Social Dreaming @ Work
By: W. Gordon Lawrence
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780429480317
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Psychanalyse; SELF-HELP; Dreams
Description: "'"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 Program, within which he had developed a distinctive approach centering around the concept of "relatedness"--That is, the ways in which individual experience and behavior reflects and is structured by conscious and unconscious constructs of the group or organization in the mind ... 'What Lawrence has discovered or rediscovered in the social dreaming matrix is another context of contexts for dreaming, in which the emotional experience on which our capacity for dreaming, for entertaining dream thoughts, works is not that of the pair but that of the many: group, society, tribe, collective, race, species. Within this or these contracts, the meanings of the dream and dreaming spread out to capture and formulate echoes-of-the-thoughts-that-are-there, in the space between the "many-in-mind".'- David Armstrong, from his Introduction"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Prologue; Chapter 1. ""Won from the void and formless infinite"": experiences of social dreaming; Chapter 2. Dreaming to learn: pathways to rediscovery; Chapter 3. Vision in organizational life; Chapter 4. The use of dreams in systems-centred theory; Chapter 5. The social dreaming matrix; Chapter 6. After Shakespeare-the language of social dreaming; Chapter 7. Thinking aloud: contributions to three dialogues; Chapter 8. Creating new cultures: the contribution of social dreaming; title: Chapter 9. Social dreaming as a tool of consultancy and action researchChapter 10. Simultaneity and parallel process: an on-line applied social dreaming matrix; Chapter 11. Social dreaming @ work; REFERENCES; INDEX