Please sign up for one morning dream group at the registration desk.  Some are limited, so sign up early!

8:00 – 9:00 Morning Dream Groups
DAILY BEGINNING ON SUNDAY

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.

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 dream group presents an approach that can be used to explore these other forms of sleep consciousness. (Limit = 25)

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) (Limit = 18)

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.

Conference Opening (Aquarius and Andromeda overflow)

6:30 – 6:50 Opening Ceremony – Lana Nasser

The opening sets the stage: lyrical dreaming/bee-anecdotes, sacred geometry-inspired movement/dance and toning/singing. Concluding with inviting the participants to breath/hum together (bee-breath: Bhramari Pranayama.)

A bee-skep is introduced at the end of the opening ceremony– and a word about what to do with it.

6:50 – 7:00 Co-Host Welcome – Angel Morgan, Kelly Bulkeley

7:00 – 8:15 Keynote Address:   Healing Dreams and the Joy Factor: Exploring Dream Body Intelligence:  Dr. Clare Johnson

From Ancient Greek dream incubation rituals to today’s science-backed lucid dream therapies, Dr. Johnson presents a road map of how dreams can heal and sustain our physical and psychological health. She integrates sleep science and clinical findings with original techniques built on her doctoral research.

Drawing on her Prana Dream Body Hypothesis (2017), Johnson proposes a multi-sensory kinesthetic simulation model of how non-lucid and lucid dreams may support physical healing. She references work with paraplegic clients and injured athletes to illustrate both the boundaries and successes of this approach.

Johnson illuminates the mechanisms of psychological dream healing and lucid interventions for PTSD trauma resolution, grief processing, and maintaining mental health. She emphasizes the “joy factor” – how euphoric dream states replenish the dreamer, creating an optimal mindset for transformation, healing, and ongoing vibrant wellness.

8:15 – 8:30 Welcome and Announcements – Bob Hoss

8:30-11:00 Opening Reception (Orion Ballroom and Constellation Hall)

Sunday 14 June

8:00 – 9:00 Morning Dream Groups

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 visualizing 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)

Learn to connect with the variety of your ancestors in waking and sleeping dreamtime, identify the types of calls they may use, and heal intergenerational wounds.

Dreamwork Workshop — Peace Work as Dream Work ™:  Aimee Breslow (Cosmos 1) (Limit: 30)

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.

How to Trust AI to Explain Dreams:  Signal-Pattern Coherence and the Return of Authorship to Dreamers: Jun Lu

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.

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 Suite (Room #215) Open;

1:00 - 1:30 - Conversations with Clare Johnson

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)

Assessment of Insight Gains Following "Discussion" of Another Person’s Dream by ChatGPT: Mark Blagrove

Discussing a dream and one's waking life can result in personal insight. However, the importance of the dream in this process is difficult to assess. Using ChatGPT for the dream 'discussion' has the advantage that one's own or another person's dream can be used. Mean insight scores on the Gains from Dream Interpretation questionnaire were similar for discussing a dream of another person versus discussing one's own dream.

Frequency and Intensity of Dream Affect: A Comparison Between Self- and External Ratings: Benjamin Brodeur

We compared participant and external ratings of dream affect across 1,946 reports from 104 adults. Multilevel models revealed that self-ratings yielded higher affective intensity and greater odds of classifying dreams as containing affect, whereas external judges more frequently identified negative valence among affective dreams. Notably, a three-way interaction showed sex differences in affective intensity, with women reporting higher negative and men higher positive intensity, but only when using self-rating methods.

The Elsewhere Atlas: Dan Kennedy

The Elsewhere Atlas (elsewhere.to/atlas) is an interactive world map exploring place and the collective unconscious. Visitors can browse dreams contributed by Elsewhere dreamers organized by location or view the most characteristic dream symbol per country that week. One past week, the United States' most characteristic symbol was "gun." Drawing on Jung, the Atlas asks: what does the world dream, and what does that reveal about who, and where, we are?

A Thousand Dreamers - An Invitation: Olivia Morales Zenteno

A Thousand Dreams is a portal for dreamers everywhere.  The A Thousand Dreams App™ is central to this portal, enabling dreamers to document dreams, analyze data, and share them with the world. It is a social media and a bridge between inner worlds and the collective.  A Thousand Dreamers is an invitation for dreamers +18 years, from any tradition or background, to participate in research with our evolving app.

Do Models Dream of Synthetic Sheep? Using Synthetic Corpora to Decode Real Dream Reports: Kyle Napierkowski

Natural language processing is increasingly used in dream research, yet most models rely on embeddings trained on generic text that poorly reflect dream language. This study introduces Dream Embeddings trained on large-scale synthetic dream corpora. We evaluate whether synthetic data can improve classification performance on real dream reports across demographic prediction, authenticity detection, and waking-life trait inference tasks.

Symbolic Restoration: Processing Racial Trauma Through Dreams: Ela Nordfors

This poster explores how dreams function as symbolic spaces for processing racial trauma and restoring identity coherence. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, neurobiological research, and multicultural frameworks, this examination explores how dream analysis can integrate fragmented aspects of the self that result from systemic oppression. The clinical applications of culturally responsive dreamwork are analyzed, providing therapists with strategies to support diverse populations in their healing and empowerment through dream interpretation.

Beyond the Solitary Dreamer: Collective Authorship and Interpretive Pluralism: Victoria Philibert

This poster presents four adapted dream interpretation frameworks — Lacanian, Threat Simulation, Nwoye's African Mode, and Astrological — developed over the past year for Elsewhere.to, a dream journal application. Each mode is introduced through its theoretical background, interpretive mechanics, and design considerations. Together they illustrate how dreams yield meaningfully different but coexisting readings depending on the framework applied, raising productive questions about interpretive pluralism and the nature of oneiric meaning.

Spiritual Workshop – Your Dream Journey to Enlightenment — Dreamwork with AI:  David Low, MS PhD (Cosmos 1) (Limit = 50)

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 presenter to 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.

Healing Through Dream: Athena Hurd

I presented at the June 2025 symposium about a precognitive dream that I had. Afterwards I experienced a significant healing from this experience. On Super Bowl Sunday, 2026, I had another experience, that echoes my healing. It's a beautiful story of a dream come true again and again.

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) (Limit = 20)

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 – continued (see 2:00 listing) (Galaxy 2)

Spiritual Workshop – Dreaming Forward with AI:  Awakening Evolutionary Intelligence and Future Self:  Jun Lu, Justina Lasley (Cosmos 1)

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.

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.

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 has 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 – 10:00 Hospitality Suite (Room #215) Open

Monday 15 June

8:00 – 9:00 Morning Dream Groups (see schedule for 14 June)

9:00 – 9:1515-Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)

9:15 – 10:30 Early Morning Keynote Address:  Dreams: The Highway to Emotional Health:  Dr. Loma Flowers

Dr. Flowers will explore using dreams to maintain and promote your emotional health through insight into facts, feelings and actions when interpreted using Delaney’s Dream Interview [DI] technique. She will briefly review this technique to illustrate the dynamic clarity dreams reveal through the plot, emotions and facts known to the dreamer about the images in the dream. Using any new insight as a metaphor for a waking life issue, dreamers can consider the implications for action derived from their insight. Any responsive actions can address prevention, troubleshooting or effective repairs to maintain and sustain an emotionally healthy life.

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) (Limit = 12)

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) (Limit = 30)

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 Suite (Room #215) Open;

1:15-1:45 Conversations with Loma Flowers

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.

Dreams & Arts Workshop – Serious Play: Surrealist Dream Writing:  Loren Goodman (Cosmos 2)

In this workshop, drawing inspiration from Freud's assertion in "Creative Writers and Daydreaming" 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) (Limit = 25)

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 – Dreaming During Troubled/Hopeful Times:  Howard Avruhm Addison, Etja Ruth (Orion)

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 the 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.

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: A New Synthesis:  Bill Domhoff (Aquarius)

This talk weaves together the neurocognitive theory of dreaming, the adaptive inactivity theory of sleep, and the multistate hierarchical model of consciousness. These recent theories were developed separately and independently by three psychologically trained empirical researchers, who did not construct their theories until late in their careers. All three theories build on a combination of neuroimaging, lesion, and developmental studies, which led to many unexpected findings and conclusions.

3:30 – 3:45  15-Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)

3:45 – 5:15   Late Afternoon Sessions:

Workshop – No Dreams, No Problem: Introducing and Practicing Dreamwork with Non-Recallers: Naomi Kimmelman (Galaxy 1)

Though everyone dreams, many do not remember their dreams. Being limited by poor dream recall does not need to deny folks from engaging in the wonders and benefits of dreamwork. This educational workshop will explore how to introduce, practice and inspire dreamwork with “non-dreamers” through applicable and creative techniques.

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

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 tasks 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 my past eight years of journal art to illustrate the benefits of tracking synchronicity over time.  I will discuss various approaches to documenting coincidence.  Participants will be asked to bring a personal synchronicity to share, and we will explore strands of connection between these stories.  We’ll consider together how tracking meaningful coincidence can enhance dreamwork and support our 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 QandA, 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 Suite (Room #215) Open

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 and Shrine-making:  Kimberly Mascaro (Cosmos 2) (Limit =10)

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) (Limit = 30)

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)

Two Dream-Inspired Short Films – The Inspiration, Music and 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.

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.

Clinical Symposium (Andromeda)

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

Eight Common Signposts to Help You Identify Health-Related Dreams: Bhaskar Banerji

When we think of dreams, we usually expect them to offer insights regarding our psychological health and well-being; rarely do we think that they may offer credible guidance regarding our physical health. In this presentation we examine common dream signposts that warn us of potential health problems.

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:

Workshop – Dream Re-entry: Naomi Epel (Galaxy 1)

Naomi will be leading this workshop using a combination of projective dreamwork and dream re-entry, in which the participants will first tell the dream in present tense, answer questions and  receive "if it were my dream" projections from other participants and then re-enter the dream, embodying various elements and exploring to find new information inside the dreamscape choosing how to honor the dream.

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.

Dreams and Arts Workshop – Creative Dreaming - Using Dream Figures and Imaginal Symbols to Guide Creative Practice:  Louise Rosager (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 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.

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 another. 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)

Associations between Heart Rate Variability and Dream Emotions Measured by a Wearable Device: Yui Yoshioka

This presentation examines whether wearable-measured heart rate variability (HRV) is associated with dream emotions. Fourteen Japanese university students wore an Oura Ring for seven nights and completed morning dream reports and emotion ratings. Using linear mixed models with within-person centered log rMSSD, higher-than-usual HRV was associated with lower negative dream affect, while positive dream affect showed no reliable association. Findings suggest that HRV may complement subjective assessments of dream emotion.

A Comparison of Wake Life Correlates of Lucid Nightmare Frequency in Israeli and UK Students:  Mark Blagrove

We present data on dreaming, nightmares and lucid nightmares from students in Israel and the UK. 49% of our sample had had a lucid nightmare. Although lucid dream frequency is associated with internal Locus of Control, lucid nightmare frequency was associated with GHQ psychopathology but not Locus of Control. The lack of correlation with LOC might explain why sleepers cannot wake themselves from a lucid nightmare.

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 Suite (Room #215) Open;

1:30 - 2:00  Conversations with Bill Domhoff

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) (Limit = 15)

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 Other:  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 leads 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 dream world 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: The Science Behind Enhancing the Value of Sleeping and Dreaming:  Dr. Kenneth Paller

Sleep is critical not only for its restorative benefits but also for the memory reactivation that occurs covertly. Corresponding changes in the brain help to make memories available when needed. Our habits of overnight memory reactivation influence dreaming and our psychological well-being upon awakening. Even though overnight memory reactivation may seem beyond volitional control, it can be strategically modified to seek various benefits.

5:30 – 7:30 2-Hour Dinner Break (On your own:  Luna Café or Local Restaurants)

5:30 – 10:30 Hospitality Suite (Room #215) Open;

6:00 - 6:30 - Conversations with Ken Paller

6:30 - 7:45 Free Green Show at outdoor "On the Bricks" stage at Oregon             Shakespeare Festival

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 – 10:45   Early Morning Sessions:

Dreamwork Workshop – Dreams as Living Landscapes: An Elemental and 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) (Limit=30)

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 (Galaxy 1) (Limit = 40)

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.

10:45 – 11:00 15-Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)

11:00 – 12:00 Late Morning 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.

Special Event – Dreams in a Labyrinth:  Geoff Nelson (Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 N. 2nd St., in Ashland -- goes until 12:30

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.

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 Dreams and Health Event – The Serpent’s Whisper: Ancient Incubation and Modern Active Imagination:  Lorraine Levy (Andromeda) (Limit = 25)

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.

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.

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.

12:00 – 2:00 2-Hour Lunch Break (On your own:  Luna Café or Local Restaurants)

 12:00 – 12:45 Special Early Afternoon Event: 

Heal the World - a Dream Driven Initiative: Steven Ernenwein (Aquarius)

This event is inspired by a dream where pasQuale was told that if 1,000 people sing along the song (chorus) of "Heal the World" by M. Jackson, it will make impact in the world. This event is honoring the dream, and we hope to bring 1,000 people together to sing along.

12:00 – 2:00   Hospitality Suite (215) Open;

1:00 - 1:30 - Conversations with Stan Krippner

2:00 – 3:00   Early Afternoon Sessions:

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 (Orion)

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:  Steven Baldino,

Benjamin Moss, Hazal Orhon, and Lori Wells  (Andromeda)

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.

Research Symposium – Emotional Content (Aquarius)

Investigating Dream Content in Cognitively Diverse Older Adults: Warren Britton

Dreams of older adults remain under-studied despite emerging evidence linking negative dream content to increased risk of cognitive decline. This study used the Hall and Van de Castle content analysis system to examine dream content in cognitively diverse older adults. Compared to normative samples, differences in characters and aggression were observed. Correlations with health and cognitive variables were noted, though limited sample size warrants caution.

 Dreaming of Togetherness: Interpersonal Connections in Dream-Based Storytelling: Laura Roklicer

To address the loneliness crisis, we explore how dreams and dream-inspired creative interaction can foster a sense of connection and belonging. We first analyze a large corpus of dream reports using a newly developed dream content analysis to understand interpersonal connection in the dreaming mind. We then present an experimental study exploring how dream-based storytelling, inspired by the Ullman dream appreciation method, fosters waking-life synchrony, flow, and social bonding.

Special Art and Dreams Event: Marie Louise von Franz and "The Way of the Dream": Etja Ruth (Galaxy 1)

Marie Louise von Franz is an iconic dream ancestor, whose formidable intellect and down-to-earth common sense is needed now.  In this workshop performance, Etja Ruth, in the character of Marie Louise von Franz, brings to life teachings from “Way of the Dream" on dreams, the psyche and the shadow.  The audience will have an opportunity to reflect on their own dreams with the words and wisdom of the eminent psychologist.  A short Q and A is to follow.

 3:00 – 3:15  15-Minute Transition (w/ coffee and tea) (Constellation)

3:15 – 4:30   Late Afternoon Keynote Address: Reality as a Construct: Lessons from Dreams, Savants, and Psychedelic States: Dr. Diane Hennacy (Powell)

Dreams, psychedelic journeys, and savant phenomena—such as spontaneous mathematical insight, perfect musical recall, and knowledge without conventional learning—have all been associated with access to information that appears to transcend ordinary sensory input, linear time, and personal memory. These phenomena offer a window into how reality may be perceived when neural filtering is reduced and invite a reexamination of fundamental assumptions about consciousness, time, and identity. This presentation opens a contemplative inquiry into what these states reveal about the nature of reality and suggests that the brain may not generate consciousness but instead may function as a receiver that filters and tunes awareness within a broader field of information. Dr Hennacy explores these concepts through the lens of her work with nonspeaking autistic savants who report telepathy and other forms of extrasensory perception and seem to naturally bridge waking consciousness and dreamlike modes of knowing.

4:30 - 5:00  Closing Ceremony:  Lana Nasser

During the closing ceremony, the phrases placed in the skep are poetically synthesized in an improvised chant/song –inviting the group to join in at the end by singing/toning, collectively closing the conference -before the ball.

5:00 – 8:00 2 ½-Hour Dinner Break (On your own:  Luna Café or Local Restaurants) + Costume Preparation

5:45 – 8:00 Hospitality Suite (Room #215) Open;

6:00 - 6:30 - Conversations with Diane Hennacy Powell

8:00 – 9:00 Costume Parade (Aquarius Ballroom)

9:00 – 11:30 Dream Ball (Aquarius + Orion + Andromeda Ballroom)

            Dance Music by Rogue Suspects; Catering and Pay Bar

Departure Morning
► 8:00 – 11:00 AM: Hospitality Suite (#215) Open

Before everyone drifts back home, the Hospitality Suite will remain open for one final morning gathering. This is a gentle opportunity for dreamers who have stayed through the full conference to decompress together, share last conversations, exchange hugs, reflect on the week, and transition slowly from conference space back into everyday life.

For many attendees, these quieter closing moments become just as meaningful as the conference itself — a soft landing rather than simply rushing out the door. We invite you to stop by, reconnect one last time, and carry the spirit of the conference home with you.

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Presenter Biographies

Marta Aarli, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist and dream guide in Colorado, USA, with a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology. She integrates Gestalt parts dialogue, Creative expression, Active Imagination, Dream Re-entry, Dream Theater and Ancestral healing. She writes articles and presents internationally, and has published a book of dream poetry. She is currently writing a book on the healing powers of dreamwork.

Noor Abbas is a PhD student in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Toronto studying the evolutionary functions of dreaming. She has authored publications in Frontiers in Psychology and Scientific Reports, received multiple research awards, and integrates polysomnography, VR, and biometric tools to investigate adaptive dream functions.

Rabbi Howard Avruhm Addison, PhD, DMin, is Associate Professor Emeritus at Temple University, where he taught a seminar, Dreams, Visions and the Good Life. Trained at the Haden Institute, he coordinates its DMin studies, and teaches Dreamwork and Spiritual Direction. Author of The Enneagram and Kabbalah and co-editor of Jewish Spiritual Direction, Avruhm’s essays on Dreamwork, Multi-faith Spirituality, and Kabbalah have appeared in Presence, Dreamtime, and in several distinguished anthologies.

Dennis R. Archambault has recorded over 36,000 dreams since October 30, 1976.  Obviously, he loves dreams and the field of Dream, whether spoken or published.  His desire is to offer a consideration on what is a useful definition of a Big Dream.

Susan Armington (B.A. Brown University, M.S. Cornell University) is a Minneapolis-based artist who works in painting and mixed-media art. She leads “Talking Suitcases” an art & story project for communities of all ages to connect deeply about their lives. She is certified in Dream-Tending by Pacifica Graduate Institute, and has led a dream group in Minneapolis for 8 years.

Sheila McNellis Asato, M.A. is a dream artist and founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, dedicated to dreaming, art, and healing. She holds an M.A. in Human Development focused on dreaming, creativity, and health, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies and Fine Art. With 40+ years of international teaching and exhibition experience, she is an award-winning artist whose recent work includes public dream-inspired murals and cross-cultural art projects.

Bhaskar Banarjee has a doctorate in Mind-Body Medicine specializing in Health-Related Dreams. These days he's primarily engaged in organizing dream-inspired conferences and workshops around the globe and is a board member of the IASD.

Deirdre Barrett is a dream researcher at Harvard. She has written five books including Pandemic Dreams and The Committee of Sleep. She is Past President of The Society for Psychological Hypnosis, President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and Editor of DREAMING. Deirdre has lectured and led workshops at Esalen, the Smithsonian, and universities around the world. She makes dream art exhibited in galleries around the US.Sonia Beck MFT PHD

Sonia Beck MFT PHD completed her masters in Clinical and Transpersonal Psychology and her PHD in Depth Psychology. Sonia spent her career working in Community Mental health, with traumatized children, adolescents and their families in multiple settings. She managed the medi-cal Children's clinic for Sonoma County Behavioral Health.  She has participated in and facilitated dream groups for several years and is an ongoing student of Jungian thought and dreamwork.

Katherine R Bell, PhD (astrophysics), Santa Cruz CA, USA. She has hosted the weekly interview podcast The Dream Journal since 2019. She has been facilitating dream groups and workshops for 35 years and has been a coach for over 15. She is seeking a publisher for her first book about dreaming. Katherine is on the IASD Board of Directors and the Ethics Committee and is Conference Planning Co-Chair. ExperientialDreamwork.com KSQD.org/the-dream-journal/

Walter Berry, MFA, is a certified dream facilitator and author of the best-selling book, “Drawn Into The Dream.” He is the chair of the IASD Arts Committee, a former member of the IASD Board of Directors, leads dream groups, workshops, and is a frequent guest on radio and podcasts.

Raashi Bhatia, Executive & Leadership Coach, Ph.D. Student, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), USA

Brittany Birberick, Ph.D., is assistant professor of anthropology at University of California, San Diego. She has done extensive field work in South Africa.

Cindy Lubar Bishop (USA), is a dream work facilitator and journal artist who developed DreamWebbing out of a passion for dreams, art and synchronicity.  Cindy, a graduate of Jeremy Taylor’s MIPD (Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork), has led DreamWebbing groups since 2012.  She has published in DreamTime Magazine, presented at IASD’s PsiberDreaming Conference, won 2nd prize for her journal art at IASD’s 2023 Ashland, OR conference, and has exhibited elsewhere.Mark Blagrove

Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D. founded the first Dream Studies program at JFKU, 1996 where she was a professor for two decades. She conducted innovative scientific research on transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming. Among her publications are Extraordinary Dreams, (2002), Integral Dreaming, (2012), award-winning art book, A Place of Creation (2024), and Homage to Blue (2026). She developed the IASD art exhibition program in 1988 and cofounded Lucid Art Foundation, 1998.

Ben Bongalon (M.Sc. Computer Engineering) is an independent researcher exploring how AI and large language models can support quantitative dream content analysis while preserving human judgment. Drawing on over 20 years of experience in software engineering, data analysis, and AI, he developed DreamCoder, a hybrid HVdC-based system presented at IASD 2025. His dream research is a personal, curiosity-driven pursuit. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Robert Bosnak, a Dutch Jew, born months after WWII and shortly before the founding of the state of Israel, is: a Zurich-trained Jungian psychoanalyst specializing in dreaming and the embodied imagination; past IASD president; fiction and non-fiction book author; and psychiatry faculty at the SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has done dreamwork in conflict zones since the 1980s, though nowhere as inflammable and personally frightening as in the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Aimee Breslow MA is a Certified Dreamwork Facilitator with the Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork, an Affiliated Scholar with the Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice-University of San Diego, and a former Negotiations Sr. Advisor at the State Department. As a practitioner of international diplomacy and Jungian-based modalities, Aimee has a unique ability to translate concepts in both fields and has trained hundreds of people (various topics) around the world.

Warren Britton, PsyD. Canada is a recent Doctor of Psychology graduate with current research interests in dreaming and aging. Relevant clinical interests include evidence informed theory/practice links for dreaming, psychotherapeutic use of dreams, and hypnosis.

Benjamin Brodeur, PhD(c),Canada. is in his third year of doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the Université de Montréal. His work investigates the affective nature of dreams, with a particular focus on how methodological factors may bias the assessment of dream affect in research. He has also been a teaching assistant for an undergraduate course in dream psychology for the past three years.

Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., is a psychologist of religion focusing on dream research.  He is Director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), Senior Editor of the journal Dreaming, and former president of the IASD.  His books include Dreaming in the World’s Religions (2008), Big Dreams (2016), Lucrecia the Dreamer (2018), The Scribes of Sleep (2023), The Spirituality of Dreaming (2023), and The Spirit of Dreaming in Shakespeare (in press).Edward Bruce Bynum

Jean Campbell (USA) is an IASD Board member and Editor of IASD's DreamTime Magazine. She is the Director of the nonprofit organization, the iMAGE Project, and author/editor of several books including Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power (Wordminder Press, 2006) and Sleep Monsters and Superheroes (Praeger/ABC CLIO, 2016)

Jane E. Carleton, MA, GG-GIA: Graduate Degrees in Consciousness Studies and Dream Studies, JFKU, and Graduate Gemologist, Gemological Institute of America, California, USA

Rev. Patricia Cashman, Episcopal Priest (MDIV); Spiritual Direction Certificate, Haden Institute, leading dream groups in person and online. (BSN) Psychiatric nursing, (MS) Pastoral Counseling; currently Chaplain at a senior continuing care residence and Clinical Pastoral Education mentor. I facilitate support groups around grief, dementia, and end of life decisions. I am working on a book about A Course in Miracles and Dream Work.

Laurel Clark, USA, D.D., CDP, Past president of IASD, author of Intuitive Dreaming, contributor to Dreams That Changed Our Lives, The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Interpreting Dreams for Self-Discovery, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable. Graduate of the School of Metaphysics and the Institute for Dream Studies.  Currently Laurel resides in St. Louis, MO, USA, and teaches classes through St. Louis Community College and online.

Emily Cook

Chris Cunniffe is originally from Long Island, NY.  He is a graduate of Holy Cross College (B.A., 1993) and Harvard Law School (J.D, 1996).  He has resided in the Charleston, SC metro area since 1998.  Chris is the Managing Broker with real estate firm Engel & Völkers Charleston.  He separately offers dream coaching and abundance coaching services through his coaching business, Lucid Coaching, LLC.

Max Deaton (Santa Cruz, CA) organizes a dream group in which most of the participants have Parkinson’s Disease. Growing up near Chicago and with family in Missouri and Iowa, he was exposed to many musical genres and artists. Max has been playing the harmonica for five years at campfire circles.

1. William Domhoff is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of The Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming (2022), which won the American Association of Publishers; 2023 Prose Award for the best book relevant to Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, and Dreams, Sleep, and Consciousness: Interweaving the Neurocognitive Theory of Dreaming with a New Theory of Sleep and a New Theory of Consciousness (2026).

Marcia Emery, Ph.D. (USA) a pioneer in the field of applied intuition, has used titles of a psychologist, consultant and former professor. She blends intuition and dreams in her published books.  She is a former IASD Board member. Her current dream talks and media presentations are available through You Tube.

Naomi Epel is the author of Writers Dreaming, 27 Novelists Talk about their Dreams and the Creative Process. She lives in USA and began working with dreams at St George Homes in 1980 and has studied with Jeremy Taylor, Strephon Williams, Victoria Rabinowe, David Jenkins. She has attended ASD and IASD conferences from the beginning in Santa Cruz.

Steven Ernenwein, Musician, Storyteller, and Dream-inspired Songwriter,USA

Loma K. Flowers earned her medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is actively engaged in education, previously serving as a voluntary Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF, where she has been honored with esteemed teaching accolades. In 1984 she became the first Chairman of the Board of ASD, and in 1988, her talk at the ASD meeting in Ottawa, Canada, “The Morning After: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Dreams” was accepted by The Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa. It introduced the integration of Delaney’s dream interpretation technique, dream interviewing [DI], with psychotherapy into peer review journals. Collaborating with Delaney for over ten years as the Delaney & Flowers Center for the study of dreams, they taught private Brief Intensive courses and workshops, including at ASD. Flowers’ subsequent peer review articles addressed various applications of DI insights to, e.g., substance abuse recovery and psychosomatic illnesses. Two book chapters covered training patients and psychiatrists in the use of DI. Notably, she holds the national distinctions of being an APA Distinguished Life Fellow and recipient of the 2019 Solomon Carter Fuller Award.

Mara Flynn, MA, M.Phil, USA. A digital artist and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area, I fuse AI-generated imagery, dream symbolism, and layered collage to explore D~Dreaming, a spiritual practice birthing the symbolic and multidimensional D~Dreaming Art. Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s translucent layering, I bring to life inner landscapes where perception and spirit converge. I also curate the Navalny Dream Database, a sanctuary of dreams, art, and reflection.

Jayne Gackenbach, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor in Psychology with MacEwan University and  continues to teach in both Psychology and Communication Studies through Athabasca University. Both are in Alberta, Canada. She is a past-president of IASD. She has published about 10 books, including the now classic "Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain" on lucid dreaming and more recently "Boundaries of Self and Reality Online" examining virtual world experiences.

Rose Taylor Goldfield, Buddhist minister, author, translator, MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies (Naropa University). Authored Training the Wisdom Body: Buddhist Yogic Exercise. Authorized teacher in Karma Kagyu lineage by HH the Seventeenth Karmapa and Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, who appointed her philosophy teacher to his nuns in Bhutan and Nepal. A lifelong Buddhist, she completed many years of retreat in advanced practice. Spiritual Director of Wisdom Sun community, San Francisco.

Loren Goodman, Ph.D., is the author of Famous Americans, selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2002 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Non-Existent Facts (2018), and, with Pirooz Kalayeh, Shitting on Elves & Other Poems (2020). A Professor of creative writing and English literature at Yonsei University/Underwood International College in Seoul, Korea, he serves as Creative Writing Director.

Bill Gorman is a member of the IASD with a library of over 3,000 dreams. In 1972, he received guidance from his future self detailing major life events over the next 40 years, sparking his lifelong interest in precognition. Bill leads a weekly dream analysis group and uses dreams for life guidance and spiritual insight. Bill has partnered with Aligned AI to develop this program

Tzivia Gover, MFA, certified dreamwork professional, is the award-winning author of Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing and other books on sleep, dreams, and writing for adults and children. She founded 350 Dreamers: An international network of people dreaming together for global healing and serves on the executive committee of IASD

Nigel Hamilton, PhD. is Founder of the CCPE, a Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training Centre and Clinic, London UK, where he lectures and practices as a Psychotherapist. He is Co-Founder of the Dream Research Institute (DRI). He originally trained as a Physicist, working at the MIT for using light in Energy Storage Research.

Marna Hauk, PhD, Certified Dream Tending Mentor, serves as senior faculty for Dream Tending, and faculty at Southwestern College. Dr. Hauk develops immersive programs for imaginal and regenerative flourishing. A published researcher in Ecopsychology and co-editor of Vibrant Voices: Women, Myth, and the Arts, Hauk has over 100 peer-reviewed, international publications and presentations, including with The Depth Institute of Asia, the Haden Institute, China Society for Analytic Psychology, and Pacifica.

Diane Hennacy (Powell), MD, is a Johns Hopkins trained neuropsychiatrist and former Harvard faculty member who has become a leading theoretician about consciousness and whose experimental research on autistic children was featured in the popular podcast “The Telepathy Tapes.”

Curtiss Hoffman PhD Yale University (1974), is professor emeritus of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater Massachusetts, USA, where he has taught courses in archaeology, cultural anthropology, mythology, and consciousness since 1978.  He is a frequent presenter at IASD conferences, and has been an IASD member since 1997.  He serves as chair of the Student Research Awards Committee and is a member of the Conference Advisory Committee.

Robert Hoss, MS is Conference Director and former President of IASD, director of the DreamScience Foundation, Haden Institute faculty instructor and board member of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare. Author/editor of: Dreams: Biology, Psychology & Culture; Dreams that Change Our Lives; Dream to Freedom and Dream Language - also published in 9 other books and 5 scientific journals.  Awarded the IASD lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

Athena Hurd is a Translator of meaning: Loss. Symbol. Light.  She creates symbolic dream art as a language of continuity.  Her work explores how meaning survives loss and travels through image, sign, and myth.  Each piece stands as an invitation—not an explanation.  Take only what resonates.

Meaning knows how to travel without force.

Dr. Clare Johnson is an internationally known lucid dream pioneer. Former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, in 2006 she became the first person in the world to do a PhD on lucid dreaming as a creative tool. Her eight books include The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming, The Art of Transforming Nightmares, Dream Therapy, and Elixir of Sleep. Clare offers ocean retreats in Hawaii and Portugal to help people unlock the genius of their sleeping intelligence. She runs a successful online school offering video classes, live workshops, and guided lucid dream meditations, and she hosts the  Sleep & Deep Lucid Dreaming  podcast www.DeepLucidDreaming.com

Sidian Morning Star Jones is an award-winning author and personal mythologist, someone who works with belief, meaning, and story to enrich, inspire, and help others pursue meaningful direction in their lives. Jones has spoken to audiences around the world and starred on a hit TLC TV show. His work has been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, Stephen King, Apple, and Techcrunch. Jones is the grandson of legendary shaman Rolling Thunder, basis for the Billy Jack movies, subject of Martin Scorcese’s The Rolling Thunder Revue. Jones has co-authored two books about Rolling Thunder.

Jacob Kaminker, PhD is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the State of California (PSY 26445) and a Professor in the MA in Counseling Psychology program in the John F Kennedy School of Psychology at National University. Formerly, he was Chair of Counseling Psychology at John F Kennedy University (JFKU), Founding Director of the Depth Psychotherapy Program, Director of the Expressive Arts Therapy Program, and Director of the Trauma Certificate.

Abram Katz, BFA, is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, filmmaker, and social arts educator based in Ashland, Oregon. He offers transformational photography, expressive arts facilitation, and community-focused storytelling, drawing on over 25 years of practice and teaching experience. Abram is President of the Heartisan Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering personal and cultural transformation through creative engagement, and his work has been internationally published and awarded for social-emotional impact.

Ed Kellogg, PhD earned his degree from Duke University. He has published papers and held workshops in fields ranging from the biochemistry of aging, bioelectricity, general semantics, lucid dreaming, psi-dreaming, dream healing, and the phenomenology of consciousness. In 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024 he co-hosted and presented at IASD’s online Many Worlds of Lucid Dreaming Conference.

Dan Kennedy (he/him) is a programmer, artist, and co-founder of the Elsewhere dream journal.

Naomi Kimmelman, MA, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice. She holds a Master's Degree in Holistic Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychotherapy from John F. Kennedy University, studying with Jeremy Taylor. She is a member of the IASD Ethics Committee and has presented on hypnagogia, daydreams, creativity and consciousness at multiple IASD conferences in the U.S. and Europe. She resides in Hawaii.

Philip King, Ph.D. was professor of quantitative methods and psychology at Hawaii Pacific University.  He is the lead author of Dreaming in the Classroom:  Practices, Methods and Resources in Dream Education with Kelly Bulkeley and Bernard Welt (2011), and the author of The Curious Case of the Cleveland Indians: A Time Traveler’s Memoir (2025).  King is a former Vice-President of IASD. He hosted the annual dreams conference in Hawaii..

Trish Kochka, USA.  MA (art-education), MFA, Ph.D.  Retired, five years practice leading dream-groups, intermittant teaching community classes about value of dreams. Self-taught dreamworker:long-term study of Carl Jung's works, and ongoing study of Jungian dream interpretation and the science of dreaming, while continuing informal research of y personal dream data. History as professional award-winnning artist and educator, plus fourteeen later years as Ph.D. psychotherapist, due to dreamwork fascination. Experienced workshop provider.

Joanna Kowalewska is a certified dreamworker trained at the Institute for Dream Studies and a Yoga Nidra facilitator based in Israel. She is the founder of Blue Lotus Queendom and hosts the podcast Dreaming the Light. Her work integrates dreamwork, Yoga Nidra, and sound, with a focus on liminal states and deep rest as pathways to inner guidance. She is a co-author of Divine Dreamers.

Stanley Krippner is a pioneering American psychologist parapsychologist and author known for his extensive research into consciousness, dreams hypnosis and shamanism from across cultural perspective, often focusing on anomalous experience outside mainstream psychology. He held prominent roles as the Allen Watts Prof. at Saybrook and director of Maimonides Dream Research Lab. He's authored numerous books and over 1000 articles, receiving numerous awards for his work in humanistic and parapsychological psychology.

Justina Lasley, MA, founder of the Institute for Dream Studies, created the DreamSynergy™ method to help individuals access their full potential through dreamwork. Author of Wake Up to Your Dreams, she teaches internationally and is a leading voice in using dreams for personal transformation, education, and integrative wellness.

René Léger, MBA lives in Portland, Oregon. He is an executive coach and consultant who supports leaders and teams. René is also an intense dreamer. For decades, he had persistent terrifying nightmares that rocked him to his core. It’s taken a lifetime to understand and transform the trauma embedded within those nightmares into self-compassion and strength.

Carla Levy, C.A.S., has practiced Ayurvedic medicine for more than two decades. She has been a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor and Yoga therapist since 1989. Carla graduated from the California College of Ayurveda and has studied extensively with Dr. Vasant Lad, as well as with many other respected teachers of Yoga and Ayurveda in the United States and India.Her work includes both teaching and working privately with clients.

Lorraine Levy is dedicated to helping individuals rediscover their inner voice, make sense of their experiences, and navigate meaningful change with a foundation in Jungian and archetypal studies, Dr. Lorraine Levy brings both scholarly expertise and a compassionate approach, fostering resilience and transformation. With over a decade of experience in teaching, mentoring, and development, Lorraine has worked across diverse educational and therapeutic settings.

Amy Lloyd is an award winning artist, dreamworker and co-chair of the IASD Arts Committee.

Julia Lockheart is Professor at the Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity St David. BA Fine Art from Saint Martins School of Art, London; MA in Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University; PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts. She has painted dreams during Ullman discussion sessions as part of the DreamsID.com collaboration with Mark Blagrove since 2016.

Jacqueline López is a multidisciplinary artist whose intuitive practice coexists in a delicate balance between beauty and darkness, reality and dream. Guided by myths and raw emotion, her work explores what society deems imperfect, impermanence, and the unseen. Mask-making became essential after personal loss, evolving into a daily ritual of self-discovery and spiritual expression.

David Low, MS Ph DTh is an author, former Adjunct Professor of Religion, drug counselor, and an ordained interfaith minister, who today is an teaches adult education courses and has a spiritual counseling practice. He has meditated and kept dream journals for 38 years and presented at IASD conferences.  An epiphany led him to write his first book, Universal Spiritual Philosophy and Practice: an Informal Textbook for Discerning Seekers.

Jun Lu (MFA, MA, PhD candidate, USA) is a third-culture researcher whose birthplace denied his ancestry but art, story, and dreams restored it, integrating Film, Education, and Drama Therapy toward a doctorate in Expressive Therapies. After transformative COVID-era experiences, he turned to dream work as a healing practice and research path. He creates award-winning shorts, illustrated books, and AI-assisted dream models to explore self-growth through narrative, imagination, and evolutionary intelligence.

Amanda Lux, LMT, RPE, BCPP, RYT-500, is an artist, dream teacher, somatic practitioner, and founder of the Elevation Hive Center for Somatic Healing Arts, offering professional trainings, dream circles, Yoga Nidra, and integrative somatic education. Trained by Robert Moss, she has co-facilitated monthly dream circles and classes with Jamie Fenix for many years and is the creator of The Healer’s Journey Dream Oracle Deck.

Jesse Lyon, MS, LMHC, CCHt, QS (United States) is a Mental Health Counselor from Florida, the founder of Lyon Counseling and cofounder of Trauma Focused Hypnotherapy, training medical and mental health practitioners in clinical hypnotherapy. He is @LyonMentalHealth on social media, reaching over 2 million followers. His work has been featured in numerous publications like The New York Times, and he speaks internationally on dreams, trauma recovery, and therapeutic change.

Sandi Madison, an author from the United States, has kept a dream journal for fifty-five years. At sixteen, she began teaching herself dream recall and interpretation. During the COVID-19 lockdown, she reviewed 38 years of journals and published Diving Before Dawn, a memoir of self-discovery through dreams. A Washington State award-winning counselor for thirty-two years, she brings extensive experience in group presentations, guidance, and support.

Greg Mahr MD is an academic psychiatrist on faculty and Michigan State University and Wayne State University. He has been Director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at Henry Ford Hospital and has authored more than 30 academic articles. His book The Wisdom of Dreams was published by Routledge in 2023, and his book The Psychology of Acute Trauma is in press will be published by Elsevier in 2026.

Marilyn D. Manzi, LMFT, founder of DreamSomatix is a trauma and anxiety specialist. Her approach, Dream Psychotherapy©, integrates dreamwork with somatic awareness to treat Acute Stress Disorder, reduce PTSD risk, and support nightmare recovery for fewer sleep interruptions. She offers psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and continuing education, helping clients process trauma and improve overall well-being.

Kimberly Mascaro, PhD, LMFT is a long-time dreamworker. She is also a California-licensed psychotherapist, centering the spiritual, ecological and somatic. Dr. Kim has authored three nonfiction books on dream-related phenomena, and is a visual artist, meditation facilitator, and university faculty with 20 years of experience in mental-behavioral health. Dr. Kim’s  presentations, artwork, and workshops dive into the realms of consciousness, dreamwork, spirituality, meditation, and self-care.

Linda Mastrangelo, MA, LMFT is the Director and Lead Faculty for the Institute for Dream Studies and psychotherapist in Northern California. She has presented internationally and written for The Shift Network, GoodTherapy, SUFI, LDE, and Sleep Monsters and Superheroes focusing on grief, death, initiation and psychopompic dreams.  Linda served as Board of Director of IASD and is a graduate professor of Consciousness & Transformative Studies at John F. Kennedy University.

Jane Maxfield holds a Certificate in Projective Dreamwork from the Marin Institute of Projective Dreamwork, an MA in Humanities and Spiritual Leadership from New College of California, and a BFA in Visual Art from Southern Illinois University.  She is a member at large of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts, and a member of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild in St. Louis, Missouri.  Jane currently resides in University City, Missouri.

Holly McNeill, once designing hospitals, now designing peace of mind, Holly McNeill, The Mindfulness Architect, blends 26 years of architectural prowess with 25 years of transpersonal exploration. A quarter-life crisis transitioned her into sustained study of neuroscience, psychology, spirituality, quantum perspectives, and Buddhist-informed practices. She developed the Attention by Design framework and P.E.R.L.O.V.E. Formula, presented at the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale, and hosts the podcast Pay Attention with Holly McNeill.

Alisa Minyukova

Gordon Montgomery is an AI Alignment and Consciousness Researcher. 20 years Management Consulting with global organizations: - Anderson, Staples, Lilly, Nokia, Microsoft, BritishTelecom, UTexas, Harvard U, Florida.gov  10 years Executive Leadership Coaching 5 years Strategic Foresight, Futurist BA Linguistics, MSc Computer Science, MA Vedic Science PhD Consciousness, Synchronicity and Meaning (Sofia.edu, CA, USA).

Dafna Mordecai, BFA, Parsons School of Design; MA Candidate in Transpersonal Psychology and Dream Certificate, Sofia University; New York, USA

Angel Morgan, PhD (USA) is a past President of IASD, transpersonal psychology professor and director of the Dream Studies Certificate program at Sofia University in the US and China, founder of Dreambridge (theDreambridge.com), author/illustrator of The Alphabliss of Miss, and Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: A New Lucid Dreaming Classic for Children and Parents of the 21st Century. Dr. Morgan is an award-winning international author, filmmaker, and educator.

Nori Muster MS, Based in Arizona, and a native of Los Angeles, Nori has been writing for publication since 1981. Her first book was Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement. She has kept a journal since 1979, and after joining IASD in 2017, she typed all her dream records. She graduated with a master’s degree from Western Oregon State University in 1991.

Rubin Naiman, PhD, FAASM, University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, Tucson, Arizona USALana Nasser

Kyle Napierkowski is a technologist and facilitator with deep expertise in data science, machine learning, and AI. He holds a BSc and MSc in Management from Case Western Reserve University and is certified in systems coaching, Gestalt, Jungian, and somatic methods. His work integrates technical systems with group process and relational dynamics.

Bryan Negrón Quiñones, MS, LPsy, CCTP (Puerto Rico), is a licensed psychologist and transpersonal PhD student at Sofia University focusing on spirituality, cultural identity, and healing in Caribbean contexts. Author of Voices Of The Drum: Spiritual Awakening and Transpersonal Psychology in the Caribbean, he integrates clinical practice with ethnographic and decolonial perspectives, bridging psychology and ancestral wisdom through teaching, writing, and community work.

Rev. Geoff Nelson, D. Min., is a retired Presbyterian pastor, a trained spiritual director, and dream group leader. His book, “Dreaming in Church” is available through Amazon and the publisher, Wipf & Stock.

Ela Nordfors is currently a first-year PsyD student at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, CA, with an emphasis on diverse populations. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University and worked at the Consciousness & Cognition Lab, where she researched priming effects and their relationship to sleep and memory, and presented recently at WPA in Las Vegas. She is a head intern at NAMI West LA.

Beril Ozturk, MSc, is a counsellor/psychotherapist working in bereavement and a doctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and a postgraduate tutor. She is also a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Her interests include dreams, visual methods, meaning-making in therapeutic practice, and counsellor and psychotherapist training.

1. F. Pagel MS, MD. Associate Professor Colorado Medical School, Adjunct Professor (Psychology) Cape Breton University. A neuroscientist who worked clinically in in the field of Sleep Medicine editing major textbooks writing the diagnostic criterion for nightmare disorder, and chairing the AASM education committee, dream, and parasomnia sections. > 200 publications on sleep, dream, and consciousness including books on dream science, PTSD, machine dreaming, and consciousness.

Ken Paller, Ph. D. is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in dream research. His laboratory group made early progress in studying memory reactivation during sleep. Unconscious memory reactivation may be important not just for improving memory storage, but also for dreaming, creativity, and problem-solving. In many of his recent studies, dream content was strategically modified using sounds during REM sleep that were presented quietly to avoid disturbing sleep. His current research is also exploring intentional dreaming within advanced Tibetan-Buddhist contemplative practice (so-called Dream Yoga). He also helped set up a sleep lab in a monastery, taught neuroscience to monastic scholars, and trained them in the scientific investigation of sleep and dreaming.

Victoria Philibert (she/her) is a SSHRC doctoral student in philosophy at Dalhousie University in Mi'kma'ki (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She collaborates with artists, computer scientists, and dream researchers on Elsewhere, a dream journal app, the Sleep & Dream Database (SDDb), a growing archive of dream reports and survey data, and the Dream Animation Festival, an annual festival celebrating dreams in animated film.

Ida Poschmann, cand.psych., PhD student (Denmark), is a clinical psychologist from University of Copenhagen. She has worked at the Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry since 2016 and received clinical authorization in 2018. She is currently a PhD student affiliated with the Competence Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry and the Centre for Culture and the Mind. Her research focuses on nightmares and treatment of trauma-affected refugees, with publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Xian Prem holds a Ph.D. in Psychology besides certifications in somatic and transformational coaching, creative expression, yoga, 5Rhythms movement, and meditation. She brings two decades of international experience as a workshop facilitator and transformational life coach, uplifting clients and peers in personal and professional transformation. She has analyzed dreams since the age of ten, and conducted doctoral research in self-transcendence.

Victoria Rabinowe, USA, is an internationally recognized author, artist and dream workshop facilitator. She is the founding director of the DreamingArts Studio in Santa Fe and the multi-award-winning author/illustrator of Conversations with Psyche: A Dreamer’s Guide to Soul-Stirring Creativity, which offers innovative approaches to dream work. She has guided over 1,000 international workshops investigating the expressive potential of dreams as a source for creative conversations, expressive writing and art-making.

Laura Roklicer received her PhD from Swansea University under the supervision of Mark Blagrove. She has published in IJODR and presented at IASD in 2023 and 2024 (and 2025 paper with Blagrove) among other conferences, and conducted creative dreamwork workshops and retreats for therapists. She currently works as a postdoc at the University of Warsaw, where she has designed and teaches a brand-new Dream Studies course for master’s students.

Louise Rosager is a Senior Dream Tending Faculty. As a creative dream coach, Rosager combines her Shakespeare background and fifteen years in script development with mythology and Jungian dreamwork to work with prominent creators in TV/Film. She served as Executive Producer of WILL, a TV series about William Shakespeare (TNT).

Etja Ruth is certified as an Embodied Imagination, Continuum Movement and Tarotpy® practitioner, Etja Ruth trained through Robert Bosnak’s Embodied Imagination® program. In her Soul Guidance practice, she is a guide for individuals and groups. In her creative practice, she brings dream language and imagery to life through visual art, writing and performance.

Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW is an international speaker on dreamwork, trauma, and integrated embodied spiritually. EMDR and energy psychology consultant with 45 years’ experience, and a long-term member of IASD. Author: "Ancestral Dreaming: Healing Generational Wounds through Dreamwork", (Llewellyn, 2025), "PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork" (Llewellyn 2022), "Modern Dreamwork: New Tools for Decoding Your Soul’s Wisdom" (Llewellyn, 2019) , and Professor Emeritus Boston University. Lauren Z. Schneider is a Depth Psychotherapist, teacher, pioneer, and author of the multi-award-winning book, Tarotpy - It's All in the Cards. She offers a unique approach to depth psychotherapy, integrating dreamwork and Tarotpy® (tarot therapy) for guidance, healing, and transformation. A board-approved CE provider, Lauren facilitates workshops and monthly groups and trains Certified Tarotpy Practitioners for health practitioners and laypersons. Lauren has her private practice in Santa Barbara, California.

Andrea Shane became fascinated by her dreams while traveling in India in 2012. Upon returning home, she began studying with Jeremy Taylor and completed a Master’s degree in Depth Psychology from Sonoma State University. She leads online dreamwork groups through DreamOfferings.com focusing on creating a nurturing space where dreamers can explore their inner worlds. She lives outside of Savannah, Georgia, USA, where she stewards two acres of forest.

Natalia Snider USA Colorado is a Dream Guide Certified by Robert Moss. She has a BSA from CUD international studies where she studied indigenous cultures spirituality.

William Sousae has more than forty years of experience using dream reflection to support insight and growth in life, work, and relationships. His dreamwork has been influenced by the IASD, Gayle Delaney, Jeremy Taylor, the Guild for Psychological Studies, and the Seth Material. He holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Catechetics and is Vice-President of the RHE Charitable Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ayush Srivastava is a Senior Research Fellow specializing in Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. His current doctoral research revolves around the intriguing realm of Dreams and Sleep, exploring both Western and Indian philosophical perspectives. His research interests encompass Philosophy of Mind (Indian and Western perspectives), Consciousness Studies, Upanishadic Philosophy, Moral Philosophy.

Bambi Corso-Steinmeyer developed a method of tracking dreams highlighting patterns that keep reappearing in dreams. These patterns convey a message to the dreamer. Tracking the visual elements that appear in dreams, that message can be realized. She will present visual examples of repeating patterns in dreams leading to deeper understanding. Cassi Stuckman is a somatic psychotherapist based in Boulder, CO, USA, focusing on somatic dreamwork. Cassi has taught yoga since 2006 and worked as a birth doula since 2012. In 2020, she began conducting virtual dream circles and started facilitating them in clinical settings for mental health and substance use recovery in 2022.

Tina Tau, Certified Dreamworker, lives in Portland, Oregon. She leads dream workshops, dream theater, and in-person dream groups. She serves as the Minister of Magic at the Portland Grief House. She is the author of "Ask for Horses: Memoir of a Dream-Guided Life" (Kelson Books, 2022)

Willow Pearson Trimbach, PsyD, LMFT, MT-BC is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, psychologist, psychotherapist, music therapist, author, singer, songwriter. Willow practices psychotherapy (in person and online) in Oakland, California (drwillowpearson.com). Her books include The Emotional Truth of Dreams: Learning from Dream Dialogues in Psychotherapeutic and Spiritual Practice (Routledge, forthcoming 2026) co-authored with Eva Tuschman Leonard. Her eighth album, Caesura’s Cry, was released in July 2025 (lionessroars.org).

John Valenzuela, Ph.D., is a graduate of the clinical psychology program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. As a licensed psychologist in Ojai, California, Dr. Valenzuela has trained with Steven Aizenstat and Daniel Siegel. He currently operates a group practice and serves as a psychological supervisor at Nexus Counseling and Wellness. His first book, Dreams, Jung, and Memory Reconsolidation (in press), is part of the Analytical Psychological Series with Routledge in London.

Alwin E. Wagener, PhD, LPC, NCC is an Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He has presented on dreams and dreamwork at national, international, and regional conferences. His recent published work includes a novel dream theory, The Embodied Cognition Theory of Dreaming, and a model for culturally competent dream discussions, Culturally Responsive Dreamwork.

Robert Waggoner (USA) wrote the acclaimed book, Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self, and co-authored the award winning Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple (with Caroline McCready). Since 1975, he has logged more than 1,000 lucid dreams and gives university presentations, talks and online workshops on the practice and potential of lucid dreaming. Waggoner serves on the IASD Executive Committee.

Dr. Kelly Sullivan Walden is an award-winning, bestselling author, certified clinical hypnotherapist, TEDx speaker, and internationally recognized dream-expert based in Los Angeles, CA. With over two decades of experience, she helps individuals and organizations harness the intelligence of dreams for insight, healing, creativity, and conscious manifestation. As “Doctor Dream,” she’s a regular guest on national TV shows—bridging psychology and mythology to make dreamwork practical, accessible, and transformative to the masses.

Craig Webb is a musical artist, author, and director of The DREAMS Foundation for over 2 decades, Craig Webb has participated in lucid dreaming research at Stanford University and Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur Dream and Nightmare Lab. Craig is also a physicist/inventor, bio-medical design engineer, outdoor/adventure quest guide, and friendly frisbee fanatic.

Bernard Welt, MA (Writing) PhD (Literary Studies), Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University, is a widely published poet and essayist. He has led dream groups for 40 years and is a Contributing Editor of DreamTime and co-author with Phil King and Kelly Bulkeley of Dreaming in the Classroom.

Sarah Wetherbee is the founder of INCUBATIO, a creative institute focused on dreams and creativity. She is the CEO of an award-winning production company creating series for platforms including Netflix. After turning to dream incubation to reinvigorate her creative practice, she applies narrative structures used in her television and film projects to the language of the subconscious, using the Asklepion Cycle to guide collaboration with imaginal symbols and inner intelligence.

Judy White, PhD, an LA-based clinical psychologist, certified Embodied Imagination dreamworker, has led group workshops and has written and presented on dreaming, pain and disability; symptom embodiment; and her work with veterans and PTSD nightmares. Judy has long been passionate  about the possibility of bridging intergroup divides through dreamwork.

Ewa Wiwatowska, PhD, Poland explores the neural correlates of procrastination, focusing on attentional control and negatively-valenced mind-wandering episodes. Another line of her research investigates the link between dispositional cognitive control and different aspects of lucid dreaming ability.

Yui Yoshioka, Ph.D. (Education), Japan, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology with a dissertation on the clinical relevance of emotions in dreams. Her research focuses on dream emotions, using questionnaire, diary, physiological, and experimental approaches. Her publications include work on the Japanese version of the Mannheim Dream Questionnaire published in the IJoDR.

Sarette Zecharia, Ph.D., DCEP, EHP-C is a clinical psychologist based in Scottsdale, Arizona, and founder of Lighthouse Psychology LLC. Integrating Gestalt and Jungian therapy with Energy Psychology and Eastern medicine, she specializes in chronic pain, PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression, and dream work. With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Zecharia empowers patients globally and is a recognized speaker and educator, founding a doctoral internship in Integrative Pain and Energy Psychology.

Olivia Morales Zenteno (a.k.a. Aberdeem) is a branding and business strategist and the founder of A Thousand Dreams, a portal for dreams, dreaming, and dreamers worldwide, and the A Thousand Dreams App. She has documented her dreams intensively since around 2000 and has developed original frameworks such as The Dreaming Landscapes and The Dreaming Profiles. Her work is published on Medium and endorsed by DreamWorlds.

Dr. Heather Taylor-Zimmerman is a Jungian scholar, visionary artist, and lucid dreamer whose doctoral dissertation on The Red Book explored Jung’s active imagination as a method of soul. A lifelong painter of dreams, she recently co-authored the Dream Wisdom Oracle with psychiatrist Dr. Greg Mahr. Heather teaches and leads retreats at the intersection of depth psychology, nature, and creativity, helping others follow the dreaming path to healing and wholeness.

Conference presentation abstracts offer a glimpse into the ideas, research, creativity, and experiences being shared throughout the conference. These summaries are designed to help attendees explore the wide range of presentations, workshops, panels, performances, and discussions available during the event. Each abstract highlights the focus, themes, and intended learning experience of a session, allowing participants to discover presentations that resonate with their interests, curiosity, and professional or creative pursuits.

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