DreamStartm
Certification Program
The DreamStartm program was
originally conceived as an open-ended mentoring process
that could be tailored to each person's interests, needs,
and prior experience as a dream worker. However, we also
live in a world in which credentials and certifications
help to define who we are, and to reveal our seriousness of
commitment to our respective disciplines. With that in
mind, we offer a certification program which covers the
major facets of dreamwork, while focusing principally on
mastering the FiveStartm Method.
If
you are interested in receiving mentoring in dream analysis
without
certification, that can be arranged on a per-session
basis.
Certified
Dream Work Practitioner
This
certification process has been designed to conform to
the standards established
by the International Association for the Study of Dreams
for dreamwork training programs. As for the amount time
and work required, it can be considered the equivalent
to a university practicum course, so you can expect to
spend three or four months on the program, depending on
your concurrent obligations.
Concerning evaluation: 1) Your response essays for each
module are due prior to a one-hour Skype session with your
trainer. He or she will review the essays, and provide
feedback and make any requests for changes before
proceeding to the next module; 2) The final quiz is
multiple choice, and can be retaken if, by chance, you do
not score 70 percent or above the first time.
Module I: Lucid
Dreaming as a Game Changer in Dream
Analysis
1-Read (brief selected portions of) Our Dreaming Mind by Robert
Van de Castle, which covers historic and crosscultural
aspects of dreaming and dream interpretation.
2-Read Lucid
Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear
Light,
which
reflects some of Scott's early thinking about the dream
state, introduces the need to focus on dreamer
responses, and conveys the respectful attitude toward
dream content embodied in the FiveStar
Method.
3-View
the video interview on lucid
dreaming that was created for a cable TV
series, hosted by Dr. Mark Thurston.
4-Listen to
the Centerpoint interview.
5-Response
essay: "How Lucid Dreaming Challenges Historical
Assumptions About Dreams"
6-Personal dream work Skype session with your mentor
Module 2:
Analyzing Dreams as an Interactive Process: Implications
for a Multicultural Perspective
1-Read
"The Cocreative Paradigm in Practice:
Applying the Concept of Reciprocity to the Analysis of
Dream Imagery."
2-Read "How Systems Theory
and Postmodern Ideas Can Influence the Way that We
Perceive and Analyze Dreams."
3-Review the IASD Dreamwork Ethics
Statement.
4-Response essay: "How the cocreative dream model supports
a non-invasive and culturally diverse approach to dream
analysis."
5-Personal dream work Skype session with your mentor
Module 3:
Introduction to The FiveStar Method
1-Read "The Development
of the FiveStar Method"
2-Read
"The FiveStar Method: A Relational Dream Work
Methodology
3-Response Essay: "Comparing the FSM with Content-Oriented
Dream Work Approaches"
5-Personal dream work Skype session with your mentor
Module 4:
Learning to Apply the FiveStar Method
1-Complete the
Powerpoint workshop, "Putting
the FiveStar Method to Work."
2-Review
"Summary of the Five Star Method."
3-Read
"Understanding Adaptive Responses in
the Analysis of Dreams from the Standpoint of Cocreative
Dream Theory"
4-Response
Essay/Journal Exercise: "Applying the FSM on One of My Own
Dreams"
5-Personal dream work Skype session with your mentor
Module 5:
Learning to Use Meditation and Response-Oriented Dream Work
to Facilitate Healing
1-Read
“Early Morning Meditation and Dream
Reliving as Catalysts for Lucid
Dreams.”
2-Read
"A Peace You've Never
Known."
3-Read "Dreams as a Path of
Initiation,"
4-Personal Practice of Middle-of-the-Night Meditation and
Dream Reliving on your own dreams
4-Response Essay: "Dream work scenarios in which I could
imagine using MNM and DR"
5-Personal dream work Skype session with your mentor
Module 6-9:
Practicum in the FiveStar Method
1-Submit five
audiotapes or videotapes of FSM session with
dreamers
2-Submit client
consent release forms and feedback reports for each
session.
3-Schedule
five Skype sessions with your mentor to review your work.
Module
10
Complete "Readiness Paper" in which you address several
prompts pertaining to your readiness to work as a certified
DreamStar practicioner.
Final Procedures
3-Complete
Survey
4-Receive Certificate via US Postal.
5-Your name will be added to the graduate/referral
list.
To receive
more information about the mentoring/certification process,
please fill out our Contact Page. To
apply for the program, please submit an
online application. The
cost of the program is $795, and can be broken down into
four payments--one before starting, a second after
Module 4, a third after Module 7, and the final payment
upon successful completion of the program.
