Family & Ancestors

Considering the role of family & ancestors, home and community, both in self development and society as a whole through a psychosynthesis lens.

Contents

• Arran Knight on sexual consent education, drawing on father-son relationships
• David England on childhood development in Shamanic Psychology
• The role of ‘the mother’ as a potential key caregiver and the legacy it can leave
• The parental impact on childhood development, this time considering ‘the father’
• Parental impact on childhood development, interrogating absence and presence
• The development of guilt and shame as legacies from childhood
• A diary entry by Alannah Tandy Pilbrow, senior systemic constellations facilitator
• Eina McHugh on creativity, self-trust and love
• Allan Frater on where ideas of ancestry, imagination and ecology meet
• Notions of home and community away from the childhood home by Matt Shepheard
• Developing narcissism as the child by Kim Shiller

Articles & Videos

Trust graduate and men’s group facilitator Arran Knight calls for a “mature masculinity”, addressing how people of different genders require different education on sexual consent due to its systemic nature.

Having the conversation with students about sexual consent

Psychosynthesis psychotherapist David England relates childhood development in Shamanic Psychology to The Maintaining Cycle.

The Maintaining Cycle – the Circle of Mirrors

Siobhan Tinker and Brian Graham consider the role of ‘the mother’ as a potential key caregiver and the legacy it can leave.

The Wounds & The Gifts of Mother

The second part of Tinker and Graham’s look at the parental impact on childhood development, this time considering ‘the father’.

Fathers – Their Role and Their Heritage

Tinker and Graham’s final consideration of parental impact on childhood development, interrogating absence and presence.

Father – His Shadow and Light

A look at the development of guilt and shame as legacies from childhood, by Trust supervisor Siobhan Tinker.

The Painful Legacy of Guilt and Shame

A diary entry piece by Alannah Tandy Pilbrow, senior systemic constellations facilitator and psychosynthesis therapist, supervisor and trainer.

Family Constellations

Eina McHugh on creativity, self-trust and love as explored through her 2015 book, To Call Myself Beloved.

To Call Myself Beloved

Author Allan Frater on where ideas of ancestry, imagination and ecology meet.

Modern Alienation and Ancestral Sanity

Reflections on notions of home and community away from the childhood home by Trust Trainer Matt Shepheard.

Coming Home

Developing narcissism as the child by Programme Director at the Trust, Kim Shiller.

Narcissism

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