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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:14:22 EST
Thanks to all who have contributed to this thread on story and transformation. I find myself thinking about everyone's ideas and I hope that we can keep adding to the collective wisdom on this topic as the spirit moves us, much as we have been doing on the earlier topic "what do we mean by healing?" I also find that I am finding references to transformation all over the place!! For instance, a friend pointed out that the topic of recently released issue of The Psychotherapy Networker is "What Ever Happened to Transformation: New Approaches to the Art of Therapeutic Breakthrough?" This contains several articles on the topic, the central one focusing on the work of symphony conductor, Ben Zander, and his therapist wife, Roz who together wrote a current book called The Art of Possibility. (Perhaps the topic is on everyone's mind in part because of changes wroght by 9/11?) On this theme I also offer below a short poem I recently rediscovered. It is called "The Gift" and seemed very relevant. Indeed, I believe that stories can be seen as gifts, ones that open us up and encourage us to live more fully. They shake up the transformational impulse this poem describes so well. Cristy W. "The Gift" By D. Markova I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as a seed goes on to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes as fruit. | ||