1. Who are interested, enthusiastic, and have reverence for dream messages.
2. Who are available and can attend most of the seassions.
3. Who are open to share and explore their own dreams and search for the meaning.
4. Who respect others’ personality and spiritual journey and are supported.
5. Who are imaginative can ask stimulating questions and suggest pertinent tasks for the person, in  the family, and in the community.
6. Who are trustworthy and trusting.
7. Who are good visualizers, can picture each dream in imagination.
8. Who are creative and helpful and suggest techniques to further understand the dream.
9. Who are sensitive, listeners, and encourage.
10. Who are compatible, willing to work at your speed, with your level of commitment and interest.
11. Who are enjoy listening to the voice of the Spirit in dreams.
12. Who can work together as equals, a supportive team.
13. Who can use caring confrontation to challenge people.

We have found through experience that we need a leader to keep the group balanced and supportive. So we take turns. The leader brings the symbol, prepares the setting (flowers, hymns) and use of time. The leader facilitates the move from the outer world to focus on the inner world, by an attitude of reverence and a sense of the sacred. The leader stays aware of the time.

Structure for a Dream Group :

1. Begin with a short meditation. Have some kind of sacred object, a hymn song, flowers, incense, or  soft music.
2. Let the group share on what makes the object sacred for them.
3. Let each person share the dreamwork they’ve done since the last meeting. Share the dream tasks or  projects. Affirm and support each person’s process and work they are doing.
4. Each person gets time to work on a new dream, with the leader facilitating and group participation.
5. Have no more than 5 to 6 members, - approximately half hour per person.
6. The leader needs to be sensitive to the structure agreed upon by the group, and its transitions.
7. The leader rings a bell when the person’s half hour is up, and also at the end of the agreed upon  session.
8. Leader pulls things together and ends with prayer and sets date, time, and place of next meeting.

Working with a Dreamwork Partner
Instead of a group, one can work with a dreamwork partner. To choose a partner you can use the same criteria as in selecting members of a dreamwork group listed earlier. It may not always be possible to form a group, but you can always find a dreamwork partner. This persons needs to be

• Readily available
• Willing to reciprocate ( help each other ).
• Non judgemental.
• Able to turn insights, instructions, and projections into questions.
• Able to get into your skin and be empathic.
• Able to stretch you further in getting the meaning of dreams.

Procedure :

• Recall your interest, enthusiasm and reverence for the work you are about to do with your partner.
• Choose one dream and tell it to your partner as clearly as you can.
• Clarify with questions the details of the dream ego without getting lost in the details.
• Share the general feelings about the dream and the dream work you may have already done.
• Try out some of the techniques with your partner and get his/her perspective.
• Make further steps to understand the meaning of your dream in the light of your personality, your  soul, the needs of the community. Reverse the role in partnership.
• Acknowledge God’s gift both in the dream and dreamwork.
• Maintain continuity in the process by sharing your dreamwork.

Any one of the fourteen methods listed in Section 3 can be used to help each find the meaning of dreams. This time together can be regarded as a time of shared prayer.

Psychodrama
J.L. Moreno (1889-1974) of Vienna was the founder of Psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy-movement. He studied philosophy and Medicine M.D. at University of Vienna in 1917. He had two teachers, Jesus and Socrates. Moreno came to U.S.A. in 1925 and started Medical Psychiatric practice in New York. Moreno was a holy man, whole, holistic, of Jewish parents, but he practiced no formal religion. Yet all his theories had religious characteristics and implications.
Psychodrama is a group process. Individuals enact aspects of their life story with the help of other members who play the roles of significant others, e.g. father, mother boss, child. The role is set and originally played by the individual who is enacting his/her life story. The group members soon identify or see themselves in one of the many roles being played. Truth through dramatic action is the aim of the psychodrama. Role reversal, or taking the role of a significant other in one’s life, is the engine that drives the psychodrama. To see one’s as others see us can surprise, give insight, and heal the pain of distorted perception.
Psychodrama given individuals the chance to express emotions that life hasn’t given them the opportunity to express.
There are many ways to use psychodrama, Much depends on the skill of the facilitator. One technique we find helpful follows.

Ask each Dream Image in psychodrama

• Who are you?
• What is your personality like?
• What do you represent inside me?
• Why are you in my dream?
• What do you want from me?

Let the dialogue be an exchange of ideas and feelings. Be aware of and express your own position, your own attitudes and feelings. Look at where you agree of disagree and stop and think, how this affects you, what can you do about it.
Acknowledge that each image represents a part of yourself. Develop sensitivity to and acceptance of the point of view of the images even if they differ from own conscious attitudes. If you disagree, acknowledge that the conflict is there. make choices and decisions based on the learning you gained.

Art Work and Meditation
The symbolic and cultural arts offer ways of releasing energy of dream symbols. We use painting, sculpture, poetry, music, song, drama, dance, movement, and mime. Displaying art or sculpture in a sacred area of your room helps you meditate/reflect on it and get the meaning. It may produce new insights and release new energy in you. After every expression of artwork we use meditation to help transform the situation and see them in a new light.
New ways of responding surface as we meet out Inner Advisor. One of the great benefits shared in our groups is learning to really love our enemies, to Let Be, Let go and Forgive.
One form of art work and meditation we find powerful is the mandala.
The mandala as a symbol of the self is the psyche’s expression of its fundamental orientation to wholeness.
Jungian analyst, Mrs. Dora Kalff, a pioneer in the treatment of disturbed children, uses mandala forms in healing. These became an integral aspect of the treatment.

Mandalas
The Mandala is a cosmic diagram uniting the way of heaven with the way of earth. The mandala represents wholeness, enlightenment, symbolizes human perfection. It is the symbol of psychic wholeness. It is a centering technique, an aid to contemplation, is conducive to mystic exaltation. Mandala means magic circle, the centre is symbolic of eternal potential. A Mandala has three basic properties: a centre, symmetry, and cardinal points. The Mandala construct helps us to accept all experience in relation to the total situation, a union of opposites. Mandala suggests living totally now. Man is the seed of Divine Energy: the plant of which mankind is mandalized. Mandalas occur spontaneously in dreams and visions. Folk dances a Mandala. Many medieval cities were founded on the ground plan of a Mandala. There were two main arteries dividing the city into quarters and they led to four gates. The Church or Cathedral stood at the point of intersection of these arteries.
Each human being is a Mandala : to be developed and created anew. We must reach our center and unlock the energies contained therein. The mandala is an engine of change-releasing energy. It helps us maintain contact with our Center. The Mandala is a whole-ing technique, an alchemy of opposites, reunion, a vision, a song, a dance. The Mandala symbolises various levels of awareness within the person as well as the energy that unifies and heals.
Making Mandalas is a self-intergrating ritual, it has a healing, meditative, integrative purpose.
We are called to a cosmic consecration. We are but a seed of Divine energy. By concentrating on our Centre -- Divinity, healing, and Creativity-- we expand beyond ourself . The Mandala is the basic tool for the second major phase of growth -- which begins where physical growth leave off -- growth to higher levels of consciousness -- to the development and coordination of more intutive capacities. Only the source of energy is eternal, and energy maintains itself through transformation. The Centre is the source through which the form-creating energy flows. To be made whole means to maintain contact with one’s center.
Man must remake himself within the eternity of his own body. Every person must make themself beautiful and divine in order ot attain the sight of beauty and divinity. The Mandala is the essential symbol of integration, harmony and transformation. It integrates worship, knowledge, and beauty, Mandala is transpersonal sacred art, it is a transmitting agent, a lens focussing the higher energies - leading us through contemplation to a state beyond the sense. Through the Mandala a person lives as a cosmic citizen. The Mandala points to a way of creative living - the conscious attunement of man to the cosmic rhythms so that daily life manifests in every way a sense of harmony.

Mandalization : Our Mandala is only a reminder of the ongoing Mandalic process potential in every living organism, we leap silently like a prayer to the vision of wholeness. We bring light in the darkness, hope to the hopeless as we pass to another dimension, knowing and doing, and invite others to the path of Beauty. We become the Image of God in this world.

How to draw your Mandala : Make a tape of the exercise of integration of mind, body, and Spirit. Listen to it and then draw your healing mandala.

Part 1 : You can do this in a group or individually.

Objective : To help individuals to get in touch with what their body is telling them ; to integrate their spiritual and psychological aspects with their somatic selves; to heal themselves through this integration.
If the exercise is being used in group member can lead the others through the relaxation and imagery process. If individuals are attempting the exercise alone, they can make a tape recording of the relaxation and imagery process and then put on the tape and let it guide their process.

Part 2 : Fantasy Exercise :

Relaxation : Sit back comfortably in your chair, or lie on the floor in shavasana, close your eyes, and let yourself begin to relax. Feel your muscles relaxing and your mind relaxing. You are quiet and peaceful. With each breath you take you are more at ease. Your body is slowing down and your mind is slowing down and your mind is slowing down. Thoughts just drift through without your focusing on them. You have all the time you need. Breathing, relaxing, breathing, relaxing--so peaceful --so quiet --so serene--so tranquil - so calm-- so relaxed. As you breathe easily and gently, you feel yourself relaxing more, more and more. You are comfortable and relaxed- comfortable and relaxed--more comfortable-more at peace. Calmness is present through your body and mind. Calmness, peace, and relexation are spreading throughout your body and mind. Your are at peace--complete peace, you release all warries and tension and are sinking into calm water, or a soft bed, or as if you are floating on a soft, soft cloud --floating gently and easily--so restful--so relaxing. Mind and body are relaxing more and more -- you are at peace--tranquil-at ease--your mind is calm-as though nothing matters--nothing at all--a feeling of I don’t care.

Imagery : Imagine you are entering your own fantasy cinema hall. You go down the center aisle and sink into the most confortable chair--at just your favourite distance from the screen. As you settle yourself, you see the title of the film flash on the screen: The Life of your Body Passively you watch yourself grow from the moment of conception right up to your birth. See how your family received your. Then watch your development, when you walked, talked, fed yourself, got teeth. Note your state of nutrition -- any illnesses, accidents, operation, injuries, sensory pleasures, contacts with nature, sexuality, athletics, indulgences and addictions. Let your story unfold right up to the present day. When it finishes, record it together with your feelings.

Part 3 : Dialogue with the body : In the twilight state, between waking and sleeping, talk to your body, experience it as a person seated opposite you. There is a wisdom of the body -- it has many things to tell you-- you can listen to it as your Inner Guru. It knows its heritage and its rightful needs. Your body is the harp of your soul -- listen to its music. You can ask the body any questions--you can discuss the meaning of life, death, any problems of health. Listen and write down both parts of the dialogue. Come to an agreement on what the body demands of you and write the changes you will make in your lifestyle based on your new awareness. Read what you have written and add your feelings, let the dialogue continue as long as it wishes.

Part 4 : Draw your Mandala : In the twilight state draw and colour your Mandala. On a separate sheet of paper write the meaning of the symbols and colours in your Mandala. Put your Mandala in a personal place where you can meditate on it and let it carry you forward in your integration process.

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