{"id":2345,"date":"2011-05-06T06:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2011-05-05T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:21:49","slug":"dreaming-with-kids-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/05\/dreaming-with-kids-in-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming with kids in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>More on the theme of dreaming with kids. Dream teacher Jane E. Carleton interviewed me on the subject of bringing dreaming to schools. Here is part of our conversation:<\/em><\/p>\n

JC:\u00a0 In bring dreaming to schools, to say a school assembly, and working with a large group of children, students in a school assembly, what would be a very productive way to do more than just talk about the dream?\u00a0 I know dream theater is one thing we can do.\u00a0 Are there any other ideas you have on approaching a large group of students?<\/p>\n

RM:\u00a0 Well, dream theater is terrific. If you\u2019re going to keep a large group of people engaged and entertained at the school level, you want some movement and you want some drama.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be a scene by scene dream theater. \u00a0But if you\u2019re having a dream told and being sketched out through movement, body language, play acting, people being put into roles as it\u2019s being told; it\u2019s terrific. If you have a dream with mountains and an eagle flying over the mountain, as it\u2019s being told have the kid choose, or have people volunteer, to play the mountains or the eagle, so people are getting into participating in the dream telling with their body and that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s an assembly you want to be alert for the possibility that dreams and synchronicities and other stories that are brought by kids in that assembly might offer guidance, inspiration, or just plain fun for the group.\u00a0 You know, so you might look for somebody who has a dream from the night before to tell that dream and see what luster it offers to the gathering that day.<\/p>\n

JC:\u00a0 Now if I\u2019m working with children in a school setting and I have a student come up to me who\u2019s very concerned about the nightmares that she\u2019s been having, and I know within the context of a school there\u2019s only so far I can go in working with that student.\u00a0 Do you have any recommendations on how to work in that situation?<\/p>\n

RM:\u00a0 If you\u2019re working in a school situation presumably there\u2019s a counselor or a teacher who can become your ally in helping a child with the consequences of doing the dreamwork. \u00a0Let\u2019s be alert to this.\u00a0 Children are not independent, free agents in life and sometimes their dreams reflect situations where they need adult help and care and sometimes these situations are not straightforward.<\/p>\n

For example, a child\u2019s dream may reflect an at-risk situation at home.\u00a0 What are you going to do about that? \u00a0Of course the family is not going to be entranced if such material is coming up in dream sharing in the school environment. So there are problems right there.\u00a0 But suppose, for the sake of the argument, that the child has shared a dream which concerns you as possibly reflecting a situation where the child or someone else in the family needs help or protection against a bad situation developing at home.\u00a0 You need a counselor or teacher or someone in a relative authority position who can help follow up on that and be present for the child and deal with the family if necessary.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to be alone and unsupported without that kind of ally in dealing with a kid in a school situation.\u00a0 Working with your own children or a friend\u2019s children would be a different situation.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about a public situation in a school.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another aspect of this that requires follow up.\u00a0 You know, dreams are precognitive.\u00a0 They show the future.\u00a0 Kids dream the future, they dream scary things that might happen in the future and you need to be alert to the possibility to help the child or others involved in the situation to use information about the possible future to avoid a bad event.\u00a0 The child may need help from adults who are in a caregiver or protective situation to deal with that.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 So those are situations you need to be prepared for in going into depth with dreamwork in a school situation. They\u2019re not obvious or easy solutions because you have the feelings and situation of the family to consider.\u00a0 But as a rule of thumb, if you as a dreamworker are going into a school situation, you want to be sure that you have the support and the backup available of the school counselor, the teacher, or someone in that scene to assist with what might need to be done after the sharing.<\/p>\n

When it comes to working with the scary dreams and nightmares that can be resolved in the dreamspace, it\u2019s a much clearer situation.\u00a0 If the child is scared by dragons you can teach them how to chase the dragon back and deal with that. If the child\u2019s scared of formless things in the night that do not reflect a bad at home, you can help them to move out that energy. But there are these external situations reflected in dreams that come to light through dream sharing, where the kid is going to need support beyond what you can offer in a dreamwork session and you need to have a strategy for offering that support and not leave that vague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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