I think all this is challenging us to stand up and be counted. What we are
offering is 'outside' the norm and we compromise the work if we try and
'fit' with what we think society wants of us. I have become braver and more
uncompromising in my approach over the years. I am not willing to sacrifice
my own integrity for the sake of 'fitting in', finding acceptability within
mainstream. We are part of the paradigm shift that is happening - the shift
that says we are not isolate beings, this is not a dualistic world, we are
all inextricably linked to each other and to the planet. If people read
Wikipaedia and go no further, so be it. We can do what we can but there
will always be those who oppose the work. Yes, what we offer is
alternative. So what? This is a pretty good offering from Jack. If the
moderators or whoever they are then decide they want to reverse the
language to negative again what can we do? Keep wasting our energy fighting
them or just get on and do the work with those that want it?
A well known healer in this country put himself up before the British
Medical Authority to be tested for his ability to heal. He showed over and
over again his ability to destroy cancer cells through a test tube but
those operating the tests kept moving the goalposts. He woke up one day and
decided that he was wasting a lot of time and energy trying to get
mainstream acceptance for what he was offering and that it was best just to
get on and do what he does best, offer healing to anyone who wants it.
Barbara
On 11 January 2016 at 17:08, Irene Moreira Taitson imtaitson@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, Jack, for taking time to change the negatively biased entry to
Family Constellations in Wikipedia. Your description seems good to me. My
only remarks concern the use of the term "alternative", which may encompass
several current methods which are not as proven as Family Constellations,
and the reference to the Zulus, which may elicit skeptical feelings and
prejudice.
Love,
Irene Taitson
Em 06/01/2016 15:40, "jack blackwell travelerjbjb@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk]" <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
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]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-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]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-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]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-3> The
psychiatrist Iván Böszörményi-Nagy referred to this phenomenon as *Invisible
Loyalties*.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations#cite_note-4>
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