The IASD’s Annual Conference was held this year in Chicago, 26-30 June, 2009, on the theme, “Earth Dreaming,” with featured speakers Stan Krippner, Barbara Tedlock, Steve Aizenstat and Robert Moss, and many others from different fields of dream research. It was accompanied as usual by a Dream Telepathy Contest, and a juried exhibition of dream-inspired art, with significant awards. There was also a ceremony to celebrate IASD’s 25th Anniversary as an incorporated non-profit association.
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History
The Spring 2009 issue of Dreamtime, the magazine of the Association, published 3 times a year, carries a group of articles reflecting on IASD’s beginnings in 1983 in San Francisco, when Strephon Kaplan-Williams, Gayle Delaney, Patricia Garfield and Jeremy Taylor founded the initial group and set out to create the first Conference in 1984, bringing together not only therapists but also sleep researchers, dream educators, cognitive psychologists, anthropologists, artists, spiritual explorers and many others, thus opening the field to a much broader movement.
International growth
International Conferences have been held in Russia (1991), India (1995), Copenhagen (2004), Montreal (2008). Regional Associations are emerging in the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel and elsewhere. Regional Representatives have been appointed, not only in North America, but also in Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland-Austria, Russia, United Arab Emirates, India, Japan, Chile, Australia, New Zealand.
Leading articles
Dr William Stimson, who teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Dreamwork at two universities in Taiwan, writes about “Those Unforgettable Dreams,” which have not only personal but also collective significance for others in our culture.
Dr Meredith Sabini, a Jungian Clinical Psychologist, who writes a regular column, opens the topic of “Intersubjective Dreaming,” to show how we dream not only of ourselves but also of others in our environment.