1 day - Therapeutic Tools: Working with Dreams, Night Terrors, and Nightmares (Sat) 14th March 2026
1 day - Zoom workshop, from 9:00 to 16:30 UK time (Saturday) 14th March 2026 (7 CPD hours).
You will get a group email with zoom instructions in a few weeks before the event. After your payment you should receive a receipt which is also your workshop confirmation (please check your spam folder if you do not receive it)
This workshop focuses on safe, trauma-informed approaches to working with nightmares and dreams in clients with PTSD and CPTSD. Nightmares are understood as “stuck” trauma processes, and the workshop introduces step-by-step methods that minimise the risk of re-traumatisation while supporting integration and recovery.
Grounded in systemic, embodied, and trauma recovery approaches, the training emphasises maintaining safety and working within the window of tolerance. Participants will learn how to shift away from narrative-driven processing—which can be highly triggering—and instead use embodied and indirect imaginal techniques to transform nightmare content without rehearsing traumatic memories. The workshop also introduces ways of working with ordinary dreams, supporting meaning-making and integration without exposure-based distress.
The training is experiential and includes practical methods for assessing and managing sleep disturbance, externalising and breaking down nightmare content into manageable elements, and integrating nightmare and dream work into clinical practice. The workshop draws on contemporary research and includes perspectives from a cultural–social model of dreaming, developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of York.