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"I had a very emotional and healing experience! I felt very free, warm and calm after the constellation."
"Some weight, some burden shifted from my shoulders back to his where it belonged."
"The experience felt good in a very intense way."
About This Seminar
In the Nelly Sachs’ poem “Chorus of Consolers,” a cherub stands amidst lightning strikes of grief holding open the edges of a wound that may not yet be allowed to heal. Many of the post-War generation connect to this sentiment at a very deep level. Does wholeness and joy betray the memories of our loved ones who struggled and died? Yet when we face our own children and grandchildren, we feel a special responsibility to resolve the violent impulses that lead to war.
This creates a difficult paradox: Can we look at the full reality without being dragged down and depressed? If that is too disturbing, do we risk leaving the traumas unresolved for the next generations?
This workshop is meant for those who carry a heavy burden from their family's experiences in the war years and are dedicated to creating a more peaceful world. There is a place inside the human heart where the paradox resolves.
Who among us dares to console? We do. In stillness, we perceive the whispers of our lost loved ones. They long for us to plant new seeds and harvest a new garden. We honor their memory when we allow the edges of old wounds to heal.
We come to Berlin because here is where the kinship between Germans and Jews flourished most beautifully before it was destroyed most cruelly.
Seminar Leaders:
Dr. Dan Booth Cohen's father, Henry Cohen, was Director of the Föhrenwald DP Camp for Jewish Holocaust survivors in 1946. For 25 years, Dr. Cohen has fostered peace between Germans, Jews, and Palestinians. He is the author of I Carry Your Heart in My Heart: Family Constellations in Prison (Carl Auer, 2009). A report on the Responsibility and Healing seminar held earlier this year can be read here: www.danboothcohen.blogspot.com
Accompanied with music, poetry, vision and translation by Cäcilia Cartellieri. She directed a neighborhood cultural center in an old chapel for many years on the edge of the former Jewish quarter of Hamburg.
Seminar Format:
- Sharing stories of our own family history
- Family Constellations
- Political Constellations
- Compassionate Listening
- Expressing our inner reality through music and song
Space is Limited. Please Reserve Your Place
Dr. Dan Booth Cohen, Seminar Leader