Dreams as Sacred Liturgy with Darby Christopher

How can we meet our dreams on their own terms and use them as liturgy for sacred gatherings? A conversation about Natural Spirituality with Haden Institute’s Darby Christopher. We talk about what makes gatherings sacred including the idea of going slow and leaving room for silence. Darby goes into some of her ideas on what she calls the dream Roundabout which includes many ways to meet the dream on its own terms. She encourages us to not take our dreams too literally but to use them as starting off points for inner exploration.

BIO: Darby Christopher is a Social Worker and Interfaith Minister whose primary vocation is “Dream Worker.” She has trained at the Haden Institute and in Dream Tending with Steven Aizenstat, she co-facilitates an affordable dream work conference called the Natural Spirituality gathering.

Find our guest at: DreamLiturgy.com, also on FB, IG, and Threads: @darby.christopher.96 @hadeninstitute

Here are some of the webpages that were mentioned on the show: Nsrgathering.org, HadenInstitute.com, Dreamtending.com

This show, episode number 319, was recorded during a live broadcast on July 12, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

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A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

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