This is is your guide to dream centers, libraries, organizations, and other collective resources or collaborative projects dedicated to dreams and dreaming. If you know of other organizations which should be included, please contact The Dream Tree. For information on educational programs dedicated to dreams, visit The Dream Tree's Education page.
Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (BADG)
Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Its purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information. You can contact ASD at P.O. Box # 1592 Merced, Ca. 95341-1592. Phone: 1-209-724-0889.Visit the website at http://www.asdreams.org or E-Mail ASDCentralOffice@aol.com .
Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (BADG) Since 1985, the BADG has provided a forum for dream enthusiasts throughout the San Francisco Bay Area to meet, network, and share their dream related endeavors. In addition to scheduled meetings in members' homes, BADG sponsors local peer dream sharing groups and social gatherings such as summer picnics, costume balls, and annual winter holiday parties. It is an excellent way to meet new friends and colleagues.Members of BADG collaborate in other ways, such as guest presentations at each others' classes or groups, and in larger events, festivals and conferences. A directory of BADG members and affiliates is published and updated regularly. To join BADG or to get more information, contact Eric Snyder, 707) 824-9121 or email esnyder@sonic.net. or visit the website at http://www.dreamtree.com/badg
Dream Wheel is an educational center which seeks to foster appreciation and skills in the art and practice of dreamwork for citizens and professionals at home, at work, and in community life. The Dreamwheel offers workshops, trainings, and related events for lay people and professionals which are designed to support the development of dreamwheels (circles of dreamworkers), and the networking of resources among dreamworkers. The Dreamwheel also provides consultation and instruciton to individuals, businesses and organizations, to pre-existing and newly forming dream groups, and makes referrals to area dream groups and helping professionals. The Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742-3423. Email dreamwheel@compuserve.com, Telephone/fax 978-369-2634.
ONIROS : French Association
for the Study of Dreams
http://www.oniros.fr/accueil.html
Oniros is no longer publishing a Magazine, but the organization continues
to explore and use dreams for planetary sanity and peace. For more information,
contact Oniros, Chitry
Mont Sabot, 58190 Neuffontaines, France. Tel.: 33.3.86.24.86.41. Fax: 33.3.86.24.04.94.
Email: oniros@club-internet.fr
European Association for the Study of Dreams (EASD) exists to promote awareness and appreciation of dreams in the general public as well as within the scientific community.The EASD brings together a large range of people interested in the study of dreams, professional or other : analysts, artists, researchers, teachers, ethnologists, psychologists, lucid or ordinary dreamers, therapists, etc. Their activities include : · Organisation of a biennial European congress on dreams. · Computerrised databank of literature on sleep and dreams, in English and in French. · Training in onirology (the study of dreams). For more information, visit the website at http://www.oniros.fr/home.html , or contact c/o Alain Feld, 39 rue Henri Maus, BP 400 - Liège 1 Belgique Tél. : (32) 41 53 03 57.
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The Lucidity Institute is dedicated to the advancement of research on the nature and potentials of consciousness and to the application of the results of this research to the enhancement of human health and well-being. The Lucidity Institute, 2555 Park Blvd, Suite 2, Palo Alto, CA 94306-1919 Tel: 1-800 GO LUCID (465-8243) or +1 415-321-9969 Fax: +1 415-321-9967 Email: info@lucidity.com or visit the website at www.lucidity.com.
Nashville Dream Awareness Circle was established in September 1984, and began meeting in the homes of the members. In September 1995, they had outgrown that venue and made the decision to meet publicly. They arranged with Magical Journey Books to use their upstairs meeting room, and have been meeting there each Sunday (except holidays) ever since. While they have no membership fees, or requirements to buy anything, they do accept a voluntary "love offering" to help defray operating expenses such as room rental, advertising, printing and distributing flyers, and maintaining a membership database. "We practice a gentle form of dreamwork designed to help us explore the themes and issues in our lives that have been highlighted by our nightly dreams. In our group, not only is dream sharing always voluntary, but the person who had the dream is the final authority about the meaning of the dream for him or herself. Each dream is explored on its own terms, not made to fit a pre-existing theory. Our methods are chosen from most appropriate methods developed by psychologists and dream researchers worldwide, yet they can easily be learned and practiced by anyone whatever their background. This is not psychotherapy, and weare not affiliated with any other organization. We are a circle of everyday, ordinary people who have discovered the great value of working toward our potential in this extraordinary way, and we would be very pleased to have you join us in our adventure." For more information, e-mail Dreamgroup@Webtv.net or visit the website at: www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3780/
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Novato Dream Library & Archive Located in Novato, California, just 30 minutes north of San Francisco, this unique and expanding resource is a magnet drawing dreamworkers and dreamers from all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Europe. Holdings of over 1400 titles of dream-related books, audio and video tapes, theses, pamphlets and periodicals. Repository for dream articles, flyers, resumés, news clippings, cartoons, photos, sheet music, slides and art. P.O. Box 866, Novato CA 94948 USA. Phone (415) 898-2559, or visit the website at: http://members.aol.com/dreammzzz/ncdarch.htm
Toko-pa Turner,
Dream School (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). We are a non-profit community
organization dedicated to teaching and exploring the Dreamtime Mysteries through
several diverse disciplines including Jungian Psychology, Mythology, Tibetan
Dream Yoga, Shamanism, Bodywork and Art.We offer a number of services including
free lectures, dream workshops and private sessions with a dreamworker.Our
contact information:http://www.herownroom.com
dreamschool@herownroom.com. 416.588.5774
World Dream Congress On Saturday, July 13th, 1996, the final day of the Annual Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Conference XIII, 35 to 40 people from all over the Northern and Southern hemispheres gathered at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California, to begin a discussion of the proposed "World Congress" of national, regional, and language associations for the study of dreams, projected for sometime in the year 2000. The meeting was facilitated by the Reverend Jeremy Taylor, a co-founder and recent past president of ASD. Observers representing several other organizations interested in the study of dreams, including the European Association for the Study of Dreams (EASD), the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), and the International Association for Analytical ("Jungian") Psychology (IAAP), attended the meeting. There was unanimous support for the World Congress at the meeting. Discussion was wide-ranging and explored many of the complex issues involved in creating such an event. Concerns were also expressed, focussed in four areas: (1) the costs of attending such an assembly, (and the inevitable exclusion of some individuals and groups because of prohibitive expense), (2) the site for such a meeting, (and the specific process by which a decision on a site would/could be reached), (3) the desire to ensure that the program of such a meeting would/will be as inclusive as possible, and take particular care to include native and indigenous peoples as both presenters and participants, and, (4) the desire to coordinate any such assembly with the scheduled events planned by ASD, EASD, IAAP, and the other national, regional, and language associations for the study of dreams that are coming into existence, such as the new Dutch ASD that has been formed during the last year. Several possible sites for the World Congress were proposed and discussed including universities and major cities in the US, Canada, Europe, Central and South America, India, South Africa, and Australia. As the discussion unfolded, there was increasing enthusiasm generated for the idea of multiple conferences to be held at the same time all over the world, linked through simultaneous electronic satellite communications. The meeting closed with people volunteering to serve on an international Committee of Correspondence to carry the planning further, and with a unanimous resolution expressing "the sense of the meeting" to continue the formal dialogue, communication, and cooperation necessary to ensure the success of World Congress - 2000, directed to the governing bodies of ASD, EASD, and other interested organizations. Anyone interested in participating in the Committee should communicate their ideas to: Jeremy Taylor, 10 Pleasant Lane, San Rafael, CA 94901-5049 U.S.A. Phone: (415) 454-2793 Fax: (415) 455-0276 e-mail: ktaylor597@aol.com
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