Dear Auberon and all
I do work with children as young as eight years old. I have small wooden
figures and objects, representing people and issues. I usually ask the kids to
set up their world, like Monica's world and all that is in it.
One eight year old girl was brought to me with uncontrollable temper tantrums.
She set up all the figure, about 20 in a triangle shape with her at the point,
as if she was carrying all of them.
Coming to find out that her parents were divorced and she did feel like having
to hold it all together. By just having her explain to me who was who and how
they were really in two different camps and having her set that up for me, she
started to relax. She showed me how she had to go back and forth, from one side
to the other. We added a permanent object, symbolizing a teddybear that she
would take with her. The session took less then 40 min. and she had no more
tantrums.
Yours
Elmar
Elmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jul 6, 2010, at 5:04 AM, auberon.finch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am a recent member of constellation talk and so I am not sure what has been
covered in the recent past and whether the issue I am interested in has been
considered before. There is a question I would like to raise. Is it feasible
to do constellation work with children?? I am considering working with
children whose parents have died and I am wondering whether emotional field
work of the constellation type is do-able with people who are very young. I
would be very interested to hear what other people's opinions are on this and
whether anyone has worked with children in this way.
Auberon Finch.
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