Constellation practices
Knowledge is in the places
"The process of knowledge, "shibulama", to which the Kogis invite us, does not proceed from an objective questioning, but is born, on the contrary, from an adjustment and cooperation between subjects listening to each other. It is a collective act of participation and communion, expressing the solidarity between human consciousness and the world order. It literally names the living threads that bind everything we come to know to the continuous fabric of nature. It refers to a broader sensitivity to the networks, visible and invisible, that express the interdependence of everything that makes up the Earth: people, rocks, bees, trees, waters, skies...".
The "constellation of all beings" is a practice for "allowing non-humans in a given ecosystem to express themselves on what is happening for them in this environment, in connection with a problem clearly stated at the outset, in a given place"(Lichen).
The practice is inspired both by Joanna Macy's "Work That Relates" and by the systemic constellations widely used in business as a decision-making aid.
Through the decentering effects it induces, by shifting the apprehension andinterpretation of a complex situation through sensitive involvement and theempathetic expression of feelings, it constitutes an astonishing exercise in the incorporation of the earthly condition.
