Hi all,
In Bolivia it was just two of us doing constellations having had formal
training in Buenos Aires. Then there appeared some constellators that just
attended some workshops. The movement was getting strong but then it started to
fade. I myself am leaving it behind and exploring other paths.
I think this work:
- It started too fast, and as the I Ching says, that which takes too little
time to grow, soon vanishes.
- It is considered new age or any kind of simile.
- It's not easy or prone to be systematized.
- it's not easy or prone to be taught(although it can be learned)
-- It's too shamanic and intuitive, it depends almost nothing on the
therapist's knowledge or curricula but on what Castaneda would say "personal
power" Shamans are born not formed.
**** I am using the word shaman or shamanisitc in a very general way****
-- Those who are making the greater efforts to systematize(finding the grammar
and all that nonsense) the work are in the branch of business, whose needs and
demands are FAR from those of dealing with Soul and Other Forces.
- FC being so, legitimately close to shamanism and religion attracted
practitioners(too many) with what Jung would call a God Complex. Ah! it is such
a glamorous work, isn't it?
- We live in times when this kind of movements are born and die quickly. Others
are brought to light using the recovered "organs" of diseased therapies and
schools. Hellinger himself recovered so many techniques form what was not long
a ago the last and ultimate fad like NLP.
My own forecast for this work:
- It will give rise to many new approaches using many recovered organs,
visions, and insiparations, from it's brilliant creator. Some may maintain the
word Constellation somewhere in it's new name.
- A small and almost unheard group will keep the standards and the old flavor.
- In 5 years if we are still alive, it will be one of the many, many
alternative therapies that have came and gone.
- The biggest movement of a particular approach that will still endure maybe
for 100 more yrs. will be... yes our old Dr. Freud and his prodigal son Lacan
and their dusty and old Torah: Psychoanalysis.
The state of the work today?
I think it has already died. What do I, naughty boy, mean with that? Well just
that. Maybe exactly what Nietzsche meant when he said God died. But as the
title of a Hellinger's book(in Portuguese) says... something like "Only When
The Fruit Dies, The Seed Sprouts"
Cheers
Daniel.
