Conference as procreation

The challenge of transformative conferencing can be described by the analogy to the process of sexual congress and human birth. Conferencing as currently envisaged may involve titillation leading, if successful, merely to mild participant arousal. Or it can result in some form of effective intercourse, possibly leading to orgasms of collective enthusiasm with little outcome. Additional factors of major importance are however required to ensure any quickening of a new departure as a result of effective conception through cross-fertilization of ideas. And even then the result may be a miscarriage, a still-birth, or even malformed.It is only very recently that sex education has made any inroads on the, often quaint, misinformation and furtive "dirty" secrets by which the physical process has been surrounded - at the price of untold misery and disillusionment to those initially caught in the compensating glamour. Is it not possible that many conferencing processes are in effect couched in terms which reinforce an analogously quaint misunderstanding of what is really involved in the "gutsy" process of engendering new psycho-social forms ?