Description
DreamKids® Imagery for Children meets on Zoom on Wednesdays from October 30, 2024 – May 21, 2025 | 1:00PM – 2:30PM EDT (US)
Unusual times call for us to reach within for guidance, as we have the ability to be our own guiding stars. And when children can cultivate this innate ability of creativity to access their inner knowledge, it empowers them to be resilient and confident, two qualities they need in this world of new and special challenges.
DreamKids® Imagery for Children, being offered in its inaugural year by Dr. Catherine Shainberg with Certified Practitioner Sheona McEwan, aims to develop a collection of resources and techniques specifically designed to help young people in this unusual era — one marked by the social isolation born from Covid; overuse of technology; and/or increased uncertainties about the future voiced by adults at home or in the media.
The School of Images, founded by Dr. Catherine Shainberg, explores the ways that imagery, and both night and waking dreams can be used as a path to health and healing. Dr Shainberg has written several books on this topic and teaches her method all over the world. Much of the work involves the use of short, yet powerful exercises that help harness the power of the imagination and the subconscious to create improved social, physical and mental condition.
Sheona McEwan, a legacy practitioner of the School, is a child psychologist and special needs educator and counselor working in private practice for over 20 years. She regularly uses Dr Shainberg’s methods in counseling and teaching practice with school-aged students and their parents. She has found that the playful creative exercises designed to engage the imagination of the kids are powerful tool for transformation. The short, guided exercise are helping kids engage their inner knowledge and wisdom and allows them to find ways to deal with difficult feelings or challenges in a new creative way.
Through 21 weekly sessions running from October through May, DreamKids Imagery for Children is an invitation-only working group and collaborative adventure that seeks to identify:
- The top issues hampering early child development;
- The skills children need to thrive as they grow;
- The creative exercises that will most effectively engage kids’ imagination to help them deal with difficult feelings or challenges in a way that builds their self-confidence;
- The creative exercises that can be used to build early life skills for a variety of scenarios, including those requiring resilience, resourcefulness and healthy self-esteem.
Educational and therapeutic professionals working with children are invited to join Dr. Shainberg and Sheona McEwan to offer feedback and guidance that helps develop the DreamKids curriculum. This new practice area for the School of Images has been born of the intention to positively impact and reinvigorate the conversations around and approach to early child development.
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Course Schedule:
Semester 1: Oct 30 / Nov 6, 13, 20 27 / Dec 4, 11
Semester 2: Jan 20, 27 / Feb 3, 10, 17, 24 / March 5, 12, 19, 26 / April 2 / May 7, 14, 21
The SOI 2023-24 Calendar
October 22, 2023 – May 19, 2024
Prerequisite classes begin one week earlier
First Semester
October 22 – December 15, 2023
Second Semester
Part 1: January 22 – March 31, 2024
Part 2: May 1 – 19, 2024
Breaks – no classes or sessions
December 15, 2023 – January 21, 2024
April 1 – April 30, 2024
