Tanja, Since this was originally intended for the group and you
indicated you were not able to find it posted on the chat I have
forwarded it.
Many Blessings,
Francesca
----- Original Message -----
From: Tanja Meyburgh
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:59 PM
Subject: Nature as co-facilitator
Thanks Francesca for tempting me back into the group after a long
silence!
I used to run eco-therapy workshops a few years back - mostly with
HIV positive women and care-givers (I'm in South Africa). It was one
of the reasons why I became interested in Ancestral work because
every woman that went with me into the mountains described an
experience of connecting with their ancestors and the places where
they grew up before moving to the city to find work. In Xhosa
culture, the ancestors live where the graves of the family are, and
one must go back to these to speak with your ancestors at least once
a year. For many this is the only time they leave the city can go
back into nature. Just by having the opportunity to be in nature
again, put them in contact with the ancestors voices in the rivers,
the trees, the mountain. Although I was not raised in a culture that
honours the ancestors in this way, nature has always awakened in me
a deep sense of coming home and a feeling of unconditional love.
Over the past few years I have been so occupied with setting up the
Family Constellations training that my own work has been pushed to
the wayside. I have recently found my way back into nature with
constellations and am combining vision quest, family constellation,
art therapy and ritual in wilderness experience weekends. So far,
what has really touched me is how the animals and elements seem to
appear or disappear at crucial moments during the constellation.
I've heard a number of people say that one needs to do constellation
work indoors to hold the energy, but my experience is that in nature
the constellation connects to a healing source that is untainted by
mankind, is fluid, and that holds unconditional support of the
process in whichever way that may be. I have also considered that
this positive experience of working in nature may come purely from
my own deep connection with it. In this way, Nature and I become co-
facilitators.
I would be interested in staying in contact with you in future to
exchange experiences and ideas.
Tanja
Tanja Meyburgh
Director
Family Constellations Africa
Tel: +27 21 7886277
Mobile: +27 83 218 2668
Address: P.O. Box 191, Muizenberg, 7950, South Africa
