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Melody Allen, M.A., PMA, LPC-S
Constellations as an Intuitive Process Melody’Allen's theoretical style is a blend of systems theory, depth psychology, positive psychology, Barbara Brennan Healing Science, mind-body consciousness and Systemic Constellations. She is a master's level clinician in counseling, and her Ph.D. research is focused on the correlation between epigenetics and family therapy. Melody works with families and individuals seeking life change in her private practice in Missouri City, Texas, and supervises LPC-interns who are seeking a career in mental health. She is co-director of the 2017 North American Systemic Constellations Conference. www.psychesynccounseling.com |
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Susan Altschwager
Heart Expansion is Global Business Susan was born in Australia the place were the didgeridoo sings its song to the connection to Mother Earth’s heart beat. She holds a great respect for the indigenous Australians they are one of the oldest living civilisations on Earth. Over 30 years ago Susan experienced an alignment / activation of ancient memory that she calls it the wisdom keepers song. Through her person journey of acceptance, endurance and transformation, she has become a powerful catalyst for personal and planetary change.
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Wendy Arness, LMFT
After the Training: Staying Connected with Local Peer Facilitator Circle and Co-Facilitation Wendy Arness grew up with three sisters and parents of Scandinavian descent. She attended elementary school on the Suquamish Indian Reservation, a culture she considers part of her roots. She is a family therapist and high school psychology and health educator and has been incorporating constellation work since 2004. Wendy has a BA from Western Washington University and a MS from Seattle Pacific University in Family Therapy. A licensed family therapist, Wendy has hosted and facilitated constellation peer workshops in the Seattle area since 2010. She has traveled to more than 50 countries and worked in schools in South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Uganda and Mexico, experiences that continue to inform her about our connection and importance of where we come from. She has learned from the people of these places and continues to consider this openness to other cultures as part of ongoing training. Wendy served as a mountain guide for two summers in the Canadian wilderness. Connection with the land is large part of her experience and continues to be a way for her to connect and be ground in constellation work. Interests include: traveling and spending time outside locally with skiing, hiking, climbing and kayaking. Tanya Shapiro, LMHT Tanya Shapiro is the daughter of Iranian and Finnish immigrants and was raised outside San Francisco. Being bicultural allows her to be flexible and to view life in a broader context. Tanya is a graduate of the University of Washington with dual degrees in Comparative Religion and Near Eastern Language and Civilization. After college, she worked as a bilingual travel agent for three years in Guadalajara, Mexico, until returning to the United States and completing a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from the Union Institute and University. After meeting her bilingual husband, they spent a year and a half with their two young daughters in rural Argentina. Tanya plans upcoming visits to Mexico and Argentina and other parts of the world to experience constellation work amidst the warmth of neighboring cultures. Tanya Shapiro is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist in the State of Washington. She has a private counseling practice, co-facilitates Systemic Constellations workshops and peer circles with Wendy Arness, and is raising two daughters together with her husband in Seattle, Wash. She enjoys cycling, Afro-Brazilian dance classes, baking and cooking Persian delicacies. |
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Eily Aurora
Keys to Discover Music as Medicine: How to use Soundwork within the Field to Access Deeper Community Wisdom Eily is a professional harpist and performance artist living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, who has shared her beautiful music with thousands in a wide variety of settings, from international festivals, like the Edmonton Fringe, to her Heart Resonance Concerts and private functions. A trained Constellation facilitator, singer-songwriter and inspirational speaker, she creates the sacred space to help people live from their hearts. Passionate about group genius, participatory leadership and social collaboration, Eily is a creative visionary with a mission to support collective healing and an emergent modality by integrating Interactive Forum Theatre, Soundwork, The Art of Hosting, Traditional Wisdom and Nature, Movement Arts and her Constellation-based nature art, called Karuṇārt. Eily proudly served as the assistant co-chair of volunteer services at the 2015 North American Systemic Constellations Conference in San Diego. Initially training with Lea Bill in 2014, she is engaged in her second Constellation facilitation training with Bill Mannle and Rosina Wellmann. She is currently composing for her second CD. www.eilyaurora.com |
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Linda Baker
Emotional Well Being, Creativity and Learning: A Workshop Using the Systemic Lens in Schools Linda Baker is a certified K-8 teacher and a K-12 certified school counselor with a master's degree in counseling. She has worked for the past 33 years in a Public Magnet School in New Haven, Conn., grades preK-8. She worked in early childhood for her first three years as a kindergarten teacher. She helped expand the school to include up to grade 8. Linda worked in the upper grades as not only a classroom teacher but as a specialty teacher in science and social studies. She developed the school-counseling program and has been their school counselor for the past 20 years. Linda has trained in numerous innovative curriculum and educational programs and has provided consulting in many areas. Highlights include: training, consulting, online curriculum writing and articles for Neohumanist Education, an innovative international education organization. Writing and publishing a curriculum for the Yale New Haven Teacher’s Institute for teaching yoga and meditation in public schools. Linda completed Systemic Constellation Facilitator training in Connecticut and for the past three years has been a catalyst for ECL (Emotional Well Being Creativity and Learning Foundation) by bringing the systemic lens and ECL practices to staff, students and parents at Conte West Hills Magnet School in New Haven, Conn. She has been supporting the development of ECL by giving workshops to counselors, schools and at educational conferences. |
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Betsy Bergstrom
Psychopomps and Overshadowing Souls: Witnessing and Assisting the Release of the Deceased from the Individual and Family Fields with the Aid of Psychopomp Beings Betsy Bergstrom is a full-time spiritual teacher and practitioner who has studied with healers and spiritual teachers from many wisdom traditions around the world. She has been lovingly encouraged by her teachers to share her insight, techniques and experiences. Betsy is an international teacher of healing practices including Compassionate Depossession, which she has developed and taught for more than fifteen years. She also pioneered Compassionate Mediumship and Curse Unraveling classes for healing practitioners. As a practicing Buddhist and student of Lama Tsering Norbu Wangdu Rinpoche, she is authorized as a dharma teacher of the ancient, powerful and beautiful Chod practice. She says, "My goal in teaching is to remember and to bring wisdom tradition teachings from their origins in the past, into the present bringing enrichment and grace into these times and to strengthen these traditions as they go forward into the future." betsybergstrom.com |
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Michael Bradford
Ultimate Leadership and Entrepreneurship: Fully Embracing Authenticity, Presence, Essence, Consciousness, Entrainment, Energy and Intuition Michael Bradford is an international intuitive energy healer, business coach, author and spiritual teacher, with extensive expertise in the areas of health, healing, personal excellence, spiritual growth, entrepreneurship and success. He has a master's degree in international management and advanced training in Intuition, NLP, Hypnosis, Reiki, energy medicine and other specialties. During his travels, he shared healing experiences with Native American and Canadian medicine people, Peruvian Shamans, psychic surgeons of the Philippines, the Maoris and hundreds of therapists, healers, psychics, shamans and medical professionals. He also assisted the patients of chiropractors, holistic medical doctors, psychiatrists and therapists with his unique cutting-edge multidimensional approach, Michael offers private sessions and in-depth workshops on personal breakthrough, financial success and intuition training. MichaelBradford.com View Michael's interview about her conference session |
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Yvonne Bryght
Community Constellations: Shifting the Meta-Pattern of the Environment in Which You Live, Love, Create and Manifest Your Life Force Energy I have been in private practice for 25 years. I began as a psychotherapist supporting highly functional adults and small business owners to increase the flow of love, intimacy, and abundance in their lives and businesses. I have been coaching businesses and business owners/teams in a Deep Dive (immersion) process that spans 90 days to two years. I specialize in what I call Quantum Leadership, addressing the multiple patterns and layers of the individual as a means to increasing and improving every area of their lives, including but not limited to their business. I cross over into personal and intimacy issues as a very direct means of focusing on a trajectory other than the one where the most resistance or struggle exists. I have found this directional shift to be powerful in supporting and creating rapid movement in and for my clients. Our motto: aim at the one you care the least about--then the one that really gets you will finally move. yvonnebryght.com |
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Joan Calvert, Ed.D., LMFT
Unleashing the Aquarian Warrior Within: Supporting Courage in Today’s World Joan Calvert is an Aquarian teacher, healer, and warrior. For morethan 30 years she has served as university professor and department chair of computer science and more recently marriage and family therapy. She studied feminist ethics and theology along with medical ethics at Yale Divinity School and is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice. She is a trained Family Constellations facilitator, a Level I KY teacher, and a shamanic Reiki and sound healing practitioner. She seeks to employ the Right Use of Power model to keep a steady and unbroken focus on following the movements of Soul in her life and work. counselingforliving.com |
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Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP
Introducing Family and Systemic Constellations in Your Corner of the Universe Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP, wears several hats — as psychotherapist, psychodrama trainer, constellation facilitator, author and blogger. She is marketing and outreach chairperson for the 2017 North American Systemic Constellations Conference, a role that she held in 2015 conference as well. She presented at the North American Systemic Constellations Conferences in 2011 and 2015 and has presented at many other conferences across the United States. She is co-author of Integrating Psychodrama and Systemic Constellation Work: New Directions for Action Methods, Mind-Body Therapies and Energy Healing and other books about psychodrama, Systemic Constellations and mind-body therapies. She enjoys mentoring helping and healing professionals to find and express their gifts and strengths. .realtruekaren.com |
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Kimberly Cartwright
Body Oppression Kimberly Cartwright is the creator of A Course in Exercise Miracles, a minister of A Course in Miracles, a fitness professional, and a facilitator of Family and Systemic Constellations. She lives on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband, mother-in-law and three children. |
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John Cheney
Exploring Ethnocentric Belonging John Cheney began his studies in Family Constellation work in 1999. Completing his initial training as a Family Constellation Facilitator in 2004, under German Family Therapist Dietrich Weth. With additional trainings with Johannes Schmidt, Albrecht Mahr, Stephan Hausner, Edward Zawidowski and Francesca Mason-Boring. Since 2006, John has pioneered the integration of Family Constellations with the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine. This integrated approach provides a dynamic environment to release systemic patterns (family and bodily), and restore our physical and energetic health. Acupressure is used during the Constellations to support and stabilize the resolution of the Constellation. 5elementsconstellations.com |
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Kimberly Clementi-Eadon, LMHC
Tending the Seeds: Constellation Practice and Theory with Children and Teens in Individual Sessions Founder of myFIRE Studios, Kimberly Clementi-Eadon is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who trained as an expressive arts therapist at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. She has a bachelor's degree in art therapy and a master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. For the past 14-plus years, her work has focused on children, adolescents and families in crisis, particularly with children with special needs, spanning developmental, physical, and cognitive delays, and children and adolescents who self-harm. She has worked in a variety of settings, such as residential units, schools, outpatient programs, day treatment programs, and with the family court system working with children involved in juvenile justice and their families. Currently, Kimberly works in private practice in Amherst, N.H., offering therapeutic services for children, adolescents, individuals, families and couples. She uses a combination of theories such as expressive arts, cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, Family Constellations and Applied Behavioral Analysis. Using Family Constellations is an almost-daily practice in her individual therapy sessions, where she finds great success with children as young as nine through teenage years. She finds that constellation practice works well with those beginning at age nine and children as young as five can begin to learn the principles of Family Constellations. www.myfirestudios.com |
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Chuck Cogliandro
How Polyrhythmic Drumming Supports a Facilitator’s Multi-Dimensional Awareness A musician and healer, Chuck Cogliandro has been studying, performing and teaching West African music for 25 years. His love of drumming overwhelmed his engineering career, and he took a leave at age 24 to wander the United States on a Honda CB900 motorcycle and reclaim his soul. Chuck decided on that trip to pursue music and hasn’t looked back. He learned to carve the drums in an apprenticeship with his first teacher Yusef Crowder, has studied with many great artists from West Africa, and has traveled to Guinea with his friend and teacher Mohamed DaCosta. Chuck leads an annual African Drum and Dance Camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville each May which draws 140 participants and 15 instructors for a glorious week of learning and celebration. The cultural and spiritual lineage received through his teachers has influenced him deeply. Chuck is a graduate of the four-year Barbara Brennan School of Healing, is a Reiki practitioner, and has a certification in Kabbalistic Healing. He combines rhythm and healing and works regularly at addiction centers, senior residences, special needs schools, and with youth with little family support. In 2010 Chuck and his wife Kelly undertook the three-year training offered by Peter and Jamy Faust in Boston. Chuck and Kelly founded Constellation Journeys in Atlanta and offer Family Constellations healing for individuals and in groups internationally. constellationjourneys.com |
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Kenn Day
Constellation Strategies For Healing Trauma at a Soul Level Kenn Day is a shaman and Medical QiGong practitioner who shares a practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife Patricia Sheerin, where they also offer workshops in Systemic Constellations. As a full-time shaman, for more than 25 years, I have had the opportunity to work with many clients, wounded at soul-level by trauma, both in war and in life. He is the author of two books on shamanism, Dance of Stones: A Shamanic Road Trip, and Post-Tribal Shamanism: A New Look at Old Ways, and he offers a series of weekend training seminars in which he passes on Grandfather’s teachings. |
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Elmar E. Dornberger, LPC, MFA, MPsych
Social Presencing Theater (SPT): Bringing Experiential Awareness Work into Organizations Elmar is a board-certified Professional Counselor and holds a master’s degree in visual communications and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and certified hypnotherapist. He is the founder of Hemisphere Consulting in Boulder, Colo., and a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Systemic Constellation Work. He started working systemically with individuals, groups and organizations in 2000. Elmar presented at the 2005, 2007 and 2011 U.S. Systemic Constellations conferences, introducing Liminal Constellations to a larger audience at the San Francisco conference in 2011. An article about his work was published in The Knowing Field Magazine. He is mostly working with individuals and small intentional groups on new models of integrating constellation work with TheoryU. Elmar also leads facilitator training programs in Boulder biannually. His most recent educational venture was to be certified as a TheoryU facilitator through the Presencing Institute at MIT. He is a board member for North American Systemic Constellations. hemisphereconsulting.com View Elmar's interview about his conference session. |
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The “Matryoshka Principle”: Integration of the Fragmented Self
Karin Dremel Karin Dremel is a bi-lingual psychotherapist and naturopath who specializes in the treatment of developmental and ancestral trauma. Karin facilitates trauma healing for more than25 years in Boulder, Colo., and Weinheim, Germany. A master’s candidate at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, she thinks about and researches the practice, impact, and nature of Systemic Constellations as relational spiritual praxis. She is the director of the Center for Intercultural and Transgenerational Healing (founded in 2014) and offers SCW Workshops in Boulder and throughout Colorado, and supports new facilitators in an program options and with Skype supervision. Karin is also a multi-media artist, jeweler, woodworker and gardener. |
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Rani George
Ancestral Storytelling: Voice for the Voiceless, Image for the Unseen Rani George is a board member of North American Systemic Constellations and a Systemic Constellations facilitator and Energy Healing practitioner and teacher. Based in Rockville, Md., she has been active with the D.C. Facilitators group in Washington, D.C., co-facilitating monthly Constellation gatherings and working with private clients for many years. She serves as a teacher and mentor in a pilot program to bring complementary therapies to hospice work. Her monthly Learning Circle is an exploration of the sacred intersection of Constellations principles, hands-on healing and contemplative mystical practices. Learn more at www.circlefolks.com |
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Richard Griffin and Reva Hamilton
Practical Resources for Increasing Resilience in Daily Life Richard Griffin is a former scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur with a long and successful career in the defense industry. He left that world several years ago to find a way to share insights and wisdom gained from his own healing journey. In 2016, Richard decided to focus on finding ways to bring the power of Systemic Constellations to his clients and others. He has created a unique synthesis of coaching, Systemic Constellations, and working with horses as an exciting doorway for people into the world of systemic constellations. He partners with Reva Hamilton to offer to the public constellation workshops that focus on supporting individuals in discovering and strengthening their resilience skills. Reva Hamilton was intrigued to the clarity of information and sweet communication with the Family Soul after taking a workshop on Systemic Family Constellations: Movement of the Spirit Mind with Bert Hellinger in 2006. Being a teacher and a student most of her life, Reva focused her training and passions on Shamanic studies, Polarity Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, educational kinesiology, Brain Gym, Energy Medicine, spiritual belly dance, poetry, photography, yoga, meditation and Systemic and Family Constellations. Reva weaves threads from each of her studies and experiences creating a tapestry of life. She has a private practice of effloresce, soul retrievals, energy clearings and Systemic and Family Constellations workshops. Reva is focusing her energy on the importance of the role of resilience in our lives. The workshop addresses the key to appreciating chaos that can surround us. richardgriffincoaching.com |
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George E. James and Susan Ulfelder
From Differences to Oneness George E. James is a world-renowned meditation teacher and healer in a private holistic counseling and healing practice in Oakton, Va. He is currently finishing the Hellinger Institute of DC’s Family Constellation Facilitator Training. He earned a master’s degree in Special Education and Speech Pathology and worked as a special education teacher working with troubled youth and their families from 1976 to 1979. For the next nine years he worked in the corporate world, which he left in 1988. George was one of three certified teachers of The Perceptive Awareness Technique©, a revolutionary process for gaining mastery of intuition and is a certified teacher of Soma Pi, a hands-on healing technique that strengthens and aligns the body-mind-spirit connection. In addition, he has taught Politics of the Heart Flames Meditation Technique, a technique that uses activated colors for self-improvement and healing, and taught stress management workshops to law enforcement personnel and professional dispute resolution personnel, and he taught spiritual Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology 101 to physicians and medical students. Susan Ulfelder is the director of the Hellinger Institute of DC, where she facilitates workshops, individual constellations and leads a facilitator training program. She completed the first training of the Bert Hellinger Institute, USA, taught by Harald Hohnen and Hunter Beaumont and co-trained with Harald Hohnen the next year in the Washington, D.C., area and has been training ever since. Susan has attended international intensives at ZIST in Germany and Santa Barbara, Calif., and many advanced trainings with Bert and Sophie Hellinger, Jakob and Sieglinde Schneider, Heinz Stark and Jane Peterson.. Most recently she attended Hellinger Sciencia International Training with Bert and Sophie Hellinger in Cancun, Mexico, in February 2017. She presented at the first International Congress of Family Constellations for the Americas in Oaxaca, Mexico, at the first U.S. Conference in Portland, Ore., in 2005, was on a panel at the second U.S. Conference in Asheville, N.C., in 2007, and presented at the 2011 and 2015 conferences. She was one of the U.S. trainers at the second and third North American Constellations Intensives in Santa Barbara in 2006 and 2008 and at Omega Institute in 2014. |
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Krista Jarrard
Hidden in Plain Sight: Mastering the Actualizing Art of Inclusion for Personal and Collective Solutions Krista Jarrard has been a dynamic force as facilitator, trainer and pioneer in the evolution of the Systemic Constellations for more than 14 years. She has brought this multi-dimensional healing to clients around the world, and to international communities for awakening including CoreLight, and The School of Knowing in Tokyo, Japan. She is the founder of the Center for Systemic Healing, and creator of Healing at The Heart of the Matter Immersion Learning Program. Her upcoming book “The Radical Act of Inclusion” reveals the secrets to her work with Inclusion leading to the creation of her specialized practice model the Origin Sourcing System®. She offers her work through workshops, tele-classes private sessions, telephone sessions and learning programs. Krista has shared her extensive experience, and intuitive approach to Constellation Work at many conferences and symposiums including the 2015 and 2007 North American Conference for Systemic Constellation Work, Constellating Creativity 2012, and the annual NMASERVIC Conference "The Art and Science of Spirituality" in Santa Fe, N.M., in 2007. She is a member of International Systemic Constellations Association and The Open University for Complementary Medicine. Krista served as Dr. Bert Hellinger’s personal assistant at The World Congress for Complementary Medicine in 2007. |
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Barry Krost, M.A., BCTMB
Working with Interrupted Reaching Out Movements Barry Krost, MA, LMT, BCTMB, has been a bodywork and energy healing practitioner for more than 34 years. He is a Systemic Family Constellations facilitator and an instructor and advanced practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy®. Barry has more than 4,000 hours of training in Bodywork, Energy Healing and Systemic Constellation approaches. He has a private practice that includes individual and group Systemic Family Constellations in the Chicago area. I have been exploring Systemic Family Constellations since 2002. He completed a one-year Systemic Family Constellation Facilitator training with Scott Bader in 2009 that also included Peter DeVries and Volker Frank and an additional year training with Suzi Tucker. Recently he has attended the last two Intensives in Bernried, Germany and trained with Stephan Hausner and Bertold Ulsamer. In 2013, he attended the 2011 Systemic Constellations Conference and was one of the organizers for the 2013 conference. He was the program team chairperson for the 2015 North American Systemic Constellation Conference and is chairperson of the board of North American Systemic Constellations (NASC) Barry has a BA in Anthropology and a MA in Social and Cultural History. healingbodytherapeutics.com / healingfamilyconstellations.com View Barry's interview about his conference session. |
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Lisa Marie Main, M.A., ABS
The Art of Organizational Constellations: Transforming Individuals and the Collective Lisa Marie Main is an accomplished leader, trainer, executive coach and master facilitator of interactions that lead to alignment and results-based action. Her acute understanding of the subtle energies and dynamics in human systems, coupled with creativity, are brought-to-life in her sessions. She is the director of training and development for Verus Global, partnering with corporations to bring “Wellness out to the World.” A life-long learner and world traveler, Lisa earned a master’s degree in Applied Behavioral Science with an emphasis on Leadership in Human Systems and Organizational Development; she was introduced to both Systemic Constellation Work and Appreciative Inquiry in 1998 and has been studying, facilitating and learning ever since. With a passion for both modalities, Lisa has blended Systemic Constellations with Appreciative Inquiry to create Appreciative Constellations as well as enhanced Appreciative Inquiry experiences by integrating Systemic Constellations. Lisa lives with her family in Lakewood, Colo., where they enjoy skiing, climbing and hiking; she is a member of the Rocky Mountain Alliance for Systemic Constellation Work. |
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Tanya Mena, LMT
Healing the Trans-Generational Traumas and Violence of U.S. Slavery My passionate work is as a LMT (licensed massage therapist), a Reiki master, a Family and Systems Constellations facilitator and a hospice volunteer. I go to work smiling, because I’m able to use my gifts, skills and knowledge in service. I also have been fortunate enough to study with gifted healers, constellation master facilitators, including Francesca Mason-Boring, Rani George, Dr. Dan Booth-Cohen, Emily Volden, Kuno and Joanne Bauchbauer) and the West African indigenous elder Dr. Malidome Some’. My life continues to be enriched by my work. Salome Raheim, Ph.D., ACSW Healing the Trans-Generational Traumas and Violence of U.S. Slavery Salome Raheim is a professor at the University at Albany-SUNY School of Social Welfare. Her scholarship, teaching, and academic leadership focus on promoting equity in organizations and communities, as well as integrative mind-body-spirit social work practice. When dean of the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, Salome initiated and led a school-wide multi-year change initiative to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. She led a similar effort at the University of Iowa School of Social Work when serving as its director. Her passion for creating just and healthy organizations has taken her across the United States and to four continents to provide training and consultation to schools, universities, human service organizations, and businesses. Details of an ongoing international project in which she is a collaborator can be found at The Privilege Project. A native of Baltimore, Md., Salome holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, MSW from Catholic University of America, a master’s in Integrative Health and Healing from the Graduate Institute, and bachelor of social worker from Bowie State University, a historically black college. She holds many honors, including the 2015 NASW Foundation Social Work Pioneer Award. Salome is a Family Constellations facilitator and a mindfulness meditation and yoga practitioner. |
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Samvedam Randles, Dipl. Psych., LMHC
The Medicine Wheel Constellation Samvedam (Sam-vay-dam) Randles is a German-born psychologist, group facilitator and trainer who has lived and practiced in the Boston area since 1987. A graduate of Wilhelms-University, one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life, Samvedam is licensed in the United States as a Mental Health Counselor and Bodyworker. She maintains a private practice, leads monthly workshops in Family Constellations, supervises new therapists, and trains facilitators in Breathwork and Family Constellations. More recently Samvedam founded a Constellation travel team and has begun to introduce Family Constellations to groups of interested people around New England. Working with individuals, couples, and groups, Samvedam draws upon her training in traditional psychotherapy, intensive study in Eastern and indigenous approaches to inner growth, skill in Western mind-body healing techniques, and expertise in European-based methods of transforming stuck emotional patterns to help clients live with greater freedom and awareness. innerartsinstitute.com Comma Williams, M.Ed. The Medicine Wheel Constellation Comma Williams is an initiated shaman in the Q’ero tradition of Peru. A shaman is someone who acts as a bridge between this ordinary reality (our reality) and the non-ordinary reality that we cannot see. A shaman is someone who sees differently. Comma is also a Training and Organization Development Facilitator (M.Ed.) and Personal Success Coach (S.U.N.). In all of these roles, Comma acts as a bridge, providing and facilitating experiences that move individuals and groups toward transformation. |
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Rev. Katherine Revoir
Using Constellations To Improve Your Love Life: How Adult Attachment Styles Affect The Flow Of Love Rev. Katherine Revoir touches many healing modalities, integrating Non-Violent Communication, attachment theory, depth empathy work, and interpersonal neurobiology into her work. As a constellation facilitator, she offers individual, online, and group constellations sessions. As a student and teacher of interpersonal neurobiology, Katherine combines the cognitive and social aspects of neuroscience as it applies to how we dance in relationship with each other. An artist for 25 years, she draws creative cartoon visuals that help students understand how our brains connect with each other and what we can do about it. As a counselor, teacher, speaker, and minister, she is dedicated to bringing others and herself to a deeper experience of compassion, emotional resilience, and brain integration (the heart of wellbeing). She has facilitated Sacred Conversation, a weekly group, for the past four years. As an ordained minister in Centers for Spiritual Living (csl.org) she has an educational ministry, Center for Richer Living (RicherLiving.org), a 501c3 organization. She has written curriculum for more than 30 spiritual development classes and workshops and taught more than 100 classes and playshops on personal development. RicherLiving.org |
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Jeffrey Rich, LMT
Meet The Pachamama: Mother of Us All Jeffrey Rich, LMT, is a certified Family and Systemic Constellations facilitator, author, massage therapist and shamanic healer in private practice in Huntsville, Ala. A licensed and practicing bodyworker for more than eighteen years, he now weaves Systemic Constellations into his healing sessions. As an initiated mesa carrier in the Andean Cosmology, his shamanic healing work combines indigenous and non-indigenous methods and approaches. He has created curricula and has taught therapeutic massage and shamanic healing workshops for over a decade. He is a public speaker and has presented shamanic and constellations talks to groups in his area. Jeffrey has more than a decade of shamanic study and practice with indigenous and non-indigenous teachers. His introduction to the Andean Cosmology began in 2010 when he began a year-long course of study in the building, care, and handling of an Andean misa, a sacred bundle composed of stones, with his beloved teacher, Ana Larramendi in Madison, Wis. He is now actively studying with Ana’s Andean teacher, Adolfo Ttito Condori, a misa carrier and healer of high degree. Andean healing work is based in reading and manipulating the living energies of people and places, and its practitioners utilize a form of constellation work to gather information. Jeffrey now realizes that much of the Andean healing practice is about working with the Field in an indigenous way. His Andean studies sharpen his ability to read and understand the energies of the world around him. |
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Michaelene Ruhl, Psy.D.
Creating and Holding Sacred and Safe Trauma-Informed Space Michaelene Ruhl, Psy.D., earned her doctoral degree from the Michigan School of Professional Psychology in Humanistic and Clinical Psychology. Her research and dissertation consists of Clients' Experiences of Family Constellations in Psychological Healing and Performance Anxiety and the High School Female Athlete. Dr. Ruhl has worked with adults and adolescents in areas of chronic pain, anxiety, team building, depression, grief, loss, and trauma as well as working with couples and families and the LGBTQ population for more than years. She completed a three-year immersion training program as a certified practitioner and facilitator of Family Constellations via Jamy and Peter Faust’s The Constellation Approach in 2013 and has been practicing the approach for more than five years in individual and group settings and continues to participate in the seminars yearly. Dr. Ruhl has been trained in essential oils to aid in emotional support and is certified in Reiki I and II. She participates and facilitates at seminars and conferences and teaches mindfulness education, mind-body work, mind-body-spirit connection, and energy theory and has given presentations in performance anxiety and team building and on her Constellation Approach research at the North American Systemic Constellations Conference in 2013. She has researched and presented on effective learning through multiple intelligences that has aided in her skill as a coach and clinician. She is a collegiate scholarship athlete, NCAA three-time All-America in softball, and has more than 20 years of athletic coaching experience. Carrie Landrum is a peacebuilder with a passion for facilitating healing and transformation. She is a professional facilitator at the University of Michigan Office of Student Conflict Resolution where she holds space for students experiencing trauma and conflict, and she facilitates processes to support healing and transformation. Outside of this role Carrie has been engaged in the healing of self and others through constellations for four years. She also leads classes infusing t'ai chi chih, yoga, and qi gong at the Tree of Life Holistic Center in Farmington, Michigan. Her background includes a master’s in conflict transformation, a bachelor’s in international studies, and certificates in facilitating multicultural wellness practices, strategies for trauma awareness and resilience, restorative justice, social justice mediation, unconscious bias trainings, intercultural development, circle processes, and easing traumatic grief through spiritual care. |
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Susan Schlosser, M.A.
Listening to the Ancient Ones: Re-Membering Our Earth Community Two rivers of meaning have converged in my life. One has its headwaters in my deep love and appreciation of the mother of us all, the Earth. Without her, none of us would be here. The other river has its source through my own mother and father, and all our ancestors that have come before them. Without them, I wouldn't be here. These rivers have come together to serve as a confluence for what has heart and meaning. They have carried me through as I have gathered experiences and the wisdom that comes through living life. I have been attempting to resuscitate hearts since I was 15. After working as a R.N. in cardiac intensive care, I knew my own needed help. That led me into working with Arizona Raft Adventures in the Grand Canyon, backpacking in South and Central America, working in the forests of the Oregon coast range and on to receiving a master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science. My passion lies in facilitating the awakening and opening of our hearts and spirits, and enlivening our souls by connecting more deeply with ourselves, with others, with our ancestors, with the earth and with All That Is, utilizing the wisdom of the Field and the healing powers of Systemic Constellations. I work one on one and with groups, indoors and out in nature. |
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Jim Shine, Ph.D.
Harnessing The Power of Rituals in Constellations Jim Shine, Ph.D., took his first training in Family and Systemic Constellations in 2007 and has been a practicing constellations facilitator since 2008. He is a co-founder of Next Generation Constellations and has attended numerous intensives, conferences and workshops in the United States and Europe. His first career was as a mathematician, and he still does teaching, consulting and research in the field of statistics. nextgenerationconstellations.org |
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Harrison Snow, MBA
Accelerated Leadership: Working Systemically with Individuals and Teams Harrison Snow designs and facilitates programs in team building, organizational change and leadership development. Since 1988 he has led programs in 26 countries for Fortune 500 clients and public organizations such as the, World Bank Group, Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. Department of State and the Agency for International Development. For the seven years he has been leading an organizational constellation, community of practice for CBODN. Harrison has written four well-received books on team building and leadership. His MBA is from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and he resides in Falls Church, Va. View Harrison's interview about his conference session. |
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Brigitte Sztab
The Body Talks: Tracking Non-Verbal Information and Using the Body to Aid a Deeply Felt Resolution In 1997, Brigitte Sztab discovered constellation work in her native Germany and felt called to promote the work in her adopted home state of Washington. She sponsored workshops led by Dietrich Weth of Germany who was her mentor for four years until she began to facilitate in early 2001. Brigitte also learned from many other leading European facilitators in the field. In 2004 Brigitte started offering facilitator trainings with emphasis on cultivating energy awareness. She is a full-time facilitator, offering workshops, trainings and Skype sessions throughout the United States and internationally. She is dedicated to sharing the work wherever it is needed. In addition to her involvement with constellation work, Brigitte has been trained in several energy healing modalities, including Matrix Energetics, Past Life Trauma Release, Dowsett Space and Personal Energy Clearing, Body Talk System and Reiki. She is a certified counselor in the state of Washington with a private practice in Chelan, Wash. Brigitte is the co-creator of the women’s workshop “Invisible No More.” familyconstellations-usa.com |
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Elena Veselago
A Female Facilitator Sees Male Stories During the past eight years, my only job has been practicing and teaching Family and Systemic Constellations. I am a founder and CEO of The Open Field Institute in Moscow, Russia, which organizes an annual “Open Field” conference, gathering approximately 400 Russian-speaking professionals. I was first introduced to constellations in 2001. Until 2008 I was combining my constellations practice with a job of a consultant at one of “The Big Four” firms, providing consulting services related to bank strategies, processes, and organizational structures to banks and other financial institutions. Before that I had been working in banks in information technology segment, and finished my career as an IT executive director. I hold my first degree in economics and mathematics, and the second in psychology. www.constellations.ru |
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Judy Wallace
Sacred Scaffolding for Collective Healing Constellations I have a soul commitment and evolving curiosity about how we will collectively create a future where all can thrive. My journey has interwoven teaching amidst the turmoil and trauma of the American civil rights movement. Later I worked in business, living in Europe, still in the shadow and legacy of World War II and the Communist oppression of the East. Since the mid-90s, I have facilitated cross-cultural trainings and coached business people to understand other cultural ways. I have participated in projects in Guatemala, Egypt and Vietnam where ancient and modern histories still beg to be healed on multiple levels of interpretation as victims and perpetrators continue to intersect. I have co-hosted and facilitated various circles, gatherings, and virtual calls across five continents, as groups inquire into large questions to activate our collective emergent knowing. One series, Women Moving the Edge, I co-initiated with Ria Baeck, 2007 from 2012. During these retreats I learned about, represented and felt the power of social change constellations. In2016 I co-facilitated Creating Collective Healing Spaces, where we offered various capacity building practices, including constellations, for healing and evolving beyond our collective wounding. Since 2013 forward, I trained to facilitate constellations, observing many styles, most coming from a Family Constellations approach. More recently I am exploring societal collective healing, and I have been doing that facilitation since 2015 primarily in Colorado. www.judykwallace.com; www.collectivehealing.net View Judy's interview about her conference session |
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Copyright © 2017 - North American Systemic Constellations (NASC) • Last update 6/29/17 The purpose of North American Systemic Constellations (NASC) is to organize educational conferences and other learning experiences that support the growth and development of Systemic Constellations as a healing modality so that the far-reaching benefits of Systemic Constellations can be shared with the public. |