Sofia University’s Dream Studies Certificate is offered in our Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. It is one of the few Dream Studies certificate programs presently offer at an accredited university in the United States.
The program has an interdisciplinary orientation, exploring dreams from transpersonal, integral, psychological, scientific, mythological, spiritual, religious, and cross–cultural perspectives. Courses cover subjects that include sleep, dreams, and states of consciousness; ordinary, extraordinary, and anomalous dreams; dreams as they relate to health and creativity; a practicum in dream-sharing with individuals and groups; personal mythology and dreamwork; and a final Certificate integration group presentation.
Introduce students to theories, principles, practices, and applications of cross-cultural ways of dreaming.
Provide students with opportunities to work with personal and collective dreams both individually and in dream circles.
Introduce students to a variety of dream experiences including archetypal, precognitive, cross-cultural, transpersonal, and collective.
Provide opportunities for students to gain insights about their dreams through multiple ways of knowing such as journaling, creative explorations, and other forms of dream work.
Introduce students to Personal Mythology, Archetypes, Myths, and Symbols, which speak in the language of dreams.
Gratefully, dreams and synchronicities led me to Sofia. I’ve completed three Dream Studies courses including Anomalous States of Consciousness, Psychology of Extraordinary Dreams, and Transpersonal Approaches to Dreams and Dreaming. These courses have fruitfully enriched my knowledge and experiences in dreams and dreaming by bringing me to another level of dream exploration and expanding my internal and external worldview. I especially appreciate the creative ways I am inspired to bring dreams into waking life, not only benefitting myself but also my clients in the psychotherapy sessions and students in dream classes with positive therapeutic effects.
Angel Kwan-Yin Morgan, Ph.D. founded Dreambridge (thedreambridge.com) in 2008. She specializes in dreams, creativity, and the connection between the two (Dream-Arts). She has worked with adults, children, teens, and parents as a Dream-Arts educator since 1995. An interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, she received her Ph.D. in Psychology after completing the Dream Studies and Creativity Studies programs at Saybrook University. Before that, she received an M.A. in Human Development from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, a B.A. in Theater, Film, and Television from UCLA, and is a graduate of the Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Dr. Morgan has worked professionally as an actor, director, dancer, singer-songwriter, and visual artist in Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chapel Hill, NC. While raising her two children, she earned her teaching certification from the Rudolf Steiner College and a Quality Classroom certificate from the Institute of HeartMath. For five years she was a Waldorf class teacher in Los Altos, CA, where she taught all subjects (Grades 4 – 8) through storytelling, music, art, and drama, educated parents, and was the faculty co-artistic director.
A recipient of the William Fadiman writing award, she is widely published and has written many dream psychology articles ranging from Cambridge Journals to The Huffington Post. In 2017, she won the Best Screenplay Award from The Buddha International Film Festival in India for a story filled with dreams, spiritual development, consciousness exploration, and humor. Dr. Morgan is a Board Director and Past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and a member of The American Psychological Association. She is a Professor in the Transpersonal Studies program at Sofia University.
An experienced lucid dreamer, she started learning about her own dreams when she was four years old from her father, a psychologist who gave her tools from Kilton Stewart’s Senoi Dream Theory. Her other dream mentors as a teen and young adult were Eduardo Duran, Ph.D, and Clara Stewart Flagg, the widow of Kilton Stewart.
Robert Wood, Ph.D.
Ilana (Nancy) Rowe, Ph.D.
Ted Esser, Ph.D.
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