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Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with
dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people,
coming together for this purpose. In the first chapter, he outlines
some ideas on this phenomenon. Here follows a wide-ranging
collection of essays on the experiences of various practitioners,
either personal or what they have found when taking this phenomenon
into the wider social arena, such as the church, schools,
consultancy and working with children.
"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with
dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of
people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins
date back to the early 1980s. At that time, the author was on the
scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. He
was a core membe
"In social dreaming the dreamers tell their dreams to others.
Although individuals are necessary to dream, the dream is not just
a personal possession for it also captures the political and
institutional aspects of the dreamers' social context and how these
are present or laced into their struggles for creativity, meaning
and ordinariness. The meaning of the dream is expanded and
developed through free association, amplification and systemic
thinking to give voice to the echoes of thinking and thought that
exist in the space between individuals' minds in the shared
environment." -- W. Gordon LawrenceThis introductory text explores
the phenomenon of social dreaming, a concept first introduced at
the Tavistock Institute in 1982. Social dreaming gives an
opportunity to share a dream with others and the dream is then
further developed by free association and discussion. The focus is
on the dream and the social context of the dreamers, rather than
the individual dreamers. Dreams often reflect the social
environment of the dreamer and thus prove to be a useful tool when
examining the group dynamics. It can be used to identify possible
problems within that group and to create common ground among the
participants. Solutions can be found in unexpected ways when a
person's inner thoughts are discussed in the social context he/she
belongs to. Social dreaming has been used in business organiations,
churches, hospitals and even schools.The author offers various
examples of dreams narrated and explored in groups and their
applications in the social setting. His extensive experience and
knowledge on the subject are combined with an easy-to-understand
language in this important text on social dreaming.
Social Dreaming was discovered in the early 1980s at the Tavistock
Institute in London. Its focus is on the dream and not the dreamer.
It is done with a set of people who come together to share their
dreams. This goes against the accepted belief, even dogma, that the
study of dreaming can only be pursued in a one-to-one relationship,
where one of t
Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with
dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people,
coming together for this purpose. In the first chapter, he outlines
some ideas on this phenomenon. Here follows a wide-ranging
collection of essays on the experiences of various practitioners,
either personal or what the
This book explains social dreaming by situating it in the context
of thinking, culture, and knowledge and distinguishes how it
differs from conventional, therapeutic dreaming, making the case
for how it can be used in systems, like business organizations,
educational institutions, and hospitals.
This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social
dreaming.The book begins with a summary of the Social Dreaming
Matrix conceptualised as a temporary system with its intakes,
transformation processes and outputs. The remaining chapters cover
social dreaming in different contexts including, amongst others,
from the perspectives of art, architecture, theatre, working with
immigrants, with pilots and lawyers and family mediators and
hospitals.All the papers cover areas outside of the goal orientated
activities of the institution, and examine what they may be saying
about the organization of the participants.
One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through
their roles, to their various groupings (such as families,
communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to
consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration
of organizational structures, management, and issues of
responsibility, leadership, and authority. Beyond this, the
Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious
social processes are of central importance in such explorations.
The methodology of the approach, therefore, is one that encourages
people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political
dimensions of institutions, This involves people in examine a range
of boundaries, such as those between the inner and outer worlds of
the individual, between person and role, and between enterprise and
environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits,
or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty,
order and chaos, innovation and destructiveness, reality and
fantasy, and relationship and relatedness.
This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social
dreaming.The book begins with a summary of the Social Dreaming
Matrix conceptualised as a temporary system with its intakes,
transformation processes and outputs. The remaining chapters cover
social dreaming in different contexts including, amongst others,
from the perspectives of art, architecture, theatre, working with
immigrants, with pilots and lawyers and family mediators and
hospitals.All the papers cover areas outside of the goal orientated
activities of the institution, and examine what they may be saying
about the organization of the participants.
Social Dreaming was discovered in the early 1980s at the Tavistock
Institute in London. Its focus is on the dream and not the dreamer.
It is done with a set of people who come together to share their
dreams. This goes against the accepted belief, even dogma, that the
study of dreaming can only be pursued in a one-to-one relationship,
where one of the participants is a trained psychoanalyst.The
chapters in this book on Social Dreaming indicate the endless
possibilities of free association and amplification in social
dreaming. Although each writer has conveyed this, there still exist
in their texts more detailed connotations and possible meanings of
particular dreams. In a sense, their chapters are only beginnings
for the reader to expand, as none is in any sense a complete, final
version of the potential meanings of dreams in a particular Social
Dreaming Matrix.
One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through
their roles, to their various groupings (such as families,
communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to
consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration
of organizational structures, management, and issues of
responsibility, leadership, and authority. Beyond this, the
Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious
social processes are of central importance in such explorations.
The methodology of the approach, therefore, is one that encourages
people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political
dimensions of institutions, This involves people in examine a range
of boundaries, such as those between the inner and outer worlds of
the individual, between person and role, and between enterprise and
environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits,
or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty,
order and chaos, innovation and destructiveness, reality and
fantasy, and relationship and relatedness.
A volume of collected papers by one of the most prominent thinkers
on psychoanalytic processes in organisations. The papers in this
collection span two-and-a-half decades and address some of the most
difficult, complex, and paradoxical aspects of the human condition.
"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with
dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of
people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins
date back to the early 1980s. At that time, Gordon Lawrence was on
the scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.
He was a core member of the Institute's Group Relations Programme,
within which he had developed a distinctive approach centring
around the concept of "relatedness" - that is, the ways in which
individual experience and behaviour reflects and is structured by
conscious and unconscious constructs of the group or organization
in the mind...
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