Constellating Systems Lab on First Wednesdays

“We are born with an absolute necessity for help, grow well only with a continuous succession of extended hands, and as adults depend upon others for our further successes and possibilities in life even as competent individuals.”     –David Whyte–

The Work of One is the Work of All

I am thrilled to invite you (again) to the monthly Constellation Systems Lab. We meet every first Wednesday (minus a summer break). Please book at least 2 hours before each event. 

logistics

First Wednesday of each Month

online

8:00 pm MET / 2:00 pm EST / 12:00 noon MST / 11:00 am PST

your Zoom link will arrive by email, close to your respective time, on the morning of the event 

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What We Share

mutual presence – vulnerabilities – honest kindness 

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An initial round of arriving, and sharing what comes with you, is followed by mapping a collective, emergent theme. We will explore its significance by co-imagining facets/portals that can lead us to the issue’s systemic location and mending. We will, just as readily, prioritise an individual’s request for a professional supervision consultation. Maybe you experience an entanglement with a change-seeker (a.k.a., client), or want to explore a systemic application, or grapple with an Inner World issue.

Any multitude of issues, and your desire for nourishment or change, are welcome. Your offerings are processed by constellating their systemic context. Systemic Trauma Imagination, family (and beyond) constellating will support our playful systems exploration. You will experience embodied representing, on-your-own-tabletop constellating, blind constellating, and ceremony, where asked for. The process is grounded in somatic presencing and leads to emergent storytelling. Most often, the tools we use, will merge into a shared relationally relevant tapestry, enriched by bright hues of experiential play, shared collective wisdom, and humour. My trauma-sensitive approach (whichever systemic methodology/context I use) must seek to meet an other’s Nested Worlds (plural!). Including, their Inner World, constructed by biography. This inner system – of often conflicting parts – is just as important as are their family / ancestral / cultural / socio-historical, and worlds beyond.

This gathering welcomes helping profession (and other) humans that are in discord with part, usually formed early in life. It invited those, especially vulnerable to entangling with an(y) other. As care-givers we may be haunted by shame of being professionally inadequate. Or, we worry about professional integrity. These are expressions of Little Persons that reside, known or hidden, in our bodyself. When we intend to protect our professional-self, we may be unaware that their entangling counsel (often) is woefully outdated.This event is the place/time to explore this in community.

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A Bit About Me

I am a traumatologist, committed to systemic imagination and exploration. When constellating systems, I engage the many nested worlds, including whatever beyond-human ecologies want to join a setting (think, Nature Constellating.) I entered my apprenticeship in the trauma trade with very early lived experiences of profoundly formative relational rupture experiences. To date, I am therefore fascinated with systemic trauma and ithe mending of broken connections. I cherish, and draw from, three decades of study, from working with Change Seekers, and while supporting systemic trauma apprentices as their elder.   

I am grateful to my teachers of many stripes. With some I apprenticed in person, with others through their books, videaos, and seminal spirits: Wolfgang Leihner (Heilpraktiker, Integrative Psychologist), Jens Tismar (Traditional Chinese Medizin), Amy and Arny Mindell (process as vehicle of systemic emergence) Pat Ogden (Sensory-motor Therapy), Rolf Institute Boulder (Certified Rolfer®; multiple teacher), Judith Herman, Peter Levine, Anngwyn St. Just, Pete Walker, Dan Siegel, Bonnie Badenoch (Somatic, Soul, and Social Trauma), Hunter Beaumont, Bert Hellinger, Gunthard Weber, Daan van Kampenhout, Franz Ruppert (constellating systems), Cedar Barstow (Right Use of Power, and, more recently, my gracious post-grad degree teachers who made religious studies a serious pursuit and a delight: Theodor M. Vial, Albert Hernandez, Tink Tinker, and Eric C. Smith, among others. 

 I offer systems counselling for individuals and couples, in-person and online. Open online groups are offerings for supervision, as much as means to foster collegial connection. Since about 2003, I teach my own insights and methodologies, while continuing to gather knowledge and wisdom. My exciting find of Carlo Rovelli’s, intriguingly poetic renderings of theoretical quantum physics, for example, is presently enriching how I think (sense) about Systemic Trauma Mending. In short, my experience, decades of facilitating creatively in the making,  combined with a trauma-sensitive comportment, are honed to meet every field’s emergent dynamics with reverence and discernment. 

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This Also Happens!

When we commit to relational courage and (here) collegial intimacy, we sometimes find immature parts jumping in the driver seat. When that happens, sorting through situation-appropriate differentiation for the Little Person creates clarity. Respectful and tender mending of connection with parts, while also grieving erstwhile wounds, restores the mature professional to, once again, claim the driver seat. All along, we honour the protective prowess of shame, even as we also right-size it. We unbraid trauma bonds and accompany Little Persons on their (now appropriate) seat in the bus.

we misstep – we attune <> we activate trauma – we slow down <>  we have an agenda – we restore emergence <> we make a mess – we mend >>> join us 

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