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This experiential workshop is offered by Threshold Passages in partnership with Living Arts Foundation for parents of teenage boys called "Living with Teenage Fire!" This intensive uses Systemic Constellation work to bring awareness and healing to family systems.

Systemic Constellation Work honors the very source of our lives--our parents, grandparents and ancestors--who are the fountain from which life has flowed to us. From this simple giving of life and our receiving our life, emerges an intricate web of relationships and bonds that makes each of us part of our family, and recipients of good and bad things that have happened in our family lines.

Signs of Entanglement: Carrying a burden not our own
Out of love, we unconsciously "reproduce" the life of one of our forgotten or suffering family members. We do not fully live our own lives, but in part, someone else's. When unhappiness and depression are constant companions; when our health is seriously endangered; when addictions and suicidal tendencies plague us and/or our children; when accidents keep happening; when money slips through our fingers, and our work fails; when we repeat conflictive patterns with our spouses and children; when we can't find our right place anywhere, in family, job or relationship; (no matter how much we try, and how many hours of therapy or personal coaching we invest in); then chances are we are entangled in our family system.

Process for Disentangling
To create a constellation, we choose and place representatives for our family members. Just seeing the system constructed on the outside as we hold it inside, is the beginning of shifting the perspective and energy field of the system. We literally see hidden dynamics and enmeshments that we are unconsciously living. From this place, movements are generated that bring ease to the system's members. Words are spoken that reverberate and loosen the tangles in the system. We strengthen the healthy ties. We find the direction the soul is called. We become more able to enter strongly into our own lives and hold our rightful places in our current families, our families of origin, our work, and in our communities. We grow free of burdens not our own and can take the right next steps into our personal future.

The next training date will be TBD and limited to 30 participants only!

Facilitators

Tom Daly, Ph.D. is a personal and professional development coach with over 30 years' experience in guiding clients through transitions of all kinds. He walks his talk, having been a salesman for Procter and Gamble, a high school science teacher and counselor, a massage therapist and wholistic health educator, a seminar leader, essayist, psychotherapist, business owner, leadership and coach trainer.

Since the late 1980s, Tom has been a nationally recognized elder and leader in men's soul work. He continues this work today through The Men's Leadership Training Program, now in its 13th year, and through the Inner King Training, which he co-founded in 1992.

Jude Blitz is a psychotherapist and coach who works with individuals and couples. Her Master's work is in the area of individual and organizational systems, which qualifies her uniquely for individual and group leadership. Jude's emphasis in both venues is to bring out the unused intelligences of her clientele. Her work guides others to weave their own embodied intelligence and their disowned and vital selves into their ongoing conscious lives.

Certified as a Shadow Work® group facilitator since 1994, Jude has been involved in programs that employ archetypal insights for coaching and group process. Jude and four Shadow Work® colleagues developed Women In Power, an initiatory experience for women to explore their darkest of demons.