In our dreams, we often use our memories, habits and beliefs to furnish the rooms we find ourselves in.  We can reflect this experience back into our waking life and use it to construct a personal Memory Palace.

Memory Palaces are thought to have been in use since Roman times, with the first recorded use of a Memory Palace being in the late 16th century by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit priest on a mission to China. Ricci used his memory palace to learn the 50,000 pictogram characters of the Chinese language.

The key quality that makes the Memory Palace so effective is that it relies on our innate potential to remember spaces and connections. This is far more powerful than our ability to recall a series of individual objects. The World Memory Champion, Dominic O’Brien, uses a memory palace to memorise 54 packs of playing cards in sequence, looking briefly at each card only once.

In Dreamwork, we use a variety of ways to spatially represent what might be emerging from the cultural memory of an organisation. These include Maps, Journeys and Palaces which all enable the creation of the rich spaces and deep connections that help an organisation to connect with its potential.