a creative writing workshop
Writing Warmth for Dreams and Nightmares
Tuesdays | 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time
May 12 – June 23, 2026
Do you long to be able to fall asleep with full confidence that you can warmly meet and be bigger than anything that comes into your nighttime world? If you don’t remember your dreams, do you long to have other ways to find a pathway into your subconscious, and is it tantalizing to hear that working with daydreams and fantasies can be just as meaningful as working with dreams and nightmares?
Course Information
Schedule
Starts: May 12, 2026
Ends: June 23, 2026
6 live sessions, weekly, skipping June 9, 2026
Day of Week: Tuesday
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time
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Tuition
Cost: Sliding scale, $175 – $400
The standard tuition for this course is $300. If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.
Course Description
Every night, our Default Mode Network (the automatic voice of the brain) takes us on a journey of integration and cleansing. We experience this as the stories, images, sensations, and sounds that happen while we’re asleep. Even if we don’t remember what happens at night, it appears that most of us, unless we are quite ill, dream continually while asleep. When dreams scare us, we call them nightmares: These are closely related to the trauma of our lives and past generations that run through us and our family line. The nightdream (or daydream) worlds are rich mines of treasure for our creativity. In both worlds we can find transcendent experiences and scraps of experiences that can open into stories, novels, poems, musical compositions, visual arts, dance, and so much more.
The tools of Resonant Healing offer us a way of working with both our dreams and our nightmares, which is to explicitly invite our Resonating Self-Witness into the world of our sleeping mind. For this course, we will be doing exactly that. The more that we practice bringing our Resonating Self-Witness into our dream and fantasy world, the more we are able to strip away the experiences of unprocessed trauma from those worlds, causing the material there to be even more available for use in creative expression.
This class is open to anyone who remembers their dreams and nightmares, and also for those who don’t. Even scraps of important dreams or nightmares, or memories of dreams from childhood, will be useful material for folks taking this class. And, if people have no sense at all of their dreams or nightmares, they will be able to work with their daydreams or fantasies. Participants can expect to walk away from this class with new bursts of creativity, and a developed capacity to bring their Resonating Self-Witness into their dreamscape.
Where?
The course will meet via zoom. We welcome participants from all time zones who wish to learn asynchronously for some or all of the sessions. Recordings and visuals will be made available to those who are registered for the live program (typically available within 72 hours of the live session).
When?
Starts: May 12, 2026
Ends: June 23, 2026
6 live sessions, weekly, skipping June 9, 2026
Day of Week: Tuesday
Time: 8:00 AM – 9:25 AM Pacific Time
Click Here to convert to your time zone
What To Expect
A warm space that creates room for the flow from thought into expression, support and resonant feedback, all in service of unblocking your creativity and more fluid expression. In each 85-minute class, we will:
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- Begin with a free writing period
- Offer a resonance exercise or demonstration to support the movement toward free expression
- Continue with a second free writing period
- Create space for sharing and resonant responses to each other’s work
The classes will be recorded for participants in many time zones
What You'll Learn
Week 1: Dreams and Nightmares: Unwrapping the Default Mode Network
Week 2: Time-traveling into Dreams and Nightmares
Week 3: Releasing Self-Lacerating Unconscious Contracts that Contribute to Nightmares
Week 4: Receiving the Message of Dreams
Week 5: What If Everybody in the Dream Is Us?
Week 6: Bringing Resonance into Daydreams and Fantasies
Who is This Course For?
For writers, artists, explorers and creatives looking for a resonant space in which to support their creative expression. The creative process work that we’ll explore in this class is for anyone involved in, or longing to be involved in, any kind of creative pursuit.
This Course Includes Resonant Assistant Support
Assistant support is available during classes. There are three ways this happens:
- In groups of three with one assistant and two participants, so that participants can practice the breakout exercises with support.
- In small groups, with 1 assistant and 3+ participants, with work with one participant occurring by lottery, and the remaining participants observing.
- Depending on assistant availability, the third option is 1-1 support to receive resonant processes like time travel and unconscious contracts for material that comes up during class.
Cost
$175-400
- This course is set up so that participants can contribute what they can.
- Please choose a variation that considers your financial resources as well as the contribution you would like to offer Sarah and her team.
- The standard tuition for this course is $300. If you choose to pay more, your contribution will go toward supporting those with fewer resources to attend.
Please Note:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
- This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
Register
Writing Warmth for Dreams and Nightmares
Price range: $175.00 through $400.00
*PLEASE NOTE:
- Your tuition payment is non-refundable (but it is transferable).
- This course will be recorded for those who want to learn asynchronously for some or all sessions.
- This work is not therapy and is not a substitute for therapy. If you have a sense that you would be destabilized by yourself or others speaking about difficult events, then this course may not be for you. While we hope that the processes and information that we share can be of use in your journey, we do not have the resources to support extreme psychological difficulties.
About the Instructor
Sarah Peyton, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and neuroscience educator, integrates brain science and the use of resonant language to heal personal and collective trauma with exquisite gentleness.
Sarah is a sought-after expert who brings neuroscience expertise together with depth work, self-compassion, and the transformative potential of language. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Sarah teaches and lectures internationally and is the author of four books on relational neuroscience and self-compassion: Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, the companion Your Resonant Self Workbook: From Self-sabotage to Self-care, and Affirmations for Turbulent Times: Resonant Words to Soothe Body and Mind, and The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook, co-authored alongside Roxy Manning, PhD.
