Dreaming Your New Year
A Masterclass in Mythic Vision, Shadow Work, and Embodied Soul with David Bedrick
In two hours, you'll learn to decode your dreams and step into 2026 with the clarity, purpose, and soul-deep guidance you've been searching for. Your dreams aren't random. They're the wisest part of you—speaking in symbols, whispering your calling, and showing you exactly who you're meant to become this year. In this workshop, you'll map your upcoming year through the intelligence of the night.
As the new year begins, we naturally pause to reflect. We look for a vision of the life to come—not just the steps we will take or the goals we hope to achieve, but the why and the how.
The Why: Your purpose, your calling, and your deeper soul-intent.
The How: Your attitude, your faith, and the way you carry your own woundedness—whether you walk with a limp or run with the graces bestowed upon you.
For time immemorial, indigenous cultures have looked to nighttime dreams for this understanding. Since the time of Carl Jung, we have rediscovered that dreams offer a mythic and mystical map of what is to come.
These dreams are more than teachers.
They are the wisest parts of us—divinely connected to spirit, earth, and stars.
I invite you to join me for a special teaching designed to give you the key to these doors, allowing you to map your coming year through the intelligence of the night.
What you will explore:
This masterclass is divided into five core pillars of dreamwork, designed to move you from intellectual understanding into somatic embodiment.
1. The "I" Behind the Mask
The poet Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote: "I am not I; I am the other one, the one who walks beside me." In your dreams, the "I" who is scared or acting is often just a persona—an ego-self or a traumatized self. You will learn how to find yourself in the other parts of the dream, reclaiming the hidden intelligence and power found in your shadow.
2. Beyond Association
Traditional psychology often stops at association—linking a dream lion to a fierce father or an abuser to an oppressive school system. We will use these associations as a powerful starting point to enter the dream's landscape.
3. The Shamanic Act: Somatic Embodiment
Association alone cannot help us embody the dream. You will learn to enter the "body" of a dream symbol. Whether it is a mountain, an animal, or a stranger, you will learn to move it, sound it, and find its music. This is a shape-shifting, shamanic act of transformation.
4. Dialogue & Parts Work
By facilitating a relationship between the different parts of your dream, you build a deeper relationship with yourself. This is the foundation for stepping into the New Year with self-love, self-trust, and soul-depth.
5. Life Guidance & Sovereign Intelligence
Finally, we look at the dream’s intelligence regarding your "conventional" life. What is the dream saying about your reality? We use the dream as a vehicle to drive Freud’s "Royal Road," leading you back to your own sovereignty and royalty.
What’s included in the masterclass:
Live Modeling & Interpretation:
Watch as I work with students to model dream embodiment and interpretation in real-time.
The Dream Book:
A comprehensive guide including seven of my Psychology Today articles on dreamwork and depth psychology.
A Map for the Year:
Tools to create a "cloud mapping" of your upcoming journey, grounded in spirit and psyche.
Lifetime Access:
Recording available to revisit whenever you need guidance.
Step onto the Royal Road
This program is about shadow work, depth, and embodiment. It is designed to help you with your "real life," but more importantly, to connect you with the way Spirit talks to you every night—whispering who you are, who you think you are, and who you are yet to become.
Are you ready to claim your sovereignty?
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MEET YOUR FACILITATOR:
David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW, is the founder of the UnShaming Way — a depth-psychology approach built on one conviction: your symptoms, struggles, and survival strategies carry intelligence, not pathology. He is the author of five books, including The Unshaming Way (North Atlantic Books), endorsed by Gabor Maté, MD. He has trained hundreds of clinicians and taught thousands of individuals. Before psychology, he practiced law; before law, he survived the home that taught him everything the books later confirmed. That is his deepest credential: he knows both harms — the violence, and the denial of it — from the inside. His work has appeared in Psychology Today and reaches hundreds of thousands of readers through his essays on trauma, shame, and the witness.
© 2026 David Bedrick
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