The Institute offers three certifications:
- Dream Group Leader
- Practitioner in Dreaming and Imagery
- DYW Kids® Adult Mentor
All three certifications begin with obtaining a Dream Group Leader certification. It is the base requirement for continuing on to other certifications.
Dream Group Leaders become qualified to form and/or lead dream groups. For credentialed coaches and other professional practitioners you will be able to use dreams in your work with your clients.
The Dream Group Leader certification focuses on establishing a strong foundation of the dreamwork.
You will experience and learn:
- The basic structures for working with dreams
- The seven kinds, and four levels of dreams
- How to identify Necessities in dreams
- How to lead a Waking Dream exercise to resolve a dream Necessity
- You will practice leading groups, and fielding questions that might arise from participants
- You will experience a set of homework practices that you can use in leading more established groups to advance their dreaming work
- In individual sessions you will develop your own inner self in preparation for leading others, and deepen your own practice with dreaming
All trainees entering the certification program work closely with the Director of Programming to help determine the best classes to choose, the order in which to choose them, and to overall discuss the process and answer any questions that arise. Throughout the process trainees are in close contact with both the Director of Programming as well as other practitioners at the Institute.
All three certifications have continuing education (CE) requirements for maintaining certification. The CE requirements are specific to each specific certification and are paid for on a class by class, or session by session, basis. In the case of obtaining multiple certifications, the continuing education requirements will be based on the highest certification completed.
Each year the Institute will provide a minimum of three, no-fee group supervision meetings for certified practitioners to meet and discuss cases, questions, best practices, and for everyone to continue to build the Institute’s community of dreamers.
Payments may be made on a semester-by-semester basis. If you would like to be set up on a payment plan, or have any other questions, please email us. For a detailed curriculum and payment breakdown please click the curriculum tab above.
All certifications offered at the Institute begin with the Dream Group Leader certification. It is the base requirement for continuing on to other certifications.
Beginner’s Dream (one 5 week class)
Advanced Dream Group (two 10-week classes)
Speaking in Image (one 10 week class)
Life Plan I and II (each a 5 week class)
Necessities I and II (each a 5 week class)
Dream Class for Practitioners (four 10 week classes; taken after Advanced Dream Group)
1:1 Sessions (minimum 5)*
Capstone **
12 classes ($4275) + 5 Individual Sessions ($200 USD/session = $1000) + Capstone ($450) ***
Total: $5725
*Note – before being certified, students are also required to have individual sessions with a certified practitioner. The minimum number of sessions required is 5; overall, the number of sessions needed is determined by the trainee’s movement through the work. The Institute is focused on inner development; in training practitioners we feel that before one can become a practitioner to help others one must first clear oneself. While all work through the Institute provides opportunities for the student to do self-work, individual sessions offer private moments and exercises to address specific, individual needs of the trainee. Thus, the trainee and the certified practitioner with whom they do their individual sessions may decide to include additional 1:1 sessions. Any added individual sessions will be charged at the $200/session rate.
**The Capstone is the supervised application of the work through demonstration of leading a dream group. It is the place for the Capstone trainee to practice numerous aspects of speaking to the work, describing and explaining it, guiding others through the steps, and being asked, and responding to, questions that may arise among students.
The Capstone class requirement is generally met by leading a minimum of 5 Community Dream groups, where the trainee is in a mixed group of both certified practitioners and students of multiple levels, followed by leading a 5-week Beginner’s Dream Class which is done solo. When leading the Beginner’s Dream Class the trainee will have 3+ meetings with a certified practitioner to discuss questions that arise when preparing for and leading the class. In addition, either a certified practitioner will be present in one of the 5 classes or will ask the trainee to record a class to go over together during one of the supervision meetings.
The Capstone allows the trainee to demonstrate an integration of the work and for the Institute to help hone any areas that may need additional .
***Before being certified the progress of the trainee is evaluated, and classes or learning opportunities may need to be added. In this case, the added classes will be charged at the base rate used to calculate the price of the certification.
