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Three psychotherapists of music, movement and drama joined their expertise in a pilot project of interconnected art therapy disciplines, in a group of 6 young adults, at the Adolescent Unit of the 3rd Psychiatric Clinic (AHEPA, Thessaloniki-Greece). Music, dance and drama took their names after the ancient Greek muses, goddesses of beauty and truth. Creativity is born through the perpetual struggle among life and death. One form of art elicits another form of art and when an emotion is expressed, experienced and shared it is leading to another emotion, revealing one's true self and leading to selfanamorphosis, as well as to authentic relationship with others. The main aim for the research was to investigate if the interconnection of the arts could help in self-awareness and meaningful relationships at a group setting. The main focus was to connect, express and share inner emotions whilst one form of art elicits another form of art. Mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative research were used: Six questionnaires were answered. The questionnaire was divided in two parts: 1st included demographic and close-ended questions regarding the outcome of the personal experience in the group. The data was analyzed by SPSS statistics v 18,0. The 2nd part included open-ended questions describing the personal experience in the group. The answers were analyzed with the help of qualitative method of content analysis. The results showed that the members of the group projected their own issues on the arts and gained important insight. The research led to the conclusion that the arts offered a safe space and facilitated the members to express, share and process their own strong emotions about loneliness, abandonment and death, forming meaningful social bondings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]