Enacting God’s Dream

An Interconnected World of Peace

Abstract

This essay describes a sociodramatic exercise, Enacting God’s Dream: An Interconnected

World of Peace, that enables groups to co-create their own communal dream of an ideal

world. Through imagination, enactment, and reflection, participants explore the internal

and external factors that facilitate and obstruct fulfillment of their shared vision while

helping them better discern and train to realize their own roles in realizing ‘‘The Dream’’ in

lived life. After providing a theoretical rationale for the exercise based on previously

published research, the article describes the enactment’s steps, including: the warmup, the

selection of the ‘‘cultural characters’’ to be embodied, their placement in the drama

tableau, as well as their subsequent repositioning and interactions with the director and

each other. A case study is offered depicting one small but particularly poignant enactment

of the drama that highlights some surprising insights that can arise both from the

enactment and the reflections that follow. The article concludes with reflections on the

applicability of the exercise to various types of groups.