“Dragon dreaming is a fantastic tool for manifestation—individual or collective—involving four simple steps that always connect in cycles. This practice helps to organize and support an organic process of manifesting our dreams into reality. We must always start by searching for clarity with our dreams, planning intelligently, acting and implementing, celebrating, growing, and then starting again the next cycle.”
Dragon Dreaming
The Dragon Dreaming process has at its foundation the interplay
between individual and collective dreams.
While they were both working for the Gaia Foundation of Western Australia, John Croft and his late wife, Vivienne Elanta, created the Dragon Dream model. Dragon Dreaming relates our dreams to ecological processes, human processes, and indigenous traditions, as well as other social and environmental theories. The dragon dream is based on three key components: personal growth, community building, and service to the earth.
The four stages—dreaming, planning, doing, and celebrating—are not rigidly separated and are fractal in nature, as each stage involves all four stages within itself. In the dreaming stage, you begin with awareness, move to motivation, and then move to information gathering before crossing the threshold through celebration to the planning stage, again with its own four stages.
Image from above our farm “Fairy Farm” taken by Gilad Sarusi.
Create Your Own Dragon Dream
When Alan and I wanted to manifest our dream land together, we used this model to get clear on our needs and vision. Start with Dreaming and Planning, then move to Doing, and lastly, Celebrating. It is important to be as detailed as possible in all steps. Want more information about Dragon Dreaming?
We must write out our project and land goals with clear intentions. It helped us manifest the lands to steward by making a template of exactly what we want.