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HEALING CONVERSATIONS

 

From the very beginning of our lives, we learn through modeling. This is especially true for how we speak to and with one another. When I look at how I have engaged with others and with myself regarding the work that I have been called to do over my lifetime, it has been through the use of language. 

Healing Conversations has evolved from my work with others in helping them move in a satisfying, transformative way to deeper emotional comfort, self-love and understanding of how they hold compassion for themselves and others. 

Growing up I learned the importance of words and how they can hurt as well as heal. This commitment towards psychological healing has become integrated into the work I do today with individuals, in small groups within a business setting.

Words do matter.  Deepening our consciousness regarding how we use these words for inner self-reflection and outwardly with another can give us psychological peace and the courage to continuously re-create the life that we wish to experience.

Through our deepening, we are better able to know ourselves, increase positive self-dialogue for our inner stories, and enhance our relationship with others.

OUR WORK TOGETHER

 

I offer these experiences for engagement in work focused on Healing Conversations from a Depth Psychological perspective

 

Private Circles

 

Sacred Circles—Small Group Gatherings

Our work together in small groups allows us to engage in healing conversations for re-creating a life that feels more like the one you have been missing.  The focus is on in the inner experience and inner dialogues that allows for a sense of an inner light where there has been emotional darkness.  Being present in the Circle provides an opening from within to self-reflect on areas of previous trauma and repression.  Through the work we create healing conversations.  These conversations are interwoven into a tapestry of care that involves Dreamwork, Meditation and Jungian and Cultural Psychoanalysis.

Workplace Circles— for Healing Conversations

Race, Racism and the Racial Complex Heart to Heart Workshop

We are on the cusp of viewing into our societal issues with ethnic and cultural differences. The need for work in the area continues as we struggle to find the best ways to be with one another in our communal spaces of work.  The Race, Racism and Racial Complex Heart to Heart Workshop facilitates open and creative discussions regarding understanding ethnic differences, learning how racism is a collective wound that effects all of us and provides an opportunity to engage in healing conversations that opens the mind, heart and unconscious to changing old patterns that do not benefit the life.

Keynote Speaking—Heart to Heart Healing Conversations

This large audience experience provides us with an opportunity to speak with one another and engage on a level that brings in many voices. 

The intention and availability to meet with one another in present time and share on topics of meaning, is very important in learning how to co-exist in a mutually respectful manner. 

The work is focused on sharing and forming a call and response connection that works from and engages from the heart—creating a heart to heart dialogue about topics connected to our everyday lives that cause us wonderment, worry and a desire for listening and being with others in a safe and openly communicative way.

DepthWriting Circle

This Circle is for individuals who wish to join a small Writers group with an interest in writing from a personal interior space that wants expression. 

The genre is open to each participant as the writing work is understood to be a development from an inner voice that chooses its own path for giving voice—this may be through poetry, prose, journal, or a combination. 

The focus of the group will be to offer support to writers who have creative material in mind that they wish to produce. Time will be spent discussing writing goals, actually writing within the group and sharing some of the written material.

Cultural DreamWork Circle

What are your dreams trying to tell you? How do your dream images offer ways that the ego cannot fathom and want to give you the gifts of knowledge guiding you to a better understanding of who you are and can become? 

This workshop focuses on the dreamlife that can be anxiety producing because of nightmares, unrecognizable cultural figures and psychic landscapes that appear confusing and unresolvable. 

The focus is on moving deeper into an experience of unconscious dream imagery to support freeing ego consciousness from night terrors.

THREE WAYS TO GET STARTED TOGETHER 

 

SACRED CIRCLES

 

Join a small group Sacred Circle for increased self-reflection and a movement to more inner peace and resolution of old issues of trauma, depression, and anxiety.

 

 

 

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DEPTH WRITING WORKSHOP

 

Develop your creativity as a writer by becoming a member of our DepthWriting Community. DreamWriting is an aspect of one specific circle. Part of the time is spent on Dreamwork and additional time is used creating writing that emerges from the dreams.

 

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CULTURAL DREAMWORK CIRCLE

 

This circle allows you to explore ethnic images deepening your understanding of words and images different from your own cultural life, support a rich dreamlife free of anxiety and sleeplessness, help you develop a relationship with your own dream images.

 

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Testimonials

Rev Dr Denise Joseph
Director of Administration
The Haden Institute

JANET TATUM
MSW, LICSW

Angel Kwan-Yin Morgan, Ph.D.
Past President and DAC Chair, International Association for the Study of Dreams

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It is a rare and precious gift to have a teacher who can present a life’s worth of learning with a clarity that allows her students to access her skills and transform their own individuation by leaps. Dr. Fanny Brewster is the kind of teacher who can move her ego aside so far as to truly listen to her students and the Divine in the instant. Blend this kind of Holy listening presence with her training in Depth Psychology, Jungian Analysis, and Dream Theory and behold a kind of Instructor who brings grace and embodiment skills not often encountered. We, at the Haden Institute, have had the opportunity to experience this with our faculty member on many occasions; my personal favorite being at a presentation of Fanny’s titled, Nightmares as Journeys of Courage. A presentation where fear could have easily won and instead, Dr. Brewster taught us to step into fear and build a journey of strength.

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Dr. Fanny Brewster was a keynote speaker at the 2024 National Sandplay Therapy Conference in New Mexico in which she addressed the conference theme, “Through Many, One: Diversity and Unity in Sandplay Therapy.” The focus of her presentation was “Reflection and Refraction: Joining and Becoming One.”  Her paper was received with heartfelt attentiveness by the clinicians in attendance. Drawing upon personal understanding, imagery and poetry, some her own, she spoke with insight on the dynamics from the “mundane to the profound.” Pertinent case material illustrated Dora Kalff’s concept of the problem and potential resolution that can be revealed at times on the diagonals of the tray. Dr. Brewster’s overview of Jung’s transcendent function highlighted the relevance of archetypal symbols that can emerge in clinical work. Her paper will be published in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.   

 

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In February 2020, when I was president of IASD, I listened to Dr. Fanny Brewster speak about “The Racial Complex” on the podcast This Jungian Life, and then shared that interview with the IASD Board.  

Later that summer, when I heard her speak on the same podcast in the episode, “We Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism” I sent that again to our Board. Shortly after that, I reached out to invite Dr. Brewster to speak as a Keynote at the 2021 IASD conference.  

I was especially moved when she spoke about One Human Race, with many Ethnicities. Partially inspired by the work of Dr. Brewster, in IASD’s Diversity Advisory Committee (DAC) we created a Dreams & Ethnicity conference track, and a Dreams & Ethnicity portal on the IASD website. 

Angel Kwan-Yin Morgan, Ph.D.
Past President and DAC Chair, International Association for the Study of Dreams

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In February 2020, when I was president of IASD, I listened to Dr. Fanny Brewster speak about “The Racial Complex” on the podcast This Jungian Life, and then shared that interview with the IASD Board.  

Later that summer, when I heard her speak on the same podcast in the episode, “We Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism” I sent that again to our Board. Shortly after that, I reached out to invite Dr. Brewster to speak as a Keynote at the 2021 IASD conference.  

I was especially moved when she spoke about One Human Race, with many Ethnicities. Partially inspired by the work of Dr. Brewster, in IASD’s Diversity Advisory Committee (DAC) we created a Dreams & Ethnicity conference track, and a Dreams & Ethnicity portal on the IASD website. 

JANET TATUM
MSW, LICSW

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Dr. Fanny Brewster was a keynote speaker at the 2024 National Sandplay Therapy Conference in New Mexico in which she addressed the conference theme, “Through Many, One: Diversity and Unity in Sandplay Therapy.” The focus of her presentation was “Reflection and Refraction: Joining and Becoming One.”  Her paper was received with heartfelt attentiveness by the clinicians in attendance. Drawing upon personal understanding, imagery and poetry, some her own, she spoke with insight on the dynamics from the “mundane to the profound.” Pertinent case material illustrated Dora Kalff’s concept of the problem and potential resolution that can be revealed at times on the diagonals of the tray. Dr. Brewster’s overview of Jung’s transcendent function highlighted the relevance of archetypal symbols that can emerge in clinical work. Her paper will be published in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.   

 

Rev Dr Denise Joseph
Director of Administration
The Haden Institute

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It is a rare and precious gift to have a teacher who can present a life’s worth of learning with a clarity that allows her students to access her skills and transform their own individuation by leaps. Dr. Fanny Brewster is the kind of teacher who can move her ego aside so far as to truly listen to her students and the Divine in the instant. Blend this kind of Holy listening presence with her training in Depth Psychology, Jungian Analysis, and Dream Theory and behold a kind of Instructor who brings grace and embodiment skills not often encountered. We, at the Haden Institute, have had the opportunity to experience this with our faculty member on many occasions; my personal favorite being at a presentation of Fanny’s titled, Nightmares as Journeys of Courage. A presentation where fear could have easily won and instead, Dr. Brewster taught us to step into fear and build a journey of strength.