Social Dreaming workshops were originally developed by Gordon Lawrence as a means of consulting to organisations in a way which could go ‘beneath the surface’ to the unconscious preoccupations, images and phantasies that are ever-present but often unsurfaced in organisational life. Since then it has been developed in ways which take it outside of organisations and into community and community research. It is an experiential event in which we offer dreams and free associate to them to work towards a collective sense of patterns emerging from them. By pooling and connecting our dreams we aim to ‘take the pulse’ of broader social realities and surface common concerns and creative possibilities.

The space for coming together to share and explore our dreams through an associative process is known as the dream matrix. A "host" provides support to the matrix usually in a snowflake pattern of seating that is neither individual or group focused, guiding our journey in sharing and making sense of our dreams by offering connections between them and hypotheses that illuminate their contributions. The word "host" is used to introduce the idea that the matrix is not a group to be facilitated or led but an open space for containing and working with dreams.

The time is spent in two phases, an initial event in which participants share dreams and associations and a reflection event in which participants do sense making of the material that arose during the matrix. The total time of the event is 1.5hrs. The dream matrix is roughly twice the time of the reflection. There is a limit of 20 participants.

Please sign up at the registration desk and come and share your dreams!

For more information see http://www.socialdreaming.com/socialdreaming/