Dreamscaping (or prescriptive memory-making) resources a client’s felt sense memories and metaphors, re-scripting these into corrective mind movies and counterfactual pictures that shift the focus from “how are you coping?” to “what do you need a dose of, right now?”
Dreamscaping’s axioms? Hold emotional truth and all humor in the highest regard (even eye-rolling sarcasm). Muse on your prescriptive memory privately. Or share or wear it to jumpstart a conversation. If the prescriptive memory makes you laugh and cry, it’s doing its job.
ABOUT NANCY
Nancy Gershman, LCSW is a psychotherapist, memory artist and the developer of Dreamscaping, a playful way of healing from loss of a person, place, or thing, or loss of one’s self or self-esteem by creating the memory you need to emerge anew.
TRAINING
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“I think of dreamscaping as the corpus callosum of psychotherapy. It joins the brain’s hemispheres to make more integrated reconstruction of memories in bereavement possible.”
-Robert A. Neimeyer, Death, Dying & Bereavement Series Editor, “Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping”
What if your positive memories are someone else’s memories, and not your own?
Take the Which Memory? quiz and see in which of Russ’s favorite memories of his father he absolutely owns his joy.
Healing After The Death of a Difficult Parent Psychologists Drs. Gloria and Heidi Horsley speak with Nancy Gershman about the cultivation of compassion, posthumously; and her latest project, A Comfort Guide to The Other Side for bereaved and traumatized families who need to know where their loved ones are now.
– Open To Hope Podcast
Death Café
NYC
For the time being, we come together via Zoom to hash out death and dying from every angle in ways we just can’t (yet) with family, friends or colleagues. And when we’re 100% comfortable sitting in close proximity to one another, we’ll start thinking about family style Moroccan dinners again, for sure…. More »
MAPPING THE AFTERLIFE
Are you a researcher working with near-death experience, out-of-body experience, mediumship, and other anomalous direct experience of the Afterlife? Take this 40-question Mapping the Afterlife Survey to contribute to the first open source repository of knowledge about the Afterlife developed in conjunction with Gruppo di Ricerca Italiano sulla Medianità (Grim.Science).
Starting Sept. 6, each week’s survey respondents will be automatically entered into a weekly Sunday drawing for a book from our friends at Routledge Publishing.
The Mapping the Afterlife Survey closes Oct. 25.