Hi, i work with emergency personel, SES workers, Firefighters and most recently
Ambulance. i would love some suggestions as well around how to use
constellations with this group. i have just recently trained in Somatic
Experiencing and i feel like it is a good fit for this group of people.
any constellations suggestions would be very helpful.
ThankyouCarissa
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014, 9:29, "'Dan Booth Cohen, PhD'
danboothcohen@xxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk]"
<ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dennis – Here in the States suicides among veterans far exceeds combat
deaths. The numbers are astronomical and the rates are increasing year over
year. This includes recent vets and well as older ones from past eras,
especially Vietnam vets. My work with Constellations has evolved so much in
the last two years that it is hard for me to keep up myself with how my
understanding keeps changing. What is relevant here is my awareness that the
Field of a Constellation is not created by setting up representatives. Rather,
the Field is created by the person, their stated intention and their ancestral
lineage (family system). For example, for a returning combat veteran, the
consciousness of their system members (enemy dead, slain comrades,
grandmothers, grandfathers, etc.) are present and active in the Field whether
or you not you put in representatives for these people. The same is true for
all group members. Everyone walks into a room with their Constellation
invisibly surrounding them. In a group of veterans with PTSD, before you even
begin, the room is packed with traumatic death. One person’s process can easily
trigger another person’s trauma. A further complication regarding veterans is
that their training is antithetical to the fundamental principles of
Constellations. While they live and breathe with the victim-perpetrator bond,
they are not conditioned to accept its existence. When I work with groups of
people with a lot of PTSD in the room, I setup one or two group processes to
help create a strong, healthy , supportive container for the more traumatic
work to come. Working with the model of three dimensions of consciousness
(drop, wave, ocean, as per Franke and Bryson), I would begin by connecting the
group members to their spiritual resources. This can be done simply by having
the group stand, make a large circle and each represent their own spiritual
resource. People can then step forward into a circle of ancestral consciousness
beginning with ancient presences and working forward through time. I suggest
some type of container creation before dealing with the first dimension
experiences of combat and loss. The healing potential for this work with
veterans is immense. I applaud you for your involvement. Dan Dan Booth
Cohen, PhDFree Monthly Consciousness CallSeeing with Your Heart: New Frontiers
for Working with Love, Relationships and
Consciousnesswww.HiddenSolution.com781-718-7158 From:
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 1:50 AM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Working with War Veterans & Emergency Services
Personnel G'day All, At the end of Nov. co-facilitating a program called
"The Vets Journey Home". It is the first time in Australia for this cultural
adaptation of a successful USA program which now serves Paramedics & other
emergency services as well as Vets. I am wondering if any of you have worked
with Vets and / or PTSD and have anything like processes or experiences that
you might share. In discussions with my US piers I am given to understand much
of the work is listening and then facilitating an often powerful and deeply
emotional process for an each individual when they arrive at the place of being
ready. I "feel" there could be some healthy appropriate way to apply
constellation work yet I seem to have a mental block as to how that might be.
Unusually for me I seem to be stuck in the place of "I must get this right for
the participants"....:-) Sooooo Help please. I'm really interested in what
you have to say, even if it is simply stretching your imagination and general
experience to looking outside the box for something that might benefit these
people. Many thanks Love, Light and Laughter...Den Home = 61738433818Mobile
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