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Issue 7, january 2006

£ 10.00

CONTENTS

  • Barbara Morgan: Editorial

  • Bert Hellinger: Brief Biography

APPLICATIONS OF CONSTELLATION WORK

  • Brigitte Essl: Therapeutic Applications of Constellation Work for Chronic Illness

  • Almut Grosse-Parfuss: Psychoanalysis & Family Constellations

THE SOUL

  • Hunter Beaumont: Soul: Moving and Moved

  • Franz Ruppert: Integrating Split Components of the Soul

CONSTELLATIONS

  • Ed Lynch: Donor Organs - a Constellation

  • Andy Stuck: Non-Traditional Births

  • Colette Green: 'The Shape of Longing'

COUPLES WORK

  • Decio & Wilma Oliveira: Couple relationships in Brazil

BOOK EXTRACTS

  • John Payne: Apartheid from The Healing of Individuals, Families & Nations

REPORTS

  • Alun Reynolds: Organisational Constellations Training Workshop led by Gunthard Weber

OPINIONS

  • Michael Gurevich: Blind Spots & Side-Effects of Constellation Work

POEM

  • Gary Stuart: Generations (from Many Hearts, One Soul)

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Fiona Coffey:'Invisible Dynamics' by Klaus Horn/Regine Brick

  • Daan van Kampenhout: 'Feather Medicine' by Francesca Mason Boring

Extracts

Hunter Beaumont: Soul: Moving and Moved

When we speak of ‘soul’, we are speaking of the realm of subjective experience in which we feel things like: longing, compassion, heartache, hope. I am proposing that it is useful and often helpful to examine carefully this dimension of our lives, for it is here that we humans find meaning and value. Surely disease of soul causes suffering, just as does disease of body or disease of mind. Yet, this realm of experience is organised differently. It has different needs from the body and follows a different logic from that of the mind. It is not separate from them, not dualistically distinct, but under normal circumstances our subjective experience routinely distinguishes one from the other.

Franz Ruppert: Integrating Split Components of the Soul; Constellations based on Multi-Generational Systemic Psychotraumatology

A revolutionary development in brain research – the discovery of so-called ‘mirror neurons’ by the Italian physiologist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues may help us to understand the phenomena of the Constellation method. In experiments with animals these researchers demonstrated the existence of specific nerve cells in the brain that respond not only when a specific action is performed by the animal under investigation but also when the animal observes the same action being carried out by another. These nerve cells have been named ‘mirror neurons’ because they seem to ‘mirror’ in the brain the behaviour of other individuals. A similar neural response has been found in humans, using brain scanning methods, although these do not have the resolution to demonstrate the activity of individual nerve cells as has been done in the animal work.

Michael Gurevich: Opinion: Blind Spots and Side-Effects of Constellation Work

Constellation work can have a very powerful effect on all who participate in it and this effect can sometimes be negative. We have often become blind to these negative consequences of constellation work. It is important to pay attention to all aspects of what we do, including possible side-effects of our work and our own personal blind spots. There are effective ways to make our work less dangerous and more valuable, some of which will be discussed in this article.