### Experience holding the wounded heart with love.
Who is this series good for?
This is for you if you instinctively feel that your heartbreak can be healed if tended with respect and in the alchemy of group work.
It is for those with an interest in family constellations, those expereinced with constellations, and those who have not experienced them yet, but know that healing is relational.
What issues are we looking at in these sessions?
The wounded heart is often untended for the simple reason that we are not taught, in the modern world, a clear path for encountering it.
We often fall into the traps of:
- denying heartbreak
- accentuating it to seek witnessing
- obsession/depression
- ignoring it all together
- allowing it to transform into a rage that further alienates us from the love we seek
- hardening the heart
We also have a tendecy to get stuck in early phases of our development, with parts of us fracturing off. Those parts, in turn, often form a complex that can arise and cause havoc any time our need for the other, a natural part of life, arises.
What are the benefits of tending the heart through this approach?
We will experientially explore the remedies for the heart's unwellness.
We will look at how the broken heart is held without agenda or judgement, even before it naturally finds its own ease, and the steps that can be taken from there. Some of these steps are:
- Constellating the earliest roots of both our reception of love and it's lack in our family system, going to the core nucleus of our foundational experience.
- Exploring how the heart can relate to the more-than-human world, the natural world and going beyond the conventional idea of relationship to include, ancestors, land, and the unseen.
- Expanding our awareness of the sources for love in our lives.
To do this beautiful and profound work of mending, this set of workshops will include family and relational constellations* and draw on the inner knowledge of the traditional healing lineages that have blessed my work.
What are family constellations?
*Family constellations are a unique modality, which we will experience as a group healing transmission, based on the work of Bert Hellinger. Constellations were discovered and designed to bring healing through re-establishing equilibrium and a 'flow of love' within families and between individuals and their ancestors. You do not need your family, partner, or other relations present for this process.
The healing group formations of a family constellation, through representation, allow you to see hidden dynamics in your family system that may be causing blockages in your life, in relationships, work and other issues, all of which may have roots in our ancestors and family of origin.
What is the experience Like?
Our group will take different aspects of your concern, your relationship with you partner, or your family and ancestral line, and represent key elements that affect you. As the healing movements of the constellation begin, each participant will begin to express a part of the dynamic until you see an amazing holographic living human map of your challenge. From there, many potential solutions become more real to the heart of the one seeking a constellation. In turn, you may also be asked to, through your own felt sense, your bodies sensations, tune into the elements at work in the life of another person.
This allows a profound solidarity and field of service to develop between group members. In this way, we begin to find the missing pieces for the heart's wholeness.
Timing
In case of any doubt about the times listed by eventbrite, consider consulting the following website to check your local time: www.timeanddate.com. In US time, the event begins at 11am Eastern Time, 5pm Central European Time, 830pm Indian Standard Time
Cost
This series of experiences requires a gift of 150 USD to participate in all three workshops of 2 hours each. This is inclusive of all three. There will be a partial recoding of each class (minus some confidential material from group members) available for those who cannot attend all three live sessions. A limited number of scholarships is avalable.
This class is conducted online:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mending-the-heart-expanding-loves-place-tickets-1306679616909?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&ref=eemail
Image Credit: Mequitta Ahuja, "In Back Garden"
Video Credit: Emily Waymire expounds on the principles of family constellations in this video and shows Bert Hellinger at work, looking at the pain of internal splitting in a family systems over generations, focusing on the return to wholeness called for by mental illness. Many thanks to Emily.
Dr. Logan Sparks is a facilitator of constellations with a decade and a half of experience, who has studied this form of healing around the world and apprenticed to ritualists and traditional healers. He holds a doctorate in the study of ritual from TIlburg University in the Netherlands and a masters in the Study of Religions from the University of London.
