2020 IASD Conference Program (As of 3/10) Type Title Pres List Summary Day #1 - Saturday 13 June 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm Registration and Bookstore [Lobby] 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm Presenter AV Checkout [South Ballroom] 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm Board Meeting (dinner served 5pm) [Exec Boardroom] 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Buffet Dinner (w/prepaid tickets) [NE Forum] 6:00 pm to 8:45 pm Welcome and Keynote Presentation 6:30 Entry Music – Webb; 6:45 – 7:15 Welcome; 7:15 – 8:45 Keynote Opening , Our Source Robert Hoss Dreaming appears to provide an emotional problem-solving capability, a natural source of Keynote of Resilience in Times resilience, helping us to better adapt to the adversities and uncertainties in life. The CE of Stress and Trauma supporting theory, research and a host of vignettes will be discussed, from dreams [South Ball] that deal with life’s impacts and transitions, to post-traumatic . 8:45 to 11:00 pm Opening Reception [North and Central Ballroom]

Day #2 - Sunday 14 June 8:00 am to 9:00 am Morning Dream Groups MDG DREAM WATSU: Bhaskar This morning dream group explores gaining insights into one’s dream while immersed in the [Hospitality Water, Waves & Banerji element of water, using movements derived from the Watsu bodywork tradition. Suite Pool] Dreams Participants will need to bring bathing suits and towels. MDG Playing Into the Kirsten In this group, dream-sharing will open our minds and hearts to the present moment. Instead Creative Play Dream Backstrom of interpreting or analyzing dreams, we’ll take a playful, creative approach that allows us to [South Ball] appreciate the direct experience of dreaming. We’ll practice seeing our dreams as fully lived experiences, valid and vital in themselves. MDG Enhancing the Katherine We will explore the proposition that dreams are part of the natural emotional immune Embodiment Dream-State Bell system and don’t need to be interpreted. We will explore and deepen our trust in our dream [Center Ball] Emotional Immune feelings by slowing down the images, using breath and sometimes using embodiment or role System play. MDG Indigenous Apela The Indigenous workshop will share dreams using Apela Colorado's Indigenous Indigenous Dreamwork Colorado, Dreamwork method, which is a group dreamwork method involving deep listening, the Approach Beth Duncan glyphing of dream imagery, and group conversation exploring the collective themes that [Rattlers] emerge, in this locale, at this time, in keeping with principles of Indigenous Mind.

MDG Developing the Curtiss We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in group dreamwork, Intuition Intuition in Group Hoffmann following the Ullman technique as modified by Taylor along with Jungian amplification [Flagstaff 2] Dreamwork methods. Note: attendance limited to 25 attendees. MDG Active Deepening dream Cornelia J. In this dream group I lead an introduction to the understanding of, and practice of active Imagination understanding Krikke imagination. Each morning dreamers will describe, then individually work with images that [Prescott] through the use of are specific to their dreams. Dreamers will note the new understandings gained. Finally active imagination. dreamers will discuss ways of integrating insights, into daily experience. MDG Group Group Projective Helen Bring a dream and the group will unpack it using the Group Projective (“If it were my Projective Dreamwork Landerman dream…”) method. Other methods will be demonstrated as they apply, such as Dream [Rio Verde] Interview, Gestalt and Dream Theater. materials will be provided to draw or paint the dream. MDG Listening to the Michael Within this approach the dreamer is stimulated by open-ended questions to reflect on the Listening Dreamer Schredl dream experience and its relationships to . Suggestions, interpretations, etc. from [Flagstaff 1] group members are discouraged. Lucidity Cultivating a Lucid Lana This morning group will together go through 5 techniques over 5 days on how to cultivate a MDG Dreaming & Lucid Sackwild lucid dreaming practice which will ultimately lead us towards lucid living. The group will also [Executive Living Practice discuss and share some participant's dreams from the previous night’s dreams as examples of Boardroom] how to implement the techniques. MDG Dream Helper Circle Patrick Walsh Following a method developed over decades by Henry Reed and Bob Van de Castle, [Chapparal] participants will agree to dream for one volunteer seeking guidance for an undisclosed life challenge. From the commonalities in the dreams, hypotheses are developed about the issue. Dreamers also gain insight into their own connection to the volunteer's dilemma. First Timers First-timers Morning Loren This morning workshop for first-timers at the IASD conference provides participants with a MDG Dream Group: Goodman, home base to share and reflect upon new knowledge and insights gained during the [Bouchon] Welcome to the Bernard Welt conference, and introduces time-tested practices for recalling and recording dreams, and World of Your exploring them in your dream journal and with others. Dreams

9:00 am to 9:15 am Break (Beverages in Lobby) 9:15 am to Noon Sunday Morning – Research Poster Session [Northwest Forum] Research Title Name To Be Announced Posters

9:15 am to 10:15 am Sunday Early Morning Sessions Dreams and Dreams and Health Katherine Bell (chair), Debbie Irvine Health Symposium Symposium Dreaming as Katherine Dreams are universal to humans. Animals also seem to experience dream-like interludes [Rattlers] Emotional Immune Bell during suggesting that dreams are evolutionarily important. I briefly share some System personal dream experiences then results of published showing evidence that dreams, even when not remembered, are corrective and serve to enhance emotional health. The Healing Power Debbie Irvine The Hero’s Journey (Jung, Campbell), as a monomyth, has a universal structure: calling, death, of Dreams: Death to rebirth and transformation. Irvine illustrates how dream series can follow this archetypal Rebirth as the pattern leading to transformation and healing. Irvine maps and demonstrates how series of Wounded-Healer dreams from her life guided her through her own Hero’s Journey. and Dream-Shaman Workshop Avoiding Premature David Low Dreamers will re-evaluate dreams which are either mysterious or might be worked further. In [Chapparal] Closure: small groups we will ask often overlooked questions about the dream, about the life context it Reconsidering Your might help us with, and to attune to feelings which may be the greatest asset to growth and Dream's Meaning understanding. Lucidity Special Event: Lucid Robert In this lucid dreaming special event, lucid dreamers will meet other lucid dreamers, share Meetup Dreamer Meetup Waggoner successful induction techniques, ask questions to the group and explore interesting lucid [North Ball] dreams! A great opportunity to gain lucid dreaming tips and techniques, while meeting others who share your passion for lucid dreaming. Clinical Clinical Symposium Theresa Coimbra, Susan E. Schwartz Symposium CE Dreams in the Theresa In my work as a psychologist, as a Jungian analyst for over 30 years, patients often bring [South Ball] Process of Coimbra dreams about me, or I have dreams about them. In this talk, I share my process for handling Psychotherapy this initially delicate situation and how the therapeutic process can be deepened as a result. Dreams, sexual Susan E. Dreams bridge the border between self and other, psyche and body. Linking them parallels the addiction and the Schwartz disunion and split selves. The malady of the soul appears in the ‘as-if’ personality based on 'as-if' personality façade and illusions masking narcissistic needs manifested in a composite example of a man with sexual addictions. 10:15 am to 10:30 am Break (Beverages in the Lobby)

10:30 am to 12:00 pm Sunday Late Morning Sessions Clinical The Power Of Dreams Alan Siegel Discovery Channel special featuring interviews with pioneers and experts on research, cross- Videos : Clinical, Cross- cultural approaches, clinical applications of working with dreams in individual and group CE Cultural and Research therapy and PTSD Nightmares. Interviews with researchers Dement, Hartmann, Cartwright, [Rattlers] Dimensions Of Kramer, and Hobson, and clinical, life cycle and cross-cultural (Tibetan, Aboriginal, Native Dreaming American) approaches and more. Dream Poetry: Marta Aarli In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places between dreaming and waking, between Workshop Painting with Words, visual and verbal, translating messages and images from our dreams into poems. We’ll tap into [Chapparal] An Experiential our whole being to express the language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through Workshop structured play, to free ourselves creatively. Lucidity Lucid Dreaming Bashkar Banerji, Angel Morgan, Robert Waggoner (chair) Symposium Symposium [North Ball] Lucid vs Non-Lucid Bhaskar This presentation is based upon the results of my 2018 PhD dissertation on incubating healing Dream Healing – Banerji dreams, one aspect of which was to compare lucid vs. non- healing approaches. Comparing Approaches Dragons, Angels, and Angel Rites of passage dreams that children and teens experience will be outlined, with tools to help Rites of Passage: Morgan them develop lucid dreaming capacities. Methods and techniques for creatively working with Developmental Lucid dreams will be included that the presenter has taught to children, teens, parents, teachers, Dreaming for Children and caregivers of children for over 20 years. and Teens Accessing Unique Robert Lucid dreaming serves as a revolutionary psychological tool, which allows for observing, Levels of Creativity in Waggoner exploring and scientifically experimenting while consciously aware of dreaming. You will learn Lucid Dreams how lucid dreamers access three unique levels of creativity, interact with a non-visible responsive inner awareness, and utilize the hidden framework of dreaming. Invited Integrative Health Rubin This presentation provides an overview of an integrative health model of dreaming that Clinical Pres Model of Dreaming Naiman incorporates body, mind and spirit approaches. It discusses factors contributing to the CE contemporary erosion of dreaming, offers recommendations for promoting a healthy dream life, and concludes with a description of an emerging comprehensive model of dreaming. [South Ball]

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch Break 1hr 30 min Lunch Buffet (pre-paid tickets) Research Luncheon (attendees take lunch into room from Buffet) [NE Forum] [NW Forum] 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Sunday Early Afternoon Sessions Arts Dream Poetry Richard Russo A chance to experience and share dream poetry in a supportive environment. Priority is given Workshop Reading Circle to original poems written by participants. The goal is to honor the dreams that inspired the [Prescott] poems, and to experience the power of hearing them read aloud. Not a writing workshop (no critiquing). Reading is voluntary. Dreamwork Solution Oriented Layne Dalfen If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, anyone can gain insight and clarity Workshop Dream Decoding; about relationships, work, family and life. This workshop gives participants tools to decode and [Bouchon] Problem Solving understand why we have certain dreams on a particular night and how that knowledge can While We Sleep enrich our lives. Clinical Dream to Freedom: Robert Hoss, The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or "tapping") is combined with dreamwork in one Workshop combining EFT with Kristen Hoss synergistic protocol (ref: Clinical EFT Handbook) for clinical and personal work. Scripted Gestalt CE Dreamwork role-play is used to identify emotional issues the dream is dealing with, followed by an EFT [Chapparal] protocol for reducing the stress surrounding that issue. Theory Dreaming States and Deborah This panel will explore dreaming states and the nature of time, providing a taste of several Panel the Nature of Time Armstrong perspectives on the topic. Dreams and physics tell us that conceptualizing time as being linear CE (Chair), limits and restricts us and is simply incorrect. This panel is intended to begin a conversation [North Ball] Terry Marks about these considerations. Tarlowe, Laurel Clark, Jean Campbell

Research Dream Content Masoud Zangeneh Soroush, Isaac Taitz (chair) & Stanley Krippner, David Low, David Kahn Symposium What Can Nonlinear Masoud, Dreams are exciting unknown experiences and full of emotional content. Considering that CE EEG Analysis Tell Us Pedram and brain is a complex, emergent, self-organized biological system with unknown interactions [South Ball] About Dreaming Morteza between its components, we employ nonlinear EEG analysis with the aim of dream affect

Affect? Z- Soroush recognition. Results suggest that the proposed method is quite effective and practical. Gender Differences in Isaac Taitz; This quantitative analysis explored 200 Ukrainian dreams obtained in workshops conducted in Dream Content Using Stanley 1995 and 1998. Among the findings, men more often were befrienders of dream characters, Quantitative Content Krippner while women more often related to others through friendliness. Men more often saw Analysis in Ukraine themselves as victims. More research is suggested to explore these differences. Variety in Dream David Kahn There is a wide variation in the quality, vividness and kinds of dreams in any one night and Content and Kinds of over different nights compared to focused or mind wandering when awake. This hypothesis Dreams can be tested by comparing the variety in dream reports with the variety in focused and non- focused wake reports. IASDer Dream David Low Anecdotal accounts abound, but little systematic work has been done on dream meanings. An Messages: Ias survey reveals personal understandings of their nature, source(s), accuracy, and affective Psychology, nature, perceived life benefits generally and with life passages, ways the dreams communicate, Reliability and Life- plus dreamers’ dialogue, misgivings and levels of compliance with messages. Journey Benefits 4:00 pm to 4:155 pm Break (Beverages in the Lobby) 4:15 pm to 5:45 pm Sunday Late Afternoon Sessions Dreamwork Dreams Alive! Dream Linda Yael This workshop allows us to take our dreams into life. Using techniques from body-oriented and Workshop Theater Schiller dream theater processes of Focusing ( Gendlin), Psychomotor Pyschotherapy (Ogdan), Somatic CE Experiencing ( Levine) and Constellation work ( Hellinger) we will bring our dreams to life and [Bouchon] to a satisfying resolution with group dream theater. Health How Dreams Bring Jeanne Van This workshop will explore dreams of the dying and their families, and the benefits of talking Workshop Comfort at the End of Bronkhorst about dreams. Drawing upon research, interviews with healthcare professionals, and her work CE Life as a hospice social worker, Jeanne will present a simple dream appreciation approach that [Rattlers] upholds the dignity of the dreamer.

Spiritual Jungian and Spiritual Richard F. Paseman Symposium concepts [Chapparal] Devils, Dreams and Richard F. In this presentation a general Jungian model of the psyche and of dreams will be applied to Demons: the Shadow Paseman #1 dream symbols of devils and demons. Insights from depth psychology regard dream images of Side of Sleep devils and demons as numinous encounters with the shadow. Techniques for dreamwork with demonic images will be discussed. Dreaming Your Inner Richard F. The mystery of dreamtime is a spiritual journey opening the soul to sacred space. The Santuario Santuario Paseman #2 de Chimayo in New Mexico becomes our template for pilgrimage to an inner sanctuary. The talk discusses a union of opposites, the psychological move connecting external religious forms with internal spirituality of the heart. Guidance for spiritual Laura This presentation will describe forthcoming guidance for spiritual directors, pastoral counselors, directors: exploring Prickett and other helping professionals to support clients in exploring spiritual aspects of dreams, spiritual aspects of incorporating information from pilot testing of the guidance. The focus of the guidance is to dreams support the creation of sacred space for dream exploration. Lucidity Lucidity & Psi Robert Waggoner (chair), Dan Gilhooley, Nicole Gratton Symposium Symposium [North Ball] Five Ways Lucid Robert Lucid dreaming offers unparalleled access to the state of dreaming and allows for Dreaming Should Waggoner experimenting with the unconscious (the hidden foundation of consciousness) and the very Revolutionize nature of creativity. As such, lucid dreaming provides the possibility for radical new insights Psychology which could revolutionize psychology. Five exploratory insights will be shared. Psychic Intersection of Dan This presentation examines two examples of the interplay of dreams and life examining Dreams and Life: Gilhooley intersubjective dreaming, synchronicity, and apparent mind-matter interactions. Five dreams Intersubjectivity and seem to offer guidance in interpreting inexplicable events which can be understood as both Mind-Matter random and meaningful. Shared intersubjective experiences appear to demonstrate a Interactions transpersonal nonlocal consciousness. Quantic Dreams: 3 Nicole Quantic dreams are those experiences in the dream state that are realer than reality. They let keys to facilitate their Gratton us into a moment of awe when we wake. Something unpredictable has happened. The energy manifestation of the dream stays with us all day long. The vividness of the images persists for a long time. Invited Bad Dreams and Michael Although people are often quick to describe their dreams, most are more reticent about their bad Research Nightmares: Causes, Nadorff dreams and nightmares. Why do we have bad dreams and nightmares, what effect do they CE Correlates, and have, and what can be done about them? This presentation will address these questions through blending both old and new literature, as well as presenting some original data, to gain a [South Ball] Interventions better understanding of what makes these dreams different.

5:45 pm to 7:15 pm Dinner Break (pre-reserved tickets required for Buffet) [North East Forum]

7:15 pm to 9:30 pm Sunday Evening Keynote & Dream Telepathy Contest 7:15 – 7:30 Entry Music – Craig Webb; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Keynote Clinical Combining Focusing Leslie Ellis This talk weaves the embodied-experiential dreamwork techniques developed by Carl Jung and Keynote and Jung: An Eugene Gendlin into a practice that demonstrates how experience creates meaning. Using CE embodied- Gendlin’s philosophy of the implicit as a theory to ground dreamwork, Leslie Ellis will [South Ball] experiential approach demonstrate through personal and clinical examples how dreamwork can be a fluid, moment- to working with by-moment process; a certain kind of attention invites dreams to shift into waking imaginal dreams and journeys that bring fresh perspectives, insight and change. nightmares 9:00 -9:30 Dream Telepathy Contest [South Ballroom]

Day #3 - Monday 15 June 8:00 am to 9:00 am Morning Dream Groups See Sunday schedule, Dream groups remain the same. 9:00 am to 9:15 am Break (Beverages in Lobby) 9:15 am to 11:15 am Monday Early Morning Sessions Dreamwork Utilizing Sandtrays Leah Hodari Introduction to utilizing miniatures in sandtrays as a way to explore dreams on a 3 dimensional Workshop and Miniatures in and David level. The process of selecting and placing miniature representatives of real and fantasy life in a [Prescott] Dreamwork Kahn designated blue tray filled with sand enables the participant to engage the whole brain and (24 max) reach the subconscious. Dreamwork Drawing From the Walter E You will be surprised how much pours out of the unconscious by making a simple sketch of a Workshop Unconscious Berry dream and then working with it. Join us in this lively, dynamic approach to experiencing dreams [Bouchon] through the visual. Humor and depth are earmarks of this workshop. Don’t miss it. Dreamwork Leading Innovative Justina Lasley Participants will explore step-by-step processes of organizing and leading dream groups. They Workshop and Successful will develop a template for their group -- focusing on creating the group, agendas, guidelines, CE Dream Groups problem solving, mentoring personal transformation. Participants, while focusing on individual [Rattlers] goals, will learn innovative and successful techniques by working in a dream group. (35 max) Clinical Lucid Dreaming Kristen Lucid Dreaming Therapy (LDT) has favorable features with the potential to elaborate on Workshop Therapy: Case LaMarca evidence-based treatment models for nightmares, trauma, and other mental disorders. This CE Conceptualization, workshop focuses on the planning, justification, and implementation of LDT interventions using [Chapparal] Treatment Planning, theoretically-informed case formulations. and Intervention Lucidity Extraordinary Linda Mastrangelo, Cynthia Pearson, Shanee Stepakoff, Jeanne Van Bronkhorst Symposium Dreams [North Ball] The Serpent and the Linda In this presentation Linda Mastrangelo will be exploring a series of personal dreams that Lion: An Exploration Mastrangelo surprisingly connect with her family genealogy and ancient ancestral roots with places of of Place, Dreams, origin. Using psychology, myth, art, sacred geography as well as DNA testing, Mastrangelo and DNA makes symbolic connections between dreaming and place. How Is It We Can Cynthia The Precognitive Dream Contests held at IASD’s Psiber Dreaming Conferences offer ample Dream of the Pearson evidence that we can dream the future, but don’t explain how that is possible. In this Future? The results presentation we will illuminate the question by exploring recent research and provocative of 18 Precognitive perspectives such as field consciousness, "premory" and simultaneous time. Dream Contests Correspondences Shanee This presentation provides compelling evidence of dreams that reflected events in the Between Dream Stepakoff dreamer’s community, society, and world before these events were publicly reported. This Narratives & Societal evidence points to the need for a transpersonal interpretive framework that views dreams as Events indicative of species-connectedness and as potentially beneficial for society as a whole. The Dual Nature of Jeanne Van Visitation dreams are powerful and emotionally healing. As visitations they raise the possibility Visitation Dreams Bronkhorst of an afterlife, but it is their dream quality that allows us to more fully engage with them. Using research, interviews with grief counsellors, and a personal visitation experience, I explore the dream aspect of visitation dreams. Research Social Influences Mark Blagrove, Michael Schredl, Katja Valli (chair), Jayne Gackenbach Symposium Dream and Mark Previous work shows that dream-sharing and discussion of dreams following the Ullman CE discussion variable Blagrove method increases the empathy of the discusser towards the dream-sharer. This study [North Ball] moderators of effect investigates the moderating influence of the length of dream in words, length of discussion, of dream-sharing on and number of discussions, on the empathy effect. state empathy Social skills and Michael In this diary study with 69 students, the relationships between waking-life social skills like dreaming Schredl empathy, trust, theory of mind, and social interactions in dreams were investigated. The results were mixed; low trust was related to observing more often aggressive interactions in dreams. Effects of social Katja Valli We tested the Sociality bias hypothesis, the Strengthening hypothesis and the Compensation seclusion on social hypothesis of the Social Simulation theory by investigating the effects of social seclusion on the dream content number and quality of social dream content while controlling for social interactions during wakefulness. Type of Media in Jayne A large group of online dreams are analyzed for sentiment as a function of the type of media Dreams and Gackenbach present in the dream. Specifically, active media dreams, like video game play or social media Associated use, are compared to passive media like movies or television. Sentiment 11:15 am to 11:30 am Break (Beverages in the Lobby) 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday Late Morning Sessions Dreamwork Leading Dream Azima Lila “Leading Dream Groups in Person and on the Internet” will focus on structures and techniques Workshop Groups in Person and Forest for leading dream groups, both in person and via the Internet. It will include material on the [Prescott] on the Internet format used for each dream session and the process used in working with each dream. Education Dreaming Up a Paul Sheldon This workshop will give an overview of the Dreamosophy process and its role in correctional Workshop Better Future: & Kloey Anne facilities, including the relevance of dreaming to incarcerated individuals, unique needs of staff [Bouchon] Dreamwork in Kelton and inmates, key educational foci of the Dreamosophy approach, and recent data. Attendees Correctional will also experience a representative Dreamosophy group process. Institutions Dreamwork Coaching the Dream: Will Sharon Working with dreams in the coaching paradigm questions the concepts of interpretation, Workshop an ancient consciousness, how we listen to a dream as well as how and whether we should categorize [Rattlers] experience in a new dreams. This workshop will explore these ideas and demonstrate how they are used in using context the dreams of the attendees. Extraord. The continuum of Richard Bonk This workshop will explore the relationship between traditional meditation practice and dream Dream consciousness sleep, and sleep yoga within the context of the continuum of consciousness, our daily cyclic rhythms. Workshop dream & meditative Emphasis will be on practical application for the arising of transformative insights and will [Chapparal] states: awakening to include a guided experience and group sharing. (30 max) their potentials Workshop DreamWork at Rubin At first glance, dreams and work might appear to be opposites -- antithetical and even [North Ball] Work: Practices to Naiman, Leah mutually exclusive. While work is serious and productive, dreaming can appear frivolous and Enhance Corporate Ann Bolen irrational. Utilizing creative work-related dream practices, this workshop addresses the Wellness and potential of dreamwork to enhance work life in surprising and significant ways. Creativity Research Nightmares Michael Schredl , Josie Malinowski (chair) Symposium CE [North Ball] distress, Michael Schredl In addition to nightmare frequency, certain beliefs about nightmares increase frequency, and distress due to nightmares. Treatment programs should include psycho-education in beliefs about addition to techniques reducing nightmare frequency. nightmares Does suppressing Josie Malinowski Two studies investigating the effect of suppressing unpleasant thoughts on your unpleasant nightmare experiencing are presented. thoughts give you nightmares?

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch Break 1hr 30 min Lunch Buffet (pre-paid tickets) Regional Rep Luncheon (attendees take lunch into room from Buffet) [NE Forum] [NW Forum] 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm Monday Early Afternoon Sessions Arts Dream Haiku – Asha Sahni Haiku – short, structured poems of Japanese origin – can mine rich seams in dreams, offering Workshop surfing the edge clarity and focus. They can sometimes unearth kernels of truth which are just beyond [Prescott] between sleeping conscious understanding. We will explore a dream/dreams through a series of exercises, each (15 max) and waking writing and sharing several dream haiku. Poetry Fluidity of Dreams Devi Prem We will take the energy of significant parts of the dream and create poetry. The poem as the Workshop condensed version of the dream builds the base for a signature movement that can be (60 max) shapeshifted by one’s soul’s direction to empower the dreamer. [Bouchon] Dreamwork The 12 Stages of the Kelly Walden Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey is a model outlining the 12 stages a hero encounters on Workshop Hero's Journey in his/her noble quest. The process of Dream Mastery is a hero’s journey and the 12-stage map [Rattlers] DreamWork supports the dreamer to access greater power and perspective as they navigate their way through their dream life. Dreamwork Dreamworking Curtiss Hoffman, Patrick Walsh, Patricia Kilroe Symposium Approaches and [Chapparal] Experiences Oh, the Places You’ll Curtiss In dreams, we often find ourselves in defined locations. Many are familiar places, which Go! Exploring Hoffman, tends to confirm the Continuity Hypothesis. But sometimes we dream into locations which Dream Geography we’ve never visited. Some of our dreams allow us to enter into “othermind”: the experience of other selves accessible through the dream state. Adapting Dream Patrick Walsh Henry Reed and Bob Van de Castle developed over many decades Dream Helper Circles. Helper Circles to an Henry challenged a group of supporters to develop an online circle experience that was as online experience valid as the live one. This is the story of how they adapted the live circles to an online experience Dream Reports: Patricia A Can we gain insights into our dreams from working with written dream reports? As evidence From Textual Kilroe to support an affirmative answer, five approaches to engaging with dream reports will be Analysis to Textual illustrated, including both a traditional and a modified form of textual analysis, textual maps, Play word clouds, and found poetry.

Humanities We are the Earth Ryan Hurd Dreams reflect our collective humanity, and how we are embedded in the natural world. Panel Dreaming (Discussant), Therefore, our dreams are necessarily the Earth’s dreams. Here, we discuss the implications CE Apela of collective dreaming for the Earth from several viewpoints, including indigenous science, [North Ball] Colorado, phenomenology & systems theory, and nonlocal in cyberspace. Daniel Deslauriers, Jean Campbell Research Trauma and Alwin E. Wagener, Robert Hoss (chair), Alan Siegel Symposium Nightmares CE A New Lens on Alwin E. The results of a new study on dreams and nightmares among survivors of intimate partner [South Ball] Dreams and Wagener violence will be presented. Participants will learn of five types of dreams and nightmares, Nightmares their relationship to PTSD and insomnia among survivors of intimate partner violence, and how these findings may inform counseling and psychotherapy. PTSD Nightmare Robert Hoss A comparative content analysis using a single case study of a Vietnam Vet with PTSD, Content: comparing content of 45 years of the post-combat recorded nightmares and dreams across 4 Comparative study recording periods suggestive of 4 recovery stages. Content profile is also compared with of a Vietnam Vet norms and other combat related PTSD studies. with 45 yrs. of dream records Nightmares and Alan Siegel To Be Announced Trauma (TBA) 3:30 – 3:45 Transition 90 min General Membership Meeting [South Ballroom] Agenda: (preliminary) • Introductory remarks and motion to pass the minutes of the last membership meeting • Outgoing Presidential address • Address of President-elect • Introduction of the new slate of officers • Introduction of new member elected board members and thanks to those outgoing board members • Treasurer's report • Membership Committee report • Remembrance of members who have passed away • Student Awards and Research Grant Awards announcement • Brief Remarks regarding 2020 conference results and 2021 conference announcement

5:15 pm to 9:00 pm Dinner and Free Time Events 5:15 – 9:00 Casual Hospitality Suite and Pool [Hospitality Suite] 6:15 to 7:45 Dinner Buffet w/pre-reserved tickets [NE Forum] 7:45 – 9:00 Dream Dance Circle – Craig Webb [Center Ball] A warm welcome to all! Interactive community song/dance circle that blends various traditions and celebrates life through movement and music. A fun opportunity to enjoy friendly faces and charge physical and dream bodies with lots of lucid energy. Easy-going, supportive atmosphere (no skills required, so ignore your inner critic!) 8:00 – 9:00 Meet the Artists in Art Exhibit [South Forum] 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Dream Art Reception [South Forum]

Day #4 - Tuesday 16 June 8:00 am to 9:00 am Morning Dream Groups See Sunday schedule, Dream groups remain the same. 9:00 am to 9:15 am Break (Beverages in Lobby) 9:15 am to 11:15 am Tuesday Early Morning Sessions Dreamwork Dreaming Moving & Daniel An experiential and exploratory workshop. What are the commonalities between dreams, Workshop Improvising: Deslauriers movement and improvisation? Through mindful guided practices, we will explore those [Central Ball] Exploration in intersections as intimated by personal dream imagery (individually, in dyads and large group). common. No previous experience necessary, only a willingness to explore dreams through the medium of the body. Meditative Yoga Nidra – An Kimberly R. Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based meditation. Body, breath, and awareness techniques merge to Workshop Effortless Sleep- Mascaro support states of expanded awareness and relaxation. Here, in between sleeping and waking, [Bouchon] based Meditation we can restore balance and feel rejuvenated. Come experience the art and practice of this (12 max) non-doing state of being. No previous experience necessary. Dreamwork Dreams: Theater of Heloisa Dreams can be seen as a stage where various where various parts or aspects of ourselves are Workshop Our Inner World Garman manifested, representing our inner world. Workshop participants will learn how to interact [Rattlers] with dream images, obtaining insight into their feelings, belief systems and their patterns of interaction. Dreamwork Take Your Dreams to Justina Lasley We will offer didactic learning and experiential techniques, to inform and encourage Workshop Work: How and Why and Tzivia professionals who want to incorporate dreams and dreamwork into their businesses. We will CE Dreamwork Is Good Gover address the benefits of bringing dreamwork into professions, including medicine, [Chapparal] for Business psychotherapy, spiritual counseling, coaching, the arts, science, education, and more. Arts Dreams, Creativity, Bernard Welt Almost everyone agrees that there is a deep connection between dreaming and creativity; Symposium and the Arts Part #1 (Mod), Nancy many have relevant personal experience or know the most famous instances. But how do we CE Grace, Deirdre extend and refine our understanding of that connection? Today’s talks draw inferences from [North Ball] Barrett, different dream phenomena, artistic media, and approaches to creativity. Richard Russo, (individual descriptions will be posted shortly) Walter Berry Dreamwork An Ullman dream Mark Blagrove Mark Blagrove and the audience will discuss a dream with the dream-sharer and Julia & Arts discussion with & Julia Lockheart will create a painting of the dream. Previous artworks can be seen at Workshop artwork produced so Lockheart http://DreamsID.com. An enlarged print of the artwork is sent to the dreamer afterwards to CE as to revisit the aid revisiting the dream with friends and family. [South Ball] dream with friends and family 11:15 am to 11:30 am Break (Beverages in Lobby) 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Tuesday Late Morning Sessions Body/Work DreamWork/ Jean Campbell DreamWork/BodyWork is a process-oriented therapeutic model. This workshop will provide Workshop BodyWork Workshop tools for understanding trauma and accessing the source of resolution. Workshop [Prescott] participants will gain insight into how the body holds and records information, how that (30 max) information can be accessed, how dreams and personal imagery contain the information necessary to healing. Arts Serious Play: Loren This workshop encourages participants to approach dreams as a rich and abundant source for Workshop Surrealist Dream Goodman literary artistic production both in verse and prose. In it, we will experiment primarily with the [Bouchon] Writing Workshop collaborative, collage-like Surrealist technique known as the “exquisite corpse." Spiritual How to use our Claude Through dreams we can discover ourselves as spiritual beings, receive inner guidance and Workshop dreams for spiritual Couture messages that uplift our consciousness and free ourselves from the limitations of the human [Rattlers] growth. condition. What are spiritual dreams and what kind of experiences can we expect from them? How to cultivate them ? A personal viewpoint. Clinical Understanding and Alan Siegel Understanding and exploring children’s nightmares may enhance communication, diagnosis Workshop Exploring Children’s and treatment, soothe traumatic anxieties linked to social media, bullying, divorce, trauma, CE Nightmares: Clinical, learning differences, suicidal ideation, etc., stimulate creativity and alert parents and [Chapparal] Cultural, and therapists. This workshop presents exercises, discussion, guidelines for mental health/health Creative professionals, dreamworkers, educators, parents, as well as nightmare themes, interventions, Perspectives cultural and creative dimensions.

Lucidity Investigating Jillian Calder, Peter Maich, Barbara Condron (chair) Symposium Lucidity: Personal [North Ball] Experiences Magick, Herbs, The Jillian Calder This talk will share the results of a personal investigation using herbs, and lunar cycles Moon, and their consciously before sleep to determine how my dreams would be affected. Participants will Effects on Dreams leave the presentation with new strategies to apply and an interest in incorporating magickal influences into their dream work. [Note: this talk reports a personal experience only and should not be generalized nor can IASD recommend herbs or supplements for use with sleep and dreams.] The dark side use Peter Maich This is an overview of 6 lucid dream supplements, effects, signatures and effect on dreams, and experiences with based on many years of use, and how they can enhance the lucid experience. [Note: this talk lucid dream reports a personal experience only and should not be generalized nor can IASD recommend supplements herbs or supplements for use with sleep and dreams.] DREAM SYNC: Could Barbara As her father disappeared into dementia, Barbara Condron witnessed how day dreams and Lucid Dreaming be Condron night dreams dissolve in forgetfulness and its companion, pretense. She proposes that our Superpower to emotional consciousness is experienced as gaps that the mind and body endeavor to close reTHINK our through memory and imagination. “First 20 Minutes of Your Night” provides a model for FEELings? strengthening mindset skills making the unconscious, conscious. Research Cultural Transitions Nori Muster, Wonjin Sim, Matt Newsom (chair) Symposium Dreams upon Leaving Nori Muster This presentation uses multiple methods to analyze a series of 48 dreams that took place after CE a Religious Cult leaving a religious cult. The series includes 17 dreams of aggressive encounters with group [South Ball] members. The results of this analysis demonstrate continuity between dream characters and daytime concerns. International Wonjin Sim The present study investigated Asian international students’ perceptions of dream work using Students’ Perspective PhD the Hill (2004) dream model. Fourteen Asian international students who moved to the United on Dream Sessions States within one year participated in a dream session, completed pre- and post-session During Cultural measures, and were interviewed about helpful components of dream sessions. Transition Coming of Age in the Matt This presentation draws on ethnographic research among young adults living in Berlin, Dream: Place and Newsom Germany. Through analysis of dream narratives and imagery, the relationship between Selfhood Among selfhood, place, and history is considered. Young Adults in Berlin

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm Lunch Break 1hr 30 min Lunch Buffet (pre-paid tickets) 2021 Conference Planning Lunch (attendees take lunch into room from Buffet) [NE Forum] [NW Forum] 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Tuesday Early Afternoon Sessions Theory The Construction and G. Scott Co-creative Dream Theory introduces a new perspective on dream metaphor. I will review the Workshop Analysis of Sparrow seminal contributions of Jung, Ullman, and Lakoff pertaining to the construction and analysis CE Metaphors in Co- of dream imagery. Then I will examine specific principals and methods that will illuminate [Prescott] Creative Dream dimensions of dreamwork heretofore overlooked by traditional assumptions. Theory Dreamwork CREATIVE DREAM Victoria Acquire inventive methods to advance the scope and depth of your dream journal practice. Workshop JOURNAL Rabinowe Explore metaphors, symbols, paradoxes from shifting perspectives. Provocative prompts will [Bouchon] TECHNIQUES unravel the riddles of the night and will guide you to write with passionate insight and to discover an unlimited source of inspiration for dream collage. Dreamwork Exploring the Lukas Bauer The participants will experience a unique workshop and dive deep into the symbolic language Workshop symbolic language of of dreams. They will gain tools for systematic dream work and get to know the different types [Rattlers] dreams of symbols, the distinction between associations and amplifications in both personal and archetypical symbols and apply it to their own dream symbols. Lucidity Path to Freedom: Nick Atlas, This integrative, hands-on workshop will explore an empirically-driven model of Workshop Healing in Lucid PhD psychospiritual healing and transformation derived from phenomenological research on the CE Dreams and Beyond experience of freedom in lucid dreams. The workshop is open to all levels and no prior [Chapparal] experience is necessary. Artists Visual Artists Panel: Julie Nauman- Five of the exhibiting artists explain their creative process and how it is related to dreams and Panel Artistic Processes of Mikulski + 4 dreaming. Each artist presents visuals of their work. Conference attendees will be provided [North Ball] Working with selected the opportunity to gain a more comprehensive understanding of works in the exhibition Dreams exhibit artists narrated by the artist themselves. Research Research Workshop Mark Blagrove Mark Blagrove and the research workshop members will discuss a dream with the dream- Wokshop on dreams, insight and Julia sharer and Julia Lockheart will create a painting of the dream. The background dreaming and CE and empathy, using Lockheart empathy theory will be discussed. Measures of personal insight and state empathy will be [South Ball] dream discussion described and completed in the session. and artwork 4:30 pm to 4:45 pm Break (Beverages in Lobby)

4:45 pm to 6:15 pm Tuesday Late Afternoon Sessions Dreamwork Sensing the Signs Susan Sensing the Signs is an experiential offering using somatic resonance and release techniques Workshop (that Guide Us) Ackerman to facilitate a deeper connection to the symbols/signs that manifest in dreams and daily life. [Prescott] Joseph Participants will have an opportunity to work with their own material in this workshop that includes breathwork, gentle movement, and sound. Clinical Altering Dreams Deborah This workshop will provide participants with an experiential, expressive arts practice known as Workshop through Altering Armstrong altering books, that, when accompanied by lucid dreaming, can provide potent relief to those CE Books: An Expressive experiencing chronic nightmares, originating from any number of origins. Altering books is a [Bouchon] Arts Practice infused form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, (15 max) with Lucid Dreaming altering its appearance and/or meaning. This workshop will use this process to expand and change dreams in the waking state. Participants are asked to bring books that they find frightening, mysterious, or disgusting. Dreamwork Utilize dreams for J.M. DeBord Dreams offer wise guidance and counsel, but often it’s obscured by or embedded Workshop decision-making, in a dream’s story. This workshop demonstrates how to find the guidance within a dream’s [Rattlers] problem-solving, and content by decoding its symbolism and analyzing its story. After a PowerPoint presentation, growth we examine the dreams of willing workshop participants. Historical Applying Historical, Andrea Signorelli, Craig Webb, Cordell Jacks and Social Artistic and Social Symposium Practices [Chapparal] , Andrea Dream Incubation is an ancient practice born as a ritual to gain guidance from the gods. Not from the Asklepion Signorelli much has changed: nowadays people use dream incubation to solve problems and make to the Laboratory discoveries. In this talk you’ll learn how to do it yourself, and how this practice may evolve in the future. The Dreams Behind Craig Webb We explore how dreams have brought musical, lyrical, production and collaboration ideas for the Music: Classical, composers, folk and popular artists, as well as musical calling/healing dreams for shamans Popular & Folk, worldwide. Also revealed will be premonition and visitation dreams of various artists, plus a Instrumentalists & mini medley of melodies inspired by little-known dreams, including the presenter’s. Others The Call of our Cordell Jacks The existential threats humanity currently faces require us to radically reinvent our roles and Times: Reinventing relationships as a species. This fundamental re-imagining of what it means to be ‘human’ what it means to be requires us to utilize our greatest learnings in social innovation, and accelerate them with ‘Human’ through limitless potential for ideation that lucid dreaming offers. Dream

Dreamwork Dreamwork Marta Aarli, Psychotherapists Katarzyna and Marta will discuss the similarities and differences between Symposium Contexts: Katarzyna doing dreamwork in the context of individual therapy and in dream groups, as well as [North Ball] Psychotherapy and Kaminska between the cultural contexts of Europe and the US. Group, Comparing (individual descriptions will be posted shortly) Perspectives from Europe and the US Lucidity Lucid Dreaming Michael Schredl (chair), Elliott Gish, Remington Mallett Research Research Symposium Inducing lucid Michael The Wake-up-Back-to-Bed (WBTB) technique is not only effective if used in the sleep CE dreams: The Wake- Schredl laboratory setting but also when applied at home. The lucid dream rate after WBTB nights [South Ball] up-back-to-bed was about 18%, compared to about 6% in all other nights. technique in the home setting. Findings from an Elliott Gish The presenter will review findings from his dissertation that investigated the phenomenon of Exploratory Study of relieving pain through lucid dreaming. Pain levels before and after the lucid dream Lucid Dreaming for experience will be discussed, as well as themes and possible contributions of the following Pain Relief variables: absorption, expectation, dream vividness, and mental imagery ability. Dream lucidity is Remington Lucid dreams have been promoted as a route for personal growth and overcoming associated with Mallett nightmares, but the mechanism behind these benefits is unclear. We show that lucid dreams positive morning are related to positive morning affect, which might be part of a multitude of beneficial affect outcomes of dream lucidity. 6:15 pm to 7:45 pm Dinner Break (pre-reserved tickets required for Buffet) [North East Forum] 7:45 pm to 9:30 pm Tuesday Evening Keynote 7:45 – 8:00 Entry Music – Craig Webb; 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm Keynote Research Lucid Dream Stephen (Summary Pending) Keynote Research, Then and LaBerge CE Now [South Ball] 9:30 – 10:00 Dream-Inspired Light-Painting & Mesmerizing Mime Performance – Craig Webb [North Ball] An engaging artistic event that involves a new dream-inspired light-sound-biofeedback audience-interactive performance device invented by the presenter as well as a specially-illuminated mime acting story involving dreams.

Day #5 - Wednesday 17 June 8:00 am to 9:00 am Morning Dream Groups See Sunday schedule, Dream groups remain the same. 9:00 am to 9:15 am Break (Beverages in Lobby) 9:15 am to 11:15 am Wednesday Early Morning Sessions Arts Honoring Deceased Kimberly R. Many people experience visitation dreams, yet they are rarely discussed. This workshop will Workshop Loved Ones: Mascaro provide a space to honor and share these experiences. Following discussion, there will be a [Prescott] Intersecting shrine-building activity. Each attendee will craft a personal altar to a deceased loved-one to (14 max) Visitation Dreams take home. Materials provided, including the wooden altar-box. and Shrine-making Humanities How to Make Tina Tau This workshop draws on the intelligence of two big dreams about social change. Sharing of Workshop Change in the World: the dreams will be followed by a guided meditation, a journaling exercise, group discussion [Bouchon] Can Dreams Help? and an art activity. These particular dreams invite us to experience awe, love and possibility in (20 max) the face of overwhelming odds. Lucidity Lucid on the Page: A Tzivia Gover Author Jorge Luis Borges has said, “Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.” In this Workshop Writing Experience workshop, we’ll use dream lucidity to make our writing more vivid and alive. Simple CE for Dreamers techniques to achieve dream lucidity will be offered as well as ways to be lucidly aware when [Rattlers] writing while awake. Dreamwork Tarotpy®, Dreams Lauren Z. Tarotpy is an innovative method to enhance the practice of dream work and enter dreaming Workshop and “Soul-making” Schneider consciousness with eyes wide open. Decks will be provided and participants are welcome to [Chapparal] bring their own decks. Psi Psi True Story Film: Craig Webb An engaging movie centered around dreams and starring Jane Seymour based on the book by Film Event Yesterday’s Children Jenny Cockell based on her true story about powerful clairvoyant and past-life Dreams that [North Ball] she acted on to finally unite with the still-living aged "children" from "her" previous life. Research Nightmares and Michael A review of links between nightmares and suicide, using dreams to assess risk, soothe acute Symposium Suicide: Research, Nadorff, Alan distress, guide clinical interventions (e.g. IRT), ethical considerations including cautions about CE Clinical, Ethical, and Siegel (chair) reductive and premature interpretations, and cultural differences. Nightmare vignettes and [S Ball] Cultural Perspectives risk assessment with adults and children will be presented, along with discussion and exercises. Intermediate level. 11:15 am to 11:30 am Break (Beverages in Lobby)

11:30 am to 12:30 pm Wednesday Late Morning Sessions Dreamwork A Dream Tool for G. Nathan We will use and discuss a tool for eyes-closed dreamwriting and quick insights.The tool, My Workshop Everyone Feinstein Dream Guides, enhances the journaling method of Dr. Garfield, PhD., an IASD Founder and [Prescott] Georgine Past President. In her best-seller, “Creative Dreaming”, Garfield states: the method offers “the Brave most complete recall with the least effort”. Psi Photo Dream Weaving: Amy Beth Katz A Dream in which a voice urged me to "get down to the water" lead me on a profound Event Conception Boat Fire journey of a month-long photojournalism and mediumship project covering the Conception [Rattlers] Auto-Ethnographic Dive Boat Fire Tragedy. This is a case-study of what Gaston Bachelard called "material Case Study imagination" and Dream Time application. Psi Life-Changing Out of Rose Gordy Since OBE’s are significant waking dreams than can change our lives, I will share three key Discussion Body Experiences ones of mine in particular the one that led to a major change in my life decades ago. Then I Group (OBEs) will open the group discussion since when we share a dream, it becomes in a way a dream for [Chapparal] all the listeners. I will ask the participants to share their OBE’s which we will discuss related to our own lives. Dreams and Dreams from Monique Care givers faced the sickness and death of the founder of a hospice. Staff members had Health Hospice staff Seguin dreams to prepare them to the loss of Teresa Dellar .I will present different scenarios , to Workshop demonstrate the progression in a healing process facing a collective grieving for each of [North Ball] them.. Arts Dreams, Creativity, Don Kuiken, Almost everyone agrees that there is a deep connection between dreaming and creativity; Symposium and the Arts Part #2 Bernard Welt many have relevant personal experience, or know the most famous instances. But how do we CE extend and refine our understanding of that connection? Today’s talks examine fundamental [South Ball] definitions of key terms such as dream, imagination, and metaphor. 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch Break, Lunch Buffet (pre-paid tickets) [NE Forum] NOTICE TO ARTISTS: Art Pickup 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm [South Forum] 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Wednesday Poetry, Song and Film Fest Poetry Open Poetry Reading Open Marta Aarli (Summary Pending) Mic Mic [Rattlers] Psi Film Parallel Gems Bhaskar This short experimental film set in India & Death Valley, California (30 min) explores the Event Banerji relationship between dreams, parallel worlds and psychic phenomenon. [Chapparal] Musical Songs of Dreams SackJo22 (aka SOD LIve is performance art: a hybrid concert/multi-media DJ set infused with dream images Event Susan and dreamwork initiated-insights. Based on SackJo22’s album, Songs of Dreams (2018), the [North Ball] Ackerman live show is a creative integration of ceremony, remixed sounds, live music and video that Joseph) emulates the inspiration for the work -- the dreams. CE NOTICE: CE Booklet Sign out By 3:15 Or 4:30 to 7:00 [Registration Desk] 15 min Transition and Music on Entry – Webb [South Ball] 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm Wednesday Closing Event Special To Walk in Beauty (a Salmon Dreamtime visits by Nature’s creatures are often invitations to connect more deeply with the Closing Event visual and sensory Natural World. We can accept these invitations by going out to meet the actual creatures in [South Ball] experience) the waking world. Awake-time meetings then ignite new dreams. And new dreams then stimulate ways of further engaging the creatures in both the awake-time and in lucid imaginings—thereby establishing a creative fluidity that dances us effortlessly into greater harmony with Nature. 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm - 2 ½ hr Dinner Break and Costume Preparation 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm - 2hr Board Meeting #2 (dinner served at 5:30PM) [Executive Boardroom] 5:00 – 6:30 Buffet w/pre-reserved tickets [NE Forum] 7:00 pm to Midnight Dream Ball Event [Ballroom] 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Costume Parade 8:00 pm to Midnight Dream Ball