#systemic constellations

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Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

Headlines suggest that the epigenetic marks of trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. But the evidence, at least in humans, is circumstantial at best.

Neurobiology and / or Collective Unconscious

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Systemic Constellations in the Court Room

Systemic Constellations in the Court Room

By Silvia Siret

This is fascinating, and I only found out about this now, reading through my Facebook timeline. I strongly feel like sharing this with the world:

In Bahia, Brazil, a judge integrated Family (Systemic) Constellations in the court room. Here is a very interesting video where this man, Sami Storch, reports about this unique venture on stage (with German and English translation):

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Find out the 3 main principles of Organizational or Systemic Constellations and discover the connection between business, organizations and constellations!

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Returning from the Constellate US conference in Seattle

This past weekend I travelled to Seattle to join other presenters and Constellation enthusiasts to participate in Constellate US 2013, the 4th Northern American Constellation conference.

I took with me a thirty minute keynote presentation explaining the benefits of Horse Constellations. As of now, I'm perhaps the only facilitator in America combining Systemic Constellations with Horses. There is an ocean of equine therapy offering similar work yet no-one is referring to the 'field' or allowing the horses to participate on their own terms and making their own decisions.  

The conference was held in Bellevue, WA, in a 5 star hotel. Four days inside a controlled environment, (very few windows which did not open), was challenging, nonetheless I was determined to make the most of it. I actually found this an advantage when I presenting because the majority of the photo's shown were of horses, animals and people in a nature setting, highlighting the contrast of experiencing therapy indoors versus outdoors.

Early Friday morning, a few hours before my presentation, while driving from Seattle to Bellevue, I I was hit by another car who came into my lane. The best outcome was nobody was injured. Needless to say it was somewhat of a shock and was the last thing I expected to deal with right before making my debut at the conference. My nervous system was saturated with adrenaline which ironically drowned out any nervousness I held around public speaking.

The audience at the conference was a tough crowd. The conference was structured in such a way that six presenters were scheduled simultaneously and people chose who they wanted to see. In other facilitators presentations I witnessed numerous people coming and going, everyone wanted to make sure they were at the best presentation.  

During the first five minutes of my presentation, the room suddenly became swollen with people. Someone suggested I start again, so I did. After ten more minutes I noticed someone crying. I thought at first they may have been hurt but a couple of days later they approached me and shared with me their experience of being deeply moved. They wanted to quit their job and live a life with horses, like me. Wow!  

One great aspect of this conference was I met new people. With so many animals to take care of, it's not often I get out of Topanga. I very much enjoyed experiencing other facilitators approach to constellation work and healing. I was impressed by Sunday's keynote speaker, author Belvie Brooks. She shared how her and her newly wed husband went to visit a slave dungeon in Africa on their honeymoon. I found her story extremely moving, there was not a dry eye in my peripheral vision. The conclusion in her talk was about recognizing the integration of African and Scottish/ irish descendants and accepting the fates of both.

I too enjoyed Dan Booth Cohen's speech on Sunday afternoon about the history of the hotel we were staying in and how the land it was built on had actually been stolen from Japanese American strawberry farmers. He spoke about enjoying the luxury of the hotel's comfortable bed and the bathroom's large square shower head. He described how he was at peace with enjoying the hotel's luxurious services even after knowing the truth about the origins of the hotel. Dan said that every aspect of the existence of the hotel had been taken into his heart, including the founders and owners of the hotel and the Japanese farmers who had been robbed of their land. This is a great example of a Constellation principle, seeing and honoring everyones place in the situation and accepting what is.   

I think my favorite workshop was Michelle McKinney's Power Animal Constellations. Michelle had us journey to find our power animal in the lower world. She told us to recognize four actions that our power animal displayed. After this journey she had us pair up and take turns in being in the role of the other person's animal without knowing who it was. I was dumbfounded when my partner proceeded to move into each action that my cougar had shown me in my journey. Michelle told us to call in our animal for protection. Last night at my improv' class I was told by the teacher, when in the role of a lion, I reminded him much more of a cougar than a lion. Hmmmmm.

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First encounter with horses at SHHR

Amy came on Sunday to our Horse Constellation event to have her constellation performed. Amy had never had a close encounter with a horse before! As you can see it didn't take long for her and Diva to make a connection.  

Our next Horse Constellation event is on Sunday 10/6/13 at 2:30pm to 6pm at Silver Horse Healing Ranch in Topanga CA.  RSVP

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Agile Coach Retreat 2012 - Robertson - Systemic Constellations - part 9 of 12

The last session of the day. I enjoyed this one. I facilitated this session.

Systemic constellations are traditionally used in family therapy to sort out family kak.

Our coaching circle used this technique over the past couple of months to help us sort out work kak and decided that it is worthwhile to demo and do a couple of scenarios with the participants

Summary of this as follows:

get role players and allocate them names that reminds you of players in scenario

mould and place their body into position that best represents current scenario

give them a moment to feel their current positions

ask each person how they feel

ask scenario owner to try to mould and place the people into differant positions to try to fix the scenario

rinse and repeat

at end ask participants if the want to move and place themselves in the ideal spots

audience members can also suggest certain positions

It was really good to see everyone interacting, learning and having fun.

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Learnings from systemic constellations - first session

What is it

A way to get another perspective on issues that you are experiencing and how to possibly solve it. At work or play. Traditionally it is used in family therapy.

How we did it

We came together as a group and presented some conflict scenarios that we currently find ourselves in. As a group we decided what scenario we would play out first.

One person owned the scenario. He then assigns the different roles of his scenario to different people. The People gets placed and positioned in the room to best represented the scenario by the scenario owner.

People are then asked how they feel the scenario and the space that they are in. Yes it seems very airy fairy.

After a couple of minutes we get feedback from each person on how they are feeling in the position.

The scenario owner listens and then tries out moving the people arround and positioning them differantly. 

We then get feedback again. This process was repeated a couple of times until the scenario owner was satisfied with the outcome.

The outcome

I did not have any expectations going into this session, however the result was quite amazing. Being able to be an outsider to your scenario and getting feedback from your scenario really helps.

Some of my learnings

People are usually not the problem. The environment is. People are good. In some cases you find the random serial killer, however those are few. 

Try to notice the impact of the conflict in a bigger scope. See how it impacts others.

We also touched on the feedback model, i need to read up on it a bit more to comment about it.

Next time

I would like to, with the groups permission, to take some photos while we are in the positions to post here as well.

As a last positioning exercise of each scenario, ask the participants to move around to where they feel most comfortable. I think this will be interesting to see as well.