2020 IASD Conference Presenter Listing (Preliminary) Type Pres List Summary

KEYNOTES AND INVITED PRESENTERS KEYNOTES Theory , Our Source Robert Hoss Dreaming appears to provide an emotional problem-solving of Resilience in Times capability, a natural source of resilience, helping us to better of Stress and Trauma adapt to the adversities and uncertainties in life. The supporting theory, research and a host of vignettes will be discussed, from dreams that deal with life’s impacts and , to post-traumatic . Clinical Combining Focusing Leslie Ellis This talk weaves the embodied-experiential and Jung: An techniques developed by Carl Jung and Eugene Gendlin into a embodied- practice that demonstrates how experience creates meaning. experiential Using Gendlin’s philosophy of the implicit as a theory to approach to working ground dreamwork, Leslie Ellis will demonstrate through with dreams and personal and clinical examples how dreamwork can be a fluid, nightmares moment-by-moment process; a certain kind of attention invites dreams to shift into waking imaginal journeys that bring fresh perspectives, and change. Research Stephen To Be Announced Research, Then and LaBerge Now Arts To Walk in Beauty (a Salmon Dreamtime visits by Nature’s creatures are often invitations visual and sensory to connect more deeply with the Natural World. We can experience) accept these invitations by going out to meet the actual creatures in the waking world. Awake-time meetings then ignite new dreams. And new dreams then stimulate novel 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. INVITED Research and Michael Although people are often quick to describe their dreams, Nightmares: Causes, Nadorff most are more reticent about their bad dreams and Correlates, and nightmares. Why do we have bad dreams and nightmares, what effect do they have, and what can be done about Interventions them? This presentation will address these questions through blending both old and new literature, as well as presenting some original data, to gain a better understanding of what makes these dreams different. Clinical Integrative Health Rubin This presentation provides an overview of an integrative Model of Dreaming Naiman health model of dreaming that incorporates body, mind and spirit approaches. It discusses factors contributing to the contemporary erosion of dreaming, offers recommendations for promoting a healthy dream life, and concludes with a description of an emerging comprehensive model of dreaming.

MORNING DREAM GROUPS MDG in the DREAM WATSU: Bhaskar This morning dream group explores gaining into Pool Water, Waves & Banerji one’s dream while immersed in the element of water, using Dreams movements derived from the Watsu bodywork tradition. 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 Creative Play Dream Backstrom to the present moment. Instead of interpreting or analyzing dreams, we’ll take a playful, creative approach that allows us to 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 Embodiment Dream-State Bell natural emotional immune system and don’t need to be Emotional Immune interpreted. We will explore and deepen our trust in our System dream feelings by slowing down the images, using breath and sometimes using embodiment or role play. MDG Indigenous Apela The Indigenous Dreamwork workshop will share dreams Indiginous Dreamwork Colorado, using Apela Colorado's Indigenous Dreamwork method, Approach Beth Duncan which is a group dreamwork method involving deep listening, the glyphing of dream imagery, and group conversation exploring the collective themes that 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 Intuition Intuition in Group Hoffmann help in group dreamwork, following the Ullman technique Dreamwork as modified by Taylor along with Jungian amplification methods. Note: attendance limited to 25 attendees. MDG Active Deepening dream Cornelia J. In this dream group I lead an introduction to the Imagination understanding Krikke understanding of, and practice of active imagination. Each through the use of morning dreamers will describe, then individually work with active imagination. images that are specific to their dreams. Dreamers will note the new understandings gained. Finally 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 Dreamwork Landerman Projective (“If it were my dream…”) method. Other methods will be demonstrated as they apply, such as Dream Interview, Gestalt and Dream Theater. Art materials will be provided to draw or paint the dream. MDG Listening to the Michael Within this approach the dreamer is stimulated by open- Listening Dreamer Schredl ended questions to reflect on the dream experience and its approach relationships to waking life. Suggestions, interpretations, etc. from group members are discouraged. Lucidity Cultivating a Lucid Lana This morning group will together go through 5 techniques MDG Dreaming & Lucid Sackwild over 5 days on how to cultivate a lucid dreaming practice Living Practice which will ultimately lead us towards lucid living. The group will also discuss and share some participant's dreams from the previous nights dreams as examples of 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, 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 MDG Dream Group: Goodman, conference provides participants with a home base to share Welcome to the Bernard Welt and reflect upon new knowledge and insights gained during World of Your the conference, and introduces time-tested practices for Dreams recalling and recording dreams, and exploring them in your dream journal and with others.

DREAMWORK TRACK Workshop DreamWork at Rubin At first glance, dreams and work might appear to be 60m Work: Practices to Naiman, Leah opposites -- antithetical and even mutually exclusive. While Enhance Corporate Ann Bolen work is serious and productive, dreaming can appear Wellness and frivolous and irrational. Utilizing creative work-related Creativity dream practices, this workshop addresses the potential of dreamwork to enhance work life in surprising and significant ways. Workshop A Dream Tool for G. Nathan We will use and discuss a tool for eyes-closed dreamwriting 60m Everyone Feinstein and quick insights.The tool, My Dream Guides, enhances Georgine the journaling method of Dr. Garfield, PhD., an IASD Brave Founder and Past President. In her best-seller, “Creative Dreaming”, Garfield states: the method offers “the most complete recall with the least effort”. Workshop Leading Dream Azima Lila “Leading Dream Groups in Person and on the Internet” will 60m Groups in Person and Forest focus on structures and techniques for leading dream on the Internet groups, both in person and via the Internet. It will include material on the format used for each dream session and the process used in working with each dream. Workshop Avoiding Premature David Low Dreamers will re-evaluate dreams which are either 60m Closure: mysterious or might be worked further. In small groups we Reconsidering Your will ask often overlooked questions about the dream, about Dream's Meaning the life context it might help us with, and to attune to feelings which may be the greatest asset to growth and understanding. Workshop Coaching the Dream: Will Sharon Working with dreams in the coaching paradigm questions 60m an ancient the concepts of interpretation, consciousness, how we experience in a new listen to a dream as well as how and whether we should context categorize dreams. This workshop will explore these ideas and demonstrate how they are used in using the dreams of the attendees. Workshop Sensing the Signs Susan Sensing the Signs is an experiential offering using somatic 90m (that Guide Us) Ackerman resonance and release techniques to facilitate a deeper Joseph connection to the symbols/signs that manifest in dreams and daily life. Participants will have an opportunity to work with their own material in this workshop that includes breathwork, gentle movement, and sound.

Workshop DreamWork/BodyW Jean DreamWork/BodyWork is a process-oriented therapeutic 90m ork Workshop Campbell model. This workshop will provide tools for understanding trauma and accessing the source of resolution. Workshop participants will gain insight into how the body holds and records information, how that information can be accessed, how dreams and personal imagery contain the information necessary to healing. Workshop Utilize dreams for J.M. DeBord Dreams offer wise guidance and counsel, but often it’s 90m decision-making, obscured by symbolism or embedded in a dream’s story. problem-solving, and This workshop demonstrates how to find the guidance growth within a dream’s content by decoding its symbolism and analyzing its story. After a powerpoint presentation, we examine the dreams of willing workshop participants. Workshop Fluidity of Dreams Devi Prem Devi Prem offers the workshop Fluidity of Dreams. We will 90m take the energy of significant parts of the dream and create poetry. The poem as the condensed version of the dream builds the base for a signature movement that can be shapeshifted by one’s soul’s direction to empower the dreamer. Workshop Dreams Alive! Linda Yael This workshop allows us to take our dreams into life. Using 90m Dream Theater Schiller techniques from body-oriented and dream theater processes of Focusing ( Gendlin), Psychomotor Pyschotherapy (Ogdan), Somatic Experiencing ( Levine) and Constellation work ( Hellinger) we will bring our dreams to life and to a satisfying resolution with group dream theater. Workshop Exploring the Lukas Bauer The participants will experience a unique workshop and 2hr symbolic language of dive deep into the symbolic language of dreams. They will dreams gain tools for systematic dream work and get to know the different types of symbols, the distinction between associations and amplifications in both personal and archetypical symbols and apply it to their own dream symbols. Workshop Drawing From the Walter E You will be surprised how much pours out of the 2hr Unconscious Berry unconscious by making a simple sketch of a dream and then working with it. Join us in this lively, dynamic approach to experiencing dreams through the visual. Humor and depth are earmarks of this workshop. Don’t miss it. Workshop Solution Oriented Layne Dalfen If we know how to tap into the resource of our dreams, 2hr Dream Decoding; anyone can gain insight and clarity about relationships, Problem Solving work, family and life. This workshop gives participants tools While We to decode and understand why we have certain dreams on a particular night and how that knowledge can enrich our lives. Workshop Dreaming Moving & Daniel What are the commonalities between dreams, movement 2hr Improvising. Deslauriers and improvisation? Through mindful guided practices, we Exploration in will explore those intersections as intimated by personal common. An dream imagery (individually, in dyads and large group). No experiential and previous experience necessary, only a willingness to explore exploratory dreams through the medium of the body. workshop.

Workshop DREAMS: THEATER Heloisa Dreams can be seen as a stage where various where 2hr OF OUR INNER Garman various parts or aspects of ourselves are manifested, WORLD representing our inner world. Workshop participants will learn how to interact with dream images, obtaining insight into their feelings, belief systems and their patterns of interaction. Workshop Take Your Dreams to Justina Lasley In this workshop we will offer didactic learning and 2hr Work: How and Why and Tzivia experiential techniques, to inform and encourage Dreamwork Is Good Gover professionals who want to incorporate dreams and for Business dreamwork into their businesses. We will address the benefits of bringing dreamwork into professions, including medicine, psychotherapy, spiritual counseling, coaching, the arts, science, education, and more. Workshop Utilizing Sandtrays Leah Hodari Introduction to utilizing miniatures in sandtrays as a way to 2hr and Miniatures in and David explore dreams on a 3 dimensional level. The process of Dreamwork Kahn selecting and placing miniature representatives of real and fantasy life in a designated blue tray filled with sand enables the participant to engage the whole brain and reach the subconscious. Workshop Dream to Freedom: Robert Hoss, The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT or "tapping") is 2hr combining EFT with Kristen Hoss combined with dreamwork in one synergistic protocol (ref: Dreamwork Clinical EFT Handbook) for clinical and personal work. Scripted Gestalt role-play is used to identify emotional issues the dream is dealing with, followed by an EFT protocol for reducing the stress surrounding that issue. Workshop Leading Innovative Justina Lasley Participants will explore step-by-step processes of 2hr and Successful organizing and leading dream groups. They will develop a Dream Groups template for their group -- focusing on creating the group, agendas, guidelines, problem solving, mentoring personal transformation. Participants, while focusing on individual goals, will learn innovative and successful techniques by working in a dream group. Workshop CREATIVE DREAM Victoria Acquire inventive methods to advance the scope and depth 2hr JOURNAL Rabinowe of your dream journal practice. Explore metaphors, TECHNIQUES symbols, paradoxes from shifting perspectives. Provocative prompts will 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. Workshop Tarotpy®, Dreams Lauren Z. Tarotpy is an innovative method to enhance the practice of 2hr and “Soul-making” Schneider dream work and enter dreaming consciousness with eyes wide open. Decks will be provided and participants are welcome to bring their own decks. Panel We are the Earth Ryan Hurd Dreams reflect our collective humanity, and how we are Dreaming (Discussant), embedded in the natural world. Therefore, our dreams are Apela necessarily the Earth’s dreams. Here, we discuss the Colorado, implications of collective dreaming for the Earth from Daniel several viewpoints, including indigenous science, Deslauriers, phenomenology & systems theory, and nonlocal dream Jean sharing in cyberspace. Campbell

Symposium Dreamwork Marta Aarli, Psychotherapists Katarzyna and Marta will discuss the 60m Contexts: Katarzyna similarities and differences between doing dreamwork in Psychotherapy and Kaminska the context of individual therapy and in dream groups, as Dream Group, well as between the cultural contexts of Europe and the US. Comparing Perspectives from Europe and the US Symposium Dreamworking Curtiss Hoffman, Patrick Walsh, Patricia Kilroe 90m Approaches and Experiences Oh, the Places You’ll Curtiss In dreams, we often find ourselves in defined locations. Go! Exploring Hoffman, Many are familiar places, which tends to confirm the Dream Geography Continuity Hypothesis. But sometimes we dream into locations which 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 Helper Circles to an decades Dream Helper Circles. Henry challenged a group of online experience supporters to develop an online circle experience that was as 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 From Textual Kilroe written dream reports? As evidence to support an Analysis to Textual affirmative answer, five approaches to engaging with Play dream reports will be illustrated, including both a traditional and a modified form of textual analysis, textual maps, word clouds, and found poetry.

CLINICAL TRACK Videos THE POWER OF Alan Siegel The Power of Dreams is a Discovery Channel Special video DREAMS: Clinical, with many IASD experts. It features re-enactment of dream Cultural and scenes and extended interviews of Milton Kramer, Ernest Research Hartmann, Robert Bosnak, Rosalind Cartwright, William Perspectives Dement, Allan Hobson and others. It presents research, theory and clinical applications and remarkable personal dreams from experts, Rosalind Cartwright and William Dement. Workshop Understanding and Alan Siegel Understanding and exploring children’s nightmares may 90m Exploring Children’s enhance communication, diagnosis and treatment, soothe Nightmares: Clinical, traumatic anxieties linked to social media, bullying, divorce, Cultural, and trauma, learning differences, suicidal ideation, etc., Creative Perspectives stimulate creativity and alert parents and therapists. This workshop presents exercises, discussion, guidelines for mental health/health professionals, dreamworkers, educators, parents, as well as themes, interventions, cultural and creative dimensions. Workshop Altering Dreams Deborah This workshop will provide participants with an 90m through Altering Armstrong experiential, expressive arts practice known as altering Books: An Expressive books, that, when accompanied by lucid dreaming, can Arts Practice infused provide potent relief to those experiencing chronic with Lucid Dreaming nightmares, originating from any number of origins. Altering books is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, 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. Workshop Lucid Dreaming Kristen Lucid Dreaming Therapy (LDT) has favorable features with 2hr Therapy: Case LaMarca the potential to elaborate on evidence-based treatment Conceptualization, models for nightmares, trauma, and other mental Treatment Planning, disorders. This workshop focuses on the planning, and Intervention justification, and implementation of LDT interventions using theoretically-informed case formulations. Symposium Clinical Syposium Theresa Coimbra, Susan E. Schwartz 60m

Dreams in the Theresa In my work as a psychologist, as a Jungian analyst for over Process of Coimbra 30 years, patients often bring dreams about me, or I have Psychotherapy dreams about them. In this talk, I share my process for handling 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 addiction and the Schwartz and body. Linking them parallels the disunion and split 'as-if' personality selves. The malady of the soul appears in the ‘as-if’ personality based on façade and illusions masking narcissistic needs manifested in a composite example of a man with sexual addictions.

DREAMS AND HEALTH Workshop How Dreams Bring Jeanne Van This workshop will explore dreams of the dying and their 90m Comfort at the End Bronkhorst families, and the benefits of talking about dreams. Drawing of Life upon research, interviews with healthcare professionals, and her work as a hospice social worker, Jeanne will present a simple dream appreciation approach that upholds the dignity of the dreamer. Workshop Dreams of Trees Christopher Dreams of trees often seem to have a powerful and special 2hr Sowton quality, saying something about what it feels like for us to exist on this earth. Dr Sowton will present several tree dreams from his naturopathic practice, and then give participants a chance to share and discuss. Symposium Dreams and Health Katherine Bell (chair), Debbie Irvine 60m Symposium Dreaming as Katherine Dreams are universal to humans. Animals also seem to Emotional Immune Bell experience dream-like interludes during sleep suggesting System that dreams are evolutionarily important. I briefly share some personal dream experiences then share results of published literature showing evidence that dreams, even when not remembered, are corrective and serve to enhance our emotional health. The Healing Power Debbie Irvine The Hero’s Journey (Jung, Campbell), as a monomyth, has a of Dreams: From universal structure: calling, death, rebirth and Death to Rebirth as transformation. Irvine illustrates how dream series can The Wounded-Healer follow this archetypal pattern leading to transformation and Dream-Shaman and healing. Irvine maps and demonstrates how series of dreams from her life guided her through her own Hero’s Journey. Workshop Dreams from Monique Care givers faced the sickness and death of the founder of a 60m Hospice staff Seguin hospice. Staff members had dreams to prepare them to the loss of Teresa Dellar .I will present different scenarios , to demonstrate the progression in a healing process facing a collective grieving for each of them..

EDUCATION Wksp 60m Dreaming Up a Paul Sheldon This workshop will give an overview of the Dreamosophy Better Future: & Kloey Anne process and its role in correctional facilities, including the Dreamwork in Kelton relevance of dreaming to incarcerated individuals, unique Correctional needs of staff and inmates, key educational foci of the Institutions Dreamosophy approach, and recent data. Attendees will also experience a representative Dreamosophy group process.

ARTS & HUMANITIES Musical Songs of Dreams SackJo22 SOD LIve is performance art: a hybrid concert/multi-media Event (aka Susan DJ set infused with dream images and dreamwork initiated- Ackerman insights. Based on SackJo22’s album, Songs of Dreams Joseph) (2018), the live show is a creative integration of ceremony, remixed sounds, live music and video that emulates the inspiration for the work -- the dreams. Dance Circle Dream Dance Circle Craig Webb A warm welcome to all! Interactive community song/dance (host) 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!) Light Sound Dream-Inspired Craig Webb An engaging artistic event that involves a new dream- Event Light-Painting & inspired light-sound-biofeedback audience-interactive Mesmerizing Mime performance device invented by the presenter as well as a Performance specially-illuminated mime acting story involving dreams. Poetry Poetry Reading Open Pending Pending Reading Mic Workshop Does a richer dream- Marc Hanlan Societal and justice perspectives of those who are more 60m state impact societal & Jeanne aware of their dreams and sleep-state than the general justice and Anastasi population are explored. Perspectives on joy, empathy, and empathy? societal justice may offer a unique perspective on global challenges and opportunities, at a time of high-tension, partisan divides in US and European environments. Workshop Dream Poetry: Marta Aarli In this experiential workshop, we’ll explore the places 90m Painting with Words, between dreaming and waking, between visual and verbal, An Experiential translating messages and images from our dreams into Workshop poems. We’ll tap into our whole being to express the language of our body, heart, senses, and soul, through structured play, to free ourselves creatively. Workshop Serious Play: Loren This workshop encourages participants to approach dreams 90m Surrealist Dream Goodman as a rich and abundant source for literary artistic Writing Workshop production both in verse and prose. In it, we will experiment primarily with the collaborative, collage-like Surrealist technique known as the “exquisite corpse." Workshop Yoga Nidra – An Kimberly R. Yoga Nidra is a sleep-based meditation. Body, breath, and 90m Effortless Sleep- Mascaro awareness techniques merge to support states of expanded based Meditation awareness and relaxation. Here, in between sleeping and waking, we can restore balance and feel rejuvenated. Come experience the art and practice of this non-doing state of being. No previous experience necessary. Workshop Dream Haiku – Asha Sahni Haiku – short, structured poems of Japanese origin – can 90m surfing the edge mine rich seams in dreams, offering clarity and focus. They between sleeping can sometimes unearth kernels of truth which are just and waking beyond conscious understanding. We will explore a dream/dreams through a series of exercises, each writing and sharing several dream haiku.

Workshop An Ullman dream Mark Mark Blagrove and the audience will discuss a dream with 2hr discussion with Blagrove & the dream-sharer and will create a painting artwork produced so Julia of the dream. Previous artworks can be seen at as to revisit the Lockheart http://DreamsID.com. An enlarged print of the artwork is dream with friends sent to the dreamer afterwards to aid revisiting the dream and family with friends and family. Workshop Lucid on the Page: A Tzivia Gover Author Jorge Luis Borges has said, “Writing is nothing more 2hr Writing Experience than a guided dream.” In this workshop, we’ll use dream for Dreamers lucidity to make our writing more vivid and alive. Simple techniques to achieve dream lucidity will be offered as well as ways to be lucidly aware when writing while awake. Workshop Honoring Deceased Kimberly R. Many people experience visitation dreams, yet they are 2hr Loved Ones: Mascaro rarely discussed. This workshop will provide a space to Intersecting honor and share these experiences. Following discussion, Visitation Dreams there will be a shrine-building activity. Each attendee will and Shrine-making craft a personal altar to a deceased loved-one to take home. Materials provided, including the wooden altar-box. Workshop Dream Poetry Richard A chance to experience and share dream poetry in a 2hr Reading Circle Russo supportive environment. Priority is given to original poems written by participants. The goal is to honor the dreams that inspired the poems, and to experience the power of hearing them read aloud. Not a writing workshop (no critiquing). Reading is voluntary. Workshop How to Make Tina Tau This workshop draws on the intelligence of two big dreams 2hr Change in the World: about social change. Sharing of the dreams will be followed Can Dreams Help? by a guided meditation, a journaling exercise, group discussion and an art activity. These particular dreams invite us to experience awe, love and possibility in the face of overwhelming odds. Panel Visual Artists Panel: Julie Five of the exhibiting artists explain their creative process Artistic Processes of Nauman- and how it is related to dreams and dreaming. Each artist Working with Mikulski + 4 presents visuals of their work. Conference attendees will Dreams selected be provided the opportunity to gain a more comprehensive exhibiting understanding of works in the exhibition narrated by the artists artist themselves. Symposium Dreams, Creativity, Bernard Welt Almost everyone agrees that there is a deep connection 2hr and the Arts Part #1 (Mod), Nancy between dreaming and creativity; many have relevant Grace, personal experience, or know the most famous instances. Deirdre But how do we extend and refine our understanding of that Barrett, connection? Today’s talks draw inferences from different Richard dream phenomena, artistic media, and approaches to Russo, creativity. Walter E. Berry Symposium Dreams, Creativity, Don Kuiken, Almost everyone agrees that there is a deep connection 60m and the Arts Part #2 Bernard Welt between dreaming and creativity; many have relevant personal experience, or know the most famous instances. But how do we extend and refine our understanding of that connection? Today’s talks examine fundamental definitions of key terms such as dream, imagination, and metaphor.

CULTURE & HISTORY Symposium Applying Historical, Andrea Signorelli, Craig Webb, Cordell Jacks 2hr Artistic and Social Practices , Andrea Dream Incubation is an ancient practice born as a ritual to from the Asklepion Signorelli gain guidance from the gods. Not much has changed: to the Laboratory nowadays people use dream incubation to solve problems and make 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, the Music: Dreaming production and collaboration ideas for composers, folk and Classical, Popular & popular artists, as well as musical calling/healing dreams for Folk Artists, shamans worldwide. Also revealed will be premonition and Instrumentalists & visitation dreams of various artists, plus a mini medley of Others melodies inspired by little-known dreams, including the presenter’s. The Call of our Cordell Jacks The existential threats humanity currently faces require us Times: Reinventing to radically reinvent our roles and relationships as a what it means to be species. This fundamental re-imagining of what it means to ‘Human’ through be ‘human’ requires us to utilize our greatest learnings in Dream social innovation, and accelerate them with limitless potential for ideation that lucid dreaming offers.

SPIRITUALITY Workshop How to use our Claude Through dreams we can discover ourselves as spiritual 90m dreams for spiritual Couture beings, receive inner guidance and messages that uplift our growth. consciousness and free ourselves from the limitations of the human condition. What are spiritual dreams and what kind of experiences can we expect from them? How to cultivate them ? A personal viewpoint. Symposium Jungian concepts Richard F. Paseman 60m Devils, Dreams and Richard F. In this presentation a general Jungian model of the psyche Demons: the Shadow Paseman #1 and of dreams will be applied to dream symbols of devils Side of Sleep and demons. Insights from depth psychology regard dream images of 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 Santuario Paseman #2 soul to sacred space. The Santuario 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.

LUCID DREAMING TRACK Lucidity Special Event: Lucid Robert In this lucid dreaming special event, lucid dreamers will Meetup Dreamer Meetup Waggoner meet other lucid dreamers, share successful induction techniques, ask questions to the group and explore interesting lucid dreams! A great opportunity to gain lucid dreaming tips and techniques, while meeting others who share your passion for lucid dreaming. Symposium Lucid Dreaming Bashkar Banerji, Angel Morgan, Robert Waggoner (chair) 90m Symposium Lucid vs Non-Lucid Bhaskar This presentation is based upon the results of my 2018 PhD Dream Healing – Banerji dissertation on incubating healing dreams, one aspect of Comparing which was to compare lucid vs. non-lucid dream healing Approaches approaches. Dragons, Angels, and Angel Rites of passage dreams that children and teens experience Rites of Passage: Morgan will be outlined, with tools to help them develop lucid Developmental Lucid dreaming capacities. Methods and techniques for creatively Dreaming for working with dreams will be included that the presenter Children and Teens has taught to children, teens, parents, teachers, and caregivers of children for over 20 years. Accessing Unique Robert Lucid dreaming serves as a revolutionary psychological tool, Levels of Creativity in Waggoner which allows for observing, exploring and scientifically Lucid Dreams experimenting while consciously aware of dreaming. In this presentation, you will learn how lucid dreamers access three unique levels of creativity, interact with a non-visible responsive inner awareness, and utilize the hidden framework of dreaming. Symposium Lucidity & Psi Robert Waggoner (chair), Dan Gilhooley, Nicole Gratton 90m Symposium Five Ways Lucid Robert Lucid dreaming offers unparalleled access to the state of Dreaming Should Waggoner dreaming and allows for experimenting with the Revolutionize unconscious (the hidden foundation of consciousness) and Psychology the very nature of creativity. As such, lucid dreaming provides the possibility for radical new insights which could revolutionize psychology. Five exploratory insights will be shared. “The Psychic Dan This presentation examines two examples of the interplay Intersection of Gilhooley of dreams and life examining intersubjective dreaming, Dreams and Life: synchronicity, and apparent mind-matter interactions. Five Intersubjectivity and dreams seem to offer guidance in interpreting inexplicable Mind-Matter events which can be understood as both random and Interactions” meaningful. Shared intersubjective experiences appear to demonstrate a transpersonal nonlocal consciousness. Quantic Dreams: 3 Nicole Quantic dreams are those experiences in the dream state keys to facilitate Gratton that are realer than reality. They let us into a moment of their manifestation awe when we wake up. Something unpredictable has happened. The energy of the dream stays with us all day long. The vividness of the images persists for a long time.

Symposium Investigating Jillian Calder, Peter Maich, Barbara Condron (chair) 90m Lucidity: Personal Experiences Magick, Herbs, The Jillian Calder This talk will share the results of a personal investigation Moon, and their using herbs, and lunar cycles consciously before sleep to Effects on Dreams determine how my dreams would be affected. Participants will 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, and experiences with signatures and effect on dreams, based on many years of lucid dream use, and how they can enhance the lucid experience. [Note: supplements 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.] DREAM SYNC: Could Barbara As her father disappeared into dementia, Barbara Condron Lucid Dreaming be Condron witnessed how day dreams and night dreams dissolve in our Superpower to forgetfulness and its companion, pretense. She proposes reTHINK our that emotional consciousness is experienced as gaps that FEELings? the mind and body endeavor to close through memory and imagination. “First 20 Minutes of Your Night” provides a model for strengthening mindset skills making the unconscious, conscious.

PSI AND EXTRAORDINARY DREAMING TRACK Film Event Parallel Gems Bhaskar This short experimental film set in India & Death Valley, Banerji California (30 min) explores the relationship between dreams, parallel worlds and psychic phenomenon. Film Event Psi True Story Film Craig Webb An engaging movie centered around dreams and starring Jane Seymour based on the book by Jenny Cockell based on her true story about powerful clairvoyant and past-life Dreams that she acted on to finally unite with the still-living aged "children" from "her" previous life. Workshop The continuum of Richard Bonk This workshop will explore the relationship between 60m consciousness — traditional meditation practice and dream and sleep yoga sleep, dream and within the context of the continuum of consciousness, our meditative states: daily cyclic rhythms. Emphasis will be on practical awakening to their application for the arising of transformative insights and potentials will include a guided experience and group sharing. Workshop Life-Changing Out of Rose Gordy Since OBE’s are significant waking dreams than can change 60m Body Experiences our lives, I will share three key ones of mine in particular (OBEs) the one that led to a major change in my life decades ago. Then I will open the group discussion since when we share a dream, it becomes in a way a dream for all the listeners. I will ask the participants to share their OBE’s which we will discuss related to our own lives.

Workshop Path to Freedom: Nick Atlas, This integrative, hands-on workshop will explore an 90m Healing in Lucid PhD empirically-driven model of psychospiritual healing and Dreams and Beyond transformation derived from phenomenological research on the experience of freedom in lucid dreams. The workshop is open to all levels and no prior experience is necessary. Symposium Extraordinary Linda Mastrangelo, Cynthia Pearson, Shanee Stepakoff, Jeanne Van 2hr Dreams Bronkhorst The Serpent and the Linda In this presentation Linda Mastrangelo will be exploring a Lion: An Exploration Mastrangelo series of personal dreams that surprisingly connect with her of Place, Dreams, family genealogy and ancient ancestral roots with places of and DNA origin. Using psychology, myth, art, sacred geography as well as DNA testing, Mastrangelo makes symbolic connections between dreaming and place. How Is It We Can Cynthia The Precognitive Dream Contests held at IASD’s Psiber Dream of the Pearson Dreaming Conferences offer ample evidence that we can Future? Speculating dream the future, but don’t explain how that is possible. In on the results of 18 this presentation we will illuminate the question by Precognitive Dream exploring recent research and provocative perspectives Contests such as field consciousness, "premory" and simultaneous time. Correspondences Shanee This presentation provides compelling evidence of dreams Between Dream Stepakoff that reflected events in the dreamer’s community, society, Narratives & Societal and world before these events were publicly reported. This Events: A evidence points to the need for a transpersonal interpretive Transpersonal framework that views dreams as indicative of species- Interpretive connectedness and as potentially beneficial for society as a Framework whole. The Dual Nature of Jeanne Van Visitation dreams are powerful and emotionally healing. As Visitation Dreams Bronkhorst visitations they raise the possibility 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 TRACK - THEORY Theory Panel Dreaming States and Deborah This panel will explore dreaming states and the nature of the Nature of Time Armstrong time, providing a taste of several perspectives on the topic. (Chair) Terry Dreams and physics tell us that conceptualizing time as Marks being linear limits and restricts us and is simply incorrect. Tarlowe This panel is intended to begin a conversation about these Laurel Clark considerations. Jean Campbell Theory The Construction and G. Scott Co-creative Dream Theory introduces a new perspective on Workshop Analysis of Sparrow dream metaphor. I will review the seminal contributions of Metaphors in Co- Jung, Ullman, and Lakoff pertaining to the construction and Creative Dream analysis of dream imagery. Then I will examine specific Theory principals and methods that will illuminate dimensions of dreamwork heretofore overlooked by traditional assumptions.

RESEARCH TRACK Wokshop Research Workshop Mark Mark Blagrove and the research workshop members will 2hr on dreams, insight Blagrove and discuss a dream with the dream-sharer and Julia Lockheart and empathy, using Julia will create a painting of the dream. The background dream discussion Lockheart dreaming and empathy theory will be discussed. Measures and artwork of personal insight and state empathy will be described and completed in the session. Symposium Nightmares Michael Schredl , Josie Malinowski (chair) 60m Nightmare distress, Michael In addition to nightmare frequency, certain beliefs about nightmare Schredl nightmares increase distress due to nightmares. Treatment frequency, and programs should include psycho-education in addition to beliefs about techniques reducing nightmare frequency. nightmares Does suppressing Josie Two studies investigating the effect of suppressing your unpleasant Malinowski unpleasant thoughts on nightmare experiencing are thoughts give you presented. nightmares? Symposium Nightmares and Michael A review of links between nightmares and suicide, using 2hr Suicide: Research, Nadorff, Alan dreams to assess risk, soothe acute distress, guide clinical Clinical, Ethical, and Siegel (chair) interventions (e.g. IRT), ethical considerations including Cultural Perspectives cautions about reductive and premature interpretations, and cultural differences. Nightmare vignettes and risk assessment with adults and children will be presented, along with discussion and exercises. Intermediate level. Sympoium Cultural Transitions Nori Muster, Wonjin Sim, Matt Newsom (chair) 90m Dreams upon Nori Muster This presentation uses multiple methods to analyze a series Leaving a Religious of 48 dreams that place after leaving a religious cult. Cult The series includes 17 dreams of aggressive encounters with group members. The results of this analysis demonstrate continuity between dream characters and daytime concerns. International Wonjin Sim The present study investigated Asian international Students’ PhD students’ perceptions of dream work using the Hill (2004) Perspective on dream model. Fourteen Asian international students who Dream Sessions moved to the United States within one year participated in During Cultural a dream session, completed pre- and post-session Transition measures, and were interviewed about helpful components of dream sessions. Coming of Age in the Matt This presentation draws on ethnographic research among Dream: Place and Newsom young adults living in Berlin, Germany. Through analysis of Selfhood Among dream narratives and imagery, the relationship between Young Adults in selfhood, place, and history is considered. Berlin

Symposium Lucid Dreaming Michael Schredl (chair), Elliott Gish, Remington Mallett 90m Research Inducing lucid Michael The Wake-up-Back-to-Bed (WBTB) technique is not only dreams: The Wake- Schredl effective if used in the sleep laboratory setting but also up-back-to-bed when applied at home. The lucid dream rate after WBTB technique in the nights was about 18%, compared to about 6% in all other home setting. nights. Findings from an Elliott Gish The presenter will review findings from his dissertation that Exploratory Study of investigated the phenomenon of relieving pain through Lucid Dreaming for lucid dreaming. Pain levels before and after the lucid dream Pain Relief experience will be discussed, as well as themes and possible contributions of the following variables: absorption, expectation, dream vividness, and mental imagery ability. Dream lucidity is Remington Lucid dreams have been promoted as a route for personal associated with Mallett growth and overcoming nightmares, but the mechanism positive morning behind these benefits is unclear. We show that lucid affect dreams are related to positive morning affect, which might be part of a multitude of beneficial outcomes of dream lucidity. Symposium Trauma and Alwin E. Wagener, Robert Hoss (chair), Alan Siegel 90m Nightmares A New Lens on Alwin E. The results of a new study on dreams and nightmares Dreams and Wagener among survivors of intimate partner violence will be Nightmares presented. Participants will learn of five types of dreams and 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 Content: a Vietnam Vet with PTSD, comparing content of 45 years of Comparative study the post-combat recorded nightmares and dreams across 4 of a Vietnam Vet recording periods suggestive of 4 recovery stages. Content with 45 yrs. of dream profile is also compared with norms and other combat records related PTSD studies. Nightmares and Alan Siegel To Be Announced Trauma - To Be Announced

Sympoium Dream Content Masoud Zangeneh Soroush, Isaac Taitz (chair) & Stanley Krippner, David Low, 2hr David Kahn What Can Masoud Z- Dreams are exciting unknown experiences and full of emotional Nonlinear EEG Soroush, content. Considering that brain is a complex, emergent, self- Analysis Tell Us Pedram Z- organized biological system with unknown interactions About Dreaming Soroush, between its components, we employ nonlinear EEG analysis Affect? Morteza Z- with the aim of dream affect recognition. Results suggest that Soroush the proposed method is quite effective and practical. Gender Differences Isaac Taitz; This quantitative analysis explored 200 Ukrainian dreams in Dream Content Stanley obtained in workshops conducted in 1995 and 1998. Among the Using Quantitative Krippner findings, men more often were befrienders of dream Content Analysis in characters, while women more often related to others through Ukraine friendliness. Men more often saw 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 Content and Kinds dreams in any one night and over different nights compared to of Dreams focused or mind wandering when awake. This hypothesis 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 Messages: done on dream meanings. An Ias survey reveals personal Psychology, understandings of their nature, source(s), accuracy, and Reliability and Life- affective nature, perceived life benefits generally and with life Journey Benefits passages, ways the dreams communicate, plus dreamers’ dialogue, and levels of compliance with messages. Symposium Social Influences Mark Blagrove, Michael Schredl, Katja Valli (chair), Jayne Gackenbach 2hr Dream and Mark Previous work shows that dream-sharing and discussion of discussion variable Blagrove dreams following the Ullman method increases the empathy of moderators of the discusser towards the dream-sharer. This study investigates effect of dream- the moderating influence of the length of dream in words, sharing on state length of discussion, and number of discussions, on the empathy empathy effect. Social skills and Michael In this diary study with 69 students, the relationships between dreaming Schredl waking-life social skills like 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 seclusion on social hypothesis and the Compensation hypothesis of the Social dream content Simulation theory by investigating the effects of social seclusion on the 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 Dreams and Gackenbac function of the type of media present in the dream. Specifically, Associated h active media dreams, like video game play or social media use, Sentiment are compared to passive media like movies or television.

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