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.
Resources
- The Creativity of Social Dreaming
- Gordon Lawrence’s Social Dreaming Matrix: Background, Origins, History, and Developments
- The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma (2018)
- Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to a Paradigm Shift (2019)
- Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming, Community Psychoanalysis, and Reflective Citizenship (pp. 31-34; 2022)
- Social Dreaming, Our Climate Crisis, and Democratic Co-creation of Our Future
- Social Dreaming as a Generative Pathway to the “Geopolitics of Emotion”
