The Bay Area Dreamworkers Group is proud of its his
tory, and of the influence it has had on both its members, and the larger dream community. Many of BADG's practices and policies have served as models for developing grass roots dreamwork partnerships and networks.
Historical
Highlights
Practicing the Community
Partnership Paradigm
The Emergence of the Dream
Community in the San Francisco Bay Area
July
25, 1985 Founded by Linda Lane Magallón and Fred C. Olsen.
Spring
1987 Co-sponsored, with the Marin Dream Workshop, two dream festivals, "Coat
of Many Colors I and II," providing 10 presenters for the first event and 23
for the second. Topics included dream mask making, lucid dreaming,
demonstrations of bio-feedback during waking dream re-entry, and creating
dream dramas in clay.
Sept.
26, 1987 Co-sponsored, with Shared Visions, "Dream Journeys," a presentation
and workshop with an emphasis on dreamwork and dream arts. Included an
overnight community dream-in and a dream telepathy experiment.
Oct.
10, 1987 Sponsored the 1987 San Francisco Dream Festival held at Fort Mason,
featuring presentations by 26 BADG members. Topics included "Dream Incubation
and Ritual," "Zen Dreaming," "Healing Using the Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork
Approach," "Dream Theater," "Psychic Dreaming: Telepathy, Precognition and
Shared Dreaming," DreamSinging," "Dream Diagramming and Dialogue," "Dreams In
Motion" as well as one-on-one dreamwork, dream groups, dream portrait artists,
a creativity center and dreamstore. Kent Smith headed the festival
organization.
1986-88
Members participated in the Friday Night Lecture Series at Fred Olsens' Dream
House in San Francisco. 63 taped lectures resulted.
1987-89
Members contributed a majority of the articles published in the primary
community newsletter "Dream Network Bulletin," while it was being edited by
Linda Lane Magallón and BADG secretary Bob Trowbridge.
June
1988 Members participated in "The Dreamer Is the Expert" panel at the ASD
Conference V in Santa Cruz, the first presentation of the BADG partnership
paradigm to the larger dream field.
August
1989 As international outreach, sponsored Fred Olsen as the BADG
representative to Russia for the first "Dreaming In..." conference, led by
Robert Bosnak.
July
1996 Sent official representatives to help plan ASD Conference XIII in
Berkeley. Reps Dale Westbrook and Richard Russo became program co-chairs.
Sponsored the Communal Dream Room, a concept created by Linda Lane Magallón,
that featured a group meeting place for dream writers, lucid dreamers and
psychic dreamers, costume creation and a group dream-together. Space was
shared with Richard Wilkerson's Internet community computer hub
Final Meeting? Over 20 members of BADG met in early summer 2005 at the
Dream Institute of Northern California, in Berkeley, CA. There were many stories
about the beginning and years of BADG activities and discussion of how the
values of BADG were successfully transferred to other dream organizations, such
as the IASD.
