Advisory Board
Diversity Policy
Meredith Sabini, MA, PhD
Founder and Director
Meredith Sabini, a Licensed Psychologist (#7397), practiced individual psychotherapy from 1977 to 1997 and now specializes in Dream Consultation, and Dream Groups. She has done pioneering research on dreams that diagnose illness and written on dreams related to creativity, cultural issues, spiritual experience, the dying process, evolutionary psychology, and ecopsychology. She regularly gives dream programs in academic, therapeutic, and professional settings. See “Articles” section of website for selections of her publications.
Editor, The Earth Has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature Technology & Modern Life (North Atlantic, 2002, 2016)
Contributor, The Sacred Heritage: The Influence of Shamanism on Analytical Psychology (Routledge, 1997)
NOTE: Dr. Sabini is Amish and does not use a computer or cell phone nor does she receive emails at the Dream Institute. You may contact her directly by phone 510-849-8511 or mail at 1670 University Avenue, Berkeley CA 94703.
Advisory Board
 Richard Russo |
Associate Director, Richard Russo, MA, former president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and former editor of its publication, DreamTime. He edited the anthology Dreams Are Wiser than Men (North Atlantic Books, 1987). He is a dream educator with over 30 years of experience working with dreams, giving dream seminars, and leading dream groups. |
 John Beebe, MD |
John Beebe, MD, a past President of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco. He has lectured throughout the world on psychological types and moral character and their reflection in the world of film and in our dreams. His essays have appeared in many publications and his books as author and editor include Integrity in Depth, The Presence of the Feminine in Film, and The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915–1916. |
 Terry Ebinger |
Terry Ebinger, MS is a passionate film scholar with over three decades experience as a depth psychological educator, mentor, dream consultant, and multidisciplinary group leader. Her classes synthesize myth, depth psychology, film art, cultural history, and the language of symbol and dream. She teaches at Santa Rosa Junior College, College of Marin, Mythica Institute, Oakmont Lifelong Learning, American Academy of University Women, Sonoma State Lifelong Learning, and offers her own programs Cinema & Psyche and Movie of the Moon Club. Learn more at cinemaandpsyche.com. |
 Darius Fatimi |
Darius Fatemi completed his PsyD in clinical psychology at the Wright Institute in 2018 and is currently teaching Personality Psychology at Cal State East Bay. He has an active dreaming life, which he has been following for 20 years. As a speaker of his native Persian and also Spanish, he tends to dream in multiple languages. His interests include Sufism, shamanism, dancing, and singing. Darius lived in Mérida, Venezuela and has traveled extensively throughout Latin America. |
 Eric Greenleaf |
Eric Greenleaf, PhD, Director of the Milton H. Erickson Institute of the Bay Area, has practiced and trained professionals in Ericksonian hypnotherapy for 40 years. He has studied and filmed Balinese trance possession and healing ceremonies for 20 years. Dr Erickson chose Eric to receive the first Milton H. Erickson Award of Scientific Excellence for Writing in Hypnosis. Eric’s book, The Problem of Evil: Ancient Dilemmas and Modern Therapy, was published in 2000. |
 Karen Jaenke |
Karen Jaenke, Ph.D. is a dream educator and certified hypnotherapist whose adult life has unfolded under the guidance and inspiration of her dreams. She is faculty and former Chair of the Consciousness & Transformative Studies MA program at JFK/NU. An Executive Editor of ReVision: Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, she has edited issues and published articles on Imaginal Psychology, Shamanism and the Wounded West, Earth Dreaming, Places of Hope, and numerous articles on dreams. A 2000 graduate of CIIS, she wrote her dissertation on “Personal Dreamscape as Ancestral Landscape.” Dr. Jaenke offers mentoring and consulting services for dissertation and thesis writing. Her personal creative vision synthesizes dreamwork, indigenous ways of knowing, the subtle body, Gaian awareness, spiritual intelligence, and flow states. |
Diversity Policy
Dreams are a natural human phenomenon, and cultures throughout history have developed their own unique understanding of and ways of working with them. A central part of The Dream Institute’s mission is to present the rich history and cross-cultural diversity of approaches to the world of dreams and dreaming. The Dream Institute brings does not promote or privilege any single philosophical, theoretical, spiritual, or clinical orientation. We believe that wisdom and practical application can be found in all approaches.