The Global Dream Initiative....Dream Tending

The Global Dream Initiative calls for a recognition of the trauma in the world and the need to participate in its healing. We assert that the world’s suffering appears in the living images of dreams and that we can creatively respond via the dream.

Dream Tending, a practice developed over 30 years by Stephen Aizenstat, experiments with a worldview that playfully and soulfully sees the world as alive and always dreaming. He advocates we go to the very depths of experience, to the level of the anima mundi—the soul of and in the world—and listen. At this level of experience we engage the voices of the world's dreams, effortlessly arising and speaking on their own behalf and asking for response. 

The Global Dream Initiative will develop a forum to see and hear the world's dreams and to begin utilizing them to create new and more generative ways of responding to the trauma of the world, ways that are not trapped in the cultural, political, economic, and environmental approaches that now are failing us. Joining other like-minded efforts worldwide, the Global Dream Initiative is a call to action.


Stephen Aizenstat