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Saturday, November
2 § Global Dreaming: Dream Awareness - A Step Towards Peace Paying attention to and working with dreams can be an important step towards inner and outer peace. This presentation offers the art of dreamwork as a way of enhancing balance and solving inner conflicts. Drawing on the Bahá'i Faith's foundation for peace and its parallels with the archetypes, this presentation offers a new solution to establish a ground for reconciliation and effective change for the world. Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, is an associate professor and founding director of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University (JFKU). She has been program chair and board member of the Lucidity Association and the Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD). In 1998, with the surrealist painter Gordon Onslow Ford, she cofounded the nonprofit art organization, Lucid Art Foundation. She is the author of Through the Light and coauthor of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work With Them. § Private Dreams and Public Nightmares: The Case of September 11 (CE*) Dreams are not simply private musings of isolated individuals; dreams also express the hopes, fears, and desires of whole communities. This presentation will discuss the findings of a new research project that explored the impact of September 11 on dreaming, showing how dreams can cross the boundary separating personal and collective worlds. Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is a scholar who focuses on the interplay of dreaming, religion, psychology and culture. He is a past president of ASD and teaches at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and at JFKU. He is the author of several books including The Wilderness of Dreams; Spiritual Dreaming; An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming; Visions of the Night: Dreams, Religion, and Psychology; and Transforming Dreams: Learning Spiritual Lessons from the Dreams You Never Forget. § Shaman Dreaming: Two Indigenous Shaman Techniques to Facilitate and Understand Your Dreams In this workshop, we will explore two shaman techniques for working with dreams. In order to more easily interpret dream symbols, we will first explore the shaman technique of "Reading a rock" and then, in order to open avenues to the spiritual understanding, we will meet your personal dream "spirit guide" through a guided and grounding chakra meditation. Chuck Coburn is the author of Funny You Should Say That: A Lighthearted Awakening to Psychic Awareness; Reality is Just an Illusion; and the forthcoming Reality of What Is - and How to Get Around in It. He has served as a professional psychic for over 20 years and has hosted his own TV show, Personal Pathways. Currently he teaches and lectures on metaphysical subjects in northern California. § Dream Interviewing: How to Get a Dreamer to Tell You What You and the Dreamer Need to Know (CE*) The Dream Interview Method of dream interpretation consists of a specific series of questions framed as if the interviewer comes from another planet and knows little of life on earth. The dreamer is invited to create verbal descriptions for the dream's visual and feeling images. These words are reflected back to the dreamer without the addition of interviewer interpretations and projections, and the dreamer is asked how his or her descriptions relate to waking concerns. We look at dream images as metaphors to be recognized by the dreamer without the intrusion of preconceived interpretations of psychological symbol systems. Gayle Delaney, PhD, was founding
president of ASD. She developed the Dream Interview Method and triggered
modern interest in dream incubation with the publication of her first book Living
Your Dreams in 1979. Through the Delaney and Flowers Dream Center, she
trains amateurs and professionals to conduct dream classes for individuals,
couples and groups. § Dreamwork and Spiritual Intelligence As a natural transformative process, dreams are intimately related to the unfolding of the self. We will show how the skills we develop in dreamwork are connected to emotional and spiritual intelligence. This view emphasizes dreamers as active participants in their own development. Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, is director of the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is coauthor of the book Le rêve: sa nature, sa fonction et une méthode d'analyse and has done qualitative research on dream incubation, dreams and current concerns, dream understanding, body awareness and spiritual dreams. He is the author of articles on spiritual and cross-cultural approaches to dreams. § The Importance of Dreams in Islam and Middle Eastern Cultures This presentation will cover a brief history of dreams in Middle Eastern Cultures and will look at their importance, especially the prophetic and mystical aspects of these dreams. Mehrdad Fakour, PhD, received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley. He lectures on the topics of archaeology, cultures, religions and art history of the ancient Near East and Islamic period. § Dream Charms from Around the World This presentation looks at tools and methods used through the ages by various cultures to protect sleepers and promote power dreams contain valuable information for today's dreamers. Dream charms, chants and invocations are shared. Patricia Garfield, PhD, is cofounder and past president of ASD. She is an internationally renowned author whose work includes the classic bestseller Creative Dreaming as well as The Universal Dream Key: The 12 Most Common Dream Themes Around the World; The Healing Power of Dreams; Women's Bodies, Women's Dreams; Your Child's Dreams; The Dream Messenger; Pathway to Ecstasy; and The Dream Book: A Young Person's Guide to Understanding Dreams. § How To Have A Flying Dream The key to dream flight is to match movement of consciousness with appropriate imagery. Using the tools of motation (sensation plus experimentation) and imagination (inspiration plus motivation), you can launch incubation of high-flying dreams. Linda Lane Magallón, MBA, was an original executive board member of ASD and is cofounder of the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group. She created the Fly-By-Night Club research group to study mutual, lucid, telepathic and flying dreams. She is the author of Mutual Dreaming and writes for Electric Dreams and The Lucid Dream Exchange. § Transtemporal Dreaming: Intersubjectivity, Precognition and the Physics of Time Dreams of the future, as well as precognition itself, are largely relegated to the anomalous category by the modern scientific zeitgeist. This presentation will discuss new theories of time and consciousness, which support the idea that certain aspects of consciousness may be free from time's typical constraints. This transtemporal property of consciousness, especially transtemporal dreaming, will be discussed in the context of panpsychism, quantum theory, and the latest in experimental psychology. David Pleasants, MA, earned his master's degree in Consciousness Studies with a Certificate in Dream Studies from JFKU. His research focuses on consciousness and physics, neurophysiology, and precognitive and lucid dreaming. § Dream Art as Dream Practice This slide talk will focus on the work of several artists for whom personal dreamwork is intertwined with ongoing art practice. The relation between art, dream journaling and dreamwork in the lives of these artists will be discussed. Richard A. Russo, MA is an author, editor and dreamworker who lives in the Bay Area. He is currently the editor of the quarterly journal Dream Time and chair of the ASD Arts Committee. His books include the anthology Dreams Are Wiser Than Men. § Fun in the Dark: Dreamwork as a Popular Movement and Professional Practice (CE*) Dreamwork is swiftly becoming an academic discipline and a popular movement. The health of the collective psyche is promoted by both approaches, particularly when there is an attitude of mutual respect and cooperation. Jeremy Taylor, DMin, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over 25 years and is past president of ASD. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He is the author of three books: Dream Work; Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill - Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious; and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. Sunday, November 3 § Therapeutic Dream Work: A Case Study (CE*) This workshop explores how dreams guide, and intensify, the process of depth psychotherapy. A client's dreams illustrate the intelligence of the unconscious in addressing issues of bereavement, depression, sexuality and love, creativity, vocation and life goals. We will see how dreams promote individuation through the emergence of a personal, spiritual symbolism. Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT, is director of the Counseling Psychology Program at JFKU's Graduate School for Holistic Studies, Campbell campus. He also maintains a private practice in Berkeley and is the author of five books, including The Nine Stages of Spiritual Apprenticeship; Finding Your Life's Calling; and Astrology and Meditation: The Fearless Contemplation of Change. § Understanding Your Dreams Through the Universal Patterns of Perception Go beyond the meaning of your dreams by exploring the cross-cultural elements of the Circle, Square, Triangle, Spiral and Cross for deeper inner processing. Bring a Dream. Shirl Coburn has been active in ASD for 15 years, serving as treasurer for three years, conference host in 1996, and chair of the Board of Directors in 1998. She has explored dream studies at the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. She facilitates dream groups and workshops and teaches at the Orinda Community Center. She specializes in dreams and shamanism. § Listening to Your Dream Image - A Transformative Approach The workshop will present an approach to dreamwork that reveals the personal content within the dream image by letting the image express itself. The participant will discover a fragment of self within each image, and often an accompanying impasse that prevents transformation and healthy forward progress. The workshop will be based on a unique combination of Gestalt and Jungian principles. A handout will be provided. Bob Hoss, MS, is president elect and past chairman of ASD. He is a former instructor of Dream Psychology at Richland College and past president of the Texas Parapsychology Association. Principally trained in Gestalt Therapy, he has also done extensive study of Color Psychology and the works of Jung bringing a unique combination of disciplines into his workshops and teaching. He is the author of The Language of Dreams. § Dreams - Voices of the Ancestors Among many indigenous peoples, dreams come as the voice of the ancestors; hence they call us to remember our own ancestors and ancestral traditions. In this form we explore our dreams from within the perspective of each person's ancestry. Kimmy K. Johnson, PhD, approaches dreams from a perspective that grounds individuals in their ancestral and cultural heritage(s). Her doctorate is in Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Mind. She offers courses in ancestral research, gender and conflict, and cross-cultural psychology at several California colleges and universities, including JFKU, St. Mary's College in Moraga, and the Institute of Imaginal Studies in Petaluma. § Deep Journeys: A New Experiential Dream Therapy (CE*) Participants will learn a new synthesis of numerous contemporary therapies, which utilize dreams, body memories, visualization and hypnosis in a gentle yet powerful way. The distinct Deep Journey methodology will be presented in detail and demonstrated showing how light trance states induced before clients present their dreams maximizes the depth and clarity of emotional healing. Kenneth Kelzer, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in Novato, California with over 30 years of clinical and teaching experience. He is the originator and developer of the Deep Journey Method that he uses in both individual and group therapy. His most recent book is Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales and Trance States. § Understanding and Resolving Posttraumatic Nightmares through the Life Cycle (CE*) During or after a life crisis, natural disaster, or traumatic event, vivid and sometimes very distressing dreams feel like they add insult to the emotional injuries the dreamer has suffered. This presentation will review the characteristics as well as diagnostic and psychotherapeutic use of posttraumatic nightmares for healing the wounds of trauma. With examples from survivors of the World Trade Center, the Oakland Firestorm of 1991, accidents, loss, and childhood abuse, we will explore the perils and transformative potential of crisis dreams. Alan Siegel, PhD, practices psychotherapy and assessment in Berkeley and San Francisco. He is past president of ASD and former editor of the quarterly journal Dream Time. He is an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Clinical Science, and has taught courses on dreams since 1975. He is author of Dreams That Can Change Your Life, coauthor of Dreamcatching and author of the forthcoming Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life's Answers in Your Dream. § Dreams and Addiction (CE*) Sometimes willpower doesn't work! Despite our best intentions, we still go back to our annoying habits and destructive addictive behaviors. Dreams can help us heal our self-negating habits. Dreams can change lives, even save lives. Dr. Skibbins draws upon his experience working with over 2000 dreams to help you understand how dreams can support recovery from addictive patterns. David Skibbins, PhD, MFT, has worked with dreams in his 25 years as a therapist. He is a certified Life Coach and has developed the technique of Dream Coaching, a way of directly exploring your own dreams without the need for professional psychotherapeutic interpretations. He is the author of Working Clean and Sober. § Dreaming the Dawn: Practical Implications of Projective Dream Work as a Spiritual Discipline All dreams come in the service of health and wholeness. Carl Jung said that every dream is a compensation for imbalances in waking conscious attitudes. This "compensatory function" is a direct consequence of the deep, shared common humanity out of which all dreams spring and back toward which all dreams direct our attention. Jeremy Taylor, DMin, a Unitarian Universalist minister, has worked with dreams for over 25 years and is past president of ASD. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He is the author of three books: Dream Work; Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill - Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious; and The Living Labyrinth: Exploring Archetypal Images in Myths, Dreams and the Symbolism of Waking Life. § Wisdom of the Dreamtime: Creative Process Work with Dreams (CE*) Our dreams offer gifts of guidance and laughter, warning and wisdom, and love beyond imagination. Learn to gain access to the Wisdom of the Dreamtime for yourself and your clients through expressive arts and creative writing. This right brain, experiential approach to dreams fosters deep inner healing and integration of unclaimed aspects of the self and opens us to spiritual guidance for our lives and our world. Rahima Warren, MA, MFT, is a Certified Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapist, writer and expressive artist who has studied dreamwork extensively with Strephon Kaplan Williams. She was graduated from JFKU with an MA in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology in 1981 and began leading dream groups and workshops in 1982. For over 25 years, her dreams and dreamwork have been a major source of personal healing and inspiration. * Up to 9 hours of CE credit will be available for MFTs and LCSWs for selected presentations. Daily Conference Exhibits: 9 am - 5:30 pm § Awakening: A Creative Response to World Events After the events of September 11, 2001, a group of artists and dream studies students from JFKU collaborated in creating a poignant tribute to their community's precognitive and healing dreams of this tragedy. An art exhibit, Awakening, was the result of this effort. Awakening is an ongoing project utilizing the power of dreams and art to bring peace to our inner and outer worlds. Please send a dream along with your registration to contribute to this project, which will be on display during the conference. § The Association for the Study of Dreams Video and Poster Session In an eleven-minute video of pictorial delight, learn more about ASD through interviews with leading ASD figures. Created by videographer Tamara Gurbis, the video is designed for both educational and fundraising purposes. Copies of the video are available for a small donation. Additionally, through an ASD Web Site Poster Session, learn how to connect to the Association's forums and events as well as to access articles and information on dreams and dreaming through ASD's Web Site, www.ASDreams.org . § The Dream Library and Archive of Novato Established in 1990 by Jill Gregory, the Dream Library and Archive of Novato is a gathering site for dream materials, it is home to over 3,000 books, journals and tapes as well as a variety of dream products and a collection of dream art. Part of the Library's collection and information will be on display during the conference. |
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