Faculty for The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork
Marc Bregman
Marc Bregman founded Archetypal Dreamwork in 1973, is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. Marc is a master Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist, in practice since 1973, a teacher and a trainer of teachers. He is the author of The Deep Well Tapes, The Secret of the Pomegranate, Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio and Hubris of the Heavens: Archetypal Dreamwork and Rudyharian Astrology, Dreaming Metaphysical and is currently working on two books - The Practitioner's Guide to Archetypal Dreamwork and Past Lives: The Divine Child with Christa Lancaster. Marc has a Bachelor’s Degree in Religion from the University of Vermont and a Master’s Degree in Special Education from Johnson State College. Marc worked for the United States Postal Service and as a social worker for the State of Vermont before becoming a full-time therapist. Marc was born in Philadelphia, spent three years in the Army and travelled for several years before settling in Vermont. He has been working with his dreams since 1973.
Christa Lancaster
Christa Lancaster is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of North of Eden and The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. Christa is a master Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 1991, a teacher and trainer of teachers. She is the co-author with Marc Bregman of The Deep Well Tapes: Sex, Trauma and Conjunctio – it includes her spiritual memoir of her journey through this work called Vessel. She is currently working on Past Lives: The Divine Child with Marc. Christa has led groups and events for Archetypal Dreamwork since 1992 before Co-Founding North of Eden. She completed the certificate program at The New England Art Therapy Institute and spent five years studying with Pathwork Vermont. She attended Brown University and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Barnard College. Her years of experience working with groups underlie the NOE Retreat process. Christa was born in Bermuda and spent her teenage years in England before moving to New York City in 1976 and settling in Vermont in 1987. Christa has been in the work since 1988.
As a teacher I bring humor, years of living the process of this work, a gift for working with groups and an ease and love of working with every moment, to bring forth the truth. I have a deep regard for the profound wisdom of the dream and its maker. I teach in a personal way, drawing from the well of my own journey through my dreams. I bring an embodied feminine presence that merges clear insight with warmth and connection. The source of my potency lies in my lived relationship to the Divine.
Susan Marie Scavo
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Susan Marie is the Director of North of Eden Press, Director of the North of Eden Website, Co-Editor of the North of Eden Online Literary Journal Deluge and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. Susan Marie is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 2004, a teacher and a trainer of teachers. She worked with author Marc Bregman on all of the The Deep Well Tapes series of books as well as Dreaming Metaphysical. Susan Marie has a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati and a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree in Poetry from New England College. Before finding the dreamwork, she was an advocate for women and children of domestic violence and a counselor for women struggling with issues of addiction. She also worked as an independent contractor in the computer software industry. Her poetry has been anthologized in What Have You Lost and Jane’s Stories and has been published in national journals. Susan Marie has been in the work since 1998.
I had a dream recently where I was asked if I was going to teach from the new version or the old version. I love this dream because it is challenge to teach from the version of the incredible mystery and Gnostic knowing of the dream, from the version offered by the Archetypes, by the Divine. Who I am as a teacher is bringing this teaching from the new version and bringing it with passion, energy and excitement. What I love most about this work is how each dream is tailor made for each person in each moment – and how each person’s journey is incredibly unique and particular. I teach honoring this, drawing from my own personal journey and experiences with my dreams, from my particular partnership with the Divine.
Bill St.Cyr
Bill St.Cyr is the Director of the North of Eden Submit a Dream program and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. He is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork Therapist, in practice since 2001, a teacher and a trainer of teachers. Bill also led a men’s dreamwork group for many years and has a particular interest in men’s, women’s and relationship issues. Before coming to North of Eden, he had a contracting company for twenty years. Bill has been in the work since 1998.
This work is my life's passion and it is a blessing for me to have the opportunity to teach. I have reaped the benefits of looking away from the outer world and facing into the inner world and how I have managed around the truth of who I am. I am so excited to now be bringing this work into the world and to a broader audience.
Annie Wattles
Annie Wattles is a Co-Director of The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork and is on the North of Eden Executive Committee. She is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 2004 and a teacher. Before becoming a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, Annie was a practicing psychotherapist trained in the Hakomi Method, an actor, and a practitioner of herbal medicine.
I love this work and can teach from the place of that love. This is the place where the dream is the center. I teach from being led and from the place where my teaching is in the moment of what I am learning. I include my own struggle and my own excitement and the deep belief that the dreams come from the Divine with a message, each time, to bring us in closer to our souls.
Karla Van Vliet
Karla Van Vliet is the Co-Editor of the North of Eden Online Literary Journal Deluge, is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, practicing since 2004, and is a teacher. She studied fine arts at Bennington College, has a Bachelor’s Degree in Poetry at Goddard College and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College. Her art work and jewelry is represented by several galleries and her poetry has been published in national journals. Karla has been in the work since 1991.
I love the moment of discovery. What is the truth? Let’s look for it. This is my intent in teaching, to be the facilitator of discovery, in the material studied and ultimately of the self. For I believe all study comes back to the self, that the best learning uncovers the truth of who we are. Looking into a dream is like looking into a poem, what truth lives within the metaphor of the story. How is the truth being told here? When writing poems it is often said that sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth. What this means is that sometimes to open the truth you have to employ metaphor, dreams do this brilliantly. My training as a poet has given me the tools, the eye, the keys, to open the story, to facilitate the opening of discovery.
Bob Murray
BOB MURRAY is the Musical Director at North of Eden retreats. He has recorded two albums of dream inspired songs in the past three years, both recorded live at the North of Eden Retreat Center—Alligator Tears, and Lifelines. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from Vermont College, he is the author of a recent memoir entitled A Chicken Hawk Goes Home—One Man’s Journey Through Archetypal Dreamwork. Bob has been in the work since 1996.
I was an English teacher at the high school level for a while—used to think I was pretty good at it. But at the tender age of 59, I realize now just how little I knew about teaching, really teaching. Because really teaching, I’m discovering, is not about knowledge at all, at least not in the traditional sense. For me, it’s about intentionally setting everything I think I know aside to make room for the one voice that emerges, the divine voice that enters, fills that space, wants more than anything to be shared. That’s what I live for these days, hearing and sharing that voice, marveling at the richness of its truths.
Robin Chase
Robin Chase is on the North of Eden Executive Committee, a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 2007, and a teacher as well as overseer the expansion of the facilities at the North of Eden Retreat Center. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College and makes handcrafted furniture as the owner of Maple Corner Woodworks. He made all the furniture in the rooms for the retreat center dormitory. Robin has been in the work since 1994.
What I bring as a teacher is my deep desire and commitment to my personal work and spiritual awareness from the teaching of my dreams. This allows me to work deeply and clearly with others, both in a retreat experience and teacher of Archetypal dreamwork. Through the felt experience of my soul self, the humble and playful boy, I become a vessel for the divine's knowledge and teaching. I have passion to work with others to manifest the intention of their dreams.
Deb DeGraff
Deb DeGraff is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 2005, and a teacher. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from St. Lawrence University, is a licensed acupuncturist and has studied Authentic Movement with Janet Adler. She is also the author of The Body Owner’s Manual. Deb has been in the work since 1997.
I have a deep interest in the specifics of how we work with our dreams after the session is done, how we use our homework to bring the dream into our waking lives. I am interested in the homework's power to transform us when we work the edge between the state of consciousness the dream gives us versus our habitual state of consciousness living in the world. My current question is: what does each moment in my waking life have to do with the dream I am working with?
Dorothy Korshak
Dorothy Korshak is the Registrar for The Center for Archetypal Dreamwork, is a certified Archetypal Dreamwork therapist, in practice since 2006, and is a teacher. She ran the women’s dreamwork group for two years. During her early work as a counselor for emotionally disturbed teenagers, she studied counseling at the University of Vermont. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Ithaca College and has owned and operated a successful restaurant in Montpelier, Vermont, for over fifteen years. Dorothy has been in the work since 1994.
When leading a group, teaching a class or working with clients I am working from my most passionate self. My gifts as a leader/teacher include my willingness to expose my deepest wounds and my journey through my dreams back to who I was truly intended to be. My fear creates my resistance but it is also the gateway to my deeper feelings. It is by stepping into this fear, time and time again, that I can find the teacher in me. From this place I can teach from my heart with love, joy and devotion.
Jeremiah McLane
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Jeremiah McLane is an apprentice in North of Eden and teaches Musicality with Bob Murray. He has been in the dream work since 1998 and works as a full time musician, teaching and performing on accordion, piano and vocals throughout the United States and Europe. He has composed music for theatre and film and teaches music at the Summit School in Montpelier and at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh, NY. He holds a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music.
For me the crux of the dream work is the interplay of passion, playfulness, receptivity, discipline, commitment, creativity and courage. I hope to bring all of these elements to bear when I teach and play music and it’s a way for me a way to feel into who I am and what I truly desire. I’m incredibly grateful that I get to have music and the dream work together in my life and I get to practice the art of creativity and receptivity in the musicality class.