ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the Milton Erickson's use of mental time journeys, that in order to evoke pictures from the past, to install a view from new angles, and bring to the development of visions for a possible self in the future. It delivers the present text in two sections: the past view on the general project; and a concrete present view. The artists have proposed to combine techniques of group interactive art therapy with the theories borrowed from Erickson, guided imagery and systems approach. In the group process they localise that the prevention of its transition started in the 'travelling' to the past, where traumatic experiences were kept disconnected from the feelings they evoked. The efforts of Bulgarian institutions have proved helpless before the power of the present day representatives of those inner and outer forces, who inflicted the traumas and who continue to hold on to the definition that the past experiences were not traumatic.
