In the real world, whether you are helming a sixty-foot racing yacht through a dark night or trying to guide your own life through a major transition, navigation is never an isolated, solo act. Instead as any cognitive act it is based on a network which transforms it in situated and distributed cognition.
21st June 2026 Opening Social Dreaming Matrix Introduction Let’s Dream Together is a space for research and practice using the format of Social Dreaming. The meeting on Sunday, June 21st, 2026, was the first social dreaming session of a series of six events online via Zoom. Seven participants from three continents (Asia, Europe, and the…
Linearity always ends somewhere and, in many cases, it ends with a crash.
We live in an era obsessed with planning, forecasting, and predictability. From an early age, we are sold a simple, linear promise: stay on the laid-out track, check the boxes, and collect the conceptual models that dictate how a life is supposed to function. We treat our major life choices as simple calculations, constantly pressed by an internal clock to predict our own security.
But real life cannot be fully forecasted. When our predictions fail, we find ourselves standing at the edge of what philosopher Laurie Ann Paul defines as a transformative experience, a profound crossroads where prior data or rational calculation can never reveal who we will become on the other side of a decision. Whether you are choosing a radical leap into the unknown or navigating an unchosen tragedy that has violently upended your horizon, the old charts are instantly rendered useless.
A wolf baring its teeth, a gorilla pounding its chest, or a bird puffing its feathers are all highly sophisticated negotiation tactics. They are biological posturing designed to establish boundaries, secure resources, and protect offspring before physical confrontation. In a sense, aggression is transactional: A risky, expensive strategy to gain a survival advantage. In humans, this…
Navigating Life: The Psychology of Sailing (New Series). This article launches a compelling series exploring the analogy between sailing a boat and living a meaningful life. Discover how concepts like Transformative Experiences, Flow, and Awe—first explored in my university lectures—illuminate the journey of self-discovery.
The core challenge of life is navigation: moving through an often-unfamiliar environment toward an unknown destination. Many feel they are sailing by the seat of their pants, struggling with an unawareness of inner motives (Am I happy? What is my goal?).
It was totally fortuitous that at 27 I would live and work on a sailboat in the tropics. It didn’t come from a carefully crafted plan, nor was a bullett point of the once in a lifetime bucket list.
My dream was to fix an old van, make it liveable and drive through the Silk Road, from Italy to China.
There is no need to be ashamed of feeling angry, sad or lost because we failed.
Episode # 8 of Social Dreaming Talks will air on 11th June 2021 @17-18 GMT. In this episode Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi will have a talk with Franca Fubini. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join this mailing list to be reminded. OUR GUEST Franca Fubini lives in Italy and works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, group analyst and…
Episode # 7 of Social Dreaming Talks will air on 4th June 2021 @17-18 GMT. In this episode Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi will have a talk with Leslee Brown. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join this mailing list to be reminded. OUR GUEST Dr. Brown is Founder and Director of Mind Body Passport Inc., which curates extraordinary international…
Episode # 6 of Social Dreaming Talks will air on 14th May 2021 @17-18 GMT. In this episode Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi will have a talk with Angela Eden. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join this mailing list to be reminded. Angela Eden started her career in theatre education, moved into community development and finally works as an organization…
Episode # 5 of Social Dreaming Talks will air on 23rd April 2021 @17-18 GMT. In this episode Kalina Stamenova and Fabio Brunazzi will have a talk with Michael Kliën. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join this mailing list to be reminded. Michael is a choreographer and artist whose work has been situated around the world. Kliën’s artistic practice encompasses interdisciplinary…
On Friday 16th April from 17 to 18 GMT, Kalina Stamenova and I will talk with Tessa Gordziejko. She is the 4th guest of our series and we will discuss about social dreaming and creativity. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel or join this mailing list to be reminded. I met Tessa on Creativity Jumpstart, a…
“It is in interactions that we draw the world” Carlo Rovelli Session #11 of the Series Let’s Dream Together – Experiment in Social Dreaming was designed with the idea to introduce the language of drawing in an online Social Dreaming. The design of the event comes by the collaboration between Sergio Di Giorgi and Steven…
— Collage of the Matrix and Reflection created by one of the participants Experiment #9 was on Saturday November 21, 2020 at 8:00 Los Angeles / 11:00 New York/ 12:00 Rio de Janeiro / 16:00 UK/ 17:00 CET Jelena Dimitrijevic (Serbia) and Fabio Brunazzi (Spain) designed and hosted this matrix with the following structure:…
In the Kairos Readings I offer brief moments of writing, reflecting frames that try to capture what pops up around me while my mind plays whack-a-mole with fragments of Truth.
Let’s Dream Together is a shared, co-designed community, co-evolving on the format of Social Dreaming. The series began in April 2020 and it is sponsored by Psychology of Sailing. Open internationally, it welcomed so far more than 40 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, South Africa,…
Let’s Dream Together is a shared co-designed community evolving through the format of social dreaming. The series began in April 2020 and it is sponsored by Psychology of Sailing in cooperation with the Centre for Social Dreaming. Open internationally, it welcomed so far more than 30 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Canada, France,…
The Online Social Dreaming Matrix #7 took place on Zoom on Saturday 19th of September 2020. Eighteen participants took turns sharing dreams and associations. MATRIX #1 The firs dream took us on a beach, the light was similar to a moon eclipse, a low light, the dreamer takes a bath in the sea. A two…
The series of Social Dreaming Let’s Dream Together restarted Saturday 29th August 2020 after a break of almost 3 months. This was the sixth meeting of the series that welcomed more than 25 participants from countries such as Austria, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, U.K., USA which were able/forced to connect via the…
“Let’s Dream Together” Series – Fabio Brunazzi 5th SDM – Sunday 25 May 2020 – From 11.00am until 12.10pm EST Hosts: Shelia Thurman (USA) and Agnes Berthoz (France/United Kingdom) Participants: 9 Dreams: 8 Associations: Around 21 In this matrix, many of the dreams reflected about our human behaviours and those of the virus Covid19. i.e. The virus, like us…
This report is compiled by Sara Mononen On Sunday May 10th, Sara Mononen (Canada) and Elio Vera (Italy) hosted a Social Dreaming Matrix. 10 people attended from England, Canada, USA, and the Netherlands.11 dreams and 14 associations were shared. THEMES:– passports & papers; credentials– Division/differences between child and adult world– Transport and transformation– Fear vs. Adventure…
A bat in the bathroom, to be flushed down, long and thin fiber protruding from the body, maybe a whisker, I don’t have to be afraid. Another dream, there is a mouse, aggressive,toting a small gun, but so inoffensive looking. I try to flush it as well, severe his head. Flushing animal with struggling. There…
The second Online Social Dreaming Matrix takes place on April 19th. People from previous gathering attend again joined by five new entries. A total of 11 people attend the matrix. The opening follow the lines of the previous meeting and we jump right into a house on the beach. A lawn with no grass activates…
On April 12th I sat down in front of a screen on the work table right under my boat and connected with 12 people for a Social Dreaming Matrix. I had been eager to host a Social Dreaming Matrix again. One year ago I hosted two in less than a month, in real life and…
The social dreaming matrix is a structured opportunity to share dreams with others. It shares the interest about dreams with psychoanalysis but it differs because it does not attempt any interpretation and it has no therapeutic finality.
The Cruising Blues and Their Cure: Pirsig’s Metaphor for Life Navigation The Cruising Blues and Their Cure: Pirsig’s Metaphor for Life Navigation When Robert M. Pirsig passed away at age 88 in his home in Maine, he left behind a cultural legacy deeply tied to his brilliant, best-selling books. He became instantly famous with the…
Sailaway is a new sailing simulator that promise “to sail the distant ocean from the comfort of your home and PC”. The game is planned to be releases via Early Access in April 2017 by Irregular Corporation. Featuring a realistic reproduction of ocean water and waves, coastline and and real-time weather conditions (based on NOAA data) and…
Chris Bray and Jess Taunton bought an old 29 ft. sailboat in Halifax, Canada in 2009, rebuilt her and sailed through the Northwest Passage to Alaska. Already professional photographers and adventurers (check out their website), they reached many fans on the Internet thanks to a popular Youtube series of their voyage. They are also currently…
Humans can’t survive for long in the ocean without the aid of technology. The development of technology is a key factor to enhance sailing performance but while very important, there are other factors that influence success in sailing. The extraordinary ability that humans possess in adapting to different environments and the mental capacity to withstand…
There are special people that redefine the concept of normality. Sometimes a lone individual takes on a challenge and defies conventions through a unique journey. In this case, it’s an entire family. The Coconuts are a sailing family of six, Jay, Natasha, Sol, Luna, Caribe e Artico, who sailed for six years in the South America,…
