Chris, thank you so much for your thoughtful reply.
I am pleased to hear that you found my contribution to be within the guidelines
for this group.
I am happy to hear you're interested in this workshop, too -- I'd be willing to
collaborate with you and/or your student on what works and what doesn't, if you
like.
I've delivered this workshop before, focused on helping psychotherapists, so I
have a fair amount of data to share. Feel free to contact me or pass along my
contact info to your student.
Aangwyn, we don't know each other yet, but I can appreciate that you help to
moderate content on this list and I know how valuable it is to have help in
creating community. I hope we can connect in the future.
Thanks to you all for providing in and participating in this space. I look
forward to our continued conversations.
Rachel Whalley
Healing for Good Girls
425-444-0620
www.healingforgoodgirls.com
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chris Walsh wrote:
Hi Rachel and Angwyn.
As forum moderator I have to say that I think that Rachel's post was
appropriate.
Nonetheless, I am grateful to Aangwyn who is an extremely valuable and
regular contributor to this group. Aangwyn has good radar for
detecting inappropriate self promotion and has been helpful in drawing my
attention to it in the past.
While I generally agree with Aangwyn on these matters I can't say I do on
this occasion.. Not only does Rachel's post fit the guidelines, it also
genuinely adds value to the conversation. I was so impressed that looked up
the workshop link on the website which I found even more informative and
then I forwarded the email to one of my students who has been talking about
organising something similar for practitioners in Melbourne as part of our
peer supervision group.
I would like to add that when I first stated to learn to facilitate
constellations myself, the part I found most intimidating of all was
organising workshops. It struck me as odd that the training available at
the time did not include this as it appeared to be an integral part of the
work. This for me involves a lot more than just recruiting participants and
legal and financial considerations. It also involves other practical things
like finding a good venue, managing cancellations and dealing with food
catering, as well as more psychological issues like managing participants
expectations prior to a workshop, greeting participants, managing
participants reactions in the holding circle and managing workshops of
various sizes.
These and other group issues tend to be ignored in traditional
constellation training. I believe these oversights are responsible for some
of the problems that seem to be endemic in the constellation world. One of
the most obvious problems, which is well illustrated in Dan's post is the
psychology of poverty that pervades the community and sometimes leads to
weird and inappropriate behaviours like some practitioners deliberately
poaching other practitioner's clients. Of course some clients will want to
check out different practitioners and that is fine but this sense of
poverty can lead to the unethical aspects of competition arising. So I very
much welcome a solution oriented discussion on this forum and I am
grateful to Rachel for modestly drawing attention to her efforts in that
direction.
Cheers
Chris Walsh
Melbourne, Australia
ph +61 (0)3 9487 4647
www.cwalsh.com.au
