THE 2015 IASD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, VIRGINIA BEACH: THE DEPTHS OF DREAMS WRAPUP

IASD would like to thank all of the wonderful staff and volunteers personally for the terrific job you did on this year’s IASD International Conference which made it an astounding success. We had 270 attendees from 16 countries around the world, and presenters from 14 countries.

IASD would like to thank the many volunteers who worked to make this conference possible, particularly the members of the core Conference Committee, its chair Bob Hoss, and the support team - without them this event would not have been possible: Robert Gongloff, Richard Wilkerson, Laura Atkinson, Sylvia Green-Guenette, Jean Campbell, Bobbie Ann Pimm, Katja Valli, Alan Siegel, Dani Vedros, David Gordon, Jeff Armano, Geoff Nelson, Ryan Hurd, Janet Garrett, Curt Hoffman, Dale Graff, Catherine Campaigne.

We also wish to thank our forty-one pre-conference and onsite volunteers who performed masterfully and without whom the conference would not have gone as smoothly as it did. A major thank you to our twenty submission evaluators, the dream experts who are largely responsible for the final structure of the program, and who give totally of their own time and talents to support the conference program. And finally we wish to thank the presenters and attendees who made the conference a success, without you there would not have been a conference. We hope to see you back with us next year at the Rolduc conference center in the Netherlands.

Visit the Conference web site for further information on this past conference at www.asdreams.org/2015 or to plan for attending next year at www.asdreams.org/2016 

Nominations Committee Update:

The officers nominated by the Nominating Committee to serve in the coming year were introduced to the membership at the General Membership meeting at the annual conference. They are as follows: Scott Sparrow, Board Chair; Susannah Benson, President; Laurel Clark, Vice-President; and Robert Waggoner, Treasurer. These officers are the voting members of the Executive Committee.

These officers took their positions at the annual board meeting held Friday, June 5, 2015. Officers serve a term of one year, but may be re-elected.

The five new member-elected directors were also introduced: Claude Desloges, Jordi Borras Garcia, Clare Johnson, Misa Tsuruta and Mary Melinda Ziemer.

Directors serve for a period of three years, and the new directors’ terms will expire in 2018. The practice has been to have 15 directors who are elected by the membership. Rather than replacing the entire Board every three years, and to maintain a cadre of experienced directors, it has been the practice of IASD to arrange it so that we only replace five directors each year.

In addition to the 15 member-elected directors, four to seven of our board members can be directly appointed by the Board. The Nominations Committee recommended two nominees for board-appointed positions: Jean Campbell and Robert Waggoner. At the February Board meeting, the Board accepted the recommendations and passed the resolution that the number of Board-appointed directors will be seven for 2015-2016. All officers and new board members assumed their positions at this first board meeting.

The Nominations Committee wishes to acknowledge and appreciate all the Directors whose terms of office ended in 2015 and thanks all the Board candidates who agreed to stand for election.

Join us for two weeks of nonstop fun and dreaming in September/October at the online PsiberDreaming Conference.

Mark your calendar. Keep an eye on the IASD PsiberDreaming 2015 web site. PsiberDreaming is coming soon. Yes, that's online all the time between Sunday, September 27 and Sunday, October 11, 2015 with a global look at the science of psi.

Registration begins in August.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS
Bobbie Ann Pimm, Membership Committee Chair

Exciting news came out of the board meeting held on June 5, 2015. The board agreed to create a Membership Task Force to address the issue of increasing our membership numbers. I’d like to thank everyone that agreed to join together with me for this important task: Susannah Benson, Claude Desloges, Laurel Clark, Jean Campbell, Lou Hagood, Mary Ziemer, Curt Hoffman, Njeri Campbell, Jordi Borras Garcia, Misa Tsuruta and Richard Wilkerson. If you have any ideas or special insight regarding membership, please share them with me in an email or consider joining us on the task force

You can do your part in attracting more members simply by talking about dreams and the IASD to everyone you meet! When asking new members how they learned about the IASD, most of the time the answer is, “from a friend or colleague.”

Regional Representatives Network

Please check the IASD website for up-to-date names and contact information for the regional representative in your area. The Regional Representative webpage is divided into regions, making your search more user-friendly.

If you do not have a Regional Rep for your area, consider volunteering to become one! You could serve an important networking role for IASD.

To volunteer to become a Regional Representative or for corrections or feedback on member contacts from Regional Reps, contact Bobbie Ann Pimm at bobbie@bobbieann.net