DYW ARTIST LAB
A year long program applying dreaming and imagery techniques to support artists in envisioning, developing and manifesting their creative project.
Features:
- Blended in-person and synchronous online-learning
- Four learning modules
- Four 1:1 mentor sessions with program faculty
- One in-person gathering at the end of the year to present projects, celebrate, and bring this chapter of our journey together to a close
- Application of specific tools between sessions with the support of the dreaming cohort
- Over 105 hours total instruction
- Projects become part of DYW Artist Lab’s archives
APPLICATION DEADLINE 1MAY 2023
ONLINE APPLICATION FORM CLICK HERE
The DYW ARTIST LAB is part of IIDI‘s commitment to finding creative solutions to social and global challenges through communal dreaming. Changing the image changes the whole system. Accessing our creative wellspring and Great Dreaming we tap into healing images that arise outside of pattern, and we begin to envision new realities for ourselves and for our world. Artists have a particular impact on the communal dream through their work. We support artists through the dreaming practice to access their Great Dreams, and to bring these new visions to tangible form with the aim of transforming the communal dream of humanity.
The DYW Artist Lab consists of four modules: INSIGHT, IMAGE, FORM and MANIFESTATION, which culminate in BECOMING, integrating the artistic project into your life and into the life of your community. Through the program you will learn how to access your creative wellspring to catch the spark of idea, form it, and bring it to tangible manifestation. Through the deep inner work of the practices you will develop your own inner creative potential and Self.
The 2023 – 2024 Cohort dates run August 2023 – August 2024.
Participants limited to 16; Application deadline 1 May 2023
Below is an overview – please click the curriculum tab for full details.
MODULE ONE: INSIGHT
14 – 18 August 2023
In Person 5 days // DOCK11 Eden Berlin
The initial spark of creativity is something received: Insight. Receiving insight entails making space, emptying the self of preconceived ideas, judgments, evaluations, and entering the space of dreaming and revelation. Module One: Insight begins the journey. Through dreaming, imagery, movement practices informed by the dreaming work, and IIDI’s method of applying dreaming work to ideas and projects, we meet together in a communal space to clear, dream, and receive the insight of creative sparks.
MODULE TWO: IMAGE
Mid-Oct – 2 day weekend online
Insight is often perceived as an impulse, movement, feeling, or a momentary flash. From here, it must be peered into, brought into vision. Using the same tools introduced in the first module, Module Two: Image develops the initial insight of the project, moving you deeper into the creative process, and including clearing any blocks that may arrive that impede the work of seeing, and allowing the project to reveal itself.
MODULE THREE: FORM
February 2024 – 2 day online weekend “round table”
From image we create form; the first tangible beginnings of the project. Like clay in our hands, we let our imagination and dreaming play with the project from multiple perspectives, angles, and expressions. We let it speak – what does it say to us? Module Three: FORM continues the work of developing both project and creator. We include in this module practices stemming from the fields of contemporary dance and visual arts to articulate the project, and support creative work with future projects.
MODULE FOUR: MANIFESTATION
May 2024 – 2 day weekend online
From form, a project comes into being. Manifesting a project entails not only the ‘final stage’ of the creator’s touch, it also involves letting go, and letting it continue to speak, flow, shape-shift, move, and be moved. How do we know when a project is finished? How do we open ourselves to releasing it to be in front of the eyes of Other? How do we bring it to community? In our last Module: Manifestation we work with bringing projects to completion, preparing both artist and project for its’ last – and therefore first – chapter of becoming.
BECOMING
August 2024 – 2 day in person (location and dates TBD)
In our last meeting, the project and artist ‘become’: artist by presenting the Self that has brought the project to being, and the project by finding its life in the eyes of the receiver. We meet to celebrate becoming together, experiencing how our projects illuminate each of us and move the community. This is both the closing of a chapter and the beginning of a new creative intention.
PAYMENT DETAILS
- Cost of the program is 2999 Euros/person (28.43 Euros/hour of instruction).
- Payment can be made in 4 payments of 749.75 each; first payment made upon start of program August 2023.
- A down-payment of 500 Euros is needed upon application acceptance to hold your space in the program.
- Downpayment is 100% refundable up to 6 months before the start of the program, and 50% refundable from 6 to 3 months before start. From three months before program start the downpayment is not refundable.
- Downpayment goes toward the first payment installment.
- Cost does not include travel/lodging/meals during in-person meetings.
- Participants who leave the program before completion are not refunded for time spent in the program unless due to medical or other such emergency.
DYW ARTIST LAB
A year long program applying dreaming and imagery techniques to support artists in envisioning, developing and manifesting their creative project.
Features:
- Blended in-person and synchronous online-learning
- Four learning modules
- Four 1:1 mentor sessions with program faculty
- One in-person gathering at the end of the year to present projects, celebrate, and bring this chapter of our journey together to a close
- Application of specific tools between sessions with the support of the dreaming cohort
- Over 105 hours total instruction
- Projects become part of DYW Artist Lab’s archives
The DYW ARTIST LAB is part of IIDI‘s commitment to finding creative solutions to social and global challenges through communal dreaming. Changing the image changes the whole system. Accessing our creative wellspring and Great Dreaming we tap into healing images that arise outside of pattern, and we begin to envision new realities for ourselves and for our world. Artists have a particular impact on the communal dream through their work. We support artists through the dreaming practice to access their Great Dreams, and to bring these new visions to tangible form with the aim of transforming the communal dream of humanity.
The DYW Artist Lab consists of four modules: INSIGHT, IMAGE, FORM and MANIFESTATION, which culminate in BECOMING, integrating the artistic project into your life and into the life of your community. Through the program you will learn how to access your creative wellspring to catch the spark of idea, form it, and bring it to tangible manifestation. Through the deep inner work of the practices you will develop your own inner creative potential and Self.
The 2023 – 2024 Cohort dates run August 2023 – August 2024.
The cohort size will be limited to 16 participants.
Below is a detailed outline of each Module. All times listed are Central Europe Time Zone.
APPLICATIONS WILL BE OPEN SEPTEMBER 15, 2022, AVAILABLE ON THIS PAGE.
MODULE ONE: INSIGHT
14 – 18 August 2023
In Person 5 days // DOCK11 Eden Berlin
The initial spark of creativity is something received: Insight. Receiving insight entails making space, emptying the self of preconceived ideas, judgments, evaluations, and entering the space of dreaming and revelation. Module One: Insight begins the journey. Through dreaming, imagery, movement practices informed by the dreaming work, and IIDI’s method of applying dreaming work to ideas and projects, we meet together in a communal space to clear, dream, and receive the insight of creative sparks.
Monday August 14
7pm – 930pm
Hello and welcome! In our first time together we will introduce ourselves via experiential, imagery exercises. We will set the space for our creating journey together, and set our intentions for dreaming that night.
Tuesday – Thursday August 15-17
9-12pm: Movement, body, and imagery with Anna Nowicka
2-5pm: Dreamwork and imagery with Bonnie Buckner
7-9pm: Project-specific dreamwork with Sabine A. Fischer
Friday August 18
9-12pm: In our last meeting together for the week we provide practices for moving forward, and close with a set of imagery exercises.
12pm – 1pm: Group lunch, then depart
MODULE TWO: IMAGE
21 – 22 October, 2023
2 day weekend online (Zoom)
Insight is often perceived as an impulse, movement, feeling, or a momentary flash. From here, it must be peered into, brought into vision. Using the same tools introduced in the first module, Module Two: Image develops the initial insight of the project, moving you deeper into the creative process, and including clearing any blocks that may arrive that impede the work of seeing, and allowing the project to reveal itself.
Saturday-Sunday (times in Central Europe timezone)
9-12pm: Movement, body, and imagery with Anna Nowicka
2-5pm: Dreamwork and imagery with Bonnie Buckner
7-9pm: Project-specific dreamwork with Sabine A. Fischer
MODULE THREE: FORM
February 17 – 18, 2024
2 day online weekend “round table”
From image we create form; the first tangible beginnings of the project. Like clay in our hands, we let our imagination and dreaming play with the project from multiple perspectives, angles, and expressions. We let it speak – what does it say to us? Module Three: FORM continues the work of developing both project and creator. We include in this module practices stemming from the fields of contemporary dance and visual arts to articulate the project, and support creative work with future projects.
times in Central Europe timezone
Saturday, February 17
9-12pm, 2-5pm, and 7-9pm – Group dreamwork to identify Necessities in projects.
Sunday, February 18
9-12pm: Movement, body, and imagery with Anna Nowicka
2-5pm: Dreamwork and imagery with Bonnie Buckner
7-9pm: Artist practices with Sabine A. Fischer
MODULE FOUR: MANIFESTATION
May 18 – 19, 2024 – 2 day weekend online
From form, a project comes into being. Manifesting a project entails not only the ‘final stage’ of the creator’s touch, it also involves letting go, and letting it continue to speak, flow, shape-shift, move, and be moved. How do we know when a project is finished? How do we open ourselves to releasing it to be in front of the eyes of Other? How do we bring it to community? In our last Module: Manifestation we work with bringing projects to completion, preparing both artist and project for its’ last – and therefore first – chapter of becoming.
Saturday-Sunday (times in Central Europe timezone)
9-12pm: Movement, body, and imagery with Anna Nowicka
2-5pm: Dreamwork and imagery with Bonnie Buckner
7-9pm: Project-specific dreamwork with Sabine A. Fischer
BECOMING
August 2024 – 2 day in person (location and dates TBD)
In our last meeting, the project and artist ‘become’: artist by presenting the Self that has brought the project to being, and the project by finding its life in the eyes of the receiver. We meet to celebrate becoming together, experiencing how our projects illuminate each of us and move the community. This is both the closing of a chapter and the beginning of a new creative intention.
Day 1
9 – 12pm, 2-5pm, 7-9pm: presentation of projects + discussion
Day 2
9-12pm: Group discussion: Insights from the process.
2-5pm: What happens now? Continuing the creative process. Imagery with Bonnie Buckner.
7pm+ : CELEBRATION !
