Hi Ed and All,
I'd like to add my personal experience to the discussion.
When I fell in love with CW in 2003 after watching Bert in
Santa Barbara, I had a clear intuitive knowing I needed to
be grounded in psychology before doing the work. I had
never taken a college-level psychology course or read at
length in the field. My personal therapy was so focused
on my issues, I had no knowledge of how to extrapolate
truths for others in the therapeutic process.
To that end, I enrolled in an accredited MFT program in
depth psychology -- the least rigid and most esoteric of
the modalities in the field -- and have just completed my
thesis. It has been a long four years of preparation and,
for me, my intuition was borne out.
It is also true that I now have to undo those four years --
and a lifetime! -- of pathologizing myself and others. To
that end, I have undertaken work with a shaman and
move daily into deeper and deeper inner work beyond
my mind and culturally-coded experiences.
I have seen Ed facilitate and asked for his supervision via
phone in my own work. I find him wise and compassionate
and respect what he has to say about the interface between
constellation and therapy work.
I am also a longtime reader but seldom participant in CT, so
I hope this email can serve as an introduction of myself to the
group. It is a joy to find kinship among you.
Susan Richey
Los Angeles, California
susansoul@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: EJ52@xxxxxxx
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Knowledge
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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