Experience the City of Music

Join us this summer in Vienna, the city of music, psychoanalysis, and the birthplace of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Dr. Leslee Brown PhD and award-winning composer and psychologist Dr. Michael Mollura PhD will lead a week-long workshop in Vienna that focuses on Dr. Mollura’s method of interpreting dreams using original music composition. On this special trip you will immerse on a unique journey into the unconscious. Your journey will include lectures and presentations on putting original music to dream images as well as tours and circle discussions about the healing components of music with sound baths and concert performances with special guest musicians from Vienna.  You will experience the healing components of music and dream analysis and discover new portals into the experience of using music as a bridge to understand consciousness. This analytic method will provide a deepened empathy for healing.

The idea of interpreting dreams with music goes back centuries to the work of mystic Sufis in the Middle East. With this work, you will engage and continue the work of our ancestors through a Jungian lens to look at and understand dreams using a creative intervention that generates a new way of understanding images and how they provide a pathway to healing. Dream work of this nature is designed to optimize the brain in order to enhance life experiences and deepened awareness.

Dr. Leslee Brown will lead a social dreaming group each morning, delving into the collective and communal aspects of dreaming. Dr. Brown, who has worked and spent many years in Vienna, will lead us on afternoon city walks focusing on the history of psychoanalysis and Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. We will walk in the footsteps of Dr. Sigmund Freud and experience Freud’s dreams in the places he dreamt, worked and lived.

Auckland is a buzzing urban hub nestled between two contrasting coastlines and hosts a combination of metropolitan delights and natural landscapes. Known as the ‘City of Sails’, Auckland is a beautiful harbor city located in the subtropical north of New Zealand. This gorgeous city is home to numerous black and white sand beaches, world-class museums, rugged mountains, verdant farmland, lush native bush, sun-drenched islands, award-winning wineries, leafy parks, charming country and coastal villages, Victorian architecture and some of the best food you will ever taste!

This series of in-depth seminars are designed for mental health professionals who want to become familiar with and apply Forensic Psychology. The seminars will be held both at at The University of New Zealand, Massey University and The Auckland South Correctional Center prison just outside the city. Your week in New Zealand will offer a very unique opportunity to work within the prison walls for in depth discussions, and an immersive on site seminar series within the prison. New Zealand has a very different view on multi- cultural harmony, and particular cultural and indigenous populations are at the forefront of our experience with various cultural issues being a part of our learning and dialogue.

You will spend two afternoons in small groups with members of the New Zealand psychology association for small group local tour experiences. A great way to share ideas, network and get to know the locals and the city!

You will culminate this fascinating program with a boat ride and Island food, nature and wine tour on our last day!