Renew/Become a Member Volume 8, No. 6 | |
AUGUST 2010 |
In This Issue: |
Contact: CALL FOR DREAM ARTWORK FOR THE 9TH ANNUAL PSIBERDREAMING ART GALLERY
We wish to invite all dreamers who would like to share their dream-inspired
artwork to participate in the 9th Annual PsiberDreaming Art gallery. This is an
international open call for painters, photographers, conceptual digital
graphics, fiber artists, dream doodlers, etc. We are especially interested to
see dream based artwork that falls into this year’s PsiberDreaming conference
theme: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” Keep in mind that this is not
a brick and mortar gallery. There’s no need to frame, wire, bang a nail into a
wall. This virtual online gallery will be open to PsiberDreaming online
conference participants. Our needs are simple: jpeg images (as separate files)
of your Dream-based artwork and a text narrative of the dream itself. THANKS FROM ASHEVILLE CONFERENCE HOST ROBERT GONGLOFF
Speaking for the whole conference committee, I am so pleased to
report that many positive comments have come in regarding the Asheville
conference. People loved the venue, the high quality of presentations, and
Asheville itself.
Gratitude for a successful conference cannot go to just one or two
people, because it was a community effort, energized and supported by the entire
IASD membership. Thanks to the Conference Committee, the volunteers, the
friendly, helpful staff of the Crowne Plaza Resort, and all the presenters and
attendees who brought the years of planning to life.
For the past year, I sought to publicize North Carolina and
Asheville with a series of trivia notes. But there is one more I need to add as
a transition to 2011 and our excitement about the 28th annual
conference to be held at Rolduc, The Netherlands.
Many people took the opportunity to visit the Biltmore Mansion
while they were here in Asheville. But did you know the origin of the name
“Biltmore?” Its creator, George Vanderbilt, had a dream of replicating the
estates of Old Europe. The name Biltmore is derived from “Bildt,” the Dutch town
home to Vanderbilt ancestors, and “moore,” an old English word for rolling,
mountainous country.
I hope you will join me at Rolduc next year as we continue our
Dutch connection and once again join together in our waking life dream
community. I’m sure you will offer the 2011 conference team the same support you
gave the Asheville team.
Thanks again, Robert Gongloff
After due deliberation the Student Awards Committee agreed to award $500 Student
Award Prizes to the following individuals: |
In This Issue: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR IASD'S 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INCEPTION DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR ROKO BELIC TO KEYNOTE PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING NEW IASD BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS FROM IASD'S NEW PRESIDENT JODY GRUNDY MEMBERSHIP NEWS, WITH SPOTLIGHT ON THE UK Also in This Issue: CALL FOR DREAM ART FOR PSIBERDREAMING 2010 ALSO IN THE NEWS |
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR IASD'S 28TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | |
IASD's 28th International Conference will be held at the very
beautiful 14th century
Rolduc Abbey
conference facility in Kerkrade in the southern part of the
Netherlands. The site is close to several international airports, including
those in Germany and Belgium, providing ease of international travel and
sightseeing for those who wish to enjoy touring before and after the conference.
You can take a visual tour of Rolduc by visiting the IASD website and click on
the button for
“Dreams &
Cultural Diversity, Rolduc Conference Center, Kerkrade, Netherlands.”
We warmly invite you to attend. Mark your calendars now for next
year’s very special conference.
We have received a number of inquiries from our attendees about
some confusing notices regarding a dream conference in Amsterdam. We
wish to clarify that the official 2011 IASD conference
is not being
held in Amsterdam, but at the Rolduc Abbey conference site
mentioned above.
Call for Presentations
High quality proposals are invited, particularly those that explore the
conference theme, Dreams
and Cultural Diversity. We request that submissions fall into one of
the following tracks: Research & Theoretical; Arts & Humanities; Cultural
& Anthropological; Education; Religious, Spiritual & Philosophical; Clinical;
Dreamwork Practice; Extraordinary, PSI and Lucid Dreams and the Conference Theme
Track. While the conference is in the Netherlands there are two special
themes, within the conference theme track: One of them specifically Dutch and
the other specifically European, including a special session dedicated to the
Dutch author and dreamthinker Frederik van Eeden as well as special attention to
the impact of his vision on dreams to the philosophical tradition of Europe.
Our
online submissions form will be available within the next few weeks.
All Submissions Must be Made Online at
www.asdreams.org/2011
Submission Categories
include the following:
It began when Deirdre Barrett, editor of IASD's scholarly journal
Dreaming,
mentioned on the IASD Board Operations listserv that she would be seeing a
pre-premiere screening of the new Leonardo diCaprio film
Inception,
and offered to write a review of the dream aspects of the new film for IASD.
"Why don't we create a page on the website about the film?"
someone asked. "If this is going to be a big hit, and it's about dreams,
people will have questions."
And that was all it took to set in motion what may have been the
best early-warning system ever. By the time the movie opened in the
theaters on June 16, IASD was prepared with a page of online information at
www.asdreams.org/inception and a
mailing to members, asking them to join the buzz.
A good thing, because once the movie premiered, visits to the IASD
web site literally doubled overnight. The number of visitors to the site
has remained high, as the media picked up the popularity of one of the highest
grossing US films of the summer.
In the first week of the film's blockbuster popularity, stories
appeared in the
New York
Times Magazine;
Brides
Magazine; and
USA Today,
featuring interviews with the Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Patricia Garfield, and Marcia
Emery respectively.
CNN News contacted the IASD
office, wanting to interview a dream expert the next morning in their New York
studios. And Deirdre Barrett found herself on a very early flight from
Boston to New York. Video links to Deirdre's interview with CNN as well as
her appearance on NBC's
Today Show
can be found on the IASD
Inception
page.
Of course, the buzz did not stop there. IASD would like to
thank all of the many members who answered questions for the press: Dr. Robert
Van de Castle, Dale Graff, Robert Waggoner, Sheila Asato, among others; and the
many members who have blogged about the event: like Victoria Rabinowe, Ryan Hurd,
and Linda Mastrangelo in her blog for the
San Francisco Examiner.
Bobbie Anne Pimm, Robert Moss and others have used their FaceBook pages and
personal web sites to create reviews of the film and educational areas for
people to learn more about dreams, in what has become a most remarkable public
arena for dream discussion.
Thanks go also to Jayne Gackenback, who pointed out that the IASD
Inception
page left out a major part of the story: that a documentary film had
been made which will be released with the DVD of the film, and that she and
others like Bill Domhoff and Dierdre Barrett had been interviewed for that film.
In the process she invited that film's director, Roko Belic, to be the Keynote
Presenter at IASD's upcoming PsiberDreaming Conference.
Thanks goes to all of you who have made use of this excellent
opportunity to discuss and promote the understanding of dreams. Keep up
the good work! A list of links to articles and interviews with IASD
members during the
Inception
buzz follows. This list is, understandably, a work in progress, but gives
a picture of the scope of current events. For a list of links to Inception articles and video, click here. |
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INCEPTION DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR ROKO BELIC TO KEYNOTE PSIBERDREAMING CONFERENCE |
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IASD is honored to announce that the
Keynote Presenter for this
year's PsiberDreaming Conference "We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On" will be
the director of the documentary film created for the release of the
Inception
DVD, Roko Belic, whose presentation bears the working title:
"DREAMWORLD: Exploring the Movies of the Mind."
Belic has been making films since childhood. In 1996 he founded a
production company, Wadi Rum, with his brother Adrian. His professional
directorial debut
Genghis Blues,
a feature documentary, won over 40 international awards including the Sundance
Audience Award and an Academy Award®
nomination. Belic has worked in numerous capacities during his career ranging
from director of photography, editor, writer, producer and director. He recently
directed a documentary about dreams to be released in conjunction with the
Hollywood feature film
Inception.
Belic is now finishing a feature documentary called Happy
that explores the secrets of happiness.
The Ninth Annual PsiberDreaming Conference will be held online for
two weeks between Sunday, September 26 and Sunday, October 10.
Traditionally registration fees for the PsiberDreaming Conference have been kept
low in order to accommodate the many people around the world who are interested
in dreams but unable to attend IASD's non-virtual conferences. As in the
past, this year's conference will be offered FREE to all first-time IASD
members. So tell your friends this is a great time to join IASD.
The popularity of the PsiberDreaming Conference, which grows every
year, demonstrates itself in the ever-increasing quality of conference
presentations and workshops. This year, in line with not only the psi
aspects of dreams but the value of film as a medium for dream discussion,
several conference presentations will be accompanied by film. Some of
these films will be available on the IASD YouTube channel prior to the
conference. Watch the PDC web page at
www.asdreams.org/psi2010 for
updates on this and other program notes.
Another innovation for the 2010 PsiberDreaming Conference is the
introduction of a scholarship competition for ten conference scholarships on the
dream forum Lucid Dreaming for All
www.ld4all.com Lucid Dreaming 4all is hosted by the creator of the PsiberDreaming forum and its beautiful graphics, pasQuale Ourtane, who has been nurturing the next generation of dream "experts" (over 17,000 lucid dreamers mainly aged between fourteen and twenty-five) for the past fourteen years; and these are young people who take lucid dreaming as a matter of fact. If you have not yet looked at Pasquale's two-part YouTube video response to Inception you will want to do that. Links are: Part 1: Learn to Control Your Dreams and Part 2: Why Wake Up When You Can Have Fun? Early Bird Registration for PsiberDreaming 2010 ends on August 15. Register now for discounts on all conference prices at www.asdreams.org/psi2010 And remember to tell your friends that this conference is FREE to all first-time IASD members. |
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Craig Webb
Dreams: Lighting Your Path to Wisdom
Committee of Sleep Reprinted in Paperback Marcia Emery in USA Today
In conjunction with the release of the film Inception, Marcia Emery was
invited to interpret a select number of dreams sent in to the Editor of USA
Today. The link to the article can be found by
clicking here. JUNE MEMBERSHIPS:
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The names of the five new Board members were announced during the
Membership Meeting at the IASD 2010 Asheville Conference. Please welcome to the
IASD Board: Scott Sparrow, Ryan Hurd,
Barbara Roukema-Koning, Susan Benson, and Katja Valli.
Also, Kate Adams was
appointed by the Board to fill the remainder of Deborah Hickey’s term on the
Board.
New Board members are elected to serve a three-year term. Our
thanks to all those IASD members who agreed to be nominated for this important
position, and thanks to these outgoing Board members for their service:
Layne Dalfen, Tom Lane, Kate Adams, Katja
Valli, Don Kuiken and Deborah Hickey (resigned).
IASD officers for the coming year have been approved by the Board,
as follows:
Board Chair,
Robert Waggoner; President, Jody Grundy; Vice President, Robert Gongloff;
Treasurer, Bob Hoss and Secretary, Kate Adams.
Special thanks and recognition were given to retiring Board Chair
Jean Campbell who has given many
years of service in the roles of IASD President and Chair of the Board. Jean
will continue to chair several IASD committees,
IASD Members are reminded that to vote electronically, they must
print and mail, to the IASD office, a signed E-Consent voting form (as required
by CA regulations and IASD Bylaws). You can find that E-Consent voting form and
instructions at
http://tinyurl.com/crrlbj The
E-Consent form only needs to be sent in one time for you to vote electronically
in upcoming elections.
IASD PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, JUNE 2010
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MEMBERSHIP NEWS JULY 2010
Dreaming in London By Kate Adams
On Saturday July 10th, 2010, the UK Dreams
Forum held its annual one-day meeting in London. The city has long been an ideal
place for our meetings, but the cost of venues has been prohibitive. However,
our dreams came true when IASD member Nigel Hamilton, a registered
psychotherapist, kindly offered his premises at the Centre for Counselling and
Psychotherapy free of charge. Barbara Herbin and Heather Peace undertook
extensive organizational activities to provide a superb day which attracted the
highest number of participants to date at our one-day events.
Forty people attended a morning of talks.
Nigel’s presentation entitled Working Therapeutically with Dreams: Lucid Dreams,
Symmetry in Dreams and Healing was a fascinating case study of one of his
client’s experiences. Accompanied by the client’s drawings, we heard and saw how
his dream imagery changed through the course of the therapy and we also
considered Nigel’s analysis of the symmetry in them.
Barbara followed with an introductory talk
to her oversubscribed Dream Art Workshop, showing us some of her own artwork to
illustrate the process. After a sumptuous lunch of sandwiches, fresh fruit, and
obligatory cream cakes—along with stimulating conversation--we broke into
smaller groups with facilitators to share dreams. Then working individually,
people engaged in their artistic explorations of their dreams before sharing
them afterwards with their small groups.
As always, the formal proceedings concluded
with a brief meeting, sharing news of upcoming dream-related events and
requesting volunteers to host the next UK gathering in 2011. Afterwards, a small
group who were able to stay on enjoyed a dinner by the canal.
Please feel free to contact Scott Sparrow or Jeff VoVillia, at any
time with membership questions or concerns. We always welcome new volunteers.
You are the future leaders of IASD and we want your energy, help and visions.
Scott Sparrow, Membership Chair:
kingfisher@lagunamadre.net
Jeff VoVillia, Membership Assistant:
jallenvov@yahoo.com
Find members in your neck of the woods, with our automatically
updating online Member Map. The link is:
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/world/.
Some countries have not been included yet, but we're working on that!
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
CHANGES
Kirsten Borum has become a Regional Representative for Denmark. Nancy Grace has become the Regional Representative for Boston and north to the New Hampshire line.
UPDATED WEB PAGES
Please check the IASD website for up-to-date names and contact
information for the Regional Representative in your area. The Regional
Representative webpage is divided into regions, making your search more
user-friendly.
If you do not have a Regional Rep for your area, consider becoming
that Rep yourself! You may be the "dream connector" that you and we have been
waiting for. To become a Regional Rep, contact Scott Sparrow, Membership Chair: kingfisher@lagunamadre.net
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