About this course
Year 3 · CWW curriculum · Course ID CWW-19
In this course you will explore dreams and ancestral imagery as optional meaning-making, without claiming recovered facts.
CWW curriculum overview · My Progress
Before you begin
Complete the entry orientation and supervisor agreement, and study the units in order. Your Year 2 demonstration must be approved before you begin Year 3. If you have equivalent prior learning, your Shihan will document the decision. Completing this course does not establish external professional registration; external credentials and legal authority are verified separately.
What you’ll learn
1. Meaning and uncertainty
This unit draws on Jungian, dreamwork and ancestral themes. A dream or image can be meaningful without being factual evidence of a past life or family event. Invite the person’s own interpretation and leave room for no interpretation. Do not confirm a supernatural account or hidden memory as established truth.
- Access Past Life Memories: Guide clients into deep trance states to retrieve and explore past life experiences, using Ericksonian and Newtonian methods. Example: Facilitate a session where a client uncovers a recurring relationship pattern rooted in a previous incarnation.
- Interpret Dreams as Ancestral Messages: Use dreamwork to decode messages from the unconscious and ancestors, integrating insights into waking life. Example: Guide a client to interpret a recurring dream as a call from an ancestor.
Practice activity: Write a response that respects a person’s meaning without endorsing an unverified historical claim.
2. Cultural permission
Ask which traditions, if any, the participant wants to draw on. Do not present a generalized Indigenous ceremony as a technique anyone can deliver. Use ordinary fictional storytelling for this learning exercise unless appropriate cultural leadership has specifically authorized something else. Secular alternatives have equal standing.
- Connect with Ancestral Wisdom: Employ visualization and ritual to access ancestral guidance, integrating indigenous and Jungian approaches. Example: Lead a group process invoking ancestral archetypes for collective healing.
- Ensure Ethical Practice: Apply IACT’s Code of Ethics and informed consent protocols to regression and ancestral work. Example: Develop clear client agreements and maintain confidentiality in sensitive sessions.
- Navigate Cultural and Spiritual Diversity: Respect and incorporate clients’ cultural beliefs and spiritual frameworks in regression work. Example: Adapt regression scripts to honor indigenous or religious traditions.
Practice activity: Prepare parallel symbolic and secular versions of a reflection invitation.
3. Turning reflection into action
A useful reflection can end with a present-day action chosen by the participant. Avoid directing family confrontation or major decisions on the basis of imagery. If the material causes distress, stop and involve the supervisor. Record the participant’s words and the agreed action without turning interpretation into diagnosis.
- Identify and Transform Patterns: Recognize and resolve emotional, behavioral, and spiritual patterns rooted in past lives or ancestral lineage. Example: Use regression to uncover and heal a family trauma influencing present behavior.
- Facilitate Integration and Healing: Support clients in integrating regression insights through action plans, ritual, and ongoing support. Example: Co-create a post-session ritual for grounding ancestral wisdom in daily practice.
- Evaluate Progress and Outcomes: Measure the effectiveness of regression and ancestral work using qualitative and quantitative tools. Example: Use client feedback and self-assessment to track transformation over time.
Practice activity: Use a fictional story about belonging to identify one modest present-day action.
Study resources
The unit notes above and the lessons below are your study guide. Your Shihan can arrange access to the original Wisdom and Ancestors Hypnosis syllabus and any separately licensed readings. Paid external books or courses are not included automatically, and practical demonstrations are arranged with your Shihan.
Next step: work through the lessons below in order, then complete the assignment at the end of the curriculum.