Sacred Soul, Sacred Calling
May 29 – June 2, 2024
Virtual and In-Person at Kanuga
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May 29 – June 3, 2024 – Five nights lodging. Departure after breakfast Monday, June 3. NOTE: Checkout time is no later than 10:00 am, Monday, June 3.
In-Person Format and Virtual Formats Available
- In person at Kanuga Conference Center
- Virtually on Zoom Events
Every participant will have access to keynote and workshop recordings as educational resources for 6 months after conference!
Cost
Conference Fee:
- $425 – in-person participant (plus room and board, if staying at Kanuga, or commuter fees if staying off-site – see pricing below)
- $375 – virtual participant
Kanuga Lodging: – includes all meals, Wednesday dinner through Sunday breakfast:
- Inn Single Occupancy: $187 per night
- Inn Double Occupancy: $170 per night
- Cottage Single Occupancy: $170 per night
- Cottage Double Occupancy: $154 per night
Commuter Rate:
- $25 per day Kanuga grounds fees.
- Meals of your choice:
- Breakfast – $10
- Lunch – $15
- Dinner – $20
Virtual Rate:
- $375
- No additional costs
Payment Schedule
Early Bird Discount: Register by October 31 and your conference fee will be reduced by $50! ($375 in person, $325 virtual) You’ll see the discount reflected in your deposit when you register.
Deposit: Due at registration to reserve your place
March 15, 2024: Conference Registration due in full (or upon receipt of invoice if registering after March 15):
Cancellation: Full Refund given (minus $100) if cancellation is before March 15.
April 15, 2024: Lodging due in full
Cancellation: Full refund for Lodging if cancellation is before May 15. (One night’s stay will be charged if cancellation is later).
You’ll Experience…
- Four Dream Group Sessions
- Five Workshop Sessions
- Nine Keynotes
- Transformative Music
and…
- A Concert by Our Musicians
- Supportive Community
- Going Deep into Your Unconscious
- Spiritual Transformation
- Labyrinth Walks and More…
Our spiritual challenge in today’s world:
As we face the often-overwhelming needs and existential crises in the world today, we are tempted to despair and to withdraw. Or, when our frustration reaches a breaking point, we take action…any action. However, social justice work done from a place of righteous anger is depleting and often harmful. Where do we find the energy and inspiration to engage? How do we discern what needs to be done and what is ours to do? How can we act from love rather than fear?
Why join us this summer?
Psychologist Carl Jung said “developing a conscious relationship with the unconscious will mitigate the negative effects of the unconscious.” Dream work, creative expression, contemplative practices, and individual and collective rituals help us on this journey of individuation. When we find work that is in alignment with our authentic Self, we are energized rather than exhausted. The keynotes, workshops, dream groups, creative expression, meditations, music, and community found at the Summer Dream and Spirituality Conference 2024 will inspire and guide us on this journey. We hope you will join us!
Allen Proctor, Director
Keynote Speakers
Toko-Pa Turner
Blending the mystical teachings of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreams, Toko-pa Turner is a Canadian author, teacher, and dreamworker. She founded The Dream School in 2001, from which thousands of students have since graduated. She is also the author of the award-winning book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and belonging through the lens of memoirs, mythology, and nature. Her work focuses on the relationship between psyche and nature, and how to follow our inner wisdom to meet with the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time. Order your copy of Belonging.
In her keynote, Toko-pa will speak to the knowing that there is a new world waiting to be realized through each of our lives, one individual at a time. In this keynote talk, Toko-pa explores Sophia – the feminine personification of Wisdom. We will discover how Wisdom is a way of naming the animating force behind all of life. By following Sophia’s guidance, as she appears in the symbols and patterns of our own dreams, we are brought into deeper accordance with the course of nature. Not only does this put us onto the path of personal purpose, but that purpose is relational. Following the Way of Wisdom we develop the aptitudes needed to navigate the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time.
Sometimes called a Midwife of the Psyche, Toko-pa’s work focuses on belonging, restoring the feminine, reconciling paradox, elevating grief, and facilitating ritual. It wasn’t until her late twenties that she returned to the mystical teachings of Sufism, and the study of dreams. She became deeply interested in the work of Carl Jung and did a three-year internship with the Jung Foundation of Ontario.
Out of the longing to share what she had been learning, she began to teach and support others with their dreams in her private practice, blending the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreamwork. Now, more than 20 years later, she has grown a network of more than a hundred thousand dreamers worldwide.In 2018, she fulfilled a life-long dream and released her first book, Belonging, which explores exile and the search for belonging through the lens of dreams, mythology, and nature. It went on to win several awards, including the 2018 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2018 Gold Readers’ Favorite Award, and the 2018 Silver IPPY. It was also a finalist in the 2018 Whistler Independent Book Awards and the 2019 Montaigne Medal in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Belonging has been translated into 10 different languages. Order your copy of Belonging. Learn more about Toko-pa on her website.
Chris Bache
How does a boy raised in the Deep South who became a professor of religious studies come to write a book about his 20 year journey with LSD? While attending the University of Notre Dame, studied widely, eventually majoring in religious studies, technically “theology,” with a focus on New Testament studies. He read Carl Jung and Mahatma Gandhi, who made a deep impression on him. Against the backdrop of Vietnam, he gave up guns and became a conscientious objector. By the time he graduated from college, he had left Catholicism.
Chris will present on his 20-year journey with LSD following Stanislav Grof’s protocol. In telling this story, he will present Jung’s four critiques of psychedelics, which helped Chris understand some of the experiences that surfaced in his own work. He will also offer explain which of the critiques, which didn’t work for some as well as they did for Chris, still hold and which ones fail in today’s psychedelic renaissance.
At Cambridge, his passion became the search for the historical Jesus. He learned the art of peeling away history with form criticism, redaction criticism, and textual criticism. The historical Jesus became his way out of Christianity, as Chris found in Jesus a depth of spiritual realization that was larger than Christianity.
At Youngstown State University he encountered the work of Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia and Stanislav Grof. He quickly saw that Grof’s work represented a turning point not only in psychology but in philosophy of religion as well. It allowed one to explore the deep structure of consciousness and experientially probe questions that philosophers have pondered for centuries.
At the California Institute of Integral Studies Chris served as adjunct faculty in the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness, teaching graduate students eager for the psychedelic conversation. Chris feels his psychedelic work was so central to his incarnation that everything in his life was calibrated to bring it into being. Much like James Hillman.
Chris is the author of four books: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven (2019), The Living Classroom: Teaching and Collective Consciousness (2008), Dark Night, Early Dawn: Step to an Ecology of Mind (2000), and Lifecycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life (1990).
Chris lives in in Weaverville, NC with his wife, Christina Hardy, who is a professional astrologer and past life therapist. Chris’ website is chrisbache.com.
Also Keynoting
Sheila Petruccelli
Sheila Petruccelli (she/love) holds sacred space as Director of Creative Embodiment for the Haden Institute by meeting with small groups, creating rituals for large groups and building altars everywhere she goes. Facilitating conversations around creativity (and the shame and obstacles that often accompany it), Sheila gently offers ways to tap the deep wellspring of authenticity she believes everyone possesses. During each in-person intensive, Sheila sets up an art studio on campus that is part enchanted cottage, part forgotten chapel and part her grandmother’s kitchen.
The “Creative Space” as it’s affectionately called, has become the place people come to navigate the liminal space between what they know and what they don’t know they know. She delights in helping others find expression for that emergent edge of growth that often defies language, encouraging exploration of the silent spaces before and beyond words. “Listen to your hands” is the best advice she’s got – echoing the truth Carl Jung spoke when he said “the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” With gifts for reading energy and interpreting images, Sheila bows before the unseen, the unknown and the unimaginable. She offers spiritual direction, dreamwork and astrological readings to clients in private practice. For irregular glimpses into her untamed and untrained artistic life, follow her on Instagram @sheila.petruccelli.
Fanny Brewster
Fanny Brewster, M.F.A., Ph.D., is an author of poetry and nonfiction, and a Professor in the Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her Masters degree in Creative Nonfiction was awarded by Goucher College. Dr. Brewster has worked as a Jungian analyst in private practice for over a decade. She lectures and presents nationally and internationally on topics related to African American Culture, Dreamwork, and Creativity.
Fanny will speak on how engagement with a life of integrity requires ego and Soul reflecting one another. How best can we experience our life’s purpose as the Soul’s call, reflecting our human and divine natures?
Dr. Brewster has twice received Gradiva Award Nominations for her writing from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). Her most recent book is Race and the Unconscious: An Africanist Depth Psychology Perspective on Dreaming. It engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundation mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming. Featuring crucial historical context, Jungian ad post-Jungian theory, clinical cases studies, and dream series interpretations, the book offers readers a rich framework for exploring and understanding the language, images, and symbols of African and African American dreamlife. Fanny has recently joined the faculty of the Haden Institute and is the author of The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race.
Chelsea Wakefield
Chelsea Wakefield, PhD, LCSW is a therapist, author, clinical educator, and the creator of The Luminous Woman® Weekend, an experiential retreat based on the work of Toni Wolff. She has been a grateful student of Jung for the past 25 years, continuing to learn what it means to live and love, guided by the inner compass of the deep Self. She is the author of three Jungian-oriented books, Negotiating the Inner Peace Treaty, an exploration of one’s “inner cast of characters” through dreamwork and shadow work; In Search of Aphrodite – an archetypal look at female sexuality through a Jungian lens; and the
Labyrinth of Love: the Path to a Soulful Relationship, which outlines a process of personal and interpersonal work that will lead lovers into the rich rewards of conscious relationship.
Becoming a Rainmaker in Challenging Times
Chelsea Wakefield will give a talk this summer based on one of Jung’s favorite stories – The Rainmaker. She will be speaking about the kind of individual work that will ripple out to heal the world, and what it means to establish “a center that can hold,” in these confusing and challenging times.
Bob Hoss
Robert Hoss, MS a Director and Past President of IASD; IASD Conference Director, directs the IASD/DSF (DreamScience Foundation) for research Grants; faculty trainer for the Haden Institute; board of the National Institute of Integrative Healthcare. He is: author or managing editor/author of Dream Language (Innersource, 2005-2014), Dream to Freedom (EP Press, 2013); Dreams that Change Our Lives (Chiron, 2017) and Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology and Culture (Greenwood, 2019);
a chapter author in eight other books including Working with Dreams and PTSD Nightmares (Praeger, 2016) and the Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams (Praeger, 2012); and is published in three professional journals. A frequent guest on radio and TV, he was host of the IASD DreamTime Radio series and has been an internationally acclaimed lecturer and/or instructor on dreams and dreamwork at various institutions, colleges and universities for over 40 years. He holds a Master of Science degree and has training and/or experience in Gestalt Therapy and various humanistic and contemporary dreamworking approaches. He was also a former scientist, and applied researcher, with four patents and a global corporate executive at both American Express and IBM. He retired early, however, to devote his science and management skills to dream studies. His Transformative Dreamwork protocol is based on a unique blending of research and psychology: Gestalt work, Jungian theory and practice, the neurobiology of dreaming, plus his research into the significance of color in dreams. His work has been featured in a PBS Dreamtime special, Readers Digest, Prevention Magazine and USA Today. Learn more at http://www.dreamscience.org/.
Tony Caldwell
Tony Caldwell is a Jungian psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Nashville, TN. Tony is a seasoned speaker, preacher, and workshop leader. He loves speaking about the intersection of depth psychology, progressive theology, and social justice. Learn more about Tony.
Tony’s presentation incorporates experiences gathered while providing services to marginalized populations, facilitating racial healing groups, and leading grassroots and larger scale activism and advocacy efforts. It also includes the experiences of analysands and community members. We will stand at the intersection of race, sex, religion / theology, spirituality, psychology, sociology, and ethics. This stance is necessarily political, for to stand at this intersection to stand at the gathering place of forces that attempt to lay claim to the human soul.
Danielle Shroyer
Danielle Shroyer is a spiritual director, dream worker, author, speaker, and former pastor. She’s the Founding Director of Via Forma, a new nonprofit which seeks to create spiritual formation resources for communities and individuals that are deeply rooted and forward facing. She has written three books, most recently Original Blessing: Putting Sin in its Rightful Place.
Danielle will lead us in asking key questions: What holds the world together? Where is God? What role does the Divine Mystery plan in the unfolding soul callings of our lives? Danielle Shroyer will invite us into an exploration of resonance, theology, quantum physics, and mysticism as we explore the ways “God” shows up in our dreams, our lives, and our world. We’ll consider how the idea of God that we have is far too small- and too far away- from the true reality of God in our midst.
A founding member of the emerging church movement, Danielle graduated from Baylor, Princeton Seminary, and the Haden Institute’s Spiritual Direction and Dream Work programs, where she now serves as a mentor. A 2nd Dan taekwondo black belt and a yoga enthusiast, she and her husband Dan have two college aged children. They live in Dallas with their rescue dog and a patio of feral cats. You can find her at danielleshroyer.com, or on Instagram at @DanielleShroyer.
Jerry Wright
Jerry R. Wright is a Jungian Psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer who lives in Flat Rock, NC. A senior training analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, he has served on the Haden staff since the early days of its inception. He is the author of Reimagining God and Religion: Essays for The Psychologically Minded (Chiron 2018) and A Mystical Path Less Traveled (Chiron 2021). A third volume (in process) will complete the trilogy entitled Psychological Mysticism. Taken together, the books offer as a psycho-spiritual resource for the modern scientific mind and ancient soul. His writing and teaching address his longtime passion for Jungian Psychology and the numinous experiences that have given birth to innumerable religions and the gods, goddesses, and God at their core. In pursuit of that passion, he has led pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world, including Iona, Scotland, Ireland, Africa, Southeast Asia, Peru and Machu Picchu, and India.
In his keynote, Jerry will speak on the following points:
- We continue to spill blood over the stories we tell ourselves about the gods and religions we have birthed, and feel obliged to defend, giving rise to religious and political tribalism that fuel our individual and collective divisions, violence, wars, and pathology.
- A new Cosmic story struggles to be born. Each of us is compelled to assist its birth while grieving the demise and death of religious myths of our ancestors.
- Owning and integrating our individual and collective Shadow is the one best sacred offering we can make toward healing religious and political pathology while preserving our beautiful nest.
- Our species is called to be the conscious conduits of the creative and destructive presences and powers of the Cosmos and, as such, we are the gods that we have long imagined in projected guise.
Music by River Guerguerian, Lindsey Blount, and Chris Rosser
River Guerguerian
River is a multi-percussionist/composer/educator. He has been inspiring audiences with his colorful and innovative percussion for over thirty years. Whether collaborating with world-class symphonies, studio artists or creating his own dynamic explorations of rhythm, his devotion and attention to the vibrant life of the drum reverberate with the listener. He has performed in prestigious concert halls in 30 countries, and has recorded on over 300 albums and film soundtracks. In 1994, River sold all possessions, left civilization, and lived in a wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya Mountains for 5 years. River is the Music Director of the Odyssey Community School, and he is the founder of Asheville Rhythm, which has produced the Asheville Percussion Festival since 2012. He conducts rhythm and sound exploration workshops throughout the country. You can hear his lyrical style with his world jazz group Free Planet Radio, and other ensembles he curates. Visit him at ShareTheDrum.com
Chris Rosser
Chris is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer and producer from Asheville, NC. As a solo performer, he has released four recordings, including the latest A Thousand Hands. He and the world fusion trio, Free Planet Radio, toured 20 cities in China in 2016, and have released four recordings, including the latest Stillness. He also tours internationally in the bands of Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Rhonda Larson, and Lizz Wright. In 2017, Rosser received a NC Arts Council Composer Fellowship. Rosser has produced/engineered over 200 CD’s for other artists in his recording studio, and has composed music for national commercial spots, and TV shows on Animal Planet, TLC, OWN, PBS and more. Visit him at www.chrisrosser.com
Lindsey Blount
Lindsey is an American folk and jazz vocalist born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her interest and passion for music led her to Boston, where she completed her studies at Berklee College of Music. After finishing her degree, she married and relocated to her new home in Freiburg, Germany. She currently splits her time between teaching at the Freiburg University of Art, Design, and Music (hKDM) and The Jazz und Rockschule. She enjoys songwriting, performing, exposing her youth choir to Motown, and cooking with her husband, Jan. Her EP, Some of the Lovely, vol. 1, was released in March 2023.