Exploring the Dreaming Mind: A Creative Approach

Presented by Fariba Bogzaran, PhD on 10-12-2012 at 9 a.m. Pacific to 10:30 a.m. Pacific (1:30 p.m. Eastern)

The dreaming mind presents a vast range of experiences that cannot be reduced to a simple theory or a method. Such complexity of the mind presents a challenge within therapeutic sessions.

This Web Conference will explore the architecture of sleep and the different types of dream experience ranging from normative/ordinary to extraordinary dreams. Dr. Bogzaran will also discuss the more common assumptions behind dream interpretation.

Dr. Bogzaran will present ways to approach dreams from a creative and holistic view called Integral Dream Practice (IDP). Using principles of IDP, participants will have an opportunity to learn how to approach dreams within the proper context of their own therapeutic practice.

This Web Conference is designed to help clinicians:

  1. Identify different types of dreams and how to approach them;
  2. Examine the philosophy of dream practice, the common assumptions about dream interpretation, and the ethics of dreamwork;
  3. Explore different modalities to approach dreams;
  4. Apply creative methodologies to one dream to gain insight.

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1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

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Meet the Presenter

Fariba Bogzaran, PhD

Fariba Bogzaran, PhD

Fariba Bogzaran, PhD, a scientist and artist, founded the Dream Studies program at JFK University in Berkeley, California where she is currently a faculty member. She also developed over six university graduate courses on dream studies including Sleep, Dreams and States of Consciousness; Lucid Dreaming; Dreams and Creativity; Dreams and Shamanism, and others. The International Association for the Study of Dreams recognized Fariba for her distinguished contribution.

She conducted the first major scientific research project on the spiritual experiences in lucid dreaming in the 1980s (Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State, UMI, 1989) and a phenomenological studies of visual vocabulary in transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming (Images of the Lucid Mind, UMI, 1996). She was the recipient of a grant from the Institute of Noetic Sciences for her innovative post-doctorate research, which resulted in the development of an interdisciplinary consciousness and art movement called Lucid Art (Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity, Human Sciences Press 2003).

Since 1984, she has trained students, psychologists and psychiatrists in creative methods of dream awareness in Canada, Asia, Europe and United States. Among her academic publications are Extraordinary Dreams and how to work with them (SUNY Press, 2002) and Integral Dreaming: A Holistic Approach to Dreams (SUNY Press, 2012). For more information, please visit her here.

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  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0395.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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