Dreams to Awaken
the Soul

We need only look within to find the indwelling guidance of our dreams, able to open our minds and hearts to a more soulful way of being.

Melinda Powell

Author, Dream Guide, Trainer, Lucid Dreaming Specialist

If you could find a guide whose compassionate understanding directly connects you to your innermost feelings, shows you how your fears may limit you, and frees you to express your soul’s deepest longing in the world, wouldn’t this be a wonderful opportunity? Yet we need only look within to find the indwelling guidance of our dreams, able to open our minds and hearts to a more soulful way of being, both in dreams and waking life.

Books

For the Day & Night & Beyond

“The Hidden Lives of Dreams is a great contribution towards healing the deep wounds of our dreaming soul at the present time….A book that is an illuminating guide both to those who pay close attention to their dreams and those whose dream life is an unexplored country.” – Anne Baring PhD, Author of The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

“With Lucid Surrender, Melinda Powell makes another valuable contribution to the field of transpersonal psychology and, more widely, to humanity.” – Diane Greig, PhD, Founder of the Pacific Northwest Dream Community, Canada, Creator/Host of Invisible Women, The Podcast

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Waking Up to the Potential of Dreams

Speaker

My work has been to recollect and share my experience of dreams and my learning from Lucid Surrender, keeping faith with the guidance of dreams. This deep desire inspires me when I am giving a talk or leading a workshop.

Dream Guide

As your dream guide, I initiate you into a deeper understanding of dreaming and yourself. Like a midwife to your soul, I offer to help you in giving birth to your dreams. In this way, your dreams become the ‘seedlings of realities’ in your life on this earth and even beyond.

Dream Groups

To help us gain clarity about ourselves and our lives, dreamwork goes straight to the heart of the matter, by-passing the mind’s defences and detours to reveal the thoughts of the heart and the soul’s gifts.

New Books

For This World & Beyond the Veil

“Dreams My Mother Taught Me is a tribute to the everlasting mother-daughter bond that endures across time and beyond earthbound limits. It has deeply touched my soul and opened my awareness of my own journey as a grieving daughter and mother.” –Camille Dan, author of Aaron’s Energy: An Unexpected Journey Through Grief and the Afterlife With My Brilliant Son

In the Sufi tradition dreams, lucid dreams and visions are experienced in the interworld between spirit and matter. It is quite possible therefore that those of a Mystical temperament can have direct access to this ‘alam al mithal’ through their lucid dreams. Melinda Powell’s profound experience of Divine Love is a testament to this eternal presence behind all reality.–Nigel Hamilton, PhD, Former UK Representative for the Inayatiyya Sufi Order, Director, Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy Education, London, Co-Founder of the Dream Research Institute, and author of Awakening Through Dreams: The Journey Through the Inner Landscape

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The path of Lucid Surrender unveils a radically new approach to exploring the realm of lucid dreaming. A must read for those who seek a direct encounter with the eternal part of their being-ness.

– Robert Waggoner

Author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self

Lucid Surrender is a gift to all those interested in the mysteries of dreaming, the depths of psychological and spiritual life, and the process of soul making.

– Stanton Marlan, PhD, ABPP,

Jungian Analyst and Author

About Melinda

Author, Speaker, Dream Guide, Trainer, Pioneer of Lucid Surrender

Since my early twenties, I have followed my dream guidance, which has led me from Southern California, where I was born, to Europe, where I have lived and worked for over thirty years. During this time, I have directed many new programs: the English Department of a Teacher Training College in Poland, a training program for United States Peace Corps volunteers in Lithuania, a summer school in Switzerland, and the charitable counselling service HELP in England, which I ran for 7 years. In 2012, I co-founded the Dream Research Institute in London, which I also directed for 7 years.

I now focus on writing and offer a limited number of dream guidance sessions to individuals and groups online both short and long-term. In my work, I bring together my training and interest in Nature, literature, psychology, metaphor, sacred traditions, alchemy, dreams and dream lucidity. In 2020, after publishing many articles and book chapters, I was commissioned to write my first book on dreams, The Hidden Lives of Dreams, which serves as a prelude to my first book on lucid dreaming, Lucid Surrender: The Alchemy of the Soul in Lucid Dreaming, which came out in 2021. Lucid Surrender offers readers a new way to be with the unknown so they can intimately know and express the deep Mystery at the heart of life.

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MA Psychology of Religion, Heythrop College, University of London, 2003
7 years of Post-graduate training in transpersonal psychotherapy, including Advanced Diplomas in Psychotherapy and Supervision
Advanced Certification in Transpersonal Dreamwork
British Wheel of Yoga Diploma
12 years working as an accredited psychotherapist. Since November 2022, I have been a Non-Clinical member of the United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists offering trainings in dreamwork and lucid dreaming.
12 years Member and Past Vice President of The International Association for the Study of Dreams. Presenter at many IASD conferences, in person and online.

Director of Help Counselling Centre, Notting Hill, London, 7 years.
Co-founder of the Dream Research Institute London with Dr Nigel Hamilton. DRI Director, 7 years. DRI Advisor since 2020.
20 years of independent research on dreams and their therapeutic applications, as described in The Hidden Lives of Dreams.
An extensive personal archive of lucid dreams collected over 20 years, as featured in Lucid Surrender.

Online Courses, Dream Research Institute, London, DRI

From January – November, 2026, 4-6 participants

The Essentials and Advanced Lucid Dreaming Courses online draw on the Waking Dream Process and alchemy to explore dreams and dream lucidity as a means of psychological and spiritual transformation. (Certification & CPD credits)

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The Hidden Lives of Dreams Webinar

Dates TBC, 4:30 – 5:50pm GMT, 4-6 participants

This online, seven-week introductory course offers a multi-dimensional look at dreams through the practice of the Waking Dream Process. Together, we develop a deeper awareness of dreams and how they can influence our lives. (CPD Credits)

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