Portaria - Volos May 2015

Deepen your personal insight and ultimately empower yourself to manifest what you most desire

In this journey you will experience Systemic Constellation, which is a fast and powerful way to look at a particular situation/issue in a way that allows hidden dynamics and challenging patterns to be identified. Therefore a clearer and better understanding of your issue’s real causes is embraced, and more appropriate actions for balance to be restored are found.

Systemic Constellation is a powerful method and it has rapid results for the goals that you want to achieve. It is a phenomenological approach, originated by Bert Hellinger, which enable you to look at different aspects of your life and gain insight and direction in areas including career, self-esteem, relationships, finance, health, anxiety and unwanted behavioural patterns.

What’s so special about this method?

Traditional approaches tend to focus on the symptom rather than the primary cause. It is like giving someone with fever a medicine to take his temperature down, which might work short-term, but the primary reason for the fever might still rest untreated. It is one thing doing teamwork seminars for example in case of problematic co-operation (or in cases of difficulties in other areas such as relationships, health, finances etc.) and another finding the primary reason why such problems exist in the first place and treating them at their roots.

How does it work? What to expect?

By setting up a working visible map using representatives from the group/holding circle for family members or abstract elements, hidden entanglements, identifications and exclusions rooted in family or organizational systems come to light. Alignment of such hidden forces driven by Bert’s understanding of “the orders of love” can bring about transformation in an individual’s circumstances creating relaxation and often powerful resolutions which impact the whole system. The results are often remarkable.

More info about the facilitators

Abigail Iquo Isuo Peters (MA, Bsc, Dip Psy) is an Integrative Psychotherapist in private practice in Central and West London. (www.potentialcharisma.com). Her Psychology background and research into complex human behaviors began in 1995 when she did her first Psychology Degree in Athens Greece. She works with individuals, couples and groups. Abigail is now integrating Family constellations into her psychotherapeutic practice after studying Family Constellations at CSC and with teachers such as Svagito Liebermiester, Stephan Hausner, Judith Hemming, Richard Wallstein and Dan Booth Cohen. Abigail, inspired by Osho, the Indian mystic believes that transformation is awareness and meditation and so she integrates these into her workshops in order to deepen insights and change.

Spiros Milonas attended his first constellation 8 years ago and studied this method 2 years ago in the UK with a specialization in Organizational Constellations. He holds a MBA and has a broad commercial experience in various organizations. The last position he held was “Head of Sales for South East Europe” in Sony Ericsson which he left from and set up his own consulting firm (www.krataionconsulting.com). Spiros works with the systemic constellations approach and his clients include from multinationals and organizations to individuals.

18/5-25/5 2015

Journey Schedule:

Day 1: Arrival in Athens. Pick up and check in at Athens Gate Hotel (in the centre of Athens).

Dinner at the Roof Garden Restaurant, which  is located on the top floor of the hotel and is offering a magnificent view to the Acropolis hill and Athens city centre. It is a good opportunity to meet the rest of the team and familiarize yourself better with the philosophy of the trip.

Day 2: Morning: Tour in Athens. Acropolis, Acropolis museum, lunch in the area of the Ancient Agora and Plaka.

The Agora was the center of political and public life in Ancient Athens. It was a large open area surrounded by buildings of various functions. The Agora was utilized for commerce, political, religious and military activity

Afternoon: Visit Sounio. You will have the chance to experience the best sunset in Attica. Dinner at a seaside Greek restaurant.

Day 3: Departure for Portaria-Volos.

During the trip you will visit Hatzimichalis Winery “With respect for Nature and Man, we create wines that reflect the terroirs and the grape varieties which spawned them.” The Domaine Hatzimichalis is located in the region of Opountia Locris, in Atalante, Central Greece, 140-km north of Athens. Will be offered guided tour to the winery, you will learn about the process of wine making in the modern and fully equipped state-of-the art facilities.

Visit Sesklo village. Kastraki hill and the surrounding area, near the village Sesklo, was developed by the most important Neolithic settlements in Greece and Europe, which gave its name to a whole phase of the Neolithic period in Thessaly. Inhabited since the beginning of the Neolithic period (7th millennium BC) to the Middle Bronze Age and reached its heyday in the 5th millennium BC, during the Middle Neolithic period.

Lunch at a traditional local tavern in Volos Port.

Arrival at Portaria and check in at Despotiko Hotel 

Day 4: Tour at the Archaeological Museum of Volos.

Day trip around Pelion villages. Pelion is full of picturesque and traditional villages perched along dense green mountainsides or boarding the sea side. Villages that you will visit: Vizitsa, Milies, Tsagarada, Horefto, Zagora.

Day 5: Morning: Visit Makrynitsa, Chania (Pelion villages).

Afternoon: Systemic Constellation

Day 6: Systemic Constellation

The workshop will include active meditations which are meditations from Osho the Indian Mystic who recognised the western hyper activity of the mind and body and created scientifically researched Meditations for the modern man. There are two meditations that we will include which are dynamic meditation (http://www.osho.com/meditate/active-meditations/dynamic-meditation) and kundalini meditation (http://www.osho.com/meditate/active-meditations/kundalini-meditation). There will be additional meditations, which will form part of the group process and will be decided throughout the workshop. Abigail will also offer individual bodywork sessions for anybody who is interested and these will be arranged on Saturday evening, maximum 2 sessions so book fast if you want to ensure a session.

We will do up to 8 constellations during the two days and Abigail with Spiros will be facilitating the constellating process. There will be up to 15-20 participants in the holding circle.

Needless to say everything that is discussed on the day is to be held in strictest confidence.

Day 7: Morning: Systemic Constellation

Afternoon: Departure for Athens- Athens Gate Hotel-Dinner