| ABOUT THE BOOK:
Feather Medicine
chronicles the journey of a contemporary, bi-cultural Shoshone woman
who has inherited her maternal grandmother’s gift of dream
and knowing. Through the character, Annie, the reader shares
youth, adulthood, the death of a child, the support and humor of
Native American extended family, and introduction to the ground
breaking work of Bert Hellinger: Human & Family Systems
Constellation.
Francesca Mason Boring, in her introduction
of Feather Medicine, provides a poignant look at the contrast
of the indigenous world of visions, and the western mode of
thinking, which knows only of delusions. The differences in
texture of one culture, which deifies linear time, and the timeless
pace of the Native tradition of story are beautifully woven together.
Grief, dance, the resilience of family and the presence and support of
the ancestors are a source of encouragement for anyone who opens their
soul to this testament to the interconnectedness of all family and
community.
Family & Human System Constellation,
developed by Bert Hellinger of Germany is introduced in Feather
Medicine for the first time in the context of a culturally rich,
engaging, fictional story. The book is a song in celebration of one
aboriginal culture that has long understood the humility of “knowing,”
and we have the suggestion of promise in the appearance of Systems
Constellation, which embraces a “knowing field” in contemporary time.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
Francesca Mason Boring,
a bicultural woman, is an enrolled Shoshone. Francesca is the
daughter of Ronald Kay Mason and Naomi Premo Mason. She is the
granddaughter of Kay Mason (born: Kestutis Maczenas) and Mabel McPhail
Mason, Thomas Premo (Po’ho tom) and Anna Frank Premo.
Her writing has been
published in the Native Nevadan, Well Nations, Systemic Solutions
Bulletin (London, England), and Blossoms of Life Science, by Heydar
Reghaby, among others.
A graduate of WSU,
living in the mountains of rural northeastern Washington State,
Francesca writes & facilitates Family & Human Systems Constellation.
She approaches systemic constellation work with respect for the
developments of Bert Hellinger and respect for her own ancestral
knowing field of dream, story, and song.
www.allmyrelationsconstellations.com
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