Reclamation of Remembering: Restoration of Stories, Connection, and Belonging within our Collective Cultures.
Stories within constellation help us remember how to remember and then they help us create a map of what that remembering can become and where it comes from.
What happens to descendants that speak with a voice that doesn’t hold the words, stories, myths, and culture of their ancestors? When the very language, beliefs, traditions of the culture of the previous generations have been colonised and rendered voiceless?
Generations upon generations of people have been denied their existence through the silencing of story, myth, folklore and culture.
Decolonisation and disentanglement of this loss involves returning to the energetic archives of our lineages, the memories held in the land and waters, sometimes beyond language, to reclaim our nature, our knowing, our humanity and our stories.
Over the last decade we have, in many ways, experienced an enforced removal of ‘what was’ in terms of our collective ‘normal’ and we are presently living in the liminality of the space that exists in the before/after of multiple collective trauma points.
Telling our stories, sharing and witnessing the stories of others, listening to older stories from ‘before’ is a powerful way of beginning to heal that and separating put the threads, not just for ourselves but for those that will follow in our footsteps.
Format: Presentation of theory of collective constellation and entangled memory through myth & story. Constellation with stories held in the land and waters in small groups.
Short Bios:
Nicola Mackay is a clinical physicist turned systemic constellation therapist and researcher. She has been in private practice for over twenty years and has a busy therapy practice and teaching school based in Western Europe and the United States. She is the author of several books on systemic therapy.
She is the founder and project leader of Tending Hope CIC and is dedicated to researching and exploring the impact of historical trauma and displacement through the use of constellation and entangled memories.
She has a passionate focus on uncovering and witnessing the untold stories of generations of souls rendered unseen and voiceless through her work with collective memories held within the land, the waters, and our physical bodies.
Books:
Mackay, Nikki (2020) Your Invisible Inheritance. Rebel Magic Books. England, UK.
Mackay, Nikki (2012) Between the Lines: Healing the Individual & Ancestral Soul with Family Constellation.
Research articles:
MacKay, Nicola(2025). Reclaiming Legacy. Beyond a Binary Narrative. Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice, 8(1),54-58.https://doi.org/10.28963/8.1.9
Fierke, K.M. and Nicola Mackay (2022) ‘Those who left/are left behind: Schrodinger’s Refugee and the Ethics of Complementarity,’ Global Studies Quarterly
Fierke, K.M. & Mackay, N. 2020. To See is to Break and Entanglement: Quantum Measurement, Trauma and Security. Security Dialogue. Ottawa, Canada
Fierke, K.M. and Nicola Mackay (under review) ‘The Impossible Necessity of Becoming Global: Ungrieved Grief and Collective Agreements not to Know.’
Short Bios:
Chris Wood is a passionate social justice activist, astronomer who continues to push the boundaries of physics and spirituality for healing individual and collective trauma for the highest good of all beings, past, present and future. In recent years her focus has been exploring the use of sacred crystal bowls as a tool for healing.
Chris will be playing her crystal singing bowls during the constellation. Together with Nicola they have found the addition of the bowls to the moving constellation field creates a movement beyond language, that is transformational for remembering and shifting the deep entanglements that there are often no words for.
Public contact (Nicola Mackay):
WhatsApp: (+44) 7812997956
EMAIL: nikki@nikkimackay.co.uk
FB: Nikki Mackay – Constellation Conversations