Series 3, Episode 5: Befriend Your Nightmares, Befriend your Dreams - with Dr. Leslie Ellis
Release Date: 02/07/2024
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Dr Leslie Ellis explains why nightmares might be shouting for your attention, showing what is unmetabolised in your psyche and maybe even telling you what is needed to help that process. “The antidote is often within the dream itself,” she says. She tells us about her embodied dreamwork method for “imagining the dream forward” to discover a new way through the dream, allowing it to complete in a way that doesn’t disturb your sleep.
As part of her mission to de-mystify nightmare treatment and dreamwork in general, Dr Ellis talks to us about her long experience in working with dreams and nightmares, including her doctoral research on treating the trauma-related dreams of refugees. And she shares her knowledge and enthusiasm for the Focusing work of Eugene Gendlin.
For the Dream of the Week, she shares a delightful dream of a red fox that may or may not be as tame as it appears.
-- Your dreams are delightful, too! If you have a dream you’d like us to discuss on the podcast, contact us through the DRI website driccpe.org.uk/contact or the social media links below. --
Dr Ellis is a leading expert in the use of experiential and somatic approaches in psychotherapy, in particular for working with dreams, nightmares and the effects of trauma. She is the author of A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2020) and offers online training in embodied, experiential dreamwork and nightmare treatment. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology with a somatic specialization, and a Masters in counselling psychology with a focus on depth/Jungian approaches. She worked as a therapist in private practice in Vancouver, BC for more than 25 years. She is a former adjunct faculty at Adler University, and past president of The International Focusing Institute, where she is currently a Certifying Coordinator.
In this episode:
Dr Ellis
· @dreamsdemystified on Instagram and Facebook
· A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy: Implementing Simple and Effective Dreamwork
Eugene Gendlin – Focusing
· Focusing: How To Gain Direct Access To Your Body's Knowledge
Arnie Mindell – The Dreaming Body
· Working with the Dreaming Body
The Waking Dream Process
· driccpe.org.uk/free-dri-resources
· Awakening Through Dreams, Nigel Hamilton
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