Friday, September 11th, 2009
Are you fascinated by dreams? Curious what they mean and where they come from? Do you want to network with others who share your interests? If so, please join us Friday evening on September 25, 2009 from 7:00-9:00 PM at The Dream Institute of Northern California in Berkeley for the next meeting of the Open Forum, where people in the greater Bay Area gather to discuss the latest developments in this growing field. Those attending are welcome to share ideas, plans, and works-in-progress. Recent masters’ and doctoral projects on clinical and academic topics will be described, and possibilities for collaborative research will be explored.
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D who teaches dream studies at John F. Kennedy University and GTU and is a prolific author of books on dreams, and your SF Dream Research Examiner will be hosting this event.
Location: The Dream Institute of Northern California at 1672 University Avenue in Berkeley, CA 94703 at the historic Fox Commons.
Refreshments and conversation: 7-7:30 PM
Donation: $5-10
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Dreamscaping — New Techniques for Understanding Yourself and Others
Stanley Krippner (editor)
ISBN-10: 0737302682
An anthology of dream wisdom on the cutting edge of dreams and dreaming, featuring Oliver Sacks – Marie-Louise von Franz – Jeremy Taylor – Robert L. Van de Castle – Gayle Delaney – Richard Wilkerson – Robert Bosnak – Eugene Gendlin – Kelly Bulkeley – Montague Ullman – Stanley Krippner – Mark Waldman – Fraser Boa and many, many others! From the back cover of Dreamscaping: "We are such stuff as dreams are made of . . ." Since the time of Shakespeare, dreams have fascinated women and men, shaping the lives of professionals and nonprofessionals alike. But in the last few years, dreams have re-emerged as a potent grassroots force. Throughout this country and abroad, thousands of individual groups have formed to creatively experiment with their dreams: in therapeutic encounters, in cyberspace, in dream appreciation seminars, and in the literary and visual arts. Dreamscaping brings together world-renowned authorities on dreams, providing readers with innovative methods for working with themselves, their partners, and groups. In this anthology, you will learn how to better recall your dreams, decipher their hidden meanings, create imaginative dialogues with dream characters, construct dream diaries, understand recurring dreams and nightmares, and apply dream messages to your life. You will also learn how dreams can be used to process the final moments of life. Dreamscaping also explores the most recent developments in research and theory, showing how dreams can be used to diagnose brain disorders, explore the stages of death, and even provide scientific evidence of the reality of telepathy and other psychic phenomena. From chaos theory to the Internet, from spiritual awakenings to psychological insight, Dreamscaping reflects a changing landscape that is beginning to reshape social consciousness throughout the world.
Tags: dream anthology, Dreamscaping, Eugene Gendlin, Gayle Delaney, Jeremy taylor, Kelly bulkeley, Marie Louise Van franz, Mark Waldman, Montague Ullman, Oliver Sacks, Richard Wilkerson, Robert Bosnak, Robert Van de Castle, Stanley Krippner
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Dreamcatching: Every Parents Guide to Understanding and Exploring Children’s Dreams and Nightmares
by Alan Siegel and Kelly Bulkeley
Random House: Three Rivers
Press ISBN: 0517-88788-6
Dreamcatching is a practical and highly entertaining book that offers parents a user-friendly guide to the landscape of their children’s dreams and nightmares. Written by two renowned dream researchers and educators, this book uses more than 100 vivid dreams as examples to show parents how family dream-sharing can stimulate their children’s creative and emotional intelligence and enhance family communication. Exploring dreams can also help parents detect troubling anxieties and strengthen their children’s emotional resilience to meet life’s challenges and crises. Emphasizing creative approaches to exploring children’s dreams, Dreamcatching goes far beyond a simple how-to book and addresses broader issues such as creativity, child development, spirituality, violence in the media and society and more concrete issues such as nightmares and sleep disorders, and helping children recover from the psychological impact of grief, trauma and transitions. No other book gives parents such a trustworthy and psychologically sound introduction to the creativity and wisdom found in their children’s dreams. Some of the intriguing and useful learning experiences in Dreamcatcher include: · Understanding Common Dream Symbols such as Flying, Falling, Being Chased, Public Nudity, Failing Exams, Animals and Monsters. Find your family and your child’s personal meanings for common and recurring dreams. · Nightmare Remedies: How you can helping your child tame the demons of the night including monster and chase dreams, night terrors, recurring nightmares. Learn playful but effective techniques for overcoming nightmares and soothing the worries that go with them. · The Playful Creativity of Children’s Dreams: How dreams can be keys to opening children’s imagination and affirming their inner creativity. · First Aid for Crisis Dreams: Understanding and responding to children’s dreams following divorce, natural disasters, accidents, loss and grief, the birth or adoption of a sibling. · Dreams and the Spiritual Life of Children: Learn how dream sharing can help children become aware of their spirituality. A workbook, with step-by-step instructions for families on remembering and exploring dreams through many forms of drawing, painting, journal and story writing, drama and group and dream exhibits and fairs-complete with forms for keeping a dream catcher’s journal. For more information, please contact the authors: Alan Siegel, Ph.D.: 2607 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705. (510) 527 7929, email: Dreamsdr@aol.com or Kelly Bulkeley Ph.D., 226 Amherst Avenue, Kensington CA 94707 (510) 528 0226, email 76633.1555@compuserve.com, or visit the website at www.dreamcatching.com.
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