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2021 International IASD Virtual Conference Program 2021 International IASD Virtual Conference Program Sunday 13 June through Thursday 17 June 2021 Note: check periodically as minor changes may be made without notice Sun Zoom Type Title of Session Presenters Summary 6/13 Room 8:00-9:00 MR TBD Staff Orientation Session Track Managers and Volunteers to attend 9:20 attendees should begin entering the waiting room for the Opening Keynote 9:30-10:00 Welcome and Announcements (Angel Morgan & Bob Hoss) 9:20- Keynote MR#6 10:00–11:30 Keynote: Fanny Brewster 11:30 w/live Q&A Dreams: Letting My Heart Be Broken (Angel Morgan introduction) 11:30–12:00 30 min Break SUNDAY OPENING SESSIONS Although people are often quick to describe their dreams, most are reticent about their bad dreams and nightmares. Bad Dreams and Why do we have bad dreams and nightmares, what effect do Invited Nightmares: Michael they have, and what can be done about them? This MR#1 Research Causes, Nadorff presentation will address these questions through blending Presentation Correlates, and both old and new literature, as well as presenting some Interventions original data, to gain a better understanding of what makes these dreams different. Light in lucid dreams will be viewed broadly. We discuss the Sunday Lucid Dreaming: use of the Waking Dream Technique when working with a 12:00-1:30 Therapy as a Robert Lucidity client’s lucid dreams. This can ultimately lead from the MR#2 Catalyst to Waggoner & Symposium dissolution of the subject/object split in the client’s psyche to Experience Clear Nigel Hamilton their seeing the illusory nature of their mental projections and Mind, Inner light experiencing a spiritual awakening. Working as a dream-arts group in the time of the COVID-19 Lana Nasser, pandemic is a challenge that the Dream Mapping Project will Dreams & Arts Into the Dream Alisa overcome by turning our performance-based work into a MR#3 Symposium Navel Minyukova, spoken word soundscape meditation for conference Kelly Bulkeley attendees to experience virtually. Discussion with DMP artists will follow this dream-inspired sound art journey. Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based meditation. Body, breath, and Dream/ Yoga Nidra: awareness techniques merge to support states of expanded Meditation An Effortless Kimberly R. awareness and relaxation. Here, in between sleeping and MR#4 Workhshop Sleep -based Mascaro waking, we can restore balance and feel rejuvenated. Come (14 limit) Meditation experience the art and practice of this non-doing state of being. No previous experience necessary. 1:30 –2:00 30 min Break OPENING RECEPTIONS Research reception is a casual gathering of researchers and research committee members of IASD. It is open to all researchers Katja Valli & Research Researcher and anyone interested in empirical, methodological, theoretical and MR#1 Michelle Carr Reception Gathering conceptual aspects of dream research. Join us in this informal (co-hosts) networking event to catch up with colleagues and to make new connections. Come one, come all! Join us in the Opening Reception to touch 1:45 Music on General Angel base and connect in the IASD Community. What do you love about Entry (C. Webb) MR#2s Opening Morgan IASD? Miss about IASD? Want for IASD? Together we will share Reception Open Sunday Reception (host) many blessings for IASD, celebrating the close of the first day of to All 2:00-3:30 IASD’s Virtual Conference. Jeanne Van Bronkhorst will be hosting this reception room for Regional Regional Jeanne Van current or interested Regional Representatives. This will be a time MR#3s Rep Representative Bronkhorst to meet other Reps, trade stories and ideas, reconnect with Reception Gathering (host) friends, or find out more about what a Regional Rep can do in the IASD. We are excited to greet the first timers experiencing their first IASD Gathering of Geoff Nelson conference. Come and find out how to get the most out of your First Timer those New to and Marcia MR#4s conference experience. Also, find the answers to any lingering Reception IASD Emery (co- questions you might have. We would love to hear what attracted Conferences hosts) you to dream work as well as how you are using your dreams. Mon Zoom Title of Type Presenters Summary 6/14 Room Session Morning We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in Developing the Dream Curtiss group dreamwork, following the Ullman technique as modified by MDG1 Intuition in Group Group 1 Hoffman Taylor along with Jungian amplification methods. Dreamwork (24 limit) Morning Methods of interpretation will be the Group Projective method, Dream Group Projective Helen Dream Interview, Gestalt, Dream Theater, the Bob Hoss color MDG 2 Monday Group 2 Method Landerman questionnaire, and art materials to draw or paint the dream. 8:00-9:00 (24 limit) Why try to be lucid? Many dreams obviously involve higher Morning dimensions and beckon us towards enlightenment. Co-creative Spirituality and Dream theory tells us that dreams want to suggest better waking-life MDG 3 Lucidity Dream David Low Group 3 choices by pointing out existing, dysfunctional patterns in our lives. Group (24 limit) Taylor/Ullman and Sparrow 5-Star methodologies will help us discern these messages and shift in more positive directions. Dreams speak a global language that transcends ethnic differences, traditions and geographical borders. Share dreams Morning The Universal from a variety of perspectives that invite creative conversations Dream Victoria MDG 4 Language of from the communal richness of participants’ diverse backgrounds. Group 4 Rabinowe Dreams Dream Mentor Victoria Rabinowe will create a model for an (24 limit) international dream community in atmosphere of respectful curiosity. A space for Spanish-speaking dreamers who may feel more Morning comfortable exploring their dreams in this language. In these Dream Dream Integration Jordi Borràs- meetings we'll have the opportunity to explore your dreams with MDG 5 Group 5 (en Español) García different creative techniques and also to share them, taking into (12 limit) account the projections of other dreamers. Addressed to all kinds of participants. Morning With this approach, the dreamer is stimulated by open-ended Dream Listening to the Michael questions to reflect on the dream experience and its relationships MDG 6 Monday Group 6 Dreamer Schredl to waking life. Suggestions, interpretations, etc. from group 8:00-9:00 (16 limit) members are discouraged. First-timers This morning workshop for first-timers at the IASD conference Morning Morning Dream Loren provides participants with a home base to share and reflect upon Dream MDG 7 Group: Welcome Goodman & new knowledge and insights gained during the conference, and Group 7 to the World of Bernard Welt introduces time-tested practices for recalling and recording (18 limit) Your Dreams dreams; exploring them in your dream journal and with others. The Waking Dream Process is a way of revisiting, exploring and Morning expanding the experience of a dream for therapeutic benefit. Dream The Waking MDG 8 Dave Billington Each morning a member's dream will be presented, briefly Group 8 Dream Process discussed in the group, and then explored using the Waking (10 limit) Dream Technique, facilitated by Dave Billington. Experiential We will explore the proposition that dreams are part of the natural Morning Dreamwork: emotional immune system and don’t need to be interpreted. We Dream MDG 9 Enhancing the Katherine Bell will explore and deepen our trust in our dream feelings by slowing Group 9 Emotional down the images, using breath and sometimes using embodiment (24 limit) Immune System or role play. Indigenous Dreamwork is a holistic, collective, participatory Dream Apela process through which participants explore narratives emerging To be held Group 10 Indigenous Colorado, Beth from shared dreams. Keeping with principles of Indigenous Mind, 1-2pm DG 10 (20 limit) Dreamwork Duncan & we deeply listen (no analyzing), scribe and glyph dream imagery, Each Day In afternoon Ryan Hurd and then explore the collective themes and ancestral messages, 1-2 pm particularly important during these times. 9:00 – 9:30 30 min Break 9:20 Attendees can enter waiting room Monday Keynote 9:30 – 11:30 Keynote: Eduardo Duran MR#6 9:20-11:30 w/live Q&A Dream Entity Bringing Form from the Blackworld to the Plantworld (introduction by Angel Morgan) 11:30-12:00 30 min Break Each presenter will look at healing in lucidity from a psycho- Melinda Powell spiritual perspective. Powell will discuss the healing of Lucidity Psycho-spiritual (Chair), memory in relation to the lucid void. Greig will describe the MR#1 Symposium Healing in Lucidity Diane Greig & healing properties of light in relation to the cultural Shadow. Nigel Hamilton Hamilton will describe the influence of lucid dreaming on therapeutic outcomes. The Roots of all family systems stem from our primordial African past. These developed over time into extended familial Extended Family Edward Bruce networks, with the loom of dreams being one of the threads of Networks and Bynum this interconnectedness. This system has 5 levels, including Dreams our remote ancestors and our future progeny in an active way. African spiritual practices are coded and modified throughout Bruce Bynum Ancestral Healing varied processes and may be utilized as a holistic approach to Monday Ethnicity & Orisade MR#2 and Dreams redirect the thought process and and motivate physical, 12:00-1:30 Symposium Awodola mental and spiritual healing through Ancestral Healing. Deepening the Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous methodologies are two Research & frameworks that can provide the appropriate containers to Scholarship of assist with the development and expansion of research on Alaya A. Ancestral ancestral dreaming and ways it can be used to enhance the Dannu Dreaming, Cultural scholarship process. Memory, & Cultural Continuity Haiku – short, structured poems of Japanese origin – can Dream Haiku – mine rich seams in dreams, offering clarity and focus.
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