Blog: the ancestral call!

Events: Workshops
Mixed emotions When you leave a Diaspora transgenerational workshop, you may have a mix of emotions. In part there may be a warm fuzzy feeling, you know, that sense of having seen or done something that is important to you. Or you may be feeling eager to get back home...
In Spirit and Soul
In Spirit and Soul A family constellation is a way of looking at a family or community system within and across generations. Family constellations help people to think about how to create individual change for themselves and the process also influences and sometimes...
Systemic Reflection
My Systemic Background At the same time I was beginning my journey into family constellations.  I had heard about constellations as I had completed a PG Dip in Systemic Management in 2000.  Systemic theory looks at relationships in families and networks.  This way of...
Afri-Centred Therapy
African-centred therapeutic practice Today many of us are living in a multi-heritage world, side by side with people of different ancestry.  Often we are distanced and separated from our homeland or place of birth.  As a result we are looking more and more to our...
Embodied Wisdom
Embodied African Wisdom The wisdom of indigenous communities relates to their knowledge of the past and their commitment to the family line that is rooted in the present and the natural order of things.  Hierarchy in families is respected and acknowledged and everyone...
Practice: Representatives
Role of the Representatives In an Ancestral Family Constellations workshop, you create a living ‘map’ of your family system, past and present. With the help of other group members, who act as ‘representatives' for family members, you can see how people, stand, sit and...
Colour-full Constellations
Sunflowers and Light When I was a young girl, I remember playing really freely in the back garden of our family home in south London. It was walled and flanked by large sunflowers. Although small it seemed perfectly formed to me, I loved the larder in the kitchen.  It...
Diaspora Communities
For Diaspora Communities In this blog post my focus is on what the Ancestral Constellations method has to offer Diaspora communities of colour who may find it difficult accessing therapy or counselling that meets their needs.  This process is synthesis of Western...
Systemic Reflection
My Systemic Background At the same time I was beginning my journey into family constellations.  I had heard about constellations as I had completed a PG Dip in Systemic Management in 2000.  Systemic theory looks at relationships in families and networks.  This way of...
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