Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia. In Constellations work there is an organic quality that requires a discipline of non-judgment, one that is embraced in traditional native circles, where the whole truth of a person's life, roots, and trans-generational trauma or challenge is understood and included.
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Mason Boring provides a transformational walk through the universal indigenous fieldâ€” that place of healing and knowledge used by Native healers and teachers for centuriesâ€”by describing stories and rituals designed to help people with their particular struggles. These rituals, such as "Facing the Good Men"â€”designed to help women who have suffered abuse in relationships with menâ€”reject Western notions of over-the-counter medication. Instead, they stress a comfortable environment whereby the "client," with the help of a facilitator, interacts with people chosen to represent concepts, things, and other people. In Western culture the word "medicine" is thought of as a concrete object, but Mason Boring explains that indigenous cultures favor a process of healing as opposed to an itemized substance. She re-opens doors that have been closed due to the exclusion of indigenous technology in the development of many Western healing traditions and introduces new concepts to the lexicon of Western psychology.
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A range of voices from around the worldâ€”leaders in the fields of systems constellations, theoretical physics, and tribal traditionsâ€”contribute to this exploration of aboriginal perspectives that will benefit facilitators of Constellations work, therapists, and human beings who are trying to walk with open eyes and hearts.
Country USA
Brand North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer North Atlantic Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781583944479
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-06-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781583944479

Country	USA
Brand	North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer	North Atlantic Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781583944479
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2012-06-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781583944479

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past: Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual

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