Healing Dreams: Accessing the Deeper Reaches of Your Soul through Dreamwork

Presenter: Carol A. Whatley, Ed.D., CSD

Carol is a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Opelika, Alabama. She has earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English, and an Ed.D. in English education, all from Auburn University. After retiring from a career in teaching and communications leadership, she earned graduate certification in spiritual direction through Spring Hill College in Mobile. Carol has accompanied many women and some men on their spiritual journeys and has presented retreats both in person and online. For the past forty years she has mentored and accompanied people with alcoholic family members. Carol began working with dreams after attending a retreat at Blessed Trinity Shrine Retreat in the 1990s. She participated in a dreamwork group and later co-led a dream retreat at BTSR. She has completed an online course in dreamwork for spiritual directors through Spiritual Directors International. Carol keeps a dream journal and loves helping others heal and grow spiritually though their dreams.

The retreat is open to men and women, 18 and older.

This retreat will:

• Teach retreatants to begin understanding and working with the symbolic language of dreams.
• Provide a list of dreamwork tools and methods, including the “Seven Magic Questions.”
• Illustrate each dreamwork tool with examples from the presenter’s dreams and dreamwork.
• Seek to demonstrate that all dreams, especially “big dreams” (recurring dreams, vivid dreams, and even nightmares), can be vehicles for healing and growth.
• Allow retreatants to share their own “big dreams” and experience group dreamwork.
• Prepare retreatants to work with their dreams on their own and/or in a group.

Patron: St. Joseph, the Dreamer

Retreat fee:

Weekend: $198.00 per person (includes $90.00 non-refundable deposit)

Day hop: $90.00 per person (includes $45.00 non-refundable deposit)

Begins at 7:00pm EASTERN on Friday, June 7 and ends after lunch on Sunday, June 9.