Dreamwork for Contemplation and Action

Though these times may feel uncertain, we can turn toward the mystery, creating new ways, new worlds, and new futures. This turning toward isn’t limited to our individual internal experiences and personal reflections. We also can turn toward each other, to our collective wisdom, and the source of our aliveness. Dreams can be a place, a platform, a practice to support both the turning in, and the turning toward. 

Building a relationship with our dreams can provide a bridge to community, a container for our fears, a place of solitude and refuge, nourishment when we are depleted, and ultimately dreams can provide a collective sense of hope for the present.  

Join dream facilitator and scholar Sherri Taylor for an experiential two-day dream lab focusing on dreamwork both as individual contemplative practice as well as a practice where you can dream with and in community. In this workshop Dr. Taylor offers practices including journaling, somatic inquiry, movement, and breath. Dreamers are invited to examine their relationship to darkness and nighttime in addition to considering practices to facilitate remembering the lunar consciousness.  

Consider the signature images and symbols of your inner imaginarium. Discover how working with dreams can be a contemplative practice—using personal and collective dreams as sacred texts. Develop your own practices of rest and restoration to activate the individual and collective wisdom of your truest self with and in community.


Sherri Taylor, PsyD, is a contemplative, scholar, consultant, and facilitator. She completed her undergraduate education in Feminist Studies at Stanford University and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. Her scholarship and research interests include the intergenerational transmission of benevolence and resilience, psycho-spiritual trauma theories, attachment theory, human development, and processes of embodiment/incarnation. Dr. Taylor is also the founder of the soulstudiolab. The soulstudiolab offers relevant and meaningful programming for individuals, groups, and organizations that integrates innovative approaches and practices from the expressive arts and psychology, with a special focus on the psycho-spiritual importance of creativity and compassionate embodiment to inspire and enact personal growth, interpersonal understanding, and social justice.  

Dr. Taylor also teaches in the clinical psychology doctoral program at The Wright Institute. She curates group trainings, playshops, and workshops for community and professional audiences in the areas of anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, cultural humility, the cultivation of joy and creativity, dream work, and spirituality. Dr. Taylor aspires each day to appreciate the fullness and complexity of the human experience.