The Dream & Innovation™ Lab
Where the deeper mind meets the leading edge
For founders, innovators, executives, and creatives.
Image becomes vision.
Vision becomes form.
What if the “next big thing” is already within you?
There is a layer of intelligence beneath your analytical mind that most leaders rarely reach. An inner world that visionaries, innovators, Einstein, and Jung knew how to access. A well of creativity, invention, and insight.
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 and bring what you discover to life.
Most leaders rarely develop this deeper channel. Not because it isn’t there. Because no one taught them how.
WHAT THE LAB IS
It is not traditional coaching. It is not psychotherapy. It is something completely new.
The Lab merges dreamwork, active imagination, and applied neuroscience. The result is an integrative methodology designed for transformation, creative insight, breakthrough thinking, and vision made actionable.
The Dream & Innovation™ Lab is:
a structured minimum 12 week engagement for executives, founders, creatives, and high performers.
a proprietary methodology combining applied neuroscience, Jungian depth psychology, dreamwork, art expression, and active imagination.
designed to access the level of insight your strategic mind cannot generate alone.
WHO THE LAB IS FOR
The Dream & Innovation™ Lab is for creators and leaders who know there is more available to them than ordinary thinking has been able to reach.
Visionary Founders and executives who need breakthrough thinking…not just strategy.
Leaders who have experienced the limit of analytical problem-solving…and sense the answer lives somewhere deeper.
Professionals in the midst of a vital project who are seeking coherence so existing knowledge can be transformed into something new and original.
High-achievers who have been circling the same problem and are seeking a genuinely different way in.
Creatives who want to move beyond the familiar…and access something genuinely new.
Scientists, researchers, and innovators who sense they are on the verge of a significant contribution - and are seeking a different level of consciousness where discovery and innovation actually begin.
If you’ve ever had your clearest idea in the shower, in a dream, or woken in the night with a solution you couldn’t have reasoned your way to - you already know this deeper resonance exists. The Lab teaches you to access it.
WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE
This is a 12-week engagement. One 60-90 minute session per week.
Each session moves toward a specific kind of inner encounter - working with your own dreams, images, and symbols as live intelligence regarding your innovative opportunity.
Each session is devoted to discovering the unique brilliance within you and helping it become your magnificent contribution to the world.
You will engage in dreamwork, active imagination, imagery, somatic awareness, expressive arts, and AI as a depth psychological expression. This is an applied depth psychology and neuroscience-informed practice, brought directly to your most important work, growth, and life.
Between sessions, you receive consultation via text and email to assist with integration, develop your insights, and support your vision into being. Many participants find that the process deepens self-awareness, and builds emotional resilience.
Together we’ll evaluate whether another series will best serve you beyond the initial 12 weeks.
When the unconscious becomes conscious, innovation emerges.
What if your greatest asset is revealed when your expertise meets your imagination?
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” —Albert Einstein
Einstein didn't solve his greatest problems through calculation alone. He imagined riding alongside a beam of light, and from that interior journey, the theory of relativity emerged.
Paul McCartney heard the melody to Yesterday in a dream.
Larry Page conceived of Google the same way.
Otto Loewi dreamed of an experiment that demonstrated chemical transmission between nerves – a discovery that earned him the Nobel Prize.
The unconscious has been offering innovation all along. Most of us were never taught how to listen.
The Dream & Innovation™ Lab offers the conditions to connect to the unconscious, discover your muse, and nurture innovation.
What Emerges
Consider the concept of a “eureka moment.” When a new perspective, a creative insight emerges.
A layer of intelligence you may not have known you could consciously access.
Here, you:
solve your specific problems with metaphor.
break through plateaus with intuition.
generate innovative models for growth in your career
Discover your inner generator of guidance and inspiration
Access repeatable tools to sustain you long after our work together ends.
Grounded in neuroscience. Rooted in depth psychology. Alive with mystery and creative inspiration.
WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
Innovative approaches to specific challenges you bring - the kind that don’t emerge through analytical thinking alone.
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 symbolism
A practice that deepens over time. The more you engage with it, the more the innovative portal opens, and the more possibilities emerge.
THE POWER OF NEUROSCIENCE FOR BETTER BUSINESS SKILLS
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 in charge. And the thinking needed for genuine innovation becomes harder to access.
The Dream & Innovation™ Lab creates optimal conditions for shifting from task-focused thinking into exploratory thinking. It’s deliberate, skillful, and in service of your most important creative work.
These images emerged:
A figure reaching toward a star. Arms open. Oriented toward something she couldn’t yet name.
Another image. Two hands finding each other.
In active imagination, a very specific vision: a woman in a wooden confinement. The only way out is through. She must punch her way out in a leap of faith. What will be on the other side? She punches her hand through the wood. And grasping her hand on the other side is the goddess of the North Star. Luminous.
It’s as though the faith to keep going granted the goddess to emerge.
HOW THE LAB CAME TO BE
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My Background
Grounded in symbolism & science.
My father is a nuclear physicist. From him I learned that science, approached with awe, is also mysticism. I learned that there are billions of galaxies and billions of stars in our universe. My mother is an English professor. From her I learned to read symbols.
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My journey to Depth Psychology
The power of the unconscious mind.
I earned a master's degree in applied psychology at the University of Santa Monica, then a master's degree in counseling psychology with a depth psychology emphasis at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
My thesis at Pacifica explored dreams, intuition, and the imaginal in psychology. I became fluent in the language of the unconscious, the way it speaks in symbol, image, and metaphor. -
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 our modern world largely ignores. Dreams and active imagination were almost never considered professional tools. Yet I had seen it firsthand: the unconscious mind contains unrealized creative potential.
The unconscious is not merely a repository of wounds. It may also be a source of innovation.
Dreams, active imagination, and symbolic processes may represent an underdeveloped frontier of human creativity, innovation, and self-understanding.
I began weaving methods of accessing the unconscious directly into my clinical work. The more my clients engaged with this material, the more I witnessed tangible shifts — in their ability to access new solutions, in their capacity to think originally under pressure, and in the innovative work that followed.
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Then AI emerged
And I went further.
I created what I now call the Gallery of Dreams — a year-long experiment in which I recorded my own dream imagery into AI to render it visually. What I discovered changed the way I understood the work: it is not only the content of a dream that carries the potency. It is the image.
I began to recognize that these images could be engaged directly, not just when asleep, but when awake, through what Jung called active imagination. And that we can invite spontaneous images to arise. A call and response between the conscious and unconscious mind.
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I then explored expressive arts
Drawing, painting, and making the active imagination visible and embodied
What had seemed peripheral turned out to be central. I later came to understand that the artistic expression activated during drawing and painting was stimulating the brain’s default mode network, associated with spontaneous thinking and creativity.
Using a combination of these techniques, my clients reported profound shifts. The results were among the most remarkable I had seen in my clinical work.
What surprised me most was how quickly people could access this material — often within minutes, using the specific tools and questions I developed to guide this process.
Jung spent years in private dialogue with his own unconscious, recording the images and figures that emerged. The result was The Red Book, one man’s extraordinary record of interior inquiry.
As remarkable as this work is, what I discovered is that this same capacity is available to all of us.
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Next, I enrolled in Wharton Executive Education
Understanding the Brain: Using Neuroscience to Deliver Better Business Results.
I began to wonder whether these tools — dreamwork, active imagination, expressive arts — could be used not just for personal healing, but with a practical purpose. Could they be applied directly to innovation and business outcomes? For my final project, I brought everything together — depth psychology, dreamwork, imaginal work, expressive arts, and AI-generated imagery — and made the case, supported by research, that these are neuroscientific tools that shift the mind from task-focused thinking into the exploratory mode where genuine innovation lives. My evaluator affirmed that the methods provided a framework for innovative thinking and described the idea as brilliant. Until this point, these methods had lived entirely between me and my clients, and in psychotherapeutic or scholarly enclaves. The encouragement I received from a neuroscience program at one of the world’s top business schools gave me the courage to step forward and make this work visible. This does not represent an official endorsement from Wharton or the University of Pennsylvania.
One of the challenges I see facing leaders is that when under stress innovative thinking is needed the most.
However, we might not be able to access it because the brain is in a highly focused state instead of a creative one.
Active imagination is a way of accessing what the rational mind cannot reach on its own. A way to generate innovation from the inside out.
While many participants come to the Lab seeking solutions to professional challenges, they often discover deeper self-understanding, expanded creative capacity, greater resilience, and a more intentional relationship with the inner sources of insight, intuition, meaning, and growth.
No two journeys through the Lab are the same. And yet what emerges consistently is this: the Lab seems to reveal each person’s unique brilliance. The images discovered become guides, and sources of strength and insight. Many find that while the goal is innovation, what also arrives is a profound sense of healing, cohesion, and inspiration.
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.
But sweeter still than laughter and greater than longing came to me. It was the boundless in you. —Kahlil Gibran
Ready to begin?
The Dream & Innovation™ Lab is a structured 12-week engagement.
The work begins with a conversation. Tell me a little about where you are and what you’re reaching toward.
From the Lab
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” —William Shakespeare
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