<div>Dear Adam: </div>This is absolutely beautiful and I would congratulate Chris if I could. <div><br></div><div>AND PLEASE GET A GOOD BOOK ABOUT FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS LIKE ONE OF JOHN PAYNES from <a href="http://www.johnlpayne.com">www.johnlpayne.com</a> so that you can grasp the full potential of this work. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It is a kind of cut to the chase. It begins with a form of family sculpture though a family may not even be involved at first, just a couple or a work place, or any field in which two or more people became involved. Once created, ordinary strangers, chosen by the protagonist to represent them begin to absorb and utilize under the guidance of a fine facilitator what the constellation developers have called the Knowing field that surrounds those called into the action in the roles set for them simply through their placement. That field comes fully into existence when a sense of safety is arranged in a group for action. Really fine doubles and auxiliaries come to know this. Given the proper support and sense of empowerment, nearly anyone can achieve it even as a total stranger to the protagonist who has not even reversed roles. In fact in most constellation work, at the beginning, the protagonist is sitting on the sidelines watching his/her stand in go through it all first and very little of the "story'' is encouraged to be spoken prior to the action or for that matter afterwards. <div>
<br><div>As I think you know, Virgina Satire was of the prime movers in family therapy as well as one of those who fully acknowledged Moreno's contributions along with her colleague Don Jackson. It is she who to my knowledge began creating Family sculptures out of her familiarity with Moreno's work. She was doing it with the family members themselves in family sessions. As anyone who knows of her work would imagine, it was so powerful and most of her students learned this and rarely attributed it to Psychodrama. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There are many variations of this sculpturing process and perhaps someone has written a comprehensive paper about the many forms including Boal's form which is more revolutionary and called by another name. Still, it is, in all its forms, the process of some protagonist locating in space in relation to him/her self and each of those sculpted a scene that can then come to life. </div>
<div><br></div><div>There are clearly architypical sentences that can be used for all of these or for any action format once the warmup is complete. That is what the best of all forms will achieve. Constellation work has created hundreds of these potentially healing sentences. The proper use of them goes so far beyond the simple words involved and in my mind, whether folks become trained in Constellation work or not, having those sentences and others you may create available to you in your work with clients will lead to some of the most healing sessions in any action technology process. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Be well, best from Bud</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Adam Blatner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ablatner@verizon.net">ablatner@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Dear Colleagues, if you are interested, you
can find on my website a paper written by a patient that I edited slightly
and posted, describing her experience in a group that used family sculpture. It
was for her a very meaningful session.</font><font size="2" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/famsculptpdmenngr.html" target="_blank">http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/famsculptpdmenngr.html</a>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"> Warmly, Adam
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