When we have a constellation, the question is often - Where do we start? Until
we have a better sense of the systemics, well, we just have to start somewhere
(a client and their problem, for instance) and see what comes. In the US, we
fight about where we should start. Gun control. Really addressing the needs of
the mentally ill. The gun culture. The fears of the soon-to-be-minority white
lower middle class person. Racism. But in systems, there really isn’t just one
place to start, and I think we lose energy when we struggle over this.
(“Talking about mental illness is just a way to avoid the real issue of gun
control!”) We need to start someplace, and that place is where we as
individuals feel most called to start. And then start. And see what happens.
;-)
The Rev. Leslie Nipps
NLP & Family Constellations Practitioner
“Trust as a Way of Life…”
www.leslienipps.com
Co-Director, 2015 North American Systemic Constellations Conference in San
Diego on November 12-15.
Visit ConstellateUs.com/conference2015 for more information
On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:04 AM, Chris Walsh chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
While I agree with the problems with "fear porn" we should recognise that the
media generated fear pron has been exported around the world but America's
ridiculous gun laws fortunately have not. As a result countries like Australia
that have plenty of fear porn without the ridiculous gun laws have far fewer
deaths by shooting (I'm not just talking about mass killings here either!) than
the USA. Also the amount of shootings dropped dramatically in the late nineties
when the gun laws were significantly tightened followed by a massive government
buyback of automatic weapons from citizens. i wish good luck with al systemic
forces behind you to anyone trying to improve the gun laws in the USA
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:49 AM, anngwyn@xxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
While I am all for peace and not so fond of guns, from a systemic perspective,
guns are not the problem...only the symptom of the problem...We have always had
guns in this country....and as a social traumatologist, more problematic is
the trans-national epidemic of state-sponsored, media generated "fear porn "
designed to promote and accelerate " fear of the other "....and this inevitably
leads to all manner of violence as history as proven over and again. Confusing
the symptom with the problem is likely to lead only to more confusion. We might
ask: Who or what benefits from this current fear mongering epidemic that seeks
to exploit the darker aspects of tribal consciousness ?
I addressed this "fear porn " in my blog " Trauma and the Human Condition "
http://anngwyn.wisrville.org as "Our Year of Fear ". which may be of ;
interest....
Warm regards
Anngwyn St. Just Ph.D.
http://anngwyn.wisrville.org
www.acst-international.com
