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The Instillation of Hope
Without doubt one of the things that is most important and powerful about the trauma constellations process is the instillation of hope. Traumatic situations are situations of total helplessness, devoid of possibility to want anything and when any sense of … Continue reading
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Is this our ‘Arab Spring’?
Yes I know, it sure as hell doesn’t look like it, but stay with me… let’s at least explore the idea. Do the activities and actions that we have been experiencing in the Uk over the past week have anything … Continue reading
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Thoughts on the UK ‘Riots’
Probably like many people, I seem to have experienced a whole range of emotions over the past few days: anger, outrage, fear, despondency, warmth (towards the #riotcleanup groups), more fear, fascination, interest, sadness, confusion and so on. This morning I … Continue reading
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The Orders of Love – support from beyond
“Because it is part of the physical universe, love has to be lawful. Like the rest of the world, it is governed and described by principles we can discover but cannot change. If we only knew where and how to … Continue reading
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What happens when I am terrified of myself?
One of the things that can tend to make accessing and working with trauma so complex is the very basic fact that many of us are terrified of part of ourselves. Terror is terrifying… and this is true of one’s … Continue reading
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Four Principles of Trauma Constellations Work…
At this moment in time I have four basic principles that in my view underlie good work with the constellations method with trauma as the underlying focus. They came to me when I was trying to encapsulate for a training group what … Continue reading
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Why Constellations? Health & Integration
Someone asked me the other day why I do Constellations. Well actually she asked why I do “this Constellation Family Work”. A good question, with for me a simple answer and a more complex answer. The simple answer is in … Continue reading
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The Integrating Soul
The Integrating Soul is what I call that part of us that holds an overview of us, at different times more or less consciously, and that always moves for integration of the psychological splits caused by traumatic events. It is our … Continue reading
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Citizen journalism, twitter and helplessness
Another small piece that looks at the relevance of so-called citizen journalism from an article in FloridaToday.com, a newspaper from Andy Carvin’s home town, on his current work on twitter: “Just because people are saying it on Twitter doesn’t mean … Continue reading
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My experiences with facebook and twitter
Recently I have got very interested in Facebook and twitter and the whole “social networking” phenomena. As I always do when I seem to be getting side-tracked (from writing my book for example, not to mention my accounts), I looked … Continue reading
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Odd notes
Terrorising others is a way of managing one’s own terror. Helplessness as THE defining emotion/experience of trauma.
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