Hi Rachel and Angwyn.
As forum moderator I have to say that I think that Rachel's post was
appropriate.
Nonetheless, I am grateful to Aangwyn who is an extremely valuable and
regular contributor to this group. Aangwyn has good radar for
detecting inappropriate self promotion and has been helpful in drawing my
attention to it in the past.
While I generally agree with Aangwyn on these matters I can't say I do on
this occasion.. Not only does Rachel's post fit the guidelines, it also
genuinely adds value to the conversation. I was so impressed that looked up
the workshop link on the website which I found even more informative and
then I forwarded the email to one of my students who has been talking about
organising something similar for practitioners in Melbourne as part of our
peer supervision group.
I would like to add that when I first stated to learn to facilitate
constellations myself, the part I found most intimidating of all was
organising workshops. It struck me as odd that the training available at
the time did not include this as it appeared to be an integral part of the
work. This for me involves a lot more than just recruiting participants and
legal and financial considerations. It also involves other practical things
like finding a good venue, managing cancellations and dealing with food
catering, as well as more psychological issues like managing participants
expectations prior to a workshop, greeting participants, managing
participants reactions in the holding circle and managing workshops of
various sizes.
These and other group issues tend to be ignored in traditional
constellation training. I believe these oversights are responsible for some
of the problems that seem to be endemic in the constellation world. One of
the most obvious problems, which is well illustrated in Dan's post is the
psychology of poverty that pervades the community and sometimes leads to
weird and inappropriate behaviours like some practitioners deliberately
poaching other practitioner's clients. Of course some clients will want to
check out different practitioners and that is fine but this sense of
poverty can lead to the unethical aspects of competition arising. So I very
much welcome a solution oriented discussion on this forum and I am
grateful to Rachel for modestly drawing attention to her efforts in that
direction.
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Rachel Whalley <
Rachel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hi Anngwyn and others,
My apologies if I have overstepped.
I did review the forum guidelines before posting this, and without having
seen an example of what is appropriate, I apparently missed the mark.
I was aiming for 'honest and modest" promotion (#4), as well as seeing that
it was very relevant to the conversation (#5). I would not have posted
about this if we had not already been talking about the challenges in
getting workshops out there.
I hope to see in the future how others do this appropriately so I can know
what's acceptable. I would also welcome further clarification on this. I do
not wish to be anything but a thoughtful contributor here.
I also hope my intention was clear in that I love this work and those who
practice it.
Rachel
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:32 PM, anngwyn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Hello Rachel
No, this is not appropriate...please review forum guidelines.
All for now...
Anngwyn St. Just
_www.acst-international.com_ (http://www.acst-international.com)
_http://anngwyn.wisrville.org_ ;(http://anngwyn.wisrville.org)
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