Environmental Constellations
Saturday 10 April
& Sunday 11 April 2010
10am -5pm
Zita Cox
£180
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"It is easy to see from the outside the delusional nature of apartheid in South Africa, the belief that white people were God's chosen people….We have rejected the biosphere into which we were born and have erected in our minds a vast, hermetically-sealed 'humans only' world. We have lived so long within the contrived 'homosphere', breathing in the myths of human supremacy, that it is now more real to us than the Earth." Cormac Cullinan Wild Law A Manifesto for Earth Justice.
Eco-Psychology work allows us to transform our relationships to other species and to the Earth itself, enabling us to expand our thinking and find unexpected solutions and resolutions to our problems and our conflicts. It introduces empathy and love into the mix of fear and guilt which so often afflicts thinking about environmental problems.
Environmental catastrophes surround us: desertification, flooding, the melting of the polar ice caps, the Amazon Rainforest on the point of collapse and mass species extinction. These catastrophes are increasingly acknowledged as symptomatic of the spiralling effects of climate change - a consequence of the increasing conflict between mankind and the Earth as mankind struggles to meet his needs.
Thinking systemically about these issues is essential to ensure that a solution to one malady does not become the cause of another. The bio-fuels solution to carbon emissions is in danger of increasing the pressure on eco-systems by destroying wildlife and human habitats, causing species extinction and taking land away from food production. Therefore an intended solution may become an aggravator of climate change and a source of future conflict.
Since 2002 I have been using the constellation method to explore these issues. Constellations offer us an amazingly versatile tool with which to think systemically about environmental issues thus creating ways to explore and change attitudes and to develop new philosophical, political and spiritual responses and strategies to current and future dilemmas.
Time and again I have witnessed profound and unexpected solutions, radical
yet realistic ideas and new and healing attitudes emerge from constellations
used in this way.
Psychotherapist
Zita Cox is an experienced international facilitator of Environmental
Constellations for individuals and organizations who has pioneered the application
of the constellation technique to issues relating to the environment. Her
work includes ecotherapy; EMDR; family systems constellations; and mediation.
Zita believes: Environmental Constellations are a wonderfully versatile and creative tool. "They allow us to explore our place in nature and our systemic relationship to other living beings. They assist us in new ways of thinking about and finding resolutions to the problems we have created. These may include climate change, pollution, alienation and accelerating species extinction."
Following two years' intensive training in Systemic Constellations in the 1990s with Dr Albrecht Mahr (who worked for many years with Bert Hellinger in Germany), Zita has facilitated environmental constellations in Britain, California and New Zealand.
Zita has worked for 21 years as an integrative counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice and the NHS. She has worked as a managerial coach and consultant in the corporate and voluntary sectors. She has a Person-Centered Counselling Diploma from Metanoia, additional training in Gestalt, EMDR and Mediation and a Masters Degree in Counselling Supervision and Training from Bristol University.
Zita's first degree is in Philosophy; she sees environmental constellations as contributing towards a necessary shift in our thinking, whish Earth Scholar' Thomas Berry refers to as the 'great turning' on his book of the same name.
Her article on Environmental Constellations 'A Different Kind of Field
Trip' was published in 'The Knowing Field' (Jan 2007). She contributed
a chapter on Trauma in 'Balancing Acts: Studies in Counselling Training'
edited by Hazel Johns (Routledge (1998)). She completed a research paper
into Bystanding and Intervention in extreme situations.