Doll people used in Individual Family Constellations

Family Constellations: A controversial and bold ‘development’ in therapeutic practices

13 May 2021

Family Constellations: A controversial and bold ‘development’ in therapeutic practices I was interviewed by Catherine del Monte, a journalist from the Daily Maverick, on Family Constellations. I was one of the many facilitators she interviewed for this piece. It challenged me to put into words what family constellations are all about. I stepped into my first constellation at the start of 2015 without having any clear idea what a family constellation was – I just knew that I needed to experience…

Changing my Story

1 Sep 2020

Thoughts

I need to change my story that goes “My father almost died”. I was speaking to my friend Sam. I was sitting in the same spot in the garden that I’d been sitting in a few days earlier holding a dove that had flown into a window. A raptor was sitting in a tree opposite us. Waiting. I held the dove to protect it from a certain death. It was on the anniversary of my mother’s passing. I was not…

Enshrouded

29 Aug 2020

Thoughts

This morning I wake to whiteness outside – to a thick fog that has enveloped us. All that is visible are the trees in the garden. Gone is the other side of the dam, the scattered farm buildings and orchards on the hill and the mountains that watch over us. The dam water reflecting the soft silver of the morning as it merges with the mist. I am held in the song of birds. In the distance a tractor starts.…