Systemic Constellation Workshop - June 17
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featherynscaleYou're invited to a workshop in Systemic Constellation Work on Saturday, June 17th. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in transformative healing work for yourself and others in a warm and supportive environment.
Systemic Constellation Work addresses personal and group issues stemming from family entanglements through facilitated speech, postures, and gentle movements.
"When unhappiness becomes a constant companion; when accidents seem to happen often, or our health is in danger; when we tend to repeatedly sabotage our work's success, and find ourselves unable to live in fulfilled and harmonious relationships; when we just never seem to find the right place anywhere, be it family, job or relationship (no matter how much we try, and how many hours of therapy or personal coaching we have behind us) — chances are that we do not indeed live our own life but someone else's. It is very possible that we are "reproducing" the life of one of our family members."
About Systemic Constellation Work
Constellation work deals with the very roots of our lives. Our parents, grandparents and ancestors are at the foundation of our having life. From this simple giving and taking emerges an intricate web of relationships and bonds that make us part of our family, and part of all the good and bad things that ever happened within it.
When unhappiness becomes a constant companion; when accidents seem to happen often, or our health is in danger; when we tend to repeatedly sabotage our work's success, and find ourselves unable to live in fulfilled and harmonious relationships; when we just never seem to find the right place anywhere, be it family, job or relationship (no matter how much we try, and how many hours of therapy or personal coaching we have behind us) — chances are that we do not indeed live our own life but someone else's. It is very possible that we are "reproducing" the life of one of our family members.
What Bert Hellinger rediscovered, through thousands of family systems with which he worked, are age-old "orders of love" that govern the family systems and their members.
When someone in the system (family clan) has been lost, given away, forgotten or cast out, someone of the following generations unconsciously and invariably steps in and brings the lost member's destiny back through living it out in this lifetime. It happens out of a deep but hidden loyalty, out of the secret law that refuses to deny any member of the clan the right to belong. It is a love so deep, so ancient, that the family member will choose to die rather than to "betray" the family bond.
Family constellation work is a highly efficient tool for understanding if we are entangled in the fate of some member of our family clan. It reveals hidden loyalties to those who suffered a dramatic fate.
When we rediscover the ancient orders of love, and understand how deeply affected by previous generations our lives can be, we can start to see our individual suffering in a new light. Love's flow can then be redirected and transformed, bringing the forgotten and dishonored back into the family; acknowledging their fate without interfering, recognizing them as part of the family; and rediscovering that we are part of the family, too. When we find that we belong to, and find our right place in, the family, we find our right place outside the family as well: in our community, culture and race, not only as human beings, but ultimately together with all living beings, as one of the children of the earth and of this beautiful universe.
The Mechanics of Constellations:
The group participant's issue is the starting point for looking deeply into a family's dynamic. The facilitator then gathers information about the participant's family system, focusing only on factual information such as premature deaths, family members hidden away or forbidden in the family, stillborn children or death in childbirth, former partners of parents, and harm coming about through someone's wrongdoing.
The participant then chooses representatives for the needed family members and places them in relationship to each other according to his or her own inner picture. And an amazing and often mind-boggling thing happens: the representatives start feeling sensations and emotions related so intimately to the true family members that people are often shocked — and at the same time, relieved — about the accuracy with which the family drama unfolds, revealing hidden links that are the cause of so much tragedy and pain.
With the information gained, the facilitator can then find the words the soul would want and need to speak, to free the entangled from misdirected love, identities, and fates, falsely taken on. And step by step, in finding the true and original order, the order of love, the facilitator guides the family members (representatives) to the places where they belong. This cannot be done before every person's right to being has been acknowledged, the parents' gift of life has been received with gratitude, and personal guilt has been recognized and accepted. Only then can we walk the path which is our own, with our parents' strength in our back, and our ancestors' blessings in our hearts.
Who Should Attend:
Individuals and couples who are seeking help in finding solutions to difficult life situations that have so far proven unsolvable will find new and surprising insights, as well as creative and earthy foundations for new directions in their lives.
Health professionals will find vast opportunities to enrich their practice with highly efficient tools and new learnings about the effect of the family system on behavior, health, and the soul.
Bert Hellinger:
Bert Hellinger, now in his seventies, is a master therapist, philosopher, poet, and best-selling author in Germany. From years of clinical practice, he created his unique approach of Family and Systemic Constellations, which is currently revolutionizing the field of therapy, human growth, and behavioral change. His recent visits to the United States have triggered enormous waves of interest, and his first translated books and videos, in English, continue to spread his discoveries.
More information:
Where: Shawnee Mission UU Church, 7725 W 87th Street, Overland Park, KS 66212.
When: Saturday, June 17 from 8 am to 5 pm, with a break for lunch.
Who: Dr. Kathy Scheiern, a certified and internationally known SCW and organizational therapist, and Gaia Community, an earth-based, pagan-themed Unitarian Universalist congregation.
What should I bring?: Yourself, a willingness to work on personal issues for yourself and others, and class fees.
Class fees: $35 for members of Gaia Community, $50 for non-members. Please make checks out to Gaia Community.
Will there be child care?: Child care will be available with advance request, for an additional fee.
How do I RSVP, or ask other questions?: Comment here, or send an email to adulted@gaiacommunity.org.
Must I RSVP?: Please do, as space is limited!
Systemic Constellation Work addresses personal and group issues stemming from family entanglements through facilitated speech, postures, and gentle movements.
"When unhappiness becomes a constant companion; when accidents seem to happen often, or our health is in danger; when we tend to repeatedly sabotage our work's success, and find ourselves unable to live in fulfilled and harmonious relationships; when we just never seem to find the right place anywhere, be it family, job or relationship (no matter how much we try, and how many hours of therapy or personal coaching we have behind us) — chances are that we do not indeed live our own life but someone else's. It is very possible that we are "reproducing" the life of one of our family members."
About Systemic Constellation Work
Constellation work deals with the very roots of our lives. Our parents, grandparents and ancestors are at the foundation of our having life. From this simple giving and taking emerges an intricate web of relationships and bonds that make us part of our family, and part of all the good and bad things that ever happened within it.
When unhappiness becomes a constant companion; when accidents seem to happen often, or our health is in danger; when we tend to repeatedly sabotage our work's success, and find ourselves unable to live in fulfilled and harmonious relationships; when we just never seem to find the right place anywhere, be it family, job or relationship (no matter how much we try, and how many hours of therapy or personal coaching we have behind us) — chances are that we do not indeed live our own life but someone else's. It is very possible that we are "reproducing" the life of one of our family members.
What Bert Hellinger rediscovered, through thousands of family systems with which he worked, are age-old "orders of love" that govern the family systems and their members.
When someone in the system (family clan) has been lost, given away, forgotten or cast out, someone of the following generations unconsciously and invariably steps in and brings the lost member's destiny back through living it out in this lifetime. It happens out of a deep but hidden loyalty, out of the secret law that refuses to deny any member of the clan the right to belong. It is a love so deep, so ancient, that the family member will choose to die rather than to "betray" the family bond.
Family constellation work is a highly efficient tool for understanding if we are entangled in the fate of some member of our family clan. It reveals hidden loyalties to those who suffered a dramatic fate.
When we rediscover the ancient orders of love, and understand how deeply affected by previous generations our lives can be, we can start to see our individual suffering in a new light. Love's flow can then be redirected and transformed, bringing the forgotten and dishonored back into the family; acknowledging their fate without interfering, recognizing them as part of the family; and rediscovering that we are part of the family, too. When we find that we belong to, and find our right place in, the family, we find our right place outside the family as well: in our community, culture and race, not only as human beings, but ultimately together with all living beings, as one of the children of the earth and of this beautiful universe.
The Mechanics of Constellations:
The group participant's issue is the starting point for looking deeply into a family's dynamic. The facilitator then gathers information about the participant's family system, focusing only on factual information such as premature deaths, family members hidden away or forbidden in the family, stillborn children or death in childbirth, former partners of parents, and harm coming about through someone's wrongdoing.
The participant then chooses representatives for the needed family members and places them in relationship to each other according to his or her own inner picture. And an amazing and often mind-boggling thing happens: the representatives start feeling sensations and emotions related so intimately to the true family members that people are often shocked — and at the same time, relieved — about the accuracy with which the family drama unfolds, revealing hidden links that are the cause of so much tragedy and pain.
With the information gained, the facilitator can then find the words the soul would want and need to speak, to free the entangled from misdirected love, identities, and fates, falsely taken on. And step by step, in finding the true and original order, the order of love, the facilitator guides the family members (representatives) to the places where they belong. This cannot be done before every person's right to being has been acknowledged, the parents' gift of life has been received with gratitude, and personal guilt has been recognized and accepted. Only then can we walk the path which is our own, with our parents' strength in our back, and our ancestors' blessings in our hearts.
Who Should Attend:
Individuals and couples who are seeking help in finding solutions to difficult life situations that have so far proven unsolvable will find new and surprising insights, as well as creative and earthy foundations for new directions in their lives.
Health professionals will find vast opportunities to enrich their practice with highly efficient tools and new learnings about the effect of the family system on behavior, health, and the soul.
Bert Hellinger:
Bert Hellinger, now in his seventies, is a master therapist, philosopher, poet, and best-selling author in Germany. From years of clinical practice, he created his unique approach of Family and Systemic Constellations, which is currently revolutionizing the field of therapy, human growth, and behavioral change. His recent visits to the United States have triggered enormous waves of interest, and his first translated books and videos, in English, continue to spread his discoveries.
More information:
Where: Shawnee Mission UU Church, 7725 W 87th Street, Overland Park, KS 66212.
When: Saturday, June 17 from 8 am to 5 pm, with a break for lunch.
Who: Dr. Kathy Scheiern, a certified and internationally known SCW and organizational therapist, and Gaia Community, an earth-based, pagan-themed Unitarian Universalist congregation.
What should I bring?: Yourself, a willingness to work on personal issues for yourself and others, and class fees.
Class fees: $35 for members of Gaia Community, $50 for non-members. Please make checks out to Gaia Community.
Will there be child care?: Child care will be available with advance request, for an additional fee.
How do I RSVP, or ask other questions?: Comment here, or send an email to adulted@gaiacommunity.org.
Must I RSVP?: Please do, as space is limited!
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this is too cool
Date: 2006-06-05 04:14 pm (UTC)you rock for making this happen.
Re: this is too cool
Date: 2006-06-05 04:24 pm (UTC)Re: this is too cool
Date: 2006-06-05 05:36 pm (UTC)Re: this is too cool
Date: 2006-06-05 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-05 07:39 pm (UTC)http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76002
Any thoughts?
(I have no experience with Constellation and I'm not assuming the article is accurate, by the way - but I would like to hear from a participant as to the benefits, as all new forms of mental healing interest me.)
no subject
Date: 2006-06-05 08:02 pm (UTC)Also, nice invocation of Hitler. I actually don't know much about Burt Hellinger's personal life, so that may or may not be true.
The part that I can speak to and agree with is the part where the author is going, "there's no reason why this would work -- where does this field come from?". I also have no idea whatsoever at all why this works or where the 'field' comes from. I have seen that it *does* work, and that things do come up in the experience which don't seem to arise from the participants, and yes, that is plenty weird.
In fact, that's one of the things that I have been telling people when I am talking to them about the workshop, "There is no rational reason why this would work at all. And yet, it does seem to work." But then, I feel that way about a lot of therapeutic techniques that are well-established, so I don't worry about it too much.
We need to pay you for this...
Date: 2006-06-06 03:01 am (UTC)Unca Kitty~
Re: We need to pay you for this...
Date: 2006-06-06 02:36 pm (UTC)Also, although I'm capable of thinking of you in an avuncular fashion, it's really, really creepy, and I'd prefer not to. :-P