Dates: Saturdays, June 4, 11, 18, 2022
Time: 3 to 5 pm ET, Noon to 2 pm PT, 8 to 10pm London, 9 to 11pm Paris/Amsterdam
Admssion: $100 Patreon Members / $125 general admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time, but it is highly recommended you attend the classes live for the richest experience.

Our dreams are a treasure trove of information, guidance and insight that we are gifted with every single night. Everybody dreams (whether you remember your dreams or not!) and the imagery, feelings, and stories our dreams show us can be harnessed in our waking lives for healing, guidance and transformation. Creativity and art making is one of the tools that can quickly bypass our linear mind and open up vast fields of inspiration, intuition, and new insights from our dream world.

There is a long history of artists and makers taking inspiration from their dreams, including many indigenous and aboriginal traditions. From the pre-Raphaelites, to the Impressionists, to the “Manifesto of Surrealism”, artists have been weaving together their dreams and reality. Salvador Dalί In his 1948 book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, explained in detail how he used the hypnogogic and hypnopompic states to invigorate his work. Modern poets, painters, sculptors, musicians, and film-makers have also spoken of the value of dreams for their artistic inspiration. Even those who are not seen as “creative,” like famed dream analyst Carl Jung, created vibrant, colorful drawings and paintings in their dream journals.

In this class, educator, dream worker, artist, and interfaith minister Tristy Taylor — daughter of renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor, co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams — will provide powerful and accessible tools you can use right now to start (or enrich!) a creative dream art practice. Together, you will begin to understand your own personal dream archetypes, and learn how to make art in waking life that your dream life will respond to, thus creating a living creative conversation with your unconscious realms.

Whether you are a professional artist, a dabbler in creative pursuits, or fear that you aren’t creative at all, this class series has something vibrant and valuable to offer you. There will also be space in the class for students to share their own dream art to explore with the group, if desired (but not required). By the end of the class, students will have a solid foundation to make art with their dreams, and be able to live a richer and wiser life through this powerful creative practice.

Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based dream worker, teacher, ordained interfaith minister and animal communicator. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor--co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams--and dream artist Kathryn Taylor, she has been working with her dreams from the very beginning. Before she could write, she was drawing and talking about her dreams at the breakfast table, and therefore grew up with a deep connection and an ever-deepening wisdom in how the dream world works. She has been leading dream groups since she was 15-years old, and over the last three decades, she has grown her own dream work offerings to include art making and ritual as guided by the dream world, as well as opening the rich secrets of nightmare imagery. She has a Masters of Art & Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University, and she is currently adjunct faculty at the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Ministry, where she teaches Dreamwork, Ritual Crafting, and Being with Death and Dying. She sees clients one-on-one and also facilitates online dream workshops every season. Find out more about her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.createwithspirit.com.

Images, in order: detail of Chiki, ton pays (Chiki, Your Country), 1944, Leonora Carrington; Image 125 from Jung's Liber Novus; Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay, 1908