Tom Andersen and John Shotter, in the years before the former's death, presented together at conferences where they exchanged discussion on each other's ideas to enrich both theory and practice. Both of them were interested in the social poeisis, or creativity in conversations in which people do not use theories to understand things, but instead speak in a joint manner talking about live events with the purpose of seeing and making connections that did not exist before. Shotter's “relationally responsive” type of understanding and Andersen's practice of “looking into the client's words” allows for the experience we have named as a “momento bomba”, a moment where new meanings burst forth from within the conversation, and where the explosion of new understandings that follows allows the family to “move on.” In this article, we use their ideas, those of several other therapists, and some of our own regarding the inclusion of culture and ethnicity to describe some powerful moments of transformation in family therapy.