Presenter Bios

Click on any of the last names below to be taken to the presenter's bio.  Program presenters listed are part of the
2010 IASD Conference being held in Asheville, North Carolina at the Crowne Plaza Resort
Sunday, June 27th - Thursday July 1, 2010

Mohamed Abdel Latif Ragab, PhD (UAE) is a Professor in Islamic Studies, Faculty of Shari’a and Law, United Arab Emirates University.

Jeff Armano, MA candidate (USA), was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he studied cultural anthropology at Bridgewater State College. He lives in California and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Consciousness Studies. Jeff plans to continue learning and teaching cross-cultural studies, which are his passion.

Valtteri Arstila (Finland) completed a PhD on philosophical theories of color and color vision in 2005. He is a postdoctoral researcher of the Academy Finland, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy, University of Turku, Finland, focusing on temporal properties of consciousness and conscious states.

Sheila McNellis Asato, MA, EIC (USA) is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts, a center dedicated to personal growth, transformation and healing through art, dreaming and creative spirituality. A former IASD Board member and certified Embodied Imagination Coach, Sheila leads workshops internationally on the relationship between art, dreaming and healing.

Ann E. Aswegan, RN, MS Ed (USA). Dreams captivate her. Interacting with them for over fifty years has profoundly enriched her life. Dreams led to her career as a dream consultant/ holistic health educator, and continue to guide her as her work evolves.

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Deirdre Barrett, PhD (USA) is a psychologist at Harvard. She is a Past President of IASD and APA's Div. 30, has written four books including The Committee of Sleep and The Pregnant Man, has edited three books including The New Science of Dreaming, Trauma and Dreams, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming, and edits IASD's journal Dreaming.

KJ Bartnicki, LSW, MA (USA) has been studying dreams since her earliest dream recollections in childhood (age five). Her passion is studying PSI, or paranormal, dreams, due to the numerous dreams she has had since childhood. She sees PSI dreams as a normal aspect of the function of dreams.

Denyse Beaudet, PhD (USA), author of Dreamguides: Open the Door to Your Child’s Dreams, began her research thirty years ago, upon learning how the Malaysian Senoi schooled their children in the “art of dreaming.” Born in Québec City and educated in the tongue of Molière, she lives in San Diego.

Ann Bengtsson (Norway), specialist in clinical psychology, has used dreams in clinical practice for 30 years. She teaches dream groups for professionals and published a book on dreams. During 22 years of Bob Moore's training she has learned how energy works in dreams. Other references: Jes Bertelsen, CG Jung and Wilhelm Reich.

Walter Berry, MFA (USA) leads a weekly Dream Group in the Los Angeles area, and has taught workshops at the IASD International Conferences and Southern California IASD Conference. He is a visual artist.

Barbara Bishop, PhD (USA) worked as a college English professor, a marriage and family therapist in private practice and in a drug rehab center. Most recently she has been doing research in dreams and addiction.

Christina Bjergo (USA), a Licensed Acupuncturist with an MA in Oriental Medicine, is Grand Master of Sacred Serpent Spiral Qigong and founder of Qigong Dreaming. She incorporates dreamwork in Qigong classes and treatment sessions, has published on Qigong Dreaming and is author of the book The Tao of Tarot.

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Mark Blagrove, PhD (Wales) is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at Swansea University. He is on the editorial boards of the journal Dreaming and The Journal of Sleep Research, and is a Past President of IASD.

Amy Blume-Marcovici, MA (USA) is a graduate student in psychology at Alliant International University. In 2006, she earned her Master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2009, she won an IASD student award for her essay “Gender differences in dreams.” She resides in San Diego, California.

Fariba Bogzaran, PhD (East-West Psychology) (USA), Associate Professor and founding director of the Dream Studies program, JFK University, has trained students and professionals in lucid dreaming and integral approaches to dreams internationally since 1984. She is co-founder of the Lucid Art Foundation, co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and author of numerous articles on lucid dreams.

Kirsten Borum, dream therapist (Denmark), has been working professionally with dreams since 1983. She combines dreamwork with energy work, meditation and healing. She was trained and supervised by Jes Bertelsen and Bob Moore, has a private practice in Copenhagen, and has appeared in various media on dreams and dream interpretation.

Johnathan Bown (Canada) is a recent graduate of the honours program of Grant MacEwan University. Research interests include perception, consciousness, video games, and artificial intelligence.

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Marc Bregman (USA) founded Archetypal Dreamwork in 1973 and is Co-Founder/ Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Marc is a master Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist who has evolved this work for 35 years. He has been teaching and presenting workshops since 1992 and lives in Vermont.

Nicholas Brink, PhD, Clinical Psychologist (USA), Past President of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, 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.

Pamela Brunner, PhD candidate (USA), has been working as an intern psychologist for four years at a nonprofit clinic and uses her personal work with dream process to inform her work with patients. She enjoys an active life with her four children and new granddaughter.

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD (USA) is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. A Past IASD President, he is the author of several books on dreams, including Dreaming the World's Religions and American Dreamers.

Dorothy Campbell, RN, MN (USA) is a Jungian Analyst, a diplomate of ISAP Zurich, with a BScN and Master’s in Psychosocial Nursing. She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, studying painting and drawing as a full-time student for three years.

Jean Campbell, MA (USA) is CEO of The iMAGE Project, moderator of The World Dreams Peace Bridge, and author of several books and articles, including Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power (2006). She is a Past IASD President and current Chair of the IASD Board of Directors.

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Michiko Akahori Carey, MA (USA) is a doctoral student of clinical psychology at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, California. She is finishing her dissertation exploring how having and working with a meaningful dream affects women’s individuation process based on Jungian psychology. She is originally from Japan.

Laurel Clark, DM, DD, PsiD (USA) has taught Applied Metaphysics since 1979 at the School of Metaphysics. An interfaith minister, counselor, and adult educator, she is author of Karmic Healing, Dharma: Finding Your Soul’s Purpose, and The Law of Attraction and Other Secrets of Visualization, and is a contributor to Lucid Dreaming.

Jessica Clarke BSc (Hons) (Canada) is a research assistant in the areas of culture, ethnicity, religion and dream science. She is pursuing a Master's degree in counseling psychology in Ontario, Canada.

Rose Cleary, PhD (USA) serves as Director of the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches courses integrating the study of literature with psychological exploration of dreams, bereavement, personality and the practice of psychotherapy.

Irene Clurman (USA) was for many years the art and dance critic for one of Denver's daily newspapers. She has been involved in group projective dreamwork for more than eighteen years. A graduate of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, she facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops and teaches yoga.

Barbara Condron, DM, DD (USA) began studying dreams in the 1960s, teaching in 70s, researching in 80s, organizing data in 90s, researching global trends in 2000s. An author and teacher, Barbara is an Intuitive Reporter for the School of Metaphysics, having provided thousands of reports for people on six continents.

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Daniel Condron, DM, DD, MS (USA) is a teacher, educator, writer, composer, recording/producer, agriculturist, ecologist, landscape designer, and dream researcher, dedicated to knowing Self and mind for over 30 years. A certified Biofeedback Specialist, he is director and energetic designer of the 1500-acre College of Metaphysics campus.

Hezekiah Condron (USA) has studied the similarities between universal stories and individual dreams since he was born. He lives at the College of Metaphysics with his parents Barbara and Daniel, both teachers. He is studying to become a dreamologist and includes dreamwork at his website www.kungfu-chef.com.

Allyson Dale, BA (Psychology, Hon) (Canada) is a student at Trent University, Canada. Her research involves working with the Canadian military and testing a self-guided dream therapy method with her advisor Dr. Teresa DeCicco. She wishes to pursue a Master’s degree specializing in therapy and counseling.

Patricia M. Davis received her MA in religion and psychology for research on dreams in early Christianity. She is a doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California doing research on dreams, discernment and conversion.

Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD (Canada) is an Associate Professor of Psychology whose areas of research include self psychology, health psychology, dreams as therapy, and the scientific investigation of dream imagery and meaning to waking life. Her applied practice includes lectures and workshops in Canada, the USA, India, and Europe.

Marilyn DeMario (USA) holds her PhD in English Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. After teaching for twenty-two years, she now studies Depth Psychology and the ways in which digital photography can enhance pedagogy in that field. Her photographs have won awards in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Barbara A. Derrick, PhD (USA) is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. She is an Ordained United Methodist minister and author of various articles and five books. She has been a presenter at conferences on Holistic Wellness.

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Daniel Deslauriers, PhD (USA) is a Professor, East-West Psychology, at CIIS, San Francisco. Co-founder of the Montreal Center for the Study of Dreams, he co-authored Le rêve: sa nature, sa fonction et une méthode d'analyse. He has published on traditional and contemporary approaches to dreams and imagination, spiritual intelligence, and integral psychology.

Rita Dwyer, BS, CPC (USA). Former research chemist, coauthor of aerospace papers/patents, IASD Founding Life Member, Past President and Executive Officer. Founder/facilitator since 1983 of the Metro DC Dream Community and certified pastoral counselor. Writes, lectures, leads workshops on the importance of dreams; special interest in spiritual and extraordinary dreams.

Jim Emery, MM (USA) 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 settings including health clubs, educational classes, and conferences.

Marcia Emery, PhD (USA), host of the 2005 IASD Conference and former Board member, is a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college professor 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.

Jacob Empson, BA, PhD (UK) has been a university teacher of psychology since 1971. Publications include Human Brainwaves (1986), Sleep and Dreaming (1989, 1993, 2002), and papers in Nature, Experientia, Biological Psychology, EEG Journal, and other journals.

Christine Falter (UK) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. She received a Diploma in Psychology from the University of Munich for work on the temporal characteristics of blindsight. In 2008 she finished a PhD on visuo-spatial perception in autism at the University of Cambridge.

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Willem Fermont, PhD (The Netherlands) is an independent artist. He was Head of Curators, National Museum Ethnology, Leiden, and has conducted coal, oil, and gas research, taught geography, and spent many years in palaeontology and geology research. Willem is manager of the 2011 IASD conference to be held in The Netherlands.

Carol Flake, PhD (USA) is a Distinguished Professor Emerita from the University of South Carolina. She began dreamwork with Jean Houston in 1982 and leads a dream group at her church in Brevard, NC focusing on soulcentric dreamwork and Group Projection. She trained with Bill Plotkin and the Haden Institute.

Jayne Gackenbach, PhD (Canada) is on the psychology faculty at Grant MacEwan University. A Past President of IASD, she has numerous publications primarily on dreams, higher states of consciousness and electronic media. Her research focuses on how video game play affects consciousness.

Franklin J Galvin, PhD (Clinical Psychology) (USA), a long-term member of IASD, is a clinical therapist at a psychiatric center in Brockton, MA. Completed dissertation work at Ernest Hartmann's sleep laboratory in Boston and has presented papers on dreams in past IASD conferences.

Patricia Garfield, PhD (Clinical Psychology) (USA) is a world-class dream expert, author of ten books on dreams including Creative Dreaming, a bestseller in print since 1974. Co-Founder of IASD, President 1998-99, featured on national and international television, she teaches dreams at Dominican University, recording her own dreams for 60 years.

Heloisa Garman, PsyD (Brazil) is an Illinois licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in individual and family therapy from a system perspective. Pursuing her interest in dreams, she applies a systemic intraspychic model to dreamwork and is writing a book on this approach.

M. Lourdes Gonzalez, MAc, MMQ, artist, dreamer, acupuncturist (USA) holds a Dream Studies Certificate from JFK University and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Consciousness Studies. She has combined the Five Element system with dreams, calling the merging of both fields Five Element Dreamwork. She practices in Danville, CA.

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Tzivia Gover (USA) is a student in the Institute for Dream Studies Certification Program and the author of Mindful Moments for Stressful Days. A certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher and experienced workshop leader, she is a member of IASD, and created 350 Dreamers, a worldwide network of dreamers for global healing.

Dale E. Graff, BS, MS (USA) 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 discuss remote viewing, psi dreaming/precognition and synchronicities. (www.dalegraff.com)

Nicole Gratton (Canada) is the author of fifteen books, and founder and director of a Dream School in Montreal (École internationale de rêves Nicole Gratton). She writes for many magazines, has presented in Europe and America, and appeared on television shows across Canada. With Monique Séguin, Nicole is the co-author of Les rêves en fin de vie.

Jodine Grundy, LPC (USA) is a psychotherapist and life coach. She pursues creative work in the arts, agriculture and the written word. Developing community is an organizing motif in her volunteer work. She is IASD Vice President, Membership and Nominating Committee Chair, and contact for Regional Representatives and Events.

Laura Gurevich, PhD (USA) is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her areas of specialization include trauma, dissociation, chronic suicidality and self-injury, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Laura is the Responsable (leader) of the Boston Circle of the Freudian School of Quebec.

Heidi Guttmann, MA (USA) is a filmmaker whose work has been shown at the Native Voice film festival. She holds a Master’s degree from Naropa University, with a concentration in Sacred Cinema. Her post-graduate work has been in the Indigenous Mind program, under Dr. Apela Colorado, Director, of Oneida and Frank ancestry.

Bob Haden, MDiv, STM, Diplomate, American Psychotherapy Association (USA) is Director of the Haden Institute and its Dream Leadership and Spiritual Direction Training programs. He is a priest, psychotherapist, and teacher. He is author of Souls Labyrinth, the soon to be published Unanswered Letters From God, and the Dream Workshop DVD series.

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Lou Hagood, licensed psychoanalyst (USA), has led one-on-one and group dream sharing for fifteen years. He has published a book on midlife dreaming and papers in professional journals, taught a dream course at a training institute and presented at IASD annual conferences.

Nigel Hamilton, PhD (United Kingdom) is Director, Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education, London, a Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training Centre and Clinic, where he lectures and practises as a psychotherapist; UK representative for Sufi Order International; originally a physicist, working at MIT for the use of light in Energy Storage Research.

Joan Harthan (USA) has been Dream Journaling for 20 years and joined IASD in 2002. She presented at the annual conferences in Copenhagen and Boston, and is a keen participant in the PsiberDreaming Conferences. She has contributed articles to the IASD magazine Dreamtime and is author of Working the Nightshift, How to Understand your Dreams.

Ernest Hartmann, MD (USA), Past President, IASD, served as first editor-in-chief of the IASD journal Dreaming and is the author of 340 articles and nine books, including the forthcoming The Nature and Functions of Dreaming (2010).

Silja Heikkilä, BA (Finland), Turku Arts Academy, Drama Instructor, member of the Finnish Dreamwork Forum working with dreams and creative expression. Silja graduated recently from the Turku Arts Academy and leads an Ullman dreamgroup in Rauma, in western Finland.

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Susan Hendricks, MA, MSW (USA) is a licensed clinical social worker. She earned an MA from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, an MSW from the University of SC, completed Dream Leadership Certification at Haden Institute, attended CG Jung Institute, Zurich and completed certification hours from American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Velva Lee Heraty, MSW (USA) is a depth psychotherapist specializing in dreams. She has a certificate from the Jung Institute in Evanston, Illinois and has spent nine years studying dreams from both a Jungian and psychoanalytical perspective. She has developed a creative, synergistic, highly effective, model of dream facilitation.

Deborah Armstrong Hickey, PhD, LMFT (USA), Core Faculty at Capella University, Marriage and Family Therapy, IASD Board member 2008-10, Registration Chair 2007-08, Arts Chair 2009. Deborah has been a therapist specializing in expressive and play therapies for over thirty years and completed her dissertation on lucid dreams in school age children.

Heather Higgins, BA (Canada) has worked with alcoholics for over fifteen years and continues counseling, public speaking and facilitating workshops, in particular training professionals in The Storytelling Method (TSM) of dream interpretation. Her recent publication on the dreams of recovering alcoholics indicates recovering alcoholics can gain insight using TSM.

Valerie Hinard, MA, MFTI (USA) is a private practice psychotherapy intern in San Rafael, California. She has a Jungian depth psychology background. She co-founded the nonprofit, Sonoma Psycho-Oncology, which provides Integrative Psychotherapy to cancer patients. Dreams are an integral part of her life and her life's work.

Jan L. Hitchcock, PhD (USA) is Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern Maine's Lewiston-Auburn College. She teaches and writes on interdisciplinary topics, including the interrelationships between poetry and psychology, more recently including dreaming into that mix.

Curtiss Hoffman, PhD (USA) is professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater MA. He teaches courses in archaeology, myth, and culture and consciousness. He serves on the IASD Board 2004-2007, 2009-10, Vice President 2008-2009, Program Chair 2008-2010.

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Gillian Holloway, PhD (USA) has been a teacher at Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon for 15 years where she teaches Dream Psychology and Intuition Research. She is the author of four books on dreaming and her current research explores the pattern in dreams of conversations with the departed.

Brigitte Holzinger, PhD (Austria) was born in Vienna, studied psychology at the University of Vienna and Stanford, is “Lehrtherapeutin für Integrative Gestalttherapie,” lecturer, teacher, author and coach. Areas of expertise include sleep, sleep disorders, burnout, nightmares, dreams and lucid dreaming, Gestalt theory and Gestalt therapy. Caroline Horton, MA, PhD, CPsychol (UK) is Senior Lecturer of Cognitive Psychology, Leeds Metropolitan University, England; Research Fellow, University of Leeds. Caroline is investigating the cognitive profile of dreamers, the incorporation of autobiographical memories into dreams, and memory consolidation in sleep.

Lynne Hoss, MA (Clinical Psychology), EHP-C (USA) is Energy Psychology Program Director for Innersource, and contributing author to 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. A former counselor, she teaches EP publicly and privately, and is certified by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.

Robert Hoss, MS (USA) is author of Dream Language, IASD Treasurer and Past President, and Dream Science Foundation Director for funding research grants. A scientist with Gestalt training, he has taught dreamwork for 30 years, is on the faculty of the Haden Institute, and hosted the IASD DreamTime radio series (www.dreamscience.org).

Marsha Hudson, PhD (USA) is an educator, writer, and dreamwork facilitator. Dr. Hudson has her dreamwork certification from MIPD, is a certified gestalt practitioner, and has a doctorate in comparative literature from UC Berkeley. She resides in Santa Cruz, California.

Ryan Hurd, MA (USA) is a consciousness researcher and freelance writer living in California. He is the founder of DreamStudies.org and the author of Sleep Paralysis: A Dreamer’s Guide.

Lee Irwin, PhD (USA) is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston, a scholar of world religions with emphasis on Native American traditions and transpersonal religious experience related to dreams and visions. Author of The Dream Seekers, Visionary Worlds, and Awakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and Being.

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Elizabeth Jeffries, BA (USA) has been to Wales four times, and is on the Board of Directors of the St. David's Society of Pittsburgh promoting awareness and appreciation of Welsh heritage in Western Pennsylvania for nine years. She has recorded dreams and participated in a dream group for fifteen years.

Athena Johnson, M.A. M.A., USA is a recent graduate of University of Philosophical Research with her newest master’s degree in Consciousness Studies. She began her education in world religions and religious philosophy with a B.A. in Religious Studies and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (focus in Religious and Chicano Studies) from California State University of Northridge. Currently she is working her way towards becoming a professor in her field.  

Megan Joseph, MA (USA) has been active in transformative learning and social change grounded in spirituality, collective wisdom, empowerment and results for over ten years. She is adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University, a community organizer, and a co-founder and coach for EMPACT: Empowerment in Action.

Ted Jones (USA) is a popular figure in the Nashville songwriting community, host of the celebrated Raggedy Man Extravaganza and a staff writer with Murrah Music. A student of dream interpretation and significance, he will sing some of his dream-related songs including "Dream Train," "If It Were My Dream," and "Angel’s Waltz."

Carol A. Joyce PhD, RN (USA) is a Clinical Specialist in Adult Mental Health (New York City, NY) and Clinical Psychotherapist in Jungian Oriented Psychotherapy for 25 years who uses song and story in work with clients. Has written and performed a play directed by Gretchen Cryer in 2009. Carried Away CD available in 2010 (www.caroljoyce.com).

Paula L. Justice, PhD (USA) is Associate Adjunct professor of Communication and Counseling, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, a Licensed Professional Counselor, a recorded minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker), and a published poet.

Tracey L. Kahan, PhD (USA) is Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Santa Clara University. Her research shows that waking and dreaming, especially REM dreaming, are more similar than different with respect to metacognitive skills such as reflective self-awareness, intentionality, and self-regulation. She is author of articles on dreams, consciousness, lucidity, and metacognition.

David Kahn, PhD (USA), Instructor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, is an IASD Board member and Advisor to the Executive Committee. He is a Past President and Board Chair of IASD.

David L. Kahn (USA) is author of A Dream Come True: Simple Techniques for Dream Interpretation and Precognitive Dream Recognition (Cosimo, 2007) and columnist for The Lucid Dream Exchange. His articles have appeared in DreamTime magazine, Dream Network Journal, The New Age Journal, and other publications (www.dreamingtrue.com).

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Bethany Keen Zajac, RYT (USA) is a certified yoga teacher and applied metaphysics teacher serving people of all ages through yoga. She teaches at the School of Metaphysics, offering classes in applied metaphysics, which include dream study, meditation, visualization, and other forms of self-mastery.

Pia Keiding, Lic Phil, Lic Sc, STM (Belgium), founding director of CITHE, Brussels, is a transpersonal Danish psychotherapist leading post-graduate training courses throughout Europe. She holds a postgraduate degree, STM, in ‘Unity in Duality’ (Tibetan Philosophy/ Psychology/ Science of Mind). Lecturer at UCL University, presenter at innumerable International Congresses.

Julian Kiverstein (UK) completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship and is a teaching fellow in School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He works on issues at the interface of phenomenology, neuroscience and psychology, in particular our subjective experience of time.

Miloslava Kozmova, PhD, Boston (USA) is a psychology researcher whose interests include health and dreams, and differences between dreaming and waking consciousness and their underlying processes investigated from reports of subjective experiences originating in cross-cultural settings. She is co-author of a method for analysis of cognitive/affective processes in dream reports.

Stanley Krippner, PhD (USA) is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, IASD Past President and co-author of Dream Telepathy and Extraordinary Dreams, and has received APA’s award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, the Ashley Montague Peace Award, and IASD’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (www.stanleykrippner.weebly.com)

Mikayla Kuchinsky (Canada) is a fourth-year honours student at Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, interested in Forensic Psychology.

Christa Lancaster (USA) is the Co-Founder/ Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork. Christa is a master Archetypal Dreamwork therapist and has been teaching this work for over 20 years. She is a teacher and trainer of teachers and has been presenting workshops since 1992.

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Tom Lane, DMin (USA) (www.understandyourdream.com), professional dreamworker, IASD Board member, North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, presenter of dream workshops nationally and internationally, Certified Reality Therapist, Ordained Presbyterian Church Minister, Trained Spiritual Director, member of Spiritual Directors International, founder of Journey Conferences (www.journeyconferences.com).

Justina Lasley, MA (USA) is founder and director of the Institute for Dream Studies and the Dream Synergy™ Certification program and author of Honoring the Dream: A Handbook for Dream Group Leaders and In My Dream. She has used dreams as a spiritual source for personal growth for 19 years.

George M. Leute, MA (USA) is a psychologist in private practice in Media, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the Gestalt Therapy Institute of Philadelphia and of the Haden Institute’s Dream Group Leader Program, he facilitates an ongoing dream group comprised mainly of therapists, and presents seminars and workshops on dreamwork.

Ross Levin, PhD (USA) is a clinical psychologist and researcher living in New York specializing in the correlates and treatments of nightmares. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on dreams and nightmares and recently authored a series of influential papers on the etiology of disturbed dreaming.

Jacquie Lewis, PhD (USA) is Interim Co-Director, Dream Studies Certificate Program, Saybrook University, Professor of Dream Analysis course, California Southern University, IASD Board Member, 2008-2011, IASD Dream News Editor, 2006-2010, Education Chair and Exhibits Chair, 2010 conference.

Winifred Lum, PhD (USA) graduated from Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in clinical psychology. She is certified by the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work. Her interests are psychoanalytic, Jungian psychology, and transpersonal psychology, and she is a bilingual native Chinese whose dissertation explored the role of language in bilingual dreams.

Mary Pat Lynch, PhD (USA) is a dreamworker, shamanic practitioner, writer and teacher. An active IASD member, and vivid dreamer since childhood, she explores a variety of intuitive languages including astrology, Tarot and other forms of divination, dreamwork, and shamanic journeying.

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Tallulah Lyons, MEd (USA) created a program for cancer patients using dreamwork, and received grants in 2005 and 2006. Tallulah is the author of Dream Prayers: Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path. She facilitates dreamwork at two hospital Cancer Centers in Atlanta, GA. She is certified through the Haden Institute.

Teresa MacColl, MA (USA) has presented for the last three years at IASD, including the panel: “Dreaming in the Indigenous Mind: Reconstituting Tribal Dreaming in a Multicultural and Modern Way”. She seeks to develop closer relationships with creatures of land, sea, and air through science, art, dreams, ritual, ceremony, and storytelling.

Gabriel Mandel (Canada) is a fourth-year student at Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, interested in video game play and consciousness studies.

Uma Markus, EdM, MA (USA) is an artist, art teacher and art mentor from Santa Fe, New Mexico, with over 25 years experience bringing others into direct contact with the transformative power of art. Working on a book and video, Drawing the Dream Awake, a journey into the dream world of the artist.

Kimberly Masliuk (Canada) is in the Honors Psychology program at Grant MacEwan College, helping to create a coding system to analyze daily activity content of an extreme gamer that corresponds to his daily dream content.

Linda Mastrangelo, MA (USA) is a certified dream specialist, researcher, artist, and columnist for The Examiner. She guest lectures at JFKU, IDS and the Dream Institute where she co-hosts a Dream Studies Forum with Kelly Bulkeley. Linda is working towards her MFT and is a member of IASD and WGA, West.

Dawn Matheny, MA, PhD (USA) has tended her dreams as a spiritual practice for many years. Her doctoral research explored the varying ways people relate to and make meaning of their dreams. Dawn is Executive Director of Veriditas, a non-profit promoting the wisdom and power of labyrinth work.

Laurel McCabe, PhD (USA) is a Professor of Psychology at Sonoma State University in California, Coordinator of the Depth Psychology Master's Program, and former IASD Conference host. Her areas of expertise include dreamwork techniques, archetypal symbolism, psychological initiation, psychological alchemy, and image as symbolic text.

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Diana McKendree, MEd (USA) is a senior faculty with Haden Institute, an ordained interfaith minister and midwife of soul with a passion for creative expression of image, psyche and the dream. Trained extensively in Jungian psychology and process orientation work, her work always seeks a new expression.

Angel K. Morgan (USA) is a doctoral student at Saybrook University, where she has completed certificate programs in Dream studies and Creativity studies. Experienced with acting, directing, dancing, singing/songwriting, visual art, and dream-arts pedagogy, she has published poetry, prose, and painted illustrations. Linked: The Dream-Creativity Connection is her first documentary.

Anthony Murkar (Canada) is a psychology student at Trent University in Canada. His research interests include anxiety and dreams, sleep, and neuropsychology. He is working in a neuropsychology lab investigating sleep patterns with EEG. He is the author of the philosophical fiction book MetaMorphosis (2009).

Ms Eva Murzyn (UK) is a PhD student at the University of Dundee, UK. Her research concerns individual differences in black and white dreaming, and their relationship with visual imagery abilities and experience with black and white media.

Lana Nasser, MA (Jordan) is a performing artist, director/ choreographer, researcher, and published writer. Lana holds an MA in Consciousness Studies with a concentration in Dream Studies from JFKU. She leads experiential journeys in Jordan and the USA, and is cofounder and director of Aat: Network of Women Artists. (www.LanaNasser.com)

Geoffrey Navara (Canada) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Trent University, Ontario. His main areas of research involve the Psychology of Religion and family adaptation to cross-cultural relocation. He has begun to apply his expertise on qualitative methods to the area of dream research.

Geoff Nelson, DMin (USA) is a Presbyterian minister and the pastor of Whittier Presbyterian Church in Whittier, California. He has trained as a spiritual director and recently completed his doctorate of ministry with research on practical and theological approaches to dreaming in the Protestant tradition.

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Valdas Noreika, MSc (Finland) studied philosophy (BA) and neurobiology (MSc) in Vilnius University, Lithuania. In 2005, he joined the Consciousness Research Group led by Prof. Antti Revonsuo at the University of Turku, Finland. Noreika is working on his PhD project "Consciousness and the Dreaming Brain: Empirical and Theoretical Studies."

Jean A. Norelli MA (USA) is a consultant and educator in Santa Rosa, California. She uses her skills with dialogue, dreamwork, sand tray, art and music, honed for over thirty years as a psychotherapist (now retired), to provide assistance to individuals and groups in their individuation process.

Rachel Norment, MA (USA) is a dreamwork facilitator through Jeremy Taylor’s MIPD and author of Guided by Dreams: Breast Cancer, Dreams, and Transformation and essays published in Dream Network Journal. An artist with Level II training in Mandala Assessment, she is an experienced teacher, lecturer, and workshop leader.

Dolores J. Nurss (aka Dreamdeer) (USA) is an artist/writer, Founder of Faerie Exploration International, a Faezine columnist, and a hostess at the annual PsiberDreaming Conference's The Outer Inn.

Chris Olsen, MA (USA) is a PhD student at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He is co-director/ co-producer of the documentary Wake Up: Exploring the Potential of Lucid Dreaming, and is completing his dissertation on the historiography of lucid dreaming. He runs a weekly lucid dreaming group in Palo Alto, California.

Jean Orost, EdD (USA). Her career includes over fifty years as a specialist in early childhood development, serving in the roles of teacher, researcher, forensic psychologist, college professor, parent, grandparent and great-grandparent. She uses her theological training in leading dream groups and teaching in churches and nursing homes.

Paul Overman, PhD (USA) is a licensed psychologist in Wilmington, NC and a consciousness researcher with special interest in Eastern dream theory and principles and meditation disciplines, author, creativity-dream group facilitator and sound researcher for enhancing sleep and dreams.

JF Pagel, MS/MD (USA) is an Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Medical School and author of more than 100 papers and chapters on sleep and dreaming. Books: Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide (Humana), and The Limits of Dream: A Scientific Exploration of the Mind/Brain Interface (Academic Press).

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Wendy Pannier (USA) created a program for cancer patients using dreamwork, received grants in 2005 and 2006 for the project. She worked extensively with Dr. Montague Ullman, together publishing the newsletter Dream Appreciation. An IASD Board member since 1999, she served as Secretary and Board Chair before becoming President in 2005.

Stephen Parker, PhD (USA) is a sixty-year old clinical psychologist living in Fairbanks, Alaska with a life-long interest in working with dreams. His dream of a malfunctioning red four-cylinder engine presaged a heart problem months before it was medically diagnosed, and generated an interest in prodromal dreams. (www.heartak.com)

Richard F. Paseman, EdD (USA) is a spiritual director specializing in contemplative retreats, desert wisdom traditions, and spirituality for the second half of life. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Rich utilizes the tools of art, cinema, journal keeping, music, and interfaith traditions to promote inner wholeness.

Cynthia Pearson (USA) has chaired the "Long Term Journal Keeping" panels since 1998 and hosts the Precognitive Dream Contests of the PsiberDreaming Conferences. She is author of several books, including Dreaming the Dead, a mystery featuring fictional IASD members. She served on the IASD's Board for five years.

Winnie Piccolo MA, MFT (USA) is a depth psychotherapist in Santa Rosa, California who has facilitated dream groups since the early 1980’s. She is a passionate journaler, lover of poetry and a child of three continents whose soul knows many landscapes. She presented at the 2007 and 2009 IASD conferences.

Meg Pierce, MA, MFT (USA) is a depth psychotherapist in Santa Rosa, California who has been journaling her dreams since she was twelve, inviting them to inform her waking life. She works for a local hospital and sings with the Sonoma Threshold Choir.

Dominic J. Potts, Esq., JD (USA) past legal counsel to ASD, is a retired medical-legal trial attorney, author of a seven-book series on Classical Rhetoric and the Art of Self Expression, lecturer on effective communication, and an expert case consultant to trial attorneys and consultant/coach to writers and speakers.

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Mena E. Potts, PhD (USA) initiated IASD’s first APA co-sponsored CE Programs, served on IASD’s Board, and established the Dream Center for Education, Consultation and Research. With Ullman, Krippner, and Moustakas she developed the first doctoral degree program in the psychology of dreams and dreaming and received its first degree.

William Henry Price, MFA (USA) is an artist, musician and teacher whose work has been exhibited throughout the eastern United States. He has taught art and music to all ages, and has been an adjunct professor at Western Carolina University and Seton Hall University.

Victoria Rabinowe (USA) has guided over 600 workshops for therapists, spiritual guidance counselors, teachers, artists and writers in the “Art of the Dream.”™ She is certified in Advanced DreamTending from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is the author/illustrator of I Had The Craziest Dream Last Night! (www.VictoriaDreams.com)

Henry Reed, PhD (USA) is a research psychologist specializing in dreams and intuition. Residing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, he has created innovative dream instruction technology since 1970. He created Sundance: The Community Dream Journal, and was editor of Dream Network Bulletin.

Valley Reed, CDT (USA) has been Director of Chrysalis Healing Arts in Dallas, Texas since 2000 for Energy Healing, Shamanic Dreaming Practices, Dream Workshops and Sacred Dance and Ritual. She choreographed and performed as a dance "The Crow and the Phoenix", filmed recently for the PBS TV series, "Dreamtime." (www.chrysalishealingarts.com)

Antti Revonsuo (Finland) is Professor of Cognitive Science in the School of Humanities and Informatics at the University of Skövde, Sweden, and Director of the Consciousness Research Group in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Turku, Finland. He is the European Editor of Consciousness and Cognition.

Richard Russo, MA (USA) is an author, artist, and dream educator in Berkeley, California, where he is Associate Director of the Dream Institute of Northern California. He is Editor of DreamTime, as well as a Past President of IASD. His books include Dreams Are Wiser Than Men.

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Janice Ryalls (USA) has been in healthcare since 1994. She was instrumental in creating a program for individuals with HIV/AIDS within a skilled nursing setting, and served as a volunteer associate chaplain in hospital settings. She is the Residence Director for an Assisted Living Community in Jacksonville, Florida.

Suzanne Saldarini MA, LPC (USA) is a counselor and psychoanalyst in private practice. She teaches The Interpretation of Dreams to psychoanalytic candidates and has written a complete (unpublished) condensation of Freud's classic. She began psychological work in research, moved on to clinical psychology and finally psychoanalysis.

Mohamed Omar Salem, MBChB, DPM, BCPsych, FRCPsych (UAE) is a British Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UAE University, Middle East Representative of the IASD, Member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists and other professional organizations. Interests are dream research, CBT and cultural aspects of psychiatry.

Tyler Sample (Canada) is a recent graduate from Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, interested in video game play and architecture.

Massimo Schinco, Psychotherapist (Italy), is a Systemic Psychotherapy practitioner. He teaches in the Milan Centre of Family Therapy and in the Conservatory Ghedini, Cuneo. He plays violin. As an author he focuses on creative change and is often called as speaker and lecturer. IASD member, he presented at the Psiberdreaming Conference in 2008.

Lauren Z. Schneider, MA, MFT, psychotherapist (USA) integrates family systems, dream therapy and her pioneering method, “Tarotpy” in private practice. She supervises dream and “Tarotpy” groups for laypersons and training therapists, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC-Berkeley, and is certified in “Advanced DreamTending” from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Michaela Schrage-Frueh, PhD (Germany) is an assistant professor at the Department of English and Linguistics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Research interests: contemporary poetry/ fiction and interrelations between literature and dreams. Currently writing a book entitled Dreaming Through the Ages: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Dreams in English Literature and Culture, 1600-1900.

Michael Schredl, PhD (Germany) is with the sleep laboratory of the Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. His publications cover dream recall, dream content analysis, nightmares, dreams and sleep disorders, and sleep physiology. He is trained in client-centered psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy. He is editor of the online International Journal of Dream Research.

Jeanne Schul, MA, RSMT (USA) is a Dance Specialist at Berry College, artistic director of the Berry College Dance Troupe, and a registered somatic movement therapist in Rome, GA. She is working on her dissertation, "Creating Dances from Dreams: Embodying the Unconscious through Choreography," at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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Jeffrey R. Schweitzer, BA (USA) is a second-year graduate student in clinical psychology at Miami University. His research focuses on the ongoing significance of extraordinary life experiences. He is using narrative and performative writing methodologies to explore the role of dreams and embodied meaning in religious callings.

Monique Séguin (Canada) has worked since 1969 in the medical field. Her main experience is in the field of psychiatry. She completed a certificate in palliative care from La Cité Collégiale, Ottawa. Since 2002, she has worked as a nursing assistant at West Island Palliative Care, Kirkland, Québec.

Terry Shinn (USA) has been a keeper of ancient stories for fifteen years. All his stories are indigenous to the American continent; some are thousands of years old and come from elders and teachers and medicine people. Terry resides in Western North Carolina where he works with powwows and other ceremonies and schools in a teaching and storytelling capacity.

Alan Siegel, PhD (USA) is Past President and current Education Chair of IASD. He practices psychotherapy and is Assistant Clinical Professor, UC-Berkeley and faculty at Alliant University’s CSPP. He has been teaching dreamwork for over 35 years and is author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life’s Answers in Your Dreams.

Christine Simmonds-Moore, PhD (UK) is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. She is on a research sabbatical in USA while she conducts a Bial-funded research project. Her research interests relate to personality, sleep, mental health and anomalous, paranormal and transpersonal experiences.

G. Scott Sparrow, EdD (Counseling), LPC, LMFT, and Asst Professor at UTPA (USA) has been involved in lucid dream research and dream analysis since the early 70s. He wrote Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light, developed the FiveStar Method of Dream Analysis, and founded DreamStar Institute for dream analysis training.

Gloria Sturzenacker BS, MS (USA) is an editor, writer and graphic artist in New York City specializing in communication and writing on complex topics including perception, decision making and personal interaction. Gloria has presented dozens of research papers at various conferences, including IASD and Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Kelly Sullivan Walden, Dream Doctor (USA) is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist from Los Angeles CA, and the author of I Had The Strangest Dream. Kelly created the Dream Theatre and the Dream Project. She is an NGO delegate to the UN, and a regular Dream Expert on local and national news.

Connie Svob (Canada) will receive her Master’s degree this summer from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include impactful dreams, dream remembering, and autobiographical memory across the lifespan.

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Leila Ryland Swain, MA, MSW, LICSW (USA), Washington School of Psychiatry Advanced Psychotherapy, St Elizabeth’s Hospital, Philadelphia Jung Institute. Twenty-five years practice in analytical psychotherapy (Jungian). Presented workshops and multimedia shows for Washington Jung Society, APA, Boston, and the DC Institute of Mental Hygiene.

Michael Tappan MA (USA) has led and participated in dream groups for over fifteen years. He is a graduate of Jeremy Taylor’s Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work. He has directed and acted in improvisational theater and facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops. He has lived and worked within traditional cultures.

Jeremy Taylor, DMin (USA) is one of the original co-founders of the IASD, and the founder/ director of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work. He resides with his wife, Kathryn, the visionary artist, in Fairfield, California. He has been a pioneer of group projective dreamwork for more than forty years.

Misty Tomashewsky (Canada) is a fourth-year student at Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, interested in consciousness studies.

Robert Tompkins, PhD, MFT (USA) has retired from two careers, as professor of philosophy and as psychotherapist. He is exploring the relationship of dreams to individual transformation and investigating the interface of philosophy and depth psychology through the works of Carl Jung and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Patricia Elizabeth Torres Villanueva PhD (Mexico). Majored in psychology, anthropology, linguistics at UNAM and El Colegio de Mexico. Postdoctoral MRC Research Fellow at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Anthropological Studies in 1976, primarily concerned in field work with indigenous communities for interpretation of ancient Mexican codices and rituals.

Sergey Toymentsev (USA) is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at Rutgers. His interests are French philosophy, psychoanalysis, and film studies.

Misa Tsuruta, MA (Japan) is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at The New School for Social Research. Her dissertation is on dreams and cultures. At IASD, she has presented on dream tradition in Japan and on dance/movement and dreams. She has kept a dream journal for over ten years.

Toni Tugenberg, MEd, LICSW (USA) is a clinical social worker in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts and supervisor at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She is a researcher at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, specializing in qualitative research. Toni studies psychoanalysis at the Freudian School of Québec.

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Katja Valli, PhD (Finland) is a post-doctoral researcher in the Consciousness Research Group at the University of Turku, Finland. Her areas of expertise include dream content analysis, sleep laboratory dream research and evolutionary psychology. She is interested in parasomnias and dreaming, and the evolution of sleep and dreaming.

Robert Van de Castle, PhD (USA) is a former President of IASD and the recipient of the First Lifetime Achievement in Dreamwork, and Lifetime Achievement Contribution to IASD. He is the co-author (with Calvin Hall) of The Content Analysis of Dreams (1966) and the author of Our Dreaming Mind (1994).

Deon van Zyl, PhD (South Africa) is in private practice as a Clinical Psychologist and Management Consultant. He is a former Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He has delivered numerous papers at conferences in South Africa, the USA and Japan.

Maria Volchenko, PhD in Philosophy (Russia) is a Dream Work teacher and Regression therapist, gives seminars in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, and is a member of Tuvan shaman societies Tos-Deer and Ush-Moorek, artist, and writer.

Robert Waggoner (USA) is author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, co-editor of The Lucid Dream Exchange, and current President of IASD. He has logged approximately 1000 lucid dreams and experimented with awareness, conceptual knowledge and factual insight in the lucid dream state. (www.dreaminglucid.com)

Jane White-Lewis, PhD (USA) is a Jungian Psychoanalyst with a practice in Guilford, Connecticut. She has served the IASD as Board member, Vice-President, and President.

Suzanne Wiltink, MSc (The Netherlands) is a psychologist whose interests in dreaming include the use of dreams in therapy, lucid dreaming, dreaming and spiritual development.

Jennifer M. Windt, MA (Germany) is assistant lecturer/ researcher in philosophy at the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Her PhD is on consciousness in the dream state and integrates the perspectives of epistemology, philosophy of mind and empirical dream research.

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Ann Sayre Wiseman, MA (USA) is an art and dream therapist, painter, and author of twelve books including Dreams As Metaphor, The Power Of The Image, Nightmare Help, and Making Things: Creative Discoveries. Past roles include Lesley College Adjunct faculty in Expressive Therapies, and Boston Children’s Museum Program Director. She leads art and dream workshops.

Constance Wolfe, MS (Biology U of Penn), PhD (Integral Health CIHS) (USA). After living on the East Coast, she came to California in 1989 to complete her metaphysical education. Her main interest is in applying astrological cycles to dream study and she holds a bi-monthly dream class.

Said Yusuf Abdel Razik, MSc (UAE) is a Research Specialist, Dept of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University.

Antonio Zadra, PhD (Canada) is a Full Professor at the Université de Montréal and Director of the University’s Dream Laboratory. Past member of the IASD Board of Directors, he has authored over a 150 scientific papers, abstracts, and book chapters on dreams, nightmares, and parasomnias.

Marco Zanasi, MD (Italy) specializes in neurology and psychiatry. He was an Assistant Professor at Rome University La Sapienza, Department of Neurology (1980-1987) and is Research Professor at Rome University Tor Vergata, Department of Psychiatry. He has published 200 scientific papers and two books on group psychotherapy.

Mary Ziemer (UK) received Master’s degrees in Psychology and Religion and Literature and has taught in the USA and Europe. She has a diploma in psychotherapy from the Centre of Counselling and Psychotherapy in London with a focus on lucid dreamwork. She manages a Help Counselling Centre in London.

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