THE INTENSIVE

More Than Words Can Say...

This is the end...

“The Working Group for Systemic Resolutions in the Tradition of Bert Hellinger is offering an International Bert Hellinger Intensive”. This was the title of the first meeting that Hunter and I organized in 2001. Now, in November 2020, Covid 19 is in charge. The faculty and I have decided to bring the Intensive to a close, we have cancelled any plans for 2021 and 2022.

Along with the difficulties outwith our control it has become more apparent that interest from regular long-term participants is no longer so vivid. There was little feedback to Hunter's special talk for this year's Intensive, and we received very few donations for the student bursary fund.

So, a long history of bringing the seeds of constellation work into the world comes to a successful ending. Many of the national and international constellation meetings that have sprung up worldwide have their roots in our International Intensive.

Over the years the Faculty has included many excellent facilitators from the different generations (listed in order of the year in which they attended). Bert Hellinger, Hunter Beaumont, Gunthard Weber, Albrecht Mahr, Jakob & Sieglinde Schneider, Wolf Büntig, Ilse Kutschera, Ursula Franke, Eva Madelung, Guni Baxa, Bertold Ulsamer, Dagmar Ingwersen, Daan van Kampenhout, Christine Blumenstein-Essen, Francesca Mason-Boring, Jane Peterson, Judith Hemming, Sneh Victoria Schnabel, Stephan Hausner, Lap Fung Cheng, Constanze Lang, Jan-Jacob Stam, Diana Drexler, Bill Mannle. Many special guests and speakers brought their offerings and gifts to the annual meeting. During the life of the Intensive, first at Zist, then Bernried and Kochel (and planned Berlin), more than 800 participants from more than 40 countries have taken part.

While I’m writing this, many pictures, talks, meetings and emotions arise. I see the individual students from many, many countries arriving for their first evening of the Intensive; feeling strange and uneasy with each other and then during the week becoming the unified group at the famous ending feast and party. I see many faculty members, different facilitating styles  and working ways, all combined in a kind of “global peace work”. There have been many touching moments in these weeks –some difficult and many wonderful ones.  The energy was always very high, sleep was not high on the list!

I’ve learned over the years that the success of the Intensive needed these four things:

• A core team that reflects the whole;

• The Power of Intention;

• The willingness to give attention to yourself as an instrument in service of something larger than the individual;

• The social field as the 4th teacher. As well as the “three teachers” -  student, educator and place, we need the fourth teacher’s  social field.

When we created a container in the Intensive, the real teacher was the social field.

I was lucky to find so many good fellows over the years and to feel grace meeting all these different participants and faculty members.

Having cancelled the reservations at the hotel in Berlin for 2021 and 2022 I feel the ending is obvious and direct. I won’t meet many of you again in person, but you will always have a place in my heart and in my memories.

I wish you all a good and healthy future – Stay well!There’s still much beauty and many good things happening on this planet.

love, Lutz Bessel

„You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.” (Maura Mannle after Bernard Moitessier)

If you have any questions or reactions, feel free to send an email to info@constellations-intensive.de. I will add your comments or feedbacks to the website www.constellations-intensive.de

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Responses to the ending of the Intensive in November 2020:

The responses started with different wording: Dear Lutz; Dearest Lutz; Dearest Lutz and Faculty; Hello Lutz, et al; Hi Lutz; O Lutz; Hallo Lutz; Lieber Lutz, liebes Team vom Intensive; My dear Lutz; Lutz, Dear Bessel.

The German responses are left in its original, you can easily translate them with https://www.deepl.com/translator.

It is with sadness in my heart that I read your email tolling the bell for The Intensive. I have so many powerful memories of The Intensive, some wonderful, others painful, yet all contributing to personal and professional insight and growth. And the stunning beauty of nature around Bernried and Kochel offered us the container that the work required. I am very sorry at the thought of not seeing some of you again.

Thank you Lutz and all the staff for all your hard work, and thank you too to all the participants whose paths crossed mine and enriched it.

I can't quite believe that this is the end of the line,

Warmest wishes,

Laura Barnett

First I want thank you for the eloquent and warm goodbye email what you have send.
Then I want to thank first you for everything you have done to make it happen with your team.
But most it was you in my experience that was the motor that the Intensif  was Happening every year again.
I was there from the beginning in Zist and after Zist a many times and every intensif was high spirited well organized very good teachers from the whole world from different backgrounds education and approaches.
It has being an inspiring and enriching experience every single Intensif I have been.
Thank you all.
And specially you Lutz.
Take care and be well everybody where ever you live .
Love Inger Huidekoper
The Nederlands

I’ve heard or read perhaps Bert’s words that ‘thank you’ is a good way to say good bye. I will always be extremely grateful for the order this work has brought to my inner life, my family life, my faith and my work. The love that flows will grow I’m sure in all who’ve participated in this healing work. Thank you for your kindness and hard work to organize such an undertaking, and for speaking such perfect words to me as I sat in my own shattered awakening, “it’s nicer outside.” My heart is sad to know I can’t make another trip. But I continue to grow in this work and I trust the movements of love. 
Thank you to all the faculty, participants and facility hosts, may God bless and keep you all in His grace,
Amy Billingsley

My profound thanks to you and all your wonderful colleagues for maintaining The Intensive for so many years. I learned and grew so much from my experiences there and have so many fond memories. I am sorry it will be no more but so grateful for all that was shared. 

I wish you well and hope our paths might cross somewhere again.

Love and appreciation,

Annie (Block Pearl, M.S.)

Thank you for all the opportunities you provided for learning and networking in the constellation community over the years.

I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to participate in that experience which continues to grow inside of me and in others that I meet along the way.

As you may be aware I have recently announced a handing over of constellation talk which may reincarnate on another platform with a different moderator.

It feels like the closing of an old chapter. There seems to be some synchrony here as the idea for constellation alk came after I attended my first intensive in 2001.

It will be interesting to see if something positive evolves out of the field now. I expect it is time for something quite different in external appearance.

I remember when I started with constellation work in 2000 everything seemed so positive

• Before the split with Hellinger
• Before 9/11
• While the internet seemed to be overwhelmingly a force for the good (now highly questionable)
• Before Trump and the ascent of conspiracy theories

Even though lots of things have gone to shit, there is still a positive stream of energy that survives

And you have definitely been a part of that.

I sincerely hope to meet you again someday for a laugh and a beer

Cheers

Chris Walsh

Danke, lieber Lutz, für dieses schön e-mail!!
Alles Gute
Bertold (Ulsamer)

                  I’m just with the shock and grief at the moment with this news. I know there’s a larger field in which everything is well but I’m not ready to more than glimpse that now. The other thing that immediately arises is gratitude to you and all the wonderful faculty  and participants that I have met and worked with over the years. Huge thanks fo you for holding it all so well and with such kindness . This s my instant response there will be more on reflection . I will write something for the website. Oh how I will miss the intensives .
Maybe just maybe we will meet again.
With love,
Charlie (Stevens)

Thank you, Lutz. I cherish the year I spent at the intensive in 2016, and I thank you for all the work you put in for so many years to make that a possibility. 

With warm appreciation,

Angela (Watrous)

Lutz, Deine Worte haben mich sehr berührt, danke dafür!

Auch wenn wir uns nur einmal in Kochel kurz kennengelernt haben, so hat mich das Intensive bis heute sehr angesprochen, sich wirklich in alle Zellen hinein "eingebrannt" als eine der schönsten Erfahrungen dieser Art Veranstaltung. Ich bin traurig, dass es kein "weiter" gibt.

Ich bedauere sehr, dass uns die  Politik so beeinflussen konnte. 

Umso mehr wünsche Dir, dem Team und Euren Lieben, dass die Spaltung, die Trennung die sich weltweit gerade zu festigen scheint, zu wenig Boden findet.

Dass es uns allen gelingt, das Ruder noch einmal herumzureissen.

Lasst uns energetisch mit anderen vernetzen, um die Energie im Land wieder anzuheben.

Gern biete ich an, sollte sich später einmal eine neue Gelegenheit ergeben, dass ich Euch praktisch und z.B. mit Kontakten zur Verfügung stehe.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Luzern

Dagmar (Weidlich)

thank you for the email and I know that everyone I met in Germany are in my heart 

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing) I fear no fate (for you are my fate)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world) and you are the deepest secret nobody knows.
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings
Michael Quinn 

I am sorry the intensive is coming to an end. Although I wasn’t attending the last years, it was good to know that something like the Intensive was taking place. 

I personally found the talk of Hunter that you forwarded to us very important. I found it brilliant to say the least, and as usual it does bring a lot to our awareness. 

I find it interesting that not so many people responded to his talk. From my experience, people go into a kind of freezing, when faced with these sorts of truth. Since i have been living in Europe for 20 years, I can say there is a frozenness in the European soul when it comes to some things. I don’t think Hunter should stop talking like this, I think he needs to keep awakening people in this very style, and the seeds will grow later, may be in 20 or 100 years. 

To give you an example, I felt very excited about Hunter’s talk, because I have been saying the same but differently, and I deeply value the message. An Israeli friend of mine listened to it, and my husband, Austrian, also listened to it. They saw the point, but it felt as if they couldn’t react. No questions, no inquiry, etc. As if they stayed frozen.. Usually in "my life’, when I listen to something like this, i share with a friend, a talk, a heated discussion, goes on for a week at least, and it keeps coming and reverberates. I am writing to you now and the talk is vivid in my mind, it is still alive. Here, nothing (or so it seems). Anyway, it is a long discussion. 

I hope you continue in a different form, but to keep the message going, 

With love and gratitude to all of you, 

Amina Kern

Thank you with my whole heart. I've been twice to Benried, in 2010 and in 2013. I will never forget this experience, it made me grow and it allowed me to pass it to many others. You are right, words cannot say much and I am not a poet, so just agan, thank you, and thanks to the faculty and to every participant. Who knows what else will change and if we meet or not, but place in the heart stays foever.

With Love

Joanna (Malinowska)

Das ist sehr schade, denn ich hatte vor, im nächsten Jahr dabei zu sein. Es hat nicht sein sollen.
Alles Liebe und Gute wünscht Dir, lieber Lutz, 
Monika von Wietersheim

I’ve heard via a trainee that the lntensives have come to a close. Despite some very hurtful and difficult times at various Intensives where I felt unseen and unacknowledged, I found a ‘home’ there where I met many really beautiful people and I thank you and Hunter for all that you brought to those events over so many years. It was a great place of learning for me, including and maybe in particular, the difficult stuff. You managed to create an amazing sense of community over the years. And I saw it was very hard work for you both holding all that went on there.
Please also convey my thanks to Marianne who worked so tirelessly behind the scenes. 
I wish you well for the future. 
Warmly
Barbara (Morgan)

When we read your mail from yesterday announcing the end of the intensives, we both had tears in our eyes. We were shocked, and felt grief.
Of course we expected an intensive in 2021 wouldn’t be possible because of the pandemic, but the total end.. ! Not expected at all. To be sincere, the arguments sound a bit meagre.. Indeed, we didn’t give a donation, and in the overwhelming corona-time we let us feed by the wise, thoughtful and emotional touching words of Hunter, but didn’t think of sending a thankful reaction. Sorry. Is there another reason beneath your decision ? 
Don’t you expect that after more than a year of worldwide lock-down, people will long for contact, see and hold each other, have safe international circles to reflect, and professional exchange, tuition and growth ? 
We came ten times. Also for us a train of valuable friends from around the world passes by. That is what we will miss the most. 
But also, no more intensive in Europe ? Dear friends, how can we deal with this ? We want to make a call : can we do anything with this ? 
We feel deep gratitude, specially to you Lutz as a wonderful organizer, the warm hospitality of Marianne, the skill and the ‘closeness’ of the faculty.
Being able to learn from the long experience of facilitators of the first, second and third generation, the diversity of constellation styles, the wide array of topics, the interconnectedness of the afternoon groups, searching together for safety and a good framework to learn and do deep personal work, the joy during the evenings, singing songs and poems from around the world, exchange and talk about experiences in the garden hall, the many friends we made, experiences of ‘the field’ beyond borders and words… no words can contain them all. It made us to the constellators – and persons - that we are today.
Our great gratitude to you all ! You have a place in both our hearts. 
Fawzia (Hanssens ) and Louis (Hillebrand)

I am Ann Chen from Hong Kong who attended twice the Intensive many years ago in Bernreid. Thank you for the notification. It is understandable. 

I cannot thank you and the faculty and support team with words enough for launching the International Intensive which has benefited thousands and thousands in the globe. Now, I am now a constellation facilitator and the two International Intensive courses I attended are part of my corner stone training. 

When I writing this, your face and many others', the place, the party and a lot  lot touching constellations moments arise. So yes, it is time to say goodbye to the Intensive on ground but I find its' spirit stays in my heart, mind and body as always, as many others I believe. 

International Intensive, like COVID-19,  has brought us insight of globalization - "All in one, and one in all".  And whether we move to the bright side or dark side, it depends how conscious we are. It has beautifully done  its job now and it is time for rest. I'd miss it and hope that we could meet again in another time, another space and  another style of event somedays in future. 

Wish you and the team peace, happiness and health!

Love, 

Ann Chen

I thank you for all you have done- I would have hoped to see you again also- please thank everyone- I benefited so much- 
the intensive was one of the best gatherings ever- and your work- the admin behind the scense is really crux- that is key like the fundamental-- without it  and the faculty team made it so-
I would give you 5 star recommendation...
I loved the special treat from Hunter- Did I totally forget in the covid fog not to Send a thousand thank you-
The work is so good at the the international level-
As soon as things open again I would come again- and also contribute- so Im very sad for the moment-
though-
Please dont destroy the maiilng list- perhaps an annual greeting- because when things open again- there could be a dialog- or evolution-
which we cant forsee just yet in the field
I for one have been integrating all this shift globally- and as a teacher- facilitator- considereing quite what the role of arts and music - play in the field- for healing and supporting clear minded health- and sense Ill be offering something with constellation and the Arts- but Its not formed yet- enough- its forming I feel that much
Thanks meantime- Shine Brightly- blessings to all. Ever a place in my heart Too- global work- in service! Absolutely!
Sincerely,
Rosette Gault Ph. D

Danke für diese Ansage.
Ich nehme an das diese Entscheidung die Folge einer kollektiven Arbeit ist.
Es hat schon etwas beängstigend in der heutigen Lage so weit voraus zu sehen.
Jedenfalls danke dir für all diese Organisationsarbeit
Ich wünsche dir alles Gute
Jeannine Gillessen aus Belgien 

Thank you so much for your beautiful e-mail.  Things are indeed changing and we are all staying afloat on the rapids of this current river. We may not meet again, but you touched me when we met in Bernried. You have a place in my heart and there is no doubt that at soul level, it's all good. The journey is very exciting now and I feel so lucky to be alive and awake at this time.

Just wanted to say that -

Sending you and your wife much love

Maire-Ros (O’Rahilly) 

ganz herzlichen Dank für all die Jahre Deines unermüdlichen und so erfolgreichen Engagements. Sieglinde und ich haben gerne gegeben, was wir geben konnten und haben sehr sehr viel profitiert. Auch wenn wir uns nicht mehr begegnen sollten, da bleiben viele Begegnungen und Erfahrungen im Kopf und im Herzen gespeichert.
Sieglinde und ich haben unsere internationalen Engagements im wesentlichen beendet, und im Moment schiebe ich die letzten Selbsterfahrungs-Seminare, die ich in unserer Praxis geplant hatte, coronabedingt vor mit her. Sieglinde wird Ihre Einzelsitzungen noch eine Weile weiter führen, wahrscheinlich auch kleine Fortbildungsseminare. vielleicht bieten wir zusammen noch einige Supervisionsseminare an. Ansonsten gehe ich in den Ruhestand.
Ich hoffe und wünsche, Euch geht es gut, auch in den schwierigen Zeiten.
Liebe Grüße, 
Jakob (Robert Schneider)

Vielen Dank für Deine Nachricht. Obwohl sie mich nicht erstaunt, berührt sie mich, denn die Intensive war für mich wegweisend in meinem tiefen Commitment zu Aufstellungen. Dir danke ich von ganzem Herzen, dass Du diese Wochen über die Jahre ermöglicht hast. 
Until we meet again,
Love
Alessandra (von Planta Newman)

Einen schönen guten Morgen Lutz,

vielen Dank für die Nachricht, auch wenn sie traurig ist. Bevor ich die Chance hatte, die wunderbare Energie kennen zu lernen, wird es sie nicht mehr geben. Doch so, wie Du schreibst, strahlt sie in viele Richtungen aus. Dort werde ich ihr vermutlich begegnen.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen

Imke (Saße)

I am sorry for the logic decision you have made and I would like to thanks the enormous information and practice I gave receive in the trainings I been present. 
Thank you , thank you, thank you!!!
All the best for you !
Cecilia Simón Huespe 

While I have not had the ability to take time off of work and travel to the intensive since I attended in 2009, I would like to let you know that my experiences at the intensive have informed my professional work in the non-profit and education sectors,  and have also been very helpful for me in my own personal life. 

Thank you all for all of your work, it has not gone unnoticed, and it has made a lasting impact, 

Marie-Isabelle (Pautz, MRPYC)

I am more that grateful to you and Hunter for making all the Intensives posible, for "bringing the seeds of constellation work into the world" and for receiving every one of us with open arms every sinlge time and for providing for a rich learning experience.

While I was reading your letter many experiences, talks, workshops and people came to mind. Those were enriching and fullfilling times for me in many aspects, for all that I am grateful.

It made my sad to hear that you and the faculty had decided to take the Intensive to a close but I do understand why. I just know that the new generations will not have the oportunity I had. Eventhough there are other Intensives and trainings in different parts of the world that have the roots on yours, it will never be the same.

Thank you, thank you, thak you for everything!

Please my thanks to Hunter and the faculty memebers that are still part of it.

Big, big hug to you. Many blessings and best wishes for you and your family.

Take care,

Emma (Lucia Sanchez Ramos)

Thank you so much for you mail, your  heart felt words moved me deeply.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your enormous effort to organize the intensives, as you say "a long history of bringing the seeds of constellation work into the world".

You must feel profoundly satisfied for all that you have made possible in so many of us.

All the best,

Catalina (Roel)

Thank you Lutz for all your tireless efforts hosting so many intensives over the years

I just made one of them but the experience was unforgettable and profound 

Much gratitude and appreciation for your work and all who supported it

Warmly

Harrison Snow

It's a pity to read that this beautiful gathering has come to an end.

As you said I have so many images and feelings of my participation during 4 years. 

I have grown so much thanks to the facilitators from Hunter to Francesca including Jane and Judith.

I have laughed also with so many people coming all over the world.

Life is living experiences and I can say that constellations intensive has fullfilled this.

Thanks to you Lutz. You have been great during all these years.

Bye Lutz. Have an easy and lovely life.

Cheers.

Michèle Alonso

danke für deine Email.
Generell freue ich mich sehr von dir zu hören und wollte fragen wie es dir geht und ergangen ist in den letzten Monaten.
Die Entscheidungen waren sicher alle nicht einfach..
Ich hoffe sehr, dass wir uns irgendwie irgendwann mal wiedersehen.
Ich fände es sehr schade, wenn unser Kontakt abbricht.
Ich wünsche dir für deine nächsten Schritte alles Gute und danke dir von ganzem Herzen für all die Unterstützung die du mir gegeben hast, deinen Raum für mich zum Ausprobieren, dein tolles Feedback und deine Arbeit um die Intensiv week immer wieder durchzuführen.
Alles Liebe, blessings und hoffentlich bis bald,
Franziska (Pretsch)

It was pleasure to meet you and learn trough you and your colleagues.
Thank you for the experience. I will remember it.
All the best to you and your team 
Lidija (Pecotic)

Thank you so much for these touching words and most of all, for the great wonderful work you did during so many years to keep this going.  The merits of this hard and loving work will keep giving fruit for years & years to come.
Sadly, everything is impermanent and all good things must come to an end. 
These are difficult and strange times yet we must trust that new and beautiful things will flourish.
Many blessings and all my gratitude!
Laura (Roel)

Love to you, Lutz - what a lifechanger the Intensive has been for me –

total gratitude and just-right-mourning –

Hugs, Sarah Peyton 

I could honestly say that meeting constellation work shaped my life and transformed it entirely. The teachers I had in Kloster and the magic space I was part of are still alive in my heart and soul. The morning speeches with Hunter and the evening dances with Christinne, like a miracle in my life happening so unexpectedly. The spotless way of organizing everything, the togetherness, the vibe...I knew while it was happening that is one unique moment for us all, connected in a flow of healing and peacefulness. My soul was transported through time, there was no year, no race, no age, the belonging was complete. And yes, things end and people die and suffering bits and pieces comes with life.

I do appreciate the beautiful way in which you have chosen to close this. It was so heartfelt that tears are flowing from my eyes. Accepting the end of it is always somehow heavy, but you cut a clean cut.

Thank you for my experience with the Intensive, the teachers, the organizers are always going to be in my soul with gentleness and warm reminders.

I wish you health and peace!

Warmest regards!

Corina Velicu

I was only able to attend one event and the memories remain vivid.
I find your message a thoughtful and sensitive ending.  I imagine what it took to make the decision and decide how to communicate.  
I just wanted to say I deeply appreciate the opening for constellations work you and the team created and held... my experience was profound and I know others felt the same.
It was a priviledge to join you on part of that journey of learning.
The ripples you've created will extend far and wide and last for years.
Thank you... 8 short letters and heartfelt nonetheless.
I wish you joy, fulfillment, health and the sense of communicating, caring  and connection that it seems to me are needed for the future of humanity.
xx
Regards,
Alyse Ashton

Thank you Lutz for holding and nurturing this container for so many years. My gratitude to you, Hunter, and all those many others who shared and held the space.  (I am one who was deeply touched by the poignancy of Hunters address and I emailed him.) 
Blessings to you.
namaste’
darcy (Cunningham)
finding ease in body, mind, & soul

I only ever attended one intensive but but made a huge impact on me. I thus very sad that there will be no more but I thank you for your very touching letter. I hope that what you have put out will have great implications and that we will all meet again in different contexts with the benefits gained. 
Thank you for what you have contributed. 
Kind regards
Sharon Kalinko 

Your news doesn’t surprise me but fills me with a deep sense of poignant gratitude for having been part of an international community that brought so much good to the world. Something new and different will find its way to life in the coming years, I’m sure, looked after by another generation. But you looked after us, and I feel very fortunate to have known you through that and through Ridhwan and Gestalt, and a lovely friendship. I hope your life continues in interesting and fruitful ways, and that you stay well and at peace within. The intensives shaped much of my life while I was part of it, bursting with complex gifts. And you were at the heart of it. 
I send you a deep and loving bow,
Judith (Hemming)

It is so sorry to hear that! I did not have a chance to take part in any of these intensives and hoped that my path as facilitator, which I started recently, will go through and by this course as well! 

Hope when old goes something new comes! Wee definitely need some sort of safe place offline to get together in professional and friendly environment.

Hope to hear from you soon and someday to meet in person!

Sincerely,

Pavel Efimov 

Thank you Lutz for your message and for the efficient and friendly support during all these years.  An end is also an opportunity - I'm sure you'll make the best usage of it!

Kind regards to you and Hunter - it was a privilege to meet you.

PG

leber lutz, ich habe diese tage öfter an dich gedacht, allerdings nicht wegen dem intensive, sondern wegen meinem projekt wollte ich dich um ein gespräch und eine einschätzung bitten - und jetzt habe ich gerade diese mail aus dem spam gefischt ... und bin betroffen, erst bei karin schöbers geburtstag im juni in wien habe ich christine getroffen, auch guni und eelco, die sehe ich ja regelmäßig in der intervision und christine sagte, ob ich nicht nach berlin kommen möchte und ich hatte ein klares ja, so kommt deine mail jetzt doch überraschend - ich hatte immer wieder auch auf meinen reisen bis letztes jahr menschen getroffen, die in kochel waren und mir von ihrer wunderbaren erfahrung dort erzählt hatten.

ich denke gerne an die wochen in bernried zurück - wenngleich, es war nicht immer leicht - für mich waren es auch kleine feuertaufen, im kreis der großen und erfahrenen erst-generationsler zu stehen. und da möchte ich dir, ganz besonders dir!, ein wirklich aufrichtiges und tiefes DANKE sagen, denn für mich warst du derjenige, der im hintergrund gehalten hat

und jetzt wo die erste betroffenheit weicht, berührt es mich sehr diese zeilen zu lesen, blicke gerne zurück, halte die erinnerungen im herzen und schaue auch gern nach vorne ... sehe die enormen möglichkeiten dieser wunderbaren arbeit und auch immer mehr was es braucht, dass sie ihre kraft nachhaltig entfalten kann und wie ich viele jahre auf lösungen für einzelne im kontext ihrer systeme schaute und jetzt zunehmend deutlich wird was es braucht für die lösung der traumatisierung im system mit ihrer wirkung für das "ganze" oder alle beteiligten - sprich, der systemische blick wird immer systemischer und weiter ... eben wie du schreibst: beyond the individual ... 

so bleibt mir nur nochmals dank zu sagen und dir und Cleo alles erdenklich gute zu wünschen und lass mich bitte wissen ob ich dich bezüglich meinem Projekt ViseonLeben kontaktieren darf.liebe grüsse aus dem chiemgau

Stephan (Hausner)

It really is more than words can say.
After Colette Green introduced the work in India, my initial steps into constellation were by attending the Intensives in Bernreid.  I was introduced to some of the early masters in the work in the intensive, some of whom I have had the opportunity to further learn from in other settings.
I remember you with gratitude Lutz - all the planning, work and ensuring that it is all running smoothly.  And your personal connection with so many of us.  All of this held the cradle for this work.  It is true about the 4 teachers that we must be in touch with on a regular basis - and then we are guided.
My good wishes to you Lutz.  Perhaps we will meet again in constellation. If not, I have you in my heart.
With love
Annie Cariapa

I was only able to attend one event and the memories remain vivid.
I find your message a thoughtful and sensitive ending.  I imagine what it took to make the decision and decide how to communicate.  
I just wanted to say I deeply appreciate the opening for constellations work you and the team created and held... my experience was profound and I know others felt the same.
It was a priviledge to join you on part of that journey of learning.
The ripples you've created will extend far and wide and last for years.
Thank you... 8 short letters and heartfelt nonetheless.
I wish you joy, fulfillment, health and the sense of communicating, caring  and connection that it seems to me are needed for the future of humanity.
xx
Regards,
Alyse Ashton

Thank you Lutz for everything over the years all the way since  Zist...
Every thing changes.. everything moves..
Love and blessings wrapped in gratitude from
Colette (Green)

For reasons I will explain in a more extensive mail during the next days, I only very briefly acknowledge your mail and my initial feelings: sad, understanding, respect and enormous gratitude. Sad for the ending of a cherished place for me and sad when connecting to your far deeper relation to what is ending. Understanding in the face of “what is”: as you rightly say, Covid is now in charge. Respect for you, Hunter, Bert, Gunthard, Jakob, Guni, Albrecht, Christine, Stephan, Judith, Bertold, Francesca, and all the others who taught and shared with enormous dedication and love their knowledge and experience. A deep sense of gratitude for the wonderful experiences you made possible. It is difficult to make this assessment, but 2004 to 2018 are perhaps the happiest in my life, in great measure, thanks to the Intensives.
I hope to write again in the coming days.

I guess I said most of what I wanted to say in my brief response below. I can now add that your mail just arrived as I was literally leaving for the clinic for an inguinal hernia operation. It went well and I am home and moving about since Tuesday. Of course, not back to normal, but quite well and with some remaining pain, because that area is very sensitive (I am taking some pain killers). Now back to you.

Letting go is a never ending opportunity to learn and just allow oneself to be moved. This has been such a year, it started with Covid, continued with social and political upheavals everywhere and a sense that I was being pushed to the exit by the younger generations. And now, the end of the Intensive as a confirmation of all these changes, movements and closures. Not my best moment for “opening to the future” but the idea of connecting to what will emerge is a healthy one and it gives me a sense of hope and energy.

All the best to both of you. I do hope we keep in touch and we find a way of meeting once again.

Love,

T. (Tomas Kohn)

as it appears, the Intensive will be missed by not enough, albeit fondly remembered by many people. 

I was a participant in the very early years (history :). 

A memory, ensconced fondly at the base of my work with systems.

Since then, I also am a fan of Hunter Beaumont's.

As I was not a participant (no, not one of the few of this year), I wonder if there is a chance to read / listen to the  special talk you mention.

I understand that I come late, 'post mortem', so to speak. Still, a special talk was/is undoubtedly a venerable event ... 

Hunter told me about three years ago that he is 'all retired' –– well –– then, I simply stopped following possible public appearances.

If a copy is available, that would be lovely ... 

Thank you for your time.

Warmly

Karin (Dremel)

Thanks for your email, and thanks for all your work over the years.  You and your team kept the torch burning. And thanks to Hunter and the faculty members for putting their energy, enthusiasm and spirit into the project. 

I attended four of the International Intensives in total - two at the beginning of the run, and two towards the end.  Each of them was different in character, but they had some things in common: it was wonderful to come to Germany and see something of German culture;  wonderful to see the many and various ways in which Constellation work could be used; and there was always a buzz.  Each time I left with a wider view of the world and a deeper understanding of the work.  The food was good too, and we had a lot of fun.  

One year at Bernreid the theme was `Refugees'.  A group of Syrian refugees came to sing and meet with us.  I had never met any refugees before.  I learned something simple and straightforward which is obvious in hindsight, but had never occurred to me before. Refugees don't leave their home from choice; they leave because they must leave.  I remember this when I hear some of our politicians talk, or I hear of small boats arriving on the English coast. 

Thanks for all the thought and consideration you put into the Intensives Lutz.  They were very important to a lot of people.  My guess is that you're still very busy, but maybe you deserve a little bit of a rest.

Ian (Fuller)

Thank you ever so much for this. I love Hunter’s teachings, always refreshing. 

I hope you’re well, amid the weirdness.

I’m sorry that the intensive has had to cease, but what you have helped create over the years has been invaluable. Thank you,

Best wishes 

Chris (Williams)

I attended two Intensives and I still think of them. They were both incredible experiences and the learning and healing has stayed with me and been passed onto many clients. 

I wish I could have attended many more and I am sad that it is the end. You manifested a very beautiful, useful service for us all and for the world. Thank you so much,

With warm wishes,

Sheila McCarthy-Dodd

Dear All

around two months ago a few of us (Lutz and facultuy members) were meeting live in Austria and also via Skype. Our intention was to plan the Intensive 2021. Immediatly we realized, that we will not be able to have it happen. The pandemia  works in its own way. The strong sense showed up: Okay, this is the end ..... the end of an incredible pioneer era of  international meetings within the learning community of constellation work. It felt sad and it felt coherant. It got evident: something else is calling. Something new is going to arise. We are looking forward to it.

Some days after the decision to end the International Intensive I had a workshop at cloister Bernried.  Most of the Intensives took place there. A nearly endless stream of memories and images popped up: faces of many, many of you, workshops, deep encounters, the inspiring talks of Hunter, meetings within the faculty, singing with Brendan during the ending parties, the cake breaks......... I saw  (maybe for the last time) the big hall,  the  beautiful cloister garden, walked through the landscape with the water and the powerful trees...

An incredible gratefulness appeared. Gratefulness for all of us being able to commit ourselves to work through sometimes challenging situations, for takings risks, for the willingness to contribute to this young evolving constellation field, to participate full hearted, with apprecation, joy and humor. Gratefulness for Hunter starting these Intensives, again and again exploring and refining  the structure of the schedule, not giving up when situations got difficult. Gratefullness for Lutz, who was holding the whole and taking care of it in such a competent way. Gratefulness for the faculty members who contributed with their knowledge and experience and were willing to share it. Gratefulness especially for all the participants who came from so may nations, wished to learn with open minds and bring their experineces back into their countries. And gratefulness to life, that allowed us to meet and to share essential issues of our lives together.

With love

Guni (Baxa)

Thank you so much for this letter. I am sure this was a very difficult decision to make, but I can completely understand it.  Honestly, it took me quite a few days to write back to you, because I feel sad at the loss of such an important event.  It felt like this is the deepest root that was still centred in Europe and with a teaching faculty of the highest calibre  - First generation and master trainers all round. I also appreciate so much that you were open to make it possible for me to come there and for Sian and I to share a piece of our work.  The closing ceremony with the dance and the oldest member handing out the certificates while us young dancing women did their new thing was quite special to be invited into. 

Ultimately I really want to thank you for all you have done. All the years of this work which is a lot. Not only the organisation and the holding of the space during those 7 days, but all the holding of the entire impulse of constellations work internationally. I remember my first visit to Zist in 2003, and then Bernried and then Kogel so clearly. 

I’m hoping that some of these trainers will offer training online at our new REAL Academy so that the work retains this dignity of these elders in the community.  Do you perhaps have an email contact list for me of all the trainers that you mention below and would be willing to share it?  I have many of them, but not all, so I can open the invitation should they be willing to work online? Also, if there is any way that I can assist to reviving something in future, or collaborating on a Berlin event someday, please do let me know.  I am learning so much about working and marketing online, that I would be honoured to contribute in some way.  My sense is that the quality of trainers and what you held in Germany was way beyond what is being offered in the rest of the world.  I will certainly continue to feel the impact on my work and see it in the hundreds of students who have subsequently trained with me in South Africa. So, your intensives are like the great-grandparent of our trainings around the world before whom I can only bow. 

I am very grateful. 

Thank you, Lutz. 

Warmly,
Tanja (Meyburgh)

It took me a while to absorb and to understand what's written in your message.

I am still having difficulty digesting it.

It feels like as if my parents’ house is no longer there.

It is selfish enough of me believing blindly things what I love will be there always, even though my own life has been changing so fast.

I am feeling how enormous it has been what you have created and supported.

You created the sign pointing at where we can look up the stars, the moon and the sun. 

During the very difficult time we were lost, head down, didn’t know where the window is.

You built the mystic school where we could learn how to read the stars, the moon, the sun and even the galaxy. 

The semesters each time were magical.

Because of the school, I could find my path using the stars as guideposts. 

I was a traveler lost in a desert.

I imagine how hard it was to hold and taking care of the place for those people who needed it over the so many years. 

And I know I made your work even harder here and there.

I get too emotional and too sentimental looking back the years I have participated.

Therefore, I write only a little here.

Deepest gratitude to you and Hunter from the bottom of my heart.

Chetna Kobayashi

Thank you for your efforts. The Intensive gave me a lot of support during a crucial time in my life when I faced the parts of my family history that had been too dark to be looked at before. The Intensive gave my life a new direction and was the final impulse I needed to make the decision that I wanted to work as a therapist. Today I mostly connect identity work with somatic approaches while the larger system including the power of the ancestors stays present in my work. This is what the Intensive in Bernried with Guni Baxa, Francesca Mason Boring, Albrecht Mahr, Victoria Schnabel, Jan Jacob Stam and many others taught me. I am grateful beyond words.