Dear blog friends,

We have been away from this blog too long and we often thought we should publish a little note to explain our prolonged absence.  Now that we have a bit more time, we want to share with you the latest news concerning our work with dreams.

 

Christiane’s comments

“ My conference this year at the symposium of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), required a huge amount of time for preparation from November 2010 on.

 

 

The first task, accomplished by Judith, was the translation of the French conference. I had to cut out many details of the text because I speak slower in English and I had to respect the allotted time. But the most arduous work for me was to correct my thick French accent.

Going over the text numerous times with Judith, my English teacher, finally helped me to manage it. 

As all the required prepations before the Congress worried me a lot, I was comforted by a dream which told me that everything was OK.

                                                                                               

The symposium took place on the last week of June in Rolduc, Netherlands, near the German border. The magnificent building is an old abbey which has been converted into a hotel and congress center

                                                                                                                     

The four day symposium was a real success thanks to IASD’s admirable organizing committee.

There were approximately 200 presenters and co-presenters, who together with the attendees represented 30 countries from around the world.  This year’s theme being “Dreams and Cultural Diversity”, every attendee could choose according to his own interests among the presentations from so many different cultures.

 

 

I had the pleasure of meeting with the American researcher Dr Scott Sparrow, whose work guided me 35 years ago when I first started working with dreams.

 

Among so many interesting dream lovers I met Layne Dalfen, a Canadian analyst, who, like me, explains dreams on her blog.

It was also the ideal occasion to meet with Europeans who share the same passion for dreams. Here are only some of them.

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We will get together to pursue our common goal and spread the work with the dreams.  As members of the European chapter of the IASD, we have decided to initiate some activities: exchanges through Internet and a yearly meeting.  Harry Bosma, from Holland is our coordinator and he has created the site for our exchanges.

 

As for me, every morning from 8 to 9, I animated a dream group.  Working with a participant’s dream, I showed how to use the interview technique to find the meaning of the images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As to my conference “Loving and Sexual Scenarios in Dreams”, some people said : “ Interesting and funny !” I hope I invalidated some frequent prejudices linked to the interpretation of these images.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The congress closed with its traditional ball and the costume contest.”

   

 

 

 

 

 

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After those intensive days I had more work waiting for me upon my return.

(Oh my computer is bold... !)

 “ On the 8^th of July I had been invited by a local radio network to participate in a night program from midnight to 6 in the morning.  You heard me right.

 

I spoke about dreams and I interpreted live twelve submitted to me by the listeners. I withstood it for 41/2 hours and then went home…rather tired.  It took me two days to recuperate!

That night, while driving my car, guided by my GPS, I remembered with emotion a sentence I had heard in Rolduc :

“The most comprehensive TomTom navigating system and Internet explorer are found within yourself !” That sentence was spoken by the business man Jan H.Kieft in his remarkable conference “The Road to Enlightenment according to my Dream”.

  

 

And I ask : Where is it within yourself ? In your dreams, of course.

 

 

 

 

Then in the following two weeks I prepared the intensive five day dream interpretation training seminar for my students. It has just ended.

So now I am free to pursue the studies on the blog!”

 

Next time, we will resume the studies on dream incubation where we left off.

 

Christiane and Judith

 

                    

Illustrations

IASD logo : link on the left in the blue part of the blog

Painting : Dream and cultural diversity, by the artist Willem Fermont, Manager in the Netherlands Conference committee

Dr Scott Sparrow, pioneer in lucid dream and dream analysis, professor at the University of Texas

Layne Dalfen from Canada

Tony Hawkins from England “ Rooted in Reality, Informed by dreams, Born of the Infinite”

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Anita Leuthold from Swizerland, dream analyst

Anne Marie Gabella from Switzerland leads dream groups

Judith with Ghazaal Bosorgmehr from Iran, specialist of dreams in Iran literature with Jung’s psychological approach.

Harry Bosma, developing the dream research and exchanges on Internet

Sakira Lanting and Mark Thuring, psychologists in Netherlands, attending Christiane’s dream group

Christiane during the morning dream group

Christiane during her conference

Christiane and Judith, after the conference

Christiane and Brenda Ferrimani, American artist

Moon-Brenda and Sun in pleasant company

Richard Wilkerson, IASD web and office Manager

Curtis Hoffman, Professor of Anthroplogy and Archeology, also animates dream groups.

- Curtis disguised in baby

- Curtis looks like a Greek god