Dream Weaving Method (DW)
The Dream Weaving Method (DW) is a group therapeutic application of Imaginative Movement Therapy (IMT), that ties in Dreaming in group with Weaving. In using IMT within a group setting one person is invited to start a waking dream following a stimulus given by the group facilitator. The other participants are invited to attend to the narrative being spoken out and not to follow their own association to the stimulus. Before the facilitator shares the verbal or pictorial stimulus on which the participants are called to start to imagine and weave a narrative one by one, the participants chose a number randomly which give a sense of order to the narrative. Then the group facilitator rings a bell after a couple of minutes and invites another one to continue the sentence/narrative/waking dream from the previous ‘client-traveller’, which like a snowball grows as it moves. The group ends with a narrative thread which has been woven together by the participants and is called a ‘dream tapestry or carpet’. Hence, the art of weaving and ‘dream-weaving’ is also about mythmaking and story-telling emerging from the group’s psyche which evokes the oral tradition and culture of the Orient. Like in weaving, when one dreams and or shares a dream, he or she establishes ties, knots, and networks between people: dreamer and listener and also within oneself, i.e. between the ego and the unconscious.