Social Dreaming @ Work

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, W. Gordon Lawrence outlines some ideas on this phenomenon.

List of contents

In Memory of Sam Lawrence, 3rd July, 1993 to 3rd December, 1996 -- Introduction -- Prologue -- "Won from the void and formless infinite": experiences of social dreaming -- Dreaming to learn: pathways to rediscovery -- Vision in organizational life -- The use of dreams in systems-centred theory -- The social dreaming matrix -- After Shakespeare-the language of social dreaming -- Thinking aloud: contributions to three dialogues -- Creating new cultures: the contribution of social dreaming -- Social dreaming as a tool of consultancy and action research -- Simultaneity and parallel process: an on-line applied social dreaming matrix -- Social dreaming @ work

About the author

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.

Summary

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, W. Gordon Lawrence outlines some ideas on this phenomenon.

Product details

• Authors: David Armstrong, W. Gordon Lawrence
• Assisted by: W Gordon Lawrence (Editor), W. Gordon Lawrence (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367326999
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32699-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychology: states of consciousness, Sociology: work & labour, Sleep & dreams, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General