When the Skin is Thin
Dreaming the Social Mornings
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Free associations of dreams, inspired by the work of Gordon Lawrence.
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5 to 6 am (GMT) Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Beginning on the 1st of September 2016.
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A sense-making workshop every fourth Sunday of the month (1-4 pm GMT with 30 mins break 1:30-2:00 pm).
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Fee: 3% of your gross monthly income per hour face-to-face contact time, plus VAT. FAQ the fees.
Available also as an in-house group, in person or on-line, for projects and organisations, up to 15 members for a small group. Bespoke design for larger membership.
The group is set up early in the morning following Anzieu's observation that waking up at 4 am, the body, through the Skin Ego, is best prepared for transformation, renewal and change. 4 am is also the time when the world itself is at the boundary between night and day, darkness and light. As a member of one of my other groups say, this is when the universe, perhaps through the song of the early birds, sends us a waking up call.
The dreams are approached not as bearers of individual wish fulfilment, conflicts or pathology in personal terms, but as a source of tacit knowledge about the world around us. Speaking about dreams make this tacit knowledge accessible, possible to be understood as a group, organisational, social or political reality and used to inform meaningful action.
The session comprises free associations of dreams, blending the work of Donald Meltzer, Charles Stewart, Angus Gowland, Mark Fisher, Ian Edgar and others. My method is different from "social dreaming" not only in this that is a part of my search for what I call the virtual pitch by doing it online. Like with social dreaming, the aim is still to use the capacity of a group to access, capture and interpret beneath-the-surface processes from the social, historical, political and cultural reality around us. However, I deploy classical and postmodern social and political thought to make sense of the free associations of dreams. Also, my work is linked to doing cinema as a way of thinking and being and to the fusion of cinema and dreaming - as reflected in the Videophile Project of Deirdre Barrett or to viewing film as our way of collective dreaming altogether. Book your place a week in advance of the session.