Experiences in Social Dreaming

W. Gordon Lawrence

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Karnac Books
21 February 2003

Sleep & dreams

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.

Edited by: W. Gordon Lawrence
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781855759169
ISBN 10: 1855759160
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 21 February 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction -- The social dreaming phenomenon -- Social dreaming: report on the workshops held in Mauriburg, Raissa, and Clarice Town -- Dreaming the future -- Not two and not one -- The science, spirit, chaos, and order of social dreaming -- The discovery of social dreaming -- Relationship and relatedness between the elementary school as a system and its violent parts -- Childreamatrix: dreaming with preschool children—or, bootlegging dreams into the school years -- Deep calls unto deep: can we experience the transcendent infinite? -- Sliding houses in the Promised Land: unstable reality worked through dreams -- Social dreaming and the senior managers’ programme -- Dream intelligence: tapping conscious and non-attended sources of intelligence in organizations -- Paul Lippman interview -- The confusion of dreams between selves and the other: non-linear continuities in the social dreaming experience -- Theatre of dreams: social dreaming as ritual/yoga/literature machine -- Social dreaming: a paradox accepted (a psychoanalyst’s condensed thoughts on social dreaming) -- Associations and reflections on social dreaming -- Social dreaming: dreams in search of a dreamer -- Some thoughts on social dreaming

Gordon Lawrence was a managing partner of Social Dreaming Ltd, London, and a visiting professor at the University of Northumberland, Newcastle, the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and at La Sapienza, the University of Rome. Formerly, he held a visiting professorship at Cranfield University, Bedford. He was on the editorial board of Free Associations (UK), Freie Assoziation (Germany) and Organizational and Social Dynamics (UK). He was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis and a Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Reviews for Experiences in Social Dreaming

'In editing these papers, I am struck by how the idea of Social Dreaming has caught the imagination of the writers and those with whom they have worked. I am also struck by the quality of thinking made available in these papers. Although it has a short history, Social Dreaming is now well enough established in a range of countries like the USA, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, France, Israel, Ireland and the UK. As yet, there is no well-rehearsed theory, but there are working hypotheses, which are testimony to the fact that Social Dreaming is always in a process of becoming.' - W. Gordon Lawrence, from the Introduction. 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.