Dream Doors and Waking Up

with Lane Arye Ph.D, Dipl.PW

Experiential Online Training

Oct 22 & 29, 2025, 9am-noon Pacific Check your timezone

Livestream and catch up on demand recordings

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When we think about the past or fantasize about the future, we’re not just thinking. Our bodies and emotions react as if we are there and it is happening now. It is like teleportation or time travel. We are here and now but also in another place and time.

In this class we’ll think about and work with these phenomena in two ways.

1)  Dream doors: Our fantasies, the stories we tell, our relationship difficulties, and body experiences are dream doors. They can take us out of normal, everyday reality and into a dreaming reality filled with mystery and meaning. We will learn to recognize and walk through those dream doors

2)  Waking up: Many of us go through life in a trance. Immersed in stories about ourselves, we operate on auto-pilot from childhood conditioning and trauma, reliving past events, or lost in fantasy of how it could be. We can use these experiences as opportunities to wake up to who and where we are right now. 

Come and explore the beauty and mystery of who you are.

Embark on a transformative journey with us as we explore the art of self-discovery and mindfulness. Through stimulating discussions and hands-on exercises, participants will learn to navigate their inner worlds, gaining new perspectives and insights.

Each session provides a secure and supportive space to examine personal narratives and confront the limiting beliefs that anchor us to the past. Together, we’ll develop a deeper awareness of the present, empowering you to embrace a more genuine and fulfilling life.

Whether you seek personal growth, emotional healing, or are intrigued by the mysteries of consciousness, this class invites you to open your mind and heart to your limitless potential. Uncover the power of your story and embrace the adventure of living fully in the present.

What are people saying about learning with Lane?

“I love the work and have been using it with my own coaching clients. I found myself delighting in your skill and awareness. Your work shimmers.”

“Lane is a gifted teacher, able to engage students immediately in the experience of what they’re learning rather than merely in the idea of it. His spontaneous, authentic, light-hearted style creates an environment of mutual discovery and delight in what emerges.

“What I learned was ‘ready to use’ instantly in real situations.”

“New information presented in a way that makes it possible to effectively digest and apply it. ‘Old’ pieces of information falling into places.”

“I really appreciate Lane’s way of teaching: very clear, very simple, personal and concrete. He creates a protected container to explore the theory and to practice the tools with a safety net”

“Online classes with Lane were a great opportunity to continue to learn and to practice the tools he brought to us when he was in Europe. It was great to be able to stay home, and not having to cross the world to be in the US.”

“Lane is deeply honest, beautifully transparent about his skills, his methods, and his limitations, profoundly compassionate, and enviably fluid. I especially admire his gentleness and his patience.”

Who is this for?

This workshop is for you, if:

• You’re a therapist, coach, or facilitator looking for innovative, process-oriented mindfulness tools to help your clients navigate their inner worlds and present moment experiences.
• You often find yourself “time traveling” to the past or “teleporting” to the future through your thoughts and emotions, and you want to learn how to anchor yourself in the present moment.
• You’re curious about how your fantasies, personal stories, relationship patterns, and body sensations can be “dream doors” leading to deeper self-discovery and meaning.
• You suspect you’re operating on “auto-pilot” from past conditioning or trauma and are ready to “wake up” to your authentic self and embrace a more fulfilling life.
• You’re committed to personal growth, emotional healing, and exploring the mysteries of consciousness in a supportive and transformative environment.

This training is designed for Processworkers – students, facilitators, or teachers – but everyone is welcome.

No prior Processwork knowledge is required.

All awareness seekers, therapists, coaches, and facilitators who want to deepen their practice and continue developing their skills in following and unfolding their own experience are welcome.

What You’ll Learn

In this course you will learn how to:

• Recognize ‘dream doors’: Identify how fantasies, stories, relationship dynamics, and body experiences offer pathways to deeper understanding.
• Navigate ‘time travel’ & ‘teleportation’: Develop practical skills to consciously engage with thoughts and emotions that pull you to the past or future, anchoring yourself in the present.
• Release old patterns: Understand and begin to free yourself from the influence of childhood conditioning and past trauma.
• Awaken to your authentic self: Cultivate a profound sense of presence and embrace a more genuine and fulfilling way of being.
• Integrate mindfulness into practice (for professionals): Acquire innovative, process-oriented mindfulness tools to enhance your work with clients.

Logistics: where, when, how?

Six hours of experiential online training over two sessions.  

Live participation is recommended, but classes will be recorded and available for catch up on demand. 

Date and Time: 

Oct 22 & 29, 2025 

9am-noon Pacific, Check your timezone

Course Fees: 

Registration: $240

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About Lane

Lane Arye, PhD is a senior Processwork trainer and a founding faculty member of PWI. Whether teaching, working in private practice, facilitating community and organizational conflicts, or learning & training alongside social justice groups, Lane partners with people to help create more inner and outer freedom and wholeness. He loves to study the ten thousand signals appearing in every moment and how they are structured by deep, background patterns that lead us to the mystery. Lane does a lot of training, inner work, and writing about race, whiteness and overcoming defensiveness, and is a member of the Racial Justice Collaborative.

Lane has taught at Esalen Institute; California Institute of Integral Studies; San Francisco State University; JFK University; University of Warsaw, Poland; Komenius University in Bratislava; and the Conservatory of Music in Bern, Switzerland.

He is the author of Unintentional Music: Releasing Your Deepest Creativity, and the recently published co-authored book chapter, “Racial Harm in Helping Relationships and an Uncommon Journey Toward Repair” with Yasmeen Rubidge in On Becoming a Racially Sensitive Therapist: Race and Clinical Practice.

​Lane lives near San Francisco with his wife, Lecia, and their two children. He loves to sing, play guitar, and write songs.