Reflecting on immigration, Indra's Net and if Family Constellations can heal the world

By Kate Curran, Ph.D.

The more I am involved with Family and Systemic Constellations, the more I am convinced that if we want to shift the stuck, circular, fractal dynamics of racism and other divides in our country, we must first look at our own immigrant traumas. 

I write this article shortly after the incidents in Charlottesville, Va., and I know that by and large, this article will be read by a white, middle class, well-meaning audience – the immigrants and the settlers.  Before we can look out and successfully affect the visible and the not-so-visible horrors of our own American situation, we must look within.

A recent constellation session about chronic pain in my shoulder and leg revealed a woman keening over her dead baby in the Irish Great Hunger, intoning “Not another one,” with death all around her.

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