In a complex and uncertain business environment, it can often be challenging to make sense of what is really happening. There are a wide variety of sense making tools and methods available to individuals and organisations that attempt to make sense of the ambiguous and the paradoxical.

However, many of these tools and methods are based on constructing hypothetical mental models and examining scenarios from an intellectual perspective. Although an intellectual approach is of value in complicated systems, it may be of limited use in complex and chaotic spaces.

Dreamwork Senses are a way to move beyond the limitations of intellectual sense making, and to actually use all our senses to create a tangible awareness of an emerging situation and how it might evolve over time.

By using the heightened awareness of information experienced by all of our senses we can create richly vivid collaborative models. These help us to clarify opportunities and challenges and make sensible decisions about potential choices and resulting outcomes.