JFKU in the Bay Area, California
Department of Consciousness Studies
Certificate in Dream Studies

The Dream Studies Certificate Program at John F. University is a pioneering graduate program within an accredited university that explores a holistic approach to understanding and working with dreams. The program examines the importance of dreams in science, psychology, mythology, shamanism and art and offers three concentrations: Education, Consulting and Art. This integral approach allows for a wider perspective in studying dreams.

For more information, please contact

Marilyn Fowler
Director, Dream Studies Program
John F. Kennedy University
925-969-3513
mfowler@jfku.edu

www.saybrook.edu 

474 Front Steer, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94133
(415) 433-9200

MA and PhD courses in Dream Studies and Certificate in Dream Studies ( http://www.saybrook.edu/academics/certificates.asp?strContent=Dream%20Studies )

Saybrook Graduate School offers graduate online course work in Dream Studies, as well as an online and residential Dream Studies Certificate Program. The Dream Studies certificate is designed to help students gain an understanding of the important research about dreams and to implement that knowledge in order to accomplish personal and professional goals. Our teaching approach encourages the student to explore personal interests and learn through experience as well as to come to an appreciation of research in the field. This certificate will give students an understanding of dream research, practice and personal meaning.

Executive Faculty:

Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D. Jachterberg@saybrook.edu 

Arne Collen, Ph.D. acollen@saybrook.edu

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. skrippner@saybrook.edu 

Donald Rothberg, Ph.D. drothberg@saybrook.edu 

Contact Information: Dream Studies Certificate Program Director: Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D. at jayneg@athabascau.ca and 800 825 4480. Admissions Information contact is admissions@saybrook.edu 

DreamsWork™ Certification
with Justina Lasley, M.A.

Institute for Dream Studies
233 South Plaza Court
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
USA
www.DreamsWork.us
justina@DreamsWork.us
843-884-5139

The Institute for Dream Studies

The Institute for Dream Studies offers a certification course for work with dreams in private and clinical settings. It is designed for therapists, counselors, spiritual directors, ministers, health care workers, teachers, as well as persons seeking spiritual insight.

The certification program is a two year long program consisting of four weekend sessions in Charleston, South Carolina, and at-home studies throughout the first year. Attendance at the International Association for the Study of Dreams annual conference is required in order to broaden the participants’ exposure to various experts and areas of dreamwork.

At-home study involves reading, writing, attending dreamwork sessions with an approved dream therapist, and developing dream groups under supervision. There will be regular on-line sharing with other members of the program.

Participants will explore the process of organizing and leading dreamwork by honoring the dream in a spiritual manner. Details of individual and group work will be discussed and participants will learn creative methods of dreamwork. The aspects of energy and emotions will be examined in depth, as well as the process personal growth and individuation.

A provisional certificate will be issued to each participant who successfully completes the first year of the program. Each dream worker will be required to complete an internship the following year by leading a dream group(s) and/or working with individual clients. On-line group sharing will continue with other participants. Each dream worker will be encouraged to continue studies through reading, attending regional workshops and/or the IASD conference. There will be one or two (to be determined) required attendance programs in Charleston for further learning during the second year.

With the successful completion of the internship year, the participant will be awarded an official DreamsWork ™certification, which will allow use of DreamsWork ™materials and the authorization to practice under the umbrella of DreamsWork ™.

We will accept only ten participants for the 2007 program. Placement will be made as applications are received and approved. You may apply on line at www.DreamsWork.us , e-mail justina@DreamsWork.us , or call 843-884-5139
Applications must be received by Friday, September, 29, 2006 for consideration in the program.

About the Director

Justina Lasley, M.A., founder and director of the Institute for Dream Studies, is also an author and leading dream specialist. She shares with clients her enthusiasm, keen insight, and talent for relating to others, facilitating rapid movement toward a more authentic, fulfilling life. She is internationally recognized as a lecturer, a trainer for dream workers, a leader of individual and group dreamwork, and a facilitator of workshops.
Justina's studies and her experiences in creative arts add depth and imagination to the exploration of dream imagery and metaphor. Her years of experience as a teacher enhance her capabilities as an educator and enable her to assist individuals on their path to personal and spiritual growth. Justina earned her Master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology with an emphasis in dreams, and has a B.A. in both Applied Art and Education.
After many years organizing and conducting dream groups in Atlanta, Georgia, Justina is now based in Charleston, South Carolina.

Sonoma State University

Department of Psychology

Depth Psychology Master’s Program

www.sonoma.edu/psychology/depth

   The Psychology Department at Sonoma State University offers a 36-unit, 2-year M. A. program in Depth Psychology.  The program offers an integrated, intensive curriculum in the study of depth, Jungian, and archetypal psychology, which includes the study and practice of dreamwork.  Small 10-15 person classes emphasize both conceptual and experiential learning, and offer the opportunity for intensive community support.  The program models embodied learning and is cross-culturally sensitive.

 The Depth program develops practical skills in depth inquiry, which is the ability to access, explore, and gain meaning from hidden aspects of inner experience.  Dreamwork, active imagination, symbolic work, art process, body work, mask work, sandplay, and work with myth, movement, ritual, and sound, are all techniques of depth inquiry. 

 The first year curriculum includes year-long courses in Theories of Depth Psychology; Methods and Applications of Depth Psychology; and Cross-Cultural Mythology and Symbolism.  These provide the foundation for the second-year passion-of-inquiry process that culminates in the Master’s thesis work.  Students choose 8 units of seminars in their second year, on topics of their choosing.  Past seminars have included Advanced Dreamwork; Authentic Movement; Art and Psychology; Art and Image; Teaching as Transformation; Shamanism; Alchemy; and Writing as Spiritual Practice.

 Students may do a teaching internship in their second year, which involves developing a curriculum around their area of expertise in depth psychology, and teaching an undergraduate course in the Psychology Department at Sonoma State.  Past courses have included Jung and Synchronicity; Psychology of Myth and Narrative; Jung and Tarot; Psychology of Fairy Tales; and Psychology of Masculine and Feminine. 

 SSU Depth M.A. Faculty with Dream Interests

Marsha Connell, M. A., is a multi-media artist and teacher whose working methods bridge traditional studio practice and expressive arts. An adjunct instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College, she has also won several California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence grants and is a Fellow of the California Arts Project. She is currently working on a book bringing together her Dream Vessels collages and poetry, some of which are published in the Spring 2004 Moving Journal. Her collages and plein air landscape paintings responding to spirit of place have been exhibited in many regional and international venues and publications and are in over 300 public and private collections.  Web site:  www.varoregistry.com/connell

Mary Gomes, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at SSU. She is the coeditor of Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind, as well as a coeditor of the journal ReVision. Her interests center around ecopsychology, ritual, shamanism, dreams, and cross-cultural earth-based practices.  Web site: http://www.sonoma.edu/Psychology/faculty/marygomes

Myrtle Heery, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychologist who utilizes humanistic and existential approaches in her work as a therapist, supervisor, and author. She is the Director of the International Institute for Humanistic Studies, and maintains an active teaching exchange program with therapists in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She teaches internationally on in-depth inquiry for therapists, and on group process. She has published numerous articles on inner voice experiences and on topics in humanistic and existential psychology.

Jurgen W. Kremer, Ph.D., Diplompsychologe, is an Executive Editor of ReVision, and author of Towards a person-centered resolution of intercultural conflicts. He is former Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Saybrook Institute; Academic Dean, Integral Studies Program, East-West Psychology Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS); and Co-Director of the PhD program for Traditional Knowledge, CIIS. He has edited ReVision special issues on Peace and Identity; Paradigmatic Challenges; Culture and Ways of Knowing; Indigenous Science; Trance and Healing; and Transformative Learning.  Web site: http://www.sonic.net/~riva/

Laurel McCabe, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at SSU, and Coordinator of the Depth Psychology Master’s Program. Her interests include psychological initiation, depth feminine and masculine, alchemy and transformation, dreams, and spirituality in modern life. She emphasizes body-based techniques in working with dreams.  She has expertise in women’s development and psychological growth in adulthood.  Web site: www.sonoma.edu/users/m/mccabel

Maureen Murdock, M.A., M.F.T., is an author and psychotherapist. She has been core faculty in the M.A. Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. She is the author of Unreliable truth; The heroine's journey: Women's quest for wholeness; The hero's daughter; Father's daughters: Transforming the father-daughter relationship; as well as other books. She has published numerous articles on myth, women's development, and memoir.  Web site: http://www.photowords.com/murdock

Susan Stewart, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a Professor of Psychology at SSU and a psychotherapist. Her interests center around creativity, creative expression, and the soul.

Jeremy Taylor, D.Min., is an innovator and international teacher of group process in dream work, and the author of three books on dreams, including The living labyrinth; Where people fly and water runs uphill; and Dream work. He blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He is a Unitarian-Universalist minister and is the director of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, as well as co-founder and past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams.  Web site: www.jeremytaylor.com

Bryan Wittine, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco and Mill Valley and a member of the teaching faculty at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is a co-founder and former chair of the Graduate Program in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, and former Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Holistic Studies, at John F. Kennedy University. He has practiced meditation for over 30 years and has been trained in esoteric, Buddhist, and Sufi traditions. He lectures internationally and has published several papers on the integration of mysticism, narcissism, and depth psychology.

SSU Psychology Department Faculty with Dream Interests

Glenn Brassington, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Psychology.  Sleep and dream research; body-mind psychology.  Web site: www.sonoma.edu/users/b/brassing

Lorna Catford, Ph.D., Lecturer, Psychology.  Humanistic and transpersonal psychology; myth, dream, and symbol; creativity.

Charles Merrill, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology.  Myth, dream, and symbol.  Web site: www.sonoma.edu/users/m/Merrill

Geri Olson, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, Psychology. Myth, dream, and symbol; creativity; the psychology of the doll.

Additional Program Characteristics

The Depth Program offers a monthly Visiting Scholars lecture series, which brings noted authors and thinkers in the field to the program.

The James Jarrett Award is a monetary award presented annually to two students who have presented their original work at professional conferences. 

Five courses in Psychology are prerequisites for the Depth M.A. program:

            Child Development

            Adult Development

            Personality

            Abnormal Psychology

            Research Methods

At least a semester-long experience in symbolic process is also a required prerequisite.  This involves using a symbolic mode such as dreamwork, art, myth, or sandplay, to explore and reflect on aspects of one’s personal development.

Sonoma State is an hour’s north of San Francisco, CA. 

Cost and Financial Aid

The program cost for the 2005-6 academic year is $450/unit for a 36-unit program, at 9 units/semester.  Financial aid and scholarships are available through the University; a few small awards are also available through the Psychology Department for second year students.  Sonoma State is WASC- accredited.

Contact Information

Karen Fischer, Graduate Admissions Coordinator

Phone 707 664 2682, email psychma@sonoma.edu

Laurel McCabe, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology; Coordinator, Depth M.A.

Phone 707 664 2130, email laurel.mccabe@sonoma.edu

Program Web Site:  www.sonoma.edu/psychology/depth

Mailing Address:

Depth Psychology M.A. Program

Department of Psychology

Sonoma State University

1801 E. Cotati Ave.

Rohnert Park, CA 94952