Why are we offering this?
Our world is facing many challenges — extreme weather events, political instabilities, excessive corporate power, enormous wealth inequalities, domestic and international violence, and more.
To compound the situation, urgency and intensity activate fear-based patterns of us-against-them, acting and reacting, rather than being open to creative and inclusive solutions.
Personal and social trauma have left many of us with blocked reaching-out movements, inhibiting us from moving toward creating the world we want to live in.
Those of us who have experienced Constellations know how deeply traumatized and entangled families and social systems can become. We are aware of the importance of unseen factors and forces that perpetuate these entanglements. We have experienced the power of resolution when all find their right place in the system, and when what occurred is acknowledged rather than avoided.
Our intention is to:
- Provide deep access into fields of social issues to find healing insights and movements
- Provide supportive holding spaces to contain the intense distress and reactivity that occurs in the field
- Create spaces that help liberate the profound creativity required to overcome such challenges
What do we intend to accomplish?
We come together to explore and create forms of social inquiry and healing that can be of service to the larger world, and to:
- Uncover deep experiential understandings and an embodied experience of the social field
- Be present to collective suffering and trauma in ways that reduce cycles of reactivity
- Come into deeper relationship with sacred and expanded dimensions of living
- Assist with untangling the social field around significant issues
- Acknowledge perpetrator guilt while relieving burdens of shame
- Free blocked reaching-out movements that limit us personally and socially
- Empower ourselves as individuals, groups, and as a culture
- Gather and share the insights that emerge from our explorations
How will we do this?
This will involve a three-stage process:
- Accessing creativity and intuition to illuminate powerful influences in the social field
- Accessing the field more deeply and directly, seeking healing movements and resources
- Communicating to others what we have discovered
We will draw from the following processes and concepts:
- Ritual Inquiry and Field Presence — Constellations
- Processes of Emergence — Focusing, Art of Hosting, Open Dialogue, Dynamic Facilitation
- Processes of Peacemaking — Nonviolent Communication
- Concrete Activism — dedication, courage, on-the-ground organizing skills
- Subtle Activism — working with the field in other ways
- Neurobiology — integration, developmental sequences
Core Components
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The core process will be Family and Systemic Constellations.
Systemic Constellations make use of our innate ability to perceive relationships in a system so that we may bring insight and realign what is out of order.
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Deep listening group processes.
Open Space, World Café, Council Circle, Focusing, and Dynamic Facilitation may be used to support engagement with large social issues.
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Harvesting and distilling discoveries.
At times we will harvest and distill the essences of what we discover so this can be shared with others.
More about Intended Outcomes
- Empowerment through releasing entanglements.
- Accessing sources of wisdom and insight for the larger whole.
- Harvesting and distilling insights for wider sharing.
- Seeking creative approaches for collective trauma.
- Accessing additional resources and support.
- Deepening relationship with subtle forces and energies.
- Learning to adapt and fine-tune these processes.