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ISSUE #14 june 2009

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Francesca Mason Boring. In the Spotlight: In conversation with Daan van Kampenhout

Both classical constellations and shamanic ritual have a lot to offer, but what they offer is not necessarily complete. In the Shamanic cultures there is so much trauma and a lot of woundedness which seems to be really difficult to heal from inside the community. So much strength is broken, that something is lacking there. Obviously, prayer in itself is not enough. At the same time psychotherapeutice methods and constellaitons are also lacking certain things that the soul needs. I felt free enough to combine all of them, because I was supported by traditional teachers and traditional healers who had told me: \\\"You are not a medicine man; you are not a shaman. Don\\\'t copy us. You have to develop this for your own people in a way that fits them and you. Don\\\'t change our ceremonies; don\\\'t even take our ceremonies home. Pray and let your dreams guide you, so that you find the ceremonies that are good for your people.\\\" I took this to heart. And Bert himself was of course th eembodiment of experiment; he was wild!
I was supported and felt empowered from both sides. And so I was free to develop my work and I did it in the way that was right for me, through prayer and dream.

Ty Francis: Organisations & The Emerging Future: Interview with Jan Jacob Stam

Ty: Large organisations are an integral aspect of our social and cultural lives today, although many people are highly critical of big businesses. What stance to you take as an organisational constellations practitioner?
Jan Jacob: Over time I am noticing about myself that I have fewer and fewer opinions about big business and society. I recall being with Bert and driving past a huge steel-producing plant bellowing out clouds of pollution and he said: Isnt that majestic? It was very moving - the scale, the power, the impact of it was awe-inspiring in a way. Organisations help keep society together, even given some of the attendant problems for us, so who am I to have an opinion about keeping society together? The Dutch Government recently bought a bank again. How did they come to the place where they are now? Its too simple and cheap to blame the CEOs of banks for what went on. The more I work with organisations, the more the love I feel for them grows. I have the same love for organisations as I do for nature.

Franz Kalab: Chreode or Create? Review and Discussion of the CSISS International Colloquium

Individuals and collectives, even of constellators and therapists, seem to slide into chreodes from the past to repeat undesired behaviour even without knowing it. How possible is to leave these apparently powerful fields behind simply by doing a constellation? Might a change experienced during a constellation be just as illusory as a drug experience? How can we verify whether th eexperience of release, balance and harmony reached within a constellation takes on collective and lasting validity beyond the context of the constellation in which it occurred? Finally, is it after all ethical and spiritually acceptable to attempt such changes on larger collective levels through constellation work? ....Jewish friends keep reminding me that those who forget their past must repeat it. This implies that new creativity requires memory. If that would be so, how does it relate to the notion that constellations need to be forgotten before they can really work? Furthermore, if the subconsciouis is linked to the conscious, individually and collectively, leading from infancy to increasing maturity, and if the conscious cannot trick the subsconscious, how could a conscious analysis of a constellation prevent it from still working through the subconscious? If individuation and perosnal maturity involve a measure of conscious interaction and balance between the conscious and the subconscious, then what woud be the problem with analysing a constellation?

Contents

Contents of Issue 14 June 2009
Bert Hellinger: The Laws of Success & Failure;
Francesca Mason Boring: In Conversation with Daan van Kampenhout;
Francesca Mason Boring: In Conversation with Ken Sloan & Berchthold Wasser;
Ty Francis: Interview with Jan Jacob Stam: Organisations & The Emerging Future;
Maya Ollier: Family Constellations: The Approaches of Bert Hellinger & Idris Lahore;
Guni Baxa & Christine Essen: Ritual as a Dance with the Pulse of Life;
Joseph Roevens: Towards some Best Practices for Organisational Constellations Work;
Shannon Fleming & Sara Vaughan: Horses in the Field;
Thomas Bryson: Constellations in the Imagination using Skype;
Reinekke Lengelle: Authors following Orders: poem and personal reflection;
Franz Kalab: Chreode or Create? Review & Discussion of CSISS International Colloquium;
Peter Bourquin: Adoption from a Constellators Perspective;
Sadhana Needham: The Magic of Soul Synchronicity;
Clare Kavanagh: Book Review: Trauma, Bonding & Attachment by Franz Ruppert;
Richard Wallstein: The Tears of the Ancestors by Daan van Kampenhout;
News from Around the World;
Letters to the Editor










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