3-12-2026 minor changes may occur, watch for updates.
Daily Program with Presentation Details
2026 IASD International Conference
Program Schedule
(as of 12 March 2026 – minor changes may occur so watch for updates)
Saturday 13 June
Conference Opening: Aquarius & Andromeda overflow
6:30 – 6:50 Opening Ceremony – Lana Nasser
6:50-7:00 Co-Host Welcome – Angel Morgan, Kelly Bulkeley
7:00 – 8:15 Keynote Address: Dr. Clare Johnson
8:15 – 8:30 Welcome & Announcements – Bob Hoss
Sunday 14 June
8:00-9:00 Morning Dream Groups
Dream Circle: Athena Laz (Stardust)
A welcoming and engaging morning dream circle designed to draw out the collective wisdom of the group in a safe, respectful, and thoughtfully contained space. Participants are invited to listen deeply, share intuitive and reflections, and explore meaning together while honoring each dreamer as the ultimate authority on their dream.
Developing the Intuition in Group Dreamwork: Curtiss Hoffman (Galaxy 2)
We will explore the ways in which intuitive perception can help in group dreamwork, following the Ullman technique as modified by Taylor along with Jungian amplification methods. Note: attendance limited to 24 attendees.
Workshop – Exploring the Other forms of Dreaming: JF Pagel MS,MD (Cosmos 2)
We dream throughout sleep, yet what we remember as a dream is often from our last episode of REMS. Each night we experience multiple dreams emanating from at least four other very different forms of sleep consciousness: sleep onset, light sleep, deep sleep, the white dreams that are reported throughout sleep. This workshop presents an approach that can be used to explore these other forms of sleep consciousness.
Somatic Dreamwork for the Female Nervous System: Cassi Stuckman (Galaxy 1)
This framework combines Gendlin’s Focusing, Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, and Caldwell’s Moving Cycle to support somatic dreamwork tailored for the female nervous system. We will explore dreams and examine their relationship to various phases of the female life cycle as well as hormonal changes and how they affect our dreams. The approach recognizes that dream patterns shift across menstrual and life stages. Morning sessions include movement and dream-sharing.
Healing Dreams: Receiving Light and Angelic Visitations: Xian Prem, Ph.D. (Cosmos 1)
This group explores healing dreams involving angelic visitations, the presence of radiant light, and inner guidance for daily life. Participants explore how these dreams offer emotional support, spiritual reassurance, and pathways for changing habits to support physical and emotional health and wellbeing.
First-timers Morning Dream Group: The Dream Journal-Recalling, Recording and Reflecting on Your Dreams: Bernard Welt, Loren Goodman (Orion)
This morning workshop for first timers at the IASD conference provides participants with a home base to share and reflect upon new knowledge and insights gained during the conference, and introduces time-tested practices for recalling and recording dreams and exploring them in your dream journal and with other dreamers.
Digging for Dream Gold: Katherine R Bell (Andromeda)
Come practice looking for “Dream Treasures” with the understanding that all dreams, even difficult ones, are intrinsically beneficial. We will use non-interpretive Experiential Dreamwork techniques such as embodiment and role play. Everyone is invited to share a dream every day. Suitable for clinicians or individuals.
Conversations with Psyche: Creative Dream Work Practices: Victoria Rabinowe (Aquarius)
By incorporating a range of established, emerging, innovative, and embodied dreamwork techniques, we will explore dream themes from personal, collective, archetypal, and allegorical perspectives in a supportive environment for sharing discoveries, honoring the dreamer’s ownership of their dreams, and engaging in ethical dream inquiry consistent with contemporary professional standards.
9:00 – 9:15 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
9:15 – 10:15 Early Morning Sessions:
Workshop Demo — Dreams-Driven Masks Creation: Jacqueline López (Galaxy 2)
Dreams are often a source of artistic inspiration, particularly in the creation of masks. The symbolic nature of dreams, often filled with surreal imagery and personal symbolism, can translate well into the visual language of mask-making. Masks embody transformation, making them ideal for expressing the hidden, dreamlike aspects of the self.
Practices Workshop — Dreamifesting®: Dream Incubation as a Bridge Between Soul and Waking Life: Dr. Kelly Sullivan Walden (Galaxy 1)
Dreamifesting is an immersive workshop that teaches you how to work with your dreams as a powerful guidance system for real-life transformation. Through guided exercises, mindfulness practices, and interactive discussion, you’ll learn to decode dream messages, align with your subconscious wisdom, and turn insight into inspired action. Gain clarity, momentum, and a deeper connection to yourself—then awaken your dreams and consciously create the life you desire.
Dreamwork Workshop – Dreaming: A Creative Brain State: Sandi Madison (Cosmos 1)
This workshop explores the creativity of the right hemisphere in shaping our dreamscapes, making them symbolic, synesthetic, and nonlinear. We will examine theta brainwaves in REM sleep and the role of emotional continuity in revealing deeper meaning. We’ll also consider the benefits of ritualizing a dream practice. Please bring a pen and notebook for the activities, designed to deepen your intuition and strengthen your personal engagement with your dream imagery.
Special Film Event – Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: Angel Morgan, PhD (Orion)
Angel Morgan presents the short film, Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger (2026), based on the book Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: A New Lucid Dreaming Classic for Children and Parents of the 21st Century (Morgan, 2018) and the audiobook of the same title (Morgan, 2019). This film addresses developmental nightmare transformation and much more.
Special Event – Caesura’s Cry: Singing Awakening Dreams: Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC (Andromeda)
Caesura’s Cry is a cry of being born—personally, collectively and continually, a cry of the eternal ecstatic-yet-mournful simultaneity of union and separation. Willow Pearson Trimbach, singing songs from her new album, welcomes the listener to be held in the intimacy of the sacred feminine. And, in singing dreams that wake us up, to behold love’s wisdom, compassion and vision.
Willow dedicates this oneiric music to our ongoing collective awakening.
Research Symposium – Counselling Factors
Exploring Counsellors’ Dreams Through Photography: A Visual–Narrative Study: Beril Ozturk
This presentation explores how counsellors and counselling trainees use dream images to make meaning in therapy. Using participant-created photographs and semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews, the study examines visual–narrative processes, affect, symbolism, and clinical meaning-making. It aims to provide insights into how visualising dreams may enhance reflection, professional development, and therapeutic practice.
Counsellors’ Dream Beliefs and Dreamwork Practices: Alwin E. Wagener
This presentation shares the findings of a recent study on the dream beliefs, dream attitudes, and dreamwork practices of licensed and provisionally licensed mental health counselors in the United States. Findings will include the relationship of counselors’ dream beliefs to those of the public, what they do with clients’ dreams, and how prepared they are for dreamwork.
10:15 – 10:30 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
10:30 – 12:00 Late Morning Sessions:
Spiritual Workshop – Ancestral Dreaming: Connecting with our Ancestors and Healing Intergenerational Wounds: Linda Yael Schiller (Galaxy 1)
This presentation shares the findings of a recent study on the dream beliefs, dream attitudes, and dreamwork practices of licensed and provisionally licensed mental health counselors in the United States. Findings will include the relationship of counselors’ dream beliefs to those of the public, what they do with clients’ dreams, and how prepared they are for dreamwork.
Dreamwork Workshop — Peace Work as Dream Work ™: Aimee Breslow (Cosmos 1)
Peace Work as Dream Work ™ uses projective group dreamwork to analyze conflicts (from interpersonal to international) as waking dreams. Working a conflict as a waking dream can break the rules of waking life, allowing new possibilities and new approaches for conflict transformation to emerge. This process can help to identify archetypal patterns, the stories being played out and the narratives being embraced by conflict actors and parties.
Dreamwork Workshop — Ullman Dream Discussion with an Artist Simultaneously Painting the Dream for Printing onto a T-shirt: Julia Lockheart and Mark Blagrove (Orion)
Mark Blagrove and the workshop participants will discuss an attendee’s dream using the Ullman method. While the dream is discussed Julia Lockheart will simultaneously create a painting of the dream onto pages taken (with publisher’s permission) from Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams. The finished painting will be discussed with the dreamer and audience and then printed onto a T-shirt for the dream-sharer to own and wear during the conference.
Dreamwork and Art Symposium – Artificial Intelligence (Andromeda)
D~Dreaming–Enhanced Emotional Algorithmic Synergy in AI Digital Art : Mara M. Flynn
This multidisciplinary project explores how AI, D~Dreaming, and subconscious creativity reshape digital collage art through Emotional Algorithmic Synergy. By treating dreams, affect, and inner-sense perception as generative inputs, it frames human–AI cocreation as reflective, therapeutic, and ethically complex, expanding creative practice and deepening dialogue on authorship and imagination.
Realizing the Precognitive Potential of Dreams with AI Support: Bill Gorman
Most people are not fully utilizing the precognitive potential of their dreams. Explore more of your precognitions by using AI support to understand the precognitive messages in your dreams.
Dreaming Forward with AI: Awakening Evolutionary Intelligence and Future Self: Jun Lu, Justina Lasley
Dreams integrate memory, emotion, creativity, and our oldest survival system, giving rise to Evolutionary Intelligence—the capacity that helps us meet the Future Self already forming within us. Building on everyday cognitive and emotional intelligences, this presentation extends familiar models into dreaming using arts-based and AI-augmented analysis developed with Justina Lasley. Through dream examples, participants learn how EI strengthens self-understanding and supports authentic, future-guided growth.
Featured Event — Many Ways to Explore a Dream: Katherine R. Bell, Jane Carleton, Robert J. Hoss, Marilyn Manzi, Linda Mastrangelo, Victoria Rabinowe, Lauren Schneider (Aquarius)
There are many ways to explore a dream, but have you ever seen that in action? Join us for this special offering where one dream will be explored by six experienced practitioners using different, complementary, and always ethical approaches. There will be spaces for audience members to contribute as well.
12:00 -2:00 2 Hour Lunch Break (including 90 minute Research Lunch meeting, Cosmos 2) (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
12:00 -2:00 Hospitality Room Open
2:00 – 3:30 Early Afternoon Sessions:
Workshop — Precognition: How to Connect with Intuitive Sparks: Marcia Emery (Galaxy 1)
In the workshop I want to inspire and empower participants to explore precognition, that takes us into the realm of unlimited possibilities beyond time and space. In one form, we use active imagination to retrieve images of upcoming events. In another, we learn to interpret and program nightly precognitive dreams to receive information about possible and probable but not inevitable futures from the intuitive world within.
Poster Session (Galaxy 2)
Spiritual Workshop — Your Dream Journey to Enlightenment—Dreamwork with AI: David Low, MS PhD (Cosmos 1)
We will first learn how dreams are often thought to “work” in higher reality and—philosophically—how all people are destined to benefit spiritually from them. Participants will then answer a series of Powerpoint questions for greater awareness of how life changes are linked to their dreams. Insights will arise from journaling as well as verbal participation in a group process involving major symbols. Please look over your journals ahead of time!
Panel – 35 Years of Nightmares: The Trauma Healing Journey of a Dreamer, His Therapist, and a Dear Friend: Rene Leger, Marta Aarli (Chair), Tina Tau (Orion)
We will present one man’s profound trauma healing journey navigating 35 years of recurring nightmares, with support from his therapist and friend. The three of us will share our perspectives on how the process unfolded, as we collaborated in deep explorations along the way. We each held different aspects of the unconscious and brought unique insights as we uncovered the layers of intergenerational trauma dynamics playing out through the dreams.
Dreams and Health Symposium (Andromeda)
How to Hear Your Body Talk: Chris Cunniffe
This presentation explores the presenter’s direct experience with dreams that offer guidance regarding health and diet issues, including a series of dreams that enabled the presenterto avoid a surgical intervention.
Dream Hygiene — Practices to Restore Our Marginalized Dream Health: Rubin Naiman
This presentation advocates for the recognition and integration of dreaming into health practices, proposing “dream hygiene” as a complement to sleep hygiene. Despite its significant impact on health and social consciousness, dreaming is marginalized by modern medicine and lifestyles, exacerbating insomnia and depression. “Dream hygiene” promotes practices aimed at restoring the value and experience of dreaming to improve sleep and mental health and contribute to the transformation of social consciousness.
Cosmic Dreaming and Synchronicity Symposium (Aquarius)
When Soul Dreams the Cosmos Dreams: Bob Hoss
Some dream reports have suggested the presence of an infinite, loving, seemingly divine cosmic consciousness – which the dreamer feels at one with. Are we physical beings having a spiritual experience – or spiritual beings in a physical experience? This question is explored in the light of resuscitation accounts, quantum physics and dream accounts that suggest our fundamental nature as spirit – not alone but one with the cosmos.
Introducing the Holopsychology Revolution from Dreamwork via Synchronicity to Meaning: Gordon Montgomery
This presentation introduces Holopsychology™, a novel consciousness paradigm reframing synchronicity which can originate from proactive transcendent dream states. Using Jung’s scarab case and dissertation findings, synchronicity shifts from passive retrospective observation to an active co-creation technique generating meaningful reality, enhancing awareness, purpose, and resilience through intentional dreamwork.
3:30 – 3:45 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
3:45 – 5:15: Late Afternoon Sessions:
Workshop — Liminal Dreaming through Yoga Nidra and Sound: Joanna Kowalewska (Galaxy 1)
This workshop explores liminal dreaming through Yoga Nidra, a guided meditation practice, and a sound bath. Participants are guided into a deep state of rest while awareness remains present. In this threshold between waking and sleep, dream imagery, sensations, and insights can arise. Sound supports a quicker and deeper settling into this space. The session includes time for reflection and integration.
Poster Session: (Galaxy 2)
Spiritual Workshop — How to Trust AI to Explain Dreams: Signal–Pattern–Coherence and the Return of Authorship to Dreamers: Jun Lu, Justina Lasley (Cosmos 1)
This talk explains why AI can be trusted in dreamwork: it detects signal–pattern structure before story, countering our open-loop drive to interpret too quickly. AI’s emotion-free, analytic language steadies perception and returns us to a pre-verbal, bio-perceptual stance. Observing shifts in posture, space, relation, and rhythm creates aesthetic distance and embodied empathy, enabling dreamers to witness and actively author their unfolding patterns through calm, pattern-first seeing.
Cultural Symposium (Orion)
Ancestral Dreaming: Transpersonal Encounters with the Caribbean Spirit World: Bryan Negron Quiñones
This presentation examines ancestral dreaming as a sacred conduit between the living and the spiritual realm in Caribbean traditions, including Espiritismo and Santería. By combining transpersonal psychology, decolonial views, and ethnographic insights, it shows how dreams can pass on ancestral knowledge, help people heal, and strengthen their cultural identity. People will learn more about how dreams can help them remember things, be strong, and connect with people from different generations.
Where Dreams Are Beside Us: Dreams and Indigenous Cultures: Alejandra Perez Reguera
This presentation examines the integral role of dreams in the daily lives of Indigenous communities, with a focus on Mexican traditions. It explores how dreams function as tools for guidance, healing, and communal connection, reflecting a worldview in which the dream realm is inseparable from everyday life and decision-making.
Group treatment with Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) for refugees and Danish civilians with PTSD: Ida Poschmann
Group Imagery Rehearsal Therapy was evaluated in a pilot study including refugee and Danish civilian outpatient populations. The study examined adherence, acceptability, and changes in PTSD symptoms, sleep, functioning, and well-being using quantitative and qualitative methods. Results showed high acceptability and overall improvement, with group-specific benefits and barriers highlighting the importance of homework practice, habit formation, and generalization of strategies across different life domains.
Lucid Dream Symposium (Andromeda)
Lucidity by Design: Transforming the Dreamscape Through Conscious Engagement: Holly McNeill
Lucid dreaming becomes far more powerful when paired with mindful awareness. This presentation explores how intention, curiosity, and presence allow dreamers to work directly with the beliefs, emotions, and patterns that shape waking life. Participants will learn how mindful lucidity loosens longstanding conditioning, accelerates insight, and opens new pathways for healing and transformation—turning the dreamscape into a living laboratory for self-discovery, emotional integration, and meaningful inner change.
The Lucid Dreaming Sender Effect in Dream Telepathy Experiments: Angel Morgan
Angel Morgan presents what can happen when senders in dream telepathy experiments integrate meditation and lucid dreaming into their sending. After creating the LDSE protocol as a sender in IASD conferences between 2009 and 2017, she has attempted to replicate the LDSE in DTEs in formal studies with graduate students.
Healing Your Self Through Lucid Dreaming and Dream Incubation: Robert Waggoner
Using lucid dreaming for psychological and physical healing have been recorded by ever-increasing numbers. The proof-of-concept for physical healing can be seen in various studies by Stephen LaBerge where lucid dreamers successfully altered their physical body within a lucid dream. Psychological healing appears in lucid dream PTSD studies. The presenter will offer a new type of dream incubation protocol which apparently results in psychological healing without lucidity or dream recall.
AI Research Symposium – Three Approaches to Using AI for Dreamwork: Deirdre Barrett (Chair) . Jayne Gackenbach, Stan Krippner (Aquarius)
This symposium explores three approaches to using AI in dreamwork. Deirdre Barrett reviews early GPT-3 AI “dreams,” collaborations classifying dream content, and prompting systems for different interpretive styles–emphasizing and illustrating non-leading, metaphor-based methods. Jayne Gackenbach discusses using ChatGPT in Jungian analysis and research—its value and errors. Stanley Krippner and Sidian Morning Star Jones present an AI-assisted adaptation of the “If this were my dream” with a virtual group.
5:15 – 7:15 2 Hour Dinner Break (on your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
7:15 – 8:45 General Membership Meeting (Aquarius)
8:45 – 9:30 Dream Telepathy Contest (Aquarius)
8:45 – 10:30 Hospitality Room Open
Monday 15 June
8:00-9:00 Morning Dream Groups (see schedule for 14 June)
9:00 – 9:15 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
9:15 – 10:30 Early Morning Keynote Address:
Dr. Loma Flowers
10:30 – 10:45 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
10:45 – 12:15 Late Morning Sessions:
Spiritual Workshop – Using A Course In Miracles (ACIM) for Dream Interpretation: Patricia Cashman (Galaxy 2)
Students of ACIM and those seeking an introduction or guide for dreamwork are welcome. ACIM is a “channeled” book, as from Jesus, published in 1976. ACIM views all our waking and sleeping experiences as dreams; the Holy Spirit can help us use our dreams to guide our path toward wisdom and wholeness when we ask. We will focus on the themes of internal projection, power and peace in ACIM. Come with a dream.
Workshop — Tibetan Yogic Practices for Sacred Night: Song, Movement, Meditation, and Breathwork: Rose Taylor Goldfield (Galaxy 1)
Rose will share practices and ritual-building suggestions that support dreaming from the heart of her Buddhist lineage: Breathwork: clearing our system and inspiring our imagination; Songs that prepare for sleep and elucidate the tradition’s profound understanding of dream and night (Milarepa: “Not seeing dreams and day as differing, this is as meditation as it can be.”); Yogic movements (accessible for all) that engage our energy centers; and mantric syllable meditation.
Dreamwork Workshop – An Exploration of Active Imagination by a Formerly Reluctant and Skeptical Practitioner: Andrea Shane (Cosmos 1)
The practice of active imagination allows practitioners to deeply connect with images and energies that arise from the psyche from both dreams and waking life. Marie-Louise von Franz suggested that this practice can “literally achieve miracles of inner transformation.” Led by a practitioner who previously doubted and resisted the process, in this workshop we will explore active imagination through teaching and discussion, as well as two guided practice sessions.
Clinical Workshop – Dreams as a Bridge to Psychoenergetic-Somatic Understanding and Healing: Sarette Zecharia (Orion)
Dreams as a Bridge explores how dreams illuminate connections between mind, body, and energy. Drawing on ancient traditions, psychology, and energy psychology (EP), it combines timeless wisdom with modern approaches to expand awareness, human potential, and emotional insight. Participants will gain evidence-based tools, ethical guidance, and experiential methods to apply dreamwork in healing, growth, and professional practice, fostering holistic understanding, transformation, and insight through the symbolic language of dreams.
Lucidity Symposium – The Experience of Lucid Waking and Lucid Living (Andromeda):
Robert Waggoner, Nigel Hamilton
In this symposium, we explore how lucid dreaming can affect the waking experience, directly and indirectly. Reports exist of lucid dreaming individuals who claim lucid dreaming occasionally continues into the waking state, while others note a shift in consciousness after lucid dreaming. Indirectly, lucid dreamers report gaining insight into mental processes from their lucid dreams, such that they achieve ‘lucid living’ moments allowing for advantageous life changes and deep insights.
Research Symposium – Coding Factors (Aquarius)
Dreaming as Bizarre, Dreaming as Playful: New Empirical Findings: Kelly Bulkeley
Are dreams bizarre, or are they playful? This presentation challenges traditional views of the alleged “bizarreness” of dreaming. New results from the quantitative and qualitative analysis of several long-term journals suggest that dreams are not inherently bizarre and that a more appropriate framework is to view dreams as inherently playful.
Automated Dream Coding and Its Limits: Insights from Human–AI Comparison (DreamCoder): Ben Bongalon
DreamCoder is a hybrid human–AI system for automated Hall–Van de Castle (HVdC) dream content coding. This session examines what emerges when DreamCoder’s outputs are compared with multiple human coders, focusing on patterns of agreement, disagreement, and ambiguity. Rather than advancing a single reliability verdict, the talk reflects on the limits of automated dream coding and invites discussion on how such systems should be evaluated in interpretive domains.
Is Dream Text Length a Proxy for Dream Length?: Curtiss Hoffman
In examining my dreams, I observed that longer texts tended to occur at the end of the night. I tested this quantitatively, over a 2 year period. This study appeared to confirm the original finding. Subsequently, I continued to collect data on this subject over the past 2 years, and comparing this data set to the previous one resulted in further confirmation of the findings in the majority of cases.
12:15 -2:00 1 ¾ Hour Lunch Break (including 1 ¾ Hour Regional Reps Lunch meeting, Galaxy 2) (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
12:15 -2:00 Hospitality Room Open
2:00 – 3:30 Early Afternoon Sessions:
Workshop – DreamWork/BodyWork: Jean Campbell (Galaxy 2)
DreamWork/BodyWork is a process-oriented therapeutic model. This workshop is educational and does not constitute psychotherapy or medical treatment. Workshop participants will gain insight into how the body holds and records information, how information can be accessed, and how dreams and personal imagery contain the information necessary to healing. Strong emotions may arise with this work. Participation in sharing is voluntary.
-Workshop – Serious Play: Surrealist Dream Writing: Loren Goodman (Cosmos 2)
In this workshop, drawing inspiration from Freud’s assertion in “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” that “the creative writer does the same as the child at play,” we will engage in a form of Surrealist collaboration known as the “exquisite corpse,” a method for generating literary texts pioneered by André Breton. Experimenting with three versions of this method will help us produce, share, and offer insights into our own dream literature collaborations.
Extraordinary Dreams Workshop — Messengers of the Threshold: Psychopomps, Aliens and Walking the Dreamer’s Path: Linda Mastrangelo (Cosmos 1)
Many who report alien encounters, lucid dreaming, and/or spirit communication in childhood were outcasted due to their highly sensitive natures and attunement to realities beyond ordinary perception. Drawing on research, personal stories, and embodied experiential journeying, Linda Mastrangelo explores how initiatory themes found in shamanic, indigenous, and ancestral teachings intersect with contemporary alien and spiritual encounters. This workshop is for those who wish to walk the dreamer’s path between worlds.
Culture and History Workshop (Orion)
Dreaming During Troubled/Hopeful Times: Howard Avruhm Addison
The Nazi Robert Ley once stated, “The only German still leading a private life is… asleep.” Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams gave lie to this assertion, showing that authoritarianism infects our dreams and the collective unconscious. Through case studies, projective dreamwork, and embodied imagination, we’ll explore how today’s political climate shapes our dreams and search their embedded wisdom to help us navigate these challenging times.
Marie Louise von Franz and “The Way of the Dream”: Etja Ruth
Marie Louise von Franz is an iconic dream ancestor, whose formidable intellect and down-to-earth commonsense is needed now.
Clinical Symposium (Andromeda)
Re-Entering the Dream: Using Dreamwork to Guide Hypnotherapy for Complex Trauma: Jesse Lyon
A clinical framework that uses dreams as the doorway into hypnotherapy for complex trauma. Learn a two-stage, eight-step method that begins with dream retelling and symbolic decoding, then re-enters the dream in hypnosis to depotentiate trauma patterns and install post-hypnotic, affirmative replacement beliefs.
Nightmares, Personal Growth, and Trauma: A Clinical Review: Greg Mahr
The clinical experience of running a nightmare clinic within a sleep medicine department is described. The types of nightmares are described, including interventions and clinical outcomes. Both idiopathic and trauma related nightmares are explored as examples of psychic healing.
Dreams and the Grief House: Building Soil in Which Healing Can Grow: Tina Tau
This talk explores my dream offerings with a community project in Portland, Oregon called the Grief House. Through dream workshops and dream theater, I’ve seen how dreams can bring living help to people in their sorrow. I’ll share a dream called “Kemper Bowl,” which makes a call for soil, that dark wild medium which allows us to heal and grow. Grief shared in community becomes soil. This is the mystery.
Invited Research Talk — Interweaving Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness: Bill Domhoff (Aquarius)
3:30 – 3:45 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
3:45 – 5:15 Late Afternoon Sessions:
90 Minute Event (Galaxy 1)
Experiential Workshop — Bridging Consciousness: Mental Imagery as a Dialogue with Dreams – An Experiential Workshop in Mystical Imagination and Expressive Arts: Jacob Kaminker (Cosmos 2)
This experiential workshop explores how conscious imagination can create dialogue with unconscious dream content, drawing from mystical imaginal traditions researched phenomenologically. Participants learn to create “imaginal containers”—structured mental spaces where spontaneity emerges safely. Through guided exercises and expressive arts methods, attendees develop practical tools for engaging dream imagery, fostering psychospiritual growth personally or therapeutically. The workshop bridges ancient contemplative practices with contemporary applications for transformation.
Dreamwork Workshop — Dreams among Christian Spiritual Practices: Geoff Nelson (Cosmos 1)
This workshop will explore the interplay between dreams and some spiritual practices. The content will be exploring various Christian practices and seeing how dreamwork can relate to them and deepen them. Many of the practices can be used by people of other faiths, or no faith. There will be opportunities for participants to discuss their own spiritual practices and dreamwork.
Lucidity Workshop – Awakening to a MultiMatrix-Multiverse: An Exploration: Ed Kellogg, PhD (Orion)
For many people, “dream” becomes a dismissive catch-all category, into which go even the most extraordinary and evidential “body asleep” experiences that don’t fit into a materialist-reductionist worldview. This workshop will take the opposite approach, as participants will have the opportunity to explore and share extra-ordinary experiences from both their “dreaming” and “waking” lives through exercises and meditations, within the context of a MultiMatrix-Multiverse model in which virtually anything goes.
Dreams and the Arts Symposium (Andromeda)
Dreams and Artwork Around the Death of My Sister: Jayne Gackenbach
My dreams and artwork around the death of my sister will be the focus of this paper. I was her closest heir. Thus, this paper examines three periods of time: the month before her last stroke, the month of her dying and burial, and the month after her burial. Unlike my previous cancer paper, this is a relatively short period of time, thus the artwork is more purposeful.
A Jungian Dreamworker’s Approach to Making Art: Jane Maxfield
As an artist, I strive to surrender ego consciousness when I create. This allows my dreaming mind to take the lead while I am art making. Contextualizing these images as dreams, and working them in dreamwork circles reveals their potency as messages from the unconscious in all three Jungian areas: compensating for one-sided conscious attitudes, guiding psychological growth through individuation, and offering insights into both personal and universal archetypal patterns.
Dreams as Pure Nature: A Jungian Ecology of the Psyche: Heather Taylor-Zimmerman + Mahr?
Drawing on Jung’s view that “dreams are pure nature,” this presentation explores dreams as an ecological bridge between psyche and world. Dr. Heather Taylor-Zimmerman guides participants through Jung’s method of dream amplification and active imagination as well as her own lifelong lucid dreamwork to reveal how dreams reconnect our creative nature with the anima mundi. Dreaming becomes a path to soul contact, ecological healing, and rewilding consciousness.
Theory Symposium – Memory Factors (Aquarius)
Model for an Emotional Learning Function in Dreams: Robert Hoss
Recent studies suggest dream sleep, particularly NREM stages, plays a role in consolidating task and declarative learning. A review of various dreaming studies related to impact on mood as well as emotional memory functions, particularly in REM, suggests an adaptive emotional learning function to dreaming. These studies will be noted along with dream reports that suggest an emotional memory re-consolidation model for adaptive emotional problem solving and learning in dreams.
Memory Reconsolidation and Jungian Psychology: A Pathway to the Collective Unconscious: John A. Valenzuela
In this presentation, audience members will learn how five archetypal dream experiences lead to the discovery that Jungian dreamwork may replicate the process of memory reconsolidation. Dream series concerning the anima, father, shadow, orphan, and self, revisited through episodic memories, strengthen somatic and salient pathways, leading to the conclusion that dreams are created through the interpersonal mind. The dreamwork and analyses bring Jungian psychology into consilience with interpersonal neurobiology.
5:15 – 5:30 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
5:30 – 6:30 Early Evening Sessions:
Dreams and Health Workshop – Ayurveda and Dreams: Carla Levy (Galaxy 2)
We are all made of the same fundamental elements, each in our own unique proportions. Because of our lifestyles and everything we take in through the senses, these elements fall out of balance. When this happens, our body/mind may become imbalanced as well. In this session, we will explore how our dreams can help us recognize which elements are disrupted and how we can use that insight to support healing.
Special Event — Dreams and the Lyrical Unconscious: A Poetry Reading by Psychologists and Poets of IASD: Bruce Bynum (Galaxy 1)
Three psychologists and poets of IASD who are published in psychology as well as poetry will read from their work in poetry and dreams.
Spiritual Workshop — Serving Both Night and Day: Dreaming for World Healing: Curtiss Hoffman (Cosmos 1)
While studies show that many dreams are primarily focused upon ourselves as dreamers, there are some dreams which are more impersonal in nature, and which are regarded in many traditional cultures as having been provided to be shared with the larger community, even extending to the entire world. In this workshop, we will explore these types of dreams, with examples, guided imagery meditation, and group discussion. Bring dreams to share!
Dreams and Arts Workshop – Uncanny Unfolding: Tracking Synchronicity through Journal Art: Cindy Lubar Bishop (Orion)
In this workshop I will use selections from eight years of journal art to introduce participants to ways and benefits of tracking synchronicity over time. I will present examples of using words and visuals to document meaningful coincidences in and between dream and waking life. Participants will have opportunities to share their own threads of synchronicity, and reflect on how creatively tracking these can enhance one’s navigation of life’s unfolding.
Dreams and Arts Special Event – A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Shakespeare’s Time and Ours: Bernard Welt (Andromeda)
The very structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a shared dream, addressing sex and gender, family and society. Each new interpretation must address the Dream’s central question as its own moment requires: Shall we settle for what the world presents us with or follow our dreams?
Research Symposium – Nightmares (Aquarius)
Nighttime Dreams and Waking Fantasies about Media: Similarities and Differences: Jayne Gackenbach
Given the increasing dominance of the use of interactive media among today’s young people, these research participants were instructed to provide examples of two types of mentation, dreams and fantasy, that included media. Most were able to fulfill the request. Preliminary factor analysis of 38 self-report questions about the dream and the fantasy were computed finding that dreams and fantasy about media overlap in external questions but not in content.
Dreams and Nightmares from the First Hundred Days of Trump 2017 and 2025: Nori Muster
Politics are often reflected in our dreams, especially during interesting times. The study is based on two theories from the Hall/Van de Castle System of Quantitative Dream Content Analysis:
Continuity between dreams and waking concerns
Continuity in one individual’s dreams over time
Bring a dream about Trump to read aloud during the Q&A, where we discuss how to welcome these dreams, and learn from them, instead of feeling fear.
6:30 – 8:00 1 ½ hour Dinner Break (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
6:30 – 10:30 Hospitality Room Open
7:30 – 8:00 Special Evening Event:
Heal the World – a Dream Driven Initiative: Steven Ernenwein
This event is inspired by a dream where pasQuale was told that if 1000 people sing along the song (chorus) of “heal the world” by M.Jackson, it will make impact in the world. This event is honouring the dream, and we hope to bring 1000 people together to sing along.
8:00 – 9:00 Artist Meet-up Casual Event (Stardust Lounge)
9:00 – 11:00 Dream Art Reception (Stardust Lounge)
Tuesday 16 June
8:00-9:00 Morning Dream Groups (see schedule for 14 June)
9:00 – 9:15 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
9:15 – 10:45 Early Morning Sessions:
Dreamwork Workshop – The Detective of Dreams at Work: Walter Berry (Galaxy 1)
Dreams are a visual thing. When we draw our dreams, we capture that wonderful visual cornucopia that dreams offer before our egos mess with it. Discover the mystery the unconscious presents to us by watching a few people draw their dreams, which we will then do dreamwork on. This is a high-energy workshop laced with humor and depth.
Dreams and Arts Workshop – Honoring Deceased Loved Ones: Intersecting Visitation Dreams & Shrine-making: Kimberly Mascaro (Cosmos 2)
This workshop honors our dreams with deceased loved ones. Following a brief discussion about how visitation dreams and dream incubation intersect with working altars and shrines, there will be an art activity. That is, crafting a personal altar/shrine to honor a deceased loved one(s). Participants will get to take them home. All materials provided (paint, glue, decorative items, wooden shrine box) will be provided.
Dreamwork Workshop – If It Were Our Dream: Examining and Experiencing the Collective Nature of Dreams: Tzivia Gover (Cosmos 1)
In this experiential workshop, we’ll start with the premise that dreams know no boundaries; they come to people across every border of geography, language, culture, socioeconomic condition, race, and religion. We’ll examine various ways that dreams help us evolve and heal as individuals, in our circles of family and friends, and as a global community.
Special Event – Dreams, Films, and Interpretive Imagery (Orion)
Learning from Psyche’s Garden: Dreams, Art and Wordplay: Trish Kochka
This talk features projected images of a dreamer’s art and relevant dream material from a case study involving recovered memory of early trauma and much accurate precognitive data. An intuitive, interpretive wordplay tool that evolved from these dreams will be introduced and demonstrated in relation to the dream content. Explanatory handouts will be available to attendees. Methodology is primarily Jungian.
Two Dream-Inspired Short Films – The Inspiration, Music & Journey: Craig Webb
The presenter will show and elucidate the journey of his two dream-inspired short films for which the story, cinematography, and music all came from dreams.
Clinical Symposium (Andromeda)
Nightmares across cultures: Ida Poschmann
This presentation is based on a scoping review mapping literature on how nightmares are understood and addressed across sociocultural contexts. Twenty-one studies from diverse disciplines were identified. The review highlights major knowledge gaps. Findings show how culturally embedded assumptions shape individuals’ understandings of nightmares and how implicit assumptions of shared meanings may obscure cultural influences, underscoring the need for more culturally situated research and clinical reflection.
Orienting Counselors and Psychotherapists to Assess Clients’ Dream Beliefs Before Dreamwork: Alwin E. Wagener
This presentation teaches participants to use a simple model, Culturally Responsive Dreamwork, either alone or in combination with psychological dreamwork approaches, in order to be culturally competent and not impose psychological dream beliefs on those holding differing beliefs. An emphasis will be on the value of psychological dreamwork but the need for additional cultural assessment and adaptive strategies when psychological dreamwork may be inappropriate.
Theory Symposium – Dream Formation (Aquarius)
An Examination of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Theory of Dreaming with Comparisons to Current Theories: Mark Blagrove and Julia Lockheart
Nietzsche held that dreams are a guess, a hypothesis, at what is causing the physical and psychical sensations impinging on us during sleep: “dreams are the searching for and representing of the causes for those aroused sensations, that is, for the supposed causes.”(Human All Too Human). A childhood dream of Nietzsche will be examined in the light of this theory, and comparisons made to current theories of dream formation.
White Dreams: Dreaming beyond Thought: J.F. Pagel
We dream throughout sleep with 1/3 of our dreams consisting of an awareness of dreaming without thought content and storyline. Such white dreams can be intense and salient, the focus for cultures, religion, and art. White dreams may be evidence of an alternative human consciousness, one that extends beyond electrophysiology and phenomenological constructs of thought.
10:45 – 11:00 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
11:00 – 12:30 Late Morning Sessions:
Dreams and Health Workshop — Daydreaming: The Beauty and Power of a Wandering Mind: Doris Snyder (Galaxy 1)
Discover how daydreaming benefits us in very important ways including tapping into our creativity, envisioning change you want in your personal/professional life, and even uncover your higher purpose. Daydreaming invites us to go deeper within ourselves. Science has shown it is vital to our well being and yet another access point into our unconscious.
Dreams and Arts Workshop – Poetry of the Soul: The Language of Dreams: Victoria Rabinowe (Cosmos 2)
Transform your personal dream imagery into poems that awaken deep understanding, healing, and creative inspiration. Explore the language of the night mind through guided dream re-entry, expressive writing prompts, and reflective dialogue. Awaken your imagination, insight, and soul through the art of dream-inspired verse bursting with passion and energy.
Dreamwork Workshop – Learning from Psyche’s Garden: Dreams, Art and Wordplay: Trish Kochka (Cosmos 1)
This workshop presents intuitive, interpretive and versatile wordplay tool that evolved from a case study. AV images of the dreamer’s art and relevant dream material will be introduced and the wordplay tool demonstrated. Participants will then experience using that tool on sample dreams provided and/or on their own dreams. Explanatory handouts will be provided. Methodology is primarily Jungian.
Dreams and Arts Workshop – Creative Dreaming – Using Dream Figures and Imaginal Symbols to Guide Creative Practice: Sarah Wetherbee, Louise Rosager, Molly Virostek (Orion)
Dreams have long guided creativity, healing, and meaningful living. This 90-minute experiential workshop introduces participants to practical methods for working with dream imagery, symbols, and figures as collaborators in the creative process. Drawing on ancient Greek dream incubation, depth psychology, and modern creativity research, participants learn to access imaginal material ethically and experientially—using dreams to inform original work rather than interpret it away.
Dreamwork Symposium (Andromeda)
Incorporating Dreams in Memoir and Fiction: Narrative Arcs of Growth, Healing and Meaning: Philip King, Ph.D.
This talk will present a process that led to a book that is part fiction, part memoir; the two tied together by the author’s dreams. The book uses dreams to explore whether a long life contains narratives that cohere into meaningful themes. Persons can address their existential questions by bouncing dream histories, salient life events, and fictional excursions off one other. Dreams both comment retrospectively and resonate with later events.
Diving Before Dawn: Exploring the Alchemy of Dreams: Sandi Madison
Deepen your understanding of the importance of keeping and reviewing a dream journal through this visual, interpretive presentation that celebrates dreams as intelligent communication. Drawing on 38 years of journaled dreams, their interpretations, and original artwork, Sandi Madison reveals a wellspring of life-affirming, innate knowledge for creative guidance accessible to everyone. Explore journal formatting, thematic dreams, and different methods of interpretation. Gain insights to begin or enhance your own practice.
Dream Montage: A Reflective Dreamwork Practice for Engaging Multiple Dreams Over Time: William J Sousae
This presentation introduces Dream Montage, a reflective dreamwork practice that emerged from the presenter’s long-term personal work with dreams. Rather than focusing on individual dream interpretation alone, the method invites dreamers to explore patterns, resonances, and themes across multiple dreams, supporting insight, integration, and the practical application of dream meaning in waking life.
Research and Theory Symposium (Aquarius)
12:30 -2:30 2 Hour Lunch Break (including Conference Planning Meeting, Galaxy 2) (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
12:30 -2:30 Hospitality Room Open
2:30– 4:00 Early Afternoon Sessions:
Lucidity Workshop – Conscious Lucid Dreaming Experience: Natalia Snider (Galaxy 1)
This experiential workshop guides participants into a theta-state through guided laying down meditation, opening access to the dream realm in waking consciousness. Participants will learn core lucid dreaming skills—awareness, movement, flight, and intentional interaction with dream space—while exploring creativity, emotional expansion, and authentic self-expression. The experience is heart-centered, playful, and grounding, offering practical tools for conscious dreaming, inner exploration, and integrative healing.
Dreamwork Workshop – Tangible Objects of the Dream: Making and Using “Seed Objects”: Susan Armington (Cosmos 2)
This workshop offers a hands-on, mixed media approach to working with dreams. Participants create small objects to represent dream images and reflect on them alone and in pairs. Guided questions lead them to expand their creations and explore their dream more deeply.
Dreams and Health Workshop – Transmuting Shadow Companions: The Healing and Regenerative Power of Nightmare
Figures: Marna Hauk, Louise Rosager (Cosmos 1)
In this workshop, two senior Dream Tending faculty offer experiential engagements to source healing and regeneration from the visitations of the living figures of nightmares. We share the 6-part Dream Tending process of unlocking the latent healing and creative power of nightmare images. Interactive experiences — a mugwort dream tea ceremony with support figures, a guided active imagination exercise, and movement and expressive artmaking– unleash the vitality of transmuted shadow companions.
Workshop — Dreaming the Diaspora: A Workshop Led by a Palestinian and a Jew: Judy White, Robert Bosnak, Lana Nasser (Orion)
Amid the volatile global climate since the October 7th/Gaza war, and the increasingly polarized perspectives of Israelis, Palestinians and their sympathizers, this workshop aims to loosen entrenched identifications with victim and perpetrator. Co-facilitated by a Palestinian-Jordanian and a Jew, participants embody anonymized dreams from both communities. Through ethically grounded, non-violent dreamwork, a mythodramatic space is created where the “Other” can be encountered beyond political binaries, opening possibilities for collective transformation.
Dreamwork Symposium – The Visual and the Dream: Walter Berry, Lauren Schneider, Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer (Andromeda)
The visual reaches inside dreams and gives meaning. Walter Berry will share sketches drawn by dreamers in his dream groups that led to breakthroughs. Lauren Scheinder will show how using the visuals in the tarot deck lead to unlocking dreams. Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer will show how repeating visual patterns in dreams talk to the dreamer by tracking those visual patterns.
Dreamwork Symposium – Multiplicity of Dreams (Aquarius)
Big Dream Definitions: Dennis R. Archambault
The criteria for a Big Dream needs to be tightened. As of now, it seems any flying dream or extraordinary event is a Big Dream. My premise is that to qualify for a Big Dream it must have a life-changing effect: a dream about a cancer in the brain for instance. Ultimately, abiding with the dream, a brain cancer was found despite medical resistance. We will review my definitions.
Lucid Dialogues: Conscious Choices in Dream and Waking Awareness: Abram Katz
This presentation explores the fascinating relationship between conscious choices we make in the dreamworld and how they can directly inform experiences in our waking life. I will be sharing stories of how this practice began for me, and how I refined my level of listing while awake to enhance my lucid dreaming – ultimately establishing an open information pipeline to actively share between worlds of my own perception.
The Dreaming Mind Unbound: Revealing What the Thinking Mind Tries to Hide: Holly McNeill
Dreams reveal what lies behind the veil of the waking mind. When cognitive control quiets during REM sleep, hidden patterns, beliefs, and long-suppressed aspects of self surface in symbolic or magnified form. This lecture explores how conditioning shapes dream content, why the dreaming mind loosens what the waking mind conceals, and how mindful engagement with dreams begins unwinding longstanding patterns, opening pathways to clarity, inner peace, and authentic self-discovery.
4:00 – 4:15 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
4:15 – 5:30 Late Afternoon Keynote Address:
Dr. Kenneth Paller
5:30 – 7:30 2 hour Dinner Break (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
5:30 – 10:30 Hospitality Room Open
8:00 – 11:00 Shakespearean Play at Oregon Shakespeare Festival:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Wednesday 17 June
8:00-9:00 Morning Dream Groups (see schedule for 14 June)
9:00 – 9:15 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
9:15 – 11:15 Early Morning Sessions:
Dreamwork Workshop — Dreams as Living Landscapes: An Elemental & Somatic Approach to Intentional Dreamwork: Amanda Lux, Jamie Fenix Foster (Galaxy 2)
Dreams are not symbols to decode but living worlds we can consciously re-enter and engage. In this 90-minute experiential workshop, participants explore dreams as relational landscapes through Elemental and somatic dreamwork. Working beyond basic dream seeding, we practice embodied re-entry, elemental dialogue, and shared inquiry to deepen guidance, restore agency, and integrate dream wisdom into waking life. Open to all levels.
Dreams and Health Workshop — Dream Psychotherapy© with Psyche and Eros: A Journey of Trust and Rediscovering Pleasure with Sleep: Marilyn Manzi (Cosmos 2)
The Dream Psychotherapy© workshop invites participants on a journey through the transformative story of Psyche and Eros. Designed to support trauma recovery, this workshop helps individuals rebuild trust, embrace pleasure, and improve their relationship with sleep.
Dreams and Arts Workshop — Dream Quilting: An interactive dialogue using writing, image making, affect and memory: Sonia Beck MFT PHD (Galaxy 1)
Dream Quilting is an interactive communal process utilizing writing, image making, affect, and memory. This intervention invites each member the time to creatively associate to another member’s dreams prior to any context or interpretations offered. This process makes space for the listener to gain their own personal insights from the dreams of another. The dreamer then responds to the participants offerings to acknowledge any “Ahas” they received from this process.
Dreams and Arts Symposium (Orion)
Dreaming Through Irish: Sheila McNellis Asato
If dreams are relational, then the language we meet them in matters. This presentation traces, through story and art, what unfolded after a single word appeared in a dream—Fáilte, welcome—and quietly reoriented my life. That word led me to Irish, family history, and art. Moving between Irish, English, and Japanese, and struggling with Irish grammar, has deepened my understanding of how language shapes perception, memory, and our relationship with dreams.
Review of the Exhibition ‘Lucid Dreams’, at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Dec 2024 to Oct 2025: Mark Blagrove
The vast exhibition, Lucid Dreams, was held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, from December 2024 to October 2025. This presentation reviews many of the exhibits, with a video walk-through of the exhibition rooms. Exhibits ranged from medieval Hebrew and Arabic dream interpretation books, Chinese dream stones, surrealist art works, including Varo, Duchamp, Magritte and Man Ray, videos, virtual reality, and artworks related to Jungian and Freudian psychoanalysis, including the Wolf-man.
Music from DreamLand – A Dream Artist+Pscientist’s Journey: Craig Webb
Based on near-nightly dreams containing music as well as years of explorations as a dream-inspired composer, producer, semi-loose-id inner||outer scientist, and musical performing artist, the presenter will share dream-related insights, principles and a diverse medley of dreamt music and soundscapes.
Spiritual Symposium (Andromeda)
Courting My Dreams: Laurel Clark
After a long dream drought, I decided to be more gentle with myself. Rather than commanding or demanding my dream-self to communicate, I wondered what might happen if I courted my dream-self like a lover. With this approach, I started writing love letters to myself in my dream journal, expecting my dreams to respond with a desire to develop a closer relationship. I share some interesting dreams from this experiment.
Dreaming the Future: When Machines Learn to Dream: Raashi Bhatia
As artificial intelligence evolves toward simulation of creativity and emotion, dreams remain the psyche’s unprogrammable frontier. This talk explores what it means to “dream” in a post-human world—where algorithms model thought and imagination. Blending transpersonal psychology, depth symbolism, consciousness studies and philosophy of technology, this talk reimagines dreaming as humanity’s vital capacity for meaning, ethics, and leadership beyond the algorithm.
Dreaming the Precarious: Buddhist Dream Yoga and the Philosophy of Healing: Ayush Srivastava
I aim to examine the practice of dream yoga as a phenomenon for healing in times of precarity. Dream yoga, which is a part of the broader Milam tradition, is not only a meditative practice but also a philosophical exploration of our consciousness and its transformative potential. I approach it as both a contemplative practice and a comparative framework for thinking about how inner lucidity can respond to external instability.
Film and Panel: Never Just a Movie, Never Just a Dream: Kelly Bulkeley (chair), Alisa Minyukova (panelist), Brittany Birberick (panelist) (Aquarius)
This session starts with an ethnographic film about dreaming and traditional healing in South Africa, following two women, Nomfundo and Iris, whose callings, despite their differences, are intertwined in material and symbolic ways. After the film is a conversation between two of the filmmakers: video artist Alisa Minyukova and anthropologist Brittany Birberick. The two will discuss how dreams and dreaming have influenced their approach to research, ethnographic methods, and filmmaking.
11:15 – 11:30 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
11:30 – 12:30 Late Morning Sessions:
Special Event — Dreams in a Labyrinth: Geoff Nelson (Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. 2nd St., in Ashland)
We will meet at Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. 2nd St., in Ashland and use their labyrinth to experience taking a dream, or dreams, into a labyrinth. There will be a brief introduction to the use of, and etiquette in, a labyrinth. There will be some introduction to working a dream in a labyrinth, then each participant will then be set free to use the labyrinth with their dreams.
Special Art and Dreams Event: The Water of Life: Elja Ruth (Galaxy 1)
Gems and Dreams Workshop — A Sparkling Look at Dreams, Jewelry, and Gems: Lore, Stories, and a Guided Journey: Jane E. Carleton (Cosmos 1)
Jewels have inspired people since early humans picked up shiny pebbles and found them magical. Gems and jewelry seen in dreams, as in waking life, are shimmering symbols of power and hope. Through visual imagery, stories, and active imagination we will dream into historical gem and jewelry symbolism, see images of the internal worlds of gems, and journey into the heart of a jewel for guidance and adventure.
Special Arts Event — Homage to Blue: Dreaming a New Dream: Fariba Bogzaran (Orion)
This presentation draws upon Bogzaran’s work to examine the reciprocal relationship between ecological change, dreaming and precognition. It investigates how creative practice functions not merely as representation, but as transformative action. Rather than positioning art as a passive reflection of environmental crisis, this presentation proposes that art and dreaming can become a “consciousness activators” to constitute an ecological participation to recalibrate the human presence within a fragile and interdependent biosphere.
Special Dreams and Health Event — The Serpent’s Whisper: Ancient Incubation and Modern Active Imagination: Lorraine Levy (Andromeda)
We can turn to one of the most ancient healing traditions in human history: the dream temples of Asclepius. Across the Mediterranean, temples dedicated to this Greek god of healing drew pilgrims seeking not medicine as we think of it today, but a sacred encounter. People came to these sanctuaries to pray, make offerings, purify themselves, and sleep in a sacred chamber, hoping Asclepius would visit them in a dream.
Dreams and the Arts Panel — Discussion about Dreams and Theater with Members of the OSF Company: Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., chair/moderator (Aquarius)
Members of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival company will discuss their involvement in the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and reflect on their experiences with theater, dreaming, and creativity.
12:30 – 2:30 2 hour Lunch Break (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants)
12:30 – 2:30 Hospitality Room Open
2:30– 3:30 (90 – 95) Early Afternoon Sessions:
Special Event — Alchemy Ballads: An Evolution Embodied in Song: Katherine R. Bell, Max Deaton (Galaxy 2)
Singing is simultaneously an expression of individual feeling and something that brings us together as a community. Join Katherine for a selection of her original dream-inspired songs created in response to the insights and feelings that dream exploration unfolded to her. These inspiring songs range from poignant and moving to up tempo and stirring.
Dreams and Arts Special Event — “A Fire’s Ghost:” A Live Performance of the Songs and the Dreams that Inspired Them: Steven Ernenwein (Galaxy 1)
“A Fire’s Ghost” is a live musical storytelling performance weaving original songs with the dreams that inspired them. In true singer-songwriter fashion, each song is introduced through the dream imagery, emotional landscape, and lived experience that inspired it, followed by live performance. Together, dream, story, and song form an embodied ode to the true heart and the rekindling of relationship with the Deep Soul.
Dreamwork Workshop — Exploring Collective Identity Through (Big Data!) Dream Sharing: Kyle Napierkowski and Emily Cook (Cosmos 1)
This session explores the intersection of dreams, technology, and group culture through a participatory experiment in collective reflection. Using a new app that “reads the dream room,” participants will see how shared imagery and emotion reveal subtle patterns of connection. The event demonstrates how digital tools can humanize big data, turning collective dream content into insight and community. Bring a dream!
Special Extraordinary Dreams Event — Rolodex of Dreams: Cultivating Multi-Dimensional Dream Consciousness: Dafna Mordecai (Andromeda)
This presentation introduces Rolodex Dream-Sidhi, a cultivated consciousness practice enabling access to extraordinary dreams as portals to higher dimensional realities. Developed through decades of spiritual practice, this involves accessing and revisiting past extraordinary dreams with complete sensory, emotional, and energetic fidelity.
This experiential presentation guides participants through meditative practices for accessing their own Rolodex of Dreams, demonstrating how extraordinary dreams exist as accessible states of consciousness, revealing humanity’s multi-dimensional nature.
Dreams and the Arts Panel — Creative Process: Amy Lloyd and 4 artists (Aquarius)
Four exhibiting artists explain their creative process and how it relates to dreams and dreaming. Each artist will present visuals of their work. Conference attendees will be provided the opportunity to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the artist’s thought process and how they visualize dreams.
3:30 -3:45 15 Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)
3:45 – 6:00 (96) Late Afternoon Keynote Address:
Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell
6:00 – 8:30 2 ½ hour Dinner Break (On your own: Luna Café or Local Restaurants) + Costume Preparation
6:00 – 8:30 Hospitality Room Open
8:30 – 9:30 Costume Parade (Aquarius Ballroom)
9:30 – 11:30 Dream Ball (Aquarius + Orion + Andromeda Ballroom)
Dance Music by Rogue Suspects; Catering and Pay Bar
Thursday 18 June
Departure
8:00 – 11:00 Hospitality Room Open