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DREAM SPACEA SPACE TO PRACTICE DREAMING

Rosana Agudo. Spring 2010

Why speak of Dreaming? Why dream? What does it mean to dream? Why is

dreaming so necessary and, more worrisomely, why have we abandoned

dreaming, what “lies” have we told ourselves about the meaning of the wordto make us stop dreaming, what meaning have we given to ”dreaming” tomake it incompatible with evolution, with progress, so as to exclude it from

appropriate business language and even from everyday use, except in

intimate or familiar circles? Why do we even tell our sons and daughters to“stop dreaming and study”? We ask them to do something “necessary” and

“useful”…

Why does dreaming have such bad press?

In my understanding, it has something to do with our Mental Model and the

way in which it defends itself so as not to change, which is precisely what it

is afraid of, change; that we might change. The Mental Model, if we haven’t yet learned to detect it and to become familiar with its behaviour, lives

inside us and it is we who perpetuate it by enclosing concepts, thoughts andways of acting within its walls or allowing them to remain so. We identify

ourselves so closely with our Mental Model and with its suppositions and

beliefs that for all intents and purposes, we are the Mental Model; it acts

through us, creating the reality it needs to perpetuate itself and resistseverything that would make it visible and therefore, vulnerable. This is

terrifying, very frightening indeed!

We are convinced that if the world changes, it obliges us to change.

Therefore, we do not want it to change.




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That if we change, the world will have to change, otherwise, it won’t accept

us. Therefore, we do not want to change, nor do we want anybody to change- of course, we will always make sure to stifle any emerging signs of change

that might deeply affect us, or the world-.

That if we dream, the world, (please, the “real” world and the people who

live in the “real” world), is going to reject us and we will not be able to

survive, and, if we must choose between rejecting, or being rejected, it

seems that we prefer the former. The people who dare to question or toexpose the prevailing Mental Model with its paralysing and contradictory

paradoxes (one of which is “tell me something new because we must changebefore disaster strikes, but, please, make it something that I already know

and that won’t make me change too much), these people, as I was saying,

with their “theories” and ideas, are flatly rejected, with the excuse thatthey instil fear.

The prevailing Mental Model is afraid of dreamers, artists, and pioneers,and we let us not forget, as we commented before, we are the channel

through which the Mental Model is manifested and by which it creates; we

fear dreamers, artists, and pioneers, and, as executors of the dictates ofthe prevailing Mental Model, in the worst-case circumstance we would like

to eliminate them. Otherwise, we silence them, or we look down on them(because, moreover, we do not want them to know that we are afraid of

them; we fear such knowledge would give them power - but the power is

ours! - a new paradox).

Dreaming, therefore, becomes a threat to the Mental Model, above all tothe capitalist Mental Model, which is the prevailing one at the social and

organizational level, as well as at the personal one - unless, of course, youare a dreamer, although questioning the capitalist system does notnecessarily make one a dreamer, as we will see later on.




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This behaviour, with all it implies, (especially and most dramatically the

human suffering associated with it), has an explanation as does everythingin life:

Current paradigm: TIME = MONEY

Emerging paradigm: TIME = ART

And money becomes a means and a consequence of turning life into an

“artistic” expression (in the sense of “the art of living”), in which people can

be present, be protagonists, instead of identifying with and serving thesystem and its one enslaving model. It is not surprising that he, money, (the

one Francisco de Quevedo called “the powerful knight”), is agitated, andthe more agitated he becomes, the more he can be seen (let us keep in mind

that we cannot change what we are not aware of, what we do not see).

Therefore, in an evolutionary sense, this crisis, the shrillest manifestationof which has been provoked by him, is the beginning of an unprecedented

revolution; it is not just another crisis.

A change of paradigm is, in addition, an evolutionary step for human beings.

Maybe the dreamers of the sixties have forgotten the dream theyverbalized, with the power that imprints the word, the music, and any

artistic and/or revolutionary expression, the aspiration that was so wellreflected in the song by the unforgettable John Lennon, “Imagine”. There

is a proverb that says “be careful with what you ask for because it might

come true”. Well, it is happening.

“YOU MAY SAY I’M A DREAMER

BUT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE”

To create spaces to dream, to “store” them, and to share them, is

fundamental. To recover the capacity to dream is imperative, to remember

that creating a sustainable and fair economy for all is possible, that the

world, our dear planet is a place to learn the meaning of life and share it,that work is the way by which each person and human group expresses and

creates for the common good, that money is limited but that wealth is

infinite, we must remember so many things to be able to innovate…!




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It is clear that we have other explanations as well as to why we don’t

Dream, that underpin the motives of the Closed Mental Model (CMM) toconvince us that we do not have time to dream , that it is not a priority ,

in spite of the fact that at the same time it tortures us with other kinds of

thoughts: “we need to be creative, to innovate, to generate knowledge

and share it” .

The motives of the CMM to dissuade us from dreaming are strongly linked,

of course, to its fear of disappearing, to its fear that we may becomeaware of another reality, that we may become freer. Of course, we are

already realizing that it is exactly the same fear thatwe

are bound to, andthat we identify as “our fear”, “our reasons for”, etc…

Crises are useful not only for learning from our mistakes, but also forgrowing. This crisis, this “cutting edge” of our growth process, brings the

good news that will make us freer because it causes us to explore

profoundly human questions, because we are not going be able to go aheadindividually unless we take into account the wellbeing of as many others as

possible; because it asks us to know ourselves, to be conscious and to

advance in a voluntary act of perceiving our travelling companions asindispensable for our advancement and not just as tools for our wellbeing.

As we have seen before, this is not just another crisis; it is an

unprecedented revolution, of concepts and ideas, of ways to carry them

forward, of the creation and conceptualization of wealth, of work, ofculture, of energetic resources, of alimentation…

Let us return to the questions at the beginning of this article: Why do we

speak of Dreaming? Why dream? What does it mean to Dream? Why isdreaming so necessary? Why have we abandoned dreaming? What “lies”have we told ourselves regarding the meaning of the word to make us stop

dreaming? What meaning have we given to “Dreaming” to make it

incompatible with evolution, with progress, so as to exclude it from

appropriate business language, even from everyday use, except in intimateor familiar circles?




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Why dream? Because we need to dream to have a Dream and, it is very

important to have a Dream.

Why is it so important to have a Dream? To try to make it come true.

Why is it so important to have a Dream and to try to make it come true? To

open the way towards its realization.

To open the way towards the realization of the Dream, means to Dream ofthe possibility of achieving it and to gather the energy needed for its

materialization.

To gather the energy needed to Dream, to sustain the Dream, and to

believe in the possibility of its coming true, requires the effort of lookingand seeing oneself as the authentic and unique tool for its attainment.

It requires looking at, and seeing the world as the only possible scenario

for “my dream and me” to be realized.

I am the protagonist, the leader of my life, and my life develops in theinfinite scenario of the world, that is to say, of the planet and all that

inhabits it. I live my experience, my dream, woven into the web of all

life, every kind of life and everything influences me and I influence

everything.

And this makes me ask if the world, my dream and I are aligned and if weconstitute the necessary and fostering lever and support.

And this makes me question the world: my world, the world in which I live

my life and how I live it.




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And all this and much more - the voluntary and reflective process of

questioning, of seeing life and my life in all its facets and spheres, thispersonal and collective “conciliation process” - is a process of growth, of

transcendence, of alignment with the energy of the future; of finding

ourselves together, we dreamers, in a common space generating andtransmitting knowledge… How could it help being afraid! How could we help

being afraid! To Dream, in the deep sense that we are using the concept,

means all this. To Dream means growth, it means the use of unimagined

resources, of potential capacities never before employed, of language thattouches the soul,…

A Dream Space is a space to dream, to learn by playing, to discover oneself

and others, to align the heart and the head in order to propose challenges

and elaborate strategies, both personal and organizational, to start tomanage space and time in a different way, less lineal and material than it

has been up until now. In short, it is a space to practice living in the future

that is more “now” than ever before.

“YOU MAY SAY I’M A DREAMER

BUT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE”

I have a Dream - and you?

Rosana Agudo

Spring 2010

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