Dear Friends,
Language is important if we aim to be honest with ourselves. What was
needed and what has transpired are not the same. Life may unfold as it must
and indeed greater forces may determine outcomes. To say however that an
inevitable outcome was needed is once again a fundamental denial and
avoidance of our actual responsibility and reality, and therefore it is a
step towards dishonesty. It also deprives us of seeing how thing could be
made to work better.
Are we not inventing and projecting limited human qualities onto a greater,
maybe even unfathomable reality, in our desperate scramble for a sense of
acceptance? How amazingly convenient it is to say in the face of our utter
powerlessness and ignorance that well, this disaster is exactly what was
needed.
Best wishes to all,
Robert
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:38 AM, 'Blossoming Heart Intuitive Arts'
heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ConstellationTalk] <
ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Maria,
I'm so sorry to hear about the suicide of one of your patients. Thank you
for raising your concerns and the code of ethics you have as a doctor. I
can
imagine it would be difficult to negotiate if you were to recommend
patients
to do Constellations work, as this is unconventional spiritual work that
views life and death through a different lens than the medical field.
Ultimately we cannot control whether a person commits suicide. All the help
in the world, including your attempt to help your patient with introducing
them to Constellations work, may not prevent them from going ahead towards
that fate. I don't know how much experience you have with Constellations,
but perhaps it would be best to be a participant first so you can feel
familiarity and understand the deeper wisdom for a while before making
recommendations to your patients so you can stay true to your first
obligation as a doctor.
This work cannot be contrived or controlled extensively. From my
experience,
its intention isn't to heal but rather to bring deeper understanding to the
higher flow of life, balance and what we do for love. There can be healing
effects or a person can change life directions because of the
acknowledgement of the system, but it's not intended to promote wellness
like the medical professional states.
Your inner conflict and negotiating your role as doctor and participant was
exactly what was needed for that weekend you were on. Trust your limits,
inner voice and what you can and cannot control is part of the greater
movement.
Thank you for your contribution,
Heather
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Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:31 AM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] ethics and constellations
Dear all,
As a result of the suicide of one of my patients short after a
constellation
done by a colleague, I want to rise an ethical issue.
As a physician, at least in Belgium, we are ALWAYS responsible for our
patients. I raised this issue before the start of the workshop I organized
for my colleague. This responsibility makes, that even if the colleague
does
the constellation, I'm still the physician of my patients. My colleague did
not agree that I participated as the physician of my patients. His idea was
that I was as one of the other participants. Seen I could not take my
responsibility towards my patients, I stayed home the second day in order
not to disturb the ongoing workshop.
With the feedback of my patients, with the suicide in mind, the issue that
I
want to rise is the following:
As a physician we have full responsibility for the well-being of our
patients, promote their health and relieve their pain.
The position is different for a psychologist or another care-giver.
As a physician, whatever treatment we use, including constellations, we
always have full responsibility for the treatment we choose and our
patients.
Second point is that patients always have to ask for help at the physician
in the first place. So, as a physician we are not allowed to send them
emails with invitations for workshops.
It's clear for myself that I was not acting in line with the ethics of my
profession that particular weekend. I placed the wishes of my colleagues
above the ethics of my profession.
Whether my presence at the workshop could have prevented this suicide, we
will never know.
For myself, it feels as very important that the ethics of my profession
could be recognized by colleagues doing constellations.
Mieke
Maria Goossens, MD
goossens.maria@xxxxxxxxxx
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