Upcoming events.
Join us on The Village Green for ongoing online community events!
The Village Green is for you and me. It is for the growing all-of-us that yearn to re-envision a brand new world dream. A village that welcomes its inhabitants to come together to bless and encourage a new way of seeing and doing. A village that can connect with other like minds around the pixels of the world, to participate in a building of a network of creative dreamers, visioners, explorers, and practitioners of hope and inspiration.
Community Dreaming | 12 Nights of Dreaming
Dreaming is a powerful practice for personal and collective healing that is accessible to every human being. In the context of Druidic beliefs, the “12 Nights of Dreaming” refers to a time around the winter solstice when Druids would gather and focus on dreams and visionary experiences as a way to deepen their connection with Spirit, with Nature, and one another while accessing guidance and insights for the coming year.
Sarah Maclean Bicknell, a healer, teacher, and mentor who has studied healing and ceremonial work in North American indigenous traditions for over 30 years, and lead teacher for the Arbor Legacy, a multi-year transformational leadership and service program to learn the arts of ceremony, dreaming, constellation, nature, and embodiment, has been engaging in this practice for decades, and it persists as a personal practice that she leans into and uses as she moves between December and January of each year. Sarah has invited Seth Pardo, an Alumnus of the Arbor Legacy and Minister with the Congregation for Sacred Practices, to lead this year’s Community Dreaming and 12 Nights of Dreaming Practices.
Join Seth and a growing community of active dreamers for an interactive workshop on Community Dreaming followed by our community tradition of 12 Nights of Dreaming to dream in the guidance and insights we need for the coming year!
Meeting Dates & Times:
Sunday December 15, 2024 (10-11:30am pacific time)
Sunday December 22, 2024 (10-11:30am pacific time)
Sunday January 12, 2025 (10-11:30am pacific time)
Sunday January 19, 2025 (10-11:30am pacific time)
If you are interested, but you have not yet taken any dreamwork courses with either Seth or Sarah (or if you want a dreamwork refresher ahead of the Community Dreaming | 12 Nights practice), Seth is offering an additional Intro to Dreamwork pre-workshop online session on Sunday Dec 8th from 10-11:30am pacific time.
For the zoom link to the pre-workshop, simply register here. Registration for Community Dreaming | 12 Nights is separate - details below with the main registration links!
To Register for the Community Dreaming | 12 Nights of Dreaming workshop:
Complete the registration form here.
Sign up for The Village Green if you aren't already a member. Access to The Village Green is free and required to participate in this event.
Pay via the payment link in The Village Green. If you are an Oak Grove or Arbor Legacy member, please use the link posted in the relevant circle for your discount.
Once you have paid, you will be invited to join the 12 Nights of Dreaming space in the Village Green. Accept the invitation and RSVP to the events to access the Zoom links.
Tuition:
$400 | Standard/Acorn
$250 | Oak Grove
$75 | Arbor Legacy
Let’s Dream Together!
Intro to Dreamwork
Dreaming is a powerful practice for personal and collective healing that is accessible to every human being. This 90-minute interactive workshop will encourage and empower us to engage with dreaming as a personal and collective practice. Attendees will gain a better understanding of what is happening when we dream, how to unpack or “work” a dream, how to be with the “waking dream,” and receive tips for how to develop a daily dream practice.
This workshop is accessible to dreamers across the spectrum of experience, including those who don’t remember dreams. There will be something valuable for everyone.
For the zoom link to the pre-workshop, simply register here.
For additional practice, participants are encouraged to join an active community of dreamers for our Annual Community Dreaming | 12 Nights of Dreaming practice that begins Dec 15, 2024! Requires separate registration.
Constellation w/Sarah MacLean Bicknell (Day 2)
Participants will be able to experience a full day of constellation facilitated by Sarah Maclean Bicknell -a master facilitator who has most notably studied constellation under the direction of Francesca Mason-Boring, known for bringing an Indigenous perspective to the field. Participants will be invited to observe family constellations and given opportunity to participate as representatives. Participants may register Day Two only, or for the full workshop as both days.
Introduction to Family & Systems Constellation CEs (Day 1)
Family Constellations is an effective healing modality that is underutilized when compared to other somatic interventions like psychodrama, partswork, and group psychotherapy. This workshop, co-taught by Akhila Elizabeth Kolesar, Ph.D, Sarah MacLean Bicknell and Seth Pardo, Ph.D, aims to introduce the field of Family and Systems Constellation while providing mental health practitioners with an opportunity to experience how this modality may be applied in the contexts of individual psychotherapy, small groups, and supportive large group formats. 7 CEs available for mental health professionals.
The Dreaming Summit: A Benefit Event for Bridging Spirit
Dreaming is a powerful practice for personal and collective healing that is accessible to every human being. This one-day virtual summit will encourage and empower people across communities to engage with dreaming as a personal and collective practice, one that has been known to all of our ancestors and every culture on the planet. Participants will gain a better understanding of what is happening when we dream, how to unpack or “work” a dream, how to use creative methods to utilize the “waking dream,” and how to develop a daily dream practice. We will explore dreaming as a tool to empower our waking life and better understand why dreaming is essential for growing the future we want. This is a benefit event for Bridging Spirit’s BIPOC grant program.
Community Dreaming | 12 Nights of Dreaming
Over the years many people have been interested and curious about what my teacher, Sarah Maclean Bicknell, refers to as her 12 nights of dreaming. It is a personal practice that she leans into and uses as she moves between the month of December and into January of each year.
This year, it is being combined with a Community Dreaming course that Sarah will be teaching.
This course is for those who have already taken The Dreamer & The Messenger course with Sarah or with me and all advanced dreamers!
*if you haven’t taken Dreamer & The Messenger and would like to participate in this Community Dreaming course, please reach out to me ASAP to arrange for a 1-on-1 tutorial so you can participate.
Congregation for Sacred Practices (monthly events)
The Congregation for Sacred Practices hosts monthly gatherings such as potlucks, integration circles, breath work, seasonal rituals, book clubs, and retreats that help foster genuine feelings of belonging, curiosity, and love. Here, community is the real medicine. The author, Margaret Wheatley, once said that “There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” If you are a spiritual seeker who wants to develop your own relationship with sacred medicines along side a conscious community then check out the Congregation for Sacred Practices website for more info on their regularly hosted events. the Congregation welcomes everyone with open arms and recognizes that it’s the differences amongst us that make us all whole. Click the link below to check out their events page for ongoing community gatherings and to deepen your own sacred practices.