Emily Blefeld
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The Empowered Empath and Sage Soul
Emily Blefeld You didn’t arrive on this Earth, in this time, to shrink away from the embers of your deepest truths, to dim your light, or doubt your soul. This life is your invitation. This human body is your portal. The Field is your compass. And this birth family system even if extremely painful - is the training ground for your soul’s evolution. This workshop is calling all alchemists and healers who are fiery cauldrons, kicking out stars, but criticized for their bright, bold, blazing heat empowered empaths who see, know, feel, hear, and heal the unspoken truths of the living and unresolved suffering of the dead, yet struggle with small talk, self-care, commitment, and feeling emotionally hijacked witches and shamans who magically wield a new way, but muffle their voice and resist visibility in terror of being found out suburban mystics who powerfully inspire, support, and tend their family and communities, but feel inferior at dinner parties and hide their altars, tarot cards, and spiritual books in their homes to meet our full form, we have to face what stands between our truth and its embodiment. Our human bones and the blood coursing through our body are encoded with memories of generations of misogyny, sexual abuse, exploitation, enslavement, and extraction. Our ancestors internalized their oppressors to survive; we carry forth, doubting our own perception and worth, and denying the seed of our most creative force Eros. The pattern stops here. Through constellations and experiential process, you will illuminate soul contracts that guide your miraculous human life and connect to resources that support your family system and soul’s evolution. Explore the threads of your existence, uncover the mystery of who you are and unpack the relationship between your soul lineage and family system. |
Anne Sexton Bryan
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Returning Home: Constellations to Connect Our African Ancestral Wisdom
Anne Sexton Bryan We turn our hearts in a new direction, beyond what we usually consider to be the source of our collective ancestral wisdom. Our humanitys beginnings in Africa offer us a unique point to connect through constellation work. My intention is to offer an experiential constellation workshop to reconnect to this deep ancestral wisdom. I believe we can source support and guidance to strengthen and heal our foundation as constellators and healers to carry back into our lives and world work. We will hope to draw forth not just wisdom but also a new healed energy of peace, wholeness, oneness and joy. Why is this important now? Our deep human ancestry is African. Our beginnings have been genetically proven through our DNA that our homo sapien ancestors originated in East Africa. At a pivotal point about 60,000 years ago, our ancestral family dwindled to possibly 2000 or less due to what we can only guess were great difficulties and our family decided to split. Some stayed behind and others ventured into the vast unknown to carry life forward and populate the world. Together, they evolved a diverse, culturally rich, colorful population that adapted to the land and conditions they found across the African continent and throughout the world. While indisputable, our common origin and connection to each other as global relatives is not acknowledged and accepted, and even seems impossible and incomprehensible. Tracing our path back to this point, I believe we can source a Wisdom of Oneness from Mother Africa held in our DNA to inform our purpose and path going forward. By working to expand our conscious awareness in this way, we can embody a more cohesive, inclusive and healed peace and wholeness amongst ourselves and our group to carry back into our lives, families, communities and countries. |
John Cheney
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5 Elements Constellations: Turn on Your Love Light
John Cheney 5 Elements, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood are derived from the ancient Chinese elemental system. This method has been used for thousands of years as a tool to observe how systems function and how to support them. For example, the Human body (as a system in Chinese medicine), Physical spaces (Feng Shui), business, Eco-systems, Societies/Communities, Family systems, as well as Chinese tea ceremony. It is a modal for systemic wholeness and balance. "Turning on your love light" pertains to when we see a burden fall away in a constellation and the flow of love restored. The Fire element represents the inner resource of love (heart/spirit). We all have tacit knowledge of the Fire element. “They are a very warm-hearted person”, might be an everyday statement about someone who is energetically strong in the heart center. We literally feel their warmth. This session will focus on the Fire element and will feature a constellation process to bring awareness to this particular aspect of ourselves and help us see this in Family Systems constellations as well. |
Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld
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Seeing with Your Heart Constellations for Love and Relationships
Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld Do you wish to open your heart to sensual, sacred, and soulful love and free yourself from the patterns that destroy intimate, fulfilling relationships? Or are you a facilitator, practitioner, or therapist who is interested in learning quick, simple exercises to support your clients with achieving breakthroughs in seemingly insoluble conflicts or disturbing dynamics that undermine close relationships? Join Dan Cohen and Emily Blefeld to see with your heart what the body, mind, and soul remember and awaken greater passion, pleasure and shared purpose in love relationships. Human beings swim in an ocean of consciousness that absorbs and remembers everything. Heartbreaks, tragedies and abandonments from generations long ago may leave an invisible imprint that remains active inside our bodies. A couples relationship is like two deep water waves coming together. At the peak, they amplify magically. At the trough, they descend into painful conflict, often mirroring hidden patterns embedded in each partners family of origin. Remnants of unresolved wounds passed down by parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents resurface disguised as feelings of loneliness and rejection, self-sabotaging behaviors, sexual shame, or the fear of intimacy. Seeing with Your Heart Constellations dive beyond the immediate stories and emotions to literally shift these wave patterns, helping people to open their hearts to love and free themselves to create intimate, erotic and nourishing partnerships. Dan and Emily have presented their life-changing Constellations in workshops and trainings throughout the world. Through individual constellations and experiential exercises, participants will learn key tools to see with your heart, illuminate entanglements at their origin, and call in ancestors and spirit guides to release the block to love while resourcing intentions. Attend this circle to experience the ancient magic of seeing with your heart. |
Peter and Jamy Faust
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A Shamanic Approach to Spirit Mind Constellations
Peter and Jamy Faust Bert Hellinger taught three levels of facilitating Family Constellations; Facilitator Directed, Movements of the Soul and Spirit Mind Constellations. The third and most advanced form requires a total surrender on the part of the client, representatives and facilitator to go as deep into the collective field of consciousness, not only to the very roots of the clients trauma but also to the roots of the family and collective trauma of human consciousnesses. The facilitator, representatives and the observing participants travel with the client energetically to the ancestral field and beyond to retrieve a healing response. The constellation then in effect becomes a Healing event for those in the room with a similar wound. Our Shamanic perspective and understanding of Spirit Mind constellations will be offered at the beginning of the presentation. The Constellation process will be guided through the use of music and Shamanic instruments such as drum, rattle, Kalimba and bells to support going to the spirit realms and back out to consensus reality. |
Inga Fredenberg
AnneMeike Meersra - Van Putten
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Living with a Backpack of Inherited Guilt
Inga Freudenberg and Annemeike Meersra - Van Putten We would like to start with an historical introduction of the mutual position and perception of Germans and Europeans before and after world war 11. Now 75 years after liberation of the occupied countries. We will proceed with a personal story about the impact of guilt from the German role in World War II. The inherited shade of guilt installed though the destructions, occupations and Holocaust. The effect on a German descendant illustrated in the biography of a little German girl coming to live in the Netherlands. We than would like to install polarities like: guilt, shame and innocence victim and offender judgement about good and bad freedom in captivity impossible choices security and fear power and helplessness After that we would like to focus on the recognition of inherited guilt by letting the participants reflect on their own inherent guilt by actions of their nations, tribe or ancestors and how that effects them. Exercise labyrinth of impossible choices. The participants experience the impossible choices people had to make and the guilt that comes with it. During the constellations we use the input of the group combined with the above mentioned themes. The last part will be about coping with the guilt. We will work with a circle constellation about guilt and coping. At the end the German ancestor will tell her story how she coped with her ancestral inherited guilt and the wisdom she gained from it. The participants will reflect on their personal gained wisdom from their ancestral guilt. At last we will reflect and evaluate upon the workshop |
Jonathan Hooton
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Shame: An Existential Wound
Jonathan Hooton The presentation will include an introduction to healthy (functional) and toxic (chronic) shame with experiential demonstrations, mini-constellations, and issue driven full constellations. Shame is one of the main influences on disconnecting from the True Self and the creation of a False Self. Because shame only occurs in the context of relationship (we are shamed by other people), shame needs to be healed in the presence of a non-judgmental other or others. Individual counselling, group processes and constellation groups can all provide this healing environment. Because toxic shame is one of the most difficult and excruciatingly painful feeling states that can be experienced, most people find ways to avoid that state with the result that shame is often the ‘elephant in the room.’ As facilitators, we need to address our own shame dynamics in order to be present with the shame in others and to not reinjure, or reshame, them. Aspects of toxic shame that will be presented include: Neurophysiology of shame and its relationship to the freeze (‘feigned death’) response and unresolved trauma, Language of shame, Attachment styles and parentification, Creation of the false self, Coupling of shame with unacceptable emotions and behaviors, Defenses and strategies to protect against feeling shame, Victim-perpetrator dynamics, Conscience of belonging and systemic aspects including transgenerational shame, institutional dynamics and multiple prejudices. Methods of healing toxic shame will be presented and demonstrated with the opportunity to take part in experiential exercises including small group exercises, mini-constellations and full constellations. Because toxic shame is generated in relationship, healing needs to happen in a non-judgmental relational setting, either in a one-on-one setting or a safe group. A constellation process can provide an effective way of healing shame and can provide an alternative way of healing a break in the parent-child bond. |
Lisa Iversen
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Whiteness Is Not An Ancestor
Lisa Iversen Whiteness has had and continues to have a profound influence in our human family. This session is for those:
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Krista Jarrard
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Astrological Constellations; Bridging Two Systemic Arts to Take Our Place in a Larger System of Belonging
Krista Jarrard Increasingly, facilitators are facing issues we may never have imagined. These may be connected to larger themes in systems beyond the family field, reflecting the astrology of this time personally, collectively and planetary. We know our ancestors paved the way for us, Astrology is the systemic art that guided them on their path. This experiential presentation explores the natural relationship between Systemic Constellations and Astrology, and its vital role in offering a grander perspective lighting a path to support ourselves and our clients at this unprecedented time on the planet. In this fascinating workshop, veteran Constellator and third generation astrologer Krista Jarrard offers her unique perspective revealing Astrology as the original systemic art known and practiced by our ancestors in the deep past. Our ancestors understood tracking connections, patterns and potentials within a system of belonging, discerning meaning from hidden natural laws of order, looking to the past to inform potential present and future outcomes. Bridging Astrology to Systemic Work demystifies it, revealing that experience with systemic work makes astrological awareness and guidance accessible. Understanding our moment in history allows us to engage through greater consciousness with the unseen influences and archetypal energies for change and transformation we are experiencing. Whatever the issue, personal or collective, solutions arise through understanding the existence of the amazingly consistent relationships between planetary dynamics and the corresponding archetypal patterns that have influenced us throughout human history, biography, and evolution. In this workshop the group field will guide Krista to what type of Astrological Archetypal Constellation or Exercises will be experienced. - Participants will experience a new embodied sense of how our ancestors where guided in the deep past, and why in the present this wisdom is more crucial than ever. - Participants will take away an understanding of a larger resonance field and system of belonging that has been observed by humans since ancient times. - Participants will experience an Astrological Archetypal Constellation or Constellation Exercises. |
Andrea Bosbach Largent
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The Transformational Power Triangle of Facilitation
Andrea Bosbach Largent In this experiential presentation we explore Facilitator skills needed to unbind abusive paradigms. The power structures within abuse hold the capacity to move a group, a process, a facilitation into re-petition of original injury. The potential for repetition naturally shows up as we engage with abusive paradigms, and its presence is part of the essential trauma release. As Facilitators our listening skills, our conscience and consciousness are asked to be as sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel. Rightfully so! Let’s sharpen our ears, our perceptivity, and our capacity to hold, and withhold power-filled seductions. And get clear on the Transformational Power Triangle as it guides us through the maze of abuse, unbinding it for times to come, and most of all: for the client next to you. Personal work is welcomed. Presentation will ask for volunteers from the audience to work with live while presenting. Case demonstrations from my practice will substitute if needed. This will be an experiential Learning Circle for advanced practitioners. It has relevance for multiple types of abuse, including: Ritual Abuse, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, and Psychic Abuse. |
Bill Mannle, LMFT
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To the Heart of the Matter: Re-discovering Presence, Vitality and Creativity
Bill Mannle, LMFT Finding your way in the field can be difficult. Often a facilitator will become immobilized, feel frustrated, alone, and set drift without a compass. This can be the result of hidden loyalties in the therapist’s family system, past trauma or fear, being activated by the client’s system. In this brief workshop, using short exercises and rituals, we will look deeply into the self of the facilitator, identifying personal blocks and blind spots, discover resources to help us to remain open and present, and re-connect to our creativity and vitality. We will seek the existential moment that takes us forward. We will also learn to: Get in touch with hidden gifts that are always available Let go of old ideas, beliefs and programming that keep you stuck. Learn brief, powerful exercises to the get to what is essential and that can be shared in with your groups or clients. The workshop is designed to compel the facilitator toward a deep introspection, while at the same time providing a safe space to develop heart and soul presence, and a path toward clarity and authenticity. |
Joe Nunziata
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Heal the Deal
Joe Nunziata Heal the Deal is based on the principles in Joe’s new book “Heal the Deal”. We do not often associate business and healing but every time we encounter a potential client there is an opportunity to for healing. As we move into higher energy there will be a major shift in how you grow your practice. Discover the keys to attracting the perfect clients and opportunities for your business. This revolutionary new process will help you develop an easy flow of new clients and opportunities. |
Dina Ostrovsky
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Group Constellation Exercises for Careers, Creativity and Money
Dina Ostrovsky In this seminar, I will share my experience working with Family Constellation method in the area of careers, creativity, and money. I plan to offer four group exercises related to this topic. 1. "Money and creativity" exercise 2. "Blessing from ancestors for the right to step into creative journey " exercise. 3. "Be visible in society" exercise. 4. "Money flow limitations" exercise 5. "Getting support from the community" ritual. These exercises arrived from my experience of leading a yearly educational program in TERRApia School of Transformation. The School is based on Family and System Constellations and Process Oriented psychology methods. Most of the clients come to the School for career enchantment or change. The results of the students who take the yearly program are pretty impressive. For example, in the year 2018/19 from 18 students, who were involved in the program 16 changed their jobs or advanced in careers throughout this year. |
Sarah Peyton
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From Shame and Entanglement to Resilience: Leveraging the Neuroscience of Trauma and Unconscious Contracts in Constellations
Sarah Peyton Shame is a burden that many facilitators and clients carry. It can ride heavily on bodies and immune systems, and be remarkably persistent, even across generations. It immobilizes clients creates blocks to forward movement, lessens immune system responses, and decreases people’s access to meaning and shortens their lifespans. If we can recognize the signs of persistent shame states in ourselves and our clients, we can take direct action to better people’s lives and their physical and emotional well-being. The more clearly we can see our clients, the easier it is to make decisions about where to direct our constellation work. When we know the neuroscience of shame and resilience, we can use our knowledge to help us support transformation for ourselves and our clients. In this workshop, participants will: - Learn the neuroscience of shame and how it relates to trauma - Recognize the cues that a client is in a shame state - Take away knowledge about left and right brain hemispheres, when we are hearing the voice of each, and how to decode these voices into healing sentences - Understand the persistence of shame states and how to free clients from decades of shame - Practice Unconscious Contract work in the context of releasing intergenerational shame As facilitators, we can also be immobilized by transgenerational shame, a shame that can keep us from even doing our work in the world. If you have any sense of being immobilized in your professional life, this workshop is for you, personally, as well as being a support in your client work. |
Ellen Raboin
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Exploring the Intersection of Systemic Constellation Work (SCW) and the Practice of Organizational Development (OD)
Ellen Raboin There is an abiding interest in the SCW community regarding how systemic work can best applied in organizational settings. This session will explore this topic from the perspective of the systemic facilitator who is already working within an organization as an organizational development practitioner. This session is a follow up from the 2017 conference, OC/OD panel discussion, which inspired the launch of the Keystone Conversations, a bi-monthly webinar for practitioners who are interested in integrating SCW into their practice. The purpose and desired outcomes of 2020 session are three fold; 1) continue to define and build the OC/OD community that was established in 2017 at Virginia Beach 2) strengthen this informal network for continued education and peer support in the application of SCW in an OD setting 3) Hold the space for what wants to be noted and/or emerge from the field of this new community. |
Samvedam Randles
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Beyond the Ancestral Field
Samvedam Randles, LMHC All unintegrated history leaves its traces in the matrix of our cultures, families and lives. The challenge with the past is that it often is not past but lives on through symptoms that repeat tendencies and return the past into the presence. A war that happened years ago ripples through many generations and unconsciously we uphold these patterns. What we cannot include within ourselves we project out onto "the other", which feeds a sense of separation. It takes courage to explore our part in this. It takes vulnerability to own it and include all human tendencies. |
Amdahl/Rafael Ruiz-Nava
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Constellation Basics
Amdahl/Rafael Ruiz-Nava As constellation work has flourished it has exploded in many flowers. Facilitators from different paths have added richness, merging their own healing methods with original constellation work and producing a wide variety of procedures and understandings. What seems to be emerging is a rich and powerful methodology with infinite possibilities. But what about the ancestral heritage and what are the essential elements for constellation? Bert Hellinger gave us a contemporary and pragmatic methodology that can heal deep wounds, bring reconciliation and open new horizons for walking at the service of the Spirit. But surely we need to recognize, honor and bring the light of all those others that have engaged in these doings from ancient times and that have been incorporated in Bert’s proposal, even though they may not be explicit or conscious. I propose a workshop where we will look at the essential elements for constellation work, those indispensable for us to recognize and honor a common task. We will speak and show how there are some essential elements that need to be acknowledged. After a brief presentation of each of them we will demonstrate them in a live constellation work. These basic elements are: 1. Honoring destiny and what comes to us. 2. Recognizing the power of the Knowing Field. 3. The phenomenological methodology (step by step from perception to action) 4. The systemic paradigm and the orders of love. 5. The role of representatives. 6. Recognition of the limits, scope and levels of conscience. 7. The empty center. 8. The work of the Spirit. |
Susan Schlosser
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Listening to the Voices of Nature: A Constellation for These Times
Susan Schlosser We live in the midst of intensifying environmental degradation. In our time together we will utilize the power and potential of Constellation Work to evoke the infinite wisdom of the Knowing Field to address root causes of this disruption. In ceremony we will witness and take to heart what we are asked to see and include as representatives. We humans have a long history of separation from and domination over nature and one other. Together we will open ourselves to the Greater Forces, allowing the Field to bring our awareness to that which has not been seen that, like a fractal, continues to repeat itself through time. Legions of people feel lost these days, alienated from their inner guidance, and unsure of where they belong. Families are suffering and our relationship with Mother Earth is suffering. We are dangerously out of our rightful place in the community of all life. Many want to help but don’t know what to do or how to cope with escalating grief. Together we will set a constellation giving voice to beings in nature, welcoming feelings that arise, and giving space to the marginalized human voices, all in service to finding our place and a deeply sourced way forward. You will be invited to enter the realm of the sacred, to represent, listen and give voice to the Ancient Ones~~the beings of the natural world that were here long before humans. Here is an opportunity to bridge the gap of separation from nature that we’ve been living in for centuries. Please join me in taking our right place in the natural world, while deepening our respect and kinship-- all in service to balance and harmony with ourselves, each other, and our precious planet. |
Gary Stuart
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Quantum Activation: Directed 3 Step Constellations
Gary Stuart A spontaneous, non-traditional way to get to the deepest core of any working clients issue in 10-20 minutes. There’s no family history reenactment, the facilitator trusts their observations and intuitive impulses. Active facilitation coaching the verbal expression for the Rep. This creates systemic resolution and healthy boundaries for the working client under 20 minutes or less. The client takes a closing bow to the past before turning 180 degrees moving towards the present and future. The facilitator, rep and client close out the 10-20-minute Constellation session with all involved. The working Client picks their own Subject with Goal then shares Subject and Goal with the facilitator only before picking their Rep. All information is blindly concealed from the group until the end of the session. A releasing Bow and healing statements closes the session. A short group discussion for clarity and deeper insights enhancing the cognitive context for the client their Rep plus attendees. Step 1. Single Subject, Step 2. Single Goal, Step 3. Single Rep What I’ve discovered after 21 + years of Constellations is that the Knowing Field activates with vocal vibration of verbalized systemic truths to complete the expression of what’s hidden. The energy of the resolution quickly emerges from the working clients Rep. to what needs to be stated or cleared. The Rep is tested spatially to where they are drawn backwards, behind = past and facing forward = present and future. There is no need for facilitator to have any foreknowledge of the client’s personal history. Using the clients chosen Subject with an intentionally positive Goal along with a Rep or maybe 2 at most is sufficient. Of course, the facilitator’s responsibility is to tune into what’s energetically necessary which will address Ancestral lineage in Real time plus concise closing healing statements. It’s quite different than the normal passive Constellation facilitation. Where trial and error can add endless generational Reps or dead Reps laying on the floor to slowly get the bigger picture. When the Constellation facilitator verbally states what needs to be expressed while following the systemic principles like hierarchy or whatever presents itself is of the utmost importance. I always have stated for over 2 decades the Knowing Field doesn’t mess around. The facilitator takes charge with courage and an open compassionate heart plus sensitivity with intimate awareness is most of what’s needed. The Ancestors and even a single rep can quickly give us all the information needed. Directed Constellations cut to the chase for a faster and deeper resolution in a shorter period of time. In some cases, many Clients were shocked at what randomly came through so quickly. Reading the Reps body language is imperative and tuning into the larger fields energetic backstory is too. The Rep always knows when a core truth is verbalized which allows physical or emotional somatic symptoms instantly disappear. We always end with a working client bow (to the past) with a healing statement or a support request. This is followed by a short supportive group discussion for added impact and insights gained. |
Judy Wallace
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lluminating Key Elements for Collective/Societal Constellations, to then Shine our Soul-filled Light Through a Constellation Experience
Judy Wallace This workshop will include soulful ways to sense/know/see what is at work in the larger collective field that is calling for attention, to be seen, acknowledged, and shifted into a more lighted expression - for humanity, our planet, and all beings at this time. Participants will consider several elements that I have found to be key building blocks. While knowing that in preparation and during the constellation, the field is constantly revealing more – that’s the fun, the challenge, and the healing opportunity. In circle we inquire into our current world. What themes/questions are active as we gather? Participants will be guided in a practice to deeply sense to see what arises. To discern if there is a historical/ancestral context that is meaningful to constellate? Or would an inquiry into how things are currently manifesting collectively be most meaningful? With the client as the larger social system, how might a facilitator make representation choices that would be in service to the larger whole? If Power, as an example, is the theme, what might one choose to be represented? What is essential and has potency or invokes curiosity or even discomfort? And amplifies the possibility for more to show up during the constellation? What various forms might representation take and why? Given the unpredictability of what will be collectively active in November 2021 - as old systems dismantle, the new not clear or yet taking form, plus potential unrest across the world arising from mandates infringing on civil and human rights, the sovereignty of each being in question, and real questions of what is actually true - given these chaotic circumstances, the theme most prominent will arise and show itself to us by the time we gather – and we will constellate that together. We conclude with a closing circle where participants give voice to what is still present for them, surprised them, brought new awareness, impacted them personally, and beyond. Harvesting can be quite fertile, even essential, and informs future follow-on constellations. |
