Series 7, Episode 3: The Social Dreaming Network: Are we all part of a dreaming matrix?

In this episode Laura meets Franca Fubini, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and an organizational consultant, to discuss the history of social dreaming. How the methodology was developed by Gordon Lawrence in the 1980's, while working at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in London, UK, and its significance in accessing the unconscious for the understanding of societal issues.   Laura and Franca delve into the social dreaming matrix, where a collective of people come together to transform the thinking of the dream by sharing dreams, finding links, connections and discovering new thoughts and thinking. Such process gives access to the social meaning of dreams.  Social dreaming differs from traditional dream analysis as the focus is on the dream itself, not the dreamer.   The discussion also touches on the impact of the 9/11 and COVID-19 pandemic on dreaming, highlighting common themes that emerged during that time.   Franca is also an organizational consultant: she explains how over years of experience the methodology has become a most useful tool of organizational consultancy. She has worked for decades with companies, National Health Services, Education Institutes, therapeutic communities etc. and has collected many examples of how social dreaming has been a key factor for the transformation of an organizational culture.   She concludes by mentioning how a social dreaming matrix  opens each gathering of Reflective Citizenship, an event that has been designed by Dr. Marina Mojiovic at the end of the Balkan war, in order to offer a space where citizens and communities could work through the trauma of war and reconnect by cultivating the seeds of open dialogue.   Your dreams are worth inquiring about too! Share a dream or a question via our website driccpe.org.uk or the social links below!   Let us know what you think and submit a dream for us to explore on the podcast!  Instagram @thedreamboatpodcast FaceBook @dreamboatpodcast Twitter @dreamboatpod DRI website: driccpe.org.uk/contact    This podcast is a project of the DRI, the centre for dream studies at CCPE, the psychotherapy college overlooking the canals at London's scenic Little Venice.   Remember you can join the DRI for just £30 a year currently to access discounted events, courses, newsletters and join in the conversation about dreams. Go to driccpe.org.uk/sign-up to join!   Keep dreaming and keep sharing your dreams!   Credits Recorded on Riverside.fm by Dave and Laura Edited by James Ede at Be Heard https://beheard.org.uk  Podcast Artwork Design by Kat Seager Design   Music: Adventures by A Himitsu https://soundcloud.com/a-himitsu  Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/2Pj0MtT Music released by Argofox https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE  Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8 #dream #dreams #recurringdream #nightmares #psychology #research #psychotherapy #trauma #treatment #sleep #transpersonal #science #alchemy #spirituality #jung #lucid #luciddreaming #podcast #dreamwork #technology #AI #artificialintelligence #gpt #individuation #art #surrealism #consciousness   Tags: Insta: @onefulness @dreamresearchinstitute @iasddream   FB: @associationforstudyofdreams  @dreamresearchinstitute