Welcome to CT Linda as an active contributor
I'm sure you will get lots of good responses to this request.
Instead of suggesting exercises at this stage I would just like to suggest
some simple underlying principles from which you can invent or assess
exercises.
First your social workers need to find a good place in relation to death
and to physical suffering - both the patient's and their own.
Then they need to find a good place in relationship to the idea of helping.
Guni Baxa developed some nice exercises around the orders of helping in
this regard. This includes having a good place in relation to the patient's
family of origin and to their own family of origin.
Then they need a good place in relation to the patients intimate carers
which may include spouses, parents, children, siblings and friends. Finally
they need a good place in relation to other employed cares such as doctors,
nurses, other allied health staff, cleaners etc
Of course finding a good place means finding the right physical position in
constellation terms. It also means finding the right attitude in terms of
orders i.e. who comes first.
I hope this is helpful
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Linda Lockspeiser
<lplockspeiser@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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Hello all,
I am an avid reader, first time writer here. I am a systems therapist in
private practice who has been doing Constellation Workshops for a number of
years. I am giving a retreat for social workers who work in a home-based
palliative care setting. I would like to introduce Constellation work to
them during the retreat. The theme of the day is "Staying in Right
Relationshhip", and I was wondering if there were any creative exercises
that I might use to do so. My original thought was to use it to problem
solve some of the places where they get stuck in their work as they have to
negotiate between patients, their families, the medical staff, the pastoral
staff and the administration of a large organization. Any other ideas,
exercises, or precautions (!) would be appreciated.
With gratitude for all I learn from all of you,
Linda Longo-Lockspeiser LCSW
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