(Advance sign-up for workshops was required. Attendance is limited; not open to walk-ins.)
Social Dreaming (SD) is a means to understand our dreams in relation to the communities and organizations in which we live and work. In a Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM), participants gather to share dreams and explore the social nature of dreams. The focus is always on the dream, not the dreamer. From this stance, each dream and our associations to it connect to other dreams and to the broader world. When dreams are taken collectively, the matrix provides insight into the broader contexts in which we live and provides access to new ways of thinking about our work, interactions and context.
Workshop participants will learn about SD and how to host SDMs. Then, each morning of the conference, workshop volunteers may host or participate in an SDM open to all conference participants, like morning meditation or yoga sessions. The collection of dreams will be available to workshop participants for meaning-making with potential post-conference follow-up. The long-term goal is to host future SDMs in future conferences and collect dreams over time, providing an opportunity to document and gain insight from dreams over time about our shifting context and work.