Stories are how we communicate what we experience and envision in our inner and outer worlds. The stories we tell ourselves and each other help us to connect the glimpses, fragments and dreams of our reality into a wider coherent meaning.Our most powerful stories usually form around fundamental patterns that we all experience. These patterns are often known as archetypes, and help create the meaningful space in which we project and reflect our personal and collective myths.Dream Stories are a way to explore our meaningful space and express our own archetypal adventures. By identifying and acknowledging characters, plots, locations and props we can create a unique story that illuminates fundamental patterns in our situation.We … [Read more...]

The way forward for a corporate initiative is often presented in the form of a road map. This will work to a certain extent where the future is known and familiar, but when the way ahead is uncertain and full of unknowns, a road map is of little use, because there are no roads.Dream Maps are a way of stepping into the unknown future and charting what possibilities can emerge from unexplored territory. Using maps rather than simple pictures enables a group to create a collective and consensual perspective of the possibility space they find themselves in.Pictures of the future tend to be images viewed from a single perspective, which others then judge and evaluate. Using Dream Maps allows a group to participate in a collective vision … [Read more...]

Although individuals often consider themselves to have a single personality, they actually embody a number of different identities. Instead of the self being a single constant type no matter what the circumstances, it is in fact a family of identities whose behaviour depends on the context of a situation.Dream Voices is a way to give voice to this family of contextual identities and to engage with the various aspects of the characters that combine to form our true experience of self. Although some of these characters may be obvious to us and experienced more regularly than others, the voices that often speak most powerfully for us are the ones that are normally left unspoken.These unspoken voices are usually selves that we have … [Read more...]

Journeys are our universal metaphors for evolution and transformation in almost any human activity. Our journeys are often a search to find meaning, and this quest for meaning usually shapes the paths of our lives and our work. However, many of us don’t really know what we are looking for, and only realise when we actually reach the end of a particular journey.Dream Journeys are a powerful way to explore how our inner quest for meaning is reflected in the landscapes around us. The Journey is a gentle and powerful guided visioning where the participants are walked through a series of questions. At each stage in the journey, the participants are invited to answer a question that helps to clarify and articulate their needs and … [Read more...]