Please join us for this talk on Jungian dreamwork and an overview of dreams and Dreamtime in indigenous cultures. Our speaker, Tayria Ward, Ph.D, has worked intensively with her own and other people’s dreams for more than 50 years, and for nearly 30 years has been an avid student of indigenous ways of knowing and being.

From Tayria: 
 
“The psyche is archaic,” Jung emphasized. Its origins go back to the beginnings of all things. The emergence of dreams in the personal psyche proceeds from the depths of wisdom in the ground of being.
 
In this lecture, we will consider Jung’s approach to working with dreams, utilizing his analytical method – discerning private meanings, revelations, and guidance. Also, we will discuss the understanding of dreams, as they have long been listened to by indigenous peoples, well before the idea of the individual ego was formed. We will explore the Aboriginal concept of the Dreamtime as a dimension of reality that lives with us, waking and sleeping.
 
It seems that currently a unified field of consciousness calls for our awareness of it, and dreams are a profound source of bringing this to consciousness.”

Tayria Ward, Ph.D., lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where she has a private practice offering dream analysis and psychological and spiritual guidance to clients from all parts of the world. Tayria has worked intensively with her own and other people’s dreams for more than 50 years, and for nearly 30 years has been an avid student of indigenous ways of knowing and being. In addition to her one-on-one sessions with clients, Tayria also conducts a monthly Global Community Dream Symposium wherein people from all over the world come to share their dreams and listen to the collective dreaming mind, conducts small private dream groups, and teaches a wide audience in regular lectures and interviews. She also offers private oracular readings upon request.