ABSTRACT
The author conducted a group interactive art therapy training workshop over a period of one week during a residential conference open to health care workers, including practising art therapists. The group continued to paint almost to the end of the session. There was a sense of innocence, rather like the Garden of Eden. She feels that within this model of training it is necessary to remain in a fairly 'formal' relationship with group members - exactly as she would if working in a therapeutic community where she would see patients outside small groups. On the third day of the group, which consisted of eight members, four men and four women, several members wanted to make a group painting following the suggestion of one member. She wondered if she was the dolphin 'rescuer' and the vulture 'devourer', rather like Kali in Hindu mythology, and representing the division in the group between male and female power.
