Happy New Year to you all!
As most of you already know, I am a Unitarian Universalist minister (also ordained in the Church of Universal Life). I am also a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) an independent affiliate of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) specifically devoted to serving isolated religious/spiritual seekers (including humanists and archetypal "village atheists") as a "liberal church/community by mail" since it's foundation in 1944. CLF has expanded and become a liberal church/community on the internet, offering an even wider range of activities, services, and opportunities for learning and personal growth.
As a result of a sermon CLF asked me to do at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly this summer, CLF decided to set up small (5-10 member) groups on the internet to do archetypal group projective dream work as a way to promote personal intimacy and a shared spiritual search for a deeper sense of meaning in the separate and shared lives of CLF members.
I was asked to create a training course for people interested in taking on the role of internet dream group leader/facilitators (you do not have to be a member of CLF to do the training). 
The result is a 70 page CLF On-Line Dream Work Leadership Training Manual. It is in the form of a comic book, so you may well ask....
[Because of the limitations of Constant Contact's software it is hard to get this big enough to read easily, so here is the text]:
Why Comics?
Jere says: For several reasons: one is that the functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) studies are very clear - absorbing information through comics, looking at images and reading words simultaneously - synchronizes the right and left hemispheres of the brain, enhancing comprehension and retention more smoothly and completely than either reading, or looking at pictures accomplish separately. Below image of Jeremy: "Dr. of Ministry Hood."
Ratty says: Another reason is that the comic book page can easily frame and convey multiple levels of meaning and implication (and irony!) simultaneously, much as dreams themselves do...
Jeremy says: The comic book/graphic novel format of word and picture, panel and page, also allows and invites us to address profound and transcendent issues without being too pompous or exclusive. Like dreaming and dream work themselves, the comic book is a cultural form and a reading/viewing experience that belongs to everybody from every social class, all over the world!
Ratty says: Plus, making and perusing a comic is more like actually having a dream than any other art experience (even film and TV!) and of course Dr. Taylor really enjoys creating comics as an expressive "art as meditation."
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You can see the manual (all pages of it) at
www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3947012
It is also available there as a download to an e-reader, and in soft and hardcopy traditional book form. I'd welcome your feedback.
All of you are invited to give consideration to becoming one of the on-line dream group leader/facilitators. Obviously participation in the CLF training program is also eligible for full credit in our MIPD certificate program. The training is supposed to start Feb 11. You do not need to be a member of CLF to particpate. The details are still being worked out, but you can contact Lara Campbell for more information: (larakjcampbell@yahoo.com) or go directly to http://www.clfuu.org/events/dream-groups-leader-and-facilitator-training/
