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Social Dreaming Training 2024 open for applications

The Social Dreaming International Network launches fourth international training programme

Social dreaming: an introduction

‘Social Dreaming’ is, put simply, a practice of sharing and working with dreams within a social space...

SDiN — Social Dreaming International network

Artistic Affluence in Social Dreaming

Come and see our current exhibition running until Autumn 2023

#1 Social Dreaming Matrix: Social Dreaming Matters Through Dream Sharing. Notes from the first matrix 1st November 2021

#2 Social Dreaming Matrix: Social Dreaming Matters Through Dream Sharing. Notes from the second matrix 4th November 2021

#3 Social Dreaming Matrix: Social Dreaming Matters Through Dream Sharing. Notes from the third matrix 8th November 2021

Social Matters through Dream Sharing

A Dream Symposium and Dream Auction

#15 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from the final matrix and review 24th June 2021

#14 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 – a year on. Notes from 17th June 2021

#13 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 - a year on. Notes from 10th June 2021

# 12 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 3rd June 2021

# 11 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 27 May 2021

# 9 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on Notes from 13th May 21

#10 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 20th May

#8 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 6th May 21

#7 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 29th April 21

#6 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 22nd April 21

#5 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 15th April 21

#4 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 8th April 21

#3 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 1st April 21

#2 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 25th March 21

#1 Social Dreaming Matrix: Covid-19 a year on. Notes from 18th March 21

Social Dreaming Matrix

Online dreaming sessions

Social Dreaming as container

to help deepen creative practice with organisations.

Prof Susan Long to give the Eric Miller Memorial Lecture

The Unconscious – the evolution of an idea.

The Tavistock Institute & COVID-19

Here at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, we have adapted to work alongside the pandemic as opposed to against it.

#16 Social Dreaming Matrix and Review during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 25th June

#15 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 22nd June

#14 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 18th June

#13 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 15th June

#12 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 11th June

#11 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 8th June

#10 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 4th June

#9 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 1st June

#8 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 28 May

#7 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 21 May

#6 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 18 May

#5 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 14 May

#4 Social Dreaming Matrix during the Covid-19 pandemic. Notes from 11 May

If we were to give the session a title it would be: Lemon Drop Soup to the Superhero • 48 participants – about 34 female/ 14 male • We lost count of dreams.. and associations..

#3 — At the breakfast table he is approached by someone he argued with 34 years ago.

#3 — At the breakfast table he is approached by someone he argued with 34 years ago...

#2 — the letter a. No longer warm, cosy and round but flat with a stick coming out of it — a threat...

#2 — the letter a. No longer warm, cosy and round but flat with a stick coming out of it — a threat...

#1 — rolling an orb along the ground, between the dreamer and another...

#1 — rolling an orb along the ground, between the dreamer and another...

Social Dreaming Matrix

Online dreaming sessions during Covid-19

I felt like I was there

Working with the digital archives of the Leicester Conference, a post by Karen Kiss.

Launch - Organisational Consultancy: Working with Dynamics 2020

Applications are now open for this programme.

Social Dreaming Training

Launched through a new partnership with the Social Dreaming International Network.

Testing New Ground

Consulting to Countries

Developing new understandings of corruption with a think tank in Finland.

The Social Dreaming International Network (SDiN)

We warmly welcome the SDiN in a new collaborative partnership.

New Book on Social Dreaming by Susan Long & Julian Manley

Dr Mannie Sher contributes the chapter: Social Spaces for Social Dreaming.

#4 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes From Wednesday 28 November 2018

#3 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes From 22nd November

#2 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes from 16th November

#1 Social Dreaming Matrix Notes from 6th November

Exciting events coming up in the Wellcome Library Reading Room NHS at 70 and TIHR!

Performances and Social Dreaming Matrices coming up...

3 October - Celebrating 10 Years of TIHR Lunchtime Talks with a bumper allotment lunch

You are cordially invited to...

Featuring from the ArchLive: Ambient Jam Collective

Keeping you informed about content and resources from our 70th Anniversary Celebrations festival.

Thank You Letter from #TIHR70

Bringing you news and photos from our Four Days in October...

Festival Social Dreaming Matrices #4: Friday 20 Oct 2017

Festival Social Dreaming Matrices #3: Thurs 19 Oct 2017

Festival Social Dreaming Matrices #2: Wed 18 Oct 2017

Festival Social Dreaming Matrices #1: Tue 17 Oct 2017

Final Festival Picks

With just a few days to the opening of Reimagining Human Relations in our Time...

TIHR 70 Festival Picks 3

Third in the series highlighting festival contributions.

The associative unconscious, abductive logic and social dreaming

A talk by Professor Susan Long

A review of part 2 Social Dreaming

This time the review began with a shorter social dreaming matrix Facilitation: Valerie Brown and Mannie Sher 10 people were present, 6 dreams and 11 associations were made [...]

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #6: Tues 28 Feb 2017

Part 2 Social Dreaming #5: Tuesday 28th February: Wellcome Collection Reading Room Facilitation and write-up: Anne Benson and Rachel Kelly The final matrix of this series. 22 people joined. A matrix of few dreams and many associations. The dreams were vivid and detailed [...]

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #5: Weds 22 Feb 2017

Part 2 Social Dreaming #5: Tuesday 22nd February: Wellcome Collection Reading Room Facilitation and write-up: Camilla Child and Sol Szekir-Papasavva 24 people came to the matrix and 22 stayed 27 dreams were presented and 24 associations made [...]

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #4: Tues 7 Feb 2017

Part 2 Social Dreaming #4: Tuesday 7th February: Wellcome Collection Reading Room Facilitation and write-up: Coreene Archer and Heather Stradling 15 people attended and all stayed 10 dreams were presented and over 35 associations made. [...]

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #3: Tues 24 Jan 2017

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #2: Thurs 19 Jan 2017

Part 2 Social Dreaming #2: Thursday 19th January: Wellcome Collection Reading Room Facilitation and write up: Elizabeth Cory-Pearce and Mannie Sher The second Social Dreaming event for 2017 had 16 dreamers, 12 of whom stayed until the end of the session 11 dreams were presented Forty four or so associations were made [...]

Part 2 Social Dreaming Note #1: Thurs 12 Jan 2017

Invitation to Dream Again in the Wellcome Library Reading Room

It’s nearly six months since Friday 24th June when we kicked off the first series of Social Dreaming matrices in the Wellcome Library Reading Room. Brexit was unfolding, dreams were colourful and colourless, uncertainty prevailed. The questions we took in to these were on dreams and archival practice, on what happens in the recovery and relocation of an organisation’s archive and the relationship of this material to the world we live in now ...

#7 Summer Dreaming: write up of the Social Dreaming Matrices review by Juliet Scott

Held in the Wellcome Library, Reading Room on Wednesday 7th September 2016 Attended by facilitators from the Tavistock Institute; staff from the Wellcome Library and two participants who hadn’t attended any of the matrices but were interested to hear all about them ...

Were you involved in our dreaming about the archive?

Social dreaming #6: Thu 28 July 2016

Social Dreaming Note #5: Tues 19 July 2016

Social Dreaming Note #4: Thurs 14 July 2016

Did you dream about the EU last night?

The day after the EU referendum, we held the first of a series of social dreaming events at the Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room. See more..

Social Dreaming Note #3: Thurs 7th July 2016

Social Dreaming Note #2: Thursday 30 June 2016

Social Dreaming Note #1: Friday 24 June 2016

Social Dreaming Note: Facilitator’s Meeting

Invitation to dream about the archive: social dreaming at Wellcome Collection

Social Dreaming Matrices at the Wellcome Library Reading room - starting Friday 24th June If dreams are in part the expression of our unconscious, can we work with the archive as the unconscious of organisational life? [...]

The artistry of the archive

Launching our new blog to document the emergent TIHR archive.

Social Dreaming and the Social Protest Movement, Occupy London at Tent City

Mannie Sher joined one of our lunchtime talks early this year to discuss his paper on Social Dreaming and the Social Protest Movement.

Lunchtime Talk: Mannie Sher (TIHR) - 21 May

Social Dreaming and the Social Protest Movement, Occupy London at Tent City

Learning to Host a Social Dreaming Matrix

Social Dreaming event at Tent City University. UPDATED: more sessions taking place...

The first Social Dreaming Event (SDE) at Tent City University took place on the 9th November with 20 people presenting a total of 11 dreams.

Organisational Consultancy: Working with the Dynamics

A hybrid/online series of 6 reflective seminars, for experienced consultancy practitioners focussing on advanced consultancy skills in Tavistock Institute Systems Psychodynamics.

Reading seminars: an introduction to Systems Psychodynamics

A unique opportunity to explore Systems Psychodynamics and its application to working in organisations and consultancy.

Social Dreaming

Social Dreaming is a practice of sharing and working with dreams within a social space

What is a Social Dreaming Matrix?

How we work with Social Dreaming

Talks and texts on Social Dreaming

Dreams from the past and the present

Dream collections from our social dreaming matrices

Dream auction

Dreams from 2021

Pandemic dreaming

Dreams from 2020

Archive dreams #2

Dreams from 2018

Festival dreams

Dreams from the TIHR Festival in 2017

Archive dreams #1

Dreams from 2016 and 2017