Title: Educator

Gender: Male

Age: 59

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Chinese Sign: Earth Ox

Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Joseph Dillard was born in Little, Rock, Arkansas, in 1949. The son of an orthodontist and a housewife, he has two older sisters, Annette, a social worker, and Andra, a stock broker. At thirteen he traveled to the Middle East with the Association for Research and Enlightenment, dedicated to the study of the Edgar Cayce readings. The group included Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of Edgar Cayce, Bill and Gladys McGarey, founders of the American Holistic Health Association, and Ida Rolf, founder of the bodywork known as Rolfing. At that time he was introduced to meditation, dream work, and a number of talented psychics. In college he studied comparative religion, psychology, and philosophy, with particular interest in Nagarjuna’s Madhyamika (Mahayana) Buddhism. In 1975 he graduated from the University of Texas with a BA in philosophy. He traveled and lectured with Hugh Lynn Cayce on the subjects of meditation and dreamwork and gave many workshops on dreamwork. During this period of time Dr. Dillard learned and practiced Jungian, Gestalt, and other forms of therapy that use dream material extensively. In 1976 he began work in the mental health field and received his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Arkansas in 1978. In 1980 he created Dream Sociometry, the dreamwork methodology that led to the development of Dream Yoga. In 1979, while working in northern Arkansas as the administrator of a multidisciplinary pain treatment center, he had the opportunity to continue his education by developing and presenting health risk reduction programs to groups of senior citizens. For this work, in addition to program development at the pain treatment center, he was awarded his PhD in Wholistic Health Sciences from Columbia Pacific University in 1980. A dream led to a move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1983 and work as a psychotherapist at the ARE Clinic. About this time he became a devoted admirer of Ken Wilber’ integral psychology, whose influence is found throughout his writings.
He married Mary Jane Trunzo in 1985, a speech-language pathologist specializing in the treatment of brain injury. His daughter Kira was born in 1987. Also in 1987, he became a co-minister at Logos, an interdenominational church in Scottsdale, Arizona.. In 1985 he co-authored Dreamworking, How to Use Your Dreams for Creative Problem Solving with Stanley Krippner, a pioneer in dream telepathy and shamanic healing. Dr. Dillard has been in private and group practice as a LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in greater Phoenix, Arizona, since 1985, treating individuals, couples, and families for relationship issues, depression, anxiety, addiction, ADD/ADHD, and spiritual development issues. In 2000 he began teaching Dream Yoga and other courses at the Southwest Institute for the Healing Arts (SWIHA), in Tempe, Arizona. In 2001 he began ordaining graduating practitioners as pastoral counselors. Dr. Dillard loves to hike, mountain bike, and sail. In 1989 he ran the Pike’s Peak marathon with his sister Andra. His real love, however, is helping others awaken to their unique potential for personal fulfillment and service to others.
In addition to Dreamworking, and Deep Listening: Awakening Your Soul’s Purpose with Dream Yoga, he is author of six textbooks used in conjunction with the Dream Yoga curriculum. These are Transformational Dreamwork: Toward an Integral Approach to Deep Listening, Dream Yoga, Dream Sociometry, The Dream Sociogram, Dream Yoga Practitioner, and Dream Yoga and Meditatio. He is currently working on two additional books, Dream Politics, and Case Studies in Deep Listening. He is also the author of DreamQuest!, a role-playing game adaptation of Dream Yoga.

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