These allow us to manage the transformation process with a new level of mindfulness. Similarly, in Symbolic modeling, transformation occurs frequently but with this difference, transformations occur in a more unpredictable and novel way, in a way that's full of surprise. Transformation is a change to a higher, more significant level of organization. As a symbolic class of life, we have to. Lawley and Tompkins have provided suggestion that we can detect patterns via connections and coincidences, familiarity with processes, sense of wholeness, a repeating sequence, isomorphism, etc.
Patterns are a part of a higher organizing process that repeats.
The particular pattern detection in Symbolic Modelling involves mapping out the Metaphor Landscape. The developing, transforming, and maturing questions do something else. They not only expand and stretch the metaphorical map, but transform it. We find out what a person has connected to something to, and then the frames and frames embedded in frames that give it conceptual and metaphorical meaning. They have a nice case study involving a teacher and several upset kids.