VISION
To create a global community of dreamers focused on tikkun atzmi and tikkun olam, healing ourselves, repairing the world.
MISSION
To embrace dream wisdom as a fundamental pillar of Jewish spirituality and impart dream awareness as a spiritual practice for all.
VALUES
JASD is based on the Jewish values of Tikkun Atzmi and Tikkun Olam. We believe healing ourselves and repairing the world are the essence of being Jewish. We are grounded in the Jewish value all lives are sacred, no one is superior to another — no individual, no nation, no religion.
Dreams strengthen the spiritual seeker and houses of worship, nurturing personal and spiritual growth, and empowering communities. JASD aims to re-instill appreciation of dreams in synagogue services and individual and communal Jewish life by teaching about the power of dreams in all aspects of daily life.
JASD offers the opportunity for people of all faiths (or no faith) to share dreams as a path toward striving together to inspire well-being and peace in the home, community, and the world. Sharing dreams fosters well-being and peace within the home, community, and the world.
EMBRACING DREAM AWARENESS
We embrace Jewish and other faith (or no faith) communities, sharing dreams and drawing upon the positive insights and actions that flow from attending to our dreams.
JASD programs and publications dispel the notion propagated in traditional texts it is mostly men, prophets, and royalty who receive Divine guidance and recognize Divine will. JASD teaches how the sage wisdom of dreams is available to each and every person. Dreams enable all of us to expand our potential, experience spiritual growth. We foster the common good through the guiding, protective, healing, and transformative powers of dreams.
PROGRAMS
JASD integrates dream awareness into Jewish life through presentations, programs, and classes at synagogues, Jewish Centers, campus Hillel chapters, Sisterhoods, youth groups, retreats, and interfaith events.
JASD facilities Dream Circles and teaches individuals, organizations, and institutions to create their own Dream Circles.
WHO WE ARE
JOYCE LYNN — JASD CO-FOUNDER
When Joyce turned forty, after a decade as a political reporter in Washington, D.C., she had her first remembered dream. It inspired an elusive scene for the screenplay she was writing and guided her journalism career. A few months later, she faced a potentially life-threatening health crisis. Dream wisdom disclosed information about her physical condition and effected her healing. As a result, dreams have guided Joyce’s life for decades.
Joyce’s parents and grandparents were active in the Jewish community in Columbus, Ohio, where she grew up. The Hillel at Ohio State University was dedicated posthumously to her grandfather, Edwin J. Schanfarber, in 1948. Joyce learned from the righteousness of her elders the Jewish imperative of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.
On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, 2008, Joyce dreamed a childhood friend appeared at the entrance of the synagogue and Jewish Day School, where the friend was an administrator. She and Joyce went inside to the large hallway between the school and the synagogue, the space joining learning and spirituality. The friend removed her shoes, but Joyce was wearing cross-trainers. They left wet footprints on the black marble floor.
Joyce interpreted the footprints as a sign to revive teaching about dreams, which she had abandoned in favor of a return to political reporting. but this time teaching about dreams in the context of Judaism. The dream showed her how to make a difference in the Jewish community as had generations of her family before. 
In 2019, Joyce co-founded the Jewish Association of Spirituality and Dreams with Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks, Rabbi Emerita of The Temple in Louisville, Kentucky, as a way to revive and embrace dreams as a fundamental pillar and practice of Jewish spirituality. (Rabbi Rooks left JASD in March 2021 and launched her own organization, Shelter of Peace.)
JASD envisions Chalom/Dream Circles becoming as popular an offering in the Jewish community as Mahjong games are now.
She writes, teaches, and speaks about integrating dream messages into our life journeys. Her goal: revive the guiding, healing, and transformative powers of dreams and support seekers in expressing dream wisdom in their creative, personal, and professional lives and social activism.
Joyce is the author of Plum Dreams Diary: On Mothers, Men, Modern Medicine, and the Divine, a collection of dream narratives exploring the female psyche, and Dreams and the Wisdom Within, a memoir and spiritual guide to healing and dreams.
For Joyce, dreams are the language of the soul, the voice of the Divine.
JASD ADVISORY BOARD/CIRCLE OF ADVISORS
Christine Lemley – In Memoriam
Christine, founder of the Interfaith Forum in Columbus, Indiana, former hospital chaplain, and spiritual director, who infused her chaplaincy and spiritual directing with dream work. She also executive produced of Dreamtime: An Integrative Health Series for the Public Broadcasting Service. Christine preached dreams are our inner GPS — if we listen.