During work at the Systems Change Hive in Brighton we started collecting dreams quite naturally whilst immersed in research from the STEPS Centre at Sussex University on transformation.
The troubles of our current system extend deep into our culture and unconscious.
The systemic crises we face require us to galvanise extraordinary courage and creativity for radical change as well as structural understandings not only of our material resources, but of healthy and harmonious ways of living together with our environment?
How can we support healthy imaginative sovereignty in the service of healthy ecosystems?
How can we hold a space for the new?
To meet these questions new forms of collective dream work are rising up within activist communities as part of a toolkit of techniques to tend the healthy relational life of collectives. To co-create a better world, we need to learn how to live and work well together, and the living streams of spontaneous creativity that we encounter in the dream space is whispering to us about what is needed.
As the alchemists and the psychoanalysts know, our most personal realities and intimate relational experience are deeply connected to our wider societal problems.
As Within, So Without, As above, So below - Hermes Trismegistus
Kate Genevieve is an artist and researcher at www.chroma.space working on a Doctorate on multi-sensory communication and the power of imagination at the University of Sussex.
Kate has been involved in Dream projects for the last decade creating a large scale projection of the dreams of Brighton with the Brighton Animator's Network in 2010. She was then trained in dream work as a glypher for Dr Apela Colorado’s collective dreamwork practice at WISN.org initiated in Chartres, France in 2007.
Kate worked as creative mentor as part of the Systems Change Hive collective and held the sharing of dreams in support of their creative journey into Next systems thinking.
Sarah Janes is an independent sleep and dream researcher with particular interests in the dream culture of the ancient world, dream memory and lucid dreaming.
Sarah has written about dreams and presented research for The Idler, The Bohemian, The Journal of Paranthropology and Ancient Origins.
Sarah regularly talks at events and conferences on the subject and hosts dream workshops.
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An experimental interaction from Swarm Dynamics between artists and technologists with researchers at the STEPS centre at Sussex.
O N C A is a Brighton based arts charity that bridges social and environmental justice issues. With their public programme, they create inclusive spaces for collaborative learning, artist support and community solidarity.