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Working with the Dream Tender
Dreaming for Belonging - Ceremony in Season - Vernal EquinoxWhat if part of you heals and tends you as you sleep?
We are collectives conspiring for our wildest success. To actualize our success, we must impeccably know our Selves. In order to know our Selves, we must be comfortable learning who is within and among us. When we know them we can conspire for the success of All Things, to create belonging for ourselves and others. This kind of Self-awareness is critical to manifesting our calling.
Among our inner cosmology is our Dream Tender, an aspect of us who continues our healing and tending processes when we sleep. The Dream Tender addresses passive needs, and communicates ones that need our waking attention through symbols, patterns, spirit visitations, and glimpses into Selves on other timelines. When we can align our waking wellbeing practices with those of our Dream Tender, change happens.
In this class we will focus on aligning with inner aspects of Self, including those on other timelines. As we move into Spring in the north, it’s a ‘new year’ of its own kind. New life is emerging, which means new growth, new ways of being are within our grasp. This is the best time to explore inner cosmology and by doing so, to work together with All That We Are and bring balance to the planet.
The Details
When: 22 March 2025, 11am-1pm EST
Deadline for registration is 20 March 2025.
Where: Zoom
What: Two hours (including breaks) of class, art, discussion, experiential exploration, and Q&A.
How: Art supplies, writing implements, creative outlets that allow you to explore your inner cosmology.
After: Engage in the private Discord channel to discuss dream revelations through our entry into Spring.
The gathering will be recorded. Registration for this class indicates consent to be recorded and distributed. No refunds are given.

Learn more about inner cosmology in From Elder to Ancestor.
Class Objectives
In this gathering we will:
- Discuss inner cosmology
- Express our inner cosmology through art
- Discuss The Dream Tender
- Engage experiential exploration to greet our Dream Tender
- Q&A
Why I Teach Dreamwork
I am a lifelong lucid dreamer, intuitive, and deathwalker. These innate skills helped me to survive terrible experiences in childhood, and provided the foundation of my soul tending path. I learned very quickly that my waking and sleeping worlds were in relationship, and that each shaped to the other dependent on my actions. From this I understood that my inner world shapes my experience of being as much as my outer interactions do. Though when I can be active in both, I become more who I want to be.
The Dream Tender is the only dreamwork class that I teach. It is intended for folx who want an animistic knowledge of themselves, including an understanding of relationality and land-based identity. Specifically, it is for folx who want tomove among with their conscious and unconscious more aligned, to create the life they want for themselves and their communities. The Dream Tender is an opportunity to learn about dreamwork, but also to hold and experience creative seasonal community space.
For this reason, it is open to those who are beginning dreamwork, and to those returning to it, who want to look at it a different way, insafely held sacred space.
Meet Your Teacher
Meet Kelley

S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.
Kelley Harrell is an animist, author, deathwalker, and death doula held by Tuscarora, Woccon, and Sissipihaw land. For the last 30 years, through Soul Intent Arts she’s helped others ethically build thriving spiritual paths. Her work is Nature-based, and centers soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral tending, and deathwork. She hosts the podcast, What in the Wyrd, and also writes The Weekly Rune as a celebration of the Elder Futhark in season. Work with her in the Runes for Change community or in her intensive soul tending training, The Spirited Path. Full bio.
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Testimonials
Lee
“I enjoyed learning how dreams could be thought of as a spiritual manifestation of our nervous system. “
NewEnergy
“I gained a relationship with my dream tender, with immediate affects in my dreaming“
Cyn
“[I appreciated] gaining a method of preparing to dream effectively. “
Further Reading
- From Elder to Ancestor
- Real Wyrd – A Modern Shaman’s Roots in the Middle World
- Dying Well in Community
- Googling the Demon
- To Ouija or Not to Ouija
- Compassionate Depossession
- Reconciliation and the Dead Time
- Working with Ancestor Allies
- Conductor of Souls (Psychopomp)
- You Don’t Call, You Don’t Write… The Quiet Dead
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Elder Well
To bear your unique gift to the world.
Die Well
To leave the planet better than you found it.
Ancestor Well
So that your descendants never elder alone.






