Dreaming & Expressive Arts is an online workshop that invites you into the rich interplay between your dream life, creativity, and the deep intelligence of your psyche. Guided by Lanie Bergin, you will explore your dreamworld using expressive arts practices rooted in imagery, movement, writing, symbol, and intuitive inquiry.

This program is informed by Lanie’s lifetime of dream tending and her extensive research archive, Project Dream Span (PDS)—a four-decade collection of dreams, artwork, journals, and correlations with life events.

In 2025, PDS made its first public appearance when Lanie was invited to present her workshop Attending to the Dreamworld at the Wise Woman Forum. This pivotal presentation introduced her live-long dream journaling ritual and her image-centered approach to dream tending.

This workshop expands on that presentation, offering participants a hands-on experience of Lanie’s method.

One guiding question shapes her work:

“What does the image have to SAY?”

In 1993, after a series of psychedelic-like dreams, Lanie sought meaning and guidance. Her mother encouraged her to draw the images and listen to them. This moment inspired her to deepen her creative relationship with the dreamworld.

Lanie writes:

“I learned to draw because I was desperate to understand what my dreams were saying. This tending process has kept me close to the homeland of my dreamscape ever since.”

Her approach emphasizes an open, non-deterministic relationship to dream images—one that favors curiosity, conversation, and imaginative tending over fixed interpretation.

• A small cohort environment for intimate connection

• A supportive, safe, and respectful community for sharing discoveries

• Tools to learn how to work with your dream in a public setting while sustaining the privacy of your dream story. You won’t be asked to read your dream out-loud in the class. You will learn how to reflect and share your dream discoveries and connections with others in the cohort

• Practice and discover new approaches to writing, reflection and understanding the magical well of information in the subconscious of the dreamworld.

• Dream inquiry frameworks used in our Expressive Arts training programs

• Expressive arts tools integrated with dreamwork; drawing, writing, movement and reflective harvesting

• Research-based content drawn from Project Dream Span

• Opportunities to track symbols, patterns, and themes across dreams and life context

• Practices that nurture emotional well-being, psychological insight, self-discovery, and renewal 

• A gentle resistance of deterministic interpretation — embracing openness, curiosity & the unknown

• How to build an intimate, creative relationship with your psyche

• How dreams inform your waking life, intuition, and personal myth

• How imagery travels between dreaming and waking worlds

• How art-making becomes a vessel for listening to dream images

• How to identify dream patterns and follow them over time

• How to “know thyself” through a regular tending-based practice

• The long-term benefits of a tending-based practice

• Bring one dream that you want to work with personally

• Important: Choose a dream that is manageable for the sake of learning the practice in a group environment. For example, dreams that are suitable for Private Practice are emotionally, mentally and physically unsettling.

• Paper for drawing and writing. markers, crayons, pastels or chalk