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Issue 19, JANUARY 2012

£ 15.00

Contents

Barbara Morgan: Editorial

Bert Hellinger: God and the Holocausts

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

  • Bubula Lardi in conversation with Chris Walsh

  • Janos Szabo in conversation with Dimitris Stavropoulos

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

  • Franz Ruppert: Constellation Work based on Bonding & Trauma

  • Vivian Broughton: Gestalt, Phenomenology & Trauma Constellations

  • Una O’Connell: Stones of Belonging: working systemically in schools

  • Jane James & Terry Ingham: Using Systemic Perspectives to transform Education

  • Liliane van der Velde: Spirit at Work in the Corporate World

  • Diana Douglas: Playing in the Field: The Artistic Field & the Knowing Field

  • Elmar Dornberger: From the River to the Ocean: Liminal Constellations – a new way of facilitating

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

  • Hunter Beaumont: How do Constellations Mean?

  • Michael Reddy: Constellations & the Evolution of World-views - Part Two: Time, Space & Consciousness

  • Judith Hemming: Applying a Systemic Perspective in Everyday Life

  • Stephen Busby: Beyond the Constellation Room

  • Elena Veselago: Definition & Focus for Representations

  • Don Opatrny: Constellation Work in the US Marketplace

REPORTS ON CONFERENCES & INTENSIVES

  • Elena Veselago: 2nd Eurasian Congress on Systemic Constellations in Moscow

  • Mira Tveitane: Healing is Integration: Report on Training in Advanced Individual Trauma Work

  • Various Contributors: Impressions of the US Systemic Constellations Conference 2011

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Gary Stuart: Laws of Healing by Bert Hellinger

  • John Ainscough: Even if it costs me my Life by Stephan Hausner

  • Max Dauskardt: Science & the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything by Ervin Laszlo

Extracts

Bert Hellinger: God and the Holocausts

Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of the so-called Holy Week. For the Christians it is an important time of the year and it has certain effects that are not pleasant. It marks the time when the Christians rejected the Jews. I say this in a straightforward manner, because in essence the Christians made the Jews responsible for the death of Jesus.

You know that I was a priest and a theologian and that I know something about the Bible. In some of the gospels there is a strong tendency to brand the Jews as guilty for the death of Jesus and there are some texts in the Bible – especially in the gospel according to Matthew – where the Jews cry: “His blood be on us and on our children” (Mt.27:25). But it is not true that they said that; it is a later inclusion. From there the consequences for the Jewish people were terrible.

Bubula Lardi in Conversation with Chris Walsh

Bubula: Perhaps we could spend a little time for you to talk about how you brought your particular interest in Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation into this work and into your teaching programmes.

Chris: When I decided to run my own training in Melbourne with Catherine Ingram, we wanted to find a way to teach Phenomenology and  the obvious way was by mindfulness meditation. It can speed up that process dramatically. For one thing it can really help you uncover your bind spots.

Bubula: Can you give an example of this?

Chris: Often when trainees start facilitating constellations, they will step into the field and start to identify with the energy in the field without realising it. For example, the field can have an energy of confusion when the whole family system is confused. Then the facilitation picks up that energy and also becomes confused. When they fail to realise that the confusion is something arising from the system, they are lost in a blind spot. If they are trained in mindfulness, they are trained in observing the state of their own mind and they can notice that they are confused.

Janos Szabo in conversation with Dimitris Stavropoulos

Janos: Talking about love, I have heard you advising single women to go to bars for a while and seduce as many men as possible in order to upgrade their female power… What is your suggestion: should women set a time limit for such activity, for example, in order to avoid becoming stuck in these kinds of adventures?

Dimitris: My approach is more complex than that. Aphrodite is the Goddess of love and of the ‘No’, the erotic ‘No’ that gives women their power over men. It is this ‘No’ that gives women the first place in a sexual couple relationship and accordingly in the family. Men have to court a women till she grants her ‘Yes’ to them. If a man does not respect the woman, and consequently, the ‘No’ of a woman, we refer to it as violation, abuse or rape.

Franz Ruppert: Constellation Work based on Bonding and Trauma

As a consequence of that I developed a new format of constellations work that has only one thing in common with family constellations: that is that there are representatives. There is no longer a repredsentative for the client in the constellation; they are immediately in the constellaiton along with a representative for their ‘intention’. The ‘intention’ of the client for the constellation is the central figure in this type of constellation and I am only willing to facilitate a constellation if the client has an intention for their therapeutic work. Everything that then takes place in the constellation depends on the relationship between the client and their intention. ….The goal of the constellation is to help the client gain clarity about their relationship to their intention., so they will be able to take a further step towards autonomy.