ABOUT AIMEE
My work moves between the outer worlds we shape together and the inner worlds that speak to us through dreams, symbols, and stories. Across both, I am interested in how we make meaning, encounter difference, navigate conflict, and imagine new ways forward.
For more than 20 years, I have worked across international diplomacy, government, international development, and civil society, focusing on peace, conflict, and meaningful participation. Alongside this work, I am a practitioner and teacher of Jungian-based modalities, with a particular focus on dreamwork and archetypes.
I facilitate workshops in projective group dreamwork and offer individual sessions exploring both nocturnal and waking dreams. I am especially interested in the relationship between dreamwork and conflict transformation, and the possibilities for reimagining conflict and peace.
In both my professional and dreamwork practice, I am drawn to what happens when we look beyond familiar ways of seeing. My two paths are distinct yet complementary, each deepening my appreciation for curiosity, attentive listening, and openness to what has not yet emerged.
Aimee Breslow
CONSULTING | DREAMWORK
Reimagining conflict, peace, and possibility
CONSULTING
Reimagining how things work. Turning vision into action.
I help organizations tackle complex challenges, develop new approaches, and translate ambitious ideas into practical strategies, programs, and partnerships.
As a founding member of the Negotiations Support Unit at the U.S. Department of State, I advised senior officials on peace processes and complex political negotiations aimed at breaking cycles of violence. Over more than 20 years across government, international development, and civil society, I have built institutional capacity, developed innovative analytical tools, launched new initiatives, and strengthened the foundations for sustainable negotiated outcomes.
Having worked as both a donor and an implementer, I understand how to connect institutional priorities and available resources with on-the-ground realities. I bring strategic thinking, creative problem-solving, and practical leadership to work on peace and conflict, civic engagement, and inclusive decision-making—helping organizations develop new initiatives, adapt existing approaches to changing realities, strengthen programs, and build the capacity and coalitions needed to achieve lasting impact.
Services
Strategy & Program Design
Developing strategies, designing programs, and translating ambitious goals into actionable plans, institutional structures, and approaches that respond to real-world challenges.
Custom Training & Facilitation
Designing and leading tailored trainings, workshops, and facilitated processes that strengthen skills, build shared understanding, and help individuals and organizations navigate complexity.
Advocacy & Coalition Building
Building partnerships and networks, aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, and developing collaborative approaches to advocacy, peacemaking, and conflict prevention.
Selected Clients & Partners
The Carter Center · PeaceTech Lab · Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development · International Foundation for Electoral Systems · National Democratic Institute · U.S. Department of State · Johns Hopkins University · The Mary Hoch Foundation · Think Peace Hub
I welcome domestic and international consulting opportunities to bring strategic perspective, creative thinking, and practical experience to complex challenges.
Recent Publications
DREAMWORK
Dreamwork
Dreams speak in the language of symbol, metaphor, and story. They invite us beyond familiar ways of thinking, opening pathways to insight, creativity, and new ways of seeing.
Dreamwork is an ancient and inclusive human practice. Across cultures and throughout history, people have turned to dreams as sources of meaning, wisdom, and guidance. By approaching our dreams with curiosity and openness, we can explore unfamiliar perspectives, engage the unknown, and discover possibilities that might otherwise remain out of reach.
I am a Certified Dreamwork Facilitator with the Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork and a certified archetypal consultant. My practice explores the transformative potential of dreams through projective group dreamwork and archetypal inquiry, with a particular focus on conflict transformation and the relationship between our inner and outer lives.
I have facilitated workshops at the Political Leadership Academy at George Mason University, the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego, and the annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. I also facilitate in-person gatherings across the United States and online workshops with participants from five continents.
Through workshops and individual sessions, I support people in exploring their dreams and the insights they may offer into themselves, their relationships, and the wider world.
Workshops
What if dreams were a doorway to deeper wisdom? This experiential workshop, explores the images, symbols, and stories of our dreams with curiosity and care, opening up new ways of understanding ourselves and the world around us. This class is for anyone new to dream interpretation— beginners welcome.
What if we approached conflict as a waking dream? Peace Work as Dream Work® uses projective group dreamwork to explore conflict, from the interpersonal to the international. In waking life, we often accept limitations we might readily transcend in a dream. This approach invites us to move beyond familiar constraints and envision new ways forward.
3. Transformative Negotiation: Reimagining Conflict Through Narration and Dreamwork
How might the stories we tell about conflict shape the outcomes we believe are possible? This offering brings narration and dreamwork into conversation with negotiation, inviting participants to examine the assumptions, perspectives, and narratives that keep conflicts in place. By opening space for new stories and imaginative possibilities, we can develop more creative and transformative approaches to engaging differences.
4. In the Hunter's Shadow: Exploring Predator Archetypes in Dreams and Waking Life
What do predator figures in our dreams reveal about power, vulnerability, instinct, and the shadow? This exploration examines predator archetypes as they appear in dreams and waking life, inviting us to consider their symbolic meanings and the roles they play in our personal and collective stories. Through dreamwork and archetypal inquiry, we can explore the complex forces that threaten, pursue, protect, or transform us.
Individual Dreamwork Sessions
Dreams can be explored not only in groups but also through individual reflection. In one-to-one sessions, we work with nocturnal dreams or reimagining conflict as waking dreams. For more information on individual sessions please use the contact form below.
Transformative Negotiation: Reimagining Conflict
Through Narration and Dream Work
The Esalen Institute
November 6 - 8, 2026
I’m delighted to be teaching a new class with Sarah Federman at the Esalen Institute this November. Together, we will explore a different way of meeting conflict — one that begins with curiosity.
We will listen for the narratives that shape our experience and engage the imagination as a resource for transformation, exploring how conflict can be approached not only as a story we tell, but as a waking dream.
In this integrated approach, narration and dreamwork move together to reveal how meaning is made, how it can shift, and how new pathways can emerge if we loosen our grip on a single way of seeing.
Topics include:
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Conflict Narration and Transformation
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Peace Work as Dream Work®
Together, these practices invite a spacious and creative relationship to conflict that can be lived and applied across the many domains of our lives.
At the intersection of spirit and praxis, this workshop takes a dignity-centered approach and unfolds through a blend of lectures and experiential group work, providing concrete tools for personal and professional use.
See link for registration and more details.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION
EDUCATION
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BA, Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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MA, International Relations, Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies
CERTIFICATION
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Certified Dreamwork Facilitator, Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work
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Certified Archetypal Consultant, CMED
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Executive Certificate, School of System Change
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Certified USAID Facilitator, Gender Integration and Preventing & Responding to Gender-Based Violence