Connecting to Our Ancestral Past Healing through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual

Mason Boring provides a transformational walk through the universal indigenous field- that place of healing and knowledge used by Native healers and teachers for centuries-by describing stories and rituals designed to help people with their particular struggles. These rituals, such as "Facing the Good Men"-designed to help women who have suffered abuse in relationships with men-reject Western notions of over-the-counter medication. Instead, they stress a comfortable environment whereby the "client," with the help of a facilitator, interacts with people chosen to represent concepts, things, and other people. In Western culture the word "medicine" is thought of as a concrete object, but Mason Boring explains that indigenous cultures favor a process of healing as opposed to an itemized substance. She re-opens doors that have been closed due to the exclusion of indigenous technology in the development of many Western healing traditions and introduces new concepts to the lexicon of Western psychology.
A range of voices from around the world-leaders in the fields of systems constellations, theoretical physics, and tribal traditions-contribute to this exploration of aboriginal perspectives that will benefit facilitators of Constellations work, therapists, and human beings who are trying to walk with open eyes and hearts.