Family Constellations
An Embodied Celebration of our Collective Intelligence
Next Virtual:
Thursday, November 21st 6-8pm EST
Acknowledge and feel the parts of what’s stuck and stopping you.
Resource from a greater width of ancestral and other belonging.
Celebrate, with your body, your essential place within our collective intelligence.
Practice curiosity, uncover awe and experience soulful levity.
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I've had the good fortune of experiencing much rewarding work. Facilitating Family Constellations is the work that I am most proud of.
Family & Systemic Constellations is a group practice where participants serve as representatives in a family or system. Participants might represent family members, archetypes, emotions or animistic resources.
We come together to rest in the acknowledgement of what simply is.
“My dad died when I was 2 years old.”
Ouch.
“I miss my friend”
Oof.
We come together to breathe fresh air and renewed love into our life situations and family systems.
“I can see you better now.”
We work with self and systemic compassion. We work soulfully and playfully.
“I feel like moving around!”
We practice deep respect and regard for one another. We practice deep listening, witnessing and empathy-inducing representation.
“I have never felt viscerally before what it’s like to be the avoidant one.”
There is often both awe and grief as we endeavor to find the life-affirming stream where there is more movement for ourselves and our people.
“The shame feels like grief now.”
We accompany one another in creating renewed images of where our unique gifts meet their place in the collective.
“I got enough. I’m ready to face forward now.”
For example, someone feels stuck about more fully stepping into the next iteration of their business. We learn that they are a middle child, feeling pulled in different directions. As participants step in to represent family members, an image is created that shows where there might be stagnation or confusion. Archetypes or various life forces might be invited in to break up dyadic stasis. Representatives might be invited to turn towards one another, or test new distances or other positions...and much more as we witness one another’s essential dignities.
“The Shame Now Feels Like Grief."
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Online Exchange: $75
In-Person Exchange: $160
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To register, email mattie@thelostwildness.com.
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Past Workshops:
8/21/24 (Virtual)
5/29/24 (Virtual)
4/24/24 (Virtual)
3/16/24 (NYC)
2/18/24 (Virtual)
2/3/24 (NYC)
1/14/24 (Virtual)
12/16/23 (NYC)
11/19/23 (NYC)
10/21/23 (NYC)
9/23/23 (NYC)
7/22/23 (NYC)
6/10/23 (NYC)
5/13/23 (NYC)
4/1/23 (NYC)
3/4/23 (NYC)
2/18/23 (NYC)
1/14/23 (NYC)
12/3/22 (NYC)
“A Family Constellation takes place in a group. It is a dimensional exploration of a particular familial field. As participants step in to represent various family members, or sometimes emotional entities, the field rises up and unfolds without direction or intervention.
As the image opens, with representatives navigating the relational space, guided by internal resonance with each other and some greater movement, the person who is working may begin to see, and then feel, or the other way around, where his or her problems sit in larger context.
He or she may also be able to glimpse and then later grow the essential life-force that also resides there.
Rather than a targeted therapy, there are the natural possibilities that accompany kinesis: an antidote to the mental/physical/soul-level dis-ease that comes with stagnation.”
- Suzi Tucker, Gather Enough Fireflies