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BIOGRAPHIES
Kate Adams, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK. Her research interests include significant dreams, religious and spiritual dreams, and children's dreams and their place in education. She is co-author of The Spiritual Dimension of Childhood and on IASD's Board of Directors.
Stephen Aizenstat, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute. For more than 35 years he has explored the power of dreams, collaborating with masters in the field including Joseph Campbell, Marion Woodman, Robert Johnson, and James Hillman, as well as native elders worldwide.
Viki Anderson (USA) is Creative Developer and Producer of DREAMTIME. She manages communication initiatives, and is a director/producer and writer of television programming, corporate and interactive projects. She produces projects with meaningful messages that promote self-awareness and compassion, and empower individuals towards positive and peaceful living.
Sheila Asato, MA (USA) is the founder of Monkey Bridge Arts ( www.monkeybridgearts.com ), a center dedicated to the growth, transformation and healing of individuals and the community through art, dreaming and creative spirituality. She teaches dreaming at Abbott Hospital Institute for Health and Healing and provides cross-cultural training for Shepell-FGI.
Deirdre Barrett, PhD is author of The Committee of Sleep (2001), editor of Trauma and Dreams (1996), and co-editor of The New Science of Dreaming (2007). She is Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming, past President of IASD and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.
KJ Bartnicki, LSW, MA, aka Goshengolly, has studied dreams since her early childhood. She is a licensed medical social worker serving the elderly and disabled. She pursued a Master's degree in Psychology to explore her true passion: The Field of Dreams. Her chief interests are in Psi, or Paranormal Dreaming.
Janis Baylis, PhD is a charter member of ASD who lives in California and has taught dream-study at community colleges and regional ARE groups. She is the author of Sleep On It: A Practical Side of Dreaming (1977) and Sex, Symbols and Dreams (1997).
Susan Benson, PhD (Australia) is a social/cultural researcher in education, social ecology and transpersonal counseling. She facilitates dreamgroups and gives workshops and presentations on dreams and creative imaginal processes. She has a passionate commitment to working with dreams as both personal and social avenues of creativity, consciousness and transformation.
Walter Berry, MA is a dream group leader in Los Angeles. He is a Director of Photography in the Motion Picture industry and a visual artist combining his interests in dreams with his encaustic paintings and prints.
Christina Bjergo, Licensed Acupuncturist, has a Master's in Oriental Medicine and is Grand Master of Sacred Serpent Spiral Qigong Dreaming. She incorporates dream work in qigong classes and treatment sessions and has published numerous articles on qigong dreaming. Her book The Tao of the Tarot is scheduled for 2009 release.
Mark Blagrove is Professor of Psychology at Swansea University, Wales, where he runs a sleep laboratory and conducts research into the psychology of dreaming. He is a past President of IASD, and consulting editor for the Dreaming, the Journal of Sleep Research, and the International Journal of Dream Research.
Greg Bogart, PhD, MFT is the author of Dreamwork and Self-Healing: Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious. He is a San Francisco Bay Area psychotherapist and teaches at Sonoma State University and in the School of Professional Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Richard Bonk is a health educator, researcher, artist, counselor, and workshop facilitator. He has worked in various settings utilizing traditional counseling and consciousness expanding techniques including meditation, yoga, hypnosis, flotation tank therapy, dreamwork, guided imagery, visual and literary arts to facilitate awareness, learning, healing and growth.
Richard Brendan, MA, Certified Life Purpose Coach (USA) is President/Founder of JourneysFire International, Developer for the PBS series DREAMTIME. He is a respected voice on human relations and engaged spirituality, and a speaker on personal / social transformation.
Nicholas Brink, PhD is 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.
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.
Neil Canavan, LCSW is in private practice in Waterford, CT. He has over thirty years experience working with dreams, mindfulness and mediation, and has incorporated these approaches into his work as a clinician. He has taught classes, presented for groups and given workshops on personal growth, Jungian Psychology and dreamwork.
Arianna Cecconi, PhD holds a research fellowship in Anthropology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her thesis, "Dreams come from outside: an ethnography of night on the Peruvian Andes" was the result of two years of ethnographic fieldwork (2004-2006) in a rural area of the Peruvian Andes.
Laurel Clark, DM, DD, PsiD is President of the School of Metaphysics, a nonprofit educational institution headquartered in Missouri, USA. She has taught dream interpretation for guidance and insight since 1979, is a counselor, interfaith minister, public speaker, and author of Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery, Lucid Dreaming, and Concentration.
Jessica Clarke, BA completed an honours degree in Psychology at Trent University in Ontario, Canada, writing her research thesis under the supervision of Dr. Teresa DeCicco. She plans to continue her studies in a Masters Program.
Rose Cleary, PhD directs the Honors Program at the University of Southern Maine. She is on the faculty of USM's Lewiston-Auburn College where she teaches courses integrating the study of literary works and philosophical inquiry with the psychological exploration of dreams, bereavement, personality and the practice of psychotherapy.
Irene Clurman (USA), former art and dance critic, has been involved in dream-based theater, art and movement, as well as group projective dream work for more than eighteen years. A graduate of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work, she facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops, leads dream groups and teaches yoga.
Barbara Condron, DM, DD teaches dream recall, interpretation, and lucidity with the School of Metaphysics. The author of over a dozen books, including two titles on dreams, Condron began www.dreamschool.org in 1997 and became project director for the Global Lucid Dreaming Experiments (GLiDE) at the School of Metaphysics in 2006.
Daniel R. Condron, MS teaches Mind, consciousness, and mental discipline. He has taught dream interpretation, meditation, and visualization for over thirty years, served as president of the School of Metaphysics, a nonprofit educational and service organization, and is currently chairman of the board of directors.
Richard Coutts holds advanced degrees in engineering and architecture. His avocations include psychology, cognitive therapy, and personality theory.
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, lectures at McGill and Concordia Universities and at Canyon Ranch Spas, holds a Certificate in Gestalt Counseling, and is an IASD Board Member.
Katrina Martin Davenport is a dreamer, artist, photographer, writer, and Master's candidate at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, CA. She uses intuition, myth, archetype, a strong connection to the Earth, and depth work to create juicy dreamwork.
John Davidson, PhD (Australia) is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, having retired from active teaching in 2005. He is an author of 58 publications in scholarly journals, including five related to dreaming, involving imagery and emotion in dreams.
Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology, Trent University, Canada. Her areas of research include self psychology, health psychology, dream therapy, and content analysis of imagery and meaning to waking day life. Her applied practice involves conducting lectures and workshops in Canada, the US, India and Europe.
Freya Diamond (USA) began actively remembering and recording dreams over 25 years ago, when dealing with serious illnesses, finding both healing and consolation within her nighttime narratives. With a background in design and fine arts, she is a book artist who exhibits in museums and galleries nationally.
Sven Doehner, PhD, MFA (México) trained in C.G. Jung and James Hillman's depth psychology. Guiding workshops and training programs since 1981, in Mexico, Europe and North and South America, he is Director of the Instituto de Psicología Profunda en México, Sven integrates depth psychology with ancestral healing and spiritual practices.
Raelyne Dopko is an honors student in the Department of Psychology at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She worked with Dr. Gackenbach on research projects examining dreams and video game play.
Laurette Dupuis, MA is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. A member of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal, she was active on its executive. She served on the executive of the "Centre d'étude des rêves de Montréal." She was Program Chair for the 25th IASD Conference held in Montreal in 2008.
Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D'Urso, PhD (USA), an 'extraordinary' lucid dreamer all her life, teaches her practical approach called lucid living at workshops and conferences. She completed her Masters and PhD at Stanford University, where she did lucid dreaming research, has over fifty publications, and has won several IASD dream contests. (www.durso.org/beverly)
Rita Dwyer, BS, CPC is a former research chemist, coauthor of papers and patents in the aerospace field, IASD Founding Life Member, Chair of the IASD Board, past President, and Executive Officer. A founder and facilitator of the Metro DC Dream Community, Rita is a writer, lecturer, and certified pastoral counselor.
Hooshmand Ebrahimi, MA, is a child counselor and authorized representative of in Asia for teaching "Kids' Skills." He designed the "Skills Room" at the Guidance School for gifted boys in Shiraz, Iran, contributed to Kids' Skills: Playful and Practical Solution Finding, and is the author of several international articles on Kids' Skills.
Jim Emery, MM received his 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 that include health clubs, educational classes, and conferences.
Marcia Emery, PhD, host of the 2005 IASD Conference and former Board member, is a psychologist, intuitive consultant, college lecturer, and author. She writes about 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.
Ted Esser, MA, PhD (Cand) Humanities, East/West Psychology, Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies. Research focus: lucid dreaming and kundalini. He manages the Spiritual Emergence Network and is a spiritual counselor in Fairfax, CA. He was formerly a producer for public television in Seattle, WA.
Ozgen Felek is pursuing her second PhD in the Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan with areas of emphasis in Ottoman dream culture and Sufism.
Willem Fermont, PhD (The Netherlands) is an independent artist and investigator. A former geography teacher, and researcher in paleontology/ geology, he also conducted coal/oil/gas research for the Ministry Economic Affairs, Heerlen/Haarlem, and served as Head of Curators, National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.
Jayne Gackenbach, PhD examines the effects of electronic media use, especially video game play, on dream content. She has several books on dreams and on the psychology of the internet. She is a psychology professor at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and a past President of IASD.
Judy Gardiner (USA) has been analyzing, writing about, and researching her dreams for 17 years. This led to new scientific information and a cosmic wake-up call illuminating the union of science and spirit. She lectures on this, Montague Ullman's teachings, and their relationship to Bohm's theory of explicate and implicate orders.
Patricia Garfield, PhD (USA) world-class dream expert, clinical psychologist, is author of ten books on dreams including Creative Dreaming, a bestseller in print since 1974. Co-Founder of IASD, President (1998-99), she is featured on national and international television. Currently teaching dreams at Dominican University, she's recorded hers for 60 years.
Olaf Gerlach-Hansen, MA is IASD President, former Director General of the Danish Center for Culture and Development, and managing consultant of Culture, Development & International Cooperation. He holds degrees in literature and linguistic psychology, is a former lecturer, University of Copenhagen, and completed postgraduate work in the study of dreams.
David Ginsberg has been journaling his dreams for more than three decades. As an artist, he takes the dream deeper with various media, creating artwork. The process of creation itself brings additional insight regarding the message of the dream.
Sandy Ginsberg is a psychotherapist and dreamworker who values journaling as the foundation for documenting and sharing dreams with one another, either at home or in active dreamgroups such as the one she offers at her practice in California.
Robert P. Gongloff is the author of Dream Exploration: A New Approach. He is IASD Secretary and has hosted two international dream conferences. He lives in Black Mountain, NC, where he conducts dream groups and workshops. ( www.heartofthedream.com )
Dale E. Graff, MS (USA) is an internationally recognized lecturer, writer and researcher in psi topics. A former Director of Project Stargate, the government program in remote viewing, his books, Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness, and River Dreams present his experiences with remote viewing, psychic dreaming, precognition and synchronicities. ( www.dalegraff.com )
Nicole Gratton is the author of 15 books in French. She is the founder and director of a Dream School in Montreal. She writes for many magazines in Quebec. As a professional speaker, she has given presentations in Europe and America.
Jody Grundy (USA) serves on the IASD Board of Directors and as Membership Committee Chair. She is a professional psychotherapist and life and leadership coach. As a political and environmental activist she cultivates "seeds" of all kinds such as the Green Partnership for Greater Cincinnati.
Mark Hagen, MA is the Director of the International Institute for Dream Research. After graduating from the University of Zürich in clinical psychology, he undertook analytical training in depth psychology with Professor Dr. Peter Seidmann. Author of Restoration of the Dream (1994), he has kept a dream journal since 1977. ( www.dreamresearch.ca )
Nigel Hamilton, PhD (UK) is Director of the Centre for Counseling and Psychotherapy Education, a Transpersonal Psychotherapy Training Centre and Clinic in London, where he lectures and practices psychotherapy; UK Representative for the Sufi Order International; and originally trained as a physicist, working at MIT in Energy Storage Research.
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 first Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Tony Hawkins (England) has spent nearly fifty years writing poetic prose and fantasy. This has involved many experiences of psi and synchronicity, in writing and dreams, which led him to think of consciousness as a manifestation of infinity. This core idea is now central to his life's meaning and purpose.
Deborah Armstrong Hickey (USA) is a marriage and family therapist specializing in expressive and play therapies, with a certificate in Dream Studies from the Institute for Dream Studies, and an active IASD member for thirty years. Deborah practices at The Mindgarden and teaches with Capella University's program in Counselor Education.
Rita Hildebrandt (USA) is a Spiritual Healer and Artist in San Clemente, CA. She has a BA in Psychology and training in the Expressive Arts. For the last 17 years she has led workshops and groups in the Expressive Arts and Dreams.
Curtiss Hoffman, PhD (USA) is an archaeologist and consciousness researcher who chairs the Anthropology Department at Bridgewater State College. He is particularly interested in Jungian approaches to dreaming, and has led classroom dreamwork groups since 1997. He was the host of the 2006 IASD conference, and IASD Vice-President in 2007-08.
Tobi Hoffman, MEd is a fabric artist who has been creating art collages and other installations since 2001. Her work has been displayed at vendor tables at IASD conferences since 2005. She is the proprietor of Tobi Collage Etc.
Malgorzata Holda, MA is a PhD student in psychology at Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Research interests include different aspects of dreams, especially attitudes toward dreams.
Caroline Horton, PhD is a lecturer of Cognitive Psychology at Leeds Metropolitan University, England, and a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where she researches dreaming. Caroline is currently investigating the cognitive profile of dreamers and the incorporation of autobiographical memories into dreams.
Robert J. Hoss, MS is the author of Dream Language, Treasurer and former President of IASD and founding Director of the Dream Science foundation. A scientist trained in Gestalt therapy, he teaches dreamwork and is on the faculty of the Haden Institute. He was host of the 28 week IASD DreamTime radio series. ( www.dreamscience.org )
Lynne Hoss, MA, EHP-C is Energy Psychology Program Director for Innersource, and contributing author to 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. A former counselor, she teaches EP in public presentations and private sessions, and is certified by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology.
Ryan Hurd is a freelance writer and dream researcher living in CA. He has a MA in Consciousness Studies and maintains the online dream research website http://dreamstudies.org .
Elizabeth Jeffries has served on the Board of Directors of the St. David's Society of Pittsburgh for nine years, promoting awareness and appreciation of Welsh cultural heritage. She has made four visits to Wales. A long-standing member of a local dream discussion group, she keeps a dream journal.
Clare Johnson, PhD is a British fiction writer whose doctorate focused on lucid dreaming in the creative writing process. A qualified yoga instructor, her workshops incorporate yoga breathing and visualization. Her first novel, Breathing in Colour involves lucid dreaming and synaesthesia; her second is about REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder.
Emily Jones, BSc obtained her degree in Psychology at Trent University, Canada. She piloted a camp and after-school program for children with social/emotional difficulties, and works with Dr. Fountain & Associates, where her interests lie in the treatment of families.
Paula Justice, PhD, associate adjunct professor at Old Dominion University, is a licensed counselor and a minister in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She has been teaching about dreams for 30 years and, for 7 years, a member of Playback Hampton Roads, an improvisational theatre company that dramatizes audience stories.
Tracey Kahan is a faculty member of the SCU Psychology Department. Her research explores the relationship between dreaming and waking cognition and 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.
David Kahn, PhD is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and past President of IASD. His research explores normal brain states in dreaming. Recent publications include "Dream Content: Individual and Generic Aspects" in Consciousness and Cognition, and "Metacognition, Recognition and Reflection while Dreaming," in The New Science of Dreaming.
David L. Kahn is author of A Dream Come True (2007) and columnist for The Lucid Dream Exchange. He lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. David is a member of the World Dreams Peace Bridge and has had articles published in Dream Network Journal, DreamTime and The New Age Journal.
Bethany Keen is a certified yoga teacher and applied metaphysics teacher. Utilizing Hatha Yoga, she serves people of all ages. Bethany also teaches at the School of Metaphysics, serving the city of Chicago through applied metaphysics classes, which include dream interpretation study, meditation, visualization, and other forms of self-mastery.
Siamak Khodarahimi, PhD is a clinical psychologist on the faculty at Islamic Azad University-Eghlid Branch, a member of the International Society for Clinical Psychology, Iranian Psychological Association and Psychology and Counseling Organization Iran, and on the editorial board of Psychological Novelties, official journal of the hypnosis association.
Johanna King, PhD is a retired clinical psychologist. She specialized in individual, family, and group psychotherapy; consultation; workshop and program development; research; and supervision/training. She became a part of the ongoing work of IASD 22 years ago, served as President in 1996-97, and has served on numerous committees.
Philip King, PhD (USA) 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, dream orientation and dream content, and design and statistical approaches to multivariate research.
Milton Kramer, MD is the author/editor of three books on dreaming, including The Dream Experience: A Systematic Exploration. He is a past President of IASD and was recognized in 2008 with IASD's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Stanley Krippner, PhD (USA) is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, an IASD Past President and co-author of Dream Telepathy and Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them. He received the APA's award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, the Ashley Montague Peace Award, and IASD's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Don Kuiken, PhD is a faculty member at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His research is concerned with changes in self-understanding through dreams, especially impactful dreams; aesthetic experience, especially through literary reading; and phenomenological methods for articulating the characteristics of dream and aesthetic experience.
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 & a guided dream journal. She focuses on using dreams as a spiritual source for personal growth.
Jason Le is an honors student in the Department of Psychology at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He worked with Dr. Gackenbach last summer collecting data from hardcore video game players.
Ming-Ni Lee, MS is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include dreaming, mystical experiences, and transpersonal psychology. She hopes to contribute to dream research as well as related fields, such as consciousness and post-traumatic growth.
Anita Leuthold studied clinical psychology at the University of Zurich (completed in 1986). She worked as counselor and has led dreamgroups (and raised four children). She lectures widely on dreams as advisers and has a special interest in the connection between illness and dreaming.
Mary Pat Lynch, PhD (USA) is a writer, educator and shamanic practitioner exploring dreamwork in many forms. Her work focuses on mythic themes in dreamwork and shamanic practice.
Tallulah Lyons, MEd (USA) with Wendy Pannier created the IASD Cancer Project, a dreamwork program for those facing cancer. She facilitates dream work and guided imagery in two Atlanta cancer wellness centers, is certified through the Haden Institute, and is the author of Dream Prayers: Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path.
Teresa MacColl (USA) is an Ancestral Dream Coach, Earth Healer, artist, and Wellness Coach. She has a Masters degree in Indigenous Mind (IM) from Naropa University, focusing on Indigenous Ecology and Ancestral Tribal Dreaming. She teaches as adjunct faculty in the IM Program at residencies in Maui and Oakland.
Alfio Maggiolini, PhD is a psychotherapist and professor of Adolescence Psychology at Milano-Bicocca University in Italy. He coordinates a Centre for the research and treatment of antisocial behaviours occurring during adolescence ( www.minotauro.it ). He is interested in the content of typical dreams, viewed from a psychoanalytical perspective.
Kirsten Maier is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is a Registered Clinical Counselor in private practice in Vancouver whose interest in dreamwork has been growing over the last ten years.
Michelle Mangini, BA-SLPA is a speech language pathologist assistant currently working on her Master's in Health and Healing. She focuses on the connection of the human spirit with the earth using dreaming as a catalyst. She has used dream imagery in visual artwork for the past eight years.
Uma Jill Markus, EdM (USA) is an artist, art teacher and art therapist with over 25 years experience bringing others into direct contact with the transformative power of art. Currently, she is working on her book, Drawing the Dream Awake, a compilation of dream drawings in storybook form.
Dawn Matheny, 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. She is currently Executive Director of Veriditas, a non-profit promoting the wisdom and power of labyrinth work.
Adrian Medina-Liberty has been studying the relationships among mind, culture and language during the last ten years. His interest on dreams began five years ago. He has published three books about these topics, all in Spanish. He has a PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Dennis Merritt, LCSW, has an MA in Humanistic Psychology, a PhD in Insect Pathology from UC-Berkeley and is a Diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland. He has been in private practice as a Jungian analyst, sandplay therapist and ecopsychologist since 1983 in Madison and Milwaukee, WI.
Paco Mitchell, MA (USA) began studying dreams in 1972. He currently writes a column for Dream Network Journal entitled "Dreaming Planet: Reflections on Dreams in a Transitional Age." He is especially interested in dreams with a bearing on the current planetary crisis and the outlook for the future.
Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and dreamwork. He leads seminars, including a three-year teacher training and an online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar whose most recent book is The Secret History of Dreaming. ( www.mossdreams.com )
Eva Murzyn is a third year 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.
Giulia Musolino, MD obtained her BA in Biology (Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology) at Yale University in 2000, and her MD at Tor Vergata University in Rome in 2008. She is an intern in the Psychiatry Department of Tor Vergata.
Lana Nasser, MA (Jordan) is a storyteller who studies mythology and explores archetypes. Drawing inspiration from dreams and language, she writes, performs, and leads workshops and journeys in the US and Jordan. Her work aims at bridging inner and outer, self and other, awakening imagination and restoring balance.
Geoffrey S. Navara, PhD is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, specializing in family relationships and the communication of cultural values and beliefs. His interests include the qualitative analysis of narratives and how individuals make meaning of these stories.
Geoff Nelson, DMin is a Presbyterian pastor in Whittier, California, USA. With over 30 years experience with own dreams, he recently completed a DMin degree on "Dream Groups in the Church." A pastor for over 30 years, he is a trained spiritual director.
Valdas Noreika 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. His PhD project is ''Consciousness and the Dreaming Brain: Empirical and Theoretical Studies.''
Chris Olsen, MA 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.
J. F. Pagel, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Colorado Family Practice Residency Program and medical director of the Sleep Disorders Center. His many publications on sleep and dreaming include Primary Care Sleep Medicine and The Limits of Dream - A Scientific Exploration of the Mind/Brain Interface.
Wendy Pannier, with Tallulah Lyons, created a program for cancer patients using dream work with other integrative medicine modalities. She worked extensively with Dr. Montague Ullman, publishing the quarterly newsletter, Dream Appreciation with him. She became an IASD Board Member in 1999, serving as Secretary, Board Chair, and President.
Steve Parker, PhD is a clinical psychologist from Fairbanks, Alaska with a life-long interest in the practical utilization of dreams. He had a prodromal dream of a red airplane with a four-cylinder engine crashing and burning three months before almost having a fatal heart attack.
Roberta Pashley, PhD (USA) holds a PhD in psychology, and MA in philosophy. She is a board certified art therapist and licensed professional counselor in Michigan. Between 1988 and 1996, she presented eleven papers, posters, and workshops at national, regional, and international conferences.
Cynthia Pearson (USA) is the author of several books, most recently Dreaming the Dead, a mystery concerning the study of dreams. She served on the board of IASD for five years, presides over www.Dreamjournalist.com and has chaired the "Long Term Journal Keeping" panels since 1997.
Winnie Piccolo MA, MFT (USA) is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in California. She studied dreamwork in the 80's and 90's with Strephon Kaplan Williams and Stephen Aizenstadt. Of Dutch-Indonesian heritage, her journey began with being born to parents who suffered years of imprisonment during WWII.
Meg Pierce MA, MFT (USA) is a depth psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Rosa California. She has kept a dream journal since she was 12 years old and utilizes these pages to inform her waking life. Her counterbalance is service to the mental health community in the public sector.
Mena E. Potts, PhD (USA) initiated IASD's first APA co-sponsored CE Program, served on IASD's Board, and established the Dream Center for Education and Research. With Ullman, Krippner, and Moustakes, she developed the first doctoral degree program in the psychology of dreaming and received its first degree.
Dominic J. Potts, Esq, JD (USA) is a retired trial attorney, expert case consultant, and author of several works including "Classical Rhetoric, Dialectics, Forensics and the Art of Self Expression." He has lectured on speech, writing, legal and medical subjects, served as legal advisor to IASD, and presented at annual meetings.
Victoria Rabinowe (USA) is the author and illustrator of I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM LAST NIGHT: Twelve Creative Explorations into the Genius of the Night Mind. Trained in Advanced DreamTending at Pacifica Graduate Institute, she has guided over 500 international workshops and retreats in "The Art of the Dream."
Raymond E. Rainville, PhD (USA) is a Psychology Professor at SUNY Oneonta. He is a blind clinical psychologist who has taught a course on Sleep & Dreams for 37 years. The diaries used in the research he is presenting were collected in this course.
Valley Reed (USA) has presented "Dreaming with Children," "Family Dreaming," as well as "Dreaming with Indigenous Peoples." She wrote, choreographed and performed "The Crow and the Phoenix." Her article "The Call of Quetzalcoatl and Dancing with the Moon" appeared in DreamTime. ( www.chrysalishealingarts.com , http://dreamsawake.wordpress.com )
Lorenda Rush (USA) is a research coordinator and nontraditional graduate with a history of nursing now obtaining a graduate degree in psychology. She trained the undergraduate coders, and collected, and analyzed the content analysis data.
Melanie Rosen is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, focusing on Philosophy of Consciousness and Dreams. Philosophy of dreams is of particular interest because dreams encapsulate the problem of phenomenology of experience yet lack the sensory input common to most experiences.
Richard Russo lives in Berkeley and is Associate Director of the Dream Institute of Northern California. He is a past President of IASD, Chair of the IASD Arts Committee, and Editor of the journal, DreamTime.
Mohamed Omar Salem, FRCPsych is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAE University and is the Middle East Representative of the IASD.
Kira Sass is Co-Director/Co-Producer of the documentary Wake Up: Exploring the Potential of Lucid Dreaming. She has completed a variety of film projects including character-driven, surrealistic narratives as well as corporate product video demos. She has honed her ability to create media materials that are both informative and artistic.
Art Schmaltz, MA, therapeutic communication, works full time creating "dream inspired" sculptures. He has facilitated Experiential Dream Workshops and directed Dream Theater. He helped organize Dream Art exhibitions, and Dream Theater events at ASD conferences in the late 1980's.
Lauren Z. Schneider, MA, MFT has a private practice in California integrating dream therapy, family systems, and her pioneering method, "Tarotpy." 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-Früeh, PhD is a Lecturer at the Department of English and Linguistics at Mainz University, Germany; recent publications on Irish women's writing and contemporary British poetry; currently working on post-doctoral research on "Dreaming Through the Ages: Dreams, Nightmares and Visions in Modern English Literature and Culture, 1600-1900."
Michael Schredl, PhD works at the Sleep Laboratory, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. He has worked in dream research since 1990, publishing over 90 scientific articles covering topics such as dream recall, dream content analysis, nightmares, and lucid dreaming, and served on the IASD Board of Directors.
Richard Schweickert, PhD (USA) is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. He is a past Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Monique Séguin has worked in health care since 1969, as a nursing assistant in the psychiatric unit in a general hospital. She works at the West Island Palliative Care Residence in Kirkland, Quebec. Her interest in dreams leads her to use dreams as a tool to guide patients and families.
Alan Siegel, PhD (USA) is past-President and current Education Chair of IASD. He practices psychotherapy and is Assistant Clinical Professor, U.C. Berkeley and faculty at Alliant University's CSPP. He has been teaching dreamwork for over 30 years and is author of Dream Wisdom: Uncovering Life's Answers in Your Dreams.
G. Scott Sparrow, EdD, LPC, LMFT is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas-Pan American and charter faculty member at Atlantic University. He has authored several books in the field of dreams and spirituality, and is perhaps best known for his work with lucid dreaming and mystical dream experiences.
Bonnelle Lewis Strickling, PhD, RCC (Canada) is an instructor in Philosophy at Langara College, a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice and a spiritual director. She is the author of Dreaming About the Divine (2007) and has given seminars and workshops in Canada, the United States and England.
Gloria Sturzenacker, MS (USA) is an editor, writer, and graphic artist who has developed a visual journaling system called Inner Guide Mapping. She attended Montague Ullman's three-day trainings in dream group leadership a number of times.
Gunnar Sundström is a clinical psychologist and licensed psychotherapist with the Göteborgs Psykoterapi Institut, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is President of the Board of the Swedish Dream Group Forum, and a teacher and supervisor. He was trained in the Ullman method by Kerstin Andersson, former President of Drömgruppsform.
Connie Svob, BA is a Master's student at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research interests include dreaming, aesthetics, and spatial aspects of experience.
Barbara Szmigielska, PhD is a research assistant professor in psychology at Jagiellonian University. Her research interests include children's dreams and dreams in cyberspace.
Michael Tappan, MA (USA) has led dream groups for over fifteen years, and is a graduate of the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work. He directs and acts in improvisational theater and facilitates Dream Portrayal Workshops. He has lived within traditional cultures of the Amazon, the Andes, Siberia and West Africa.
Marianne Tauber is a licensed psychotherapist in CA and holds a PhD in clinical depth psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is presently away from practice, working on several writing projects. Of Swiss origin, she has relatives and friends, including her son, in Switzerland and visits often.
Barbara Tedlock, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at SUNY-Buffalo. Trained and initiated as a shamanic dream interpreter by the K'iche' Maya of Guatemala, she is on the Board of Directors of the Society for Shamanic Practitioners and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Shamanic Practice.
Robert Tompkins PhD, MFT (USA) has been a passionate inquirer into the natures of spirit and soul, first as professor of philosophy, and more recently as a psychotherapist. He has a part-time practice in Sebastopol, where he is currently writing on the relationship of "soul" to contemporary philosophy.
Misa Tsuruta, MA (USA) is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at The New School for Social Research. She has presented on Japanese culture and dreaming in past IASD conferences. She is also a dream journalist.
Katja Valli is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Finland, and teaches at the School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden. Her main interests are the biological function of dreaming, dream content analysis, sleep laboratory dream research, and evolutionary psychology.
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 Content Analysis of Dreams, author of Our Dreaming Mind and former consulting editor of the SUNY Press Series on Dreams.
Deon van Zyl, PhD (South Africa) is a former Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He is in private practice as a clinical psychologist and management consultant. He has delivered numerous papers at conferences in South Africa, the USA, and Japan.
Robert Waggoner is the author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self and co-editor of the quarterly publication, The Lucid Dream Exchange. He has served on the Executive Board of IASD for the past five years as Treasurer and most recently as Vice President.
Bernard Welt, PhD, Professor of Arts and Humanities, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC USA, is the author of Mythomania: Fables, Fantasies, and Sheer Lies in American Popular Art and co-author with Phil King and Kelly Bulkeley of the forthcoming Dreaming in the Classroom.
Judy White, PhD (USA) is a clinical psychologist in private practice. Her work draws on analytical and relational psychology, family systems theory and Bosnak's embodied approach to dreams and memories. Her personal experience with congenital clubfeet has led to a special interest in the meaning of illness, disability and pain.
Jennifer M. Windt, MA studied philosophy and history in Mainz and is writing a philosophical dissertation on dreaming, consciousness, and cognition. She is a member of the MIND Group and of the European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences and the Humanities.
Ann Sayre Wiseman, MA is an art and dream therapist, painter, and author of twelve books including Dreams As Metaphor, The Power Of The Image, Nightmare Help: A Guide for Adults & Children, and Making Things: Creative Discoveries. She leads art and dream workshops here and abroad.
Christopher Wright is a recent graduate from Trent University. During his undergraduate studies in psychology, he assisted with physiological, cognitive, and dream research. His interests include health and illness psychology.
Marco Zanasi, MD specializes in neurology and psychiatry, and was an assistant professor at La Sapienza University in Rome, Neurology Department. He is currently with the Department of Psychiatry at Tor Vergata University in Rome. He has published 168 papers and two books on group psychotherapy.
