How to Use Jungian Dream Analysis and Meditation to Build Powerful Scenecraft

WRITING 762.22E

Use dream theory to discover new ways to create gripping scenes with powerful psychological, emotional, and visual content.

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What you can learn.

  • Learn to interpret dreams for use in your writing
  • Employ meditation practices to deepen your engagement with special writing prompts
  • Understand how to reverse engineer your scenecraft to focus on impact
  • Learn how dreams serve as engines to turn complex or unconscious ideas into powerful images

About this course:

Joseph Campbell once described psychologist Carl Jung's writings about dreams as examining x-rays of the spiritual state. Dreams are engines to turn complex or unconscious ideas into powerful images. This workshop teaches writers how to replicate that process in creative writing. It uses meditation and writing prompts to identify Jungian archetypes in the writer’s dreams or nascent ideas. Then, the students will learn how to harness those archetypes using elements of scenecraft to create more gripping scenes with greater psychological, emotional, and visual power. This course is taught by Jerry Lee Davis, an author, screenwriter, and playwright with over 20 years’ experience teaching meditation, and Henry Lien, an author and writing instructor with 20 years’ experience as an art dealer representing artists working in Jungian themes.

Spring 2025 Schedule

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Saturday 10:00AM - 1:00PM PT
Future Offering (Opens May 03, 2025 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Henry Lien
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Location: UCLA X Open
Notes

Enrollment opens two weeks prior to the event. Enrollment limited; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.

This course is held via video teleconference. As such, instructors use Zoom to offer a live class meeting at the designated time. Students must be present at the course meeting time to participate in the class. 

Course Requirements
Internet access required to access course materials.
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Sat May 17, 2025
10:00AM PT - 1:00PM PT
UCLA X Open
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