PreConference Sessions - 2007 IASD 24th Annual Conference

Pre Conference Sessions

24th Annual Conference of the
International Association for the Study of Dreams
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June 29 - July 3, 2007
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Sonoma State University, California

IASD Pre Conference Sessions

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Friday, June 29, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 1: Using Dreams in Clinical Supervision: A Royal Road to Psychotherapy Training
Alan Siegel, Ph.D.

Session 2: Conducting Research on Dreams: Techniques and Illustrations
Mark Blagrove, Ph.D., Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Ernest Hartmann, M.D.

Session 3: Bridging Realities through Lucid Dreaming
Beverly D’Urso, Ph.D., Ed Kellogg, Ph.D., Robert Waggoner

Friday, June 29, 2 – 5:30 p.m.

Session 4: Dream Interviewing: Minimizing Interpreter Bias in Dream Interpretation
Gayle Delaney, Ph.D.

Session 5: Clinical Supervision on Client Dreams in Psychotherapy
Neil Russack, M.D.

Session 6: Finding Dream Meaning Via Content Analysis
G. William Domhoff, Adam Schneider, Robert Van de Castle

Session 7: The Practice of Lucid Dreaming: Three Approaches
Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D., Kenneth Kelzer, L.C.S.W., and Scott Sparrow, Ed.D., M.F.T.

Friday, June 29, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Session 1: Using Dreams in Clinical Supervision: A Royal Road to Psychotherapy Training
Alan Siegel, Ph.D.

Personal psychotherapy and clinical supervision are the most influential modes of learning to work with dreams in therapy. Designed to enhance supervision skills and fulfill new requirements that all clinical supervisors obtain CE credits in supervision at each license renewal, this workshop emphasizes clinical and ethical guidelines for using dreams at all stages of the supervision and psychotherapy process. Synthesizing Psychodynamic, Jungian, Cognitive, and Humanistic perspectives, we will use theory, case vignettes, and role-playing to explore issues ranging from introducing and documenting dreams in supervision and psychotherapy, using transference and counter-transference dreams, dreams and the stages of therapy (initial dreams, breakthrough dreams, termination dreams), common errors and ethical concerns, and cross-cultural and developmental issues. If available, please bring vignettes from supervision experiences involving dreams. A syllabus, bibliography, and case vignettes will be distributed. This session is part 1 of the 7 hour pre-conference cluster on clinical supervision which is designed to met licensing and professional requirements for continuing education on supervision.

Alan Siegel, Ph.D., practices in S. F. and Berkeley, and is Assistant Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley Psychology Department, has taught clinical use of dreams for 19 years at CSPP (Alliant University), and is the author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life’s Answers in your Dreams (2003). He is a former IASD President, is current Education Chair, a Consulting Editor of Dreaming, and is Editor-Emeritus of IASD’s magazine, DreamTime.

Attendance limited to 25.

Session 2: Conducting Research on Dreams: Techniques and Illustrations
Mark Blagrove, Ph.D., Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Ernest Hartmann, M.D.

The Problem of Confounds in Dream Research
Mark Blagrove, Ph.D.

Many findings in dream research are problematic due to confounds, which may create apparent causal relationships between dreaming and waking life variables. For example, what appears to be greater dream production in REM sleep than in NREM sleep may be confounded by poor memory in NREM sleep; relations between nightmare frequency and psychopathology may be confounded by trait nightmare distress; increased frequency of dreaming and bizarre dreams in creative people may be confounded by verbal intelligence; relationships between spatial ability and dream production in children may be confounded by expressive ability; correlations between retrospectively assessed dream characteristics and personality may be confounded by the confabulation of dream content as a function of waking self-concept, at least in infrequent recallers; and the relationships between dream content and subsequent recovery from depression may be confounded by the initial resilience of the person. This session describes some of these confounds in conducting dream research, and discusses possible solutions to untangling these confounds in the research study.

Investigating Anomalous Dream Reports
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.

Anomalous dream reports, by definition, are either rare (such as lucid dreams) or unexplained (such as precognitive dreams). My students and I have studied many types of these dream reports using several research methods (such as case studies, phenomenological, correlational, experimental) and instruments (such as the Hall-Van de Castle System and the Strauch Scale). Anecdotal material, including dream reports, may be interesting and even valuable to the dreamer but can not be considered evidential of a "past life," an "out-of-body" experience, or a "visitation" from a deceased loved one without disciplined inquiry and scrutiny that allows for other explanations (coincidence, waking cues, memory distortion, etc.). However, anomalous dream reports may be unappreciated resources for psychotherapists, cross-cultural researchers, and investigators of what Aldous Huxley referred to as "the antipodes of the mind."

From Idea to Scientific Study: Conducting Research on Dreams
Ernest Hartmann, M.D.

This session explores the processes involved in research on dreams, from the early stages of conceptualization and getting the idea, to the processes involved in determining how to conduct the study: from operationalization to design to analysis to drawing conclusions. We draw on my recent study on the dreams of 9/11 as the background for the discussion. We discuss the differences between illustrating and demonstrating, how the research study builds on these distinctions, and why the clinical or dreamworking situation may be a good place to get ideas, but not a good place to test them. If time allows, we discuss how to do research on precognitive or other "paranormal" dreams.

Mark Blagrove, Ph.D., is Director of the Sleep Laboratory at Swansea University, United Kingdom, a consulting editor of the journal Dreaming, on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Sleep Research, and a former president of IASD. He is the author of numerous articles on sleep and dreaming.

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, author of hundreds of articles and books on dreams, most recently coauthor of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them (2002), and a former IASD president.

Ernest Hartmann, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University, a psychoanalyst on the faculty of Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and a former IASD President. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of IASD's scholarly journal Dreaming and is the author of 325 articles and nine books on dreaming, most recently Dreams and Nightmares (2001).

Session 3: Bridging Realities through Lucid Dreaming
Beverly D’Urso, Ph.D., Ed Kellogg, Ph.D., Robert Waggoner

Would you like to consciously step into a world where magic works and the possibilities for personal transformation and exploration have no limits? In this workshop, three adept and very experienced lucid dreamers teach practical methods of how to bring consciousness into your dreams and take the next steps. They will also share practical "how to" lucid dreaming techniques for exploring dream realities, dream psi, lucid living, and much more. Although this workshop covers the basics for beginners, it will include a great deal of cutting-edge material for advanced lucid dreamers, not available elsewhere.

Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D’Urso, Ph.D., an “extraordinary” lucid dreamer all her life, originally worked with Dr. Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University. Numerous major magazines, television specials, books, and radio talk shows have featured her life and her dreams. Using her practical philosophy called lucid living, she has taught workshops, presented at conferences for decades, and has over 50 publications.

Ed Kellogg, Ph.D., has deliberately induced hundreds of fully lucid dreams, and has recorded and indexed well over 15,000 of his dreams. His workshops explore the outer limits of lucid dreaming, including dream healing, psi-dreaming, mutual dreaming, and the use of magic in lucid dream reality. He has published papers in fields as diverse as the biochemistry of aging, bioelectricity, general semantics, lucid dreaming, voluntary controls, and the phenomenology of consciousness, and organized and hosted IASD's first four online PsiberDreaming Conferences.

Robert Waggoner is the Co-Editor of The Lucid Dream Exchange, and is the author of numerous articles and professional presentations on lucid dreaming. A lucid dreamer since 1975, he is co-instructing a class on dreaming at Evergreen State College this summer. Robert has interests in the potential of lucid dreams as a revolutionary psychological tool to explore and experiment on the nature and potentials of the dreaming state, including the acquisition of precognitive and telepathic information while lucid.

Friday, June 29, 2 – 5:30 p.m.

Session 4: Dream Interviewing: Minimizing Interpreter Bias in Dream Interpretation
Gayle Delaney, Ph.D.

In this workshop we practice understanding dreams by asking the dreamer a series of specific questions that elicit the dreamer's personal, concrete descriptions of his or her images. We employ these rich descriptions, using only the dreamer's words, to discover the dream's metaphoric meaning. We will practice the extremely difficult discipline of resisting offering the dreamer any received interpretations, be that from myth, psychological theories, or the interpreter's intuition. While in general the dream interview is most often conducted alone, in our workshop we shall work in dyads and triads to facilitate learning the method. Please bring one or two short dreams with 4 photocopies of each to the workshop. Recommended reading: Gayle Delaney’s All About Dreams. The website www.gdelaney.com has some sample dream interviews.

Gayle Delaney, Ph.D., is the founding president of IASD and Co-Director of The Delaney & Flowers Dream Center in San Francisco. She is the author of New Directions in Dream Interpretation (1993), Sexual Dreams (1994), Living Your Dreams (1996), and In Your Dreams (1997). She lectures nationally and internationally on dreams.

Attendance limited to 25.

Session 5: Clinical Supervision on Client Dreams in Psychotherapy
Neil Russack, M.D.

In this workshop we discuss and attempt to grasp the essential meaning of a dream, using dreams provided by the presenter and by session participants. The session is oriented toward therapists seeking to understand the dream, and to have ways of communicating dream meaning to the client. As the presenter’s special interest is the role of animals in dreams, we may use the animal image in the dream as a jumping off point for imagination and discussion. We will study how the psyche creates a story to try to heal us of our wounds, and how we can train ourselves to listen to that narrative. Participants are encouraged to bring in their clients' dreams. This workshop provides discussion and supervision for therapists on working with clients’ dreams, and is part 2 of the 7 hour pre-conference cluster on clinical supervision which is designed to met licensing and professional requirements for continuing education on supervision.

Neil Russack, M.D. 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)

Attendance limited to 25.

Session 6: Finding Dream Meaning Via Content Analysis
G. William Domhoff, Adam Schneider, Robert Van de Castle

Content analysis is a tried and true method in the humanities and social sciences that can be applied to dreams to extract meaning by (1) creating well-defined categories; (2) counting frequencies; (3) making corrections for dream length; and (4) making comparisons with norms or control groups. The method has been used to demonstrate regularities in dreams by age, culture, gender, and personality, and thereby provides a foundation from which more complex meanings might be discovered. This workshop introduces participants to the most widely used system of content analysis for dreams, the Hall/Van de Castle system, and to the more recent, faster and easier system of content analysis that is available through the search engine on www.dreambank.net , an archive of 22,000 dreams ideal for new studies. There is a special emphasis on the use of content analysis in studying dream journals, as studies of dream journals have led to important new findings and have the potential for many advances in our understanding of dreams. This session will provide attendees with direct on-line training in using www.dreambank.net .

G. William Domhoff is a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of Finding Meaning in Dreams (1996) and The Scientific Study of Dreams (2003).

Adam Schneider is a postgraduate researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the creator of the search engine and archive on dreambank.net, and the co-author of several papers on dream content.

Robert Van de Castle is Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Science at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, co-author of The Content Analysis of Dreams (1966), and author of Our Dreaming Mind (1994), as well as numerous articles on dream content.

Session 7: The Practice of Lucid Dreaming: Three Approaches
Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D., Kenneth Kelzer, L.C.S.W., and Scott Sparrow, Ed.D., M.F.T.

Lucid Mind: The Portal to Spirit and Creation
Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D.

Lucid dreaming is a powerful spiritual practice of awakening to the great dimensions of our creative mind. This presentation focuses on extraordinary experiences within lucid dreams, such as spiritual visitation and creativity, and how these experiences can be a path to unfold the inner worlds. We discuss how lucid dream practice can prepare us for dying and can help us face inner conflicts. The practice of dream re-entry, with a gentle sound of rhythmic drumming, and automatic writing are introduced.

Lucid Dreaming: Parallels with Trance States and Deep Journey Hypnotherapy
Kenneth Kelzer, L.C.S.W.

All altered states of consciousness are similar to and interconnected with one another. This presentation explains how therapy clients who are awake in a hypnotic trance state interact with imagery, feelings and bodily sensations in ways similar to the experiences of lucid dreamers in a lucid dream state. The interplay of emotional intensity, spontaneous eruptions from the unconscious mind, and directed guidance from the conscious mind of the client and the therapist are explained and discussed.

Early Morning Meditation and Dream Reliving as a Catalyst for Lucid High Dreams
Scott Sparrow, Ed.D.

Lucid dreaming can be difficult to induce on demand, and so many people just give up trying. However, early morning meditation paired with a simple pre-sleep exercise can be an effective way to induce lucidity in one's subsequent dreams. The resultant lucid dreams are often associated with radiance, spiritual encounters, and ecstatic feelings. This simple regimen can result in life changing dreams for people in search of emotional healing and a renewed spiritual life. Several examples attesting to its benefits are discussed.

Fariba Bogzaran. Ph.D., Associate Professor and Founder of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University, has been researching lucid dreaming for over 20 years. She is the author of Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State (1989), Images of the Lucid Mind (1996), Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity (2003), and the co-author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them (2002).

Kenneth Kelzer, L.C.S.W., is a lucid dreamer, psychotherapist, and hypnotherapist for over 25 years. He is the author of The Sun and the Shadow: My Experiment With Lucid Dreaming (1987) and Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales and Trance States (1999).

G. Scott Sparrow, Ed.D., L.P.C., M.F.T., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Pan American. He is the author of Lucid Dreaming: Dawning of the Clear Light (1976), Healing the Fisher King: A Fly Fisher¹s Quest (2005), several books on the phenomenology of religious experience, and the developer of the Five-Star Method of dream analysis.