This year’s conference theme is “BodyDreaming: Self-Regulation, Jung and Neuroscience in Trauma Recovery.”  Our plenary speaker is the accomplished Jungian analyst and author Marian Dunlea, from Ireland. Marian  is a passionate student of neuroscience with extensive training in a  host of healing modalities. She has been leading workshops  internationally for 30 years and her understanding of trauma is  profound. What we are learning about the body through the study  of neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of trauma and its  treatment.  Trauma changes our neural circuitry.  And the residue of  trauma can leave us without the sense of safety we need to be curious  and open to life. Instead, we can find ourselves stuck in patterns of  defense--fight, flight, or freeze. As a result of her decades of  study, Marian has created a distinctive approach to healing, working  with clients who spend significant portions of their lives in aroused  states of distress.  She will introduce us to a technique that she calls  BodyDreaming, a gentle method that explores ways to connect with locked energy in the body. Her  approach is to bring our attention to the body’s expression in dreams,  images, movements, and gestures.  She will lead us through exercises  that allow us to experience the sensory elements of BodyDreaming,  showing how we can unblock areas in the body where complexes and trauma  are stored, allowing us to live with greater safety and comfort. In  addition to being a delightful person, people who’ve attended Marian's  workshops say she manages the impossible – to be stimulating, clear,  soothing, and experiential, all at once. Marian will be assisted by her  colleague Patricia Llosa, a Jungian analyst and art historian.