Introduction to Social Dreaming: Transforming Thinking

by W. Gordon Lawrence

Overview

This book explains social dreaming by situating it in the context of thinking, culture, and knowledge and distinguishes how it differs from conventional, therapeutic dreaming, making the case for how it can be used in systems, like business organizations, educational institutions, and hospitals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753426
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/08/2005
Series:	Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

W. Gordon Lawrence is a former member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, where he discovered social dreaming in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Currently, he is a visiting Professor at Cranfield, the University of Northumberland at Newcastle, and the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. He is a Fellow of AISA and is on the editorial boards of Free Associations, Freie Assoziation, and Organisation and Social Dynamics. He has published a number of books, as well as writing numerous articles and papers, of which the most recent are Roots in Northern Landscape (1996), Social Dreaming @ Work (1998), Tongued With Fire: Groups in Experience (2000) and Experiences in Social Dreaming (2003). He is a managing partner of Symbiont Ventures, London, which is directed at advancing the idea of social dreaming and its application.

Table of Contents

Preface — The history of social dreaming — Social dreaming in a company — What is social dreaming? — The marvelling mind of humans — The underestimated value of unconscious thinking — The differences of consciousness in relation to the unconscious — Working with the social dreaming matrix — Social dreaming as it illuminates political realities — Social dreaming, quantum reality, and the digital age — Working hypotheses on social dreaming — Case study — Social dreaming as the shadow of the future — Conclusion — The last word — How does a social dreaming matrix work? — Applications of social dreaming