Jack, thanks so much for your effort, but you might want to check out this
article:
https://www.quora.com/Is-Wikipedia-effective-at-fighting-pseudoscience-Why-or-why-not
Wikipedia is notorious for being against anything its editors consider
“pseudoscience.” In many cases, that has actually been really helpful. Having
said that, as the article above notes, it has at times drifted into
demagoguery. Constellations has clearly been identified as (dangerous)
pseudoscience. They are unwilling to have a “pro and con” perspective on it as
part of their entry. Unless some of us become as dedicated editors of Wikipedia
as their regular editing “crew,” we have little chance of updating the entry
and maintaining it.
Again, though, thanks! If anyone can figure out how to balance this unfortunate
aspect of Wikipedia (which I otherwise quite like and respect—I use it a lot),
that would be terrific!
The Rev. Leslie Nipps
NLP & Family Constellations Practitioner
“Trust as a Way of Life…”
www.leslienipps.com
Co-Director, 2015 North American Systemic Constellations Conference in San
Diego on November 12-15.
Visit ConstellateUs.com/conference2015 for more information
On Jan 6, 2016, at 10:06 AM, jack blackwell travelerjbjb@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting, it has now been changed back to the original negative description
again. Hmmm
Jack Blackwell (720) 458-5363
Connecting Spirit & Psychology ~ Creating profound insights and Healing
Family Constellation Workshops & Trainings, Holotropic Breathwork
Visit us at Family-Constellation.com to learn more
From: "jack blackwell travelerjbjb@xxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]"
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To: yahoogroups <constellationtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 10:40 AM
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Changing the description of our work on Wikipedia.
Here's what I changed it to:
First of all I want to say, I am offering this as a starting point. I am not
offering this as a definitive description. I welcome your thoughts and changes.
But I did want to remove the skeptical language that someone how infused
throughout the first 3 pages.
I don't mind a critical critique being on the page, but I felt that the
critique was VERY biased to the negative.
I do not know that my changes will hold as they could be changed back. But for
this moment they are live.
Again, I offer this as a starting point and I feel very strongly about the
shifted negatively skewed language that I removed.
Please share your thoughts:
Family Constellations is an alternative therapeutic method which draws on
elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu
attitudes towards family. Family Constellations explore unresolved generational
trauma and pain that has been passed down through the family system. [1] In a
single session, a Family Constellation can reveal previously unrecognized
systemic dynamics that can span multiple generations in a given family and
impact each successive generation.
Family Constellations are noted to heal in many ways. Two of the most common
are: shifting the energetic entanglements and hidden loyalties that have the
client following in the family footsteps and showing the client a more complete
picture of the family system which can allow the client greater compassion,
love and connection with the family.
Practitioners note that present-day problems and difficulties may be influenced
by traumas suffered in previous generations of the family, (See epigenetics)
even if those affected now are unaware of the original event in the past. A
theoretical foundation for this concept is called The Ancestor Syndrome in
psychology.[2] Bert Hellinger, creator of Family Constellation work, referred
to the relation between present and past problems that are not caused by direct
personal experience as Systemic entanglements and occur when unresolved trauma
has afflicted a family through an event such as murder, suicide, death of a
mother in childbirth, early death of a parent or sibling, war, natural
disaster, emigration, or abuse.[3] The psychiatrist Iván Böszörményi-Nagy
referred to this phenomenon as Invisible Loyalties.[4]
Jack Blackwell (720) 458-5363
Connecting Spirit & Psychology ~ Creating profound insights and Healing
Family Constellation Workshops & Trainings, Holotropic Breathwork
Visit us at Family-Constellation.com to learn more
