May 2007

"To look is a way in which to participate - so a therapist is a participant, I think. To see, that is to participate... And in addition, I think that one participates in the shadow of the other's movement and notices that something of what they express, which is also part of the movement, affects them. It is that we should work with. One is actually working with the movement of another by speaking about what they said." (Tom Andersen, quoted in Anderson and Jensen's "Innovations in the Reflecting Process, 2007)

We have not yet learned to write silence into our texts, but if we had, this month's note would not evoke a single sound or movement. How can we go on without Tom Andersen?

Janice

... my treasured photo of Lynn and Tom in conversation, Bellingham, Washington, January, 2006.