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Program of Events The 25th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams Tuesday July 8 through Saturday July 12, 2008 at the Hôtel Auberge Universel Montréal Presenters in Panels and Symposiums may be listed in alphabetical order, not in order of their presentations. th 1:00-6:00 PM IASD Board Meeting Promenade
Noon-7:30 PM Registration Mezzanine Register, pick up badges and registration packets, and sign up for Morning Dream Groups.
6:45-9:00 PM Opening Celebration Sherbrooke 6:45 PM Music by Julia Sadvakassova and Marcel Roscovan 7:00-7:30 PM Welcome: Conference Host Layne Dalfen with Program Co-Chairs Laurette Dupuis and Nicole Gratton Welcome to Montreal for Dream Week - Marcel Tremblay of the Mayor’s Office 7:30-8:30 PM Opening Celebration: One Night of Sleep: The Art and Science of Dreaming Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers Marking the 25th anniversary of IASD, we open the conference with a multi-media presentation tracing one night of sleep from hypnagogia to hypnopompia (the onset of drowsiness to the state prior to waking). Employing visual and video imagery, and live poetry, this presentation intertwines the work of many IASD members and is led by Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, Founding Director of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University and Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, Director of the East-West Psychology Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. 8:30-Midnight Opening Reception & Dream Expert Auction Viau Instead of the usual auction of items, this year we offer an auction of people. Fourteen of our expert members will spend personal time with the lucky winners. You'll find details on the sponsor pages of the program and in the Dream Expert Auction program in your conference registration bag. This promises to be a fun and lively event. Wednesday – July 9 th7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Dining Room & Il Giardino Breakfast is provided only for IASD Conference participants staying at the Hôtel Auberge Universel.
7:30 AM-1:00 PM Registration Mezzanine Floor
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups Participants must sign up for dream groups at the Registration desk. Dream Group 1: Meditation and Superconscious Dreaming Salle 1 Geri Grubbs Meditation forms the basis of this group that will work experientially with superconscious dreams––divine, archetypal, spiritual––that can arise from a devotional practice. You will be guided through 15 minutes of meditation followed by dream sharing and explorative amplification of the images. No experience with meditation is necessary.
Dream Group 2: Everyday Dreams Salle 2 Art Funkhouser In this group, we will work on dreams using the approach pioneered by Dr. Montague Ullman and Jeremy Taylor, together with occasional Jungian insights.
Dream Group 3: Developing Intuition in Group Dreamwork Salle 3
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 Group 4: Dream Group for Newcomers Promenade Kelly Bulkeley & Jayne White-Lewis This Jungian-style morning dream group is for newcomers to IASD conferences.
Dream Group 5: Waking Up to Your Dreams Terrasse Justina Lasley We will honor the sacred nature of the dream and focus on personal growth and individuation. Group members will view their dreams through group work moving the unconscious to consciousness. Working each day in a different technique, we will explore our dreams with a short individual exercise, as well as an in-depth group experience.
Dream Group 6: Dreaming Postures: A Replication of Felicitas Goodman’s Work Coubertin Nicholas Brink From her examination of ancient and primitive art, anthropologist Felicitas Goodman identified shamanistic postures that produce dream/trance experiences: Spirit Journeys, Divination, Healing, Shape Shifting, Celebration, Death, and Life Everlasting. We will attempt to replicate some of these experiences.
Dream Group 7: Tapping the Healing Potential of Dreams Olympique Wendy Pannier & Tallulah Lyons We will share techniques we use in dream work with cancer patients, which are appropriate for anyone interested in the healing potential of dreams. Participants will experience ways of working with healing imagery and transforming nightmare imagery. You will also learn how to use healing dream imagery by integrating it with meditative techniques.
Groupe de rêve 8: Analyse de rêves avec la technique intuitive Viau Paule Boucher Ce groupe de rêves pratiquera l’analyse intuitive à partir des rêves des participants. Chaque matin, les rêves racontés seront décryptés pour permettre de saisir l’information, le message ou l’encouragement qu’ils contiennent.
Dream Group 9: Healing Collage Maisonneuve Sheila Asato 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. This group will focus on working with the dream visually and seeing how the Healing CollageSM process can complement other dreamwork methods.
Dream Group 10: Morning “Theme” Group Biodôme Robert P. Gongloff By encouraging participants to focus on the dream as story, finding the basic message the dream is attempting to convey becomes easy and enjoyable. Participants will be given specific techniques for determining the themes in their dreams and taking positive action in their waking lives to “honor” their dreams.
Yoga-Dynamics Sherbrooke Jim Emery These yoga sessions offer 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 experience in yoga is necessary.
9:00-9:15 AM Coffee Break Mezzanine & Lower Level
9:00 AM-7:30 PM Dream Art Exhibit Hochelaga
9:15-10:15 AM Morning Sessions Interactive Presentation: Dreamwork Leadership: Opening the Boundaries of the Unconscious Promenade Justina Lasley Participants will explore the process of organizing and leading dream groups by working in a dream group and honoring personal dreams in a spiritual manner. We will examine our dreams while learning innovative techniques for dreamwork and leadership. Emphasis will be placed on emotions, personal growth, individuation, and developing community. Presentation: Dreams and Homeopathy Terrasse Christopher Sowton In homeopathy a miasm is a disease root which is more fundamental than the presenting disease; and thus prevents or blocks the improvement of the patient’s condition, even when all the right healing factors seem to be in place. People who are caught in the influence of a miasm will have characteristic dream elements of that miasm, which the practitioner can pick out with some training. Presentation: Biblical Dreams and their Relevance for our Nightly Dreams Olympique CE Rev. Bob Haden This presentation will be a survey and working of Biblical dreams weaving together interpretation, background, meaning and how each dream illustrates a particular insight into working our own dreams. There will be correlation with contemporary dreams as well as methods to work certain dreams.
Special Event: Dreams and Lucid Art of Remedios Varo Coubertin Fariba Bogzaran The paintings of the Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo remain among the most enigmatic in their alchemical dream imagery. This presentation examines her paintings in relation to different types of dreams and discusses her last archetypal dream through innovative experimental research involving twelve internationally known dream experts. Weaving themes of dream with biography, the dream offers an existential dilemma for any creative artist, inventor and visionary.
Presentation: Political Psychology and Dreaming: A Study of American Conservative and Liberals Sherbrooke CE Kelly Bulkeley This presentation reports the findings of a two-pronged empirical study of the sleep and dream patterns of political conservatives and liberals in the USA. The findings indicate that conservatives tend to sleep better than liberals, with less dream recall and more mundane dream content, while liberals suffer more sleep problems and remember more dreams with a wider range of imagined possibility.
Invitation spéciale: Rêves et créativité Viau Présentation: Nicole Gratton Patricia Garfield
Le Dr. Garfield démontre comment des rêveurs célèbres ont transformé leurs cauchemars ou leurs rêves exceptionnels en œuvre artistique. Elle présente, étape par étape, la méthode utilisée par ces grands rêveurs pour favoriser des transformations.
10:15-10:30 AM Transition
10:30 AM-12:30 PM Late Morning Sessions Atelier: Comprendre les images sexuelles dans les rêves Salle 1&2 Christiane Riedel Dans cet atelier nous expliquerons les sens fréquents des scénarios sexuels des rêves. Ces images, épanouissantes ou choquantes, nous révèlent comment nous vivons en accord ou en conflit avec notre être authentique. En prendre conscience induit un processus de transformation spirituelle, qui permet l’harmonisation des contraires en nous, et vient libérer nos forces créatrices.
Workshop: Solution-oriented Dream Decoding: Therapeutic Dreaming Promenade Layne Dalfen Dreams Without Borders is true. If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, anyone, no matter where you are in the world, or where you come from, can gain insight into relationships, work, family and life. This workshop offers tools needed to decode and understand not only why we have certain dreams on a particular night, but more importantly, how that knowledge can enrich our lives.
Symposium: The Influenced Dream: Precognitive Dreams, The Moon and the Mind Terrasse A Review of Precognitive Dream Studies Conducted Over 17 Years: Comments and Observations Cynthia Pearson (Chair) Inspired by Marcia Emery's "Programming the Precognitive Dream [1989]" Cynthia Pearson began precognitive dream studies in 1991. In this presentation, she reviews what she has learned from over ten events in which participants were invited to program precognitive dreams, including the Psiber Dreaming Conference's Precognitive Dream Contests.
Prophetic Dreams for Our World in Transformation Susan E. Mehrtens A 24-year history of prophetic dreaming is described, followed by a detailed examination of specific dreams that bear on our current global situation and offer guidance and hope for how we might best navigate the challenging currents of change that lie ahead.
What is the Effect of the Moon on Our Dreams? Laurel Clark In 2007, the Global Lucid Dreaming Experiment researched what happens when people around the globe intentionally dream at the same time. The January/February 2008 study explores the effect of the new moon, full moon, and lunar eclipse on dreams.
Night and Daytime Dreams of Those with Schizophrenia and Psychosis Sheila Benjamin We call people crazy who experience their dream state while awake. These images called hallucinations can be interpreted as a dream. Understanding dreams is a valuable tool for understanding those who have schizophrenia or psychosis.
Symposium: Dreaming While Awake Coubertin CE J.F. Pagel (Chair), Ernest Hartmann, Ross Levin, Miloslava Kozmova The waking states of creative associative thought, meditation, and daydreaming share many characteristics with dreaming. Some of the variables known to affect sleep and its association with dreaming also affect the dreamlike states of waking.
Research Symposium: New Methods in Dream Research Olympique CE Classifying Dream Anomalies: The ‘Style’ of Dream Narratives Don Kuiken (Chair), Co-Authors: Laura Byrtus, Connie Svob, Ming-Ni Lee We report the results of a preliminary study in which numerically aided phenomenological methods are used to articulate an array of anomalous (or ‘bizarre’) dream features and then identify classes of dreams that are similar in ‘style’, i.e., that have similar profiles of such anomalies.
Diary Study Investigations of the Retrieval of Dream Memories Caroline L. Horton, Co-Authors: Martin A. Conway, Chris Moulin Dream recall is notoriously poor. Specific retrieval processes have rarely been investigated. Two diary studies were conducted to compare dream recall and recognition to autobiographical remembering of waking experiences. Performance was comparable for both retrospective and current dreams, indicating the continuity of a dreaming and waking autobiographical memory system.
Statistical and Design Strategies in Dream Research with Multiple Measurements Philip King In research with multiple variables, alpha levels are nearly always erroneously set as if the fact of multiple tests does not matter. But the study-wide probability of Type One error increases with the number of tests. Examples from Dreaming are discussed. Fixes in statistical procedure and research strategy are offered.
Symposium: Jungian and Creative Perspectives on Dreaming Sherbrooke Developing Awareness of a Personal Mythology through a Dream Education Group Deborah Hickey (Chair) Deborah Armstrong Hickey has been conducting dream education groups with students in a community college setting for two years. In this presentation she discusses the group’s activities in developing an awareness of a personal mythology, including examples of student art and writing. Deborah will also speak about conducting the DEG for the second year at the urging of students.
“Dreams and Projection” – Crossing the Borders between Us Walter Berry What happens to the listener when someone shares a dream? When we project our own ‘meaning’ onto the dream, it changes us, the dreamer, and the dream itself. Find out in this interactive workshop what happens at that crossover point where projections meet the dream and the dreamer.
Using Active Imagination to Enhance Dreamwork through Dialogue with the Inner Self Linda Elliott This presentation will explore Active Imagination, as developed by C.G. Jung and Robert Johnson, to open up dialogue with unconscious, hidden parts of ourselves and engage the inner self as a deep source of creativity, renewal, strength, and wisdom.
Dreams and Hooking (up) Physical and Non-physical Clusters of Variables Dimitri Halley The connection of physical and non-physical clusters of variables is proposed in terms of pairs of opposites. When too extreme a compensatory opposite is constellated, dreams are presented which depict the compensation of the rejected opposite in somatic conditions needed in order to regain balance. Dreams demonstrate the connection between psyche and compensatory somatic conditions.
Special Event: Dreaming Without Borders on the World Dreams Peace Bridge Viau Jean Campbell (Chair) Members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge share a mixed-media presentation of their experiences of dreaming across borders. The World Dreams Peace Bridge is a virtual United Nations of dreamers, and the world's longest-lasting group dreaming experiment. As members of the Peace Bridge tell their stories of dreaming across borders and honoring these dreams with action, their stories will be connected with integrating narration from Peace Bridge founder, Jean Campbell.
Jeremy Seligson – Seoul, South Korea Jeremy will read from the Children's Peace Train book he created from his original Peace Train dream in 2001. The Peace Train was the first group project of The World Dreams Peace Bridge and has involved children in over thirty countries around the world.
Yvonne Gonzalez-Baez Lujan – Mexico City, Mexico Yvonne will read from her award-winning book Historia de Luz, how a precognitive dream connected with the Peace Bridge in 2002.
Nick Cumbo – Melbourne, Australia Nick had a lucid dream in 2002 in which he received a message to "Teach the Children." A year later, he was a member of the Peace Bridge and involved in projects with dreams, peace and children. Nick will explore how dreams encouraged him to quit a five-year degree midway and begin a course in primary school education, and his vision of working with dreams and children in the future.
Jean Campbell – Portsmouth, Virginia Jean tells the story of "Drum, Dance and Dream for Peace," which began with dreams and became a global drumming ceremony in 2007. Drum, Dance and Dream included children from many cultures and a drumming circle at the World Children's Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Funds raised from the events support the Peace Bridge Aid for Traumatized Children Project, sending aid to the children of war-torn Iraq.
The Dance Lana Nassar – Amman, Jordan/Oakland, California Lana will present a performance art piece, honoring the series of dreams that led her to singing and dancing. It is the first chapter of her dream of dancing around the world barefoot for peace singing without words, praying for peace, and celebrating life. Honoring the dream that inspired her to sing, which coincided with her joining the Peace Bridge in 2006.
Valley Reed – Dallas, Texas Valley was inspired by her then 6-year-old daughter Delaney to compose a dream book for her dream library. She wrote the fairy tale "The Crow and the Phoenix" based on a series of dreams, and was encouraged by Peace Bridge members to turn the story into a dream dance. Valley has performed professionally with the Dallas Ballet, was former Assistant Director of Mahogany Dance Theater, and a Founding Member of "9 Fish Jumping," an improvisational performance dance troupe in Dallas, Texas. “The Crow and the Phoenix” was performed at the IASD Cincinnati Regional Conference in 2002. Now the story continues through dance improvisation, song and music joined by the talented Lana Nasser as Crow, and Valley Reed as Phoenix.
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch Dining Room & Il Giardino
2:00-4:00 PM Early Afternoon Sessions Workshop: Dream Portrayal: Discovering Meaning by Playing the Part Salle 1&2
Michael Tappan and Irene Clurman Dream portrayal creates a community of dreamers who assist each other in discovering the meaning of dreams by enacting particularly resonant, enigmatic or powerful portions of a dream. Using simple props and basic improvisational techniques, participants bring dreams to life. In the process, participants talk to guides, confront objects of fear and emerge with the understanding of the healing power of dreams.
Workshop: Mindful Dreaming: Holding the Tension of Opposites in Dreams and Waking Life Promenade CE David Gordon Dreams prompt us to resolve and practice mindfulness of the tension between our habitual ego strategies and wiser Self. Five archetypal conflicts create the tension at the core of human suffering and symptoms: The struggle between distraction and solitude, control and surrender, attachment and letting go, judgment and compassion, impatience and embrace of the present moment.
Workshop: Cultural Issues in Understanding and Working with Dreams Terrasse CE Alan B. Siegel Dreams transcend cultural barriers, build rapport in therapy and provide a vehicle for exploring sensitive issues related to acculturation, cultural identity, and discrimination. This workshop, geared to psychotherapists but open to all, will provide clinical practice guidelines for dreamwork with individuals whose cultural, religious, or other beliefs are different than the therapist.
Panel: The Visual Nature of Dreaming: Art, Neuroscience, Color, and the Tarot Coubertin Dreaming is a highly visual state of consciousness that has challenged, delighted and inspired those in the arts as well as the sciences. In this interdisciplinary panel, four IASD members from diverse backgrounds share how the visual nature of dreaming has informed and enriched their work in the fields of art, neuroscience and therapy.
The Dance of Creativity Sheila Asato (Chair) Sheila Asato will show how the visual nature of dreaming has influenced her work as a visual artist. Through dream incubation in particular, Asato is able to gain invaluable visual and spatial insights into the creative process, which then inform, guide and choreograph the movement of her work in the arts.
The Nature of Imagery and Color Robert Hoss Robert Hoss presents a unique perspective on the nature of imagery and color in dreams and how they combine to enrich dream images. His talk will reflect on neurological research, Jungian and Gestalt theory, as well as his own research into the occurrence and significance of color in dreams.
The Neuroscience of Seeing David Kahn David Kahn will share what neuroscience and brain imaging studies offer to help us understand different ways of “seeing.” He will focus on the neurobiology of seeing with an emphasis on seeing while asleep and dreaming, and compare this with seeing while awake with our eyes closed when we are imagining a scene, and with ordinary vision when awake with our eyes wide open.
Dreams and Tarot – Innovative Approaches to Dream Work and Depth Therapy Lauren Schneider Lauren Schneider will show how the rich symbolic imagery of Tarot, Dream Cards, Soul Cards, and other visual tools can help us explore the archetypal and universal nature of dream images, the mechanism of projection and association, and how images connect to meaningful patterns in our waking life.
Research Symposium: Disturbed Dreaming Olympique CE The Occurrence of Unpleasant Dreams after Subanaesthetic Ketamine Mark Blagrove (Chair), Co-Authors: Celia Morgan, Val Curran, Leslie Bromley, Brigitte Brandner Ketamine is a widely-used anaesthetic that can produce schizophrenia-like effects. The many studies on it, however, are unclear as to whether it also causes unpleasant dreams. In this placebo-controlled study, low doses of ketamine were found to increase dream unpleasantness over the three nights after it was administered.
The Emotional Content of Dreams Ann Goelitz This presentation outlines the results of a study examining the emotional content of dreams. The study’s premise is that trauma survivors’ dreams contain more emotions and more intense emotions than dreams of non-trauma survivors. Two scales were used – Hartmann’s and Hall/Van de Castle’s.
The Threat Simulation Theory in the Light of New Empirical Evidence – A Review Katja Valli, Co-Author: Antti Revonsuo In recent years, hypotheses derived from the Threat Simulation Theory have been empirically tested in several studies with dreams collected from various populations. The presentation focuses on whether the TST can be regarded as a plausible explanation for the function of dreaming in the light of accumulated empirical evidence.
Symposium: Dreams in Italian Poetry, Art and Movies Part One Sherbrooke Richard Russo (Chair) Dreams and Visions in the Frescoes of the Upper Basilica of Assisi
Umberto Barcaro The major events in the life of St. Francis, taken from St. Bonaventure’s “Legenda Maior,” are represented in 28 frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Assisi. Some of these frescoes show visions and dreams. The content and the artistic representation of these dreams provide insight into Italian culture and society at the end of the 13th Century.
The Dreamscape of Giorgio de Chirico Fariba Bogzaran Giorgio de Chirico (Greek-Italian, 1888-1935) is one of the most well-known painters of the 20th century. The first artist to be published in La révolution surréaliste, his early metaphysical paintings (1911-1919) became the main subject of study and influence for the surrealist writers and painters. This presentation discusses the symbolic narrative of these early enigmatic dreamscapes in relation to de Chirico’s writings and thoughts on dreams.
Significance of Dreams in Masterpieces Olaf Gerlach Hansen Studying dreams in masterpieces may open new insights into the relation between dreams and art, and how dreams can be both used for human development and misused for ideological or other purposes, when inscribed in a text that gets canonical status.
The Idea of Dreaming from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Marco Zanasi The author presents data concerning the interest of Italian culture in dreams, particularly during the period of time immediately preceding the modern era. With references to literature and figurative art, a pathway may be traced, starting from the medieval eclipse, that dreams have followed as a source of inspiration and learning.
Séminaire: Le rêve vu sous différents angles Viau Rêves et champ intersubjectif: multiplicité, réciprocité et duplicité Daniel Deslauriers (présidence) Il est d’usage courant de définir le sens du rêve du point de vue du rêveur, comme si la quête de sens était exclusivement subjective. Le but de cette présentation est de percer le mythe du subjectif et d’explorer en quoi la signification d’un rêve soulève un champ intersubjectif, mettant en jeu plusieurs acteurs, ouvertement ou implicitement. Nous parlerons ici de participation, active ou passive, et de diverses formes d’intersubjectivité que l’on peut rencontrer selon le genre de contextes qui englobent un travail sérieux sur le rêve.
Le rêve, un des quatre états de l'évolution de la conscience Laurette Dupuis La Mandukya-Upanishad, un texte sacré de l’Inde ancienne, explique que le mantra « AUM » décrit les quatre états de conscience: l’état de veille, le rêve, le sommeil profond et turya, soit la conscience transcendantale. Ce texte enseigne que c’est en progressant d’un état de conscience au suivant que l’on atteint le dernier et cela par la voie de l’introversion. L’exploration de ce sujet s’appuie sur les commentaires d’auteurs dont les études des Upanishads sont hautement respectées ainsi que sur les recherches actuelles menées sur le sommeil, le rêve et la conscience.
Les hommes, les rêves et l’intimité Julien Blackburn Pour plusieurs hommes, le contact avec soi, l’écoute du ressenti, des intuitions et des rêves demeurent un monde à apprivoiser, à intégrer, à mettre en lumière. Nous explorerons dans cette communication les enjeux des hommes par rapport à l’intimité. Nous verrons en quoi les rêves peuvent être un moyen important pour développer et favoriser l’intimité avec soi et avec l’autre.
4:00-4:15 PM Break Mezzanine & Lower Level
4:15-6:15 PM Mid-Afternoon Sessions
Workshop: Metaphors in Motion: Weaving Dance, Dreams and Art Salle 1&2
Rosemary Gosselin and Andrée Kingbury Dance, movement, and the arts are combined with dreamwork in an effective group model developed by co-facilitators practicing in a rural community. Participants can experience and discuss the model, including group dynamics and the challenges and benefits of professional cross-fertilization. Attendees are invited to participate or observe.
Workshop: Getting Unstuck: Using Dreamwork to Heal Traumatic Memory Promenade CE Linda Yael Schiller All mental health professionals work at one time or another with clients with a history of trauma, be it public or private, acute or chronic. Frequently, the healing process can become stuck, or frozen in time, and our clients lose the ability to move on. Engaging in trauma-specific dreamwork allows the client to access this material in a gentle and careful way that honors the dreamer’s internal timetable in the healing process. This workshop will address phase-oriented trauma healing and dreamwork techniques that can aid in recovery in a manner that is gentle and non-re-traumatizing.
Workshop: Creating Artificial Dreams: A Cinematographic Approach to Dreaming Terrasse J. F. Pagel The imagery-operative cascade is at least a partial descriptive paradigm of the cognitive process involved in the process of imagery – visual processing occurring without actual perceptual input. This is the reduction of imaginative “seeing” to a brain-based operative cascade. As Picasso stated, “it would be interesting to preserve photographically … the metamorphosis of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.”
Panel: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Dream Group Leaders Coubertin 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 stay informed of new techniques and tools to help maximize the dream group experience for all attendees. Our panelists will bring their widely varied experience to important issues. A Quick Call for Dynamic Dream Groups Gary Goodwin (Chair) How to get people to act on their dream insights using Clara Hill’s triple part model of dream work that emphasizes not only dream exploration and insights, but also uses the dream to change perspective and behaviors. Dreamwork with the Tightly-wound (and Others): On Working with Resistance Suzanne Carter Dreamwork is a fantastic path to your own inner wisdom. Along the way, however, there are many opportunities to forget, misplace, avoid, deflect, or block. This paper will highlight perspectives on resistance and tools for working with it (kindly! gently!) in the dreamwork setting.
IASD Dreamwork Ethics and Groups Carol Dianne Warner Carol will look at the IASD Dreamwork Ethics Statement, a great tool for dream group leaders. The Statement helps create a supportive, trusting, open space for real dream work to occur. Each portion of the Statement has been crafted to support both the dreamer and the dream worker. Carol, lead writer of the Statement, will present the history of the IASD ethics work and Ethics Committee. She will explain the goals and objectives for each part of the Ethics Statement, and how the Statement is important to all dream group leaders.
How to Work with Emotions and Defenses in Dream Groups Lesley Zaret A clinician's perspective looks at dream groups as they are led by helping professionals. Lesley will show how dream groups in therapeutic settings can be highly effective in leading clients to deeper explorations.
Panel: Dreaming About Major Life Issues: Pain, Relationships, Addictions & Breast Cancer Olympique CE Exploring Recovery from Addictions with Dreamwork T.L. DeCicco and H. Higgins Content analysis of dreams from people recovering from alcohol and drug addiction will be presented. Discovery via The Storytelling Method was content analyzed and discussed in terms of coping with addictions as a life long issue (T.L DeCicco, H. Higgins, D.B. King, 2008). An Exploration of the Storytelling Method of Dream Interpretation and the Dreams of Women with Breast Cancer
T.L. DeCicco and A. Smit The dreams of women with breast cancer were examined and content analyzed, as were the discovery passages via The Storytelling Method. The findings will be presented in terms of dreams and stage of breast cancer. Clinical implications will be discussed in terms of using dream discovery to cope with illness (T.L. DeCicco, A. Smit, E. Scharfe, L. Kerr, 2008).
Examining the Relationships Among Waking Day Physical Pain Assessment and Dream Imagery C. Moran An analysis of physical pain measures and the dreams of people suffering from pain will be presented. This work is a continuation of the findings that people suffering from pain dream about animals (DeCicco, 2007; King & DeCicco, 2007) and that people in pain also experience more apprehension/fear in their dreams (DeCicco, 2007). (C. Moran, T.L. DeCicco, D.B. King, 2008)
Exploring Intimate Relationships with Dreamwork G.S. Navara and, D.B. King An analysis of dreams centering upon intimate relationships will be presented. Using content analysis and an interpretive phenomenological approach, we discuss ways in which dreamers make meaning of their intimate relationships. (G. Navara, D.B. King, T.L. DeCicco, 2008)
Symposium: Dreams in Italian Poetry, Art and Movies Part Two Sherbrooke
Dreams in Fellini’s 8 ½ Richard Russo (Chair) Icelandic Dreamer on an Italian Pilgrimage
Björg Bjarnadòttir Studying dream writing in Icelandic literature old and new reveals interesting links to other European cultures. The rich Italian cultural heritage has a special status in this regard. Throughout the ages, Icelandic writers have sought inspiration and advanced their knowledge and skill by dwelling in Italy. There are lessons to be learned from this cultural exchange and dreams to dream. Dreams and surreal experiences from an Italian pilgrimage have opened gateways to deep insights and new creative efforts among Icelandic writers.
Dreams, Poetry and the Archetypal Imagery of the Divine Comedy Lisa Madelle Bottomley Mythical and fantastical imagery is the stuff that dreams are often associated with, much to our dismay. Describing deep internal experiences of insight, pain, longing, joy and growth requires metaphor and odd imagery to convey a complex message. Dante's journey in the Divine Comedy describes going down into a weird archetypal world of imagery akin to a dream. Dante's allegory evokes the same type of imagery and insight as that of profound dreams, and illustrates a dream-like landscape.
Aspects of Dreams in Italian Popular Movies Pietro Rizzi Two features characterize dreams in Italian popular comic or satirical movies. These dreams often represent the realization of a big wish––food, sex, money––as a sort of funny version of Freudian theory. In other movies, dreams are seen as bridges between the dreamer and his/her dead parents, who appear in order to prevent dangers, or to communicate how to win at lottery.
Fellini’s Semi-Divine Comedies Bernard Welt Almost all Federico Fellini's films may be considered "dream-like," but in 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti), and City of Women (La Città delle donne), Fellini uses the dream to explore his own vivid, modern theory of the muse and creative process.
Séminaire: Rêves: histoires de vie et de mort Viau
Rêves, tableaux, séries et histoires de vie
Lise Fradet Je suis une artiste en arts visuels et j’enseigne parallèlement à ma pratique. Dans mon approche artistique contemporaine, le sens émerge des profondeurs de l’être. Sur la toile, des fragments qui se rapportent à un vécu interne, renvoient aux rêves par la mise en valeur des sujets symbolisés.
Rêves en fin de vie pour faciliter la grande traversée Monique Séguin
L’importance d’être à l’écoute des rêves d’une personne en fin de vie, et de ceux de ses proches. À partir d’exemples, nous verrons la progression du rêve chez une personne mourante et la manière dont l’activité onirique devient un outil d’intervention et une façon de mieux communiquer pour faciliter la traversée de l’autre côté.
6:15-7:45 PM Dinner Dining Room & Il Giardino
Pre-reserved tickets will be required for the Dinner Buffet. Dinner on your own may be obtained in the hotel restaurant, a la carte, if there is space, or at local restaurants (See the restaurant suggestion sheet included in your conference package, or the conference website.)
7:45-9:00 PM Keynote Presentation: Tore Nielsen Sherbrooke CE Introduction: Tony Zadra Normal and Pathological Dreaming: Current Research from the Montreal Dream & Nightmare Laboratory Tore will speak about the latest research findings from his dream laboratory dealing with both normal and disturbed dreaming. Some of these studies include the effects of virtual reality exposure on dreaming, tests of an emotion-regulation function of dreaming, the epidemiology of bad dreams in preschoolers, the pathophysiology of nightmares in adults, and the Baby-in-Bed (BIB) nightmares of new mothers.
9:00-9:30 PM A Conference Favorite: Annual Dream Telepathy Contest Sherbrooke
Rita Dwyer and Robert Van de Castle Try your Psi! Test your dreaming mind’s ability to tune into a visual target that will be broadcast telepathically during the night by a designated “sender.” Loosely patterned on the cutting-edge experiments in dream telepathy done at Maimonides Dream Laboratory in Brooklyn, NY, by Drs. Stanley Krippner and Montague Ullman, the annual IASD contest is a playful but surprisingly successful way to test your telepathic skills. Instructions will be given making it easy to join in the fun. Winners of the Dream Expert Auction will be announced!
9:00-11:00 PM Volunteers’ Reception Lobby Bar
In appreciation of your work for the conference, all volunteers are invited to a reception in the Lobby Bar. Thursday – July 10 th
7:30-9:00 AM Breakfast Dining Room & Il Giardino
Breakfast is provided only for IASD Conference participants staying at the Hôtel Auberge Universel.
8:00-9:00 AM Morning Dream Groups
See schedule for Wednesday, 9 July, 8:00-9:00 AM for information and rooms.
9:00-9:15 AM Coffee Break Mezzanine & Lower Level
9:00 AM-4:30 PM Dream Art Exhibit Hochelaga
9:15-10:45 AM Morning Sessions
Presentation: The Roots of Healing Dreamwork in Welsh Mythology Salle 1&2
Elizabeth Jeffries and Nicholas E. Brink
The Third Branch of the Welsh myth cycle, The Mabinogion, as a dream of our ancestors, addresses the struggle with humiliation, vengeance, integrity and respect. This workshop is a continuation of last two years of workshops that dealt with the First and Second Branches.
Workshop: Yoga Nidra: Yoga Sleep and Hypnagogic Visions (25 person maximum) Promenade
Christine Swint
Yoga Nidra is a systematic naming of 52 body parts, followed with creative visualization. After a brief series of gentle stretches and breathwork, participants will lie or sit comfortably for the relaxation meditation, which can lead to hypnagogic visions. After the meditation, participants will have time to write down and share any visions. Wear loose, comfortable clothing, and if possible, bring a blanket or a pillow and your dream journal for recording any dreams or visions you may have.
Workshop: Meditative Dream Re-entry: Discovering and Experiencing Emotional Shifts Terrasse CE Teresa L. DeCicco and David King
This workshop will teach the technique of Meditative Dream Re-Entry (MDR) (DeCicco, 2008). Attendees will be given the MDR package, including materials and a CD. The method will be taught in detail then participants will use the materials and be guided through interpreting one of their own dreams.
Symposium: Dream Imagery and the Arts Coubertin
Dali’s Dream of Venus at the 1939 World’s Fair
Deirdre Barrett (Chair)
Salvador Dali designed a Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair based on dreams. It housed a sleeping Venus and voices recounting dreams that were acted out in a giant aquarium filled with naked mermaids and surreal props. This talk will show photos of the exhibit and discuss Dali’s depiction of the world of dreams.
Jung, Reich, Moore and Bertelsen: Symbolism, Body Armour, Chakras & Transformation
Ann Bengtsson
By using Jung's model of the personality and archetypes, Reich's body armour model, and the chakra system described by Bertelsen, along with specific symbols, we can easily make a dream key. This helps us unlock the dreams, looking for transformation and other messages in the dream.
The Emptiness of Dreaming: Transcendental Fantasy in the Cinematic Nightmare
Bernard Welt
The use of the dream plot or dream sequence in the paradoxical manner of a Zen koan, to subvert the prevailing assumptions of cinematic realism, induces an experience that transcends rational understanding while also arousing intense anxiety, as exemplified in several films cite |
