Welcome Healing.
Welcome Wholeness.
All your training to help care for others. All your wisdom as a healer. All the years you’ve spent tending the health of those you serve … Thank you.
Your work already aligns so well with the heart of our work at the Haden Institute. For more than 30 years, we’ve equipped healers, dreamers, and seekers from many paths to become certified spiritual directors and dream workers in the Jungian, mystical tradition.
Maybe you want to deepen your own inner work and resources.
Maybe you have felt the desire to keep learning, to keep expanding your expertise.
Maybe you sense it’s time to live out your healer vocation in a new way.
Whatever brings you here today — we are so glad you’ve found Haden. This is a remarkable, safe, and vibrant community. We want you to be a part of everything we’re doing in the world.
Explore Haden’s Certification Programs
Our spiritual direction certification and our dream work certification are both two-year programs with virtual (online) and in-person options. Your training will consist of an essential list of reading and creative embodiment exercises but much of your work can be customized to your interests. That’s something you’ll work out with your program mentor as a part of your small, close-knit cohort. There’s ample support AND huge amounts of freedom for you to make this experience exactly what you need in the next season of your individuation journey.
Spiritual Direction Certificate
Haden’s interfaith approach to spiritual direction training is just one of the things that makes our program so unique and compelling. Take a few minutes to read about our approach and what you’ll gain through this experience.
Dream Work Certificate
The Jungian mystical tradition at the heart of all our work at Haden means you will learn to never look at your dreams the same way again. These potent gifts from the unconscious are an invaluable help for flourishing in all of life.
We’d Like You to Meet Anne
Anne Gessner came to the Haden Institute 15 years ago because she was burning out from a lack of self care — and because she was curious. With all her medical training and experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner she knew helping people was central to her vocation, but she wanted to keep growing. Here’s a little more of her story and what her training at Haden has given her in the years since.
What’s Next for You?
Thanks for taking some time to start exploring the Haden Institute community and our professional training for spiritual direction and dream work. The friendships and connections we find here are so life-giving and enduring. We hope you find a way to join us.
For now, if you have questions about our certifications, how they might help your career or vocational goals, or just need to connect with someone on our team, let us know! We love scheduling quick introduction calls to hear what’s on your mind.
Download a Copy of Our Prospective Student Guide
Inside this brief resource, we’ve answered many of the most common questions that prospective students like you have as they consider enrolling at the Haden Institute. This guide also includes highlights from our essential reading lists, along with information about our tuition and scholarship opportunties.