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| 29 Jun 2025 | |
| PAST EVENTS |
Lanie Bergin will share the progress of Project Dream Span, a living digital archive comprising more than four decades of dream journals, artistic reflection, and correlation with life events. Lanie will share her evolving understanding of tending to dreams and what she's learned about the uniquely individual process that relies on one's relationship to the psyche.
"What does the image have to SAY?" This question is on the minds of every dreamer. Lanie discovered that a creative approach to dream tending is the glue in her relationship to the psyche.
“When I had a series of psychedelic-like dreams in 1993 I panicked. I shared my experience with my mom. I wanted to know the meaning and she told me to DRAW what I saw and to listen to the images! It was at this point in my life that I learned how to draw. I was desperate to hear what the dreams had to say to me and my devotion to the process of bringing them to life continues to this day. This process of dream tending helps me to stay close to the homeland of my dreamscape.”
In this experiential workshop, you will learn new ways of trusting your inner guide by manifesting images and words directly into art and back out into the world. Lanie will share profound and mysterious stories of how dream images can arise in the life we wake up to every morning, no matter how unsettling the images or uncertain the pilgrimage before us.
Spoiler alert: A resistance to attributing conclusive deterministic analysis is required!
Group Activity: Lanie will lead participants through a somatic-based expressive arts encounter. Participants will use some of the tools and methods Lanie uses in her process.
Art materials needed: paper (any size), pastels, crayons, markers, journal book, pen.
Lanie Bergin, M.Ed, Registered Somatic Therapist and Educator. Founder, Director, Curriculum Development. Lanie has been a teacher and learner in the interdisciplinary expressive arts field since 1986. Lanie is the founder and visionary of Expressive Arts Institute of Oregon and she is the Program Director and Master Lead Teacher for the advanced programs in EAIO. She also offers on-going supervision for academic students who are studying expressive arts therapy. Lanie is on the Board of Directors for Expressive Arts Institute of Oregon. For the past 20 years, Lanie has created curricula for all vocational training programs in somatic-based arts therapy for the school. Lanie is currently working on her personal dream archive called Project Dream Span (PDS) which is based on a repository of journals including dreams, drawings, and life context that spans over four decades. She is the founder of The Center for Dreaming Arts.
