Healing Power of Dreams

Founder’s Bios

Tallulah Lyons and Wendy Pannier are the originators of the Healing Power of Dreams Cancer Project for IASD.

Tallulah Lyons, M.Ed., has facilitated a weekly dream group at the Wellness Community in Atlanta, GA since 1999. She is also on the staff a new 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. In 2003, she made a presentation about her work with cancer patients at the first conference of the American Psychosocial Oncology Association. With Wendy Pannier, she presented a paper in 2005 on the IASD cancer project at IASD’s conference in Berkley, CA and a workshop at the IASD conference in Bridgewater, MA in 2006. She and Wendy will present their work at the IASD Conference in Montreal in July, 2008.

Wendy Pannier was President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams 2005-2006 and has served on the Board’s Executive Committee for the last six years.  She has worked with Montague Ullman, M.D. over the last 20 years, publishing a quarterly newsletter, Dream Appreciation, with him from 1996-2002, and has attended numerous leadership training seminars with him.  She has also studied a variety of other dream work modalities for the last 10 years.  Wendy has conducted dream workshops and groups at the Wellness Communities throughout the mid-Atlantic region since 1995.  She also has given workshops all over the world, including in Greece, Sweden and Bali.  She presented papers on their work with cancer patients at IASD’s conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004 and in Berkeley, CA in 2005 and a workshop at the IASD conference in Bridgewater, MA in 2006.

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. 

Rachel Norment, M.A. in Art Education, lives in Charlottesville, VA. She has facilitated dream groups since 1994 and is certified through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Work in California. She has had extensive training through several yearlong programs with the Group Dreamwork Training Institute in Virginia and at many conferences, including various ones sponsored by The Haden Institute and the Jungian-oriented Journey into Wholeness. 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. For many years she wrote a monthly newspaper column on dreams. As a professional watercolor painter, she is past president of the Virginia Watercolor Society and has exhibited widely and taught classes and workshops for more than 30 years. Her 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.

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.

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