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Kelly Lydick

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Kelly Lydick received a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, and an M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California, San Francisco (now at CIIS).

Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, Switched-on Gutenberg, Mission at Tenth, Thema, Tarpaulin Sky, and many others.

Her articles on dreams, meditation, and other subjects have appeared in magazines including CO Yoga + Life, Yoga + Life, Natural Awakenings, True Blue Spirit, Java, Western Art Collector, Santa Fean. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writers’ Block, and she’s appeared on NPR’s Word podcast, iHeart Radio, InnerZension Radio, Align Radio, and others.

She is the author of the experimental work, Mastering the Dream, Kelly Lydick received a B.A. in Writing and Literature from Burlington College, and an M.A. in Writing and Consciousness from the New College of California, San Francisco (now at CIIS).

Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, Drunken Boat, Switched-on Gutenberg, Mission at Tenth, Thema, Tarpaulin Sky, and many others.

Her articles on dreams, meditation, and other subjects have appeared in magazines including CO Yoga + Life, Yoga + Life, Natural Awakenings, True Blue Spirit, Java, Western Art Collector, Santa Fean. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writers’ Block, and she’s appeared on NPR’s Word podcast, iHeart Radio, InnerZension Radio, Align Radio, and others.

She is the author of the experimental work, Mastering the Dream, and she’s a contributing author to the anthologies Dreams That Change Our Lives; My Journal My Journey; and Are You the Missing Piece?. She's also the author of Dream Incubation for Great Self-Awareness: A Handbook, and Everything That's Left Behind (a novel).

Kelly teaches workshops, and offers private consultations for those interested in personal growth and consciousness expansion.

She holds professional certifications as a Gateway Dreaming™ Coach, Life Coach, Meditation Facilitator, Reiki Master, Crystal Reiki Master, Animal Reiki Master, and in Energy Medicine, Optimal Healing Environments, and in Music Therapy and Sound Healing. She is also a graduate of the inaugural class of Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening.

Kelly holds professional memberships with the International Association for the Study of Dreams, where she has presented her work on dream studies and currently serves on the Executive Board, and with the Academy of American Poets.

Kelly was the co-founding editorial board member and Associate Editor of Immanence: The Journal of Applied Myth, Story, and Folklore.

Her signature creative writing workshop, Writing the Dream Time, has been featured at Burlington College, at ASU’s Piper Center for Creative Writing, at the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and others.

In 2016, Kelly was honored by the internationally-renowned Omega Institute of Rhinebeck, New York, with a Juno Residency Award for excellence in women’s leadership for her service-based business, Waking the Dream.

In late 2018, Kelly founded The Story Laboratory, a boutique publishing consulting company that offers support for aspiring creative writers, established authors, and publishing companies through all phases of the publishing process.

Her website is: www.kellylydick.com
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	Mastering the Dream 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Evolutionary Mindset: Stop Changing. Start Evolving. by Amy Washburn, Kelly Lydick (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This is a book that began in 2015 with a flash fiction prompt at the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University. I loved the concept and character so much, I also wrote it into a short story in 2015. But there was a larger ...more
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“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
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“Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.”
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