"Words really do fail to adequately express the experience. It is so profound on so many levels. I am honored to be part of the process and part of the healing. It has been a heart and soul opening experience for me - time and time again. I will be forever grateful for this work.

I believe this work has allowed me to connect more meaningfully (presence, heart energy, acceptance, etc.) to every member in my birth family (except for one - I'm still working on that one) and my current family. For a while it seemed that the work was mainly a temporary peak "state" experience and not contributing to my daily growth. However, as soon as I started incorporating the acknowledgment and honoring (bowing has been key) of all the energies in my past and present it seemed to shift the growth to a more permanent state/stage. The relationship and energetics that I have with my Father has been dramatically improved and this has been one of the most healing things that I have experienced in my life.

Everyone should experience this work at least once. For many people,including myself, the work begins to nourish your soul and you can't get enough of it. Eventually, you get what you've been yearning for and you can move on to the next level (while simultaneously including this one).

I feel very grateful to have Lisa as a facilitator. I am constantly in awe at how she can sense the energies and direction which would be healing. Her presence and respect for the process and the people make the whole experience more inviting and healing."

-- a 41 y.o Father and Engineer/owner.

"After participating in my first constellation last year, I have been drawn to this work, heart and soul.....and perhaps, it has even been my ancestors giving me a polite little nudge to continue to experience the work as often as I can! Each constellation that I attend gives me more insight into the human condition and on a purely conscious level, this has served to deepen my awareness, compassion and level of acceptance for "what is".

Lisa is a quietly observant and respectful participant in the "field". Her groundedness enables her to surrender to the messages as they unfold during the constellations. Lisa's faith in the process and her humility in the face of this Awe-inspiring work help her do the outstanding facilitation that she does. I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend Lisa to anyone thinking about experiencing family constellation work."

--Laura Widman

"The family constellations give you a different and at times profound perspective on historic family dynamics. Lisa is a safe and accepting person who has a real feel for this work. [And advice for newcomers:] 'It can't hurt you!!! "

-- Steve Widman

"This is powerful work -- moving both emotionally and in a physical sense of creating open space. I am still processing much of the work experienced in the 6 weeks, but have felt released from some past sorrows by experiencing other participants' constellations. It was good to see that my own family patterns can be seen in new ways and transformed into different reactions.

I feel more relaxed when with family members, able to recognize that they are very different from me but that there is no need for us to judge each other.

Lisa is very intuitive and seems to know just how to suggest movements or call "players" into the groupings to let important feelings come
out. She has a gentle authority that promotes trust in the process.

[Advice for newcomers:] The concept at first may sound odd (I was skeptical), but go to a demonstration and see for yourself! I was surprised by the powerful opening of emotions and possibilities."

-- 51 year old woman, learning circle participant

"I feel that the constellation work has opened me up to a deeper part of myself and to a greater sense of connection to people. Both inside and outside of my family, I am more satisfied and fulfilled within my relationships. Because I have "walked in many peoples shoes" I have a greater appreciation and respect for humanity. I have a much easier time trusting people with all my heart and feeling that people behave with good intentions.

I am much closer to my immediate family, birth family, and ancestors. It is very obvious to me when we have a big family get together and instead of being drained I feel re-vitalized after the event. I re-connected in a very positive and meaningful to an older brother that was very significant in my life but we both had drifted apart emotionally and otherwise.

I think Lisa does a wonderful job. Her trust and respect for the process, the people involved, and the greater soul was apparent from the beginning. I believe it allowed the people involved to simply let go and trust the process. Her acceptance and understanding made the journey easier.

This is an incredible way to meaningfully connect to other people and parts of yourselves that you didn't think were possible. The experience cuts through most of the busy mental activity that we typically deal with on a daily basis and gets one in touch with ourselves, others, and the natural forces that affect our lives."

-- David Bradley.

"From taking Lisa's workshops, I have learned how available love is to us. Our ancestors want to see us happy and healthy — and loved and loving, and expressed and alive — and they are there to send love through to us.

It's taking this family inheritance and instead of being pulled into the past by it, it's feeling support for myself into the future.

I have a much deeper sense of being loved — I feel much more secure in that. That is the most significant change — habitual patterns of feeling isolated or self pity — "no one loves me" or "I'm unlovable" — those kind of feelings — I can't get away with them anymore.

I think about it in terms of my work — which is not directly about humans. We humans are not honoring the places where other beings belong in the system and as a result, disease happens. I feel a real echo. My work is about trying to honor the place of all beings, all bio-diversity, so that we have health and love flowing instead of death and extinction.

In my mind a good, healthy future requires us to live with the people in our family, different families, different countries, the range of species and all of the things we need to keep going. We need to care about the well being of others as much as ourselves because they are deeply interconnected. We need to care about all of the beings, whether they ever breathed (were born) or not, giving them their place, honoring it with love, for our own well being.

It can be an accelerated form of healing. Because you have a group of people working in your good stead, you all benefit from that expression of love that comes through. So regardless of where you are in the circle (the representative or the subject), you get a healing.

I've seen Lisa three times transform a group of people who don't know each other with different life stories form into a group that is ready and available to support each other's healing. She creates a very safe environment, and is very non-intrusive, very respectful.

She has a grounded, straightforward, simple sense about her. She clearly loves the work and I feel it's a gift that she's in Bellingham and bringing us this work."

--Ruth Mathews, Bellingham, WA