GESTALT
DREAM
TRAINING with Deborah Bowman, Ph.D.
Spring 2009
This training provides practitioners with hands-on experience working with their own dreams and
facilitating others. I demonstrate dream work and review the facilitation process as well as coach
participants in the facilitation with one another. Professional issues in dream facilitation are discussed
alongside the personal and transpersonal scope of the dream. Prior experience with Gestalt is
recommended.
Ø Here and now language deepens receptivity to the dream message
Ø Dramatic enactment brings forth inspiration, insight and creativity
Ø Gestalt and dream work heals difficult family history and trauma
Ø Intuition is accessed allowing us to recognize opportunities
Ø Gestalt enlivens the process of Jungian active imagination
Ø Art making draws on playfulness and symbolic expression
Deborah Bowman, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience in the field. She is a certified Gestalt therapist and founding chair of the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program at Naropa University where she also developed the Wilderness Therapy program. She integrates Gestalt, Jungian, creative and contemplative approaches to therapy. Deborah has extensive experience working with grief, depression, anxiety, women’s and men’s issues, dreams and the expressive arts. She has worked with the dying at Boulder County Hospice and investigated child abuse with Boulder County Social Services. She is a co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute where she teaches Creative Dream Process, Gestalt and the Child Within, and offers supervision for psychotherapists. Deborah is co-author of When Your Spouse Comes Out to be published spring 2008 by Haworth Press. She has displayed her art and photography in galleries in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. She is interested in helping others discover their loving, wise, spontaneous and present life.
For dates and times, please call Deborah Bowman at 303-440-08.