Organisers
Chris Walsh
Maria Dolenc
Frank Breuer
Jonine Lee Gabay
Dean Mason
These are a group of Australian constellation practitioners who are committed to the development of quality constellation work in the region.
Jenyce Boys - administrative assistant
Australasian Pacific Intensive Constellation Training
at Sydney University
18-24 January 2011
with Six International Trainers
All these trainers have established international reputations. Stephan, Guni and Sneh are all on the faculty for the international intensive in Germany.
Stephan is a naturopathic practitioner and homeopath who has been in private practice for 20 years. Since meeting Bert Hellinger in 1993 at a holistic conference, Stephan is a member of the teaching faculty of the International training in Bernreid (Munich) and has facilitated hundreds of workshops in this innovative phenomenological approach in 20 countries on 4 continents, over the past 18 years.
Stephan relies on the principle that all healing is selfhealing, and works towards creating the environment for self-healing to happen. The English translation of his book, Even if it Costs Me My Life! is due for publication soon.Stephan lives in Germany with his wife and six children.
Dr. Guni Baxa, i is a state certified psychotherapist with a PhD in psychology. She is a supervisor and trainer for systemic family therapy in Austria and trains around the world.
Guni is a member of the teaching faculty of the International training in Bernreid (Munich). She was one of the founders and the co-director of the 'Therapy and Self-experience centre' in Germany. Guni is a founding member of APSYS (Institute fur Systemic Practice, Constellation - and Reconstruction work) in Austria.
She specialises in healing ritual particularly in negotiating life transitions. She aims at balancing body, heart and mind for the unfolding of an entity which encompasses all three dimensions.
Guni has published several articles on constellation work and is co-editor of the book 'Verkorperungen' which deals with the interconnections of systemic constellations, systemic bodywork and rituals.
Sneh Victoria Schnabel: B.A.in Art, counsellor, Gestalt, psychodrama, TZI, Breath. Awareness, Meditation, NLP/Hypnosis, (Germany). She has a particular interest in working with trauma as it appears in constellation work.
Sneh has been involved in teaching constellations around the globe now for many years. She is on the teaching faculty for the international intensive in Germany. She has organised the annual constellations and spirituality conferences in Germany since 2006.
In her work she draws on her very deep and broad set of life experiences. Sneh has worked in prison, theatre. She regularly spent time in Pune India since 1980 where she studied meditation and later introduced constellation work. She has lived and worked a retreat centre in Italy for 3 years. She has trained Native Americans in constellation work and has spent time living on Hawaii, Maui: learning from a Hawaiian elder.
Dr. J. Edward Lynch is a professor at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the chairperson of the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy and the founder of the Gestalt Therapy Training Program at SCSU. He is a clinical supervisor of both Gestalt therapists and Marriage and Family therapists and has been associated with the education and training of psychotherapists for the past 35 years.
Ed is a Founding Member of the International Systemic Constellation Association, and the International Gestalt Therapy Association. He is also Director of the North American Systemic Institute Summer Intensive. He is co editor of Messengers of Healing, a book about systemic family constellation work, and Principles and Practices of Structural Family Therapy. He is a frequent contributor to 'the knowing field', a systemic constellation journal. He has written a book of short stories called Normal Murder, Madness and Mayhem.
Ah Fung (Cheng Lap Fung) : Trainer systemic constellations: NLP Trainer, M.A. in Art; B.B.A., B.Law (PRC).
Fung has pioneered the introduction of constellation work in China and Hong Kong. He is the main organizer of European constellations trainers' workshops in China. He is also facilitates both family and organizational constellations, is developing structured training and supervision courses and leads more than 120 training days per year.
Fung has translated constellations books into Chinese and had articles published in the Knowing Field magazine.
He was the chairman of curriculum committee of ISCA (International Systemic Constellations Association) from 2009-2010 and contributed to the first prototype of curriculum of family constellations. His latest project is consolidating a set of techniques and presentation of how to introduce constellations work to public.
Dr. Chris Walsh MBBS DPM FAChAM, is a psychiatrist working in private practice and at a Drug and Alcohol treatment centre in Melbourne , His psychotherapy integrates diverse theoretical frameworks, including Mindfulness, CBT, Gestalt and Self Psychology. He has worked in jails, community settings, and drug and alcohol institutions as well as with urban and tribal Aboriginal communities.
Chris has organically integrated Mindfulness Meditation into his psychiatric practice from the beginning of his training as a result of assisting as at the Tibetan refugee hospital in Dharamsala in Northern India when in 1983. His constellation training is overtly mindfulness based.
Chris has taken a major role in Constellation Work in Australia. He has given presentations at Australian national and international professional conferences on both Mindfulness and Family Constellations and had articles published on both topics. Chris is the founder and moderator of Constellation Talk since 2003 which is an international email group with over 600 members. He coordinated the development of the ISCA website including the series of articles called: Foundations of Systemic Constellations www.isca-network.org/FoundationsE