In the forests of the night: an inquiry into the relevance of social dreaming for action research

Balogh, Ruth

doi:10.1080/09650792.2015.1009142

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“…The value of a dream-type state of consciousness such as Jung (2009) and Bion discussed, of letting things happen, action through non-action, can also be discerned, eg. Burchell's experience of 'reverie' enabled poetic expression to surface 'tacit dimensions' in practitioner research (Burchell, 2010, p. 394), and RB has begun inquiry into the place of dreaming in action research (Balogh, 2010(Balogh, , 2015(Balogh, , 2019. Our research seeks to discover how to bring dream data out of the margins, asides, and "backstage" (Goffman, 1980) of research acts, so that the unexpressed emotions that drive us might be articulated more openly.…”

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Dreaming across continents: A collaborative inquiry into dream sharing as a resource for action researchers

Balogh

Getz

2019

Action Research

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This is a collaborative inquiry into how dream sharing might inform our work as action researchers. Our main inquiry’s purpose was to explore participants’ experiences of an action research conference through sharing dream material in a social dreaming matrix, set up to create collective rather than individual meanings from dreams. A further purpose, which developed as we reported on the social dreaming matrix, was to examine our own dream insights as an ongoing parallel process whereby we shared our own dreams to facilitate and inform our reporting. We did this through documentary exchange and monthly telephone interchanges. Our theorizing about the interplay between conscious and unconscious mental processes draws on the psychoanalytically based ideas of Bion, Jung, Bollas, and Gordon Lawrence who developed the ideas and practice of social dreaming. We found our dream sharing helped overcome difficulties in writing the paper through a deeper and different level of knowing. Four themes emerged, they were the challenges and risks of doing action research particularly on dreaming, new insights and challenges that our dream sharing raised, the search for guides in our life and work, and the irruption of our research in other aspects of our lives.

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confidence: 99%