Franca Fubini and David Armstrong trace how Social Dreaming—the method initiated by Gordon Lawrence—has evolved as practice moved online. They revisit its core architecture: the Matrix as a container for sharing dreams in their social–ecological context; the distinct role of the host (neither therapist nor consultant); and a post-Matrix Reflection Dialogue to surface themes, emotional tone, and tentative hypotheses.
Drawing on experiences during and after 2020, the authors examine an ongoing city-based Matrix that migrated to Zoom, an international “global Matrix” spanning five continents, the redesign of a year-long training for hosts, and an organizational consultancy in healthcare. From these cases they propose that the online setting is simply another context—one that can make the Matrix’s characteristics more visible, widen access, and stimulate creativity—provided hosts can hold the task and containment. Constraints relaxed ritual, clarified essentials, and highlighted three constants: dreaming’s ongoing nature, the primacy of the Matrix narrative over individual dreams, and reading everything that happens in the Matrix as part of the dream.
