I am a ABPP clinical diplomate, Board Member of IASD, past president of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, “Imagination, Cognition and Personality,” book review editor, and author of “Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Traumas of Childhood Through Dreams, Imagery and Hypnosis (Baywood, 2002.)

I have been actively involved with IASD for five plus years, have presented four conference workshops and written a book review for Dreaming. I am currently on the IASD Board, filling in for someone who had to resign, and looking forward to actively participating in the Montreal conference, leading a morning dream group.

As a candidate for the Board, I understand and will support the duties of a Board member. I will continue to contribute to IASD through my belief in the power of dream work and in my writing. I will continue to contribute to the conferences in presenting workshops and to the Association in any way I can, through committee work and assisting in conference planning.

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Ernest Hartmann, M.D., Massachusetts, USA

Ernest Hartman is the author of nine books, most recently Dreams and Nightmares, and about 325 articles in professional journals. He is a Past President of IASD and was the first Editor-in-Chief of Dreaming. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.

I am honored to be asked to serve on the Board of IASD. I have been a member of IASD since 1985, and have attended all but one of the yearly meetings since then. I have served on the board once before, so I am very familiar with the duties of a board member. Based on my many years of doing research on dreaming and related topics, I have especially emphasized and encouraged the "Study" portion of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. I have encouraged many researchers to join IASD and to present papers at the IASD meetings. I am currently serving, and will be happy to continue serving as a reviewer for the IASD-Dream Research Foundation grants, and for the Student Research Award.

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Dr. Deborah Hickey is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, a registered Play Therapy Supervisor, serves as President of the South Carolina Association for Play Therapy, and has been a member of IASD for twenty years. Dr. Hickey is a Core Faculty in Counselor Education with Capella University, and practices at The Mindgarden.

I acknowledge that I understand the duties of board members. I have been a member of IASD for twenty years. I have attended multiple conferences, presenting through both workshops and contributing to panel presentations. Of note is the fact that I orchestrated an IASD Art exhibit in 2000. I plan to help organize a southeastern regional conference; continue to represent the IASD organization through presentations and other venues; and I plan to become more involved in at least two committees. This year, I will be co-directing registration at the Montreal Conference. I also hope to co-host an IASD annual conference in the Southeast in the not-too-distant future!

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http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/deborah_hickey.html

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Tom Lane, LPC, D.Min., North Carolina, USA

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, a Certified Reality Therapist, and have been credentialed as a Certified Diplomate of The American Psychotherapy Association. I am a trained Spiritual Director, an ordained Presbyterian Church (USA) Minister and I hold a Doctor of Ministry degree. I am the founder of Journey Conferences www.journeyconferences.com .
I first joined The International Association for the Study of Dreams in 2002 and began attending conferences. I was hooked! Increasingly, I have come to value the IASD community. I believe I understand the Board duties and would like to help catalyze, if the board deems desirable, an IASD Distance Learning Program through The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. I intend to support the planning of a North Carolina IASD conference, if the way is clear, and also to provide opportunities, where feasible, for IASD members to provide workshops at the annual Journey Conference in NC -- a conference designed "to explore and further the conversation of Christianity and other faiths with the work of C. G. Jung in order to foster health and wholeness in ourselves and in our world."

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I am the editor of IASD’s E-News, a regional Membership Committee representative, and host for the 2009 annual conference. I am also the Interim Co-Director of the Dream Studies Certificate Program at Saybrook Graduate School, teach Biopsychology of Sleep at Northcentral University, and am creator of Psychology of Dreams and Dreaming at Southern California University.

I have been the IASD E-news editor since June, 2006. Since that time the E-news team has taken the E-News from a plain monthly email message to a colorful online newsletter replete with photos and artwork. This year I also took part in the Psiberdreaming conference as an online monitor. At the 2007 annual conference I presented a paper on “The Dream Reports of Animal Rights Activists.” I will also be presenting at the 2008 annual conference, where I will be chairing a panel discussion.

As a Board member I plan to attend all board meetings, either in person or by phone. I always try to answer email promptly from other IASD members and will continue to do this in the future. As the editor of the E-news I have my hand on the pulse of IASD and am able to keep abreast of all major IASD activities. I plan to work closely with all committees that are involved with annual conference coordination. In the past when I have presented talks on dreams in the Chicago area I have distributed IASD brochures. I will continue to do this in the future.

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http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/jacquie_lewis.html

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Lana Nasser holds an M.A. in Consciousness Studies/Dream Studies Certificate from JFK University. She is a Performing artist, writer, and ethnographic researcher. Lana has written articles for publication on dreams and dreaming, both academically and creatively. Born in Jordan, she now lives in the Bay area, working as an Arabic translator for Link TV in San Francisco.

My involvement with IASD began in 2005 with the annual conference in Berkeley. I volunteered, co-led a workshop ("From Dreams to Scenes: Transforming Night Fears Individually and Collectively"), and performed with the JFKU 'dreamlins' theatre group ("Oneiromancy of a Blue Screen"). After that, I was hooked. I attended the Boston conference (2006), where I again volunteered, performed solo ("Bridge: In Search of the Silent Violin") and won the student Award for Creative interpretation of a dream. I also hosted the IASD lecture series at the Dream Institute of Northern California in Berkeley. I took a break from volunteering at the Annual conference in Sonoma (2007) where I performed solo ("Dancing the Labyrinth") and directed and performed in the Culture Dreaming play. I am currently the volunteer-coordinator for the IASD conference in Montreal, where I plan to perform at the special event "Dreaming Without Borders on the World Dreams Peace Bridge." I have been an IASD member for the past two years.

Aside from continuing to promote IASD through conversations, speaking engagements, writing, and via my website, my intention as a Board Member is to serve as a liaison and help bring IASD to the Middle East/Arab world. This includes networking, building alliances, and hosting regional conferences. I am particularly interested in working with other Board members towards utilizing film and the performing arts as a medium to promote dreaming and the study of dreams. 

 IASD Member Page:

http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/member/files/lana_nasser.html

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I am 59 and live in Göteborg, Sweden, with my wife. One son and two daughters in their mid twenties, have left home. I am a psychologist and licensed psychotherapist. I like my work as a fulltime psychotherapist. I joined my first dream group with Monte Ullman 1982, and I have walked in his footsteps since then ! I am chairman of the Swedish Dream Group Forum.

I discovered ASD in the middle of the -90s and went to my first conference 1999. I have been a Board member for he last three years, and if elected for another period, I would work on developing IASD in Europe, e.g. by hosting a regional meeting in Göteborg the next year. I understand the Board duties.

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