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Social Dreaming in a Transactional Analysis Context

Pages 227-234
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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We all dream, individually and collectively. The latter is called “social dreaming,” an established practice in a number of groups and societies. For example, elders in some tribes gather to share dreams in order to find direction. In the analytic world, social dreaming was discovered to be an important way of increasing awareness of aspects of the collectively held unconscious. In this article, the concept of the social dreaming matrix is explored along with the way it was applied and experienced during the 18th biannual transactional analysis conference held in Sydney, Australia, in 2006. Themes and issues from the conference experience are discussed.

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Kathy Laverty

Servaas van Beekum, drs., is a social scientist with a background in analytic, humanistic, and systemic modalities. He is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, a psychotherapist (PACFA reg.), a supervisor, and an executive coach (EAS/ASCCANZ reg.) as well as a consultant to organizations. He is the past president of EATA and the ITAA and works globally as a guest trainer and supervisor. He is a cofounder of Group Relations Nederland (1992) and Group Relations Australia (2005), associations that study unconscious group process in organizations. He currently lives in Sydney, where he has a private practice as a psychotherapist, coach, and supervisor. He can be reached at 158 Wellington Street, Bondi/Sydney 2026, NSW, Australia; e-mail: .
Kathy Laverty, Certified Transactional Analyst, Dip. of Counseling and Communications ACAP, is a psychotherapist in private practice PACFA reg.). She is a graduate of the Australian Center of Integrative Studies and the Australian College of Applied Psychology. She has background in theology and the arts and rained in classical dance at the Royal Ballet in London. She has also studied at the American Dance Therapy Association, New York. Kathy was born in South Africa, where she lived and worked for 33 years. She was the founder and director of Kgodisong Youth Center in Alexandra, where she worked with traumatized youth for 8years. Kathy currently lives in Sydney, Australia, and can be reached at 24 High Street, Waverley, 2024, NSW, Australia; e-mail: .