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Abstract
The residential conference has become useful for various educational and organizational purposes. The Tavistock and A.K. Rice institutes have designed conferences which focus on the process within conferences, between organizations and members. Their aim has been to provide an opportunity to experience and at least partially understand an individual's experience within working groups. It is the author's belief that the conference opening is an essential part of conference institutions, but has not been focused on and comprehensively explored. To study the process of conference openings further, the author chose one national conference opening as an experimental laboratory and altered it without the consent of staff or membership. This essay is a description of that experience and a validation of the usefulness of Tavistock and A. K. Rice Insitutes for studying organization process.