Thread: DVA Reorganization

Originally Posted by Taosaur

I would sit in on a professor's workshop. Time commitment would be a factor in whether I could actually teach a class, but it's something I'd consider. I don't know if I'd be the best person, really, not being a very methodical LDer The only 'induction' I use is suggestion/incubation, and really just deciding to focus on LDing is enough to ramp up frequency and intensity. I've never even kept a regular DJ or done RCs while awake, just took time to think about my dreams throughout the day and practiced mindfulness. I could possibly do some kind of class on mindfulness and lucid dreaming, but that's more about practice than conveying concepts.

That's fine--I'm thinking we can do this in such a way that no one will be obligated to teach afterwards. For example, if you don't have the time now, you might decide later down the line that you do have time.

Either way, all staff is always welcome to sit in on any classes, and before any of this stuff with Shift happened I was hoping to hold a few staff-only classes to give anyone interested more well-rounded knowledge of dreaming and lucid dreaming. Not to mention an ulterior motive to get any staffers back into LDing if they haven't been into it for a while.

Reuploaded some PDFs that were missing from the professors resources thread. Also edited the thread so it shows Aquanina as the original poster.

As for this thread I was thinking we could make our own email account to send anonymous information. something like DVAevaluation same password, and have them send it to an account called DVAstaff. Or use the dreamviews email account depending on how much mail it gets.

Anyone else from staff wanna chime in on this?

Originally Posted by Akono

As for this thread I was thinking we could make our own email account to send anonymous information. something like DVAevaluation same password, and have them send it to an account called DVAstaff. Or use the dreamviews email account depending on how much mail it gets.[/FONT]

Ah, yes. Definitely. We'll need our own email account.

I think I might have grabbed a few pdfs that shift posted regarding Sleep Paralysis. I need to find them.

Email account, yes I agree.

Anywho, finals are pretty much over for me, so it's time to really get started fixing DVA.


So -- To prevent further drama and other BS, we've moved the rest of Shift's crap and everything else in DVA to the Graveyard. Any individual posts and resources other staffers made or anything else that needs to be retrieved in the future can still be accessed but I would like to leave any threads which Shift created or made contributions to in the Graveyard.


(This doesn't include student DJs, if they want them back, then go ahead and move them.)

Shift is getting her wish. Everything of hers will not be used by us. I would like for us to start from scratch.

Now, DVA is not going to be the bloated, complicated, intimidating monster it once was. I would like to keep it simple and friendly whenever possible. I'm asking all staffers to please contribute anything they can from opinions and suggestions to offering to teach if possible. To help, check out the new DVA forums. Thanks!

Sounds good Naiya. I pretty much agree with all of your ideas about the DVA. I think pre-reqs should be abolished. I also think that SoS and SP do not need their own classes. Really I think we could get by with just Dream Signs & Recall, WILD, DILD, Dream Control. Those should be the four main courses running consistently.

Then I would also like to see a few more classes taught every once in awhile, perhaps if the demand is high enough...and we can poll people to determine this. These can be done like classes or workshops, and I would love love love to attempt to bring some sleep/dream experts in to give a lecture or something. I think it would be a great idea to attempt to find some experts in the field who would be willing to helps us out in teaching a class, and then we'll promote their book or whatever all over the place. It could be a nice mutually beneficial arrangement.

We need to start, I think...at the beginning...since we are scrapping all of shift's stuff. Perhaps a simple...statement of purpose about what we want to accomplish with this? It's easy to get lost sometimes if you don't know where you started from. So a DVA mission statement, or guideline or something would be helpful. Then we need to go through all the different aspects of how we are going to run things, like with student applications, how many students in a class, how often do we want to have classes running (ideally), etc. etc.

Agreed on the classes. Some basic onces and then some others that are special and taught by maybe one person based on that person's strengths.

Mission statement, yes--doing a bunch of mod cleanup from Banana and CE going crazy so will get to that tonight.

OK guys, to prevent further drama we renamed all the DVA subforums and descriptions. All DVA stickies and announcements in the general on-topic forums are in the Graveyard. We will make some new ones once DVA is fixed up.

If you have any suggestions about the DVA subforums, go into the DVA staff forum and post 'em there. For example we don't know if we only need one classroom forum or more than one at this point, so if we end up needing to add things or adapt things to how the program will be run then that's no problem.

From now on we can have all the discussion about the DVA program in the new DVA subforums.