USA
Francesca Mason Boring
People, Nations and Territories
Bi-Cultural Author, International Facilitator and Trainer of Family Constellation
Lectures
[Day 1]
16.30 pm - 17.30 pm
Theme: People, Nations and Territories (Auditorium)
Francesca Mason Boring is a Western Shoshone, (an indigenous tribe in the United States), bi-cultural author, international facilitator and trainer of Family Constellation. Informed by the work of many of the early Masters in Family Systems Constellation, as well as her own indigenous elders, Mason-Boring has been a contributor in the development of integration of ceremony and ritual in family constellation work as well as the inclusion of nature in facilitation as a support for trauma. Mason- Boring has provided Facilitator Training, workshops, lectured and served as faculty for Systems Constellation Intensives. Francesca has presented at numerous conferences on the topic of the Universal Indigenous Field.
Francesca Mason Boring has authored: Family & Systems Constellations: In the Company of Good People(2018), Family Systems Constellations and Other Systems Constellation Adventures: A transformational journey, (2015), Co-Edited, Francesca Mason Boring & Kenneth Sloan: Returning to Membership in Earth Community: Systemic Constellations with Nature (2013), Connecting to Our Ancestral Past; Healing through Family Constellation, Ceremony & Ritual 2012), Botschaften aus dem indigenene Feld, (2009), Feather Medicine, Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime: A Family System Constellation, (2016, 2004), and. In addition, Francesca has served as an advisor and contributing writer for The Knowing Field, an international scholarly journal on systems constellation, England.
Including nature as a resource and occasionally a part of systemic trauma, this facilitator engages the wisdom of the knowing field to support families and enlists systems constellation as a tool for clarifying environmental issues that impact individuals, communities and the world.
Her writing and developments in systemic constellation encourage expansion of application of the work into social and community systems as well as family systems. Francesca is a member of the International Systems Constellation Association (ISCA).
“Honoring the resilience of our ancestors and the sacred earth we walk upon through family and human systems constellation.
WORKSHOP
Remembering Place – Honoring Mother Earth
As humans have fled and left the lands of origin, there is often a collective amnesia. Where did I come from? Why did my family leave? Are the wounds to big for my ancestors to carry and I will carry this difficulty for them.
With family systems constellation and various applications of constellation work, the natural hierarchy is healing when honored. In Nature Constellations we have observed a psychosocial field which can overlay locations of trauma, which is more temporal, and beneath that transitory field is ‘deep earth’, ‘mother earth’, terra firma (firm land). This is the depth of the earth which is connected to antiquity, stability, and stable foundation for life; what is our understanding or relationship with that depth?
Do I honor that the land came first?
Do I acknowledge that the earth is the ‘big one’?
Do I think the wounds of the country, the place, are too big for the earth to carry?
Am I able to think of nature as conscious?
With every historical travesty and tragedy, nature, and the earth was there. A sacred container, at times a refuge, in the time of modernity we have diminished the sacred capacity of Mother Earth.
In this workshop we will honor the land, find our right place, and experience the consciousness of the land and nature. Recognizing what Hellinger called “greater forces”, we will recognize those historical events which were a part of painful heavy fates, and we will give them to the land, and discover that the land is big enough.
Utilizing breakout rooms, constellation and collective ritual, we have opportunity to inform the greater field that the earth endures. She has carried us for generations, witnessed, held, and sustained our human family.
