Articulating the ‘magic’ of the child treatment process has confounded clinicians for years. The work of the Boston Change Process Study Group has contributed to the beginnings of our understandings and articulation of the nonverbally articulated processes in reatment: the ‘something more’. The child papers under discussion are considered in light of the contributions of the BSG. This discussion focuses on emergent transformative moments in the dyadic, bidirectional and interactively regulated treatment process between child patient and adult analyst.