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Issue 11, January 2008

£ 12.00

Contents

  • Barbara Morgan: Editorial

MOVING WITH THE SPIRIT-MIND

  • Bert Hellinger: Lecture - Dimensions of Love

  • Suzi Tucker: The Infinite Container of the Spirit-Mind

  • Gary Stuart: Movement towards Healing with the Spirit-Mind

COMMUNITY

  • Ken Sloan et al: The Birth Place Representative

  • Francesca Mason Boring: Community Constellations

  • Barbara Morgan: What creates Community?

CONSTELLATIONS

  • Dan Booth Cohen: Israel & Palestine – The Search for Peace

  • Chiara Megighian-Zenati: Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation – A Blind Constellation

  • Dagmar Ingwersen: Psychosomatic Symptoms in Constellation Work

REFLECTIONS – ORGANISATIONAL

  • Tomás Kohn: Phenomenology & Constellations in Consulting

  • Sebastian & Colette Green: Hidden Dynamics in Family Business

  • Jan Jacob Stam: Personal Issues in Organisational Constellations

REFLECTIONS – PERSONAL

  • Alison Rose Levy: Dancing with the Differences

  • Judith Hemming & Diane Yankelevitz: Should Constellating be limited to Psychotherapy?

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Vivian Broughton: ‘Miracle, Solution & System’ by Matthias Varga von Kibéd

  • Meretta Hart: ‘Family Constellations: Basic Principles’ by Jakob Schneider

  • John Kapp: ‘The Roots of Love’ by Svagito Liebermeister

  • Jennifer Altman: ‘Inner Navigation’ by Johannes Schmidt

NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

  • Various Contributors

REPORTS

  • Various Contributors: US Conference

  • Various Contributors: Pichl Summer Camp

  • Hunter Beaumont: ISCA News

Extracts

Bert Hellinger: Dimensions of Love

Now we look at our mother as she is, exactly as she is. She is our mother because she is as she is and are we even allowed to say: “My Mother” or “My father”? Do they belong to me? Do I have them? Are they at my service or are they given to me as a present as they are from another force? something much greater than we are and they are given to us exactly as they are. Only because they are as they are, could we grow and become as we are. Now look at your mother first and say: “I love you as you are, exactly as you are. This is most precious for me because you are as you are, exactly as you are and I take you into my heart and into my soul as you are and I give up all those expectations that go beyond what is reasonable to expect from you as you are. Some people say: “You should have been better to be my mother.” If you had been better you could not have been my mother. You are my mother only because you are as you are and as you are I take you now into my heart dear Mum\”

Suzi Tucker: The Infinite Container of the Spirit-Mind

It was as though there were some issues that were best considered close to home, whereas others required the widest angle – even beyond our knowledge – in order to find the place where reconciliation might be possible. In this other place, entanglements and loyalties and other dynamic configurations exist merely as moments in time, irregularities in the landscape of eternity. Such dynamics, which define some people’s entire lives, are known but not dwelt upon in the Spirit-Mind constellations, which do not focus on the dyadic relationship between self and others. Fluid, ongoing, and relentless, the Spirit-Mind contains everything all at once and judges nothing, ever. In this work, the facilitator finds his or her way to be open to this dimension, allowing time for it to unfold exactly as it is without embellishing or correcting, without even the impulse to interfere at any level.

Ken Sloan et al: The Birthplace Representative

Beyond our personal identities based on membership in families, religions races, genders, tribes or nations, we are all members of the earth community of beings born on and nourished by planet earth. In contrast to these other memberships, our connection with the earth is critical not only to our well-being but to our existence – a few minutes without air and we die. In family constellation work we can experience how important it is for us to be connected with the resources of our human family systems, especially the love and life energy flowing to us (or not flowing to us) from our parents. From this resource-oriented perspective the focus is not so much on identifying and resolving or accepting difficulties in our histories, but instead on recognising and receiving the resources that are available to us, above and beyond the apparent difficulties. Could it be that our membership in Earth Community with our birthplace being our direct link to the Earth, provides a similarly critical resource of love, energy and even wisdom for our lives? We believe the answer to this question is a resounding Yes!