One aspect of flow particularly important for very traumatized communities, perhaps especially for those living in a war zone, refugee camps or favelas in Salvador, is the ability for it to be all consuming, allowing troubling thoughts that usually occupy the mind to fall aside. This can give individuals and a community a place for healing to begin even when the world outside is very hostile and difficult. This can contribute to the creation of homeplaces and even coalitions if a common sense of flow can be found among disparate communities being brought together for social change. Making art together can bring flow, healing, connection and knowing oneself to be part of larger system, greater than the sum of its parts. "When a person involves all of her psychic energy into an interaction-whether it is with another person, a boat, a mountain, or a piece of music- she in effect becomes part of a system of action greater than what the individual self had been before" (Csikszentmihalyi 65).

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