Great point Alison,
Our maps actually shape the world we live in, not just constellations. and
it's not just the facilitators maps that shape the constellation, the maps
of all the participants have their effect as well. Even the idea that we
are looked after by a benevolent field is a map. My map of the field is
that it is benignly indifferent. But that map could change! In fact maps
are being created and changed ongoingly.
Have you ever noticed that if you give a talk on a particular topic at the
beginning of a workshop that themes related to that talk are
over-represented in that workshop. I believe that when that happens we have
created a dominant map that shapes the workshop But that idea is also a
map.! Our mapping mind can't help but map.
So all this begs the question: How can we be phenomological when we have
this incessant map making mind? I suspect the idea of acknowledging what is
unconstrained by maps is a guiding ideal which is ultimately impossible -
an ideal which we can use well when we remember that our maps are useful
but that they are just maps and as such are always incomplete and
flawed.And then just maybe there is something else when all this
conceptualisation drops away - just maybe?
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Alison Fornes maitreya71@xxxxxxxxx
[ConstellationTalk] <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm fresh off of a beautiful weekend workshop facilitated by Jakob and
Sieglinde Schneider, so I've got lots of thoughts I'm processing.
What I'm interested in are the maps that we use when we are in the Field.
Clearly, all of us are familiar with and probably apply Bert's map,
recognizing the orders of love and other dynamics at play. Franz Ruppert
has a map of trauma that he applies with his constellations of
intention (which I only know academically, not through personal
experience). Other maps may be more shamanic, working with soul retrievals
and fragments of the self, others may be from a psychological view of the
interior, such as the inner child. Dan Booth Cohen uses a map of the Three
Dimensions of Consciousness.
I am curious about our maps and how conscious we are of them. What I am
noticing is how each map has it's own features, and through the observer
effect, actually creates the landscape of the Field that we experience when
we work.
I have had the thought that I would like to be knowledgeable of many maps,
and intentional about which I am using each time I enter the Field.
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