ABSTRACT
A residential working conference, "Social Dreaming for the Management of Transformations, The Fourth Programme of Dialogues", was held at Wast Hills House, Birmingham, from 12 to 17 July 1992. Twelve people—French, English, Irish, Scottish, and American—from the professions, business, the Church, and the arts participated. A summary of the conference and a brief discussion of the diversity of the dreams, their structural relationships and themes, and some possible working tools are contained in Social Dreaming and Shakespeare. The core of the conference was the twice-daily, two-hour social dreaming matrix, and there were ten sessions in all. Shakespeare probably knew the form that his play would take; he too, would have had an inkling of much of its detail as he started. An exploration of beginnings: the opening dream of the conference, plus the first dream of another session; then the opening scene of Shakespeare's King Lear.
