What if the “next big thing” is already within you? 

There is a layer of intelligence beneath your analytical mind that most people never learn to access. 

It speaks in images. In dreams. In the sudden knowing that arrives before words. The Dream & Innovation Lab™ is where you learn to access it. 

 

WHAT THE LAB IS
The Dream & Innovation Lab™ is a structured practice for accessing deeper intelligence through creative and innovative thinking. 

The Lab creates the conditions for direct communication from the unconscious mind, so you can overcome mental blocks, professional stagnation, find confidence in decision making, and generate better business outcomes

This specialized technique mixes applied neuroscience with:

  • Jungian Active Imagination

  • Dreamwork

  • Imagery

  • Art

  • Somatic Awareness

Imagine tapping into the creative problem solving techniques that visionaries, depth psychologists, and artists have harnessed to access deep wisdom.

Einstein didn’t solve his greatest problems through calculation alone. He engaged in a thought experiment and imagined riding alongside a beam of light. From that interior journey, the theory of relativity emerged. Paul McCartney heard the melody to Yesterday in a dream. It is said that Larry Page also had his first conceptualization of “google” in a dream. The unconscious has been offering innovation all along.

The methodology is based in the philosophy that the most original ideas come from going deeply and discovering what spontaneously emerges. 

 

What emerges will be from a layer of intelligence you may not have known you could consciously access.

Here, you can solve problems with metaphor, break through plateaus with intuition, and create innovative models for growth.

 

WHO THE LAB IS FOR 

The Dream & Innovation Lab™ is for creators, leaders, or builders who know there is more available to them than ordinary thinking has been able to reach. 

  • Founders and executives who need breakthrough thinking…beyond just strategy. 

  • Leaders who have hit the limits of analytical problem-solving…and sense the answer lives somewhere deeper. 

  • Professionals in the midst of a vital project who need to cohere existing resources…into a new and innovative form. 

  • High-achievers who have been circling the same problem…and need a genuinely different way in.

  • Creatives who want to move beyond the familiar…and access something genuinely new. 

WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE

Sessions are 60-90 minutes in length, 1x/week for 12 weeks. We can evaluate if it would be beneficial for you to continue beyond this time frame.

Each session moves toward a specific kind of symbolic encounter to invite deep inner access.

We’ll work with this material directly, through active imagination, drawing, painting. You’ll experience applied depth psychology techniques, neuroscience, and the body’s own knowing to go beyond limitations, find innovation, and access intuitive solutions to growth.

Between sessions, you’ll receive coaching via texting and/or email.

 

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH 

  • Innovative approaches to specific challenges you bring. These are the kind of answers that don’t emerge through ordinary analytical thinking. 

  • Solutions to business challenges, generated from your access to a new layer of thinking

  • Creative ideas with practical application. “Your next big thing.”

  • A direct relationship with your own unconscious as a living source of innovation. 

  • The ability to problem solve by working with the repeatable tools of dreams, images, and symbolic material

  • A practice that deepens over time. The more you use it, the more it yields. 

 

THE SCIENCE BENEATH THE PRACTICE 

Modern organizations require innovation, yet the cognitive state most associated with creative insight is also the one most suppressed by high-pressure work environments. 

Research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology identifies two distinct thinking modes:

  • The first is task-focused: analytical, goal-directed, efficient at execution. It is the mode most leaders operate in by default.

  • The second is exploratory: associative, curious, open to novel connections. This is where creative insight tends to emerge. 

Under constant pressure, deadlines, and stimulation, the exploratory mode gets crowded out. The analytical mind stays dominant. And the thinking needed for genuine innovation becomes harder to access. 

The Dream & Innovation Lab™ creates structured conditions for shifting from task-focused thinking into exploratory thinking. It’s deliberate, skillful, and in service of your most important creative work. 

 

HOW THE LAB CAME TO BE 

  • 17 Years Ago

    I began an experiment.

    As a Depth Psychotherapist trained in Jungian principles, I knew that what lives in the unconscious holds a power that often gets ignored in our modern society. Our dreams or active imagination almost never get considered as a tool in the professional realm.

    I wove methods of accessing the subconscious into my practice. The more my clients experimented with it, the more situations I saw that this technique worked.

  • When AI was introduced

    I started trying something new in what I call the Gallery of Dreams.

    There, I began to record my dream imagery into AI for a full year. I learned that while the content of a dream matters, it is the images that emerge from a dream that really give it potency.

  • I tried an expressive arts session

    Making the active imagination visible

    While I had considered these practicices like painting and drawing, somewhat peripheral, I realized that it was a way to do what AI project had done, bring deep unconscious principles to life and provides a away to make Jung’s active imagination visible through an embodied practice.

    In sharing these technique with my clients, they reported profound results and real tangible shifts in their lives and work. Breakthroughs that most of the business world wasn’t tapping into.

  • I enrolled in Wharton Executive Education

    Understanding the Brain: Using Neuroscience to Deliver Better Business Results.

    As I pondered what I should do for my final project for the class, I realized that I could combine many layers into one innovative process. Depth psychology, dream work, imaginal work and the expressive arts are all neuroscientific tools to shift into an innovative thinking mode. It was there that I came up with the steps that became The Dream & Innovation Lab. These imaginal and depth psychology principles can drive innovation and better business outcomes.

    While this doesn’t represent an endorsement from the school, I was given the feedback from my evaluator of my final project that the methods I offered did provide a framework for innovative thinking and that the idea was brilliant!

    Additional feedback affirmed how this framework could support a neuroscientific bridge form task based thinking into innovative thinning. To be clear: active imagination is not fantasy. Instead, it’s a way of accessing what the rational mind cannot reach on its own.

One of the challenges I see facing leaders is that when we are under stress and need innovative thinking the most,  we might not be able to access it because the brain is in a highly focused state instead of a creative one.


To be clear: active imagination is not fantasy. Instead, it’s a way of accessing what the rational mind cannot reach on its own. It might seem far-fetched. But the reality is, this is innovative thinking grounded in neuroscience. A way to generate innovation from the inside out.

It’s worked with a range of professional clients: CEOs, leaders, and creatives who are curious about the benefits of depth psychology principles for innovation.

 

WORKING WITH THE LAB 

The Dream & Innovation Lab™ is available as part of the full retainer or as a standalone engagement for the right fit. 

Let’s get the conversation started. Fill out the contact form below to share a little bit more about yourself.