Circle Guidelines

Opening Circle ⭕

Yamin will guide us into a brief meditation to listen to the whispers of our nocturnal dreams and elusive daydreams, that are asking to be heard and seen.

First Dream Telling. “Listening to the Dreamer”

• One dreamer tells her dream using the first person and the present tense.
• The listeners feel into dream energy. They quietly notice the activity in the dream.

Second Dream Telling. “Diving into the Dream”

• Listeners take notes and ask clarifying questions to the dreamer: Who is visiting the dream? What is happening?
• Listeners inspect dream images to help them come alive. They stay within the dream as it was told by the dreamer.
• Dreamer describes dream images, symbols, animals, landscape, feelings, emotions, senses, colors, shapes.
• Neither Dreamers nor Listeners interpret the dream.

Third Dream Telling. “Becoming the Dream”

• Dreamer turns chair around or turns off computer video.
• Listeners allow the dream to become their own.
• The group projects… “In my dream” or “In my dream journey” or “In my body” I feel…
• The dreamer comes back and shares reflections.

Clopening the Circle ⭕

• Take aways from the Dream messages
• Giving Thanks to the Dreamer and the Dream.

Acknowledgments: The way I guide Dream Circles has been informed both by the practice of Dream Councils and by Katherine Donovan Kane’s dreamwork.