Sharing Mythologies and Changing Them Together

In my last two posts I reflected on the phenomenon  of “The Little World”, that is generated  through the metamorphosis of group therapy participants becoming intimates and developing a unique community devoted to their  healing growth. I included  a photo that I made to illustrate this concept, which was composed of  symbols that I collected from my (sandplay collection) of miniatures.  I was deliberate in the manner in which I made my choices allowing my  logic, (i.e. “What symbol representations address the concepts most specifically .”) and my intuition, ( “What symbol calls to me.”), to interact and integrate their different orientations,  and this emboldened  me to make choices.  The result was  documented in this photo, which then was offered to you, my readers. I refer to this in detail to examine  the activation of the creative process. This process  is  comprised  of a  dialectic, incorporating  surrender and deliberation. When I refer to creativity within the realm of group process, I am not only referring to creative art therapy exercises, I am also referring to what can happen when group participants  engage this distinctive  combination of spontaneity and consciousness  in their interactions.