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Letter From The President

A Conference Inside the Dream

At the Annual Conference this year, we asked attendees to engage in dreamstorming with us. This concept, coined by Jennifer Gómez (2023), describes dreamstorming as a process in which we collectively imagine what it would look like and what would need to happen to make our dreams our world. We’ve started reviewing all that was […]

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Letter From The President

Sustaining ISSTD Across Time

I drafted this from my hotel at the conference while still working on the welcome remarks I would give to fellow attendees. Moving back and forth between the two, I found myself returning to the question of what ISSTD actually is and how an organization like this continues to exist across time. ISSTD is not […]

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Letter From The President

Entering the Year Ahead

Dear ISSTD Community, January often brings a natural slowing, at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Many traditions describe winter as a season for consolidation rather than expansion, a time when growth happens quietly beneath the surface before becoming visible later on. Not everything that looks still is inactive, and not everything […]

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Letter From The President

2025 Holiday Message

D. Michael Coy – 2025 PresidentLearning from the Past, Looking to the Future Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the December 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early January! This month, as is the case every year, I am, as outgoing President, accompanied here by incoming President Abigail Percifield and outgoing Immediate […]

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Letter From The President

Shakespeare (?) and Other Things

Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the November 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early December! This will be my final ‘solo’ letter to you as ISSTD president. Next month, I will be accompanied here by incoming President Abigail Percifield and outgoing Immediate Past President Peter Maves for our respective reflections on […]

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Letter From The President

The Winds of Change

Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the October 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early November! This month’s update will be brief. I am currently writing from sunny – and windy – Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, where ISSTD just concluded its regional conference. I want to extend my most heartfelt thanks to […]

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Letter From The President

In Praise of Hypnosis Training

Dear ISSTD Community, Welcome to the September 2025 edition of ISSTD News, which you are reading in early October! Hypnosis has been on my mind a lot over the past weeks, due in equal parts to my attendance at ISSTD’s 2025 Chicago Regional Conference (one day of which was dedicated to hypnotic phenomena in the […]

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