Jungian Dreams Workshop

The workshop is open to psychotherapists, counsellors, or therapists of any modality with an interest in working with dreams. The ability to openly engage with the reading material is an essential part of the group’s discussions.

6 Saturdays, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on Zoom

10:00 – 11:30:  Seminar led by an experienced Jungian Analyst on different aspects of dreams.

11:30 – 11:45:   break

11:45-13:00:      Practical engagement with a dream, or dreams, provided by the participants from either their own experience or that of their clients/patients – with Ruth Calland.

The course is designed for qualified therapists who are currently practicing, but we do also welcome applications from trainees with at least 100 hours of clinical practice.

Standard – £575

Trainee – £ 540

Please note that the bpf will not be held responsible for travel/hotel expenses made or incurred in the unlikely event of this course either being cancelled or postponed. See our cancellation and refund policies for more information.

Workshops Coordinator  

Ruth Calland 

Ruth Calland is a Jungian analyst and supervisor working with adults and couples. She was Chair of the British Jungian Analytic Association during the pandemic, when she initiated the development of the once-weekly Jungian training. She teaches on the BPF Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training, is a training analyst, and was the initiator of the Creative Workshops Program for BJAA. She has an interest in the outsider, neurodiversity, queerness and creativity. Her paper ‘Race, power and intimacy in the intersubjective field: the intersection of racialized cultural complexes and personal complexes’ won the Fordham Prize in 2021. She is also a professional artist and is currently working towards a solo show about transformations of the self ‘This Is All the Treasure We Can Have or Hold’, at the 20:21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, touring to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.  

2025 – 2026 Programme

October 11th – The Alchemy of Dreams 

Marilyn A F Mathew 

In this seminar we will explore the various alchemical themes and symbols that occur in dreams. Archetypal processes, contexts, characters, colours, patterns, topography, direction, and shapes, for example, can offer insight into deep layers of the psyche. This can help us amplify the current position of ego with Self and also track the development of themes of individuation through dream series. 

MARILYN A F MATHEW is a Jungian Training Analyst for the BJAA 

Marilyn qualified in 1994 and since then has taken the role of Chair of the BJAA and Chair of the BJAA Training Committee. Currently she runs weekly Clinical Seminars for analysts-in-training and acts as a consultant for Infant Observation. 

Marilyn teaches theoretical seminars on many aspects of dreams to do with Alchemy, Myths & Fairy Tales, and Dream Series. She is an experienced Social Dreaming Matrix Convenor and is consulted by people interested in exploring the dreams of adults or children through amplification and art. 

Marilyn works in private practice with adults and supervisees in the UK and abroad, in person and online. Apart from her special interest in dreams and imagery, she is extremely interested in the nature of unconscious non-verbal communication and very early relationships. She is the author of a number of published papers & chapters. 

November 8th  –  Dreams: Active Imagination and Guided Imagery 

Dale Mathers  

‘Dreams are letters from the Self’, said Marie Louise von Franz. They are written in symbols – a language in which the images are continually changing, so there is never one meaning for any dream. The meanings evolve over time, which is why there can’t be a ‘dictionary of dreams’. There are three main ways to engage with dreams: free association, active imagination and guided imagery. The latest research in neuroscience clearly shows how and where dreams are formed – and when we use any of these three techniques we use the same neural networks to decode dreams as we do to create them. In this seminar, we’ll look at this research, its implication for clinical practice, and play with these techniques. Participants will need drawing paper and crayons. 

Dr. Dale Mathers MB. BS., is a retired psychiatrist, former training analyst and supervisor with the Association of Jungian Analysts. Member of the Russian Society for Analytical Psychology. Humanistic psychotherapist. Teaches analytical psychology in the UK, Ukraine, and Russia. Author of many publications, including:  Dreams: the basics, (2024) London, Routledge, and Depth psychology and climate change, (2019) London: Routledge (ed.) 

December 13th 2025 – Cultural Dreaming 

Fanny Brewster 

Cultural Dreaming seminar details to follow shortly 

Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Core Faculty member in the Depth Psychology Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices, at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in the USA. As a faculty member of the New York C.G. Jung Foundation she has taught classes and given public forum lectures on Jungian related topics. While a Board Member with the New York Analytical Psychology Club, Dr. Brewster developed and led experiential workshops on Dreams, Creative Writing and Mythology. She has given national and international workshops and lectures on Culture, Diversity and Creativity—the Depth Writing Workshop. She has received two Gradiva Award nominations for her writing from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. Her most recent book is Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming (2023, Routledge) 

January 10^th 2026 – Dream Series 

Julian Masters  

Jung wrote, ‘I attach little importance to the interpretation of single dreams’. In this seminar we will explore the dream within the context of a series where it becomes possible to see the dynamism of the individuation process at work over time. We will examine a few specific examples to show the extraordinary creativity of these unconscious processes. 

Julian Masters is a member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (bpf) and the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP). He works as a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in Oxford. He teaches on BPF’s MSc course ‘Psychodynamics of Human Development’ and its introductory course ‘Psychotherapy Today’. Julian is also a painter, musician, and composer.  

February 7th 2026  –  Social Dreaming. Exploring the unconscious dynamics of the collective 

Helen Morgan 

Social Dreaming is a pioneering methodology that has been developed since 1982 by Gordon Lawrence and his colleagues at the Tavistock Institute, London and elsewhere. This perspective regards dreams as more than the private possession of the dreamer and suggests that, by exploration in a social context through free association and amplification, the dream may help us gain a greater awareness of the hidden, underlying dynamics of the setting within which it takes place. This idea has an ancient lineage. Long before Freud and Jung began to study them, dreams and dreaming had great significance to people such as the Australian Aboriginals, Native Americans, Africans etc. as they attempted to understand the meaning of their lives and the world in which they lived. In this session we will explore some of the principles underlying the concept of the Matrix, using illustrations from previous Matrices convened in International settings. 

Helen Morgan is a Fellow of the British Psychotherapy Foundation (BPF) and is a training analyst and supervisor for BJAA. Her background is in therapeutic communities with adolescents and in adult mental health. She was chair of the British Association of Psychotherapists from 2004–2008, and chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council from 2015-2018. She has convened and written about Social Dreaming Matrices since 1995. She has also written and spoken on the subject of racism and her book, ‘The Work of Whiteness. A Psychoanalytic Perspective’ was published in 2021 by Routledge. 

March 7th 2026 – Those who cross you: psychosocial approaches to otherness in dreams 

George Taxidis 

One of the most painful aspects of undergoing Jungian analysis, is the emphasis on paying attention to the inner and outer other. Jung says that in the path to individuation, one will inevitably “run into things that thwart and ‘cross’” them (CW16, para. 470) – the word ‘cross’ and its association to crucifixion pointing to how excruciating these encounters can be. This seminar will adopt a psychosocial lens to the centrality of encountering the other in dreams and active imagination. We will discuss several dreams and wrestle with the inner/outer world conundrum, particularly the temptation to see figures in dreams as mere reflections of figures in one’s outer life and how challenging it can be to discern when integrating otherness calls for action (activism, even) in the external world, and when it does not. We will end with a live reading of one of Jung’s own encounters with otherness in The Red Book. 

George Taxidis is a Jungian analyst with the British Jungian Analytic Association and works in private practice in east London. He studied Jung’s Red Book with the Circle of Analytical Psychology. He is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches psychodynamic counselling and psychosocial studies. He co-founded the International Queer Jungian Initiative and is currently writing a book on queering Jungian psychology, to be published as part of the Jung, Politics and Culture series by Routledge. 

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This course will be conducted online, via Zoom.

Register for September 2025.

Kindly download the application form. Once completed, please send it to Angelina Verduzco, at: [email protected]

The bpf is committed to diversity and inclusivity in all the work we deliver. We are fully dedicated to promoting, maintaining and supporting equality of opportunity in all aspects of our organisation and, as such, the bpf welcomes applications from all sections of society.