Begin the new year by reconnecting with your inner world.
A Weekend of Dreams is a winter retreat dedicated to exploring dreams and their symbolic language within a small, respectful group setting. Through shared dream sessions, gentle inquiry, and image-focused dialogue, this weekend offers space to engage with the unconscious in a quiet and attentive way.

Over three days, we meet for an introductory session on Friday evening, a full day of dreamwork on Saturday, and additional sessions on Sunday until the afternoon. The rhythm allows time for rest, winter walks, and sitting by the fireplace as well. The group is limited to twelve participants.

For whom

The weekend is open to anyone curious about their dreams.
No previous experience with dreamwork is required. Participants should feel comfortable sharing a dream within the group. The workshop is not therapy.

About Dreamwork

Dreamwork – although not therapeutic – is intended for those interested in what the unconscious may be expressing through dreams. It differs from classical dream interpretation in that the aim is not to determine a single, fixed meaning. Instead, dreamwork explores the images, emotions, and symbolic elements that a dream presents, allowing multiple layers of meaning to remain open.

Keeping the dream “alive” is central. A single definitive interpretation can close the symbolic field, while dreamwork maintains it as a dynamic process. A dream may have several possible meanings depending on the level explored—subjective, objective, or associative.

A core principle is that each person has their own dream “language.” A place, figure, or object may mean something entirely different for each dreamer and may shift over time. For this reason, dreamwork adopts an attitude of not knowing, beginning with listening, questioning, and staying close to the dream itself.

Only after the dream has been fully heard and understood do participants offer reflections, each framed with: “If this were my dream…” This method, developed by Montague Ullman, Stanley Krippner, and Jeremy Taylor, ensures that interpretations remain tentative and that the dreamer remains free to consider or set aside what is offered. Insight or resonance may arise immediately or only days later.

The emphasis is always on openness, respectful attention, and supporting the dreamer’s own relationship to their inner imagery.

How a Dream Group Session Works

Dreamwork takes place in a circle, where all participants sit as equals. Sessions begin with a brief check-in with anyone who worked on a dream previously.

A participant then shares a dream. The group listens closely, then asks clarifying questions to ensure the dream is fully understood. This questioning phase stays close to the imagery—its figures, settings, colours, gestures, and objects—and includes questions about the emotional tone and the dreamer’s current life context.

Only after this exploration does the group offer reflections, each framed as “If this were my dream…” This keeps the process open and allows the dreamer to remain in full authorship of their experience.

If time allows, a second or third dream may be explored in the same way. Throughout, the facilitator ensures the work does not become theoretical, personal advice, or therapy. The focus remains strictly on the dream and its symbolic material.

Everything shared in the room remains confidential.

About Stefano Carpani

Stefano Carpani is an Italian psychoanalyst and sociologist, accredited at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich.
He holds a PhD from the University of Essex in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and teaches at both the Pacifica Graduate Institute in California and the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich.
He is the founder of Jungianeum, an initiative for Contemporary Analytical Psychology and Neo-Jungian Studies, and maintains a private practice in Berlin.