LEADER 04821nam 22006615 450 001 9911031562003321 005 20251001130446.0 010 $a3-032-03087-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-03087-0 035 $a(CKB)41520721900041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32323656 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32323656 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-03087-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941520721900041 100 $a20251001d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAncient African Futures $eSystemic Constellations Practice a Decolonial Poetics /$fby Stuart Taylor 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (185 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Decolonisation and Grassroots Black Organic Intellectualism,$x2731-9830 311 08$a3-032-03086-2 327 $aChapter 1.-Situating Ancient African Futures: Locating self, Connecting with Ancestors ? into the Flow of Intergenerational Space-Time.-Chapter2.-Afropean.-Humbly embracing African and European Heritages a distinct perspective.-Chapter 3.-A Decolonial reframing of Systemic Constellations Practice.-Chapter4.-Neocolonialism -- Decolonial praxis as a (potential) propelling dynamic in the contemporary-future world(s) of Professional SCP -- Chapter 5.-A Decolonial Pluriversal Cosmovision for Systemic Constellations Practice : Weaving Desirable Radically Inclusive Diverse Futures. 330 $aAncient African Futures provides a creative and critical account of the history and form(s) of systemic constellations practice (SCP) applying a decolonial lens, emphasizing the profound significance of Zulu epistemology on its origins. The volume opens with an autoethnographic account of the author?s African diasporan / European identity and its bearing within the SCP profession. It offers a summary introduction to SCP as a discrete modality of Western psychotherapy, commonly accepted as the creation of Anton Hellinger, a German national. Hellinger was a Jesuit missionary priest in South Africa during the 1950-1960s. The author argues that this colonial phenomenon and Hellinger himself, are emblematic of the European Imperial project. The volume scrutinises this historic-contemporary dynamic in relation to more-than-Western indigenous epistemologies, advocating for a pluriversal reckoning, considering European colonial histories and indigenous forms of cultural resistance. Having interrogated the asymmetric dynamic exchange between Africana and Western cultures, the volume then explores a ?speculative manifesto?. This manifesto proposes numerous concrete actions regarding future curriculum design and faculty representation within professional SCP trainings, championing a recalibration, decentring whiteness, making SCP a profession more open to and representative of diverse global communities. Honouring their historic, cultural, colonial, postcolonial and political experiences, alongside their contemporary narratives of migration, settlement and resistance to Western neocolonialism. Ultimately, advocating for an empathetic and celebratory, Black / Global Majority Heritage-inclusive SCP practice model. Stuart Taylor is an artist, decolonial scholar-activist, transcultural leadership coach, organisational consultant, systemic constellations practitioner and writer. His multi-heritage identity includes West African, Caribbean and European ancestry. From 2020-2025 he was a partner at Constellation Workshops in London, a community-accessible SCP service. Stuart is a Scholar within the MaCTRI Decolonial Praxis Doctoral Programme in Manchester, England. He lives in London with his family. . 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Decolonisation and Grassroots Black Organic Intellectualism,$x2731-9830 606 $aCulture 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aEthnology$zAfrica 606 $aImperialism 606 $aBlack theology 606 $aSociology of Culture 606 $aSocial Justice 606 $aAfrican Culture 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aBlack Theology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aBlack theology. 615 14$aSociology of Culture. 615 24$aSocial Justice. 615 24$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aBlack Theology. 676 $a616.89156 700 $aTaylor$b Stuart$01850726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911031562003321 996 $aAncient African Futures$94443911 997 $aUNINA