Chris Walsh

World News

Constellation Work continues to grow and develop around the world, with national Conferences now organised in Britain and USA as well as the international congress in Germany. Details of all these events can mow be found at the International Special Events page of the ConstellationFlow website.

Unfortunately the 2005 International Intensive Training in Zist Germany had to be cancelled do to organisational difficulties. On his web page, Hunter Beaumont has indicated he will be organising one at a new location in May 2006. However there will be an International Training Intensive in Santa Barbara, California USA immediately after the US national conference in October.

The first international training in organisational constellations occurred in the Netherlands in October this year. Apparently it was a great success.

The growth of the work described in Australia below reflects the growth in many countries around the globe. It is delightful to be able to refer a friend to a workshop in Chile or China for example. Links to international and foreign language internet sites can be found on the ConstellationFlow links page.

Ongoing controversies about Bert Hellinger in Germany are causing concern for many. Apparently much of the press there has become quite hostile toward him. It is quite difficult for auslanders (German for outsiders) to understand what is really going on. Some of the allegations - such as him being a Nazi sympathiser - are obviously ludicrous misinterpretations of his compassion for all, which includes perpetrators. Still, most people including Bert, seem to be able to courageously continue with the work without being too distracted.

Meanwhile, despite being almost 80 years old Bert continues to run workshops around the world and in Germany, and according to all reports, he is still sharp enough to teach all of us a thing or two. So far there are no indications of him deciding to rest on his laurels and take up an elder statesman role.

The Growth of Constellation Work in Australia

This has been a big year of foreign trainers coming to Australia:

NEW FEATURES ON WEBSITE
New Articles: After Doing Your Own Constellation Genealogy & Constellations Here the popular hobby of researching family history is explored. Chris Walsh gives us brief glimpses of his own family history and with the use of a simple case study shows how family history research can heal, especially with the aid of constellations. The Pharisees and The Adulteress Bert Hellinger's version of famous story of the Pharisees trying to trap Jesus into openly flouting the law, when they are about to stone an unnamed adulteress. Hellinger uses it to demonstrate the value of compassion for perpetrators as well as victims. Links Pages: The links pages have been organised to make it easier to find the links that you are looking for. New Links: Systemic Solutions Bulletin is an English language journal with articles of interest about the Hellinger approach to family constellations. Contact Barbara Stones for information or to subscribe: Barbara@ordersoflove.co.uk For contents of past issues and a subscription form click here www.HiddenSolution.com Dan Booth Cohen - Boston, USA www.hellingerapproach.com Suzie Tucker - New York. www.constelacioneschile.com Chile Events Calendar: Our new web developer Simon Mundy from www.peptolab.com has done a wonderful job making our events calendar more readable and user friendly. Readers can now click on any state in Australia to see all the events in that state on one page. You can click on the more info link to get more detailed information about any of the events. You can also click on the practitioners name to get detailed information about them. There is now also a section on large international events: such as the American National Conference or the International Organization Constellations Training Intensive which was in the Netherlands in October of this year. To register an event in Australia or New Zealand a practitioner can click here Practitioner Listing: The criteria for being listed as a practitioner on this page has been made more transparent and consistent. Firstly practitioners must be running workshops in either Australia or New Zealand. Secondly they need to meet some basic criteria that demonstrate a minimal commitment to their own training: These requirements are less stringent than those of IAG, reflecting the relative youth of the work in Australia and New Zealand. Like the IAG, we are not trying to establish universal criteria for all practitioners of Family Constellations as developed by Bert Hellinger nor to exercise control over Family Constellation work beyond inclusion on the ConstellationFlow website. We explicitly affirm the right of anyone to work with the approach developed by Bert Hellinger according to his or her competence and within his or her personal responsibility. The purpose of these requirements is twofold. Firstly, they act as an encouragement to practitioners to actively engage in their own professional development in constellation work. Secondly, they help the public to have a little more confidence in the events and practitioners they find listed on the ConstellationFlow website. Click here to see a detailed explanation of criteria of practitioner listing on the ConstellationFlow website. To be listed on ConstellationFlow as a practitioner who practices in Australia or New Zealand click here. Top
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP CALENDAR
Up to date details of events in Australia & New Zealand can be found on the Events Page of ConstellationFlow. Chris Walsh and Libby Nottle are now running their own separate workshops. Chris Walsh's next workshop in Melbourne will be February 26 & 27. Of Special interest are upcoming training workshops :
Guni Baxa will present a workshop in Melbourne on January 14-16 th . Guni is well known for her use of representatives for elements such as human emotions, in her constellations. This will be another fantastic opportunity for Australians to learn. More Info
Gunthard Weber is coming to Melbourne and possibly Sydney in August, 2005. This is being organised by ConstellationFlow. Gunthard is a psychiatrist who is credited with being the first heavy weight professional who recognised the value of Bert Hellinger and his constellation work. He co-authored Bert Hellinger's seminal work "Love's Hidden Symmetry". He runs an organisational consulting firm and as regarded as the leading authority on organisational constellations.
Major international events are also now posted. Current events posted with detailed information include: 5th International Congress for Systemic Constellations May 4th - 7th, 2005 Panta Rhei ~ Everything flows; Maritim Hotel Köln 50667 Köln (Cologne) Congress Languages German and English Click here for Congress Webpage The First U.S. Conference, Unity & Diversity Oct 6th - 7th, 2005 If you believe you know of a suitable event either email info@cflow.org or click here to submit a form. Contacts: Western Australia: Annie Wearne ph:08 94836649, Jonathan Kester ph:08 9298 9915, Vic: ConstellationFlow ph:03 9347 4300, Gestalt Therapy Australia ph:03 9489 6300 Qld: Angelika Schenk ph:07 5486 6180 Northern NSW: Bubula Lardi (ByronBay)ph: 02 6684 7223 NSW (Sydney): Gabriela Salabert ph:0404 463 323 Top
NEWS
World News Constellation Work continues to grow and develop around the world, with national Conferences now organised in Britain and USA as well as the international congress in Germany. Details of all these events can mow be found at the International Special Events page of the ConstellationFlow website. Unfortunately the 2005 International Intensive Training in Zist Germany had to be cancelled do to organisational difficulties. On his web page, Hunter Beaumont has indicated he will be organising one at a new location in May 2006. However there will be an International Training Intensive in Santa Barbara, California USA immediately after the US national conference in October. The first international training in organisational constellations occurred in the Netherlands in October this year. Apparently it was a great success. The growth of the work described in Australia below reflects the growth in many countries around the globe. It is delightful to be able to refer a friend to a workshop in Chile or China for example. Links to international and foreign language internet sites can be found on the ConstellationFlow links page. Ongoing controversies about Bert Hellinger in Germany are causing concern for many. Apparently much of the press there has become quite hostile toward him. It is quite difficult for auslanders (German for outsiders) to understand what is really going on. Some of the allegations - such as him being a Nazi sympathiser - are obviously ludicrous misinterpretations of his compassion for all, which includes perpetrators. Still, most people including Bert, seem to be able to courageously continue with the work without being too distracted. Meanwhile, despite being almost 80 years old Bert continues to run workshops around the world and in Germany, and according to all reports, he is still sharp enough to teach all of us a thing or two. So far there are no indications of him deciding to rest on his laurels and take up an elder statesman role. The Growth of Constellation Work in Australia This has been a big year of foreign trainers coming to Australia:
Jacob Schneider elegantly facilitated two wonderful workshops in Perth and Melbourne in August. Jakob has such depth that every time you see him work he seems to take you to a more profound level of understanding. Sieglinde Schneider demonstrated her unique way of doing individual work using playmobile figures as representatives at both of these workshops. Contrary to the expectations of many, the process of interpreting between English and German actually enhanced these workshops. In Melbourne this was due, in no small part, to the extremely capable interpreting of Soni Stecker.	Soni, Jakob, Sieglinde & Soledad Alvarez
The work is steadily growing in Sydney: Patrick Kavanagh facilitated a constellation at the National Gestalt Conference there Chris Walsh and Libby Nottle ran a weekend workshop in March. This culminated in Bertold Ulsamer running a very successful workshop at the Women's College at Sydney University in October. Bertold's teaching was very clear. He was especially good in demonstrating the energetic power of precise language. Gabriela Salabert has been an absolute dynamo organising much of the work in Sydney. Angelika Chisholm organised workshops facilitated by Bertold Ulsamer in New Zealand . Otteline Lamet and Peter Van Zuilekom ran workshops in Melbourne in November and are about to run a workshop in Perth before heading back to Europe. This was their third visit to Australia and they were very impressed with the growth of the work and of the skill of the local practitioners (Patrick Kavanagh, Libby Nottle and Chris Walsh) who did constellations under supervision at their workshop. They have a very clear and empowering way of teaching.
The first workshop in Alice Springs, close to Australia's spiritual centre - Uluru, was facilitated by Alemka Petrovic in September this year.
In the last newsletter I reported that Bubula Lardi was going to the International Intensive Training in Zist in Germany in April of this year. Also with her was David Mathes from Melbourne, Johanna Reeve-Alexander from Perth, Preeti Helena from Queensland, as well as Angelika Chisholm from New Zealand. All of these practitioners are listed on our practitioner's page. The First International Training in Organisational Constellations occurred in the Netherlands in October. Two Australians attended: Preeti Helena from Queensland and Lutz Pamberger from Perth. Johanna Reeve-Alexander has posted another Australian constellation website called Soul Movements. David Ward and Jan Martinengo have made contact with Care Leavers Australia Network(CLAN) trying to ascertain if Hellinger's constellation work could be of use to them. CLAN is a support and advocacy group for people brought up in care away from their family as state wards or Home children raised in Children's Homes, orphanages or other institutions, or in foster care. Between 1920 and 1980, about 500,000 children were involved, including Aboriginal children who were not only removed from their families but also from their culture as part of the Government policy of assimilation. The Melbourne peer supervision group, called Constellation Peers, has continued to meet on a monthly basis at the Bouverie Family Therapy centre in Flemington. For more information contact Libby Nottle
Constellation Talk This chat group for practitioners and interested others continues to grow with 94 people currently subscribed. It has been operational since January 2003. This is not a real time chat group. When someone sends an e-mail to the group it goes out to everyone who subscribes to the group. Then people can choose to respond to the group in their own time. Recent topics of conversation include: Helping each other to find articles and other resources Research Entanglements in George W Bush's family, including early death of a sister. The Australian Government inquiry into the treatment of the children in institutional care between 1920 and 1980 - some 500,000 children were involved. When this report was tabled the Senators and almost everybody in the gallery were in tears More Info Constellation work in individual therapy Ethics and permission in constellations Difficulties encountered in specific constellations There is a link to a sign up page for this group on the home page of Constellation Flow. Register here >	This picture was posted to ConstellationTalk as representing Constellations. The top represents the part we see and work with. The rest represents the depth and beauty of the whole and the unknown.
Other Interesting Information On The Internet: Angelika Schenk has translated two talks given by Bert Hellinger. They include information about his new ideas: movements of the spirit and practical philosophy. They can be found at her website at: http://www.family-constellations.org/moving_with_the_love_of_god.php http://www.family-constellations.org/moving_with_spirit.php Daniel Booth Cohen has also has a talk by Hellinger about perpetrators and victims on his relatively new website at http://www.hiddensolution.com/peace.php The official Hellinger website has posted a much more detailed biography of Bert Hellinger. This is useful contextual information to have given that Hellinger has become such a controversial figure in Germany of late. New Book Peace Begins in the Soul Family Constellations in the Service of Reconciliation Bert Hellinger Perhaps Bert Hellinger's farthest-reaching book to date, Peace Begins in the Soul explores connections between fostering reconciliation within the individual soul, within the family soul, and then beyond. Hellinger's now well-known family constellations shed new light on conflicts between cultures and among religions. Hellinger considers the possibilities -- and the fault lines - between Christianity and Islam, between African Americans and European Americans, between warring factions in countries such as Colombia, and between conquerors and the vanquished. In this book, Bert Hellinger inquires into the emotional prerequisites that are necessary for peace and reconciliation. He finds answers in examples from historic conflicts between peoples and cultures. But Hellinger also devotes himself to peace among religions, for example, between Christianity and Islam, as well as to peace between victors and vanquished in the Spanish Conquest, and between masters and slaves in Brazil or the United States. Workshop excerpts, brief lectures, and teaching stories bring Hellinger's streetwise scholarship to vivid life. Chapter Headings are: What Is the Meaning of Peace? ▪ The Greeks and the Germans ▪ The Armenians and the Turks – Christianity and Islam ▪ Russia and Germany ▪ Lecture in Moscow ▪ Japan and the USA ▪ Reconciliation in the Soul ▪ The Suffering of Chinese Woman ▪ Basis of Family Constellations ▪ Spain and the New World ▪ The Incas ▪ Civil War in Colombia ▪ Violence in the Dominican Republic ▪ Slaves in Brazil ▪ America and Africa ▪ Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon, Germany It can be obtained at: Carl-Auer in Europe Footprint Books in Australia Zeig Tucker in the USA Top
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