Re-membering Land That Knows Our Footsteps: A Celtic Window into Decolonising Systemic Training

Abstract

This paper explores systemic constellation practice through a Celtic perspective, tracing how land, water, story, and ancestral memory shape the field of belonging in a post-colonial era. Drawing on lineage, practice-based research, collective field inquiry, and collaborative research projects including Mapping the Empire and Tending Hope, the paper argues that ungrieved collective grief and historical silences shape what systemic practitioners are able to perceive within relational fields, influencing both constellation dynamics and the frameworks through which systemic training is taught. Through migration triangulation, the unacknowledged dead within lands and waters, and feminine wounding, the paper proposes a decolonising reorientation of systemic training that restores relationality with place, the more-than-human world, and the unacknowledged dead. This perspective expands systemic practice beyond the parental dyad into a wider ecology of kinship, memory, and care.