The ISCA website http://www.isca-network.org is up and running,
at this stage the membership is growing steadily
hopefully catching up with the one of this forum.
The blog/discussion facility for ISCA members
may converge sometime with CTalk
until then it seems reasonable to approach them in tandem.
Below is the open letter I posted on the ISCA blog
the topic of which
I feel appropriate to be discussed here as well;
in passing raising awareness of the benefits of ISCA membership
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Dear Fellow ISCA members,
At the Cologne meeting last year
as member of the ISCA Founding Assembly
I spoke deliberately against one brief paragraph
of the draft proposal of the ISCA charter
which said:" ..the work was developed by BH and others..."
I strongly suggested then a "stand alone spot for BH".
At the end of the day that point was taken by the assembly
with an equivalent remark in the final communique.
Looking up "Overview"
http://www.isca-network.org/EnglishFoundationsOverview it is very
disappointing to find
Bert Hellinger reduced to being just another ingredient
of the development of systemic constellations.
What I find under Overview reads like an attempt
to take away the extraordinary merit Bert is due for his work.
Without his steadfast pursuit of the work there would be no ISCA.
For ISCA to start its career without proper acknowledgement
of the person who had been instrumental to the work on which ISCA is based
would go completely against the principles ISCA purports to pursue.
I said something to that extent back in Cologne as well.
My motivation behind writing this is to come to the right appreciation of
a historical development which I am personally extremely grateful for.
A gratefulness that did not stop me from being put off at Pichl
to witness Bert taking part in some group techniques
which I found strange and unbecoming.
I am just as dismayed to find at the beginning
of Bert's latest book: 'Rising in Love'
a lengthy explanation/justification of 'HellingerSiencia'
That virtually spoils an otherwise fine introductory volume.
There got to be an energetic link between these two issues
-ISCA wing clipping Bert, Bert blowing up proprietorship of his insights-
as in one breeds and feeds the other.
Instead of wing clipping, the Australian term 'tall poppy syndrome' would
be just as appropriate to assume behind the treatment
Bert receives on the website.
Under:
Foundations of Systemic Constellation Work
where does one find Bert in the photo gallery?
--btw why deserve Franklin, Volta and Edison a mention here
other than to distract from the place Bert is given in that Gallery?--
Of course Gunthard's part in leading Bert out of obscurity has been
essential as was Hunter's towards providing the opening into the English
speaking world, as has Albrecht's, immortalised in the name of TKF
journal.
Nevertheless as far as the Constellation work is concerned
I cannot see that, as one of the website authors puts it "he should not be
more outstanding than the others with whom he is placed. He is standing
with the best."
My take is that without the assistance provided
Bert's charisma would perhaps have remained obscure,
yet the very charisma of his is what did galvanise all the energies involved
uniquely into what is blossoming manifold around the world.
That is why I am convinced a 'stand alone spot' of appreciation
is the expression of the right 'systemic perspective'
only such a recognition makes it systemically cleanly possible to allow a
full appreciation of the many contributions made later by others,
without which ISCA could not have come into being.
My thanks to all of you.
Max Dauskardt
Melbourne, Australia
www.HarmonyInHumanSystems.com
max@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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