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Issue 10, June 2007

£ 12.00

Contents

  • Barbara Morgan: Editorial

HONOURING THE ARCHETYPES

  • Dr. Dimitris Stavropoulos: Orders and Movements of Destiny

  • Alfred Ramoda Austermann: The Power of the Old Gods

CONSTELLATIONS

  • Alemka Atkins: Constellation work in Central Australia

  • Sneh Victoria Schnabel: Chaos Constellations

  • Lisa Iversen: Language from the Knowing Field of Enslavement

  • Edward Lynch: Moving towards Death

  • Edward Lynch: A Car Crash

PERSONAL STORIES

  • Colette Green: I’ll Take you Home again Kathleen

  • Richard Bundy: The Angel

  • Amina Halwani: Mother

  • Amina Halwani (poem): The Ancestors’ Prayer

  • Amina Halwani (poem): Silent Dance

ORGANISATIONAL/RESEARCH CONSTELLATIONS

  • Henriette Katharina Lingg: Management Constellations – Part 3

  • Joseph Roevens & Peter van den Berg: Systemic Sets in Organisations

  • Marco Matera & Riccardo Benardon: Miracle Scaling

OPINIONS

  • Hans Gruenn: The Return of the Shadow

  • Daniel MacLean: Family Constellations in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

  • Johannes Schmidt: What about the Facilitator?

  • Lisa Iversen: Letter to the Constellations Community

SNIPPETS

  • Various Contributors

NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

  • Various Contributors

RECENT EVENTS IN GERMANY

  • Daan van Kampenhout: Congress Lecture: Modifications of Constellation Work

  • Comments from Participants

REPORTS

  • ISCA Steering Committee

Extracts

Dr. Dimitris Stavropoulos: Orders and Movements of Destiny

The movements of destiny arise from the relationship between the three orders of destiny. We consider the Ancient Greeks’ approach to the three Fates as an apt metaphor to illustrate the otherwise hidden dimensions of destiny. The Fates, through their dialectic interaction give rise to movements that we recognise as primal and call movements of destiny. The interplay of the three orders of destiny shapes a morphogenetic field, which the Ancient Greeks characterised as soul and which guides and co-ordinates the movements of the soul. These were observed by Bert Hellinger, with the aid of systemic constellations, as early as 2002. The objective of the movements is to unite whatever was divided and excluded, which by its exclusion broke up the cohesion and wholeness of a system. In this system, all who have received an individual share of destiny within the community of destiny are participants.

Lisa Iversen: Letter to the Constellations Community

What qualifies those of us who facilitate or teach (even if it has been for 10-25 years) to do so? From where or whom have we received this permission? With whom or what are we entangled when faced with our embodied response to these questions? We don’t know how, where or even if this work would have spread throughout Europe and the globe if the person who developed the approach had been African single mother who was pastor of a church, a Jewish holistic doctor or a musician. I have grown tremendously from Bert’s insights about the therapy profession. I also sense that the inflammatory spirit of his public, sometimes venomous comments regarding therapists is played out between us in the field. The personal relationships between Bert and others – both the smooth and rough spots – have a far-reaching, systemic effect on the whole field.

Hans Gruenn: Return of the Shadow

Through the work, many people have been touched by a deeper truth, a greater love, a richer understanding, a new humility – all qualities that are deeply healing for body, mind and soul. SFC runs into problems when its practitioners start talking about the phenomenological work and try to communicate what happens in there to anybody who is out there. The books, articles and statements that describe the truths, all too often encounter misunderstandings and misperceptions from the uninitiated public. The critics rightfully point their finger at a blind spot that eludes our phenomenological gaze. What meets us out there intimately belongs to us; it is our very own shadow. Firstly, when communicating in a public space, SFC practitioners are all too often inconsistent with the core message of SFC and violate their own rules and principles. Many of our statements, some of them the holy cows of SFC, contain an abundance of generalisations.

Marco Matera/Riccardo Benardon: Miracle Scaling

In our work as coaches and counsellors engaged with clients on personal and professional issues, we became fascinated by the miracle question. We wondered if there were scales or grades of miracles and also if it might be useful for the client if their own miracle scale could be clarified and experienced within a constellation. We developed our Miracle Scaling approach just over a year ago as a type of structural constellation which integrates timeline work from NLP with the miracle question from the solutions-focused interview by Steve de Shazer and his team at the Brief Therapy Centre in Milwaukee. What particularly fascinates us about solutions-focused work is the principle by which problem and solution lie on different levels. As Steve de Shazer states: One can think about the solutions without having to worry too much about the problems.