Dragon Dreaming Intensive | Berlin

Five days of dreaming, planning, doing and celebrating together. Immerse yourself in the Dragon Dreaming cycle, culture and method. For collective empowerment and purpose in life.

with Manuela Bosch 

Nov 3rd to 8th 2024 

Spreefeld, Berlin

Achieving more together

To successfully implement visionary projects, your team needs collective superpowers. The most important of these are "dancing with the dragons", i.e. dealing with challenges in a playful way, and "dreaming", the ability to tell yourself a new story about the world, your project and your role in it. Dragon Dreaming itself tells this new story: It is possible to realize big dreams, playfully, together and in harmony with yourself and nature.

The approach to collective project development is based on a cyclical processes that combines inner and outer change as a whole. The set of methods is also based on this understanding, leading groups to a shared awareness of collective vision, goals and approaches in the shortest possible time – and just as directly revealing their own limitations. In order to be able to integrate so many insights as a group, Dragon Dreaming offers practices that promote a culture of awareness, error-friendliness and playful cooperation.

Dragon Dreaming combines knowledge, wisdom and experience

John Croft and Vivian Elanta discovered the underlying pattern of Dragon Dreaming in the 1980s when they brought together their practical experience of environmental activism, development work and community projects, Paulo Freire's „pedagogy of the oppressed", further approaches to informal education and Kurt Lewins' "action research".

Gregory Bateson's "Living Systems" theory, and Joana Macy's experiential "Deep Ecology", among several others, have further informed the model and values. In addition, Dragon Dreaming is inspired by the cosmology and spirituality of the Noongar People of Western Australia: The connection to their land and all its beings, the cyclical understanding of time, and the essential importance of their own stories about their spirituality and cosmology, that is reflected in dance, art, song, celebration and in everything they do.

Dragon Dreaming can remind us, even and especially when creating with others and the world, to be in deep connection and cooperation with life itself.

What this course includes

The intensive course offers you theoretical knowledge and practical experience of the following approaches:

• Dragon Dreaming Basics and Philosophy
• The Cyclical Process: The Dragon Dreaming Wheel
• Safer Spaces: Principles of Practice
• A different project pitch: Authentic Communication
• The Dream Circle, generating a shared Vision
• bottom-up Objective Setting and Commitment Testing
• The Gameboard, a Project Map
• Dream Embodiment through Song, Movement and Art
• Silence, Celebration, Movement and Play as part of work culture

Over five full days, we will flow through the entire Dragon Dreaming process with its central methods and practices on a real project in the group. The practice enables you to assess and train your skills for facilitating a team with the aim to co-create a common vision, strategy, share responsibilities and build community. 

There will be background knowledge on processes, instructions and stories from the field. Over the five days we co-create together an intensive, lively experience of the Dragon Dreaming culture.

The Dragon Dreaming Intensive course provides you with the basis for professional facilitation of the Dragon Dreaming processes for a team or group and for leading official Dragon Dreaming introductory courses. The Intensive course is a prerequisite for participation in a Dragon Dreaming trainer training. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate.

Prerequisite for participation:

Prerequisite is basic knowledge of Dragon Dreaming, acquired through participation in an introductory course, or practical experience of parts of the Dragon Dreaming process, with self reliant acquisition of theoretical knowledge. This training will be held in English. Working groups may be formed in german or other languages. 

Accessibility

Our aim is to create a more inclusive space. We welcome people of different backgrounds, appearances and worldviews and expect everyone to support this through open-mindedness, mutual care and respect. Our common language will be English. The venue is on the ground-level, the toilets are not wheel-chair accessible though. Detailed information about accessibility of the venue can be inquired. If you need any special support to participate in respect to your personal situation we are happy to step into a dialogue and explore the possibilities together.

Place:

The course takes place at Spreefeld Berlin, located in the center of Berlin on the banks of the Spree, between Mitte and Kreuzberg. Spreefeld emerged from a community project. A giant construction assembly, organised as a cooperative, occupied the former fallow land in the early 2000s to keep it open to the public. Today, Spreefeld is a project for communal living and working. We will spend the six days in a light-flooded 100 square meter group room at this location on the Spree.

Spreefeld Berlin, Wilhelmine-Gemberg-Weg 14, 10179 Berlin

Dates & Times:

From Sunday, Nov 3rd at 17:30 to Friday, Nov 8th, 2024, around 13:30.
Training Schedule:

• Sunday: 17:30 - 21:30 approximately
• Monday: 9:00 - 18:30
• Tuesday: 9:00 - 21:30 approximately
• Wednesday: 9:00 - 18:30
• Thursday: 9:00 - 22:00 approximately
• Friday: 9:30 - 13:30 approximately

Costs:

From 830,- to 1.330,- Euros incl. 360,- Euros for expenses.

--> Early Bird until 27.9.24 or as long as early bird tickets are available (limited number).

Financial Comfortable: Regular 1.330,- Euro* / Early Bird 1.110,- Euro*

Financial Stable: Regular 1.120,- Euro*, Early Bird 970,- Euro*

Financially Strained: Regular 910,- Euro*, Early Bird 830,- Euro*

Group discount: 5% for one team of 3 to 5 people (on request, only available until 20th of April)

Amounts are free of VAT, invoices are issued by Bildungswerk gGmbH.

*Including 360,- costs for venue, materials, administrative costs and catering (four lunches, snacks during breaks and two dinners, vegetarian/vegan), depending around 360,-Euro per person. Excluding: your accommodation and your travel costs. At our venue im May Accommodation is available can be booked extra. 

Payment Options: If easier for you, you can also pay the amount in parts or arrange a convenient payment date with us. We can also invoice you/your organization directly for 100% of the amount (instead paying a deposit). Please contact us to learn more. Otherwise, we will automatically invoice the remaining amount after the down payment (with a payment term of 30 days). 

We offer a limited number of fellowships. Please contact us for further information.

Our minimum group size is 10 our maximum 18 participants. 

Cancellation Terms:

The cancellation fees of 270,- to 350,- Euro apply from the day of registration. Cancellations 14 days or less before the first day of the seminar are subject to 100% of the seminar fee. You may transfer your registration fee to someone else you find as replacement. We ask for a processing fee of 80,- Euros in this case.

Contact for inquiries and queries:

By e-mail: info@vanillaway.net

By telephone: +49 30 58882404

About the facilitators:
Manuela Bosch (Facilitator) is a facilitator and guide for transformative experiences in groups, organizations and individuals. Manu works with various unconventional techniques that involve the body, consciousness and nature. She works as a Social Presencing Theater Advanced Practitioner, Dragon Dreaming Facilitator and Trainer, Vision Quests Guide, Host of Touch&Play Germany and the Collaboration Incubator and initiator of the Vanilla Way network. Manu has been familiar with Dragon Dreaming since 2011 and has been active internationally ever since. In 2012 Manu led her first Dragon Dreaming intensive course in Berlin. Dragon Dreaming is the foundation and inspiration of all her work as an activist, community organizer, project coach and facilitator. Manuela leads the intensive training. www.manuelabosch.de

Further Co-Facilitators and Team: to be announced.