Tending Dreams: Holding Soul Images in Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Director Enrichment Day
Saturday, November 14, 2026, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
$125 includes Lunch
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About this offering
This Professional Enrichment Day for Spiritual Directors provides a space for spiritual directors to gather for fellowship, formation, and personal reflection.
Nighttime dream images can be confusing, scary, and embarrassing. When a directee brings dreams to direction, the director can experience a proverbial deer in the headlights moment. In the worldview of depth psychology – the psychology of spirituality - dream images are Soul messages with benefit for the dreamer. Some dreams hold multiple layers of significance that are revealed over time, a rich storehouse for nurturing Soul and Spirit. This day-long training will support directors in learning to be faithful, unobtrusive, and trustworthy guides of their directees’ exploration of dream images. The methods introduced here can also be applied to waking world experiences, helping directees to perceive the activity of God in their lives and offer support in their discernment of God’s call.
This day of enrichment will offer directors:
- A live example of tending a dream in a spiritual direction session with opportunity for debrief and discussion
- Tips on how to facilitate the shift in consciousness required to fully benefit from dream material
- An array of tools for the dreamer to open and amplify their dream images
- A few words on archetypes of the collective unconscious and why they matter
- Methods for dreaming the dream forward
- Self-care tips for the director who accompanies their directees in exploring the underworld realm of griefs, terrors, and overwhelm
- Cautions on the ethics of dream work
Contact Megan Shepherd, Director of Spirituality and Retreats for more information or with any questions.
About the presenter
Liz Walz, Ph.D., a spiritual director since 2003 and facilitator of spiritual retreats since 2004, offers deep listening in service of your soul and the soul of the world. A spiritual seeker for four decades and counting, Liz's background includes the Catholic Worker movement and nonviolent direct action; yoga, massage, and Ayurveda certifications; and directing a school for contemplative living. Liz is enthusiastic about the many "love languages" of the Divine. Her retreats offer a thoughtful and grounded framework supported by bodily-based ways of knowing tapping into intuitive wisdom and insight through creative expression. Liz's theology is cosmological and Christo-centric; her spiritual practices are creativity and nature based. Liz received her doctorate in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, with a focus on dreams. She lives at the foot of Cape Cod.