Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences
A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.
Not all events are recorded. When we record an event it can be found in the archive.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
From Dream to Deliberation: The Open Space Dream Field: An Experiment Toward a Socially Engaged Psychoanalysis
December 4th at 5:30 – 8:00 PM PT
December 11th at 5:30 – 8:00 PM PT
Description
A Workshop for Collective Insight and Community Change
Have you ever had a dream that felt like it spoke to more than just you? Or wished your community could come together in a creative, healing way to solve its challenges?
This two part workshop invites you to be part of a new process that blends dream-sharing, open conversation, and social action. In the first portion, we’ll share dreams in a safe space, exploring how they might reflect shared experiences, emotions, or concerns—what some call the “social unconscious.” In the second segment, we’ll create small self-led groups to talk about the themes from the dreams and explore ideas for personal and community change.
Presenter
George Bermudez
Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and 2025 Louis Ormont Keynote Speaker at the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) Conference has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. He is the author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American Xenophobia; Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential psycho-political solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.
Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences
A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.
Not all events are recorded. When we record an event it can be found in the archive.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
From Dream to Deliberation: The Open Space Dream Field: An Experiment Toward a Socially Engaged Psychoanalysis
December 4th at 5:30 – 8:00 PM PT
December 11th at 5:30 – 8:00 PM PT
Description
A Workshop for Collective Insight and Community Change
Have you ever had a dream that felt like it spoke to more than just you? Or wished your community could come together in a creative, healing way to solve its challenges?
This two part workshop invites you to be part of a new process that blends dream-sharing, open conversation, and social action. In the first portion, we’ll share dreams in a safe space, exploring how they might reflect shared experiences, emotions, or concerns—what some call the “social unconscious.” In the second segment, we’ll create small self-led groups to talk about the themes from the dreams and explore ideas for personal and community change.
Presenter
George Bermudez
Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) and 2025 Louis Ormont Keynote Speaker at the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA) Conference has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. He is the author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019), he has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American Xenophobia; Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential psycho-political solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.
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