[sunrise]

I found this short article called The Power of Transformational Space by Stephen Cope.

It is all about transformational spaces:

When any of us gets ready to "hatch out" into the next developmental expression of self, we begin looking for the cocoons that will hold us through the rebirth process. I like to call these cocoons transformational spaces--environments made up of webs of special kinds of relationships, safety, freedom, and challenge. We intuitively search for these spaces at those times in life when we're attempting to align with an internal developmental thrust. At these times of growth, we seek out "training environments"--schools, college, the army, a mentor, a psychotherapist, or a spiritual community. The transformational spaces we choose have certain qualities that are essential to work of development. Without them we truly cannot find ourselves.

The author goes on to list 8 key features of effective transformational spaces.

I read this article and felt, this is my therapy experience!

The most effective transformational environments make explicit the view that they are only supporting and facilitating an internal developmental thrust that is completely natural and that only needs to be encouraged in order to manifest.

That is exactly what I feel my therapist is providing for me. In a way, he is watching it all unfold in me, helping me along, and it does seem completely natural, and in some ways, inevitable. This is partly why therapy feels so good to me, like my growth and development are "meant to be" and I am finally allowing it to happen.

[Fuzzybear]

[Calm]

Hi sunrise,

This sounds very interesting. I'll have to look into this more. Thanks for the link.

Calm