Important work happening here. I love the willingness to move and the care
taken in doing so. And I love Barbara Morgan's question.
That said I found the word alternative a little jarring. I've seen the word
"complementary" used in medical schools and medical research to very good
effect to successfully address the tiniest openness of mind.
Barbara
Creative Attention Canada inc.
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On Jan 11, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Barbara Morgan theknowingfield@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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] 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
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Barbara Morgan
Family Constellations Trainer, Supervisor & Practitioner
Editor of
The Knowing Field
International Constellations Journal
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