Gordon Lawrence
Saturday, 15 November
Infinite Possibilities of Social Dreaming.
The Book Social Dreaming has existed for millenia, but the Social Dreaming Matrix was an invention ... The prototype, called 'Creativity and Social Dreaming' was held at the Tavistock Institute in 1982. ...We .wanted a thinking space for dreaming which would not be chained, or cluttered, by 'group processes' for we wanted to look at dream in a cultural way de novo. ... A SDM proceeds by dreams and associations, spontaneously offered. There is no hierarchy and participants experience the SDM as democratic and freeing. The thinking of the Matrix reveals infinite possibilities of dream-meaning. The unconscious of individuals begin to resonate to yield the social unconscious... which makes the unknown of the infinite present and immanent for the majority of participants. Th unknown is the existential stuff of the SDM for it is from this that new knowledge and insight is gained.. The knowledge contained in the dream is the personal knowledge of the participants ad out of this new knowledge emerges. Social Dreaming has exposed a new vista of the terrain of dreaming. ... The SDM becomes a transitional space understood by participants as being a contained, shared event that allows them to 'play' with dreams as objects and to examine privately their subjective thinking. Gordon Lawrence The Speaker W. Gordon Lawrence, MA, Dr rer oec is a managing director of Social Dreaming Ltd., London. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the University of Northumberland at Newcastle and the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Formerly, he was a visiting professor at Cranfield University. He is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis; on the editorial board of Free Associations (UK), Freie Assoziation (Germany) and Organizational and Social Dynamics (UK); and a former board member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations; now, a Distinguished Member. He was on the scientific staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (1971-82); a consultant at Shell International (1982-85); President of the International Foundation of Social Innovation, Paris, (1985-1990). Since then he has worked as an organizational consultant and been developing the praxis of Social Dreaming™, which he discovered in 1981.
All events have been organised in aid of the London Centre for Psychotherapy - Registered Charity No. 267244. All proceeds from these events will go to The London Centre for Psychotherapy, a member institution of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
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