I second the approach of Ed Tick and his great book, "War and the Soul."
I trained with him several years ago and found his approach fabulous.
Among his research, he looked quite a bit at the Native American tribes (and
other cultures) and how they welcomed warriors home from war.
He has modernized and replicated some of that flavor with his work today.
It's spiritual, experiential, systemic and powerful.
Link is here:
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Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, LISW-S, TEP
Lake House Health & Learning Center
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Racine, WI 53403
(262) 633-2645
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Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 7:52 PM
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Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Re: Working with War Veterans & Emergency
Services Personnel
Hi Denis, I highly recommend (as others have here) the work of
Ed Tick and his books "War and the Soul" and "The Practice of Dream
Healing." Ed has researched warrior cultures around the world and the way
they historically treated and healed their warriors when they return from
battle, and has found the essential elements in which the entire society
participated. The community participated in preparing warriors, in sending
them off, and receiving them back with respectful ceremony and listening to
their stories, however terrible. In modern day US warrior culture, the
soldier is prepared in boot camp which breaks down his/her individuality and
separates him/her from the strength of his family, creating a newly
fabricated military family. Then he/she returns from battle and is in
general instructed to return to a normal life. The military has made some
efforts to improve on this legitimized abandonment, but in general the
wounds of war are left to drift in the collective unconscious of the
culture, and hidden in the psyches of the individual soldiers. Ed's work is
systemic and points to the necessity of the entire society sharing in the
burdens, which both supports the warriors and influences the collective to
move very slowly into war since all share in knowing of the horror.
My intuition about your block to 'get it right' is telling me that
if you are not accepted by the soldiers as one of them, they may not trust
you to be able to go with them into the trauma. And you may be sensing it.
It may not be an issue with you, but more about their absolute fidelity to
each other and diminished trust of anyone not familiar with the
life-or-death situations they face together. Ed Tick was a military
psychologist and at the beginning of his work with soldiers, was given trust
that might not be shown to others.
peace,
Chuck
Chuck Cogliandro
Family Constellations Facilitator
Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
Kumandi Drums & Healing
404-966-5800
www.kumandi.com
www.constellationjourneys.com
