Our culture is clearly re-membering our ancestors. After hundreds of years of “pioneering,” we are noticing the spectacular deficit we experience as individuals and as a culture as a result of forgetting where we come from. Ancestry.com and geneological research are just some of the pieces of evidence that we are experiencing a deep renewal […]

[Our success in life] may have little to do with the positivity of our thoughts. It may have more to do with how we connect as part of a complex, dynamic whole system of life…” A colleague recently shared this quotation from David Spangler, one of the early leaders of the alternative community Findhorn in […]

Coaches, therapists, body workers, and healing practitioners of all kinds have discovered that using Family Constellations alongside other tools profoundly increases their ability to help their clients. But if you aren’t a practitioner – if instead you are mostly a consumer of healing work – why would you consider jumping into my upcoming training? Here’s […]

My annual Constellations for Individuals course is coming up soon (see more details below). As I prepare for that, I am again thinking about how our culture encourages us to think personally about our problems. From this point of view, your depression is yours, whether you address it medically or spiritually or on your own […]

Caring for each other should be the first instinct of family members. We live in such proximity to each other, and bringing people together in a family is precisely in order to provide support, meet basic needs, expand joy and creativity, and go through the challenges and possibilities of life with trusted others. Given the […]

I’ve just returned from two weeks in New Zealand. (Enjoy the pretty photos!) I led a two-day workshop in Auckland while I was there, and as always, some interesting themes arose as we worked. And, one in particular: The Power of “Positive Labeling” is what I am calling it. Clinical psychotherapy has a more technical […]

Love’s Hidden Symmetry is the evocative title of one of the most important books by the founder of Family Constellations work, Bert Hellinger. It’s one of my favorite books, which I re-read most years. I always find something new in its pages! But as I have been preparing for a workshop I am currently leading […]