I am excited to share this conversation with Nancy Gershman. She shared about how she uses the creative technique of Dreamscaping with clients. 

Nancy Gershman, LMSW, is a psychotherapist and the developer of Dreamscaping, an imaginal and photo-based approach to treating grief and loss, supported by the way memories get encoded in the brain. Dreamscaping uses resourcing, felt sense memory, re-scripting and mental simulations to shift the focus from “what do you miss?” to “what gives you joy?”

After a decade of Dreamscaping with the bereaved as a memory artist, Nancy was featured for her work with end of life families at VNSNY/Haven Hospice as NY1’s “New Yorker of the Week” (2016). In 2020, Routledge published "Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping, " co-authored with Barbara E. Thompson. Nancy's additional publications include case studies in Robert A. Neimeyer’s Techniques of Grief Therapy (Routledge, 2012, 2016) and Annals of American Psychotherapy (2010) with Jenna Baddeley, PhD. She has been the host of Death Cafe NYC since 2013. 

She will be teaching others how to use the process of Dreamscaping at the 2020 Expressive Therapies Summit . 

RESOURCES:

• Nancy's website https://artforyoursake.com/ 
• "Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping," co-authored with Barbara E. Thompson
• Death Cafe NYC 
• Expressive Therapies Summit NY, 2020 
• Prescriptive Memory: Liberating Joy and Strengths from Loss-Saturated Imagery

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