Welcome to the second edition of the SCASA blog, where facilitators of and trainers in constellations work share their knowledge, experiences, and personal expertise in support of the South African constellations work community. Giving in support of the whole.
This blog is envisaged to share our experiences and learn from each other. We aim to add to the knowledge base of constellation work.
To our future authors, contributing to the body of constellation work can be done by writing up case studies (with informed consent), and by integrating facilitator ideas and experience with knowledge in existence, for example, the lineage roots of constellations work, or other wisdom traditions and systems of knowledge, scientific evidence, and theoretical models found in other disciplines and intervention methods.
It may be a discussion that reminds us as practitioners about core concepts and awareness.
It may begin a conversation/dialogue, to which other practitioners can then respond.
If you feel inspired to contribute, please reach out to Cathy or Angela on the blog team, who will be happy to support you to put together a piece that meets the blog requirements of ethics, literary requirements, and references. We are happy to support you to activate your creative inspiration, move through writer’s block, and actualize your writing skills and talent, while also contributing to your community.
In this biannual edition, Erik Andersen, an experienced meditator, helps us to understand how the practice of non-judgment in meditation supports a principal central to constellations work – that of being with reality as it is without any intention or agenda. Angela Hough, a psychologist of many years, helps facilitators to understand the nature of trauma and its consequences, and the importance of the facilitator’s attunement and presence when working with trauma in a constellation. Robyn Fergus, who trained in constellations work from a shamanic perspective, discusses the orders of helping, reminding facilitators to be in right relationship with the client and their ancestors.
The editorial team (in charge of editing and ethics): Cathy Geils, Angela Hough, Gail Wrogemann, Robyn Fergus, and Tanja Meyburgh.
Angela Hough is a psychologist working at an addiction clinic. She is a registered psychologist, family constellations facilitator (African Constellations) and trainer, a therapeutic group facilitator (trained at CGAS), a process art facilitator, poet, artist, and a mother of two teenagers. She has taught for 15 years at tertiary level in psychology and education (UKZN and SACAP), and contributed to writing in the fields of resilience, trauma, addiction, poetic inquiry, barriers to learning, and diversity and decoloniality.
Erik Andersen has been facilitating systems and inner-parts constellations workshops since 2015. He also has more than 15 years of experience teaching and facilitating meditation and other awareness practices. He is trained in Systems and Inner-parts Constellations, Mindfulness meditation, Kabbalah, and Kriya Yoga, and is a registered member of Systems Constellations Association of South Africa (SCASA). Erik has been in a wheelchair for most of his adult life and is passionate about guiding others in the spiritual technologies that have helped him. He lives with his wife and son in Hermannsburg, KZN, South Africa.
Robyn Fergus opened her healing practice in 2010 after 22 years in the corporate world. She is trained in various styles of facilitation, qualifying as a facilitator in Shamanic Constellations, African Constellations, and in Movement of Spirit-Mind Constellations. After training with CSC in Systemic Constellation Supervision, she offers constellation supervision. Robyn’s initiation in the Sacred Andean Tradition and as a diviner in the Dagara tradition influences her work as a facilitator. She lives between Hout Bay, where she has her healing practice, and Clanwilliam, from where she works online and goes on long bundu-bashing walks through the fynbos with her dog Jordy.
