THE DREAMCOAT...
is covered in pockets. Each pocket has a dream inside which
someone has written.
Anyone can have a dream from a pocket but they must exchange it for a dream of their own.
So they give their dream......and get a stranger’s dream.
Those dreams can be of the sleeping kind, daydreams, aspirations,
visions or fantasies.
All kinds of dreams, all kinds of people.
Since 2005 I’ve exchanged dreams between strangers around the world with the Dreamcoat.
It’s a worldwide invitation to imagination, connection and possibility. And an opportunity to see our individual dreams as part of the collective whole, and how our dream stories, and the lives and world we create from them, are a constant collaboration.
It’s also a kind of an ongoing mini-record of our collective consciousness which consistently affirms my belief in humanity and our possibility - and longing - to co-create a thriving, loving world.
Which is why my aim is to keep these connections expanding, visiting dreamers of all kinds, in all kinds of places (see below for some of the previous).
Sleeping dreams, day dreams, fantasies, visions and aspirations - all these different types of dreams we have and value in very different ways, whether personally or culturally.
But it seems all types are our personal guides to who and how we want to be in the world.
Are we listening to them enough? How would it be to pay more attention to our dreams? What would they tell us? Is it important? Why do we even have them? Which kind of dreams do we put most value in? And does that differ in other cultures and societies? How can dreaming connect us?
I do walkabout, workshops, walks, dream gatherings/sessions, coaching and spontaneous adventures. If this sounds like something you, or someone you know, would want, please get in touch to find out if and how we can make that possible.
Email Nicola at njsokell@gmail.com
See some of our tales and adventures on Instagram @thedreamcoat
Places and people we've visited include:
Festivals and celebrations:
Edinburgh Festival, The Big Chill, Glastonbury Festival, Noisily; Festinho, Rollright Fayre, Secret Garden Party, Brighton Festival; Port Elliot; Superheroes, San Francisco; The Hurly Burly, Brighton; Camp Quirky; No Time For Waste Festival, North Tyneside.
Community orgs:
Stronger Things Conference, Guildhall, London; Phoenix Community Care, London; Athens Solidarity School, Greece; Akasha, London; West Lexham, Norfolk, UK; Phoenix Arts, Glastonbury, UK; Global Tolerance, UK; Morning Gloryville; ImpactHub, London; Lifebeat, UK; Mother Miracle School, India; Brockley Market, London; Brixton Market, London.
Corporate:
Macmillans Publishers; Toastmasters Glasgow; CTI Coaching.
Exhibitions:
White Hole exhibition, Newcastle Uni; NeuKöln 48Stunden, Berlin; ‘Neglected’ exhibition, Berlin; Lizard Spring, London.
Spontaneous encounters:
Mount Olympus, Greece; MaiFest, Berlin; Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London (on a week day lunch hour, the most incongruous outing so far); a fabric embellishment shop in Rishikesh, India; a fabric creating store in New Mills, Derbyshire, UK; and many other picnics, parties, pubs, meetings, gatherings and individual encounters
Dream pilgrimage walks from:
My home town to Parliament, London; Glastonbury town to the festival; uniting with the Coat of Hopes for the Whitley Bay leg of their walk; Folkestone to Hyde, Kent; Kennet and Avon canal, Bristol;
Greenwich to Southbank, London; Lindisfarne, Northumberland;
Brighton to London Walk For Women.
