family sculpture in psychodrama---a report

[Bud Weiss]

Dear Adam:
This is absolutely beautiful and I would congratulate Chris if I could.
AND PLEASE GET A GOOD BOOK ABOUT FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS LIKE ONE OF JOHN
PAYNES from www.johnlpayne.com  so that you can grasp the full potential of
this work.

It is a kind of  cut to the chase. It begins with a form of family sculpture
though a family may not even be involved at first, just a couple or a work
place, or any field in which two or more people became involved.  Once
created, ordinary strangers, chosen by the protagonist to represent them
begin to absorb and utilize under the guidance of a fine facilitator what
the constellation developers have called the Knowing field that surrounds
those called into the action in the roles set for them simply through their
placement. That field comes fully into existence when a sense of safety is
arranged in a group for action. Really fine doubles and auxiliaries come to
know this.  Given the proper support and sense of empowerment, nearly anyone
can achieve it even as a total stranger to the protagonist who has not even
reversed roles.  In fact in most constellation work, at the beginning, the
protagonist is sitting on the sidelines watching his/her stand in go through
it all first and very little of the "story'' is encouraged to be spoken
prior to the action or for that matter afterwards.
As I think you know, Virgina Satire was of the prime movers in family
therapy as well as one of those who fully acknowledged Moreno's
contributions along with her colleague Don Jackson. It is she who to my
knowledge began creating Family sculptures out of her familiarity with
Moreno's work. She was doing it with the family members themselves in family
sessions.  As anyone who knows of her work would imagine, it was so powerful
and most of her students learned this and rarely attributed it to
Psychodrama.

There are many variations of this sculpturing process and perhaps someone
has written a comprehensive paper about the many forms including Boal's form
which is more revolutionary and called by another name. Still, it is, in all
its forms, the process of some protagonist locating in space in relation to
him/her self and each of those sculpted a scene that can then come to life.

There are clearly architypical sentences that can be used for all of these
 or for any action format once the warmup is complete. That is what the best
of all forms will achieve. Constellation work has created hundreds of these
potentially healing sentences.  The proper use of them goes so far beyond
the simple words involved and in my mind, whether folks become trained in
Constellation work or not, having those sentences and others you may create
available to you in your work with clients will lead to some of the most
healing sessions in any action technology process.

Be well, best from Bud

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Adam Blatner <ablatner at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Dear Colleagues, if you are interested, you can find on my website a
> paper written by a patient that I edited slightly and posted, describing her
> experience in a group that used family sculpture. It was for her a very
> meaningful session.
> http://www.blatner.com/adam/pdntbk/famsculptpdmenngr.html
>    Warmly, Adam Blatner
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