At this conference, you will experience presentations and hands-on workshops on nighttime dreams and their significance in the areas of cross-cultural awareness, artistic endeavor, and spirituality. A strong element of personal experience ensures that everyone will relate to the conference material, whether or not you have formal knowledge of onierology (dream studies).
PRESENTERS AND TITLES
As well as anthropologists and psychologists, the program features artists, spiritual practitioners, indigenous representatives, and lay journal-keepers with no professional interest, but whose lives have been powerfully affected by their dreams. Most of our presenters are authors of popular books which will be available for purchase at the conference, as well as of numerous scientific publications some are internationally known in their field. They include:
Deirdre Barrett, PhD
- The Night Shift: What the Dreaming Brain Builds
(Keynote)
Jayne Gackenbach, PhD
- Dreams and Artwork in My Cancer Journey
Tzivia Gover, MFA, Certified Dreamwork Professional
- Wake Up Your Dream Journal: Inspire Creativity and
Insight Workshop with Poetic Writing and Intuitive Art
Katherine Bell, PhD
- Alchemy Ballads: An Offering of Song
- Digging for Dream Gold (workshop)
Linda Schiller, PhD:
- Dreams in the Jewish Tradition
- Connecting with our Ancestors and Healing Intergen-
erational Wounds through Dreamwork (workshop)
Nohham Cachat-Schilling, MS
- Monetu – That One Observes: Four Dreams on the
Medicine Path
Curtiss Hoffman, PhD
- Group Dreamwork: What Does this Dream Mean?
- Creating Music from Dreams (workshop)
Ava Lindberg, PhD
- Group Dreamwork; Carl Jung: Symbol, Soul, and Self
- Dreamless Nights and the Cosmos Within: The Art and
Science of Dream Story Reconstruction (workshop)
Cynthia Pearson, IASD Precognitive Dream Specialist
- PSI Contest Facilitator (all can participate)
Bernard Welt, PhD
- A Thrill of Fear Ran Through Me: Nightmares and
Creative Inspiration
David Low, MS DTh
- Group Dreamwork: Five-Star Co-Creation: Constructing Our
Realities with Dreams
- Your Dream Journey to Enlightenment (workshop)
- Spiritual Unfolding Through Dreams: a Case Study
Sophia Demas, Mental Health Therapist
- How the Cosmos Uses Dreams as one of Many Clever
Ways to Communicate with Us
Hoang Tran, Undergraduate Anthropology Student
- Dreamwalking: Everything is Real
If you are curious about the personal insights and objective knowledge that your dreams will provide (and we are certain that they will if you have the interest), then you will find much to enjoy at this conference. Sessions relating to ancestral dream traditions, spiritual growth, journal keeping, musical creativity, and more will orient you to the many possible meanings of your dreams and will provide you with many tools for continuing exploration. In fact, if you arrive on Friday evening (the 26th), you will have the opportunity to participate in one of three group dreamwork sessions with experienced facilitators.
IASD, which co-sponsors this conference along with the Bridgewater State University Anthropology Department, holds yearly conferences open the general public. Membership in IASD provides a $10 discount for registration at this regional conference. We hope to see you there! The short video below provides an invite to the conference. A full 30-minute interview of the core committee members can be accessed at https://youtu.be/7TzspELB8yg.
