Meet the Editorial & Advisory Team
Barbara Morgan, Editor
Originally trained as a Gestalt Psychotherapist, Barbara has been working with Constellations since 1997, one year after the Founder, Bert Hellinger first came to England. Her experience of the work has been personally transformative and as best she can, Barbara ‘walks her talk’. She sees Family Constellations as a way of life and her pursuit of ‘truth’ as far as that is ever possible, leads to a deep commitment to the work she does. Second only to family, it is her guiding passion. She is currently training people in the UK and offers Advanced Training in both the UK and Romania. She runs regular workshops online and in person in the UK and Ireland. She works with individuals in Bath (Somerset, UK) or online.
Her role as Editor of The Knowing Field began in 2004 when she took over from Barbara Stones and Jutta ten Herkel. Within a year, she changed the name, doubled the size of the journal and the frequency of publication. As Editor, she is privileged to have access to the latest developments in the work worldwide and is fascinated by the progress Constellation Work is making across the globe. She is Author of Coming Home: A First step into the world of Family Constellations, and three books under the umbrella title: Reflections on Motherhood. Vol I (The Birth Process) has already been published and Vol II (A Different Path for the Soul) will be available in the Summer of 2021. Vol III will hopefully follow in 2022.
www.theknowingfield.com
www.cominghome.org.uk
info@theknowingfield.com
Francesca Mason Boring, editing assistant/advisory team member
Francesca is a bi-cultural international facilitator and trainer of Family Constellations. In addition to being an advocate for the growth of family systems constellation, Francesca has greatly contributed to the development of nature constellations, community constellations, and the incorporation of ritual and ceremony in the field of systems constellation. Francesca has included the concept of the Universal Indigenous Field when teaching and speaking about the ‘knowing field’ and the phenomenological approach in Constellation Work.
A Western Shoshone, (an indigenous tribe in the United States), Francesca has authored: Family Systems Constellations: In the Company of Good People, (2018, Create Space), Family Systems Constellations and Other Systems Constellation Adventures: A transformational journey (2015, All My Relations Press), Co-Edited with Ken Sloan: Returning to Membership in Earth Community: Systemic Constellations with Nature (Stream of Experience Productions, 2013), is author of Connecting to Our Ancestral Past; Healing through Family Constellation, Ceremony & Ritual (North Atlantic Books, 2012), and Feather Medicine, Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime: A Family System Constellation (2016, 2004). Francesca has presented at numerous conferences and has served as faculty for Intensives in the United States, Mexico, Australia, and Germany.
www.allmyrelationsconstellations.com
francesca@allmyrelationsconstellations.com
ABI EVA, editing assistant
Abi has been working as Barbara’s admin assistant since 2017 and is therefore immersed in the world of Constellations, but from a relative outsider’s point of view. A large part of her role is to assist with editing and proofreading articles for the journal and maintaining the website. She has a growing interest in personal development and wellbeing and is combining this role with that of a Health and Wellbeing Coach. She feels honoured to have what is often the first glance at the plentiful supply of interesting and thought-provoking articles that are contributed.
Max Dauskardt - advisory team member
Max, a Life Energy Consultant, was born in 1949 near Bremen in Germany. His parents were refugees from what is now Lithuania. After studying law at universities in Hamburg and Berlin, he migrated to Australia. He worked in IT, transport, building, agriculture and wood-fired heating, pioneered on deforested land in subtropical Queensland, co-establishing an ecofriendly seminar centre. There he organised the first Australian Constellation Intensive in 2006, with Albrecht Mahr. Since 2001 he has been involved professionally with Constellation Work and conducted workshops and teaching seminars in Australia, USA, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Croatia, Serbia and Turkey. Father of one son and grandfather to his three granddaughters, Max has re-married and returned with his wife to Europe, living and working in Croatia.
For two terms Max served as Chairman of ISCA, the International Systemic Constellations Association and handed over a vibrant community of international constellators in 2019.
Since meeting him in 2001 he regards Bert Hellinger as his essential teacher. Invited by Bert to translate his 'Neue Geschichten' provided a special occasion to comprehend the philosophy on which 'his' Constellation Work is based.
konstelacijakroacija.wordpress.com/english
max.dauskardt@yahoo.com
Ty Francis - advisory team member
Ty Francis, PhD is an Organisational Development specialist with more than 20 years’ experience of consulting, coaching and facilitation with global corporations as well as with Government and Public Sector organisations internationally. He specialises in creative and collaborative approaches to personal and organisational transformation through combining the disciplines of leadership and team development, change management and corporate communications.
An experienced Gestalt practitioner with a PhD in Field Theoretical approaches to transformation, Ty is the co-editor of Contact and Context: New Directions in Gestalt Coaching and a senior trainer in Organisational Constellations, having pioneered the practice of Organisational and Coaching Constellations in the UK over 15 years ago.
Ty extends his consulting and coaching work to research, and is currently exploring how mindfulness-based approaches and the use of documentary film-making can be applied to develop leadership presence; and on the place of love in personal, organisational and social transformation.
Colette Green - advisory team member
Colette is an Integrative Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant specialising in Psychodynamic and Systemic Work. She has worked with individuals and groups for over 35 years in the UK, New Zealand, India and Ireland. She has a small private practice offering online individual and group Constellation Work.
She has worked as a supervisor and a trainer with the Irish Group for Systemic Constellation Work. She is director of the Family Systems Training Programme in Bangalore, India where she works with Annie Cariapa, the founder of ‘Constellations India’. Together they co-facilitate the online Theory and Practice in Family Constellation Work course.
Colette brings her love of horses into Constellation Work and into the field of Equine-assisted Psychotherapy. She runs constellations with horses for individuals and groups and a specific workshop with horses called, ‘The High Art of Helping’ based on the three principles of relationship.
Stephan Hausner - advisory team member
Coming from a background in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Homoeopathy and Osteopathy, Stephan applies Systemic Constellation Work to the field of illness and health. For more than 25 years, he has worked, taught and trained in more than 50 countries and is dedicated to exploring the profound healing potential of Systemic Constellation Work for individuals, couples, families and organisations.
In more recent years Stephan has been including mindfulness-based approaches in his work, moving from solution- towards transformation-orientation.
Stephan is the author of: Even if it costs me my life – Systemic Constellation Work and Serious Illness, which is published by Gestalt Press and is now translated into eleven languages.
Tomás Kohn - advisory team member
Tomás first encountered Constellations Work in 1999 when he joined a seminar run by Bert Hellinger. Over the next few years, he continued participating in numerous seminars led by Bert, Gunthard Weber and other practitioners. Since 2004 he has been a regular participant at the International Constellations Intensive held near Munich and also a part of a group that offers Family Constellations in Santiago (Chile) and since 2005 he has been facilitating Organisational Constellations and leads a training course that explores the principles of Organisational Constellations and their application in different fields.
Tomás was a member of ISCA’s Board (International Systemic Constellation Association) from 2009 until 2015 and he has been a contributor to The Knowing Field Journal. His main interests in the field are the integration of Constellation Work in consulting and coaching processes and the potential of Constellations for personal growth. Tomás lives in Santiago (Chile) where he works as an Independent Management Consultant and Coach. He is married, has two sons and five grandchildren.
tanja meyburgh - advisory team member
Tanja Meyburgh is founder of African Constellations, a pioneer of Constellation Work in South Africa with 18 years of experience specialising in this field. She has assisted organisations in South Africa involved with addiction, social development, adoption, trauma, political violence and diversity. Tanja has also presented at the international intensives in Germany, South Africa and Australasia, and accepted invitations to teach at conferences, workshops and training in Germany, Austria, Belgium, United Kingdom, Kuwait, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal and the USA.
She is also co-founder of Ancestral Connections (Dance and Constellations) and REAL Academy. Tanja’s MA (Psychology) in Narrative Therapy has had a big impact on how she views power relations and work with marginalised voices and communities. She provides a creative and experiential learning space that brings a sense of soul and spirit in a psychologically grounded way. Her interest in self-growth, personal & collective ritual and embodiment supports her to hold a broad and deep container for clients’ personal and professional process. Her work is described by those who know her as gentle and incisive.
She lives in Cape Town with her two children.
info@tanjameyburgh.co.za
africanconstellations.co.za
tanjameyburgh.co.za
realacademy.net
ancestralconnections.co
Lindiwe Mthembu-Salter - advisory team member
Lindiwe is a trained Family Constellations Facilitator, currently based in Cape Town. Her previous training was centred on an Integrative Humanistic counselling approach. She also provides various therapeutic approaches such as holistic energy work and life coaching.
For nearly 22 years, she has been working with individuals and groups within various NGO/NPOs in South Africa, and Burundi providing trauma counselling that also integrate Systematic Constellations. Her skills include working with groups of home-based caregivers and individual healthcare workers where she facilitates self-care programmes or tailor-made self-care interventions that include ways of dealing with occupational hazards of stress or ‘burn-out’. Her work brings an insight that encompasses the richness of her African indigenous healing modalities, which are grounded in the sacred wisdom of Ukulungisa (Z) which means ‘to create balance and harmony’ for emotional resilience. In 2017 at the ACE (African Constellations Experience) event, she co-facilitated a ritual that honoured and embraced the Family Constellations ancestries from Zulu cultural lineage.
Her other interests include writing about her Zulu culture. In 2001 she wrote a book called, Call me by my Name which is a collection of more than 2000 Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi and Ndebele names (Mthembu-Salter, Kwela Books, 2021). It is very important for her to reawaken respect of African names as she extended her knowledge of her culture by documenting meanings behind chosen themes on naming called ukwetha - in Zulu.
Lubosh Cech (luce)
The graphic designer for the Knowing Field since 2011, Lubosh is a visual artist and counselor. His expertise include: book design, photography, video production, web design, advertising, packaging, and logo design. Lubosh’s main focus is on healing, transformation and the expansion of human consciousness through visual arts. Native of Prague, Czech Republic, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon, United States.