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Dreams and the Spiritual Life

Dreams and the Spiritual Life

DATES & TIMES:

Friday, February 21, 2025, 6pm-8:30pm and

Saturday, February 22, 2025 5-8pm

Cost: $130

Join this exploration and develop an understanding for working with dreams, your own, but also as a listener to dreams of others. We will discuss and define what dreams are, but more importantly we will experience the potent ways they can shape our spiritual lives.

Many spiritual traditions place great value on dreams. The Biblical tradition, for example, is filled with dreams and dreamers. The saints and mystics from many traditions report dreams and visions that in turn shaped the contemplative and spiritual traditions. In the modern world, we have lost this way of listening deeply to the Soul, to the Divine, and we often resist the hidden chambers that dreams reveal. Dreams are often filled with images and scenes which are not really within the realm of our ego’s control, our egoic plans, or even what we think is really going on. They speak from the side if we know how to listen.  This is a great opportunity for Spiritual Directors, Pastoral Care and Health Care professionals who come alongside others to listen and support their spiritual journeys.

 

“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks primarily through dreams and visions.”

~Carl Jung

Facilitator

Kent Dobson

Author, Teacher, Guide

Kent is an author, teacher and guide, in wilderness settings and on Pilgrimages to Israel. He is a trained guide for Animas Valley Institute, an organization dedicated to facilitating a deep conversation between nature and the human soul. He has extensive training and experience working with dreams in one-on one settings, and in wilderness intensives with groups. Explore Kent Dobson’s podcast:
Hints & Guesses 

“Hints and Guesses” is a line from T.S. Eliot. It seemed like a perfect idea to start conversations about spirituality, religion, doubt, sacred texts, nature, soul, love, death, and all the good stuff.

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Financial Assistance 

Scholarships are available.

We do not want the cost of our program to prohibit you from attending, so please reach out to us by calling 616-514-3325 or emailing us at programs@dominicancenter.com to learn about scholarship assistance or to make a payment plan.

Location 

The retreat will be held at the Dominican Center Marywood.

We are on Aquinas College’s campus, right off Fulton Street.

1700 Fulton St. E, Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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