Constellations and Co-presencing articles
Constellations-related:
Please see Social Alchemy Index Page for collective and community constellation work.
Collective Resourcing:
Presentations
----October 2020 - Five short videos on Resource Rich Constellations with Beth Tener, Simon D’Orsogna, and myself:
1. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/476208303 4 minutes. Beth describes the origins of this form during a gathering in 2018.
2. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/476208414 3 minutes. Offering the possibility that the constellation also grows capacity in the community, not only the Seeker/Client. Introduction to co-presencing as a practice - relational resourcing. One of Beth’s images, “Portals of Power” is shown.
3. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/476208464 3 minutes Considering “The Emerging Future” as the client in this form of constellations. Introducing the inquiry “What does The Emerging Future/Great Love want?”
“Can we use the constellation as an evolutionary process, not just for the so-called ‘client’, but for the entire group?”
4. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/476208542 4 minutes. Introducing Beth’s image “The Big Picture” that we use to set up the Resource-Rich constellation
5. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/476208687 3 minutes Some details about how these constellations are run - they begin with this image, and we allow the elements to interact and orient with the person and their issue.
---Resource Rich Constellations Presentation May 2022 Slides that were shown at the Online Constellations Intensive on this topic
https://serviceoflife.info/constellations/resourcerich.pdf A handout used after teaching/demonstrating the Resource-Rich process to a training group, with some fine points about the process.
--“Four Dimensions of Facilitation” – ‘Small Plates’ approach to teaching constellation facilitation. October 2021
This contains a diagram of 4 aspects of the work, and a few exercises for each aspect, along with some description of my own background.
[This link is the Venn Diagram of 4 aspects of facilitation without the other pages ]
Articles and Images
---. Some images by Beth Tener Visual portrayals of some of the energetic dynamics in group spaces. (Beth’s professional website is at https://www.ndcollaborative.com/about-us/)
--Expanded form of Constellations for Collective Resourcing - May 2019 This article suggested some new ideas about resourcing and constellation design that inspired the Resource-Rich approach.
-- July 2019. Two months later, we used this image and the ideas above to create a new structural constellations form. This article shows one version of a process for collective resourcing, the Resource Rich constellation, and describes some direct experiences of this process
Representation as Spiritual Practice
Karin Dremel Master’s Thesis on this topic
Co-Presencing Related articles
- “Resonant Encounters of the Third Kind” Presentation at The Resonance Summit 2023 on co-presencing.
1-Link to the hour-long video and timed index of the presentation
2-Slides used in the presentation. Starting at slide 45 are slides that were not in the video. Slides #49-54 have images and descriptions of some of the themes that show up in these kinds of interactions:
--Images by Beth Tener Impressionistic visual portrayals of some of the energetic dynamics in group spaces. (Beth’s professional website is at https://www.ndcollaborative.com/about-us/)
--Different Kinds of We-Space Magic An early attempt to describe some of the different kinds of experiences that show up in different kinds of collective spaces, including Constellations, co-presencing, and other We-Spaces.
Google Docs version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dc7IfTAfJ1rqnfEhTIXZU1ln2SyY38JvXDTL7B25xJY/edit?usp=sharing
--Experiences from 3-week residential We Space encounter in Ireland May-June 2022
--Some descriptions of the Co-presencing process, with links to some of the communities that offer some variation of it. This handout was offered during a facilitator training in July 2020.
--Link to Ria Baeck’s Collective Presencing site Ria has done a great deal of work and mapping in this area. She makes some very insightful and useful distinctions here…
