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We warmly welcome The Social Dreaming International Network SDiN in a new collaborative partnership.‘Social Dreaming’, the practice of sharing, associating to and working with dreams in a matrix in order to identify social trends and social dynamics, was pioneered and developed by Gordon Lawrence an...
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I have just finished reading Paura Reverenza Terrore1 (that can be translated as Fear Reverence Terror) It is a book of “political iconography” (as the subtitle reads) by Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian of ideas. The book is a collection of five essays published between 2001 and 2009 and for th...
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The Institute’s CEO, Eliat Aram, gave a key note address at the AK Rice symposium in Chicago, Illinois in October 2010.The symposium is a bi-yearly event which on this occasion was celebrating 40 years of work of the AK Rice Institute, the USA’s Group Relations organisation offering an annual intern...
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Hosts and Notes: Rachel Kelly, Heather Stradling, Martha Mens, Susan Long29 dreamers6 dreams51 associationsThemes: Polarities and splits: life and death, heaven and hell, the frozen and the fire, war and freedom, the haves and have nots, dreams and reality.The Matrix felt heavy – as if the dark side...
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In November 2020 I began a Wellcome Trust funded archival project to catalogue the records of Harold Bridger (1909-2005). Bridger is most recognised as being a psychoanalyst, a founder of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and an organisational consultant.In working from home, I was introduc...
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A review of the Italian translation of a collection of articles and essays by Jean Neumann.This is the first book that collects a series of contributions Jean Neumann has made with her work over the years. This work conceptualises the understanding of the complexity of the organisational change as a...
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By Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome LibraryThis blog is the second in a three part series about the experiences of an archivist, a historian and a social researcher in running the War Officer Selection Boards (WOSBs) in the Wellcome Library’s Reading Room last year. Read the arch...
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A review of the second social dreaming series by Hannah WalshThis time the review began with a shorter social dreaming matrixFacilitation: Valerie Brown and Mannie Sher10 people were present, 6 dreams and 11 associations were made.The MatrixA sepia coloured dream taking place at a cool conference. T...
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Image Credit: Good Bicycle, Bad Bicycle. Watercolour on Langton paper, 148 x 105 mm by Juliet Scott.Part 2 Social Dreaming #6: Tuesday 28th February: Wellcome Collection Reading RoomFacilitation and write-up: Anne Benson and Rachel KellyThe final matrix of this series. 22 people joined. A matrix of ...
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Part 2 Social Dreaming #2: Thursday 19th January: Wellcome Collection Reading RoomFacilitation and write up: Elizabeth Cory-Pearce and Mannie SherThe second Social Dreaming event for 2017 had16 dreamers, 12 of whom stayed until the end of the session11 dreams were presentedForty four or so associati...
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Post by Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Library.It has been virtually impossible over the past month to escape the fiercely contested American presidential campaigns. Newspapers, social media, and television have all been caught up in debating what makes a good leader. Donald Tr...
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Held in the Wellcome Library, Reading Room on Wednesday 7th September 2016Attended 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.Building a yellow (brick) road to S...
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Social Dreaming Matrix #6: Thursday 28 July 2016, Wellcome Collection Reading Room Facilitation and write-up: Elena Carter and Mannie SherNo. of people present: 44 + 2 onlookers + 1 baby; a number of people came and left over the course of the session. No. of Dreams: 20No. of Associations: 57**A re...
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Keeping you informed about content and resources from our 70th Anniversary Celebrations festival.Panel discussion: TIHR & Tavistock Clinic: Historical Reflections & Thoughts for the Future Tavistock EnterpriseA panel discussion between three people who have had long associations with both the Tavist...
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The Higher Education Funding Council’s (HEFC) Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) is concerned with the availability of specialised library and archival resources for researchers.The programme involves access funding for major holdings libraries, collaborative collection management, developm...
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By Matt Gieve, Researcher at the Tavistock Institute of Human RelationsThis blog is the last in a three part series about the experiences of an archivist, a historian and a social researcher in running the War Officer Selection Boards (WOSBs) in the Wellcome Library’s Reading Room last year. Read th...
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“Echoes of Fraternity” was a workshop that questions the notion of fraternity by bringing to the forefront its relevance and topicality in our interconnected world.In this workshop participants of all generations were able to explore various dimensions of brotherhood linkage and sense of connectedne...