Editorial Comment 3rd Edition
Welcome to another edition of the SCASA Blog, where constellations facilitators give us their specialist knowledge, experience, and comment.
Constellations work might be thought of as both a tool or modality for working with a universal energy or consciousness field as well as providing a language for working with this field. Unique to constellations work is Hellinger’s ‘orders of love’, the structure in systems that support the flow of life force within a coherently organised system. Systems organise themselves coherently in the heart through the energy field of love (McCraty, 2015).
There are many tools and modalities for working with this field. Many points of entry. The point of entry in a classical constellation is the phenomenon of representation and representative perception, as well as embodied positions with the physical space of the room. Consciousness is held by the fields and bodies of the representatives, allowing contraction to release, and an expansion of consciousness beyond its previously limiting structures and patterns.
In this half-yearly edition, visual artist and expressive arts practitioner, Amy Simons, integrates her insights as an artist with her practice of constellations facilitation. She observes how both practices support being present with uncertainty, not knowing, and submitting to the mystery, which allows what is present in the field to emerge. This is the opposite attitude of imposing our will, so commonly patterned into our Western consciousness fields. Read “Being and Seeing in the Unknown”
Erik Andersen is an experienced meditation practitioner who integrates constellations work praxis with the mystical perspectives and practices of Kabbalah, eastern spirituality and shamanism. He discusses the orders of hierarchy and the importance of our posture as facilitators when working with ancestral trauma, how we might make ourselves bigger in relation to the ancestors and the client, how to bring ourselves into the receptive polarity when working with ancestral trauma, how it is not our job to heal the ancestors. Read “Being Our Own Size.”
Cathy Geils holds a doctorate that explores constellations work within the fields of transpersonal psychology and consciousness transformation. She discusses the mechanisms of transformation in a constellation process, how constellations work offers us unique opportunities for transformation that brings us back into ordinary human connection with the power and flow of Life through Love. Read “What aspects of constellations work praxis support the transformation of consciousness?”
We would love to hear your insights and comments or offers to contribute further to this expanding discussion.
McCraty, R. (2015). Science of the heart: Exploring the role of the heart in human
performance (Vol 2). Boulder Creek, CA: Institute of HeartMath.
doi: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3873.5128
