Robin van Löben Sels
First edition: 2010, Trout and Mountain Press
Second edition: 2024, be bold books
Essentially this little booklet (44 pages) consists of six brief chapters (listed below) with comments, quotations, and empty pages for your own dreams, notes and ideas.
| Chapter One: | Introduction |
|---|---|
| Chapter Two: | What Dreams Can Do |
| Chapter Three: | Some Important Notions: Self, Spirit, Soul, Individuation, Psyche, Spirituality and Mysticism, Collective Unconscious |
| Chapter Four: | Dream Workshop Notes |
| Chapter Five: | Dream Gathering (and Tending): Living with a Dream (2012); Becoming A Person (2023) |
| Chapter Six: | Tribal Dreaming (in Groups) |
"This is a gracious, concise primer of Jungian work with dreams. Here are the basic pillars of the work, and that is worth a great deal. But, if you read with your heart open, you will feel the breeze that is spirit blowing through these pages. It will tear open the secret door to the vast landscapes of dreams, and that will change everything."
— Jane E. Penrod APRN, Certified Jungian Analyst, Clinical Nurse Specialist
"Dreamwork(ing): A Primer, opens a door to mysteries of the psyche that seek to inform, challenge, grow, and transform us and the world. Robin van Loben Sels (umlatt over o) invites her readers into several grounded, rich patterns for working with dreams, including innovative and unique means for dream tending processes in groups, for renewal of oneself, and renewal for others. Robin's gift to group process and dreaming is rare: her embodied wisdom and life-long relationship to the telluric (of earth and soil - i.e., psychoid) depths of the psyche guide the way, grounding the practices she recommends for future generations. In Robin's own words, given an awareness of the depths that appear in dreams "we can track healing processes that take place-not from our conscious ego situation but from the psyche's perspective." Her rare wisdom and her felt sense of how to get along in these depths is particularly concentrated in the third chapter as she addresses Self, Spirit, Soul, Individuation, Psyche, Spirituality, Mysticism and the Collective Unconscious. May Robin's wise weavings throughout this Dreamwork(ing): A Primer remain with you and help light our way from your own dream lantern's light."
— Monika Wikman, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst