63rd Annual Conference

Friday February 24

Morning Workshops

10:00 A.M.-1:15 P.M.

Workshop 39

Social Dreaming Matrix (Part 1)

Part 2 is scheduled for Saturday, 8:45 am - 12:00 Noon

Chairs:    

Mary Dluhy, MSW, CGP, FAGPA, Faculty of National Group Psychotherapy Institute,  Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC

Sy Rubenfeld, Ph.D., CGP, Faculty of National Group Psychotherapy Institute,  Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC

Social dreaming works with dreams that move us beyond the individual dreamer. In this two-day format, members are invited to share their dreams and join a matrix ("a place out of which something grows"), offering their associations and collaborating without interpretation. Alternating dreams and dialogue, this workshop ends with a plenary to discuss realizations and implications for practice.

Demonstration-didactic-sharing of work experiences-experiential

Learning Objectives:

The attendee will be able to:

1. Learn more about and become sensitized to the common group dream patterns in personal dreams and associations.

2. Be exposed to dreams and associations as comments on shared personal/social worlds.

3. Become more keenly aware of the significance of manifest (vs. latent) content.

4. Become more sensitized to dream images as symbols; that is as displacement metaphors and as metonymy or analogy (part for whole).

5. Experience making a common creative matrix, through seeing overt analogies among dream materials and connections among dream associations. Members will know more about their transpersonal and transrational affinities with other participants.

Course References:

1. Jung, C. (1961). Memories. Dreams. Reflections. New York: Pantheon.

2. Lawrence, W. (1995). Social Dreaming @ Work. New York & London: Karnac.

3. Palombo, (1978). Dreaming and Memory: A new information-processing model