Program of Events
Version 7, 7 June 2007, Subject to Change Without Notice
General Information
Morning Dream Groups and Yoga - Nourish the Spirit of the Dream
We offer a number of morning dream groups with experienced facilitators who offer varied approaches in working with the dream. There are signup sheets in the lobby of the Cooperage near the registration table. When you check in, sign up for the dream group that interests
you, and attend it each morning. Dream Groups are small with space limited to around 12 attendees per group. Dream Groups may require attendance at the first meeting to attend subsequent sessions. Dream group facilitators follow the ethics code of IASD. Please see inside for a full listing of Dream Groups.
Conference Message Board
A message board is available at the Registration/Information Desk in the Foyer of the Cooperage. Please check the board daily for messages, schedule changes, and other conference-related details.
IASD Products Table
In Amici's, adjacent to the Cooperage, IASD items are available for purchase. This is the ideal place to find a wide range of dream items-from Dreamlight pens for recording your dreams, license plate frames, static-cling decals, t-shirts, Dream Network Magazine, and past issues of DreamTime. The Dreamlight pen is NEW this year and we have an exciting t-shirt that you will definitely want to see. Come early to be sure and find your size.
Conference Recording
No need to worry if you can't attend everything you want to attend. Selected sessions will be recorded by Conference Recording Service (CRS). Order forms are available in your registration packet. CDs and order forms will be available during the conference. After the conference, you can order from the CRS website www.ConferenceRecording.com or call 800-647-1110.
Bookstore
Books by our presenters and other popular authors on the subjects of dreams can be purchased during the conference from the Mental Health Resources bookstore located in Amici's.
Literature Tables
Located in Amici's, adjacent to the Cooperage, the Literature Tables offer a venue for conference attendees to display literature and other materials related to their dreamwork. Please visit the table to learn more about your fellow dreamworkers.
Wireless Access
Wireless access is available in the Cooperage, Amicis, University Library, and parts of Stevenson Hall—unfortunately no wireless access in the lodging. Laptops must be equipped with a wireless network card with wi-fi capabilities. To access, turn on your wireless, start up your browser, and log on as a Guest to the SSU system using your personal email. See this campus map for wireless locations: http://www.sonoma.edu/it/helpdesk/wireless/locations.shtml.
Checking Email
Schulz University Library has computers with web access for checking email. Visit this site for more information: http://libweb.sonoma.edu/services/computer.html.
HOUSING, MEALS and TRANSPORTATION
Housing
Campus lodging is provided in Sauvignon Village, a two-story cluster of town-house apartments off the green, adjacent to the Cooperage, where about half of the main conference events are held. Lodging includes four locked bedrooms (singles and doubles) with private baths; living room; and kitchen. High-speed internet access is available –you must provide your own Ethernet cable to hook up. The lodging – meal package provides for one set of bed linens and towels, cup, soap, parking, and three meals a day beginning with lunch on Friday.
Dining
Conference attendees staying on campus sign up for the five-day lodging - meal package (includes parking pass) with all meals provided in the Zinfandel Dining Commons, which provides a selection of food for all nutritional orientations, vegan included. Attendees not staying on campus and therefore without the five-day meal package, will have access to two small on-campus eateries, Charlie Brown’s for breakfast and lunch, the Grill (an outdoor summer grill) for lunch, as well as neighborhood eateries (Shangri-La for Nepalese food), Taco Bell, a juice bar, and a Starbucks across the street from campus. A list of local restaurants is provided in the registration packet.
Parking
Parking is not complimentary but requires a parking pass. The parking pass is included in the lodging - meal package and will be in the reserved residential lots surrounding the townhouses. If you did not sign up for campus lodging, or if you’re staying off-campus or commuting from home, you must obtain a parking pass as follows: Buy a $2.50 parking pass each day at the ticket machine located at the entrance to each unreserved parking lot. All daily unreserved attendees should park in the J lot, which is closest to the Cooperage; you may also park in any unreserved lot, such as F lot, though this is further from the Cooperage than the J lot. If you’re buying a daily parking pass from the ticket machine, do not park in the reserved lots around the Cooperage as you will get a ticket. Display your parking pass on the windshield. Handicapped parking spaces are available at the lodging in the reserved residential areas in marked spaces, as well as behind Schulz Library, in lot A near the Dining Commons, and near the Commons for evening receptions. See this website for Disability Parking sites: http://www.sonoma.edu/maps/adamap1.pdf .
Transportation
Driving distance is 60 miles from San Francisco to the Sonoma State campus. Bus service is available from the Oakland, San Francisco, and Santa Rosa Airports, which drops passengers off at the Doubletree Hotel, where local cabs or shuttle can take you to the campus. Note that a car or cab will be required if you prefer to stay off-campus. The campus dropoff and pickup point is the Cooperage—a delivery driveway is located at the Cooperage mailboxes. Contact numbers for local travel can be found at www.asdreams.org/2007/idx_travel.htm or at the following numbers:
Sonoma County Airport Express 1 (800) 327.2024
Taxis: Rohnert Park Taxi (707) 585.0211
Yellow, George's, Checker Cabs (707) 544. 4444
Limousine to Airports: 1-800-658-5679
Conference Departure
On checkout, conference participants must return room keys to the information desk located in the lobby of the Cooperage. Deposits will be returned only when and if keys are returned. If you are departing early please go to the Information Desk to return your keys and receive your deposit.
How To Get CE: IASD Continuing Education Credits
EARN CE CREDITS (Continuing Education) for selected sessions. The provider of the CE credits is the IASD Dream Studies Continuing Education program that is part of the IASD Education Committee. Earn up to 25 credits during the main conference for selected events including 4 ETHICS credits to meet license requirements. Earn up to 7 additional CE credits during the pre-conference program on June 29th, including 7 CLINICAL SUPERVISION credits. IASD is a CE provider for the California BBSE. IASD is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IASD maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Which Conference Events Qualify? There are approximately 200 events during the five-day conference. Only events marked with the letters “CE” in the program will qualify for IASD CE Credits. Please note that only those events marked in the program and the schedule grid, with the five letters “APA CE” represent APA or BBSE status that are most relevant for license renewal for practicing clinicians.
Do the Credits Apply to all Types of Professional Licenses in All States and Countries? If you are a psychologist, social worker, MFT, nurse, counselor, M.D., or other mental health or health practitioner seeking CE credits to meet licensing requirements, check with your license board to find out if they will accept credits from either a BBSE (California Board of Behavioral Science) or APA (American Psychological Association) approved sponsor of continuing education. Many license boards may accept these credits but IASD does not guarantee that any particular regional license board will accept the CE units obtained at this conference,
Brief Instructions: For those seeking CE credits (Continuing Education) for selected sessions you must have pre-reserved, or at registration pay for, the CE packet. To obtain CE credits you must pay a CE processing fee, obtain a CE Log at registration, carry it with you at all times, and have each CE event you attend initialed by a room monitor. You must have the room monitor at the end of each event certify your attendance with their initials. CE Credits will be awarded based on the CE rated sessions you have attended and have obtained confirming signatures for. See more detailed information in your CE packets. The process is as follows:
1) At registration, pay fee and receive CE Log; 2) Carry the CE Log at all times, and at the end of each CE event, have your log initialed by the room monitor or the presenter if no monitor is present; 3) Complete CE Log and evaluation forms; 4) You must turn in all completed forms and receive your certificate prior to leaving the conference. CE credits cannot be issued after the conference or without properly completed forms.
When And Where Do I Get My Credits: A certificate is issued at the end of the conference when all evaluation forms have been completed and CE monitors have initialed the attendance log in the CE Packet. Attendance is tallied at the end of the conference and the resultant CE credits are awarded at that time. Certificates will be issued on Tuesday between noon and 6 PM at the Information Desk. If you are leaving the conference early then you may process your CE certificates early by going to the Information Desk prior to leaving. IASD will issue the certificate at the conference in person to the attendee and can only grant the receipt of a certificate if you turn in fully completed forms and evaluations during those times. CE certificates will not be sent to participants afterwards. There will be no exceptions. There is an additional $30.00 handling fee imposed by IASD if a replacement certificate is requested.
About CE Certificates: Certificates are issued for successful completion of CE hours. The certificate provides a permanent record of training that may be applicable for insurance panels, hospital staff status, or independent study credit at educational institutions. Please keep in mind that each state and each profession’s licensing board may have different requirements. CE credit is not synonymous with any kind of academic credit. However, CE credit may become part of independent study credit if the academic institution agrees to accept the credit. In general, CE hours can provide a permanent record of training received for various professional purposes such as documentation for licensing or insurance panels.. IASD maintains records of CE units earned. Suggestions or comments about these programs or the IASD CE credit program may be directed to: office@asdreams.org
Earn 2 Units Academic Credit: Psy 595, Psychology of Dreams through Sonoma State University for attending the full conference (30 hours). These are upper-division Psychology credits transferable to most colleges and universities—check with the requirements of your particular program to verify that the units can be transferred. Registration and $90 payment for academic credit takes place at the Conference Registration desk on Friday, June 29; no late registration is available. One research paper required, due Aug. 1. Contact the conference Host, Laurel McCabe, for more information.
2007 IASD DREAM ART EXHIBITION AND AWARDS - "The Spirit of the Dream," a juried exhibition of dream-inspired art, features the work of artists from all over the United States, as well as abroad. The exhibit is housed at the Schulz Gallery of Sonoma State University, from June 15 through July 29, with an opening reception on July 2. Thanks to the generous ongoing support of Nancy Richter Brzeski, $4,500 in awards will be granted to artists chosen from among those whose work is accepted for the 2007 IASD dream art show. See the schedule for Gallery viewing times. Don’t miss the Art Reception reception, with musical accompaniment, scheduled for Monday afternoon.
SPECIAL NEEDS: IASD is making a reasonable effort to accommodate participants
with disabilities. If you have special needs please let us know when you register online or by mail, and identify yourself at the registration when you check in, or at the information desk later in the conference. Also speak to room monitors when you enter a session since special seating can be provided in the front row of the paper and panel sessions for those requiring it. Electric shuttle carts will be available for transportation between buildings—space is limited to those in need so please sign up for these at the information desk. Handicapped parking is available throughout the campus. All restrooms in Schulz and the Commons are accessible; and 1st and 3d floor Stevenson are accessible—Cooperage restrooms are not accessible. See this web site for campus disability access to buildings and accessible restrooms: http://www.sonoma.edu/maps/adamap1.pdf .
2007 IASD Conference
Program of Events
Note that the presenters in Panels and Symposiums are not necessarily listed in the order of their presentations. Sessions typically have speakers listed in alphabetical order.
Friday – June 29th
PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS
7:30 - 9 AM Pre-Conference Registration Cooperage Lobby
7:30 - Midnight Main Conference Registration Cooperage Lobby
9 AM – 12:30 PM Friday Morning Sessions (attendance limited to 25 per session, pre-registration for specific sessions is required)
Session 1: Using Dreams in Clinical Supervision: A Royal Road to Psychotherapy Training
Alan Siegel, PhD - APA CE Stevenson 3042
Designed to enhance supervision skills and fulfill new requirements that all clinical supervisors obtain CE credits in supervision at each license renewal, this workshop emphasizes clinical and ethical guidelines for using dreams at all stages of the supervision and psychotherapy process. Synthesizing Psychodynamic, Jungian, Cognitive, and Humanistic perspectives, we will use theory, case vignettes, and role-playing to explore issues ranging from introducing and documenting dreams in supervision and psychotherapy, using transference and counter-transference dreams, dreams and the stages of therapy (initial dreams, breakthrough dreams, termination dreams), common errors and ethical concerns, and cross-cultural and developmental issues. If available, please bring vignettes from supervision experiences involving dreams. A syllabus, bibliography, and case vignettes will be distributed. This session is part 1 of the 7 hour pre-conference cluster on clinical supervision which is designed to meet licensing and professional requirements for continuing education on supervision.
Session 2: Conducting Research on Dreams: Techniques and Illustrations
The Problem of Confounds in Dream Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Mark Blagrove, PhD
Many findings in dream research are problematic due to confounds, which may create apparent causal relationships between dreaming and waking life variables. This session describes some of these confounds in conducting dream research, and discusses possible solutions to untangling these confounds in the research study.
Investigating Anomalous Dream Reports
Stanley Krippner, PhD
Anomalous dream reports can be studied by using several research methods (such as case studies, phenomenological, correlational, experimental) and instruments (such as the Hall-Van de Castle System and the Strauch Scale). Anecdotal material, including dream reports, may be interesting and even valuable to the dreamer but can not be considered evidential without disciplined inquiry and scrutiny that allows for other explanations, however, they may be unappreciated resources for psychotherapists, cross-cultural researchers, and investigators of what Aldous Huxley referred to as "the antipodes of the mind."
From Idea to Scientific Study: Conducting Research on Dreams
Ernest Hartmann, M.D.
This session explores the processes involved in research on dreams, from the early stages of conceptualization and getting the idea, to the processes involved in determining how to conduct the study: from operationalization to design to analysis to drawing conclusions. We discuss the differences between illustrating and demonstrating, how the research study builds on these distinctions, and why the clinical or dreamworking situation may be a good place to get ideas, but not a good place to test them.
Session 3: Bridging Realities Through Lucid Dreaming - IASD CE Cooperage 1
Beverly D’Urso, PhD; Ed Kellogg, PhD; Robert Waggoner
Would you like to consciously step into a world where magic works and the possibilities for personal transformation and exploration have no limits? In this workshop, three adept and very experienced lucid dreamers teach practical methods of how to bring consciousness into your dreams and take the next steps. They will also share practical "how to" lucid dreaming techniques for exploring dream realities, dream psi, lucid living, and much more. Although this workshop covers the basics for beginners, it will include a great deal of cutting-edge material for advanced lucid dreamers, not available elsewhere.
2:00 – 5:30 PM Friday Afternoon Sessions
Session 4: Dream Interviewing: Minimizing Interpreter Bias
in Dream Interpretation – APA CE Schulz 3001
Gayle Delaney, PhD
In this workshop we practice understanding dreams by asking the dreamer a series of specific questions that elicit the dreamer's personal, concrete descriptions of his or her images. We employ these rich descriptions, using only the dreamer's words, to discover the dream's metaphoric meaning. We will practice the extremely difficult discipline of resisting offering the dreamer any received interpretations, be that from myth, psychological theories, or the interpreter's intuition. While in general the dream interview is most often conducted alone, in our workshop we shall work in dyads and triads to facilitate learning the method. Please bring one or two short dreams with 4 copies of each to the workshop.
Session 5: Comprehending Dreams: Stevenson 3042
Clinical Supervision for Therapists
APA CE
Neil Russack, MD
In this workshop we discuss and attempt to grasp the essential meaning of a dream, using dreams provided by the presenter and by session participants. The session is oriented toward therapists seeking to understand the dream, and to have ways of communicating dream meaning to the client. As the presenter’s special interest is the role of animals in dreams, we may use the animal image in the dream as a jumping off point for imagination and discussion. We will study how the psyche creates a story to try to heal us of our wounds, and how we can train ourselves to listen to that narrative. Participants are encouraged to bring in their clients' dreams. This workshop provides discussion and supervision for therapists on working with clients’ dreams, and is part 2 of the 7 hour pre-conference cluster on clinical supervision which is designed to met licensing and professional requirements for continuing education on supervision.
Session 6: Finding Dream Meaning Via Content Analysis - APA CE Stevenson 2049
G. William Domhoff, PhD; Adam Schneider, Robert Van de Castle, PhD
Content analysis is a tried and true method in the humanities and social sciences that can be applied to dreams to extract meaning by (1) creating well-defined categories; (2) counting frequencies; (3) making corrections for dream length; and (4) making comparisons with norms or control groups. The method has been used to demonstrate regularities in dreams by age, culture, gender, and personality, and thereby provides a foundation from which more complex meanings might be discovered. This workshop introduces participants to the most widely used system of content analysis for dreams, the Hall/Van de Castle system, and to the more recent, faster and easier system of content analysis that is available through the search engine on www.dreambank.net , an archive of 22,000 dreams ideal for new studies. There is a special emphasis on the use of content analysis in studying dream journals, as studies of dream journals have led to important new findings and have the potential for many advances in our understanding of dreams. This session will provide attendees with direct on-line training in using www.dreambank.net .
Session 7: The Practice of Lucid Dreaming: Three Approaches - IASD CE Cooperage 1
Lucid Mind: The Portal to Spirit and Creation
Fariba Bogzaran, PhD
This presentation focuses on extraordinary experiences within lucid dreams, such as spiritual visitation and creativity, and how these experiences can be a path to unfold the inner worlds. We discuss how lucid dream practice can prepare us for dying and can help us face inner conflicts. The practice of dream re-entry, with a gentle sound of rhythmic drumming, and automatic writing are introduced.
Lucid Dreaming: Parallels with Trance States and Deep Journey Hypnotherapy
Kenneth Kelzer, LCSW
This presentation explains how therapy clients who are awake in a hypnotic trance state interact with imagery, feelings and bodily sensations in ways similar to the experiences of lucid dreamers in a lucid dream state. The interplay of emotional intensity, spontaneous eruptions from the unconscious mind, and directed guidance from the conscious mind of the client and the therapist are explained and discussed.
Early Morning Meditation and Dream Reliving as a Catalyst for Lucid High Dreams
Scott Sparrow, EdD
Early morning meditation paired with a simple pre-sleep exercise can be an effective way to induce lucidity in one's subsequent dreams. The resultant lucid dreams are often associated with radiance, spiritual encounters, and ecstatic feelings. This simple regimen can result in life changing dreams for people in search of emotional healing and a renewed spiritual life. Several examples attesting to its benefits are discussed.
MAIN CONFERENCE
7:30 am to midnight Registration Cooperage Lobby
Participants must obtain badges and registration packets and may sign up for Morning Dream Groups at the Registration desk.
12:45–1:45 PM Lunch Zinfandel Dining Commons
NOTE: Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 12:45 and 1:15 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
2:00-5:30 PM IASD Board Meeting Sue Jameson Room, Stevenson 1056
6:30–7:30 PM Dinner Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons at 6:30 PM. A paid in advance five- day Housing/Meal Ticket is required. For those without a five-day day ticket, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
7:30-9:00 PM General Event – Keynote Cooperage
7:30-8:00 PM Opening Announcements Laurel McCabe and Bob Hoss
8:00-9:00 PM Keynote Address APA CE
Visitation of the God: Ancient and Modern Practices of Dream Incubation
Virginia Beane Rutter
Early cultures such as that of ancient Greece and prehistoric Malta practiced dream incubation for the purpose of healing both physical and mental disease. This presentation examines the beliefs and rituals of the medicine clustered around the Greek god Asklepios, and explores how these methods of dream healing are present in therapeutic dream work today. The interplay between ancient and modern imagery illuminates the psyche's transcendent capacity to bring forth the necessary symbols from our historical depths to create healing. The presentation is amplified with slides showing the ancient sites of Epidauros, Pergamon, and Kos, with their attendant gods, attributes, and procedures.
9:00-Midnight Opening Reception Commons
We look forward to personally welcoming “first timers.” Join a group, at specially marked tables, to talk about your special dream interest.
Saturday – June 30th
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups
Participants must sign up for dream groups at the Registration desk.
Healing Collage Stevenson 3030
Sheila Asato
Come explore the visual and spatial genius of the dream as it reveals itself through the practice of Healing CollageSM. Each morning, as we allow images to move freely about the paper, we will see how the dream moves through us to create its own unique compositions. In this morning dream group, we will focus on working with the dream visually and seeing how the Healing CollageSM process can complement other dreamwork methods.
Everyday Dreams Sirah 7202
Art Funkhouser
The dream group is to meet every morning during the conference and the dreams the participants provide will be worked on in the group using the approach pioneered by Dr. Montague Ullman and Jeremy Taylor, together with occasional Jungian insights.
Developing the Intuition in Group Dreamwork Sirah 7203
Curt Hoffman
We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in group dreamwork, following the Ullman-Taylor technique along with Jungian amplification methods.
Dream Work/Body Work Stevenson 3042
Jean Campbell
DreamWork/BodyWork, which Jean Campbell has practiced and facilitated for over ten years, is a body-oriented approach to dreams. Participants in the DreamWork/BodyWork morning dream group should dress in loose, comfortable clothing.
Dream Postures Sirah 7104
Nicholas Brink
From her examination of ancient and primitive art, anthropologist Felicitas Goodman identified a number of shamanistic dreaming postures that produce different dream/trance experiences: Spirit Journeys, Divination, Healing, Shape Shifting, Celebration, Death, and Life Everlasting. This morning dream group will attempt to replicate some of these experiences.
Dream Group for Newcomers Sirah 7205
Jayne White-Lewis, Jody Grundy
This Jungian style morning dream group is for newcomers to IASD conferences.
Dream Constellation Work Sirah 7206
Hermine Mensink
In this morning dream group we make use of a combination of Voice Dialogue and Family Constellation Work. Group members take part in making the dream of one person come to life by taking on the role of the various elements in the dream, thus giving life and voice to elements that may have been neglected.
Morning “theme” group Sirah 7102
Robert Gongloff
Join with other group members as you collectively jump start your dream “aha’s” by determining and exploring the themes of your dreams which takes you to the “heart” of your dream and provides a framework for deeper dream study.
Morning Yoga Sirah 7105
Jim Emery
The yoga sessions will offer several breathing techniques, gentle stretches and guided visualizations. You will be guided through yoga postures called the ‘Seven Energy Asanas’ and a special yoga practice called the ‘Five Tibetan Rites.’ No past experience in yoga is necessary.
7:30 am to Midnight Registration Cooperage Lobby
9:00-9:15 AM 15 min Coffee Break Cooperage Lobby
9:15 -10:45 AM Morning Sessions
Workshop Writing the Dream Stevenson 3030
Patrick McMahon
In this workshop, the recorded dream serves as raw material for further creative work. Employing active imagination, the participant revisits and revises a dream selected from his or her journal, blending in the material generated by the act of writing itself, for a product as artful as the original dream.
Workshop Decoding Dreams for Beginners Stevenson 2006
Layne Dalfen
If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, anyone can gain insight and clarity about relationships, work, family and life. This beginners’ workshop gives participants tools needed to decode and understand why we have certain dreams on a particular night, and how that knowledge can potentially enrich our lives.
Panel Personal Myth and Media Dreams Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
APA CE
This panel will explore the relationship between personal mythology and the impact on us of the burgeoning media environment—including movies, television, the Internet. We will look at these imagistic phenomena and their implications for understanding ourselves and our world from the point of view of symbolic process, sleep, dreams and creativity research.
Sanford Rosenberg (Chair)
Personal Myth, Public Dreams
We live in the Digital Age and all of this material, this tidal wave of imagery, has had an impact on our sense of self and our inner world, our personal mythology. Research that explores sleep, dreams, post-traumatic stress, trauma, etc. must include a dimension that looks at media and its impact on our view of ourselves. A method will be presented for exploring this relationship from a cultural, archetypal standpoint by suggesting some provocative contemporary models will be followed by an inner-searching approach to see how participants have internalized images from media that have personal meaning.
Stanley Krippner
Tracking Down Personal Mythology In Dreams
A student from Saybrook Graduate School conducted a research project in which volunteer participants identified a favorite movie. When asked to write about the character in the film with whom they identified most closely, each participant's personal mythology emerged. This affinity might help to explain the popularity of horror films and science fiction television shows. Possible connections and implications will be discussed.
Steven Pritzker
The Influence Of Dreams On Films
Writer-directors including Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries) and David Lynch (Mulholland Drive) used their dreams to inspire films. We’ll look at scenes from films and examine the influence of dreams on the creative content of films.
Workshop Discover the Hidden Meaning in Your Dreams: Cooperage 1
The Storytelling Method
Theresa L. DeCicco and David B. King - APA CE
This workshop will teach The Storytelling Method of Dream Interpretation (DeCicco, 2006). Attendees will be given the ‘Storytelling Worksheet’ and then taught the method in step-by-step detail. Participants will use the worksheet to interpret one of their own dreams. Workshop leaders will assist participants with the insights that emerge.
Clinical Symposium Images and Archetypes - APA CE Cooperage 2
Linda Cunningham (Chair)
The Initial Dream and the Summoning of Archetypal Energies
The initial dream in psychotherapy foretells the course of the therapy. We will explore an initial dream that both contains and permeates a ten-year therapy. We will then amplify the archetypal energies summoned by this dream—the maternal, compassionate, embodied attunement of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, better known as Kwan Yin.
Maryann Barone-Chapman
Dream Lover: The Search for the Other - A Clinical Case Study
This case study uses dream transcripts and drawings from psychotherapeutic work.
The presentation traces the longing for separation and union; the obstacles and messages along the journey and how conscious longing for a male other is a mask for the search for connection with the Animus.
Simone Litsch
Case Report: The Interpretation of a Recurrent Dream Symbol as a Way of Exploring Interpersonal Relationships
This is a case report in which the interpretation of a recurrent dream symbol helped the dreamer to achieve a higher level of awareness about the nature of an interpersonal relationship.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
David Kahn (Chair) and Alan Hobson
Individual and Generic Aspects of Dreams
Dream reports were collected from subjects to determine the degree to which dream reports can be used to identify individual dreamers. The judges scored the reports correctly at chance levels. This finding indicated that dreams may be at least as much like each other as they are the signature of individual dreamers.
Roger Knudson et al.
Improvisations on the Stage of the Dream
In this paper we argue that the significant dream is one stage for playful improvisations in which the narrative self of the dreamer may be re-positioned, re-narrated, transformed.
Richard Schweickert and Johanna Xi
Probability Distributions of Characters in Dreams
Some characters occur more frequently than others in dreams. Evidence is presented that the probability distribution is a power law (sometimes called Zipf's Law). Further, given that a certain character appears, say the dreamer's father, the probability distribution of the other characters still follows a power law.
10:45 – 11:00 AM 15 min Transition
11:00 - 12:30 AM General Event & Keynote Event Cooperage 1, 2 ,3
Dreams, Boundaries and Poems: A life of research on dreams - APA CE
Ernest Hartmann
A discussion with Ernest Hartmann,MD, one of the true pioneers of dream research. Ernest will address how the various strands of his research has lead to an overall theory, and will suggest new possibilities for research by others.
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 12:45 and 1:15 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
Regional Tables:
Meet with other dreamers and dreamworkers from your area. Regional tables will be marked and will include (but not be limited to) organizers from the following regions: Boston, New England, New York area, Connecticut, Washington DC, metro, MD, VA, Southern VA, Carolinas, Southeast, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Midwest, Central Midwest, California, Canada, France, Italy, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Scandinavian/Northern Europe, and Asia.
2:00 – 4:00 PM Early Afternoon Sessions
Workshop The Dream as Mentor and Muse: Stevenson 3030
Creative Dream Journal Work
Victoria Rabinowe
Through carefully crafted workshop development, dreams are deconstructed and realigned with expressive techniques that are insightful, experimental and non-invasive. The resulting journal work in ‘The Art of the Dream’ offers healing guidance into the realm of enchantment, the landscape of myth and the genius of the night mind.
Workshop Using Jungian Active Imagination in Dreamwork Stevenson 2006
IASD CE
Gary Goodwin
Jung frequently suggested that Active Imagination could be used to ‘dream the dream forward’, showing a dreamer how to bring closure to a dream that seemed to lack an ending. The workshop will include Active Imagination practice sessions, so please bring an image or theme from one of your dreams.
Symposium Cosmic Dream Connections: Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Panpsychism and Related Matters - IASD CE
Once considered paranormal events, psi dreams are a normal component of dreaming and great resources for understanding our world and our connection with Spirit. These dreams positively influence our personal lives, bringing us helpful and sometimes life-saving information, but also energize a panpsychic effect upon our societal and cosmic connections, influencing the course of global life at the collective level.
Rita Dwyer (Chair)
What’s New?
Thoughts and experiences are changing current paradigms relating to dreams and consciousness. Brief introductory remarks on the subjects of Cosmic Dreaming and Panpsychism. What is it? Does it impact on individuals or is it more than just about US?
Judy Gardiner
Circling The Cosmos On A Dream
This cosmic dream story follows a dreamer’s circular journey through the continuum of existence, from discovery of self to Planet Earth and Beyond. A geologic dream series, for example, can reveal threatening changes in the external environment just as a personal dream does in the internal environment.
Bob Hoss
The Transformative Power of Cosmic Dreams
The works of C.G. Jung give us a view into the nature of how dreams reflect personal transformation at all levels of the psyche. Are our "great" dreams simply an internal self-healing process or do they reflect a transformation originating from a more collective spiritual consciousness?
Ed Kellogg
Trans-Personal Dreaming Beyond Time and Space
Mystics through the ages have taught that although humans have separate personalities, that at a deeper level we share the same greater Self. The validation of psi-dreaming supports this idea, and has demonstrated that through dreams we can connect with people, places, and times unrelated to our waking lives.
Stanley Krippner (Discussant)
Response to the presentations from his wide knowledge of the subject, personally, cross-culturally and as a citizen of the wider world of dreams in which he is an ambassador par excellence.
Invited Workshop Is the CI (Central Image) the Fast Lane Cooperage 1
on the Royal Road to the Unconscious? - APA CE
Ernest Hartmann
The Central Image (CI) is the most powerful image in a dream, which sometimes appears to picture the dominant emotion or emotional concern of the dreamer. In this workshop, the CI will be carefully defined. Participants will have a chance to examine some of their own dreams to determine whether they contain CIs.
Workshop Ethical Issues, Controversies, and Practice Cooperage 2
Guidelines for Working with Dreams - APA CE
Alan Siegel
Ethical guidelines for clinical use of dreams will be reviewed and interpreted in the light of the ethics codes of the IASD and the American Psychological Association. Topics will include avoiding intrusive and directive interpretations, sensitivity to cross-cultural issues and beliefs systems about dreams, guidelines for exploring trauma and recovered memories in children and adults, ethics in research, case presentations, and publications about dreams. Includes case presentations, vignettes for discussion and brainstorming, and handouts
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Tracey L. Kahan (Chair), Megan Thompson, Emily Luther, Danica Zold, Patrick Rugo, Jenny Imberi, and Anne Thompson
Dimensions of Metacognition in Dreaming and Waking: Associations with Waking Mindfulness Skills
42 participants self-rated the incidence of metacognitive events in experience samples obtained from dreaming and waking. We discuss the observed continuities and discontinuities in metacognition across dreaming and waking metacognition as well as the associations between participants’ metacognition ratings and their scores on the Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS)
Tracy L. Kahan (Chair) and Kieran Sullivan
Assessing Metacognitive Skills in Waking and Sleep: A Psychometric Analysis of the Metacognitive, Affective, Cognitive Experience (MACE) Questionnaire
The presenters describe a psychometric analysis of 324 applications of the ‘Metacognitive, Affective, Cognitive Experience Questionnaire’ (MACE), a research tool used to assess metacognition in dreaming and waking experiences. Internal consistency, factor structure, and scale intercorrelations are discussed, as are general challenges associated with empirical studies of dreaming and waking cognition.
G. William Domhoff,
A Widower’s Dreams of his Deceased Wife
Using quantitative content analysis, this paper shows that the 143 dreams about his deceased wife that a widower wrote down over a 22-year period as a form of solace and remembrance embody his main conceptions and concerns in regard to her, thereby supporting a cognitive theory of dreams
Miloslava Kozmová and Richard N. Wolman
Cognitive Architecture in Dreams of Male And Female Dreamers
The present study addresses the question of whether, in the dream reports of males and females, there could be differences in the frequency of usage of eight types of rational thought postulated by Wolman & Kozmová (2006).
4:00-4:15 PM 15 min Refreshment Break Cooperage Lobby
4:15 - 6:15 PM Mid Afternoon Sessions
Workshop Revealing the Spirit of the Dream Through Collage Stevenson 3030
Emily Anderson
Through creating collages based on a dream, a series of dreams or one image from a dream participant will evoke the state of creation, where dreams dwell. Through imagery and reflection they will explore this expanded state to gain further insight into their dreams. Supplies will be provided.
Workshop Secrets of Interactive Dream Group Dynamics Stevenson 2006
Athena Lou and Roger Martinez
Interactive Group Work utilizes each member of the group in an effort to better understand and work with dreams. It incorporates a multitude of theoretical backgrounds and contemporary thought bringing the dreamer into a new level of communicating with the unconscious and bringing waking life to new heights.
Panel Dreams and Soul-Making: Four Perspectives Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
on the Religious Function of the Psyche
IASD CE
The religious function of the psyche and the idea of soul-making are both descriptive of our archetypal need, as human beings, to be in deep, embodied relationship to the sacred. Jung’s term ‘individuation’ refers to the unfolding of that relationship. The panelists discuss their dreaming process.
Dawn Matheny (Chair) “Gravity, Friction, Alignment and Flow”
In a world governed by the law of gravity, a certain amount of friction is required for movement. Yet when energies are aligned, a flow results where inner and outer events are drawn together in the dance of synchronicity. Dawn will share her experiences when the challenge is simply to say “yes.”
Meg Pierce “Who’s the Boss?”
Holding the tension between the temporal and the timeless, i.e. ego and the part of the psyche that “knows God,” is often agonizing. Meg will focus on dreams as the safest territory in which to work out avenues of resolution and “attitude adjustments” over the course of a lifetime.
Winnie Piccolo “So the Darkness Shall Be the Light.”
In the presence of early trauma, the individuation process presents special challenges. Winnie will discuss her experiences of a dream life that alternates between support and seeming sabotage of a connection to spirit and true imagination.
Robert Tompkins “The Agony and the Ecstasy”
Thirty years ago, nearing age 40, Robert had two big dreams, representing the positive, transcendent and the abysmal, dark sides of the numinous. He will discuss his life since as an intimation of how our need for transcendence and the profound experience of our embodied life may be reconciled.
Workshop Ethical Practices in Dealing with Trauma Dreams: Cooperage 1
Presenting Dreams - APA CE
Johanna King and Carol Warner
Vivid dreams, especially nightmares, are a common experience for victims of sexual abuse and other trauma. Though these dreams frequently come up in therapy, clinicians may not know how to react. This workshop helps clinicians learn to recognize and deal with trauma dreams, with emphasis on the ethical issues involved.
Panel Dream Education: The Transformative Power Cooperage 2
of Dream Studies II - APA CE
Fariba Bogzaran (Chair), Daniel Deslauriers, Marilyn Fowler, Stanley Krippner
Building on previous research findings (Bogzaran and Fowler, 2006), which strongly suggest that studying dreams has an impact on the lives of not only the students, but also their friends, family and community, this panel will continue the dialogue by presenting new research from focus groups and teacher surveys. Stanley Krippner from Saybrook Graduate School will present how dream studies has developed in his institution and his work with MA and Ph.D. students focusing their research on dreams. Daniel Deslauriers from California Institute of Integral Studies, will share his experience supervising qualitative dissertation topics on dreams using, in particular, phenomenology and narrative methodology.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Roger M. Knudson (Chair), Gillian Finocan
Performative Writing and Dreams: A Case for a Poetic Understanding
Both performative writing pieces and dreams speak the language of metaphor, image, and poetics. This paper provides an argument and rationale for the use of performative writing when individuals are trying to work with, understand and present experiences with dreams.
Umberto Barcaro and Pietro Rizzi
Links Among Dream Sources in Dreams Reported During Therapy
A study of the links among the memory sources of dreams can be performed through an automatic analysis of text files including dream reports and associations. The application of this method to dreams reported during therapy provides data that can be interesting from the cognitive as well as from the therapeutic point of view.
Manlio Caporali
Evolution of the Behavior and Oneiric Activity of a Schizophrenic Patient
The focus of our study is the development of a schizophrenic patient when introduced to group therapy. There was a behavioral change in the patient in the course of the therapy, which correlated with the change in oneiric activity of the individual members of the group, thus documenting the process of both individual and group evolution.
Marco Zanasi
Dream Coding and Psychopathology
Is there any correlation between linguistic realization of dream reports and the psychopathology of the dreamer? Dream reports of a group of psychiatric patients are being studied with computer-aided text analysis in order to define a set of linguistic features that can be significantly correlated to the type of psychopathology on a statistical basis.
6:15-7:45 PM Dinner Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
7:45- 9:30 PM Evening Sessions
Workshop Making a Book for a Dream Stevenson 3030
Betsy Davids
This workshop will introduce making books as a way of honoring and expressing a memorable dream. Each participant will make a book structure and fill it with words, images, and objects that evoke the dream. Tools and materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring relevant materials.
Workshop Using Dreamwork Principles to Stevenson 2006
Transform Your Waking Life - IASD CE
Zoé Newman
In this experiential workshop we’ll explore how to bring traditional dreamwork approaches to the waking dream of our life to transform our everyday encounters and relationships into an opportunity for insight and healing change, and to open to new creative possibilities. Drawing on Jungian, Gestalt and lucid dreaming perspectives, the workshop will include presentation and guided exercises.
Panel Interweaving the Strands of the Dream Circle: Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
The Personal, Spiritual and Professional Journey
of a 22-Year Dream Circle - IASD CE
Marcia Lewin-Berlin (Chair), Linda Schiller, Elizabeth Kennedy, Suzie Abu-Jaber
This panel discussion presented by members of a long-term dream circle integrates personal experience and commitment to dreamwork with the development of professional skills and personal development. This journey of discovery has facilitated spiritual growth, professional direction, and the experience of interpersonal support and challenge through dreamwork that deepens learning and growth.
Workshop Ethical Practices in Dealing with Trauma Dreams: Cooperage 1
Healing Dreams - APA CE
Carol Warner (Chair), Johanna King
Dreams of trauma victims, including sexual abuse victims, may change over the course of treatment, as the victim comes to terms with their experience. This workshop helps the clinician recognize and respond to these changes. Emphasis will be on the ethical issues involved in dealing with these dreams.
Panel Phenomenology of Light in Dreams - IASD CE Cooperage 2
This panel will explore varieties of light experiences in lucid and non-lucid dreams, as well as hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences, in order to discern the relationship between light and the imagery of angels/radiant beings, non-representational visual imagery, and spiritual openings. Case studies, personal experiences, observations, and experiments will substantiate the overall impact of light experiences on the recipients.
Fariba Bogzaran (Chair)
A discussion on the relationship between the experience of Light and experience of Void, including hypnagogic, lucid dream, and hypnopompia and the impact of such experiences in the spiritual growth of the dreamer.
George Gillespie will present a particular form of light he calls “stable intense lights.” He will explore the experience of stable intense lights during lucid dreaming in relation to hypnopompic geometric imagery.
Scott Sparrow will present several dreams in which the dreamer reports the interior experience of radiance, and then examine the dreamer’s cognitive and emotional states alongside the imagery before and during the experience of light.
Robert van de Castle will descuss dreams in which a radiant light accompanies the presence of an angelic figure and comment upon the quality of the light which appears and the reaction of the dreamer when such imagery is present.
Workshop Animals in Dreams, Art, and Life - APA CE Cooperage 3
Neil Russack
Since ancient times the alchemical earth element, sand, has been employed in a variety When a patient dreams of an animal gazing into his eyes, as if to claim him, I am reminded of the ancient cultures in which an initiate goes out, into the wilderness, to be claimed by his animal soul. Whether in a modern dream or an ancient ritual, the inner animal provides a certain kind of knowledge about psychic identity. In this presentation I discuss five animals—snake, waterbird, elk, octopus and horse. I illustrate each animal with slides, discuss both the actual animal and its psychic counterpart, and explore how the patients’ dreams bring the animal alive within the psyche.
Neil Russack, MD, is a Jungian analyst practicing in San Francisco, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the author of Animal Guides in Life, Myth and Dreams (An Analyst's Notebook) (2002)
9:30-Midnight Informal Reception and Drumming Event Commons
9:30 – 10:30 Informal Reception
10:30 – 11:30 Drumming Event : Soundings of the Spirit of the Dream
Kim Atkinson
Join us for a full moon sound circle, replete with small and large drums, gongs, chimes, and bells. We will be using the many voices of the drum and the bell, as well as our own movement and voice, to expand our consciousness into the threshold of the dream. This event is facilitated by Kim Atkinson, a master drummer and ritualist who is trained in sound healing. Some instruments will be provided--attendees are encouraged to
bring their own bell or drum, any size.
9:30-11:00 PM Presenter Reception Student Union Multipurpose Room
In appreciation of your work, all presenters are invited to a reception in your honor, held in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Union (next to the Commons). For those interested in attending the Drumming Event at 10:30 it will be close by.
Sunday – July 1st
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups
Participants must sign up for dream groups at the Registration Desk.
(See schedule for Friday, Jun 29, 8:00-9:00 AM for information on facilitators and rooms)
9:00-9:15 AM 15 min Coffee Break Cooperage Lobby
9:15- 10:45 AM Morning Sessions
Workshop Dreaming the Soul – Dancing the Dream: Stevenson 3030
A Jungian Dream Catcher
Sophia Reinders
This workshop offers a creative, embodied exploration of dreams and their images from Jungian and archetypal perspectives, as a process of befriending the soul. Participants will engage the images of their night worlds with intermodal creative practices to discover, befriend and harvest the dream’s messages for growth, transformation and healing.
Workshop Dreams and Tarot: Innovative Approaches Stevenson 2006
to DreamWork and Depth Therapy
Lauren Z. Schneider
This workshop introduces Tarotpy® (Tarot Therapy), which uses the rich symbolic imagery of Tarot, Dream Cards, Soul Cards, and other representational images to actively engage unconscious process and enhance deeper connections between dreaming and waking consciousness.
Symposium Dream Education - IASD CE Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Jean Campbell - Chair
Deborah Armstrong Hickey
Developing Consciousness of Personal Mythologies Through Dreams in a Community College Setting
This presentation will describe the process of developing consciousness of personal mythologies among students in a community college Life-Span Development course through a dream education group. Methods and outcomes will be presented and discussed.
Jason Tougaw
Dream Bloggers Invent the University
The course weblogs the presenter’s students have kept in interdisciplinary courses on dreams have created a forum where the personal and the theoretical are integrated almost by default. The blogs, as an alternative to dream journals, help make students conscious of writing for an audience and stimulate shared inquiry.
Presentation Dreaming Beyond Death: Working with Cooperage 1
Pre-Death Dreams and Visions - APA CE
Patricia Bulkley and Kelly Bulkeley
This presentation offers a practical, spiritually-sensitive guide to the extraordinary dreams that come in the final days of life. The focus will be on stories of specific pre-death dreams. Attendees will become familiar with ways to accompany a dying person in exploring the rich metaphoric content and realms of spiritual possibility presented by these compelling dreams.
Symposium The Dreamer’s Influence - APA CE Cooperage 2
Donald Bender (Chair)
Linguistic Strategies for ‘Masking’ the ‘I’ in the Dream Narrative
Dreamers employ different linguistic strategies to conceal the subjective ‘I’ in sensitive segments of their dream narrative. Repression is never total however, and the elided presence of the Self leaves a tell-tale linguistic trail. We will follow that trail and expose the hidden ‘I.’
Scott Sparrow
Applying the Concept of Reciprocity to the Analysis of Dream Imagery
This paper explores how the concept of reciprocity in systems theory accounts for the transformation of imagery in single dreams, or in a series of dreams, and will show how this principle can assist the dreamer in accepting a co-creative stance in interacting with, and analysing dreams and waking life parallels.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
David King (Chair) and Teresa L. DeCicco
Who’s Having More Fun? An Investigation of Dreams with Sexual Content
Recent findings are presented on the nature of dreams with sexual content and their relationship with waking day sexual behaviours/attitudes. Typical characteristics of sex dreams are also reported. Results suggest that sex dreams contain more meaning about waking life relationships than they do about sex life or sexual fantasies.
Christian J. Hallman
A Multidimensional Model of the Dreaming State of Consciousness
A map of the dreaming state of consciousness will be provided that utilizes multiple spatial and temporal dimensions. This model includes different physical, biological and psychological explanations of how, what and why we dream.
David Smith & Theresa DeCicco
Investigating dream attitudes and their relationship to dream content and waking life
This study investigated the current dream attitudes of university students and their relationship with waking life characteristics (physical health, mood, personality, and self-construal) and dream content. An original questionnaire was developed in order to survey dream attitudes.
10:45 – 11:00 AM 15 min Transition
11:00 -12:30 AM Late Morning Sessions
Workshop Exploring the Central Image of a Dream Through Art Stevenson 3030
Marilyn Fowler
During this workshop we will explore an innovative group approach to working with dreams through art. As a group, we will choose one dreamer’s dream and allow the dream to express itself through us, creating images that expand and deepen the dream’s personal and collective meanings. No art experience needed.
Workshop The Montague Ullman Approach of Working Stevenson 2006
with Dreams in a Group Setting - IASD CE
Gunnar Sundström
The Montague Ullman method of working with dreams will be presented in a group setting. Important factors will be pointed out, such as the need for the dreamer’s safety in the group and the non-intrusiveness built into the method. Members of the workshop can share a dream with the group, and the group can work with the dream.
Panel Creativity and Curiosity in Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Long-Term Journal-Keeping - IASD CE
Linda Lane Magallón (Chair), Sheila Asato, Gloria Sturzenacker
In this panel, three IASD members will share practical insights gained from integrating dream journals into their creative process that resulted in: an innovative approach to writing a master’s degree thesis, the development of artistic courage and the discovery of connections that go wide and deep.
Presentation Images of the Self in Dreams - APA CE Cooperage 1
Lynne Ehlers
A stunning and evocative series of images of the Self in slides will be presented, inviting discussion and participation.
Seminar Dreams Weave Cultures - APA CE Cooperage 2
Olaf Gerlach Hansen (Chair)
A Danish Case on How Dreams Interact with Language, Literary History and Folk Culture
Dreams are an important theme in Danish literature from the Viking Age until today. Examples from ancient, medieval, recent and contemporary texts will be given. Can the teaching of literary history in ‘Danish classes’ in schools increase the acknowledgement of the functions dreams have had in the past and still have in the present?
Misa Tsuruta
A Japanese Case on How Dreams Interact with Language, Literary History and Folk Culture
‘Masa-yume’ stands for a dream that comes true. Does the existence of dream-related words in Japanese mean that Japanese have paid closer attention to dreams? According to literature, ancient and medieval Japanese shared and interpreted dreams. Has this tradition ended? This presentation is an attempt to answer these culture-related questions.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Deirdre Barrett (Chair),
Dreams and Creative Problem Solving: An Evolutionary Perspective
This paper examines dreams from an evolutionary viewpoint and posits that they are thinking or problem solving in a different biochemical state from that of waking. Dreams during REM, the hypnogogic state, and other parts of sleep all have different physiological and cognitive characteristics and may have different functions.
Jayne Gackenbach and Beena Kuruvilla
Dreams and Media Use
Participants were asked to provide their most recent dream. Questions about that dream as well as how much of each major type of electronic media they used the day before were also asked. Factor analysis showed that interactive media use loaded with lucid and control dreams, while audio media or audio/video media showed no such association.
Caroline Horton
Do Dreams Change as Selves Change?
An experiment was conducted to investigate whether dream content changed alongside a change in ‘self’. Extensive statistics have confirmed that it did. This reflects how we dream of current life and personal themes, and how dreams are not totally random. These experimental and theoretical issues will be discussed.
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 12:45 and 1:15 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
2:00 – 4:00 PM Early Afternoon Sessions
Interactive Presentation Ten Dimensions of Dream Meaning Stevenson 3042
APA CE
Art Funkhouser
Dreams can be meaningful on various levels and, often, on more than one level at the same time. In this workshop, a scheme will be introduced in which ten levels or dimensions of dream meaning are presented and explored in a group setting.
Workshop Leading Groups by Honoring the Spirit of the Dream Stevenson 2006
IASD CE
Justina Lasley
Participants will explore the process of organizing and leading dream groups by honoring the dream in a spiritual manner. Participants will work with their own dreams while learning new techniques for innovative leadership. The importance of exploring energy and emotions will be examined, as well as the skills for leading members toward personal growth and individuation.
Panel Key Issues in Higher Education Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Courses on Dreams
APA CE
Phil King (Chair), Kelly Bulkeley, Roger Knudson, Bernard Welt
This panel discusses key issues in teaching about dreams in college courses, including (1) institutional politics of dream courses, (2) ethics of using students’ dreams, (3) course parameters, such as class size, duration, contact hours, student level, major, nationality, gender, ability, expectations, and (4) course content, resources and activities.
Featured Workshop Dream Interviewing and Emotional Cooperage 1
Competence Education and Training
APA CE
Gayle Delaney and Loma K. Flowers
This workshop gives participants experience in using Dream Interviewing for insight into their own personal or professional development, with emphasis on the twin components of emotional competence: interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. There will be a brief didactic overview with examples, followed by a demonstration and skills practice in pairs/triads.
Panel Exploring Inner Space: Cooperage 2
Adventures in Lucid Dreaming - IASD CE
Robert Waggoner (Chair), Ed Kellogg, Beverly D’Urso, Suzanne Wiltink
Drawing upon decades of personal lucid dreaming experience, the panel will discuss profound lucid dream experiences and the insights, conjectures and questions that resulted. Their conscious explorations of dreams reflect upon the nature of dreams and the dream reality, inner mental processes, living lucidly and ‘the dreamer’.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Teresa DeCicco (Chair)
Discoveries About the Ullman Method: Assessing Ullman with Hall and Van de Castle
This presentation discusses research on dream imagery and discovery via the Ullman method. The dreams of 53 university undergraduates were analyzed. It was found that dream discovery via the Ullman method and dream content via the Van de Castle method were directly related in relevant and meaningful ways.
Patricia Spangler
Therapist Dreams About Clients: An Exploration of Meaning and Use
Results of a qualitative study of therapist dreams about clients are presented. Eight experienced therapists were interviewed and presented a total of 15 dreams. Six domains were derived from interview transcripts: general dream background; dream content; therapist/client/therapy background; understanding/insight; processing and uses made of the dream; and reactions to participating in the study.
Gregory White
Individual Difference Predictors of Counterfactual Thought in Dreams
Dream counterfactual thought was assessed (n=71 participants) by content analysis using an elaborated version of McNamara’s scheme. Counterfactual components were correlated with dream attitudes, chronic worry, the Big Five, sensory sensitivity, distress over current problems, perceived stress, pessimism, and right frontal lobe dominance. Results support a problem-solving function of dreams.
4:00-4:15 PM 15 min Refreshment Break Cooperage Lobby
4:15 - 6:15 PM General Event Cooperage 1, 2, 3
Presidents Address and Membership Meeting
4:15- 4:45 Outgoing Presidential Address - Jean Campbell
4:45 – 5:15 Incoming Presidential Address - David Kahn
5:15 – 6:15 General Membership Meeting, Voting for new Board of Directors, Awards
6:15-7:45 PM Dinner Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
7:45 – 9:45 PM Evening Sessions
Symposium Sandplay and Mask Making Stevenson 2006
Bernard Welt (Chair)
Linda Cunningham
Sandplay: The Waking Dream
Sandplay is often called a waking dream. Like the dream, it may be a royal road to the richness of the unconscious, and to the transformative energies of the Self. In this presentation of a sandplay case we will gain experience working with deep symbolic process leading to dramatic transformation.
Monique Aguerre
Faces of the Dream World: Exploring Dreams Through Mask Making
Masks can be used as powerful tools in the exploration of dreams. In this presentation the presenter will share her experiences of doing dreamwork through the art of mask making. She will illustrate her talk with photographs of masks she has made based on her own dream images.
Panel Bohm's Holistic Physics, Sacred Sites, Sevenson 1002 Auditorium
Spiritual Emergence and Ecopsychology's Vision - IASD CE
Mark Schroll (Chair), Rita Dwyer, Curtiss Hoffman, Stanley Krippner
This panel explores Preliminary Research on Sacred Sites as well as Bohm's holistic physics and Sheldrake's work on morphogenetic fields. It will discuss the relevance their work has toward understanding ‘nonlocal’ fields that have been hypothesized to account for the effects of ‘sacred sites’ on consciousness; effects that have been considered aspects of dissociative states instead of ‘spiritual emergence.
Workshop Using Hypnosis to Work with Your Dreams Cooperage 1
APA CE
Deirdre Barrett
Hypnosis is a state of consciousness with many similarities to that of dreaming, especially lucid dreaming. This workshop will present ways of combining hypnosis and dreamwork including inducing hypnotic dreams and working with nocturnal dreams during hypnosis. There will be opportunities for participants to experience several of these techniques.
General Event Culture Dreaming: An Experiment in Cultural Healing Cooperage 2
Richard Russo and Meredith Sabini
Culture Dreaming is an innovative method in which dreams are told in a group and listened to for their socio-cultural rather than individual meaning. The first part of this session will describe the method, some of the theory behind it, and settings in which it’s been used. The second part will be a performance of a 30-minute enactment/ritual based directly on an actual Culture Dreaming session, with time for discussion afterwards.
Symposium Spiritual and Philosophical - IASD CE Cooperage 3
Kelly Bulkeley (Chair)
Karen Jaenke
Dream Epiphanies: Engaging the Deep Mysteries of Matter
Mindful of our ecological crisis requiring renewed respect for earth mother/mater/matter, this presentation examines several extraordinary dreams which offer openings into the mysteries of matter. Matter reveals its secrets to the dreamer from opposite ends along the dense-subtle continuum. Participation in these epiphanies brings heightened states of contraction and expansion.
Linda Schiller
Exploring Dream Layers Through the Eyes of Kabbalah
The Kabbalah is a branch of the mystery school in Jewish tradition. This mystical and spiritual approach looks at multiple layers of meaning in sacred texts. When applied to working with dreams, the four layers of the mystical system of the ‘Pardes’ (the Orchard) can reveal multiple simultaneous layers of meaning in the dream, including the oft neglected spiritual layer.
Bonnelle Lewis Strickling
Dreams, Existence and the Structure of Being
Dreams fall into an unusual category of being because they do not yield to the usual analysis of subjectivity. The intentionality of dreams is not like the intentionality of ordinary conscious states because dreams occur when we are “unconscious”. Thus they are unlike visions, to which they are often compared. Dreams represent a unique
category of being that reveals us to ourselves.
Jurgen Kremer
This experiential workshop explores the importance of dreams for shamanism using the presenter’s dreams as illustrations. Dreams can be instrumental in the recovery of indigenous states of consciousness and decolonization. The second half of the workshop will be devoted to a ritual trance experience and dream incubation using drumming and overtone chanting.
Jurgen Werner Kremer, PhD, is an executive editor of the journal ReVision and teaches at the Santa Rosa Junior College as well as at Saybrook Institute Graduate School, Sonoma State University, and elsewhere. The focus of his work is shamanism, indigenous traditions, decolonization, and the recovery of indigenous consciousness.
9:45-Midnight Informal Social Hour Commons
10:00-10:30 PM Dream Telepathy Contest Instructions Commons
Rita Dwyer and Robert Van de Castle
Try your psi! Test your dreaming mind's ability to tune into a visual target broadcast telepathically during the night by a designated "sender". Patterned on original experiments in dream telepathy performed by Drs. Stanley Krippner and Montague Ullman, our IASD contest is a perennial favorite, both onsite and online!
Monday – July 2nd
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups
Participants must sign up for dream groups at Registration desk.
(See schedule for Friday, Jun 29, 8:00-9:00 AM for information on facilitators and rooms)
9:00-9:15 AM 15 min Coffee Break Cooperage Lobby
9:15- 10:15 AM Early Morning Sessions
Presentation The Archetypal Dimension of Stevenson 3042
Bereavement Dreams - APA CE
Geri Grubbs
Bereavement is a collective experience revealed as profound images in our dreams. Focus will be on precognitive and visitation dreams, and how the grief process is supported through our dream encounters with the spiritual and archetypal realms of the unconscious. The workshop includes a slide presentation of archetypes of death, transformation, and transcendence.
Symposium Visitation Dreams - IASD CE Stevenson 2006
Kevin Eric Kovelant (Chair)
Welcoming the Night Visitors: The Experience of Felt Sense Visitation Dreams of the Dead
Throughout history and across cultures, dreamers have reported receiving visitations from the dead. Oftentimes, the dreamer has some sort of feeling that this experience was ‘real’. This presentation explores how this ‘felt sense’ is experienced in dreams and waking, and how it may lead towards understanding the phenomenon itself.
Deborah Coupey
Lucidity, Consciousness and Dream Messages
How do states of consciousness provide openings to the ‘other side’? This presentation explores lucidity as a state of consciousness, and receiving and learning about dream messages from the dead. Its goal is to enlighten, and have people understand, honor and make aware of the profound spiritual connections these dreams provide for us.
Spec Event The Wonder Realm of Night: Dreaming Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
in Wagner’s Music Dramas - IASD CE
Curtiss Hoffman
Richard Wagner was the seminal musical genius of the mid-19th century. All his mature music dramas contain dream settings. He also expressed a theory of dreams which prefigured Freud and Jung, and provided examples of precognitive and lucid dreams in his works. We will explore his ideas about dreaming through visual and musical imagery.
Presentation Patterns of Dream Recall as Archetypal Cooperage 1
Clues to the Evolution of Consciousness
APA CE
Jeremy Taylor
Patterns of dream recall: the perspective(s) of the dreamer’s ‘dreaming sense of self and other’, single versus multiple foci of self-awareness in the dream, color versus black and white are all vitally important and tend to reflect a process that may be characterized as the ‘evolution of consciousness’.
Presentation Your Dreaming Mind: A Private Cooperage 2
Dating Coach with Soul - APA CE
Gayle Delaney
As almost every serious student of dreaming has seen, our nightly dreams are acutely concerned with our love life, our relationships, and our desire to improve them. This presentation will focus on how dreams can help us live the dating life with more zest, less fear, and much more insight.
Interactive Presentation Dream String Theory - APA CE Cooperage 3
Malashock
This presentation explores the application of developments in quantum physics and string theory to our understanding of the nature of the psyche and dreams, and to the practice of dreamwork. Quantum non-locality, the basic building blocks of “matter” and meaning, and the idea of the multiple dimensions of reality enrich and deepen our understanding of the origins and meaning of the dream.
10:15 – 10:30 AM 15 min Transition
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Late Morning Sessions
Workshop Dreaming into Creative Writing Stevenson 3030
Clare Johnson and Jean Campbell
This fun and rewarding workshop revolves around the dream as a source of creative inspiration and is for writers and non-writers alike. Participants will be introduced to simple techniques for entering the writer’s trance and will practice expanding dream images into passages of fiction. Bring pen and paper!
Workshop Dreams and Meditation/Energy Work (limited to 20) Stevenson 3042
Kirsten Borum
The theme of this workshop is how to combine dreamwork with meditation and energy work focusing on the spiritual aspects of dreams and benefiting from the group energy that builds up. Workshop participants are invited to bring a dream containing a symbol or image that they would consider spiritual or archetypal.
Symposium Psi Dreaming - IASD CE Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Dale E. Graff (Chair)
Peeking Through the Curtain of Time
A systematic study of precognitive dreaming, when photographs in future newspapers were the psi target objectives, led to alternative views on the nature of time. The precognitive dreams’ creative process, how future news photographs are sensed and the difference between accurately sensing and knowing what is sensed, are examined.
Hermine Mensink
Precognitive Dreams Linked to Events Happening Afterwards
According to Dunne’s theory, in the dreaming state time is eternally present, i.e. past, present and future are all happening at the same time. This presentation will examine precognitive dreams and the dreamers’ experiences of events that were first dreamt of and consequently happened in real life.
Craig Webb
Relationship Dreams
Dreams have a great potential to help guide us in our choices about potential and new intimate relationships. Furthermore, such relationships often draw a lot of our attention and trigger a wide variety of emotional responses, so our dreams naturally respond with insights that use intimate relationships as our teacher.
Featured Workshop Projective Dreamwork – A Foundational Cooperage 1
Practice for Exploring the
Deeper Meanings in Dreams - APA CE
Jeremy Taylor
This workshop will provide a basic theoretical and practical grounding for the practice of projective dreamwork, both one-to-one and in group settings. Each participant will receive a copy of the ‘Basic Dream Work Tool Kit’, outlining the six foundational elements of this way of work.
Seminar The Collective - APA CE Cooperage 2
Mary Pat Mann (Chair)
Exploring Dreamwork as ‘Communities of Practice’
This paper explores the concept of ‘communities of practice’ and considers what it has to offer both research on dreams and dreamwork, and the development of dreaming communities.
Meredith Sabini
Dreaming of Our Species’ Survival
Is our survival as a species at stake? This possibility appears in contemporary dreams. There is an evolutionary survival function in dreaming, and in this presentation specific examples are given of dreams of the past, present, and future that potentially aid our survival. Can dreams help our greedy, short-sighted, divisive species become more sustainable?
Marilyn Schlitz and Frank Pascoe
Dreaming for the Collective
This paper describes the results of a detailed study of the dream sharing practices of the Achuar people. It is based on field research and interviews conducted in the Amazon from 1997-2003. One purpose of this study is to create a detailed description of the Achuar view of reality through a greater understanding of their dream-sharing practices.
Lauren Z. Schneider
Eco Dreamwork: A Collective Perspective on Dreams
The practice of Eco Dreamwork is based on the understanding that there is a larger evolutionary consciousness to which we are intrinsically connected; which speaks through individual dreams in the service of the entire species and ecosystem. In turbulent times, dreams serve to awaken us to cross-cultural, ideological and environmental perspectives necessary for planetary survival.
Symposium Origins of Dream Meaning - APA CE Cooperage 3
Daniel Deslauriers (Chair)
Dreams and Intersubjectivity: Fusing Horizons of Meaning
Dream meaning is often understood as a private experience, with the dreamer viewed as the final arbiter. This presentation discusses how dream meaning often arises from an intersubjective space: as interaction between two or more people in a participatory manner. Different forms of intersubjectivity in dreamwork are discussed.
Louis Hagood
From Explicate to Implicate—20th Century Dreamwork
Freud started the 20th century with dream interpretation reflecting classical Newtonian physics. His followers evolved dreamwork paralleling the new physics of relativity and quantum theory. The evolution started with Freud’s one-person self analysis, followed by the two-person therapy, on to Jung’s collective unconscious, concluding with Ullman’s dream sharing.
Sheri Ritchlin
Autopoesis and Dreams
In this talk we will see how the principle of autopoesis - self-organization - which has been applied to the functioning of our biological systems, can also be applied to the psyche and to the process of dreaming. A series of dreams will be used to demonstrate that the "organizing principle" of the psyche lies, not in the cognitive mind, but in the deeper realm where dreams take shape. When decision-making issues from this place, revealed to us in dreams, it leads to the fulfillment of each nature, embedded in the rhythms of larger and larger wholes within the autopoietic unfolding of the cosmos itself.
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 12:45 and 1:15 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
Special Table: Montreal Conference Planning
Layne Dalfen
Anyone interested in becoming part of the committee, volunteering or helping out in any way in the planning of the 25th Annual IASD Conference in Montreal in 2008, come join us to join the team or share your ideas.
2:00 – 4:00 PM Afternoon Sessions
Workshop Dream Themes: Determining and Stevenson 3042
Honoring the themes in your dreams - IASD CE
Robert Gongloff
By encouraging participants to focus on the dream as a story rather than as a group of symbols to be interpreted, finding the basic message the dream is attempting to deliver becomes easy and enjoyable. Participants will be given specific techniques for determining and working with themes in their dreams and will be encouraged to take positive action in their waking lives—‘honoring’ the dream.
Workshop Mindful Dreaming: Honoring the Tension Stevenson 2006
of Opposites in Dreams and Waking Life - APA CE
David Gordon and Dani Vedros
Participants learn how every dream prompts us to resolve the tension between our habitual ego strategies and our wiser Self. Five archetypal conflicts create the tension at the core of our clients’ suffering and symptoms: The struggle between distraction and solitude; control and surrender; attachment and letting go; judgment and compassion; impatience and acceptance of “what is” in the present moment. Mindfulness exercises will assist participants in resolving these conflicts and embracing alternative values that promote emotional healing.
Panel Tips, Tools, & Techniques Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
for Dream Group Leaders - IASD CE
Over the last few decades, dream groups have taken on increasingly sophisticated methods and goals. To keep up with this growth, dream group leaders need to keep informed of new techniques and tools to help maximize the dream group experience for all attendees. The panelists will bring their widely varied experience to relevant issues.
Gary Goodwin (Chair)
Jung frequently suggested that Active Imagination could be used to “dream the dream forward” showing a dreamer how to bring closure to a dream that seemed to lack an ending. This presentation will cover: what is Active Imagination, how to learn how to do it, how to use it in dream groups.
Kirsten Borum
This presentation will focus on the unique connection found between dreams and meditation, especially when seeing dreams as an expression of energy. Kirsten will discuss how to do energy work, and how to introduce it to a dream group.
Joan Robinson
Joan will describe a technique for leading groups learned from Dr. Alan Siegel. After the dreamer shares a dream and the group talks about it, group participants draw a picture of their our own imagined version of the dream. This is followed by sharing thoughts as the pictures are shared. This presentation will outline the approach, what materials to use, how much time to allow, how my dream groups have responded, and how dreamers been affected.
David Jenkins
What are the core issues and matters that anyone aspiring to lead dream groups must master? David Jenkins will present his personal appraisal after 6 years spent on the learning curve.
Sheila Asato
For local dream group leaders, partnering with IASD can offer a tremendous opportunity for raising public awareness for one’s work in a specific community. These events can range from small intimate dream dinners to larger regional conferences. Sheila Asato will share her experiences as a regional conference host and dream events co-coordinator in Minnesota.
Workshop Using Intuition to Explore Cooperage 1
Transitional Dreams - IASD CE
Marcia Emery
It is the intuitive mind that will comb through the dream and provide instant understanding. Anyone immersed in a transition can profit from receiving instant intuitive guidance through their dreams. In this experiential workshop, discover how you are wired for intuitive receptivity and learn intuitive dreamwork techniques. Please bring a dream for practice.
Symposium Dream Arts Symposium - IASD CE Cooperage 2
Bernard Welt (Chair) - Winsor McCay: An American Artist in Slumberland (60 min)
Winsor McCay (1867-1934), creator of the comic strips Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland, is one of the most influential of all dream artists. From the dream elements in McCay’s work—bizarre, symbolic narrative and relentless metamorphosis of character and setting—came the basic vocabulary of American animated cartoons.
Carol Luther
Public Myths, Private Dreams and the Story of Two French Paintings
Dreams, according to Jeremy Taylor, subvert closed systems. In this paper, the presenter examines two monumental, mythical public paintings of the French Enlightenment as if they were dreams. It turns out that Freud may not have gotten his ideas about the patriarchy from ancient cave dwellers after all.
Jason Tougaw
In the Language of Dream: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
In a 2005 interview, Kazuo Ishiguro explains that he wrote his 1995 novel The Unconsoled as a formal experiment with using ‘the language of dream’ as the basis of fiction. The novel tests the assumption that dreams are peripheral and waking reality central.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Don Kuiken, Tatiana LoVerso, Shelagh Dunn
Expressive Writing about Impactful Dreams that Follow Loss and Trauma
The reported research suggests that expressive writing about impactful dreams that follow trauma may reinstate the distress that is often reported immediately after awakening from nightmares, while expressive writing about impactful dreams that follow loss may reinstate the sense of self-perceptual depth that immediately follows awakening from existential dreams.
Ming-Ni Lee, Don Kuiken, and Joanna Czupryn
Reflective Awareness in Impactful Dreams and Dream-Induced Changes
The objective of this study was to identify patterns of reflective awareness within impactful dreams and dream-induced changes in waking thoughts and feelings. We found that dream-induced self-perceptual changes and existential doubt reported after existential dreams may be mediated by a pattern of reflective awareness indigenous to this dream type.
Jacquie Lewis
The Dream Reports of Animal Rights Activists
Through PowerPoint presentation this paper discusses the results of a study on animal rights activists. Using the Hall / Van de Castle Most Recent Dream Survey animal rights activists were asked to record their most recent dream. The sample consisted of 284 activists who were attending an animal rights conference.
Adrian Medina-Liberty
Applying Burke’s Pentad to the Analysis of Dream Content
The narrative nature of dreams is explored by applying an analytical model based on Kenneth Burke’s approach. Specifically, Burke’s Pentad (Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose) was applied to examine and interpret some children’s dreams. Some preliminary findings will be presented.
4:00- 6:30 PM SPECIAL EVENTS
4:00 – 6:30 Art Reception and Awards Schultz Art Gallery
The Spirit of the Dream a juried exhibition of dream-inspired art, features the work of artists from all over the United States, as well as abroad. Thanks to the generous ongoing support of Nancy Richter Brzeski, $4,500 in awards will be granted to artists chosen from among those whose work is accepted for the 2007 IASD dream art show. See the overview schedule for Gallery viewing times.
4:00 – 6:30 Recurring Dream Sharing Hike Information Desk
Cooperage Lobby
Meet by 4:15
Alan Siegel
This event will require carpooling to a beautiful state park which is a 20-30 minute drive. It is intended to have a recreational and social component to balance and de-stress from the continuous indoor presentations at the conference. A 2 hour long hike will include a short semi-structured discussion and sharing of participant’s recurring dreams that will occur midway through the walk. Also learn about wildflowers and ethnobotany (Native American use of plants). Wear appropriate shoes and a wind breaker if wind or fog are forecast. Bring food to share.
5 :00 – 6:30 Wine Tasting at Lake Lake
Spend a relaxing late afternoon at the lakes enjoying quality wines, cheeses, and hors d'ouevres. We'll be comparing different producers of both red and chilled white wines, all guaranteed to be excellent.
6:30-7:45 PM Dinner Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
7:45 – 9:45 PM Evening Sessions
Workshop Tibetan Dream Yoga, Mobilizing Stevenson 3042
Transformation for Healing (20 pers max)
Pia Keiding
This experiential workshop focuses on the use of Tibetan Dream Yoga as a way to re-enter and heal strong emotions emerging in dreams and nightmares. The Tibetan Unity in Duality philosophy and psychology view the dream state as being an ‘energy state’, implying less of a gap between body/mind, energy/matter and subject/object.
Workshop Applying the Five Star Method of Stevenson 2006
Dream Analysis in Counselling - APA CE
Scott Sparrow
This workshop will introduce helping professionals to a comprehensive dreamwork approach that fits within the constraints of the therapeutic hour. Based on the capacity of the dreamer to exercise self-reflecting awareness and volition, the Five Star Method builds upon these dreamer qualities in the service of positive change.
Panel Dreaming in the Indigenous Mind: Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Reconstituting Tribal Dreaming in a Multicultural and Modern Way - IASD CE
Atava Garcia Swiecicki (Chair), Teresa MacColl, Erin Langley
Presented will be an introduction to the Indigenous Mind dreamwork process; the technology used to collect, record, and interpret community dreams; and the tenets of Indigenous Science used to examine astrological influence on dreams, to observe community dreaming, and to interpret messages from spirit.
Symposium Dream and Spiritual Transformation - IASD CE Cooperage 1
Bonnelle Lewis Strickling (Chair)
Dreams and Spiritual Autonomy
It has been claimed that living one’s spiritual life within a religious tradition is deadening and robs spiritual life of creativity. In this paper, the presenter will argue that working with dreams can enrich religious life lived within a tradition and allow us to reap the many benefits of finding a spiritual home and that many traditions have dreamwork as part of their heritage.
Jeremy Seligson
Dreaming of the Buddha
The presenter offers his own personal speculation as to the origin and nature of spiritual dreams, with an illustration of a dream of visiting a cave with springs and statues of Buddha, and the transformation from greed to charity that occurs there. Also presented will be the reflection on a pure childhood experience in Maryland,
Nigel Hamilton
The Role of Dreams in the Study of Human Transformation
Dreams can be a powerful vehicle for initiating the profound paradigm shifts in consciousness that take place in our conscious awaking during the psycho-spiritual transformation process. Dreams are used in this presentation showing the phenomena involved during such shifts, and showing what the consequences are for the dreamer’s perspective on life.
Panel The Business of Dreaming - IASD CE Cooperage 2
This panel will present the experiences of five entrepreneurs who have started dream-based businesses. Panelists will relate how they started, the importance of creating a business plan, developing an audience, practical tips for success, and how to balance one’s personal dream life with dreaming as a business.
Sheila Asato (Chair)
Planning to Succeed – The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Dream Business,
Sheila will review the practical steps she has taken to get her dream business off to a flying start - learning how to think like a business person, creating a business plan, doing market research, finding practical support, and developing a diverse audience.
Justina Lasley
Following Your Dreams to Success
Justina will discuss how opportunities, synchronicity, mentors, IASD, training and graduate programs, writing and publishing led the way to creating a learning center for dream workers, her Institute for Dream Studies
Wendy Pannier
The Business of Non Profits
Wendy will discuss the grants she and Tallulah Lyons have received and the pros and cons of pursuing this type of funding. She will also discuss the importance of running nonprofit work in a business manner and provide tips on some fundamental Do’s and Don’ts.
Nicole Gratton
Running a Dream Business
Nicole will address four key areas essential to success including juggling one's public identities as consultant, teacher/ facilitator, professional speaker, and dreamwork practitioner.
Janet S. Steinwedel
Dreamwork and Executive Coaching
In this presentation, Janet will share how she has incorporated dreamwork into an executive coaching practice and the benefits and challenges involved.
Hot Off The Press Research Briefs - APA CE Cooperage 3
Jayne Gackenbach (Chair)
Absorption, Dreams, and Media Exposure
In an online mass testing survey respondents were asked to identify a recent dream, answer questions about it and their media use the day before and take the Tellegren Psychological Absorption Scale. A factor analysis showed a relationship between these variables.
Katherin Enriquez-Pecheroga (presented by Bob Van de Castle)
Dysthymic Dream Content and Selected MMPI Clinical Scale Scores
Significant differences were found when the average T scores of selected clinical scales on the MMPI (2, 3, 6, and 8) were compared between two groups of psychiatric inpatients (N = 106 males, 187 females), contrasted on the basis of whether dysthymic elements were present or absent in their dreams.
Art Funkhouser,
Déjà Vu Survey Results and a Déjà Experience Internet Portal
This paper will present a short overview of the results obtained with the online déjà vu questionnaire. Among many other questions, respondents are asked if dreams might be an explanation for their déjà experience(s). In addition, a new déjà experience portal has been created on the Internet for the exchange of information and experiences.
Annelise Schinzinger
Ayahuasca and Dreams: a Comparison
Ayahuasca is a sacred tea made of plants indigenous to the Amazon. Ayahuasca is a Quechua (Inka) word meaning ‘Vine of the Soul’ or ‘Vine of the Dead.’ The presenter compares the dream world with the divine forest tea, which she used for more than eighteen years.
9:45-Midnight Informal Social Hour Commons
9:45- 11:00 PM Volunteers Reception University Club (Commons)
In appreciation of your work for the conference, all volunteers are invited to a reception in the University Club.
Tuesday – July 3rd
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups
Participants must sign up for dream groups at the Registration Desk.
(See schedule for Friday, Jun 29, 8:00-9:00 AM for information on facilitators and rooms)
9:00-9:15 AM 15 min Coffee Break Cooperage Lobby
9:15- 11:15 AM Morning Sessions
Workshop Dreamwork: The Rashomon Approach Stevenson 3042
David Jenkins
In Kurosawa's film, Rashomon, each person remembers a series of events very differently. In a similar way, in a dream group, everyone hears the same dream from their own perspective. Rather than try to agree on a single, ‘correct’ meaning of the dream, we encourage divergent accounts and allow them to flourish.
Workshop Mind-Body Healing Through Dreamwork Stevenson 2006
Ed Kellogg
This workshop will explore different methods using dreaming to facilitate mind-body healing. It will focus on step-by-step methods for promoting, and then following up on, three different kinds of healing dreams, both lucid and non-lucid: 1. Diagnostic healing dreams; 2. Prescriptive healing dreams; and 3. Curative healing dreams.
Symposium Spiritual Evolutions - IASD CE Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Jennifer Dumpert (Chair)
Urban Dreamscape: SF
This is a practice based on dreams, a meditation on mapping, a psychogeographical research that breaks down divisions between internal and external places. It is a means of creating sacred space in the city. The presenter will describe Urban Dreamscape: SF, and discuss crafting practices of our own.
Laurette Dupuis
Dreaming, One of the Four Evolutionary States of Consciousness as Described in the Mandukya Upanishad.
The Mandukya Upanishad describes four states of consciousness: waking, dreaming, deep sleep and ‘turya’, a transcendental consciousness. It teaches that progress through the first three states of consciousness leads to the attainment of turya by the path of introversion. Exploration of this subject is based on respected commentaries on this Upanishad as well as sleep and dream research.
Mark Hagen
Religious Poetry and Allegory
The poet’s imaginative vision much as the dreamer’s, expresses the dramatics of literary periods. Allegory is understood and read as a story which ‘speaks otherwise’, having a surface meaning and a deeper hidden archetypal meaning. There are many examples of literary allegory, including Dante's Divine Comedy, and Melville's Moby Dick.
Catherine Alexander Mahler
The Healing Power of Dreams in Serious Illness
In serious illness, the Self is activated or constellated and ignites the individuation process, with or without our consciousness of the experience. In this presentation, dreams, especially those of an alchemical nature, which occurred as the presenter was healing from cancer, will be used to illustrate this self-healing mechanism of the Self.
Workshop The Dream to Freedom Technique: Cooperage 1
Bridging Dreamwork and Energy Psychology - APA CE
Bob Hoss and Lynne Hoss
A unique ‘bridging’ of dreamwork and Energy Psychology can provide a powerful method for identifying and reducing emotional barriers that contribute to internal conflict. Participants will learn a Gestalt-based Image Activation approach for identifying issues the dream is dealing with. This is followed by an Emotional Freedom Technique. A worksheet is provided.
Panel Where Children Learn About Dreams: Cooperage 2
School and Family Settings - APA CE
This panel brings together educators to explore ways in which children learn about dreams and dreamwork in home and school settings. We will present a range of current practices, discuss challenges facing those who wish to extend opportunities for children in this area, and propose directions for the future.
Mary Pat Mann (Chair)
No Dream Left Behind?
Many challenges bar the way to including dreams in today's U.S. classrooms including state and federal government micromanagement of K-12 education and deep cuts to arts education, extracurricular activities. Success may depend on new strategic links which are discussed in this presentation.
Kate Adams [may be alternate presenter]
Dreams in UK Classrooms
This presentation offers an overview of dreams in the classroom from a UK perspective, and explores different reasons why teachers are often reluctant to discuss dreams with children and offers some possible solutions.
Jette Cabo [may be alternate presenter]
Dreaming in Denmark
The central question in this presentation is how to teach teachers to teach dream work. This 4-month project was done in collaboration with four Danish-language teachers and 200 children ages 6-14 in a Copenhagen primary school. An overview of curriculum goals, lessons plans and methods is offered as well as the outcomes as seen by the teachers and children.
Linda Lane Magallón
Children's Dreams: From Reactive to Proactive Dreamwork
The emerging medical paradigm is shifting from the curative to the preventive and proactive, a model dreamwork can follow. This evolution of dreamwork is described through developmental work in a family setting.
Valley Reed
Deepening Bonds with Family Dreaming
Dream practices within the family strengthen bonds through cultivating an atmosphere of respect and listening where trust is nurtured. This sharing and dreaming together weaves us together on many levels throughout our lives from birth through death.
Panel High End Video Game Players’ Play Cooperage 3
Experience and Dreams - APA CE
Jayne Gackenbach (Chair)
Video Game Players Play Experience
Hard core video game players agreed to be interviewed about their experience of game play which will be the focus of this presentation. Although emotions are experienced, thinking occurs, bodies are attended to and self is acknowledged during play, the most noteworthy finding is that of a deep absorption in play.
Bena Kuruvilla
Hall and Van de Castle Content Analysis of Gamer Dreams
These players dreams showed the largest effect size being higher in dead and imaginary characters, aggression/friendliness percentage and physical aggression than the Hall and Van de Castle norms. But they were lower in bodily misfortunes and dreams with at least one instance of friendliness. Several other variables also showed deviations from the norms.
Alexis Zederayko
Gamer Dreams Content Relevant to Consciousness in Sleep
All dreams were coded in terms of variables thought to be relevant to the emergence of consciousness in sleep. These dreams showed few palpable sensations, balance or lucidity but did evidence some control with the dream self as showing some third person orientation. Self reflectiveness correlated with lucidity for these dreams.
Jordan Olischefski
Gamer as Participant-Observer
This gamer will reflect upon his experiences as a gamer, research interviewee and researcher for this study. This first person perspective will further illuminate the data resulting from these interviews.
Sanford Rosenberg (Discussant)
11:15 – 11:30 AM 15 min Transition
11:30 AM-12:30 PM Late Morning Sessions
Spec Event Chaos into Creativity: Expressive Interdisciplinary Stevenson 3030
Journal Projects for Dream Groups - IASD CE
Victoria Rabinowe
An exhibition/presentation with fifty dream journals illustrated with collage, drawings, prose and poetry will demonstrate how expressive arts can transform dreams. Guided techniques featuring the universal themes and archetypes of The Rabinowe Method will demonstrate how power, medicine and magic can transform nightmare and paradox into deep inner soul work.
Interactive Presentation “What’s in a Dream, Anyway?” Stevenson 2006
Mary Brill
This presentation will demonstrate how following a series of dreams over time can potentially help an individual make life changes, break free from old patterns, empower themselves, create an avenue for deeper personal expression, and ultimately reveal their own true nature.
Symposium Dreams for Healing of Women Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
in Special Circumstances –IASD CE
Elicia M. Arwen
Dreams as Facilitators of Healthy Self-Perception in Female Incest Survivors
Regular inclusion of dreamwork in psychotherapy with women who report a history of childhood incest can aid in the development of healthy self-perception. The presenter will give brief case studies with examples of dream material and explain how the dreamers utilized this material to increase accurate and healthy self-perception.
Carol Oschmann
Prison Reform Through Dreamwork
Dreamwork with inmates brings two-fold benefits. The first benefit is to the facilitator who enjoyed every minute, learning things about life and seeing dream images she had no other way to access. The second, and most important, is the immediate change in the women when seeing the truth of their own dreams.
Presentation The Dreamer's Way: Introduction to a Cooperage 1
Methodology of Dreamwork
Sheri Ritchlin
This presentation is based on The Dreamer's Way, a method for approaching dreams developed by Sheri Ritchlin. Through interactive exercises and sample dreams, we will discover how the archetypal meanings of lighting, landscapes, vehicles and other dream elements are combined with personal associations to effect healing and transformation.
Featured Presentation Lifelong Dreamers: Guide for Cooperage 2
Dream Study with Seniors – APA CE
Patricia Garfield
‘Lifelong Dreaming: Guide for Dream Study with Seniors’ presents an overview of dream themes typical in elders’ dreams. Issues of retirement, loss, and aging are emphasized, showing how these are portrayed in individual dreams. Methods to support coping with these issues and using dreams about them creatively are discussed.
Presentation The Roots of Healing Dreamwork Cooperage 3
in Welsh Mythology – APA CE
Nicholas Brink
The ancient Welsh myth of Branwen, Daughter of Llyr, the Second Branch of The Mabinogion, when examined as a dream of our ancestors, portrays one’s struggle with, and death of, the shadow and the rebirth of innocence. This workshop is a continuation of last year’s workshop that dealt with the First Branch.
12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Zinfandel Dining Commons
Telepathy Award Announcements
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 12:45 and 1:15 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
2:00 – 6:00 PM Board Meeting Sue Jameson Room, Stevenson 1056
2:00 – 4:00 PM Early Afternoon Sessions
Workshop Dream Re-Entry Through Masks Stevenson 3030
Dolores J. Nurss
Participants make masks of persons, creatures, or things that have appeared in their dreams––two per person. Using two characters per person rather than one challenges the participant to explore viewpoints other than those of the waking self, and masks help the waking identity to step out of the way.
Workshop Healing Dreams in Sleeping and Waking Stevenson 2006
Bob Trowbridge
While some dreams address specific illnesses, all dreams have a healing intent. That intent is to help us heal our life, however our dis-ease manifests. Illnesses and other dis-eases are not the problem. They are symbols that point to deeper spiritual issues and appear in dreams and in waking.
Symposium Cultural - APA CE Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Iain Edgar (Chair)
The Inspirational Night Dream in the Motivation and Justification of Jihad
This paper uses a wide variety of examples to argue that the experience of the true dream (ru’yâ) is a fundamental, inspirational, and even strategic, part of the contemporary militant Jihadist movement in the Middle East and elsewhere. The paper thematically analyzes the dream narratives of leading Islamic militant Jihadists.
Hermine Mensink and J.A. Wijnen
Growing Roots in Dutch Society
Drawings of dream trees were made by children of the Timotheus school in Amsterdam. The children are between 4- and 12- years-old and most are of Turkish or Moroccan origin. A comparison is made between children receiving some kind of support or therapy (helping them integrate more fully into Dutch society) and children who received no such support.
Michael Tappan
Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Dreams
To the indigenous, the nighttime dream and the daytime vision contain the information necessary to carry us into the adventure of becoming who we most genuinely are. This presentation will discuss some of the notions of indigenous reality and show how those beliefs inform the understanding of contemporary dreams.
Workshop The Voice of Spirit in the Nightmare Cooperage 1
Rodrigo Marcus and Greg Comella
Nightmares are full of grace and Spirit. When we take the time to unfold the spiritual gifts of nightmares, we uncover unknown compassion and wisdom already present and available in our lives. Through projective dreamwork in small groups, we will hold space to reveal the blessings of Spirit in our nightmares.
Symposium Dreams and Youth - APA CE Cooperage 2
Ghazaal Bozorgmehr and Hooshmand Ebrahimi
Harry Potter, a Power Creature for Helping Children Overcome Nightmares
This paper describes the systematic tasks of the ‘Kids’ Skills’ method. The task of choosing a power creature is discussed. Harry Potter is shown to be a power creature that can help children learn the skill of converting nightmares into ‘goodmares’.
Monique Golis
The Dark Journey: Adolescents in Crisis
This multimedia presentation captures the subjective experiences of institutionalized adolescent patients through their own words, art work, dreams, and poems, and recounts their archetypal struggles to transmute personal crisis into the crucial transformational process of self-discovery and individuation.
Elena Korabelnikova
Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Dream Reports of Children with Neuroses
Neurotic and non-neurotic children produce dream reports with a significantly different hierarchical structure. We identify the differences in terms of story complexity (length, depth and branching), in terms of global discourse structure (deviations from the classical narrative schema ‘beginning-setting-complication-climax-denouement-coda’), and in terms of particular rhetorical relations employed.
Nick Pisca & Jasmin Llamas
Dreams and Music Preference
The findings on as study of the relationships found between dream reports and music preference will be presented. The study was performed by master students from Santa Clara University.
Symposium Research - APA CE Cooperage 3
Mark Blagrove (Chair)
Personality Trait Predispositions for Having a Nightmare After Presleep Anxiety or Depression
This is the first study on whether personality is associated with likelihood of having a nightmare following presleep anxiety/depression. Forty-two participants kept a 2-week dream log. Only weak (at best) associations were found between thirteen personality traits and within subjects correlation measure of nightly nightmare propensity.
Mark Blagrove
The Mediating Effect of Nightmare Distress in Relationships Between Psychopathology and Nightmare Frequency
Apparent correlations between psychopathology and nightmare frequency may be due to the rarely assessed confound of trait nightmare distress, which is related to both psychopathology and nightmare frequency. In a study of 53 participants various measures, such as anxiety and neuroticism, were found to be directly related to nightmare frequency.
Samantha Fisher
The Prevalence of Nightmares and of Cessation of Dreaming After Traumatic Brain Injury
In a sample of fifty-one individuals with traumatic head injury, 31% reported frequent nightmares and 35% reported never dreaming since the accident. These prevalences are far higher than in the normal population, and supports Solms (1997). Severity of injury was associated with dream cessation rather than with frequent nightmares.
Samantha Fisher
Dream Emotions and Nightmares in Patients with Sleep Apnoea
Patients with apnea had more nightmares than the normal population, but apnea severity did not correlate with nightmare frequency. Instead, severe apnea was associated with a lower variability of dream emotion. This may be because apnea inhibits the formation of dreams, which are thus brief and neutrally toned.
4:00-4:15 PM 15 min Refreshment Break Cooperage Lobby
4:15 - 6:15 PM Mid Afternoon Sessions
Workshop Dreaming in 3-D Redux: Creating Dream Dioramas Stevenson 3030
Nancy Lund and Maureen Munroe
Join us again to make your dreams come alive by creating a dreamscape diorama (three-dimensional art piece created inside a small box). Become a dream set designer and gain more insights into, and increase the fluidity of interaction with, your dreams. No art experience is necessary. Materials are provided.
Films Dream Film Festival - APA CE Stevenson 1002 Auditorium
Appointment with the Wise Old Dog
A moving documentary about dreams and facing death. The film illustrates how musical composer, David Blum explored his dreams through, active imagination and paintings to help him deal with the mortal threat of cancer. In so doing, he undergoes a profound psychic transformation that prepared him for death
Goodnight Moon and other Sleepy Time Tales
Multiple award-winning HBO special that exploring the world of children’s dreams. Only children appear talking about their dreams with wit and wisdom beyond their years. With narration by Billy Crystal and music by Aaron Neville, Tony Bennett, and Included are animated versions of classic children’s books including, Goodnight Moon, There is a Monster in my Closet and Tar Beach.
The Power of Dreams
The Discovery Channels 1995 special featuring many IASD experts.
4:45 – 5:15 Performance (30min) Cooperage 1
Dancing the Labyrinth
Lana Nasser
The presenter offers a performance art piece in dance, song and poetry, storytelling as one walks, and a creative interpretation of collected dreams about dance and labyrinths.
4:15 – 5:15 Special Event Animation and the Dream Cooperage 3
Ruth Lingford
Animation has some special features that fit it for the communication of dream
experience. Condensation and distortion are integral parts of the language of
animation, and the transformational ability of the form allows the expression
of shifting space and identities. A screening of short animated films which
show the power and potential of the medium.
6:15- 8:00 PM Dinner Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 6:30 and 7:00 PM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
Take time to Dress for the Dream Ball
8:00 PM – 1:00 AM Dream Ball Commons
Band: The Poyntlyss Sistars
You are encouraged to come dressed or disguised as a character from one of your dreams. The ball will include outstanding music, dancing, a costume contest, and a bit of dream mayhem. This event is always a favorite, so don’t miss it. It is best to come early in order to get in on the costume contest.
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Wednesday – July 4th
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Zinfandel Dining Commons
Must be in line at Zinfandel Dining Commons between 7:30 and 8:00 AM. A paid in advance five-day Lodging/Meal Pass is required. For those without a five-day day pass, see the campus map and registration packet for other nearby places to eat on and off campus.
5:00 am - 11:00 am Checkout and Return Keys Cooperage Lobby
Please return your keys to the Information Desk and pick up your deposit. We regret that no deposits can be returned unless the keys are left at the desk. The return of keys and deposit after you have left may not be possible since IASD has to pay the University for all missing keys.
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