It is sooo great to hear your 'voice' Fran. And thank you for deepening my
understanding of your perspective. Even though I spent many months in the
healing circle with you, this is helpful to me to know your heart.Deborah
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, francescamasonboring <sboring@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
Good Morning Dan, Nathalie and the many teachers on Ctalk. For a summary
of elements of Systems Constellation as Ceremony, there is an article in The
Knowing Field: International Constellations Journal, Issue 8, June 2006.
On my mother's side I come from the Shoshone which is a Native American
Tribe in the United States. My maternal grandmother lived to be more than
100 years old and was one of my greatest teachers. I have been fashioned by
my family field, nuclear, extended and ancestral. This was a cultural
awareness which Constellation work acknowledge. Unlike many other western
disciplines, Bert Hellinger, Sheh Victoria Schnabel, Hunter Beaumont and
Gunthard Weber were very clear that each person was welcome to this work as
they were; with whatever skills they had, whatever discipline they came
from, whatever tradition, if they were willing to be in service of something
greater.
The posture of constellation as ceremony happens intuitively for many
facilitators and it is not something I "created" but are elements of
practice working in ancestral fields which came a thousand years before me
or constellation work:
*The Indigenous field is prepared in prayer. (Privately before
constellations or in the group- this often involves smudging, the practice
which existed on every continent- of burning something to separate the
living from the dead and to acknowledge both)
*Acknowledge Circle Technology-everyone called into the circle is a healer
and a teacher
*The motivation to participate in Constellation as ceremony is to give.
*The ancestors are real.
*Precautions need to be taken to allow the ancestors to leave the space.
*The work is integrated by the soul, not debated or dissected.
*Constellation as Ceremony respects that the indigenous field is not
restricted to the contemporary aboriginal populations, but refers to the
universal ancestral indigene and ancestral field.
*Acknowledges the inter-relatedness of all things in the natural field;
nature may provide a solution.
*For community healing, as in communal ceremonies-the community may be the
client
*Dream, and the extended field, as well as the immediate field in the
constellation may inform the constellation.
*A cluster of participant dreams before a constellation may inform a
collective constellation if they are honored. (expanded definition of each
of these are included in the article)
In addition to these elements there are numerous movements which are
elements of ceremonies or concepts within existing extended family systems
-which supports the work. Constellation work was born out of an urban
nuclear family societal model. Much of Constellation as Ceremony is just the
invitation to another world view. Thanks Dan.
I am aware that this, as with other ways of working is not for everyone,
facilitator or seeker.
All My Relations,
Francesca
