List of Presenters
IASD 24th Annual Conference, 29 June – 3 July 2007
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Suzie Abu-Jaber, MEd, CAES, is a master’s level educator, consultant and clinician who has specialized in visually impaired and multi-handicapped children for twenty years. She trains teachers and facilitates development of early intervention and preschool programs all over the world.
Alexandra L. Adame, MA, is a graduate student pursuing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Miami University. She received her BA in psychology from Mount Holyoke College. Her research interests include the psychiatric survivor movement, recovery from severe psychopathology, and archetypal approaches to dreams.
Kate Adams PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies in England. Her doctorate explored the dreams of a multi-faith sample of children aged 9-12. Her research interests include children’s significant dreams, how children find meaning in dreams and how teachers can use dreams in educational settings.
Monique Aguerre, BA, resides in Petaluma, California, where she creates masks and facilitates workshops. She recently completed her studies in the Depth Psychology Master’s Program at Sonoma State University, and is writing her thesis on the use of masks as tools for personal transformation.
Emily Anderson, MA, has a certificate of Dream Studies and a Master’s degree in Transformative Arts from John F. Kennedy University. She is a multi-media artist, dancer, teacher and arts administrator and has led and participated in art, dreaming and spiritual groups for over ten years as well as worked at the director level of Bay Area art nonprofits.
Elicia M. Arwen, MA, studies Contemplative Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology. She has studied the psychology of Carl Jung and dreamwork since 1994. She currently practices as a psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado.
Sheila McNellis Asato, MA, www.monkeybridgearts.com , is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to the growth, transformation and healing of individuals and the community through art, dreaming and creative development. She also provides customized training in cross-cultural communication, with an emphasis on Japan, for Family Guidance International.
Kim Atkinson is an internationally recognized drummer, teacher, and vibrational healer who has practiced African and Brazilian Umbanda ritual drumming for many years. He brings his mastery and artistry to group facilitation, integrating sound and rhythm for personal transformation. He has released 8 CDs and 2 DVDs of his work.
Umberto Barcaro is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of Pisa University, Italy, and a research collaborator at the National Research Council. He is particularly interested in text analysis of dream reports and dream associations. He has been a member of IASD since 1999.
Maryann Barone-Chapman is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in London where she specializes in women’s issues, including infertility. She holds a Master’s of Science from the British Association of Psychotherapists, Jungian Analytic Section, in collaboration with Birkbeck College University of London. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in women’s unconscious use of their bodies.
Deirdre Barrett, PhD, is author of The Committee of Sleep: How Artists, Scientists, and Athletes Use Their Dreams for Creative Problem Solving—and How You Can, Too; The Pregnant Man and Other Cases from a Hypnotherapist's Couch; and editor of Trauma and Dreams. She is Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
Donald Bender, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, who specializes in the linguistic analysis of clinical and forensic documents. He moderates the online discussion forum dedicated to clinical and research approaches to the Thematic Apperception Test. He has a private practice and in addition is Director of Training for ‘TheirWords’.
Mark Blagrove, PhD, is reader in psychology and Director of the Sleep Laboratory at Swansea University, Wales. He is a Past President of IASD, is a consulting Editor of the journal Dreaming, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sleep Research.
Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the founding Director of the Dream Studies Program at JFK University. One of the pioneers in dream education and research on transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming, she is the author of numerous publications on the spiritual dimensions and is the co-author of Extraordinary Dreams.
Kirsten Borum, dream therapist, Denmark, has been working with dreams professionally since 1983. She combines dreamwork with energy work, meditation and healing. She was trained and supervised by Jes Bertelsen and Bob Moore. She has a private practice in Copenhagen. She has appeared in various media on dreams and dream interpretation.
Ghazaal Bozorgmehr holds an MA from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran. She teaches English to children and is one of the translators of Masters of Children’s Literature. She also collaborates with the authorized representative of ‘Kids’ Skills’ in Asia, teaching Kids' Skills. [paper may be presented by an alternate]
Mary Brill, LCSW, is an experienced psychotherapist who uses her skills in problem solving and mentoring to help people develop their inner resources. She leads national and international seminars and tours focused on personal growth, dreams, feminine wisdom and spirituality. She is known for her unique ability to tame the inner critic and foster self-acceptance.
Nicholas Brink is a clinical psychologist. He is Past President of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery. He is book review editor for the journal Imagination, Cognition and Personality and author of Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis.
Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union and teaches in JFKU’s Dream Studies Program in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a Past President of IASD, and is author of The Wilderness of Dreams and The Wondering Brain, co-author of Dreaming Beyond Death, and editor of Dreams: A Reader and Soul, Psyche, Brain.
Patricia Bulkley, DMin, is a Presbyterian Minister who earned her doctorate of ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary. She served for ten years as Spiritual Services Provider at Hospice of Marin, has taught pastoral care at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and is co-author with Kelly Bulkeley of Dreaming Beyond Death.
Jette Fabiola Cabo is an anthropologist and Chair of the Danish Association for the Study of Dreams. Her thesis explored a group of 10-year-old Catalan girls’ dream stories on power relations in social school life. She is currently conducting a research project in Copenhagen focusing on how children may benefit from dreamwork in the classroom. [paper may be presented by an alternate]
Jean Campbell, from Virginia, is President of IASD. She is the author of Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power. As CEO of the nonprofit organization, The iMAGE Project, she has worked with The World Dreams Peace Bridge to provide aid to the children of Iraq.
Manlio Caporali, MD, is a neurologist and psychiatrist. He was Assistant Professor at La Sapienza University, Rome, Department of Neurology and since 1988 has been Assistant Professor at Tor Vergata University, Rome. He has published over 150 scientific papers, two books, and now works in the fields of Group Analysis and Dream Textual Analysis.
Bob Sandman Coalson, MSW, LICSW, is an Adjunct Professor at Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, Washington, where he teaches courses in the psychology of dreams. His clinical background includes: trauma recovery specialist, sandplay therapist, storyteller, and consultant with interest in cross culture perspectives on dreaming and shamanism.
Greg Comella is on the faculty of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is also Adjunct Faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He has Master’s degrees in Theology, Spiritual Direction and Developmental Counseling. He currently is completing his PhD in East-West Psychology at C.I.I.S.
Deborah Coupey, BA, is a Dream Studies and Consciousness Masters degree candidate at JFK University and has served on the IASD Nightmare Hotline since 2001. Deborah has worked with dreams in the U.S. and internationally, including conducting a dream group in the Washington, D.C. area for three years. In addition she has travelled to over 100 spiritual places in the world.
Linda Cunningham, PhD, MFT, is the author of Relational Sandplay Therapy, as well as many articles in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy. She is Adjunct Faculty in the Depth Psychology Program at Sonoma State University and at New College of California, and is in private practice in Petaluma and San Francisco.
Joanna Czupryn, BS, Canada, research interests include dreaming, reader response, and post-traumatic growth
Layne Dalfen, author of Dreams Do Come True: Decoding Your Dreams To Discover Your Full Potential, founded The Dream Interpretation Center in Montreal. She appears on radio shows and lectures. She has a certificate in Gestalt Counseling, is a member of the C.G. Jung Society and is a board member of IASD.
Betsy Davids, MA, from Berkeley, California, USA, is a writer/artist whose primary medium is the book. She is a longtime member of the graduate and undergraduate faculties at California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts and Crafts), where she teaches book arts and writing.
Dr. Teresa L. DeCicco is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, specializing in personality, abnormal psychology, health and dreams and dreaming. Research and applied interests include personality, health and dreams, and dream imagery directly relating to the waking state.
Gayle Delaney, PhD, is a US dream educator and author. She is President of Delaney & Flowers Dream Center, in San Francisco and founding President of IASD. She is creator of the Dream Interview method, www.gdelaney.com . She is also romance coach, www.ChooseRomance.com , using the strikingly insightful feedback offered by dreams in dating and mating.
Daniel Deslauriers, PhD, is Professor and Director of the East-West Psychology program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was the co-founder of the Montreal Center for study of dreams. He co-authored the book Le rêve: sa nature, sa fonction et une méthode d'analyse and has authored several articles.
G. William Domhoff, PhD, is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he hosted the IASD meetings in 1988 and 1992. He is the author of The Mystique of Dreams (1985), Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996), and The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003).
Jennifer Dumpert received her BA from York University in Toronto and her MA from the New School for Social Research. She achieved ABD status from GTU, wrote half her dissertation, and abandoned academia. She has published and lectured on dreams, Buddhism, ritual, and hula hooping. Her web site is www.urbandreamscape.com .
Shelagh Dunn, MEd, Canada, graduate student; counseling psychology, with special interest in programs for adolescents.
Laurette Dupuis is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She became a member of the C.G. Jung Society of Montreal at its inception and was active on its executive for several years. From 1985 to 1990, she was on the executive of the Centre d’étude des rêves de Montréal. She obtained a Master’s degree in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2005.
Beverly D’Urso, PhD, an ‘extraordinary’ lucid dreamer all her life, originally worked with Dr. Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University. Using her practical philosophy called ‘lucid living,’ she has taught her own workshops and groups, presented at conferences for decades, and has over fifty publications, many included on her website: http://beverly.durso.org
Rita Dwyer, Vienna, VA, is a former research chemist, co-author of papers and patents in the aerospace field, ASD founding life member, Chair of the Board (1987 90), Past President (1992 93), Executive Officer (1993 99). A founder and facilitator of the Metro DC Dream Community, she is also a writer, lecturer, and certified pastoral counselor.
Hooshmand Ebrahimi holds an MA from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. He is a child counselor. He is the first ‘Kids’ Skills’ instructor in Asia, officially recognized as such by Ben Furman, MD, the founder of ‘Kids’ Skills’.
Dr. Iain Edgar lectures in anthropology at Durham University, UK. He has written many articles, including two published in Dreaming, on dream and image work and their relation to culture, politics, education and identity. His most recent book is Guide to Imagework: Imagination-Based Research Methods which was published in 2004.
Lynne Ehlers, PhD, is a Jungian-oriented licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Berkeley and San Francisco, Dream Studies faculty at JFK University in Pleasant Hill and a faculty member in the Continuing Education departments at JFKU and Sonoma State University; she has taught dreamwork and sandplay in the Bay Area for many years.
Jim Emery, MM, received his teacher certification from the International Shinsundo Association in 1980. As a teacher, lecturer and seminar facilitator he has guided many people through his yoga classes in a variety of settings including health clubs, educational classes, and conferences.
Marcia Emery, PhD, host of the 2005 IASD Conference and board member, is a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and author. She has a chapter on Intuitive Dreamwork in her books: PowerHunch!, The Intuitive Healer, and Dr. Marcia Emery’s Intuition Workbook. She appeared on the ‘Dream Decoders’ TV series in 2005.
Gillian Finocan, MA, is doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Miami University in Ohio. As a qualitative researcher, she uses a performative writing approach to present experiences with dreams. Her dissertation focuses on the role of dreams in the process of recovery from the sudden traumatic death of a parent.
Samantha Fisher has a PhD on the aetiology of nightmares from Swansea University and is a Clinical Psychology (DClin) student at Cardiff University, Wales.
Loma K. Flowers, MD, is a US psychiatrist with 38 years of practice. She is President of www.EquilibriumDynamics.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching adults and children how to build a life in which feelings empower – rather than sabotage – relationships, activities and careers. She still supervises psychiatry residents and trainees.
Marilyn Fowler, MA, is an Associate Professor and the current Director of the Dream Studies Program at JFK University. She has an extensive background in organizational development, dreamwork, research and coaching. She is also the Director of the MA program in Consciousness and Transformative Studies at JFKU.
Art Funkhouser earned his PhD in digital picture processing and his diploma as a Jungian psychotherapist in 1981. Besides seeing clients in his private practice, he long led a seminar in dreamwork at the C.G. Jung Institute near Zurich and still leads a dream group in Bern, Switzerland.
Jayne Gackenbach, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Grant MacEwan College, Canada. A past President of IASD, she has been an active researcher and writer in the area of lucid dreams and the psychology of the Internet. Her current research interest is in consciousness and video game play.
Judy Gardiner, New York, NY, has been analyzing, writing about and researching her dreams for 15 years. This led to scientific information she had never known, and her self-study transformed to a cosmic wake-up call illuminating the union of Science and Spirit. Her work with Montague Ullman focuses on this transcendental quality of the dream.
Patricia Garfield, PhD, leading dream expert, Doctor in Clinical Psychology, authored nine books on dreams, and co-founded ASD (President 1998-99). Her Creative Dreaming, bestseller in print since 1974, appears in fourteen languages; The Dream Book (2002) for teens, won two prestigious awards. Instructor OLLI, Dominican University, San Rafael, California, USA.
George Gillespie, MA, is a Sanskrit scholar and has done doctoral work in Sanskrit (University of Pennsylvania). He is an American Baptist Minister and has taught the history of religions at seminaries in India. He writes on the phenomenology of visual experience and religious experiences of light.
Dr. Monique Golis has specialized in working with youth in the United States, India, Russia, Honduras, Guatemala and Germany. Her commitment is to bring a mind body connection into depth psychological work.
Robert P. Gongloff is the author of Dream Exploration: A New Approach. He is the IASD Secretary and has hosted two international dream conferences. He lives in Black Mountain, NC, where he conducts dream groups and workshops. His website is www.heartofthedream.com .
Gary Goodwin has taught at the local Jung Society for nearly ten years. He has been a dream group leader for six years, and has recently formed a center that provides a home for teachers of the ‘inner arts’ (journaling, art for reflection, dreamwork, active imagination, and other related topics).
David Gordon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist from Norfolk, VA, and past IASD membership chair. He has given workshops and presentations throughout the US and Canada. His book, Mindful Dreaming: A Practical Guide for Emotional Healing through Transformative Mythic Journeys, explores the lessons in mindfulness dreams teach us.
Dale E. Graff, MS Physics, is an internationally recognized lecturer, writer, and researcher in psi topics. He is a former Director of project Stargate, the government program for research and applications of remote viewing. His books, Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness and River Dreams, present his experiences with remote viewing, psychic dreaming and synchronicity.
Nicole Gratton, (Canada), founder and director of the Dream School Nicole Gratton (École de Rêves) in Montreal. She also acts as a sleep consultant for the business community and has written fourteen books in French on the subject of dreams and sleep, two of which were translated into Italian.
Geri Grubbs, PhD, is a practicing Jungian analyst in Seattle, WA. A graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute-Zurich, she has been practicing depth psychology since 1987. She has lectured and taught widely on dream interpretation and bereavement, and is the author of Bereavement Dreaming and the Individuating Soul.
Jody Grundy is a psychotherapist and life and leadership coach and employs dream work in both of these professional practices. As an enthusiastic and long time member of IASD she has hosted a Midwest regional in 2002 and now serves on the IASD Board as Membership Chair.
Doug Grunther is the host of ‘The Woodstock Roundtable,’ a popular radio talk program. Involved in dreamwork for over 10 years, he has an advanced certification in dreamwork from the Marin Institute for Projective Dreaming, completed a dream group raining with Dr. Montague Ullman, and has led many successful dream groups.
Mark Hagen, MA, is the Director of the International Institute for Dream Research. He graduated from the University of Zürich, Switzerland, in clinical psychology in 1983, and undertook three years of analytical training in depth psychology. He is the author of Restoration of the Dream. His website is www.dreamresearch.ca .
Louis Hagood, psychoanalyst, has led dream sharing groups at the annual IASD conference, for FIONS in NYC and at his psychoanalytic institute. He presented on dream healing at the 2003 IASD conference. He has published a book, Midlife at the Oasis: Dreaming in the Second Half of Life, and journal articles.
Christian J. Hallman, PhD, is a metaphysician from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and founder of Quality Health Fitness and Wellness, an organization that helps people progress beyond the absence of illness, rehabilitation and total fitness. He is also a Captain in the United States Army and Global War on Terrorism Veteran.
Nigel Hamilton, PhD, UK, is Director of the Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, a Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training Centre and Clinic in London where he lectures and practices as a psychotherapist; UK Representative for The Sufi Order International; originally trained as a physicist, working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Energy Storage Research.
Olaf Gerlach Hansen, MA, Denmark, has degrees in Danish philology and linguistic psychology and has done postgraduate studies in the psychology of dreams. Over the last 16 years he has become specialized in culture and development as director of various cultural co-operation programs and projects involving in particular Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.
Ernest Hartmann, MD, is the author of over 325 articles, and nine books, most recently Dreams and Nightmares. He is a Past President of IASD and was the first Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr. Deborah Armstrong Hickey is Assistant Professor in Psychology at Greenville Technical College, is a Faculty Research Mentor with Walden University, and specializes in expressive therapies, supervision of therapists, and dreamwork at The Mindgarden in Greenville, South Carolina. She has been active in IASD for almost twenty years.
Curtiss Hoffman, PhD, is an archaeologist and consciousness researcher who has taught in the Anthropology Department at Bridgewater State College, USA since 1978. He is particularly interested in Jungian approaches to dreaming. He has an interest in Wagner’s work because of its archetypal symbolism. He was the host of the 2006 conference.
Caroline Horton, University of Leeds, UK, is a tutor at the University of Leeds, a lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University and a part-time tutor for the Open University, all based in the UK.
Bob Hoss, MS, is the author of Dream Language, Executive Officer and former President of IASD and founder of the Dream Science foundation for research grants. He is on the faculty of the Haden Institute for dream leadership training, and Adjunct Faculty of Sonoma State University and is Host of the Dream Time radio series. www.dreamscience.org .
Lynne Hoss, MA, EHP-C, is the Energy Psychology Program Director for Innersource in Ashland, Oregon and a former counselor, journalist and communications director. She was coordinator and counselor for EAP programs with the Hunterdon Council on Alcoholism in New Jersey. As a member of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, she is trained in various energy psychology protocols.
Karen Jaenke, PhD, core faculty member at the Institute of Imaginal Studies, Petaluma, California, USA; private dream consultant. Her somatic approach to dreams focuses on their role in recovering deep personal and collective memory, unfolding personal destiny and soul potential, and healing personal and collective imbalances of our time.
David Jenkins, PhD, is the author of Dream RePlay: How to Transform Your Dream Life. He teaches classes on dreams and offers dream groups in Berkeley and Oakland, California. His PhD study of Emanuel Swedenborg's dreams led him to focus on the reality of the dream experience. He writes a weekly column which can be read at www.dreamoftheweek.com .
Clare Johnson, PhD, completed her PhD in Creative Writing with the University of Leeds, England. Her doctoral work focuses on the connection between lucid dreaming and the creative writing process, and she is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing with the Open University. She has practiced yoga all over the world for over 12 years.
David Kahn received his PhD in Physics from Yale University. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry doing research on dreaming to help develop a neuropsychology of dreaming that can be used as a solid basis for a brain-based theory of psychiatry and normal mental experience.
Tracey L. Kahan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University. She is a faculty member of the SCU Psychology Department, Dr. Kahan's research explores the relationship between dreaming and waking cognition. Her research has shown that waking and dreaming, especially REM dreaming, are more similar than different with respect to the occurrence of metacognitive skills such as reflective self-awareness, intentionality, and self-regulation.
Pia Keiding, Lic Phil, Lic Sc, STM, is founding Director of CITHE, Brussels, transpersonal Danish psychotherapist leading post-graduate training courses throughout Europe. Amongst her many transpersonal trainings she holds a postgraduate degree, STM, in ‘Unity in Duality’ (Tibetan Philosophy/Psychology/Science of Mind). She is a lecturer at Leuven University and innumerable International Congresses.
E. W. Kellogg III, PhD, is a proficient lucid dreamer, and his long-standing interest in the phenomenology of dreaming led to the presentation of numerous papers and workshops on such topics as the lucidity continuum, lucid dream healing, and mutual dreaming. From 2002-2005, Ed organized and hosted IASD’s online PsiberDreaming Conference.
Kenneth Kelzer, LCSW, is a practicing psychotherapist and hypnotherapist with almost 40 years of experience. In the 1980s he induced and received a long series of powerful, life changing lucid dreams that became the subject of his first book The Sun and the Shadow: My experiment with lucid dreaming. He is committed to integrating lucid dreaming into lucidity in the waking state, with an emphasis on the parallels between dream lucidity and hypnotic trance states.
Elizabeth Kennedy, APRN, BC, is an Adult Nurse Practitioner and psychotherapist who has worked for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health for 22 years. She has taught at MGH Institute of Graduate Professions and Simmons College.
David B. King, BSc, is a student at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He recently completed his undergraduate degree in psychology and is now pursuing his Master’s degree under the supervision of Dr. Teresa L. DeCicco. His current research interests include dreams, spirituality, intelligence, sexuality, and health.
Johanna King, PhD, is Past President of IASD and current member of the IASD Ethics Committee. Now retired, she was a licensed psychologist in three states, taught courses on dreams, and supervised clinical graduates. She has written and presented workshops on the use of dreams in treatment of sexual abuse.
Philip King, PhD, retired in 2006 as Professor of Quantitative Methods and Psychology at Hawaii Pacific University, where he taught courses on dreams. His research areas include dreams of health care professionals, connections between dream orientation and dream content, and existential themes expressed metaphorically through dream motifs.
Jurgen Kremer PhD, is an executive editor of the journal ReVision and teaches at the Santa Rosa Junior College as well as at Saybrook Institute Graduate School, Sonoma State University, and elsewhere. The focus of his work is shamanism, indigenous traditions, decolonization, and the recovery of indigenous consciousness.
Hermine M. Mensink is a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in working with individuals, couples and families. She works with Voice Dialogue, dreams and Hellinger’s systems constellations.
Roger M. Knudson, PhD, is Director of Clinical Training in the PhD program in Clinical Psychology at Miami University. He has taught courses on dreams at Miami for over 25 years. His research focuses on the on-going significance of significant dreams.
Elena Korabelnikova, PhD, graduate of Moscow Medical University, neurologist, psychotherapist, somnologist, a member of Moscow Somnological Center, collaborator of the Neurological Department of Moscow Medical Academy, Professor of the Psychological Department of the Institute of Medical Social Rahabilitation, member of PPL, author of two books on sleep and dreaming.
Kevin Erik Kovelant is an MA candidate at John F. Kennedy University in Consciousness Studies and Dream Studies, finishing up his Master’s thesis on the experience of ‘felt sense’ in visitation dreams from the dead. His main areas of interest are Sufi dreamwork, and anomalous dream experiences.
Miloslava Kozmová, MA, is a doctoral student at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, pursuing her PhD degree in psychology with concentration in consciousness and spirituality. Her interests include the research of subjective experiences; differences between the dreaming and waking consciousness; and the health-relevant informative value of the dream content.
Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, served as the President of IASD and APA. A pioneer in the field of dream research, he was the Director at the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, Brooklyn, NY. He is author, co-author or editor of numerous articles and books.
Don Kuiken, PhD, Canada, professor; interested in dreaming, aesthetics, and phenomenological psychology.
Beena Kuruvilla, BA student, Grant MacEwan College, Canada, is a third year psychology honors student. Her current research interests are in video game play, dreaming, and flow from a developmental perspective. She has worked as a researcher, examining the relationship between media use and dreaming.
Erin Langley, MA received her Master’s in Indigenous Mind from Naropa University. Her thesis, entitled Reinstating the Role of Community Dreaming Using Traditional Protocol and Open Source Technology, looks at ways to remember principles of tribal dreaming in a postmodern context. She is a professional painter who lives and works in Oakland.
Justina Lasley, MA, is Director or the Institute for Dream Studies and the DreamsWork™ Certification program. She is author of Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders and In My Dream…, a dream journal. Her special interest is in using dreams as a spiritual source for personal growth. Her website can be found at www.dreamswork.us
Ming-Ni Lee, MS, research interests include dreaming, mystical experiences, and transpersonal psychology.
Marcia Lewin-Berlin, MA, MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice, a pediatric and adult Hospice Clinical Social Worker, a bereavement counselor and groupworker, and a program advisor for Master’s Program candidates at Lesley College in Cambridge, MA.
Jacquie Lewis, PhD, is the Editor for IASD´s E-News. She began keeping a dream journal 35 years ago and is a founding member of a Chicago area dream group, which has been in existence for ten years. Her PhD dissertation explored the dreams of animal rights activists.
Simone Litsch is a psychiatrist and Sleep Medicine Fellow at the University of Michigan. She is interested in dream research and clinical application of the interpretation of dreams in psychotherapy and dreams to facilitate personal growth.
Ruth Lingford, MA, is a London-born animation filmmaker with an early career as an Occupational Therapist in the fields of Psychiatry and Geriatrics. Her “feelbad” films have won awards in festivals all over the world, and in 2006 she became Harvard’s first Professor of the Practice of Animation.
Athena Lou is a Dream Counselor and Reiki Master who helps dreamers discover the hidden meaning of their dreams and to positively apply this information in their personal growth, careers, relationships and healing. She is founder and principal of Belly Babes, a Hilo, Hawaii based belly dance troupe and Athena Dreams, a seminar and retreat development center.
Tatiana LoVerso, BA, Canada, graduate student; counseling psychology, with special interest in recovery from trauma.
Nancy Lund, MA, is an artist and dreamworker whose dreaming is a creative and spiritual practice. She is a graphic artist and writer who was an assistant to JFK University’s Dream Studies Program from 1999-2006. She assisted or co-hosted IASD conferences in 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Carol Luther is a liberal parish priest and professional dreamworker. Her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books and The Christian Century. She is currently at work on a novel about the Russian Revolution and the Indigenous peoples of Siberia and a curriculum on sustainable living.
Teresa MacColl, MA, has conducted ancestral research in the Indigenous Mind program at Naropa University which included the Celtic Second Sight, dreams and prophecy. Using her science background, she helped to create the group’s ‘dream database’ and is conducting research to collectively look at student’s dreams.
Linda Lane Magallón, MBA, is a California public school educator with experience at both elementary school and college levels. She co-founded the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group as a professional exchange for the presentation and development of dreamwork techniques. She also created the playful Fly-By-Night Club research group.
Catherine Alexander Mahler, MA, after recuperating from chemotherapy and surgery for breast cancer, which was diagnosed in 1999, attended the Master’s Program in Depth Psychology at Sonoma State University, earning an MA in psychology in 2002. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Clinical Psychology program.
Ronald S. Malashock, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst in private practice in San Diego, CA. In additional to individual practice, he currently leads innovative groups including Dream Destiny Transformation Group, and Getting To What Matters. He can be contacted at Rmalashock@aol.com.
Mary Pat Mann PhD, is a writer and educational consultant. Her background includes instructional design, faculty development and educational research and evaluation in higher education, government and corporate settings. Dreams are a lifelong interest, dreamwork an emerging passion.
Rodrigo Marcus, MA, completed his certificate in Dream Studies and his Master’s degree in Consciousness Studies from JFK University. He has been facilitating dreamgroups and workshops since 2001 employing various forms of projective and embodied dreamwork.
Roger Martinez writes a column entitled, ‘The Dream Zone’. The column is published in the Addiction Professional magazine. This column focuses on addiction and counseling issues related to dreams. He is a licensed counselor and national certified addiction counselor. He has been presenting workshops on dreams and other counseling topics.
Dawn Matheney, PhD, has tended her dreams as a spiritual practice for many years. Her doctoral research explored the varying ways people have of relating to and making meaning of their dreams. Having just gone through a career shift, she is Executive Director of Veriditas, a non-profit promoting the wisdom and power of labyrinth work.
Patrick McMahon has been an elementary school teacher, an ESL teacher, a landscaper, and a freelance writer. He has published numerous essays and articles for various Buddhist periodicals on themes including meditation, education, family, literature, livelihood, and literature. He has been recording his own dreams for nearly 40 years.
Adrian Medina-Liberty , Full Time Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He studied psychology and has a PhD in Symbolic Anthropology. During the last ten years he has been engaged in the study of dreams and the connections between culture, mind, and language.
Paul Monson is a first year graduate student in the PhD program in Clinical Psychology at Miami University. He received his BA in psychology from the University of Oregon. His current research interests include dreamwork, imagination, and qualitative methods of inquiry.
Maureen (Moe) Munroe is a dreamworker, artist and crafter. She co-owns the women’s clothing store Morning Glory in Burlingame, California, and is the fashion accessory designer and owner of Boho Fashion Accessories. She has been studying and doing dream interpretation since 1988.
Lana Nasser, MA, was born in Jordan, has lived in the United States for the past 12 years, and is now residing in-between places. A researcher and performing artist, she gives workshops, directs plays, and writes.
Zoé Newman, MFT, is a psychotherapist and spiritual director in Berkeley, where she leads dream groups, including dreamwork groups for persons facing cancer. She has presented at previous IASD conferences, published in Psychological Perspectives and other journals, and is currently publishing a book on using dreamwork principles with waking life.
Dolores J. Nurss, artist, writer, philosopher and ivory-trailer intellectual.
Jordan Olischefski is currently completing a Psychology honors degree at Grant MacEwan College. His interests include consciousness, evolutionary psychology and the influence of technology on human functioning. He has volunteer and work experience with young offenders, as well as youths with developmental disorders and substance abuse disorders.
Carol Oschmann began dreamwork in 1985 after realizing a physical healing and the ability to dream for others as a result of her dreamwork. She has lectured, and written several articles for Dream Network Magazine, Venture Inward Magazine. Her book God Speaks In Dreams; Connect With Him And Each Other came out in 2006.
Wendy Pannier, (USA), has conducted workshops and dream groups with cancer patients for the past 11 years, as well as coordinating grants to IASD for the work she and Tallulah Lyons are doing with cancer patients. She has worked with Dr. Montague Ullman since the early 1980s and has led dream groups for diverse audiences here and abroad for over 25 years.
Frank Pascoe is a PhD student in Transpersonal Psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology studying shared dreams.
Winnie Piccolo, MA, MFT, is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Rosa and San Rafael. She studied dreamwork in the 80’s with Strephon Kaplan Williams and in the 90’s with Stephen Aizenstadt. Of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, her soul’s journey began with being born into incendiary times to parents who suffered years of imprisonment during WWII.
Meg Pierce, MA, MFT, has been keeping dream journals since she was 12 years old. Her dreams tell her to walk the mystical path with practical feet, so she has a private practice in Santa Rosa and San Francisco specializing in depth work. Her work runs the gamut from couple’s therapy to trauma recovery.
Steven Pritzker, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and Director of The Creativity Studies Certificate and Consciousness and Spirituality Concentration, conceived and co-edited The Encyclopedia of Creativity, providing the first comprehensive review of creativity research, and wrote for television series including The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Victoria Rabinowe, USA, has facilitated over five hundred workshops, retreats and dream sharing groups in ‘The Art of the Dream’ using the multidisciplinary, interactive Rabinowe Method. She is a graduate of the Advanced DreamTending Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her nationally exhibited art work and international teaching career span thirty years.
Valley Reed wrote The Crow and the Phoenix, which she choreographed, directed and performed with dancers at the 2001 Midwest Regional Conference. She was inspired by her daughter to write the dream story, and her son created the artwork for the program. She presented on the Children and Education Dreams Panel at the 2005 Bridgewater Conference.
Sophia Reinders, PhD, MFT, is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco and Marin County, interweaving Jungian psychology, the body and expressive arts in the treatment of individuals and couples. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Her web site is www.wisdombody.com .
Sheri Ritchlin is a writer, teacher and dream worker who received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. For two decades she has offered lectures and workshops on dreams in the U.S. and abroad. Her book, Dream to Waken: A Manual for Dreamers, Dream Groups and Therapists will be published in Spring 2007.
Pietro Rizzi is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Milan, Italy. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology of the Milano–Bicocca University. His research interests include theory and methods in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis, clinical interview, and psychoanalytic approaches to aesthetics.
Joan Robinson has been leading dream groups for 13 years and is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Marin County, California and she is a spiritual director. She uses art in her groups and has led group work in a variety of settings, including at San Quentin prison.
Sanford Rosenberg, PhD, President of Media Research Associates, Dr. Rosenberg has twenty-five years of experience in Media Psychology. He is an educator, lecturer, clinician, and consultant on media projects including movies, games, and the web. He specializes in qualitative knowledge-based research, examining the relationship between language, story, structure, symbol, image, emotion, and experience.
Neil Russack, MD, is a Jungian analyst practicing in San Francisco, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the author of Animal Guides in Life, Myth and Dreams (An Analyst's Notebook) (2002)
Richard Russo, MA, is the editor of DreamTime and a past president of IASD. He is currently co-director of The Dream Institute of Northern California, where he and Meredith Sabini have conducted monthly Culture Dreaming sessions for the past two years.
Virginia Beane Rutter, MS, an analyst on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, writes and speaks on psychological development and the psychological aspects of men’s and women’s initiation rites. She combines the study of psychology, archaeology, art history, and mythology as they manifest in the archetypal imagery of different cultures, and employs contemporary dream material as a foundation in her work. She is the author of the forthcoming The Archetypal Paradox of Feminine Initiation in Analytic Work in Initiation: The Reality of an Archetype; Woman Changing Woman: Feminine Psychology Re-Conceived through Myth and Experience; Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters; and Embracing Persephone: How to Be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish.
Meredith Sabini, PhD, is a Licensed Psychologist in the field since 1972, specializing in Dream Consultation. She is a public speaker and widely published author, with a column in DreamTime. In 2003, she founded The Dream Institute of Northern California, an experimental cultural center.
Linda Schiller, MSW, LICSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice, an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Social Work, and a faculty member in the Trauma Certificate Program. She works from a multi-layered orientation, incorporating energy medicine, expressive techniques, relational-cultural theory, and body/mind/spirit interventions in her work.
Annelise Schinzinger was introduced to a spiritual group that uses Hoasca (Ayahuasca) in 1977 when she was studying at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her journey with the sacred tea spans over eighteen years. In 1995, she stopped drinking the tea to focus on her dreams, which she has been recording for over thirty years.
Marilyn Schlitz is Vice President for Research and Education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas, Austin.
Lauren Z. Schneider, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist who integrates family systems, dream therapy and her pioneering method, ‘Tarotpy’ in private practice. She supervises dream and ‘Tarotpy’ groups for laypersons and training therapists; lectures throughout So. California; she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley; and is certified in ‘Advanced DreamTending’ from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Mark A. Schroll, PhD, USA, featured presenter at the 5th Psiberdreaming conference and IASD 2006; Non-Local Consciousness, Dreams, Psi and Religion, symposium organizer. Guest Editor Anthropology of Consciousness 16 (1), 2005. Currently finishing articles for Dreamtime, Dreaming, Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective, and several other journals.
Richard Schweickert, PhD, in Mathematical Psychology from University of Michigan, 1979. He is Professor in Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
Fred Jeremy Seligson, JD, is Asia-Pacific VP for the IASD, South Korea; this year taught Travel Journal through the World's Religious Cultures at a Buddhist University. He is author of Oriental Birth Dreams.
Alan B. Siegel, PhD, is an avid hiker and naturalist and Past President of IASD, current education chair and Editor-Emeritus of IASD’s publication, DreamTime. He practices psychotherapy and assessment and is Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley and faculty at Alliant University’s CSPP. He is the author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life’s Answers in Your Dreams. www.dreamwisdom.info
Patricia Spangler is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Maryland, United States. Her research interests include process and outcome of dreamwork in therapy and interpersonal patterns of dream content.
G. Scott Sparrow is a therapist and Assistant Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American. He wrote Lucid Dreaming in 1976, and did his MA and doctoral research on lucid dreaming. He has authored several books on the phenomenology of religious experiences, and uses dreamwork extensively in his teaching and practice.
Janet S. Steinwedel, PhD (USA). Building on her dissertation study which incorporated dreamwork in leadership coaching, Janet continues to build the case for dreams in the corporate world. She started her own business, Leader’s Insight, LLC, in 2005. She has worked with Leadership and Organizational Development for 20 years. Her doctorate is in Human and Organizational Systems.
Bonnelle Lewis Strickling, PhD, RCC, is a Jungian psychotherapist and spiritual director in private practice. She is also Chair of the Department of Philosophy and a member of the Interdisciplinary Department of Classical Studies at Langara College in Vancouver, BC. Her book Dreaming About the Divine, will be published in April, 2007.
Gloria Sturzenacker, MS, is an editor, writer, and graphic artist in New York City. She has developed a symbol system, Inner Guide Mapping, to track the multilayered interaction of internal and external experience. She serves on the board of IASD.
Kieran Sullivan, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, teaches psychological assessment and works as a consultant on questionnaire development and evaluation. Her research interests also include the role of support in marriage and the prevention of marital distress.
Gunnar Sundström, BA, is a psychologist and licensed psychotherapist of psychoanalytical orientation. He is Chair of the Board of the Swedish Dream Group Forum.
Atava Garcia Swiecicki, MA, is both a graduate and faculty member of the Indigenous Mind Program. She has explored in-depth the way ancestors and spirits communicate through dreams and has facilitated dream groups with this focus. She is also a clinical herbalist in Oakland. Her web site is: www.ancestralapothecary.com .
Michael Tappan, MA, has apprenticed to shamans in the Ecuadorian Andes, in the Amazonian Rain forest and in Tuva, Siberia. He has led and participated in dream groups for over fifteen years. He has directed and acted in improvisational theater and currently facilitates Dream Portrayal workshops.
Rev. Dr. Jeremy Taylor is an artist, teacher, Unitarian Universalist minister, community organizer, and dreamworker. He is one of the original four founders of IASD. He is the author of three well-known books on dreams and dreamwork. He is the founder of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work.
Robert Tompkins, PhD, MFT, has been a passionate inquirer into the natures of spirit and soul, first as professor of philosophy and, more recently, as a student at the Institute of Imaginal Studies and as a psychotherapist. He has a part-time practice in Sebastopol, where he is currently writing on the relationship of ‘soul’ to contemporary philosophy.
Jason Tougaw is Assistant Professor of English at Queens College / CUNY, where he teaches an interdisciplinary seminar on dreams. He is the author of Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel (2006) and editor, with Nancy K. Miller, of Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (2002).
Bob Trowbridge, MDiv, USA, has been active in dreamwork for over 30 years. A former officer in the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group, he was editor of the Dream Network Bulletin. He has published dozens of articles and authored The Hidden Meaning of Illness: Disease as a Symbol & Metaphor.
Misa Tsuruta, MA, Japan, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at New School for Social Research. She has presented on Japanese culture and movements and space at past IASD conferences. She is a dream journalist.
Robert Van de Castle, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the Health Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. He is a Past President of IASD, co-author with Calvin Hall of the dream classic, The Content Analysis of Dreams, the author of Our Dreaming Mind, and has authored numerous publications including Our Dreaming Mind (1996).
Dani Vedros, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker from Norfolk, VA. She is currently in private practice and is the Co-Director of the Studio for the Healing Arts and the Dreamwork Institute in Norfolk, Virginia. In addition to her clinical practice, she facilitates dream groups and workshops on a regular basis.
Robert Waggoner graduated from Drake University with a BA (summa cum laude) in psychology. An IASD member since 1995, he has been published in DreamTime, Dream Network Journal, and The Lucid Dream Exchange (which he co-edits). A lucid dreamer since 1975, he writes and speaks on lucid dreaming.
Carol Warner, MA, MSW, is a clinician in private practice. She has served IASD on the Board and as chair of the Ethics Committee. Her writing and presentations reflect her dual background in clinical work and religious studies. She is especially interested in the use of dreams in trauma treatment.
Craig Sim Webb, past IASD board member and Director of the DREAMS Foundation ( http://www.dreams.ca ) for over a decade, has participated in research at Stanford University and at Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Dream and Nightmare Lab. Craig is also a physicist and bio-medical design engineer, an outdoor adventure quest guide, and a performing/recording artist.
Bernard Welt, Professor of Academic Studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., is the author of Mythomania: Fantasies, Fables, and Sheer Lies in American Popular Art, and a member of the board of IASD.
Gregory White, PhD, is a clinical and social psychologist currently directing an MFT training program and practicing as a Jungian psychotherapist. Research interests include dream cognition, dream incubation and problem-solving, and mindfulness.
Jane White-Lewis, PhD, is a past president of ASD, and is a Jungian analyst living and practicing in Guilford, CT. In addition to her analytic practice, she is a member of the Faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute in New York.
J.A. Wijnen, MA, is a clinical psychologist, specializing in working with individuals with eating disorders and working with children with emotional/social and cognitive behavior problems.
Suzanne Wiltink is a graduate student in Clinical Psychology at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. A lucid dreamer since 1994, she looks at the questions of conscious awareness in the dream state.
Richard N. Wolman, PhD, clinical psychologist, teacher, and researcher, is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is the President and Research Director of PsychoMatrix, and his research focuses on spirituality; child custody; interaction of family and legal systems; psychotherapy; dreams; and child development.
Johanna Xi, BS, BA, Psychology and Economics, both from Peking University, 2006. She is a graduate student in Psychology at Purdue University, USA.
Marco Zanasi, MD, is a medical doctor, neurologist, psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Tor Vergata University, Rome. He has published 170 scientific papers and two books on Group Psychotherapy. For many years he has been studying oneiric activity in normal and pathological minds.
Alexis Zederayko, University of Alberta, is currently a student in the Department of Psychology. Her interests include interpersonal relations and dreams. She has taught disabled children on a volunteer basis.
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