EarlyBird $499 until Thanksgiving. Save $50 – Register Here.
Bring 2025 to completion. Meet 2026 with purpose.
Join Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild founder Benji Whitehurst and a circle of avid dreamers and authentic relaters for three days of alchemical dreamwork, Relational Flow™, and embodied end-of-year ritual in a private home in Durham, NC.
Expect depth, belonging, and space for integration. With a cap of 10 participants, we’ll turn the year’s dreams and patterns into insight, clear what’s ready to release, and set intentions you can live come January. Fireplace. Shared organic meals. Real connection. Grounding so the work lands.
Alchemical Preparation For the New Year:
We’ll explore our dreams from the past year, reviewing dream journals, visionary experiences, and the wisdom of ongoing life obstacles, to acknowledge any repeated themes or powerful dreams that came. May we complete these dreams and learnings in service of a New Year bringing fresh dreams and visions.
You will experience:
- Alchemical Dreamwork
Guided group circles, solo journal review, and creative integrations (movement, drawing, voice) to surface themes, enact key dream moments, and harvest meaning.
You’ll leave with: completion of unfinished business, clarified patterns, and a personal map for 2026.
- Relational Flow™
A relational meditation that links inner symbols with lived connection: voice what’s true, receive reflection, and let your deepest self step into new symbols and metaphors.
By naming feelings, desires, and boundaries with clean language, you’ll see how inner metaphors play out between us—and can be reauthored in real time.
You’ll leave with: Clear alignment with who you are becoming and your life purpose, and a felt template for bringing that vision into relationship—so your Purpose has a place to land.
- Intention-Setting for 2026
A closing ceremony paired with a simple 30-day accountability practice, with a group chat and an optional accountability buddy to carry momentum into January.
You’ll leave with: Connection to your Purpose, structure for momentum, and clarity that turn intention into daily action.
Schedule:
10am – 6pm schedule (except for last day which ends ~8pm) to support dreaming and integration.
3 Full Days of Deeper, More Nourishing Connections with Others.
1-1 Private Intuitive Coaching & Readings Available Here.
Note: The cap is 10 attendees. Many attendees register off-platform; Meetup RSVP counts may not reflect total enrollment.
Reach out to Benji at (303) 847-5263 with any questions. If you are new, please reach out first, and we’ll set up a quick call, so you have a warm entry into the community. There is also a community party in December we’ll invite you to.
How to RSVP & Pay:
EarlyBird $499 until Thanksgiving. Save $50 – Register Here.
More Details About Structure:
First, if you have made it this far, you probably want to attend. Why not just send a text message, and I can answer your questions directly?
Benji: (303) 847-5263
I have facilitated over 1,500 hours of group workshops over the past 13 years. In this particular workshop, I’m planning:
Trauma-Aware Facilitation – I know how sensitive many of us are. Expect a lovingly held space with grounding practices, healthy organic food with options to avoid food sensitivities, and people who are advanced in their personal development – this is by invitation and I require a welcome call with anyone new to curate a group that can go deep together.
Everyone Will Work Multiple Dreams – Expect a mixture of dreamwork practices. Our Alchemical Dreamwork practice is a combination of Authentic Relating, Relational Flow™, Gestalt Dreamwork, and Projective Dreamwork. Expect a range of structures – from small group focus on your dream, to solo dreamwork using creative materials or journaling. The overall intent is to get a deep, felt sense of what your dreams point to – and insight on what wants to be born in your life in the coming year.
Is It Just Dreamwork? Is it Dream Interpretation? – No. My retreats are more than dreamwork. I blend practices from Authentic Relating, restorying, energy healing, intuitive coaching, and visioning practices. Together, these create a space where people can experience life-changing insights, release what no longer serves, and come out connected deeply to themselves and community. For those who are unfamiliar, Authentic Relating practices are relational meditations that help explore what is in our connections with each other, often to alchemical effect in our personal lives.
Closing Ceremony on December 30 – We will engage in a guided meditation and fire ceremony to bring online our visionary capacities for the New Year and to welcome in higher guidance, to incubate meaningful dreams and guiding visions for the coming months. May we enter the New Year free of the past year’s baggage and with clarity about the most joyful path forward in our lives!
Note: We will set you up to engage in solo dream visioning on the 31st in the comfort of your own home so you are more likely to remember your dreams – or free to partake in New Years’ activities of your choice.
Location:
We will meet in a private home in a pleasant neighborhood in Durham with plenty of parking. We will light the fireplace (or outdoor fire pit if weather is nice) at least once, if the group is interested. Decorated for the end-of-year holidays. Address & what to bring provided after registration and payment.
How to RSVP & Pay:
EarlyBird $499 until Thanksgiving. Save $50 – Register Here.
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Interested in a private intuitive coaching session to go deeper into one of your dreams prior to the retreat? Book your private intuitive coaching session here:
https://dreamcircling.com/private-dream-sessions/
Your host for this event is dream alchemist Benjamin Whitehurst, MA, MBA, founder of the Durham-based Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild (DreamCircling.Com) and 10-year organizer of the AuthenticNC Authentic Relating Meetup. Benjamin holds a Masters of Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University along with certification in Integral Circling from the Integral Center in Boulder, Colorado. Benjamin studied dreamwork with Rev. Jeremy Taylor, and has been teaching and leading dreamwork for 9 years. An experienced guide, Benjamin has been dream journaling since high school, having explored thousands of his own dreams–including lucid dreams, precognitive dreams, out-of-body experiences, and sleep paralysis experiences, over a period of 20 years.
Notes & Disclaimers: This event does not involve psychotherapy, medical treatment, or any other form of advice. Instead, the intent of this training in dream symbolism is educational and spiritual. Please be aware that dreamwork can be emotionally intense for some people–check with your doctor or therapist before participating, and be 100% self-responsible for your own physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being throughout the session. In practice, this event involves meditating together, sharing dreams with each other, telling one’s story, and receiving feedback from others. Imagine 1,000 years ago when communities would share dreams together when a crisis was afoot–they would sit in a circle and share the dreams they had been having. It was both a means of staying connected, and a means of processing & gaining insights about what was happening. May this event be in service of the well-being of our community. This event is a professional offering organized through the Alchemical Dreamers’ Guild, a branch of Navigate Change, LLC.
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