The Creativity of Social Dreaming

This broad range of papers covers different aspects of social dreaming. Chapter 1 gives a summary of the Social Dreaming Matrix conceptualized as a temporary system with its intakes, transformation processes and outputs. The remaining chapters cover social dreaming in different contexts including, amongst others, from the perspectives of art, architecture, theatre, working with immigrants, with pilots and lawyers and family mediators and hospitals. All the papers cover areas outside of the goal orientated activities of the institution, and examine what they may be saying about the organization of the participants.

Dr Gordon Lawrence is a managing partner of Social Dreaming Ltd., London. A former member of the Tavistock Institute scientific staff and a visiting professor at Cranfield University, UK, he is now visiting professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. He is also a Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.