Social Dreaming @ Work

Gordon Lawrence was a managing partner of Social Dreaming Ltd, London, and a visiting professor at the University of Northumberland, Newcastle, the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, and at La Sapienza, the University of Rome. Formerly, he held a visiting professorship at Cranfield University, Bedford. He was on the editorial board of Free Associations (UK), Freie Assoziation (Germany) and Organizational and Social Dynamics (UK). He was a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Socio-Analysis and a Distinguished Member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

In Memory of Sam Lawrence, 3rd July, 1993 to 3rd December, 1996 -- Introduction -- Prologue -- "Won from the void and formless infinite": experiences of social dreaming -- Dreaming to learn: pathways to rediscovery -- Vision in organizational life -- The use of dreams in systems-centred theory -- The social dreaming matrix -- After Shakespeare-the language of social dreaming -- Thinking aloud: contributions to three dialogues -- Creating new cultures: the contribution of social dreaming -- Social dreaming as a tool of consultancy and action research -- Simultaneity and parallel process: an on-line applied social dreaming matrix -- Social dreaming @ work