I Carry Your Heart in My Heart. Family Constellations in Prison
In this gem of a book, we are invited to journey with Dan Booth Cohen and the volunteers inside the walls of Bay State Correctional Center in Massachusetts where we meet the men of the Growing Together III programme ... and ourselves. As the inmates' stories unfold, they draw us into subtly exploring our own self-made prison walls. /.../ Dan skilfully interweaves descriptions of individual constellations and inmate reflections to introduce basic elements of the constellation process and to illustrate many of Hellinger's foundational insights. Here, in a prison setting, we are left with a heightened awareness of such key principles as: inclusion and exclusion, guilt and innocence, and healing between victims and perpetrators. /.../ The book conveys emotional depth, clarity, and grace in this new addition to our constellation library. --Mark A. Johnson, The Knowing Field, Issue 15, January 2010In this gem of a book, we are invited to journey with Dan Booth Cohen and the volunteers inside the walls of Bay State Correctional Center in Massachusetts where we meet the men of the Growing Together III programme ... and ourselves. As the inmates' stories unfold, they draw us into subtly exploring our own self-made prison walls. /.../ Dan skilfully interweaves descriptions of individual constellations and inmate reflections to introduce basic elements of the constellation process and to illustrate many of Hellinger's foundational insights. Here, in a prison setting, we are left with a heightened awareness of such key principles as: inclusion and exclusion, guilt and innocence, and healing between victims and perpetrators. /.../ The book conveys emotional depth, clarity, and grace in this new addition to our constellation library. --Mark A. Johnson, The Knowing Field, Issue 15, January 2010