EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE IS APRIL 1

This is an important reminder to please register before April 1 to receive a discounted rate for the conference. Please go to https://asdreams.org/2013/registration/

We also suggest you reserve your room at the Hotel early since the discounted room block is limited. Call the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel and Conference Center directly at 800-468-2722 or 757-481-9000 and ask for the IASD Conference group rate.

DEADLINES FOR TWO COMPETITIONS APPROACHING

Although the 2013 IASD Conference is fast-approaching, there is still time to enter two important annual competitions. Cash prizes are awarded at the conference in Virginia Beach, June 21-25, 2013. IASD membership not required for participation. Spread the word!

Nancy Richter Brzeski Dream Art Awards
Entry Deadline: April 5, 2013

IASD is happy to announce that we will once again be offering the Nancy Richter Brzeski Dream Art Awards for this year’s juried Art Show at the Virginia Beach conference.

Nancy Richter Brzeski has been involved with IASD since its beginning and participated in the very first art exhibit in Arlington, Virginia in 1987. She believes strongly in the role the arts play in our exploration of dreams and dreaming and has supported the conference art exhibits for a number of years through her generous awards program.

Several thousand dollars in cash awards will be available this year as prizes for the best works chosen from among the artists whose work is accepted for display at the conference. The top prize this year will be $1000.

Award winners will be chosen by a special panel consisting of Nancy Richter Brzeski, Kim Vergil from Canada, and Stephen Swan from Virginia Beach. Works will be judged on originality, integrity, universality, and, most importantly, relevance to dreams and dreaming.

Interested artists may participate by using the online entry form available on the IASD website: https://asdreams.org/2013/call-for-dream-artwork/. 

You don’t have to be a member of IASD to participate. The deadline for entries is April 5th, 2013.

IASD Student Awards for Dream Related Research and Projects
Entry Deadline: March 15, 2013

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 of all nationalities are eligible to submit papers, though submissions must be in English.

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.

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.

For full instructions on entering the Student Awards Competition go to https://asdreams.org/2013/callforstudent/

Winners will be announced at the General Membership Meeting on 6/23/2013 as part of the IASD annual conference, which will be held at the Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center, Virginia Beach VA, June 21 – 25, 2013.

Curtiss Hoffman
Student Research Awards Chair

AV VOLUNTEER POSITIONS STILL OPEN

There are only a few volunteer positions left 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, visit; https://asdreams.org/2013/volunteer-application/

Please 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 specially designed templates.

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.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS

While in Singapore last month I connected with a Canadian teacher who is working at an international school in downtown Singapore. Alison Camire invited me into her classroom and, through meditation and discussion about dreams, the children were encouraged to recreate dream images. It was an inspirational day! Please take a moment to read and reflect on Alison’s use of dreams with children.

From IASD Member, Alison Camire, Singapore:

My Grade 1 class first investigated the idea of dreams when we inquired into the capacity of the imagination. The children studied surrealism and abstract art in the atelier and began to make connections to their own dream sequences as they viewed paintings like ‘The Truth About Little Girls and Comets’ by Dorothea Tanning, ‘The Persistence of Time’ by Salvador Dali, and ‘Personnage devan le soleil’ by Joan Miro. They began to speak about their dreams and where they thought they came from. Children made connections between their daytime experiences and “the nighttime pictures in our heads.” In this way, the idea of imagination being different from reality was both solidified and thrown into question.

While dream study is not a formal part of our curriculum programming, it is well suited to the type of thinking we try to develop. I embrace a constructivist view of education in which children are viewed as competent authors of their own knowledge, ideas, and experiences. Dreams often represent beliefs and desires, and while children are indeed knowledgeable about these things in relation to themselves, they do not always have a context within which to discuss and express them.

Dream reflection exercises support children in being mindful of and interpreting these things. It helps bridge the way between literal and metaphorical thinking, extending children’s metacognition. By reflecting on their dreams, children’s creative thought is developed and their creativity is boosted. Through the practice of remembering and speaking about or artistically representing dreams, children’s memory is improved and they begin to pay attention to small details. These skills are transferred to other areas of their work outside of dream study.

On another note, and to further address last month’s Membership News about collective dreaming, Linda Mastrangelo sent in a link to her article “Guess what happens when an entire town dreams together…” in response to a book entitled, Dreaming Myself, Dreaming a Town by Susan Watkins. Thanks, Linda!

In regards to building membership, Scott Sparrow’s article in Venture Inward about IASD’s upcoming annual conference has resulted in new members for IASD. For more information, please visit; http://ventureinward.org/

Whenever you discover the opportunity to discuss dreams and further the mission of IASD, please take the time to do so. Thanks to all!

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 671 friends - up from about 20 last month. In addition, let your Facebook friends know about IASD’s fan page (with 1479 Likes and growth of approximately 50 from last month), 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 continue to feature in this column news of two upcoming regional conferences and a workshop. Additional information about these conferences, including further program details and registration details, can be found at Regional Contacts.

You can also read about other regional events by visiting this page.

Is there something happening in your region that you would like to share? Perhaps you are looking for new ideas and ways to support the growth of dreamwork and dream sharing in your region? The IASD Facebook group page is a great place to visit regularly to share ideas, be inspired, read a quote, follow-up on links, stay in touch, and feel connected.

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.