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Dreamlinks
Embodied Imagination Institute
Group Psychotherapy - Online
Since 1972, Zurich-trained Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak has led dream groups and explored dreaming with
individuals, in both analytical and didactic contexts, developing a method called Embodied Imagination (EI).
Embodied Imagination is a technique which takes dreaming as the paradigm for all work with images. From the
dreaming perspective, an image is an environment in which we find ourselves. The Embodied Imagination technique
has developed ways to flashback into the image, whether it is a memory from waking life or from dreaming, and
explores the image environment from a variety of perspectives through feelings and sensations manifested in
the body. The body becomes the theater for a vivid complexity of states, which leads along ‘alchemical’ lines
to profound transformation.
Embodied Imagination, in the work with dreams and waking memories, is practiced individually and in groups in
psychotherapy, medicine, theater, 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 Bosnak is a Dutch Jungian analyst, trained in the Zurich of the 1970s, author of several books, such as A
Little Course in Dreams, instructor of Embodied Imagination worldwide, and co-founder of the International Society
for Embodied Imagination, the National Nightmare Hotline (866-DRMS911) and since 1997,www.cyberdreamwork.com, the
premier voice program on the Internet for interactive work on dreams and imagery. He is past president of the
International Association for the Study of Dreams, and was visiting professor of clinical psychology at Kyoto
University in Japan. After having been in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 26 years, he is
currently based in Sydney, Australia.
 Jill Fischer, M.S., APRN, B.C., a Jungian therapist, is a board certified, advanced nurse practitioner and clinical specialist in psychiatric nursing. With forty years of clinical experience, she has a private practice in Norwich, Conn. and has taught embodied dream imagery 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 Cyberdreamwork Specialists.
In September, 2001 along with Robert Bosnak and IASD (the International Association for the Study
of Dreams), Jill co-founded The National Nightmare Hotline (1-866-DRMS911). As the Executive Director, she
works with 40 volunteers who assist callers, 24hrs./7 days a week. She is presently a member of IASD.
A long time veteran to Embodied Imagination, Jill participates in and runs many dreamgroups in both
live and virtual reality. A schedule of on-going dream groups can be found at:
www.cyberdreamwork.com/2007calendars.html.
In addition, Jill co-leads, with Robert Bosnak, training programs connected with Cyberdreamwork. Inc. where she is the Porgram Director
and co-founder of the International Society for Embodied Imagination.
Group Psychotherapy - Online
After almost ten years of extensive online audio-based work with dreams and memories in the didactic
setting of www.cyberdreamwork.com, (with about six years of using additional video conferencing,)
Robert Bosnak and Jill Fischer are starting their first video based Internet psychotherapy groups.
An Internet video psychotherapy group will consist of five participants.
This group-therapy is based on a brief depth model developed by Bosnak and Fischer, which makes it
possible to do in-depth psychotherapy in a short period of time by way of triggering the creative
imagination. This radically alters someone’s perspective upon problems hitherto experienced as
insurmountable, thereby fundamentally changing both the person and the problem. We will work on
memories -- traumatic or otherwise – dreams, problematic enactments in relationships, and physical illness.
There will be an interactive sharing of the work between all participants.
The group will meet for ten weeks over a three month period.
The sessions will be: 2 and 1/2 hours.
The group will meet for its current series on Tuesday evenings at 8-10:30 PM EST.
The dates of the group will be:
March 20 & 27, 2007;
April 3, 10, & 17, 2007;
May 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2007.
All that is needed is a computer with Internet access and a webcam.
For more information contact Robert Bosnak at rbosnak@mindspring.com or Jill Fischer at jillyfisch@mindspring.com.
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