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2-hr LIVE ONLINE TRAINING | Portland Institute for Loss and Transition (2021)

"Dreamscaping can be emotionally less taxing on client’s physiology and can be energizing."
Grace B. Yap-Kirk
Grace B. Yap-KirkAssociate Dance Movement Therapist and accredited Spiritual Director
"This is all about conversation, bringing out meaning. It's not about bypassing the loss to lift them up. It's about a bridge from loss into light."
Lindsey Gaye Walker
Lindsey Gaye WalkerCertified Life Coach and Grof Transpersonal Trainer
"It seemed to be a very organic process of both open ended and targeting questions to facilitate the client’s understanding of the loss. The therapist was able to be present with the client where the client was located on the grief journey in a non-threatening and judgmental manner. It felt very comfortable for me to witness and to explore in my own life and practice."
Janet Martin CT, CDP
Janet Martin CT, CDPChaplain
"It's cultivating joy and laughter and pleasure that reminds them of life rather than death."
Florence Fong
Florence FongMedical Social Worker
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Portland Institute learners of Dreamscaping

[PI Workshop on Prescriptive Memory-Making   

 

January 26, 2021

Portland, OR 

SESSION TITLE:  “Liberating Joy from Loss: Prescriptive Memory-Making through Dyadic Creativity”  (Mod. 1: Techniques)

 Three hours total activity—including 2-hour webinar and approximately 1-hour reflection leads towards Certification in Grief Therapy as Meaning Reconstruction or Certification in Art-Assisted Grief Therapy.

Months, even years after the loss of a person, place, pet or thing, do your clients complain about a dwindling support system or joys eclipsed by hopelessness or choice-lessness?  Dreamscaping and prescriptive memory-making— as taught by its developer Nancy Gershman— is a novel technique for identifying unrealized unmet needs by excavating felt-sense memories of positive emotion  and arriving at the memory your client needs.  The pay-off is two fold: memory reconsolidation (the updating of a long term distressing memory,) and the creation of a tangible prescriptive memory (the “dreamscape”) that can be shared with a support network driven away by a problem-focused life.

FACULTY:    Nancy Gershman, LMSW.

Monday, March 22, 2021:  “Techniques Module” for Asia-Pacific time zones | 9-11am, SGT: Singapore, which corresponds to 10am-12pm in Tokyo;  12-2pm in Sydney and Melbourne and on Mar. 21, 2021, 8-10pm in New York.

COURSE PACK provides:

  • Classic Dreamscape Template;
  • Case Anatomies featuring a branching tree of questions posed by the therapist during the imaginal interviewing and brainstorming phases of Dreamscaping; and
  • Response Journal: Rubrics for brief reflective writing that, upon completion, confers credit of 1 Technique Module.

REGISTER:   Click here

Nancy Gershman LMSW, is a memory artist and the developer of Dreamscaping, an imaginal and photo-based therapy for working with loss of a person, place or thing,  supported by the way memories get encoded in the brain. An international presenter, Nancy is also a full-time therapist with BHAVA Therapy Group in New York City. Her publications include Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping (Routledge, 2019) with Barbara E. Thompson, and case studies in Robert A. Neimeyer’s Techniques of Grief Therapy (Routledge, 2012, 2016). Her Dreamscaping work with end-of-life patients and their families at Visiting Nurse Service of NY was featured on NY1’s “New Yorker of the Week” (2016). Her work with the eating-disordered culminated in the traveling exhibit, “The Brides of Ed” (2013).  Since 2013, she hosts Death Café New York City.

 
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