Dan, Martin, and All,
i think that facilitators without knowledge of assessment and personality
disorders or styles run the risk of lawsuits and other difficullties. Of course
they would not be held accountable as those who are licensed would be. A person
with a borderline sytle of relating -not even a disorder- has a different
process, reaction, and understanding of a Constellation than one with a
narcississtic style. They 'see' and 'hear' and feel' differently and this needs
to be
taken into account in the work and without some therapy training, it weakens
the facilitator.
I have done some informal research on my trainees that have licenses and
those that do not and there is a striking difference, so much so that now I
require some kind of training in the work as a support for learning
Constellation
work. I cannot yet see that someone who ran a flower shop, or was a travel
agent, or headed up a business and went to some workshops can do the
facilitating
without a background in therapy.
The same thing happened in Gestalt Therapy in the 60's. People would go to
workshops and then do the work or open training programs. Many horror shows
occured which led to a great deal of disgust in the field of psychology and
human
relations among professionals.
Also I personnally think it is important for facilitators to be able to
articulate to other professionals what sytemic constellations is. Therefore we
need
to have some acquaintance with their language in order to enable
understandings for us of them and for them of us. After all, Beethoven knew
his Bach.
Ed
PS Dan Fabulous chapter 2 on dissertation
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