IASD PLEDGE DRIVE 2012 GOES OVER THE TOP!

Thanks to our ever-generous and supportive friends and membership, IASD has once again topped a dreamed-for goal of $10,000 in its once-per-year request for funds.

Without you, there would be no IASD and many of the dream-enhancing programs provided by IASD would not exist.

During the 2012 Pledge Drive, which ended January 31, 2013, a total of $10,822.00 was donated in half a dozen donor-selected categories:

Donations to Conference Scholarships were $2,008.50, allowing us to award a total of ten scholarships to students, presenters and others who need scholarship assistance in order to attend the annual conference. Inquiries about Conference Scholarships should be directed to Jean Campbell at jccampb@aol.com.  Scholarships for the 2013 Conference will be awarded in April.

Outreach and Online Activities received a total of $700 in donations. Work proceeds at the committee level on changes in the IASD website. Low-Income Memberships received donations of $583.50, allowing us to award nine Low-Income/Complementary memberships.

Both the IASD Research Grants Fund and the Student Awards Fund are supported by IASD Matched Funding. In both of these categories, the Board of IASD has voted to match whatever funds are raised through annual donations. This year, funds donated for Research Grants totaled $5,975.00 (matched to a total of $11,950.00); and Student Awards received $550 in donations (matched to a total of $1,100). More information on both of these programs can be found on the IASD website.

This year, IASD celebrates its thirtieth year of growth. Dreams Light Up the Night!

TWO SPECIAL INVITED SPEAKERS ADDED TO CONFERENCE ROSTER

The Program Committee for this year’s conference at Virginia Beach is pleased to announce the addition of two invited speakers to the program.

Matthew Wilson, PhD comes to us from MIT where he is currently the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Associate Director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. In his talk, “Hippocampal Memory Reactivation in Awake and Sleep States,” he will discuss the involvement of sleep rhythms in coordinating interactions between brain systems during memory reactivation. He will also describe recent results demonstrating the ability to influence dream content with implications for directed memory processing during sleep.

Eben Alexander, MD has received much attention in current media because of his revelation concerning life after death following his own near-death experience. Raymond Moody said that Eben Alexander’s experience was the most astounding he has heard “in more than four decades examining this phenomenon.” Dr. Alexander will provide us with a unique perspective on consciousness and the relationship with dreams. His book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for the past 13 weeks.

We look forward to these unique and thought-provoking presentations.

AV VOLUNTEER POSITIONS OPEN

There are a few volunteer positions open for Audio/Visual support volunteers. The position principally involves helping presenters put their presentations on the PC before the session (drag drop from thumb drive), clip on microphones, and notify hotel support or the recording tech if something is not working. Volunteers receive the conference for $50 once their duties are complete. To apply, please visit the conference website, read the instructions and fill out the online form.

IT'S NOT TOO EARLY TO THINK ABOUT JUNE ADVERTISING!

Highlight your presence at the 2013 IASD Conference by advertising in the annual conference program.

The annual conference program is handed out to every attendee at the IASD Conference and contains key information on events, schedule of sessions, workshops, and much more. Attendees constantly refer to the program onsite and hold onto it for future reference, generating multiple impressions for advertisers. Not all conference attendees are IASD members, so advertising in the conference program increases your exposure.

IASD Member Discount

Do you have a product or business to promote? Do you host a dream group? Are you an artist who would like to reach out to an international audience? Do you offer ongoing workshops? IASD currently boasts more than 90 published authors among its members. Was your ad included? If not, don’t get left out again this year. You can provide us with camera-ready artwork or, for a nominal fee, we will create your ad for you using one of several templates that have been designed.

Special Virginia Beach Section

There will be a special section reserved to promote Virginia Beach services, restaurants, and businesses. If you are a business within a 25 mile radius of the conference site, your ad will be placed in this special VA BEACH section.
For rate sheet, ad specs, and payment options, please visit: https://asdreams.org/2013/buy-a-program-ad/ 

Materials deadline is May 10, 2013.

CONFERENCE ART EXHIBIT CALL FOR ENTRIES

Entries for the juried art show at the Virginia Beach conference are coming in, so don’t miss your chance to display your art and compete for that top prize of $1000.

The last day we can accept entries is Friday, April 5, 2013 (midnight eastern US time).

For more information and to access the online entry form, please link to: https://asdreams.org/2013/call-for-dream-artwork/

Original art works about or inspired by dreams are welcome from anyone, whether or not they are IASD members or conference attendees.

You may direct your questions or comments to Robert Gongloff at: roberto@asdreams.org

IASD STUDENT AWARDS FOR DREAM RELATED RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

We are pleased to announce that the anonymous donor who has generously provided funding for the Student Research Award for the past seven years has graciously agreed to provide matching funds for the 2013 competition! The IASD board of trustees will provide the balance of funds.

As in previous years, there will be two $500 awards. The first is for the best student submission of original scientific research on dreams and dreaming. The second is for the best submission of original historical, literary, artistic, or theoretical research. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to submit papers. Please view the following for additional details: https://asdreams.org/2013/callforstudent/

All participants must submit their presentations in electronic form, preferably through email to office@asdreams.org or if necessary by mailing the files, copied to a CD or a DVD, to the IASD office by March 15, 2013.

IASD-Student Research
1672 University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94703 USA
Mark on any mailed box "OK to leave on porch."

Text submissions must not exceed 6,000 words. Participants should submit text in MS Word, and artwork in .jpg, .tif, or .pdf formats.

Participants may also electronically submit videos in AVI formats, or music in MIDI or MPS formats. In the case of papers with multiple authors – in terms of the ideas presented as well as the description of the results – the contestant must indicate clearly, in either the text of the paper or in an accompanying letter, what portions are the submitter’s work.

Submissions must include a copy of your student ID. Alternatively, you can fax a copy to the IASD Office at 1-209-724-0889, or scan and email an attachment to office@asdreams.org. Include a note or cover letter that this is for the IASD Student Research Award. Participants must specify which of the two awards they are applying for.

Winners will be announced at the IASD annual conference, which will be held at the Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center, Virginia Beach, VA, June 21 - 25, during the General Membership Meeting. Check the schedule of conference events to find out the exact date and time.

Curtiss Hoffman
Student Research Awards Chair

MEMBERSHIP NEWS

As I prepare the Membership News this month, I’m on Whidbey Island, WA attending the Whidbey Winter Gathering, Embracing the Heart of Transition. The conference is an exploration of ideas, strategies, and resources with individuals from various professions who are interested in social transformation and consciousness. The emphasis is on how we may lead during this decade of rapid shifting.

Today, seminars on climate change, transitional towns (sustainable communities), and the importance of cultural story were presented along with a number of open space sessions. In a workshop on sustainable communities, one transitional town listed “collective dream discussion” as an aspect of helping to build a more whole community. Unfortunately, however, there is no conference presentation scheduled on the significance of dreams and their potential contribution to a culture or collective in transformation. During breaks and meals, I have been discussing the potential of collective dreaming toward helping initiate, sustain, and illuminate growth across personal, cultural and collective levels.

Wherever you discover the opportunity to discuss dreams and further the mission of IASD, including membership, please do!

If you are interested in contributing to the Membership News, please contact me: degreig2002@yahoo.ca

Be sure to join our Facebook group page. We have 654 friends and growing! In addition, let your Facebook friends know about IASD’s fan page (with 1422 Likes), and its website. Also, check out IASD’s new page on Google+.

From Membership Chair,
Diane E. Greig, Ph.D.

From Susan Benson, Regional Chair

We have heard from several regional representatives this month enquiring about organizing events in their region, wanting to share and talk about ways of connecting with members in their region, or promoting IASD. IASD encourages its members to host regional meetings and co-sponsored events. The regional network consists of an international network of 66 members who share a commitment in furthering the interest and study of dreams. Information and guidelines about the role of IASD representatives is also available on the IASD website.

This month, IASD Toronto Regional Representative, Mara Zadnoff, reports on the recent IASD Toronto quarterly meeting. The New England IASD Regional one-day Conference, “The Creative Power of Dreams”, has been rescheduled for May 25. Keynote speakers are Deirdre Barrett, the author of The Committee of Sleep, and Ernest Hartmann, the author of The Nature and Functions of Dreaming. Early Bird registrations close on March 15, 2013.

Regional News You Can Use

IASD Toronto Dreamers Group Quarterly Meeting Update

The IASD Toronto Dreamers rang in the New Year appropriately with the theme of Birth and Death in Dreams.

Josh Black, one of the Berkeley conference’s Hot off the Press presenters, shared his study on the impact on dreams in bereavement, discussing “the different occurrences of how the deceased appear in dreams and what impact, if any, this has on the bereaved.”

Dr. Christopher Sowton, in his discussion of ‘Birth Dreams', explained “how the unconscious can use prenatal, perinatal, and post-natal imagery in dreams to symbolize anything that is new and important.”

Njeri Damali Campbell led our morning facilitated dream sharing with a twist! With the dreamer’s direction, we played a little with each dream, including word association and play the part: I starred as Oprah, interviewing one of my dream characters!

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Sowton on his newly released and very well received book, The Dreamworking Manual: A Guide to Using Dreams in Health Care.

Join us at our next IASD Regional Event on June 2, 2013 featuring IASD member Elena Rossi, MSc, ND presenting “Dreamwork and Eating Disorders: Universal Motifs along the Path of Recovery.”

Mara Zadnoff
IASD Toronto Dreamers
mara@healgently.ca

Regional Event Calendar 2013

New England, USA Regional: “The Creative Power of Dreams”
May 25, 2013, Regis College, Weston, MA. Host: Curtiss Hoffman

 For millennia, creative people in all cultures have relied upon their dreams for inspiration. Come and celebrate the creative power of dreams at this one-day IASD regional conference! Keynote speakers are Deirdre Barrett, the author of The Committee of Sleep, and Ernest Hartmann, the author of The Nature and Functions of Dreaming. In addition, there will be a performance of excerpts from Curtiss Hoffman’s Gilgamesh Cantata, based on dream texts from C.G. Jung’s Red Book and using musical themes derived from dreams. Additional speakers will present papers on various aspects of dreaming and creativity.

Registration will be $68 for IASD members, $78 for non-members, and $48 for students and those with limited incomes. This fee includes registration and a catered lunch.

Contact: Curtiss Hoffman at teximus@comcast.net or for more information check out https://asdreams.org/regionals/2013newengland/

Contact: Curtiss Hoffman, teximus@comcast.net

COLLOQUE REVE III, MONTREAL REGIONAL CONFERENCE

The third Colloque Régional de Montréal will be held April 13, 2013 at De Maisonneuve College. This IASD Eastern Canada Region Conference will be a one-day event held in French.

The Colloque will feature world renowned Jungian psychoanalyst and author, Guy Corneau and Tore Nielsen, professor at the Department of Psychiatry of Montréal University and Director of the Dream and Nightmare Laboratory. Ten other presenters, including six IASD members, will unfold various aspects of dreaming, dreams and dreamwork. The short presentations, directed at both the initiate and non-initiate, will illustrate how to tap the inexhaustible source of dreams to enrich one’s waking life and improve “well-being”.

The aim of the Montréal Regionals is threefold: 1° Sensitize the general public, Mr. and Ms. Toutlemonde, to dreams and their potential, 2° Make known the professional and material resources related to dreams and dreamwork in the region, 3° Promote IASD, its mission and activities.

The Colloque is organized by a committee composed of: Claude Desloges (Centre L’Arc-en-ciel), Yves Dubuc, Angela Dupont, Nicole Gratton (École internationale de Rêves) and Monique Séguin.