What secret story is our unconscious telling? How does a Dream Expert help? And how does a writer work with these stories to create ‘breathtaking’ poetry?  For most of us, dreams remain the one uncharted territory in our complicated lives. Yet, once understood, they can help us through difficult times - and the good ones too. On Saturday, March 6, 2010, Santa Fe resident Kelly Sullivan Walden, will be in conversation with San Francisco Poet Joan Gelfand on the topic of dreams and writing. Sullivan Walden, author of “I Had the Strangest Dream,” and “Zone Golf” will take questions from the audience, helping to unravel mysterious dreams. Joan Gelfand,author of the recently published “A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams” will
discuss how dreams have informed her work and read a selection of poems. Come prepared for a magical event that will inspire, entice and seduce you with revealed secrets, and the joy - and AHA! of discovery.

Joan Gelfand is President of the Women’s National Book Association and Fiction Editor for Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture. Her short stories, poetry, letters, reviews and essays have appeared in over eighty journals and anthologies worldwide. Joan is a teacher with the California Poets in the Schools program as well as a writing coach and editor. Kelly Sullivan- Walden is a Dream Doctor, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and is the creator of The Dream Project, a local movement for Global change that inspires school children to create solutions for the UN Millennium Development Goals. She is a regular guest Dream Expert on FOX NYC, ABC, CBS and NBC news. Kelly will also be discussing her newest book, “Zone Golf, Master Your Mental Game Using Self-Hypnosis.”