Dear Rita,
Wasn't this the same case as last week? Sincerely Gary Stuart LA, CA
From: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rita Martino
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:07 AM
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fw: [ConstellationTalk] regarding working with whole families
Greetings everyone from La Crosse WI.
I am asking for some input here. I have been asked to facilitate a family
constellation....a mom, dad, and three children, ages, 12, 14, 16. I have
worked with the Dad a few times, the mom once and have not met the children.
I referred them on to a Psychiatrist in private practice who is doing
wholistic psychiatry. They now have requested me to do a family
constellation. I have only focused on one on one constellations and as a MFT
therapist in a hospital setting, I take care with boundaries/ethics and give
my best to both "roles". With appreciation, Rita
Warm Regards,
Rita Ann Martino
awakeningfamilyconstellations.com
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many thanks William, bravo indeed, we will sleep well tonight..... j
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From: William Mannle
To: ConstellationTalk@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [ConstellationTalk] Great day to be Australian
Bravo Australia!!
Bill Mannle
On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Jonine Lee wrote:
dear Max and Chris,
many thanks for posting this in such an appropriate space,
dear fellow constellators it is such a momentuous day for us here
and to be able to share it with a community around the world that
can so appreciate what it means for us as a nation is so precious,
thankyou for being there to hear us, the tears have flowed so
freely today,
My clients arrived and with each we just looked at each other
embraced and cried, beyond words, it feels like we have grown up
as a nation, taken responsability, realised the cost not to do so
and embraced one another with a spirit of togetherness, both sides
of parliment showed respect for one another and did not seek to use
the occassion to grandstand ....
to see the statesmanship that Rudd exhibited was hopeful re our
future under this government, to hear him speak of the soul of the
nation needing to say sorry was amazing and equally for the
opposition leader to speak of his own family pain was also
heartening , there is still
fear of what this will mean amongst some AUstralians but.....the
tide has turned, and yes i too feel deeply proud to be a person in
this country,
for all those displaced and excluded whether as an individual in a
family system or as a race, a nation. \today speaks to the deepest
part of us all the reaching out to one another..... and that
reaching out being met
with love to all,
jonine
jonine@coreconnecti ontrainings. com
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From: Max Dauskardt
To: ConstellationTalk@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:28 PM
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Great day to be Australian
Today is a momentous day in the history of Australia
Never has it been a greater honour to be a new Australian
The Prime Minister of this country has as the first act of
the newly elected parliament said SORRY
Sorry to what had happened to all Aboriginals
Sorry in particular to those tens of thousands who were as children
forcibly removed from their families to be never returned.
Why report here?
It goes to the core of our work
Constellation principles applied
please read for yourself
the full text of Kevin Rudd'd speech is to be found in:
http://www.smh. com.au/news/ national/ kevin-rudds- sorry-speech/ ;
2008/02/13/12027603 79056.html? page=fullpage# contentSwap2
below are some of the highlights
with great joy from
Alemka and Max
Melbourne, Australia
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There is something terribly primal about these firsthand
accounts. The
pain is searing; it screams from the pages. The hurt, the
humiliation, the
degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically
separating a
mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on
our most
elemental humanity.
These stories cry out to be heard; they cry out for an apology.
---
As has been said of settler societies elsewhere, we are the
bearers of
many blessings from our ancestors; therefore we must also be the
bearer of
their burdens as well.
Therefore, for our nation, the course of action is clear: that
is, to deal
now with what has become one of the darkest chapters in Australia's
history.
In doing so, we are doing more than contending with the facts, the
evidence and the often rancorous public debate.
In doing so, we are also wrestling with our own soul.
This is not, as some would argue, a black-armband view of
history; it is
just the truth: the cold, confronting, uncomfortable truth -
facing it,
dealing with it, moving on from it.
Until we fully confront that truth, there will always be a shadow
hanging
over us and our future as a fully united and fully reconciled
people.
It is time to reconcile. It is time to recognise the injustices
of the
past. It is time to say sorry. It is time to move forward together.
To the stolen generations, I say the following: as Prime Minister of
Australia, I am sorry.
On behalf of the government of Australia, I am sorry.
On behalf of the parliament of Australia, I am sorry.
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I know that, in offering this apology on behalf of the government
and the
parliament, there is nothing I can say today that can take away
the pain
you have suffered personally.
Whatever words I speak today, I cannot undo that.
Words alone are not that powerful; grief is a very personal thing.
I ask those non-indigenous Australians listening today who may
not fully
understand why what we are doing is so important to imagine for a
moment
that this had happened to you.
I say to honourable members here present: imagine if this had
happened to
us. Imagine the crippling effect. Imagine how hard it would be to
forgive.
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Mr Speaker, today the parliament has come together to right a
great wrong.
We have come together to deal with the past so that we might
fully embrace
the future. We have had sufficient audacity of faith to advance a
pathway
to that future, with arms extended rather than with fists still
clenched.
So let us seize the day. Let it not become a moment of mere
sentimental
reflection.
Let us take it with both hands and allow this day, this day of
national
reconciliation, to become one of those rare moments in which we
might just
be able to transform the way in which the nation thinks about
itself,
whereby the injustice administered to the stolen generations in
the name
of these, our parliaments, causes all of us to reappraise, at the
deepest
level of our beliefs, the real possibility of reconciliation writ
large:
reconciliation across all indigenous Australia; reconciliation
across the
entire history of the often bloody encounter between those who
emerged
from the Dreamtime a thousand generations ago and those who, like
me, came
across the seas only yesterday; reconciliation which opens up
whole new
possibilities for the future.
It is for the nation to bring the first two centuries of our settled
history to a close, as we begin a new chapter. We embrace with
pride,
admiration and awe these great and ancient cultures we are truly
blessed
to have among us cultures that provide a unique, uninterrupted human
thread linking our Australian continent to the most ancient
prehistory of
our planet.
--
Max Dauskardt
max@souldance. net.au
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Max Dauskardt
max@souldance. net.au
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