Dreams and Your Ethnoautobiographical Journey

Dreams open us up to a larger sense of self. Dreams transmit unmediated communications from the all-encompassing spirit world of our ancestors, slipping past the modern ego-centered personality that anchors Western culture. They are a particular integrative state of consciousness that humans have paid attention to since forever. Dreams transgress the well-honed boundaries of conventional selfhood and consensual, object-oriented reality They weave us into what is inside and around us - nature, family, community, the divine, etc. - and they are part of our sense of self. Dreams help us connect with the parts of ourselves that we are not routinely aware of. Dreams initiate transformative processes that are healing, liberating, and empowering for both individual and collective. Engaging with the shimmering edges of ourselves we deepen our ethnoautobiographical inquiry and strengthen our ways to redefine who we are.

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In this workshop, Jurgen and Leny will offer a process of working with dreams that supports our journey towards a sense of self that is larger than our modern conditioning.Leny's BioLeny Mendoza Strobel is Kapampangan from the Philippines and is currently a settler on Pomo and Coast Miwok lands (Sonoma County, Ca). Her work has focused on the process of decolonization and re-indigenization. Most recently, she facilitates a local place-based cohort with the vision of "repair and reparations" with local indigenous communities. She is a founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies and is Professor Emeritus of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She tends a garden and chickens with Cal.www.lenystrobel.com@lenystrobelJurgen's BioJürgen W. Kremer received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the Universität Hamburg, Germany. In 1982 Jürgen settled in the San Francisco Bay Area to teach full time and serve as dean at Saybrook University and at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

His teaching and research interests range from general psychology, clinical psychology and research methods to the relevance of indigenous knowledge and shamanism for today as well as ethno-autobiography. For many years now he has developed conferences and other events for the Society for Indigenous and Ancestral Wisdom and Healing. His research has focused on his ancestral traditions and he has spent much time visiting with the Sami of the European Arctic. For four years he co-directed, with Dr. Apela Colorado, a program for Native American students and others concerned with indigenous roots and origins. He is a consultant for psychology of indigenous mind with the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network. Jürgen is widely published and he is the editor of the journal ReVision (revisionpublishing.org). One of his current projects is the development of a program for Indigenous Science and Peace Studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.__________________

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The purpose of the monthly workshops is to expose us to different perspectives and ideas related to topics we’re grappling with in our lives and in the world at large. We’re initiating a community-driven process to draw from the community what is most alive and present, and from that creating the scaffolding for an exploration during the monthly workshop. We’re expanding the realm of possibility for how that exploration could look, but we hope it to be a content-rich place of expansion; to challenge us with perspectives and ideas that can create openings to the borderlands.