UPDATE AS OF MAY 14, 2020 (re: Covid-19)
Ashland IASD Regional Status: CANCELED.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has announced the cancellation of its Fall 2020 season, previously scheduled to begin September 8, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At a press conference on May 7, Oregon’s Governor Kate Brown announced that “large gatherings, including live sporting events with audiences, concerts, festivals, and conventions, will not be able to return until at least the end of September, and not until a reliable treatment or prevention like a vaccine is available.”
If you have registered for A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gathering in Ashland, Oregon, you will be refunded by June 1. If you wish to donate all or part of your fees to IASD, please contact Richard Wilkerson at office@asdreams.org
Although this cancelation is very sad for all of us, we look forward to seeing you in Ashland in 2021 for the IASD International Conference. This year, we hope to see you online at IASD’s Special June Online Offerings, the Dream Study Groups Program in September, and the Worlds of Lucid Dreaming conference in October.
UPDATE as of March 27, 2020 (re: Covid-19)
Ashland Regional Status: Postponed.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has made a public announcement that they plan to reopen Sept. 8 for two months with only a handful of shows, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Many other shows from the season have been canceled. Click here to read the announcement from OSF. It is our intention to reschedule the IASD Regional, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Gathering” for late September or early October, dates still TBD as the show dates have not been posted yet by OSF. Stay tuned for more updates on the homepage of the IASD website, and on the Ashland regional website!
Dreamers, Faeries, Beloveds, and Rustics! IASD and Hosts Angel Morgan, PhD (Ashland, OR) and Kelly Bulkeley, PhD (Portland, OR) invite you to join us in Ashland, Oregon for this 1 day regional gathering that includes 1 evening of the OSF show A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ticket included in registration price). After an opening faerie ceremony, introductions, and dinner out with friends, you will see the play as a group on Saturday night. Then Sunday, immerse yourself in an enchanting morning filled with optional morning dream groups, a panel with A Midsummer Night’s Dream artists from OSF, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream symposium. After a delicious lunch in Ashland, explore your dreams creatively in afternoon workshops inspired by themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, then after dinner conclude the day with a magical walk in Lithia Park.
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Program
Saturday, Date TBD, 2020
5:00pm – Sign in at Hidden Springs
Opening Faerie Ceremony
Optional sign up for morning dream groups.
5:30pm – Welcome & Introductions: Angel Morgan and Kelly Bulkeley
6:00pm – Dinner at local restaurants
8:00pm – OSF’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sunday, Date TBD, 2020
Hidden Springs
8:00am – 9:30am (optional; sign up Saturday at 5:00pm)
Morning Dream Groups:
Marcia Emery, PhD - Intuitive Dream Interpretation
Intuition is the deepest wisdom of the soul and can comb through the dream to provide instant understanding. Participants will discover how they are wired for intuitive receptivity and then learn how to use intuitive techniques to interpret individual symbols. Dr. Marcia Emery’s Dreamshift Process will be used to decode the entire dream. In small groups, Members will then intuitively interpret their dreams.
Isaac Taitz, PhD - Listening to the Dream: Characters, Script, and All
We will investigate dreaming and waking life parallels in an approach based on the Carl Rogers’ client-centered therapy. Interpretations in any form are discouraged as we are utilizing a more humanistic approach, and because the interpretations reveal more about the interpreter than about the dreamer. Even the dreamer is not encouraged to use interpretative methods. The group will learn to ask open-ended questions to stimulate the dreamer to think about the links between the dream (emotions, cognitive patterns, and the ways the dream ego and characters acts) and current waking life issues and inter/intra-personal patterns. After working with the dream, group members can share their own thoughts and feelings connected to the dream’s topics.
9:30 – 10:00 Break
10:00am - 10:45am: Conversation with OSF’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream artists (Kelly Bulkeley and Bernard Welt, moderating)
11:00am – 12:00pm: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Symposium (1 CE Credit*)
11:00 – 11:20am: Kelly Bulkeley, The Dark Magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This play tells a brilliant version of an archetypal story about the metaphysical paradox of dreaming: how can we ever know for sure if we are waking or dreaming? This presentation will consider Shakespeare’s portrayal of dreaming as a dynamic arena for love, creativity, and the psyche’s journey to wholeness.
11:20 – 11:40am: Bernard Welt, Interpretations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The very structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a shared dream, addressing sex and gender, family and society. Each new interpretation must address the Dream’s central question as its own moment requires: Shall we settle for what the world presents us with or follow our dreams?
11:40 – 12:00pm: Angel Morgan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Bridging
How does the process of Dream-Bridging relate to themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? In preparation for this afternoon’s workshop, Beyond Titania’s dream Drama, background is given in this presentation from Gestalt psychology, Psychodrama, Improvisational dream theater, Lucid Dreaming, the Dream – Acting connection, and themes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Lunch out at local restaurants
1:30pm – 5:30pm, IASD Experiential Workshops
1:30 – 2:45pm
Beyond Titania’s Dream Drama (1 CE Credit*)
Angel Morgan
Some concepts from Dr. Angel Morgan’s presentation A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Bridging will take the stage in the Skylight Room’s ‘theatre-in-the-round.’ You will learn how to bridge dreams into theatrical form in this playful, experiential workshop. With elements from Gestalt psychology, Psychodrama, and Improvisational Dream Theater, volunteer dreamers will cast, direct, and if they wish, act within their dream ‘scenes’ with Dr. Morgan’s assistance. The dreamer calls the shots. You will also learn when and how to creatively, intuitively rewrite and redirect parts of the dream ‘script’ in the service of insight, health, healing, and wholeness. For All.
3:00 – 4:15pm
Puck’s Dramatic Dream Drawing Magic
Walter Berry
Just like A Midsummers Night Dream our dreams ride that fine line betwixt and between the world of the fairies and the world of assumed reality. In this workshop we will invoke the spirit of Puck as we weave our way down into the magical world of dreams. We will do that by choosing a dream from the group then draw it and work it using archetypal projective dream work in order to see what magic appears not only in the work, but on the paper itself. When we draw our dreams, a bit of that magical fairy dust from the unconscious floats up and appears on the paper. And for further magic to appear, we will act out this magical dream via dream theater. For All.
3:00 – 4:15pm
Dream Conversation in the Faerie Garden with Dr. Krippner
Stanley Krippner
4:30 – 5:30pm
Fairy Dust Fluidity of Dreams
Devi Prem
Take your dream and apply fairy dust. How would your dream morph and shift if you had magic capacities? Take the learning from this weekend and the magic of Shakespeare and apply it to your chosen dream. Imagine this as a lucid dream experience in which you are fully conscious and can freely move your body to change your dream with the support of fairy dust. This workshop is an embodied experience using imagination, movement, and sound.
4:30 – 5:30pm
A MSND Dramaturgical Conversation in the Faerie Garden with Dr. Welt
Bernard Welt
You’ve seen the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production. You’ve heard from the artists. Now is your chance to talk back to the Dream. We will look at the play as dramaturgs do: exploring its themes, in the context of Shakespeare’s time and of our own; and what it makes of dreams--in its plot, imagery, and direct statements. We’ll compare the play to our own dreams and consider our dreams in the light of the play, asking: What does it mean to be in a dream, to share a dream, to learn from a dream?
5:30pm – Closing Faerie Ceremony
6:00pm – Dinner at local restaurants
7:00pm – (Optional) Walk in Lithia Park
Attendees interested in also seeing OSF’s Peter and the Starcatcher Sunday at may purchase their tickets directly from OSF’s Box Office.
Presenter Bios
Walter Berry, MA (Los Angeles, CA) is a certified dream facilitator and a member of the board of directors of the IASD. His work on dreams has a special emphasis on the visual, shown in his soon to be released book Drawn Into The Dream. He leads a weekly dream group in Los Angeles.
Kelly Bulkeley, PhD (Portland, OR) is a psychologist of religion focusing on dreams. He is Director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), Senior Editor of the journal Dreaming, and former IASD president. His books include Lucrecia the Dreamer (2018), Big Dreams (2016), and Dreaming the World’s Religions (2008).
Marcia Emery, PhD (Ashland, OR) is a psychologist, pioneer in the field of applied intuition, intuitive consultant, and former professor. She blends the study of intuition and dreams in her three published books. Marcia is a former board member of IASD and was one of the experts on the Dream Decoders TV show.
Stanley Krippner, PhD (San Rafael, CA) is a former IASD president, professor, and pioneer in the study of consciousness. He has conducted research for over 60 years in the areas of dreams, hypnosis, shamanism, and dissociation, from a cross-cultural perspective with an emphasis on anomalous phenomena that question mainstream paradigms.
Angel Morgan, PhD (Ashland, OR), is IASD President, a dream psychologist, interdisciplinary artist, author, the founder and director of Dreambridge, and Global PhD adjunct professor at ITP/Sofia University. Her most recent book is Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: A New Lucid Dreaming Classic For Children and Parents of the 21st Century.
Devi Prem (Ashland, OR) is a PhD candidate in psychology at Sofia University. Her years of experience as a workshop facilitator and Soul Essence Coach, uplifting clients in personal transformation, is added by supporting peers to incorporate spirituality into their work. She has analyzed dreams since the age of 10.
Isaac Taitz, PhD (Eugene, OR), is a Clinical Psychology Resident at Strong Integrated Behavioral Health. At his first IASD conference in 2011, he presented his honors thesis on lucid dreams in depression, which later won the 2012 Student Research award. His research focus is researching clinical applications for dreaming.
Bernard Welt, PhD (Takoma Park, MD), Professor Emeritus at The Corcoran College of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University, writes frequently on dreaming and the arts. He is a Contributing Editor of DreamTime and co-author with Phil King and Kelly Bulkeley of Dreaming in the Classroom.
*The International Association for the Study of Dreams is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IASD maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Image from OSF website www.osfashland.org
