sessions with your dream partners
(3 with Robert Bosnak and/3 with Jill Fischer).
4. All didactic sessions will be taped.
5. An optional, face to face, week long Travel Intensive (Place to
be announced). We try to have our intensives in places where the
spirit of place is especially significant.
6. Each participant will be assigned a partner every three months on
a rotating basis. Both will arrange to meet and work on each others
dreams at their leisure.
Year Two
Three, four day, face to face sessions to include Theory, Dreamwork,
and Supervision
Friday, August 22, 2008 9:30 AM-6:00 PM
Saturday, August 23, 2008 9:30 AM-10:00 PM
Sunday, August 24, 2008 10:30 AM-6:30 PM
Monday, August 25, 2008 9:30 AM-4:00 PM
[Future dates in January, May and October, 2009-2010 will be announced]
1. As trainees you will have 8 consecutive 60 minute sessions for a
Brief Depth Intervention experience each training year.
2. Two, 2 hour, Joint Group Supervision sessions, over the Internet
with Online EI Trainees.
3. Six 90 minute supervision sessions as in year one.
4. An optional, face to face, week long Intensive.
5. Emphasis will start to be placed on specialization in tracks related
to: Art [actors and writers] and Psychotherapy [Group and Individual work with memories, dreams, and the relational field.] Demonstrations will be part of the curriculum.
Year Three
Three, four day, face to face sessions to include Theory, Dreamwork,
and Supervision
November, 2009 – November, 20010 [Dates Will Be Announced]
Specialization in Art (actors and writers) or Psychotherapy
[Group and Individual work with memories, dreams, and
the relational field]
PALTALK
Paltalk hosts the live, on-line, voice operated, sessions for the:
Los Angeles Program
Paltalk is an Internet-based voice communication service that is
analogous to your home telephone. Using a PC (with speakers and a microphone or headset) and
only a 28k dial-up connection, Paltalk allows you to speak with others anywhere in the world.
It provides unlimited conference calling, file transfer, instant messaging, voice, e-mail,
and a video conferencing feature that allows you to talk with and see others.
Paltalk has three versions:Paltalk Basic, Plus Six and Extreme.
Participants are asked to purchase the Paltalk-Extreme to optimize video reception.
Video Webcams can be purchased from the Paltalk website.
You can also look for suggestions at: www.cyberdreamwork.com/video.htm
To download Paltalk, free....go to:
Paltalk
Fees
$1,200 – Brief Depth Intervention
$2,400 – Day sessions and Partner Supervision
$150 – Group Internet Supervision Work
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$3,750 a year
divided into four quarterly
payments of $937.50
LOCATION
Los Angeles ...Place to be announced
Accommodations for travelers: to be announced
Please check
www.cyberdeamwork.com
The only site on the Internet devoted to global
interactive dreamwork by way of voice. On this site you will find recorded
lectures, articles, books, ongoing
interactive courses and free dream groups.
E-mail any questions or comments to:
rbosnak@mindspring.com
or
jillyfisch@mindspring.com
Please be advised a full curriculum, will accompany your request to join the program.
To apply for entrance to:
*Los Angeles Program
e-mail the following contact information To:
jillyfisch@mindspring.com
or
rbosnak@mindspring.com
Include the following:
Name:_______________
E-mail Address___________________
Telephone #______________________
Area of Interest, Specialty, or Previous experience
related to this work.___________________
*Please pass this information on to anyone interested in participating.
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