ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the re-framing of experiences shared within an organizational context may disclose layers of meaning beyond the purely personal in ways that can both generate and recover organizational insight. It includes an example of the recall of dream material in a role consultation, where the remembered dream serves as a container for rather than simply of meaning. What had begun as an expression of one individual's disease with his own relation to the university could now be reframed and given new meaning as a representation within the individual of a more pervasive experience of disease within the whole institution. Alternatively, meaning is relegated to the sphere of each individual's personal inner world, as something that lies beyond the domain of what is specifically public, organizational, or societal. En route to the discovery and recovery of meaning, one may confront the unbearable.
