Using language and characters accessible to all ages, this humorous rhyming tale illustrates ancient worldviews in historical and contemporary life challenges. Told from memory and lasting about 15 minutes, it is based on cycles of nature in the characters and in the world at large. Despite misadventures, its message is uplifting and transformational, and of course, dream-friendly!

Stephen DuPraw earned a master’s degree in traditional acupuncture while writing for children and adults as an avocation. He continues to write as he pursues an additional master’s in counseling psychology. He also offers supervised volunteer grief counseling under the auspices of a local hospice organization.

Invite your body to the Festival and meet your neighor too!

Opening celebration will be followed by an
interactive Psi Dreaming Experience. Together, we will telepathically “send a target image” to our remote receivers in hopes that they will dream of the image.

Results of the event will be announced Saturday night before keynote performance.

Dreams and callings have much in common. Both emanate from the unconscious, point to “true north” and away from the familiar, have consequences if ignored, and request a response. In this workshop, participants explore how dreamwork can help discern callings and how clarification of callings can draw on dreams to help discern and navigate those calls.

Gregg Levoy is the author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life and Vital Signs:The Nature and Nurture of Passion; a blogger for Psychology Today; former “behavioral specialist” at USA Today; has presented at the American Counseling Assn., Smithsonian, National Conference on Positive Aging, Microsoft, Esalen & Omega; written for the NY Times Magazine, Washington Post, and appeared on ABC-TV, CNN, NPR and PBS.

Songs of the Way is an interactive offering of sound, vision and song incepted in dream and developed using Dreamcrafting techniques. The songs and visuals presented are prayers of praise, petition, and participation. Performed live, Songs of the Way is a unique union of healing and performing arts that closes with an old fashioned style sing along.

Susan Ackerman Joseph (SackJo22) is a somatic practitioner, teacher, and multi-media artist who offers unique guidance for psycho-spiritual growth and development. In her work with individuals and groups, Susan generously shares what she has learned along her way as a somatic practitioner, an MFT, and as a student of our deepest wisdom as revealed in dreams, symbols and nature.

Angela Grillo is a DreamCrafter, dream reader, dream yogi, artist, and maker-producer of performance. She currently creates transformational workshops and performance based projects using dreams as the main source of inspiration for content and development. Angela holds an MFA in Theatre-Performance Making with her thesis in DreamCrafting

In both dreams and waking life, inner voices may be perceived as an internal message or even an external voice. These experiences have clarity, wisdom, and an unforgettable quality of the numinous. We’ll explore these helpful gifts of dreaming with true stories of personal Inner Voice of Wisdom experiences.

Jane E. Carleton, MA, GG, specializes in dreams as a personal advisor, educator, and workshop leader. She holds graduate degrees in both Dream Studies, and Consciousness and Transformative Studies from JFK University and has taught dream courses as adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Jane is also a professional gemologist/jewelry appraiser with over thirty-five years of experience.

During “Dreaming into Creativity,” the presenters of PRAYER: Songs of the Way, Angela Grillo, MFA (Dreamcrafting), and Susan Ackerman Joseph, MFT (Somatic Resonance) will share more about  their unique integrative approach to working with dreams and other unconscious material as a reservoir of creative inspiration and personal resource

Susan Ackerman Joseph (SackJo22) is a somatic practitioner, teacher, and multi-media artist who offers unique guidance for psycho-spiritual growth and development. In her work with individuals and groups, Susan generously shares what she has learned along her way as a somatic practitioner, an MFT, and as a student of our deepest wisdom as revealed in dreams, symbols and nature.

Angela Grillo is a DreamCrafter, dream reader, dream yogi, artist, and maker-producer of performance. She currently creates transformational workshops and performance based projects using dreams as the main source of inspiration for content and development. Angela holds an MFA in Theatre-Performance Making with her thesis in DreamCrafting.

This presentation offers a personal account of the use of Parts Theory together with active imagination to compassionately explore thoughts, motives, feelings and needs of dream elements and their interrelationships. This process can aid the dreamer in releasing unresolved internal issues that block the freedom of the core being, enhancing one’s ability to live more authentically in the worldces.

Jennifer Choate has a lifelong involvement with her dreams and has done dream work since 1988, encompassing both experiential and projective approaches.  She has studied intensively under various teachers, offered one-on-one experiential work, and led groups. Jennifer was a founding member of The Festival of Dreams (formerly the Dream Caravan).  She is a semi-retired physician of internal medicine, hematology and oncology, a wife and mother of three adult sons.

Lucid dreaming is one of the most exciting ways to explore the full nature of who you are as well as the frontiers of consciousness. This workshop briefly covers the science and psychology behind lucid dreaming and explores methods of incubating lucid dreams. Participants share examples, experiences, questions, and tips, and discuss practical applications, including psychological and physical healing.

Robert Hoss, MS is a director and past president of IASD, Director of the DreamScience Foundation for research grants, and faculty member of the Haden Institute. He is author/editor of Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture (2019) and Dreams That Change Our Lives (2017) and is author of Dream to Freedom (2013) and Dream Language, 2nd ed. (Free download on www.dreamscience.org). His work is published in 8 other books and 4 journals.

Each night we experience another world and an ancient, symbolic language that is as unique as our fingerprints. Who is visiting? Why have they come? In this workshop, we explore how dream images have body, presence and pulse, and learn skills for dream animation, active imagination, and Dream Council as a way to deepen the relationship with these figures.

Claudia DeBorde has an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and is a credentialed teacher. She has studied Dream Tending with Stephen Aizenstat Ph.D. for 25 years and is currently assisting with the Certification I & II programs.

Experience the synergy of group dreamwork using standard techniques of projection and active imagination combined with Lisa’s unique approach of accessing the energy of the moon for guidance and insight. Discover the potency of working with dreams and the moon together, cultivating the dreamer’s connection to their own wisdom, intuition, and inner knowing.

Lisa Hines, MA, Dream Teacher and Certified Life Coach (LisaHines.com), shares her lifelong passion for dreamwork, combining traditional techniques with a unique approach of incorporating the moon phases into the dreamer’s experience. Lisa’s approach cultivates active imagination, creativity, and intuition for inner knowing, emotional well-being, and personal growth. Lisa holds a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University, formerly ITP.

People at the end of life often have dreams or visions that bring comfort and help prepare them for death. Though important and impactful, these experiences are often sidelined, not explored or even validated. How to understand the gifts inherent in such dreams and visions? How to respond? We will touch into the mystery, grace and teachings such experiences offer.

Savarna Wiley, MA, CCHT has worked as a hospice chaplain and end-of life educator since 1998. She maintains a private practice in the Santa Cruz area drawing on art therapy, transpersonal psychology and hypnosis.  A “trance weaver,” Savarna has taught advanced hypnotic modalities for The Newton Institute and has been a conference presenter and author in the field of consciousness

Have you ever felt the spirit of a place? If so, how did it transform you? Through personal dream experiences living in the Santa Cruz Mountains, along with research on sacred sites, Linda Mastrangelo will explore how the frequency of place affects our state of consciousness and brings wisdom in profound ways.

Linda Mastrangelo, MA, LMFT is an educator, artist and psychotherapist with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay area specializing in grief and dreamwork. She has presented her work on dreams internationally and for numerous publications, including as a contributor for Sleep Monsters and Superheroes. Linda is adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University and serves on the Board of Directors for IASD.  You can visit her website at lightningtreetherapy.com

“What’s the most surprising moment in your dream?” invites us into a rabbit hole that leads to a Wonderland of meaning beneath our conscious mind. In this workshop we’ll experiment in dyads with the surprising moments and unique elements in our dreams. Then Dr. Brown will guide the gradual revelation of unique meaning in one or two participants’ dreams, in search of wisdom and potential guidance for both the individual dreamer and the group participants.

Norman Brown has PhDs in Humanities/Literature and Psychology and has provided dream-guided couple and individual therapy and facilitated men’s growth groups for over 40 years. He published an advanced college textbook on love relationships in 2000 and has developed detail-focused refinements of Jungian dreamwork since the 1990s.

Projective dream work is a democratic method in which group members all participate in suggesting interpretations to help create the dream’s meaning. In this experiential group based in the Ullman method, we will use the projective approach, drawing upon Jungian principles and archetypes to provide participants with in-depth dream work. We will work at least two dreams and everyone in the group will learn how to contribute to the interpretations.

Marsha Hudson, Ph.D. has led dream work groups and workshops in Santa Cruz for over 18 years. She is a certified dream work facilitator and gestalt practitioner and holds a doctorate in comparative literature. She is the founder of the Dream Forum, a regional dream community, and is chief editor of The Berkeley Literary Women’s Revolution.

A Tarot reading uses symbols to help unlock the unconscious mind. When we combine Tarot with a dream, a conversation emerges between Tarot and dream symbols, allowing us to journey deeper into the dream. In this workshop, we will work with participants’ own dreams using this method. No experience with the Tarot is necessary. Please bring a short dream and, if possible,  a Tarot deck (any deck can be used).

Judy Dale has been interested in the information we get from images all of her life – thus the name of her website: insightsthroughimages.com.  She began looking at her own dreams with a Jungian analyst and studying the Tarot in the 1980s. Judy’s educational background includes an M.A. in Education, an M.B.A., and studies in the Transformational Art program at JFK University.

Although a dream report involves selective focus and insufficient language to describe novel images, it is the selected content of the report itself that shines light on the dreamer’s concerns and preoccupations. This presentation will show that a close reading of dream reports for both literal statements and symbolic imagery offers a fresh approach to exploring what is being mirrored back to us about concerns and preoccupations as well as suggested courses of action and solutions to problems.

Patricia Kilroe is a professor of Writing & Literature at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA, where she has taught a course on dream studies since 2012. She has been working with and writing about language and rhetoric in dreaming for two decades.

A key function (or consequence) of sleep and dreaming may be to nurture instincts in animals or intuition for humans by perceiving future information. We present new evidence that a small fraction of dreams are precognitive and propose that identity is shaped by memories of both our past and our possible future life experiences encountered in dreams. We study possible correlates in physics and neuroscience, assess the evolutionary purpose, and comment on the significance for the individual.

Paul Kalas, Ph.D is an astronomer who searches for planetary systems around other stars using the most advanced telescopes in existence. He is an astronomy faculty member at UC Berkeley and has published a comprehensive book on precognitive dreaming called The Oneironaut.

This work explores the process of Active Imagination and the corresponding techniques that can significantly enhance work with dreams. The dialectical method will be presented with examples such as: note the dreams, choose an image for dialogue and then, with consciousness, in a state of full attention, invite the image to a dialogue.

Sonia Regina Lyra, PhD Post-Doctorate in Philosophy, PhD in Sciences of Religion, Master in Philosophy, psychologist, photographer, writer, director of ICHTHYS Institute of Analytical Psychology, teacher: Jung; Nietzsche; Cusa and Kierkegaard, researcher in active imagination: www.sonialyra.com.br. Jungian analyst, member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and member of IASD.

This workshop explores the synchronous confluence between the structure of fairy tales and dreams. Entering through a retelling of “The Sleeping Beauty,” we will explore how lifetime dreams serve as guides to awaken imagination and can be mirrored and embodied through art, music and dance.

Eva Rider MA, MFT is a Jungian Depth Psychotherapist, dream consultant and workshop leader. Her 35-year study in metaphysics incorporates the glyph of the Tree of Life as a foundation for her work integrating dreams with art, movement, and music using imagery from tarot, alchemy and fairy tale. Eva is a graduate of the Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training.  Eva Rider has taught Dreams, Jungian Theory and Myth as adjunct instructor at John F. Kennedy University, taught workshops internationally and serves on the Board of Depth Psychology Alliance.

Visitation dreams, in which we encounter a deceased loved one, are a profound phenomenon, and are often engaging and captivating. Visitation dreams can provoke questions about the nature of the dream world. Mascaro and Fenaroli appreciate visitation dreams in their personal lives, as well as honor clients’ visitation dreams in therapy. This workshop combines guided visualization, art-making, inquiry and discussion.

Kimberly R. Mascaro, PhD is the author of Extraordinary Dreams: Visions, Announcements and Premonitions Across Time and Place (2018), and has worked in the fields of mental/behavioral health and education for close to 20 years. She is a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT), dreamworker, artist, and blogger at www.consciouschimera.com 

Chris Fenaroli, LMFT, has been a mechanical engineer, a kindergarten teacher, and is now a mental health therapist. He works with children, teens and families at a mental health clinic in Concord, CA, specializing in trauma and attachment work. He has facilitated and participated in dream groups for 10 years.

Dreams are postulated to be a naturally evolved part of our emotional healing system, analogous to our immune system. By bringing the feelings and images of dreams into consciousness and bodily awareness, we enhance their transformative power. I encourage dreamers to slow down to explore feelings and associations to enhance their innate healing power. We will share dreams in dyads, practicing a non-judgmental, non-interpretive form of dreamwork.

Katherine Bell PhD (Santa Cruz, California), founder of Experiential Dreamwork, is a dream coach and has lead dream groups for 20 years. She founded the Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams, which is in its third annual incarnation and this year is also an IASD Regional Event. Katherine is a member of the IASD Ethics Committee and has a Certificate of Study in Embodied Dreamwork. Find her at ExperientialDreamwork.com

In this workshop, we will delve into nightmares, blending Jungian and somatic perspectives. Extracting from her Somatic Dream Expression™, dreamers and therapists who work with their patient’s dreams, will learn to “move” disturbing dream images, allowing the dreamer to safely face the fear, defuse dread, and experience even nightmares as supportive and transforming.

Laura Grace, Ph.D. candidate, is a Jungian practitioner in San Luis Obispo, CA and has taught over 200 programs on dreams. Her Somatic Dream Expression™ embodies the soma/psyche connection, emphasizing how dream images are alive in the body. Laura is completing her Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute and is author of Dreams: Soul-Centered Living in the 21st Century, A Depth Psychological and Somatic Approach to Transformation. www.lauragrace.net

Find out what our psychic dreamed about.  Did they get our message??

“I bring creative expression and poetic voice to my dreams, and my talks have the feel of a one woman show.  I combine storytelling, slam poetry, humor and images, for a cross-genre dream performance.  Discovering my unique dream voice is transforming my life, and I want to share it with the world.”

Katie Mason, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist who lives and works in Denver Colorado. She has a BA and an MA and has worked in mental health for over 12 years. In her experience, both with her self and with her clients, working with dreams can accelerate emotional and physical healing, unleash blocked creativity, and unlock the deepest wisdom you have. Katie says,  “I see therapy as the first steps to living an adventurous life, learning to make our own rules and not let our past hold us back from anything.”

​Find her at  http://counselingtherapistdenver.com/

Strut your stuff and follow Katie Mason out of the MAH and into the night for a quick gambol around the ‘Cruz dressed as your chosen Dream Character.  Embody your dream gift and let the dream move you.

The Dream Ball is a chance to dance and socialize while embodying a dream character that is meaningful for you.  We’ll have a live DJ spinning danceable tunes and animations playing on the wall on which to feast your eyes.  You can purchase beverages from Abbott’s Square right next door and bring them in for inhibition-reducing sipping.

A costume is not required, but you may find that by holding the intention of honoring your dream, the dream will reward you with a deeper experience of its message and a chance to try out a new or emerging aspect of yourself.