W. Gordon LawrenceCritiques

Social Dreaming is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose.

W. Gordon Lawrence is a former member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, where he discovered social dreaming in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Currently, he is a visiting Professor at Cranfield, the University of Northumberland at Newcastle, and the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. He is a Fellow of AISA and is on the editorial boards of Free Associations, Freie Assoziation, and Organisation and Social Dynamics. He has published a number of books, as well as writing numerous articles and papers, of which the most recent are Roots in Northern Landscape (1996), Social Dreaming @ Work (1998), Tongued With Fire: Groups in Experience (2000) and Experiences in Social Dreaming (2003). He is a managing partner of Symbiont Ventures, London, which is directed at advancing the idea of social dreaming and its application.