DREAMING AND ORGANIZATIONS

A COIRAG RESEARCH PROJECT

The Research “The Dream and the Organization”, an Italian project carried out by COIRAG Center of Studies and Research (www.coirag.org), proposes an unusual methodology through the development of procedures by which collective subjects are treated.

This brings into use the on going expertises that are applicable on individuals, groups and organizations. When we accept the idea that a collective subject or even an entire professional institution can dream, does it change the quality of listening to our dreams?

Does it change the awareness of the self in relationship to the professional institution, whose very existence is dependent on our contribution to it? We spend a large part of our lives in organizational settings, or systems of groups. To donate dreams that are related to the context of a professional organization to a research group, and carefully listen to the dreams of the colleagues (carried out under clinical conditions), seems to activate a thought process directed towards the well-being of the individual and the professional institution, seen as a living subject.

Research has shown how the oneiric material that the dreamer considers in relation to their institutional context (which can be used to formulate some useful reflections) is copious and underestimated. In this paper, I will introduce some important aspects of the research and its current results.

Keywords: dream, organizations, research and clinical approach.