Communal Reverie is an emerging practice that has been framed alternatively as a “we-space” modality and a “collective wisdom technology.”

It stands the lineage of Ria Baeck’s Collective Presencing practice and draws influence and inspiration from a variety of imaginal practices, including C.G. Jung’s Active Imagination, Robert Bosnak’s Embodied Imagination, and Rob Burbea’s Soulmaking Dharma, and Cynthia Bourgeault’s Imaginal Wisdom School.

It is a comparatively rare practice insofar as it focuses on the dyad or group, rather than the individual, as a distinctly relevant and coherent unit for approaching imaginal encounters.

Communal Reverie is an experiment rooted in a continuously refining exchange between theory and practice.

Communal Reverie sessions sometimes incorporate guiding intentions intended to bring insight and inspiration. This may offer support in the inherently personal process of ensoulment (individuation), or it may be placed in service callings, visions, and projects that are collectively held and stewarded. Such endeavors often aim to collaboratively envision and creatively enact regenerative futures by reaching beyond the familiar patterns and structures of modernity.

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Communal Reverie is a reflection of an important current within the spirit of the times. This may be described as the emerging growth of a “metamodern” or “integral” consciousness and sensibility.

It is one of many emerging practice modalities aiming to reach beyond the modern emphasis on individuality toward sources of collective intelligence and wisdom. Each of these practices add valuable contributions to the larger emerging pattern of which they are a part.

This pattern has been described in numerous ways. Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger have described it as a turn toward a “post-personal culture,” and cultural philosopher Jean Gebser described as the “supersession of the ego.”