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Both John Clare and Ali Zarbafi have written before about social dreaming (Clare 2003; Zarbafi, Clare and Lawrence, 2007) but never at such length, with such passion and ambition. Indeed, outside the scope of Gordon Lawrence's own publications, this book is the most complete single publication on social dreaming yet to have been published. This in itself makes the book important and interesting, especially to those who have participated in social dreaming events, whether as participants or hosts.
The book's structure consists of a Foreword by Gordon Lawrence, followed by two chapters (one by Clare and the other by Zarbafi) that outline the authors' theoretical understanding of social dreaming. The bulk of the book then continues with a series of jointly written chapters, comprising case studies that demonstrate a variety of approaches to social dreaming: a three-year social dreaming project that began in London in October 2000, a three-day social dreaming matrix held at the annual literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, a ‘mass dreaming experiment’ that emerged from the Hay-on-Wye festival, a one-day matrix at a counselling centre for adolescents in North London, and a social dreaming weekend in the south of