In my last post, Organizing The In-effable, I  found that my attempt to simply describe my approach to Group Process had led me backwards to search for the roots of my work. This post continues the search.
      What were these inquiries ? What was the elemental field that I was trying nourish, inhabit and offer and why?  To attempt to put words on the ineffable requires that I cross over, or linger between. Our  human brain  which has increased in size as we  developed as primates, needs  time for cross modal communication. The corpus callusom has a complex communication job between the two hemispheres.  We need them to turn to each other.  Yes at last  brain science can begin to apply rationale  to  what has seemed many  of us is instinctual and hard to  validate.   For this  I turn to I turn to Hart, and her text, Brain, Attachment, Personality: An Introduction to Neuro-Affective Development.
       Hart  perceives intuition as a fore runner of language. She suggests  it is lateralized in the right hemisphere. Further she attests that studies have found that verbalization  can cause as much confusion and distortion as clarification unless it is deeply integrated with the right hemisphere.
I am sensitive to this, when I use language within the therapeutic milieu. I  allow it be a  malleable vehicle , a movement sculpture, that is extending towards others and changed through my experience with them. As well as a framing device that simultaneously is as  generative as it is stable.
      Hart continues:“The cooperation between the logical, linear and detailed focused linguistic left hemisphere and the holistic, emotional right hemisphere is crucial for all forms of creativity.”
All that is to say is that finally science can verify the need for this very impulse to keep access to intuition and reason  alive concurrently as inherent means towards  transformation.  
       Neuroscience and I were not easy neighbors at first, I was wary.  As an artist and clinician that revered the non-material, the implicit, the symbolic and metaphoric juncture  between the actual and the unseen I did not feel the  need for a empirical validation through neuroscience.  I was smugly bemused  when Neuro-scientists  confirmed  the need for the  relational and experiential right  brain hemisphere to interact with the left. Thus  raising  the valuing  of  the poor second cousin, on par with  the logic of  left hemisphere.   But  now, I myself  I have come to realize that  much of the exploration into Neuroscience and psychology is generating  an inquisitiveness that generating and endorsing just that  responsive  openness, that I have  so valued as a means to healing and connection. The mytho poetic for me is what comes closer to representing these state of being. Now we have brain science terminology as well. The next post I will describe a process intended to invite the right lobe  to lead and the left to support the comprehension and inclusion of this experiential  process  led by Paolo Knill.