It's great to have you in here mixing it up again James. Hopefully we'll get a good limerick soon. I love your idea. <div><br></div><div>I would expand it a bit and ask that there be a transgenerational Constellation done with each of the 4 having a constellation ala the work of John L Payne see <a href="http://www.johnlpayne.com" target="_blank">www.johnlpayne.com</a> or Francesca Mason Boring see <a href="http://www.allmyrelationsconstellations.com" target="_blank">www.allmyrelationsconstellations.com</a> . each of them could select 3 or 4 persons from their social atom who they would like to be there to assist them as the group resources for the knowing field. That would be so moving if it could be video taped and would open up so much healing for people all over the world. A friend of mine whose family background is KKK has become one of the leading people in the US bringing Dr. Malidoma Some's Dagara Culture of West AFrica here - <a href="http://www.malidoma.com" target="_blank">www.malidoma.com</a> and it has been so healing for those involved coming to our village <a href="http://www.eastcoastvillage.org" target="_blank">www.eastcoastvillage.org</a> I have conducted some psychodrama type sessions there as part of grief rituals and ancestralization. <div>
A few years ago, I led a workshop at the psychodrama convention in San Francisco using the Dagara Grief ritual in a psychodrama context and those attending were amazed at the power of ritual in that context. I wonder if others have used ritual specifically in the psychodrama context. Actually, psychodrama itself is ritual. <br>
<div><div>Constellation work of course owes a great deal to psychodrama and Hellinger acknowledges this. However, even more is owed to the great ancestral traditions of Africa. No one can be left out without consequence and so the healing needs to be for everyone in the long run. I have appreciated the efforts of Ron Anderson and Karen Carnabucci to explicate the similarities and differences between psychodrama and constellations and have been in the process of attempting to add to their wonderful efforts in this regard. </div>
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I am sponsoring a Constellation workshop with Francesca Mason Boring in the Berkshires at the end of this month. She is from the Shoshone tradition and is a powerful spiritual presence having contributed much to the Constellations field. I am attaching the flyer as well as her article, <i><b>Constellation as Ceremony</b></i>, written for the international Journal of Constellations, <b><i>Knowing Field </i></b></div>
<div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div><b><i>Be well, blessings, Bud Weiss</i></b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:52 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SaphiraL@aol.com" target="_blank">SaphiraL@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I had very similar fantasies about what could happen if role reversal could
have happened at that encounter within the kind of context you were talking
about. There is an ancient spiritual teaching that says that if you
envision something very clearly, then it has more possibility of manifesting.
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