On Environmental Constellations

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One of the things that interests me about constellation work is how it brings the bigger picture to our lives.  Constellation work arose out of german psychotherapy in the late 80s.  Albrecht Mahr a respected veteran constellation facilitator talks of how he went to a psychotherapist for many years, unable to shake off a depression that hung over him.  Everything about his family of origin seemed well functioning, loving parents who cared well for their son, no great personal losses or mishaps in his early life.  At that time psychotherapy did not provide the answer.

But the psychotherapy movement of the 1980s noticed something, all the therapy was very personally based, the lens was rarely taken out to a wider view.  For Albrecht, once he looked wider and took account of his father’s nazi past and the suffering that caused to so many he was able to find a new way to love his father, look at his life and ease and make sense of his depression.  He now works in Rwanda healing the trauma of that nation and publishes widely about his work and experiences. 

In the UK, some say that we lost by winning the war.  We are a bit smug and therefore don’t look at our own actions or those of our families with such a critical eye.  - And I find myself wondering whether in the future the personal and spiritual agonies faced by Albrecht, will be faced by our children and grand-children as they take account of our blind environmental destruction.

So as I watch Germany lead the world in it’s renewable energy production, I watch in dismay in the UK as we come bottom of the League.  I see today that Germany has banned fracking, just as we have created opportunities for fracking all over our land. 

We are inextricably bound to our lands, we rely on the earth for our lives just as in infancy we relied on our mothers.  And yet so many of us are so cut off from the natural world that we don’t even notice the phases of the moon or the touch of the wind. 

And so I invite you to come to my next environmental constellation workshop.   It will be an entirely experimental affair, we may work with our need to connect with nature - as we have done in the past, or we may work with our future selves and descendants to see what ways there are to help us now face our impact on the future, or we may work with nature in her traumatised state and see if there are ways we can help.

You are invited to come with an agenda - i.e. a problem you would like to fix. And if you do, I suggest you bring something very very specific with which you have a deep emotional or ancestral connection, or you can come with no agenda and we can work with the future. 

I do hope you will be able to participate.