ABSTRACT

This chapter provides experiences of Social Dreaming with children six to ten years of age and underlines the special characteristics of both setting and aims. It examines show how Social Dreaming can be a pleasant and interesting activity for the young participants and how it represents, a considerable contribution to foster creative thinking, communication, and tolerance. The chapter aims to study how Social Dreaming can spread its beneficial educational and transformative potential in the early years. Working with children entails in the first place the effort to arrange the setting so that the young participants can understand and use it. Drawing was essential in one case, when one of the younger children didn't manage to describe with words a dream in which two people, one without his head, faced each other with their arms out. As expected because of the age, dream telling was facilitated by turning to different means of expression or to the backing of the adult host.