Healing Power of Dreams

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Tallulah Lyons, M.Ed., is the co-founder with Wendy Pannier of the Healing Power of Dreams Project for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD).

She has facilitated a weekly dream group at the Wellness Community in Atlanta, GA since 1999. She is also on the staff of Cancer Wellness Center at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital. She is certified in dream work through the Haden Institute. Tallulah has written numerous articles about dreaming and dream work, and is the author of Dream Prayers: Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path and soon to be published, Dream Imagery for the Healing Journey.

Tallulah is a member of the summer faculty for the Haden Institute summer dream conference. She presented papers or workshops at the IASD annual conferences with Wendy Pannier from 2005-2009, and a workshop, Dream Medicine, with Rachel Norment in 2010.

 

Wendy Pannier has been conducting workshops and groups with cancer patients and their loved ones for more than 15 years.  A past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) 2005-2006, she has served on the Board’s Executive Committee for more than a decade in various capacities.  Her work with Montague Ullman, M.D. over more than 20 years shaped her understanding of dream appreciation and the power of group dream work.  She has also studied a variety of other dream work modalities for the last 15 years.  Wendy conducted dream workshops and groups at The Wellness Communities (now Cancer Support Communities) throughout the mid-Atlantic region from 1995-2010 and is now working with the organization's communities in the Midwest.  She has given workshops all over the world and is also a frequent workshop leader and speaker with Tallulah Lyons on their work with cancer patients at IASD’s international conferences.

New Facilitators—2006

Zoe Newman: Zoe Newman, LMFT, M.A. Clinical Psychology and M.A. Transpersonal Counseling, is a psychotherapist in Berkeley, CA, where she has been leading dream groups for the last 16 years.  She is also a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie.

In her work with individuals and groups, she draws on dreams and waking dreams as part of the healing journey.

She has presented at several IASD conferences, published in Psychological Perspectives and other journals, and has written a book on using dream work approaches as a healing resource for waking life challenges-- Lucid Waking: Using Dreamwork Principles to Transform Everyday Life.  www.lucid-waking.com.

Rachel Norment, M.A. in Art Education, is certified as a Dream Work Facilitator through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work in California. She has facilitated ongoing dream groups since 1995. She gives talks and conducts workshops on dreams and creating mandalas.

A professional watercolorist, teacher, and past president of the Virginia Watercolor Society, she combines her passion for dreams with art through various processes for creating personal dream mandalas.

While drawing and/or painting images emerging from their dreams, dreamers may become aware of emotions and/or situations that can lead to insights, ones that can guide them toward a better understanding of themselves, that might suggest approaches to their situations that can be healing in mind, body, or spirit. Rachel has co-facilitated workshops on dream mandalas with Tallulah Lyons at conferences of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and the Haden Institute.

A breast cancer survivor, Rachel is the author of Guided by Dreams: Breast Cancer, Dreams, and Transformation, in which she describes how knowledge gained through dream interpretation guided many of her decisions during treatment and recovery. The book also illustrates several different approaches to working with one’s dreams.

Her watercolor painting, “Radiation Therapy,” which is part of the cover design on her book, was exhibited in the 1997 Fall Institute Art Exhibit at the Annual Meeting of Oncology Nursing Society in Washington, D.C. This mandala painting has also been featured in The Mandala Workbook by Susanne F. Fincher.

Many of her essays on dreams and mandalas have been published in the national journal Dream Network and a regional monthly newspaper, Echo. Additional information about her work, including some of her essays, can be found on her web site: www.expressiveavenues.com.

She resides in Greensboro, NC

Janet McCall, an art historian from Pittburgh, PA., recently retired as Executive Director of the Society for Contemporary Craft, a nationally known art gallery/education center in Pittsburgh. Janet has recorded and studied her dreams for many years, and in 1985 she began combining her interests in art and dreams by creating illustrated daily dream journals.  Eventually she brought her passion for dreams into her professional work, overseeing the creation of a community outreach program, The Dreaming Pillow, in which children at homeless shelters create fabric pillows of their dreams. In 2004, she curated the traveling exhibition, “Perchance to Dream,” and also supported IASD in holding a regional conference, “Dreams, Art and Healing,” at the gallery. Janet has presented talks on “Dream Journaling as a Creative Process” and will be a participant in the panel presentation, “Dreams and Guidance: Journal Keepers Report” at the 2006 IASD conference. She is also the curator for the art exhibit for the 2006 IASD conference.

Nancy Huslage, MA is an Interfaith minister, spiritual teacher and dreamworker. She was trained in dream work at Haden Institute, the Chaplaincy Institute, and holds a certificate from the Marin Institute of Projective Dreamwork.

She has been leading dream groups and helping individuals work with their dreams professionally for 16 years. Jungian in her approach , Nancy uses art, dream theater, and projective techniques to help her clients uncover the meaning of their dreams.

Each year, she does extensive training with hospital chaplains and candidates for ordained ministry, teaching them to use dreamwork with their patients and and in their congregations.

As a former Hospice chaplain, she has worked with many patients as they make their final journeys. Conversations about their dreams often deepened her patient’s spiritual experience.

Currently, she is exploring the role of dreams in the grieving process.

She resides in Raleigh, NC

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