If the current scapegoat leaves the family, the family will give that role to someone else. The whole has needs of its own, quite additional to the needs of the parts. A society turns out to be more than the sum of its individuals. I'll call holescence . Creative process focuses on the unfolding patterns of wholeness.
Participation focuses on the role of the parts in the whole.
Holescence focuses on how a part embodies the whole or wholeness, itself. The most basic, primitive dynamic of wholeness is the assembling of parts. Inclusion is the dynamic that tends towards completeness. Creative process includes, but cannot be reduced to, all the interactions among the parts of the whole. Charles Johnston has made a compelling case for creative process being the defining characteristic of life , or aliveness .