Donna Frost

Facilitation of the development of professional artistry 215 7 One of the purposes of the CCCI lemniscate was to guide those of us within the inquiry through this very process, explicitly and step by step. Over time, as illustrated in Chapter 5 , this process became embodied and we became able to articulate the nature of the journey. The journey metaphor is useful because it can capture and communicate a degree of the ‘means and ends’ nature of developing professional artistry. In making a long or complex journey a traveller is changed; he cannot make the journey without becoming changed and yet cannot be changed without making the journey. When setting out, of course, the traveller is not yet transformed and has perhaps little idea of the impact the journey will have on him. This reflects our experiences of developing our professional artistry ‘from the inside out’. We came to recognise certain perspective transformations (Mezirow, 1978 , 2003 ) as milestones along the way towards developing professional artistry and to regard them as ‘points of no return’, similar to the ‘safe spot’ in a computer game: once we reached that level we could not fall back further than that. Figure 7 . 1 We recognised milestones along the way