Sacred Cosmos, Sacred Soul
May 28 – June 2, 2025
Dates:
May 28 – June 2, 2025 – Five nights lodging. Departure after breakfast Monday, June 2.
Note: Checkout time is no later than 10:00 AM.
- In Person at Kanuga Conference Center
- Virtual Registration will go live February 1, 2025
Commuter Rate:
- $70 per day
Kanuga Lodging & Commuter Registration: Register for In-Person Lodging or as a commuter using this link:
Conference Fee:
- $425 – in-person ($100 non refundable)
- Plus room and board, if staying at Kanuga, or commuter fees if staying off-site. (See pricing below)
- $375 -Virtual Registration will go live after February 1, 2025
Kanuga Lodging: Per person & includes all meals, Wednesday dinner through Monday Breakfast.
- INN ROOMS ARE FULL!
- Cottage Single Occupancy: $170 per night
- Cottage Shared Occupancy: $154 per night
Lodging Cancellation: Full refund for Lodging if cancellation is before May 15, 2025. One night’s stay will be charged if cancellation is later.
Payment Schedule:
Conference Cancellation: Full refund (minus $100) if cancellation is before March 15, 2025
Every participant will have access to keynote and workshop recordings as educational resources for 6 months after conference.
You’ll Experience…
- Four Dream Group Sessions
- Four Workshop Sessions
- Nine Keynotes
- Transformative Music
and…
- A Concert by Our Musicians
- Supportive Community
- Going Deep into Your Unconscious
- Spiritual Transformation
- Labyrinth Walks and More…
A New Framework
We need a new framework for thinking about God, religion, and spirituality in an age of quantum physics and evolution – one that transcends the obstacles of dogmas in religious traditions. Ilia Delio, author of The Not-Yet God, offers a way forward for a vision of God and the Cosmos that is deeply satisfying for both the mind and the heart. She engages the insights of Carl Jung, the Jesuit scientist-theologian Teilhard de Chardin, and process thinkers. At the 2025 Haden Summer Dream and Spirituality Conference, we will explore the insights of Jung’s analytical psychology, modern science, and ancient mysticism. Dream work, contemplative practices, rituals, and creative embodiment will ground these insights into a personal and practical spirituality of love and connection to the whole of the Cosmos.
Corey Keyes, Director
Ilia Delio
Love is the core energy of cosmic life, according to Teilhard de Chardin. Evolution is an unfolding process of consciousness and love. We will explore the possibilities of love as core energy in a world of crisis and disruption.
Disruption and Innovation: Spirituality in an age of AI
AI is one of the most significant developments in biological evolution. The development of AI is nothing less than the power of human imagination and creativity. What is less known is the relationship between AI and spirituality. We will explore how AI is a new form of religious imagination that can enhance the human spirit toward a holistic future.
Ilia Delio, OSF, Ph.D. is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C., and an American theologian specializing in the integration of science and religion. She holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University and is the founder of the Center for Christogenesis. Ilia’s academic journey includes doctorates in pharmacology and historical theology, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach. She is the author of over twenty books, including The Unbearable Wholeness of Being and The Emergent Christ, both recognized with Catholic Press Association Awards. Her work explores themes of evolution, artificial intelligence, and consciousness, aiming to bridge faith and contemporary scientific understanding. Ilia lectures internationally and continues to contribute to the dialogue between spirituality and science.
Barbara Breitman
Both contemporary Jewish and Christian theologians are exploring how Process Theology can shine new light on ancient texts, liturgies and beliefs. Barbara Breitman, a professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, will locate practices of Spiritual Guidance within a Jewish Process theology, rooting concepts in the Hebrew Bible and the thought of current scholars, to help us imagine what “hearing God’s voice” might mean to post-modern people.
Barbara Breitman, D.Min., LCSW is a pioneering figure in Jewish spiritual direction and pastoral counseling. As assistant professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, she co-created its Spiritual Direction program, the first of its kind in a rabbinic seminary. Barbara also played a key role in establishing similar programs at Hebrew Union College and Hebrew College. A licensed clinical social worker and trauma-informed psychotherapist, she integrates contemplative practices with a mind-body approach in her private practice in Philadelphia. Barbara is the co-editor of Jewish Spiritual Direction: An Innovative Guide from Traditional and Contemporary Sources and has contributed to various publications on pastoral care and Jewish feminist theology. Her work emphasizes the intersection of spirituality, healing, and social justice.
Also Keynoting
Catherine Meeks
Chaos brings invitations with it, but they are difficult to discern if one becomes hysterical and immobilized by the disrupting forces accompanying it. This lecture will explore some of the invitations in the current state of chaotic world affairs and ways to discern them.
Catherine Meeks, Ph.D. is a theologian, activist, and spiritual teacher focused on racial healing and social transformation. She is the founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing and a longtime member of the Haden Institute faculty. A retired professor and Jungian scholar, Catherine taught for decades at Mercer University and Wesleyan College, where she held the Clara Carter Acree Distinguished Chair. Her work bridges spirituality, justice, and inner transformation, drawing on African American literature, depth psychology, and contemplative practice. She is the author of The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning and co-author of Passionate for Justice. Catherine is the founder of the Turquoise and Lavender Institute and a recipient of the President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kathleen Wiley
The anima cosmos (sacred soul of the universe) takes shape in our individual psyches as we are a microcosm of the whole. Each expression of psyche– physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—is a fractal of sacred soul that is both common to others and unique to you. Your dreams provide an accessible portal to embody the mystery of the anima cosmos that is your specific essence. Join Kathleen to ponder the intertwining reality of the personal psyche to the objective psyche and what this means for honoring the sacred in your dreams.
Kathleen Wiley, MHDL, LCMHC, LMFT is a Jungian analyst, spiritual teacher, and licensed psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience in private practice. Based in North Carolina and working internationally, she guides individuals, couples, and groups in living in conscious relationship with the Self and the divine essence. Kathleen is a frequent speaker at the Haden Institute, the Center for Contemporary Mysticism, and Jung Societies across the country. She is the founder of Online Sacred Circles, where she leads ongoing and seasonal programs integrating depth psychology and spiritual practice. Her books include New Life: Symbolic Meditations on the Birth of Christ Within and New Life: Symbolic Meditations on the Promise of Easter and Spring, with a forthcoming title, Conscious Embodiment: Unlock the Secret Door to Divine Essence. Learn more at www.onlinesacredcircles.com.
Danielle Shroyer
In a culture where immaturity is often rewarded and power is displayed in its most toxic and truncated forms, the Queen archetype serves as a necessary corrective. Explore with Danielle Shroyer how the Queen Principle can serve as a kind of energetic catalyst for transformation, leading us toward spiritual maturity, responsibility, and wholeness.
Danielle Shroyer is a spiritual director, author, speaker, and former pastor. She currently serves as Scholar-in-Residence at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, where she creates formation resources and experiences rooted in wisdom spirituality. Danielle is a graduate of Baylor University and Princeton Theological Seminary and was a founding member of the emerging church movement. She is also a graduate of the Haden Institute’s Spiritual Direction and Dream Work Training programs and currently serves as a Dream Work mentor. A taekwondo black belt and yoga enthusiast, she and her husband Dan have two college-aged children. They live in Dallas with their two rescue dogs and a patio of feral cats.
Sheri Kling
Where do we discover the Sacred Mystery that some people call “God”? Is that unknowable but encounterable Other only out there, or may we meet that reality in here? Italian mystic Catherine of Genoa ran through her city shouting, “My deepest me is God!”, and many philosophers, theologians, and kitchen table mystics have since made similar discoveries. In this presentation, Sheri D. Kling will share perspectives that reveal a cosmos and a human psyche/soul that are soaked with the sacred.
Sheri D. Kling, Ph.D. is a teacher, writer, spiritual guide, and longtime faculty member of the Haden Institute. She serves as director of Process & Faith, a multifaith network affiliated with the Center for Process Studies, and leads the John Cobb Legacy Fund. Sheri’s path has included a career in marketing and communications, years as a touring singer-songwriter, and a midlife shift to academia, where she earned two Master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in religion. Since 2011, she has offered workshops, keynote talks, and teaching in both the Dream Work and Spiritual Direction certification programs at Haden. Sheri brings her background in depth spirituality, process thought, and the arts to her work of helping people live into their wholeness.
Bob Hoss
As Isaiah writes, God cannot be contained—an infinite, sacred consciousness encompassing all, including our souls. Quantum physics now hints at this oneness through discoveries like entanglement, where particles remain mysteriously connected across vast distances, and the equivalence of matter and energy. Some scientists and philosophers describe this as the emergence of a universal mind—the mind of God. If all is one, then dreaming may offer a direct encounter with that cosmic consciousness. Have you ever had a dream that spilled into waking life through uncanny synchronicities? Or felt guided by a presence beyond logic—something divine, eternal, and wise? Such dreams invite us to consider that our soul may dream not in isolation, but as part of a vast, sacred whole—interwoven with time, space, and Spirit.
Robert Hoss, MS is Conference Director and former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, the director of the DreamScience Foundation, a Haden Institute faculty instructor, and a board member of the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare. His training and teaching draw from Gestalt Therapy, Jungian theory, and contemporary dream research. He is the author or editor of Dream Language, Dream to Freedom, Dreams that Change Our Lives, and Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology & Culture, with contributions to nine other books and five scientific journals. In 2021, he received the IASD Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more at www.dreamscience.org.
Tony Caldwell
Description coming soon!
Tony Caldwell is a Jungian psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Nashville, TN. Tony is a seasoned speaker, preacher, and workshop leader. He loves speaking about the intersection of depth psychology, progressive theology, and social justice. Learn more about Tony.
Music by River Guerguerian, Lindsey Blount, and Chris Rosser
River Guerguerian
River is a multi-percussionist/composer/educator. He has been inspiring audiences with his colorful and innovative percussion for over thirty years. Whether collaborating with world-class symphonies, studio artists or creating his own dynamic explorations of rhythm, his devotion and attention to the vibrant life of the drum reverberate with the listener. He has performed in prestigious concert halls in 30 countries, and has recorded on over 300 albums and film soundtracks. In 1994, River sold all possessions, left civilization, and lived in a wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya Mountains for 5 years. River is the Music Director of the Odyssey Community School, and he is the founder of Asheville Rhythm, which has produced the Asheville Percussion Festival since 2012. He conducts rhythm and sound exploration workshops throughout the country. You can hear his lyrical style with his world jazz group Free Planet Radio, and other ensembles he curates. Visit him at ShareTheDrum.com
Chris Rosser
Chris is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer and producer from Asheville, NC. As a solo performer, he has released four recordings, including the latest A Thousand Hands. He and the world fusion trio, Free Planet Radio, toured 20 cities in China in 2016, and have released four recordings, including the latest Stillness. He also tours internationally in the bands of Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Rhonda Larson, and Lizz Wright. In 2017, Rosser received a NC Arts Council Composer Fellowship. Rosser has produced/engineered over 200 CD’s for other artists in his recording studio, and has composed music for national commercial spots, and TV shows on Animal Planet, TLC, OWN, PBS and more. Visit him at www.chrisrosser.com
Lindsey Blount
Lindsey is an American folk and jazz vocalist born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her interest and passion for music led her to Boston, where she completed her studies at Berklee College of Music. After finishing her degree, she married and relocated to her new home in Freiburg, Germany. She currently splits her time between teaching at the Freiburg University of Art, Design, and Music (hKDM) and The Jazz und Rockschule. She enjoys songwriting, performing, exposing her youth choir to Motown, and cooking with her husband, Jan. Her EP, Some of the Lovely, vol. 1, was released in March 2023.
