Issue 8, June 2006
£ 10.00
CONTENTS
Barbara Morgan: Editorial
Bert Hellinger & Mitchell Jay Rabin: A Better World - Interview
CONSTELLATIONS - TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING
Jean Boulton: A Perspective from Modern Physics
Melissa Roussopoulos: Science and Constellations
Franz Ruppert & Jen Altman: Mirror Neurons - discussion
Henriette Katherina Lingg: Management Constellations
CONSTELLATIONS - TOWARDS A WIDER UNDERSTANDING
Jakob Schneider: Family Constellations in Couple Therapy
Eva Madelung: The Role of the Feminine & Women in Constellation Work
CONSTELLATIONS - EXAMPLES
Dan Booth Cohen: I Carry your Heart (I Carry it in my Heart)t - Family Healing in Prisons
Ed Lynch: Constellation - High Yellow
NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Various Contributors
BOOK REVIEW
Diane Yankelevitz: The Healing Power of the Past by Bertold Ulsamer
OPINION
Jane Peterson: Asking the Hard Questions
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Various Contributors
Hunter Beaumont: Internationalisation of the Constellation Work
Francesca Mason Boring: Systems Constellation as Ceremony
Bert Hellinger: Movements of the Spirit & The Phenomenological Approach
Extracts
Eva Madelung: The Role of Women and The Feminine in Constellation Work
Bert Hellinger’s attitude towards women and the feminine has often been the focus of public criticism and has attracted accusations of male chauvinism.
From the beginning, his students, both male and female, have inevitably brought their own attitudes to the work, rather than adopting his stance blindly. In other words, their own family imprints and views are borne out in the constellations they lead, whether they are aware of it or not. In this sense, the accusation of male chauvinism cannot refer to constellation work as a whole; nevertheless it is being raised as an issue.
Melissa Roussopoulos: Anyone know the URL for the truth? Science and Constellations
While science is not yet able to detect the entire range of information that humans can pick up from each other, it has found mechanisms by which such communication could be happening: electromagnetic fields of varying strengths and frequencies carrying information within and between people. This could provide an explanation for the counter-transference long familiar to psychotherapists, as they ‘tune in’ to the emotions of their clients and validate the body psychotherapists’ view that this process is essentially a bodily one. It also ties in nicely with our experiences from constellations, where the representatives’ bodily responses provide clear indications of what is going on.
Dan Booth Cohen: I Carry your Heart (I Carry it in my Heart) Family Healing in Prisons
For the past two years, a group of ‘Lifers’ has been participating in monthly family healing constellation circles as part of the third stage in the Growing Together Programe at Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk, MA. In my view, these men do not fit whatever pre-existing stereotypes ae commonly held about murderers and rapists in prison. Although their crimes are real and their punishment severe, these men are not hardenened, hostile or withdrawn. In the context of the group meetings they are remarkably warm and kind. One of the women volunteers from outside the prison who participated in a constellation session with the men, reflected on her experience: “I was amazed how much I became involved with the constellations. It was a great privilege to be in the company of people who had gone through an ordeal that we can only imagine, and had worked, with your help, to find a way to their souls.”