They even have several diagrams that are similar to those we use in Mind-Lines. In Meta-States, when we bring one state, frame, emotion, thought, etc. to bear upon another, all kinds of transformative effects can occur. We have specified 16 of these relationships. 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.