ABOUT ME


About Amanda Gifford – 20 years of experience helping thousands of people.

I provide a gentle, non judgemental, reflective, creative space for those on their journey who need some encouragement, support, upliftment, space to tune in and more.

I am Amanda Gifford.

I have a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology majoring in Drama Therapy, and I am a HPCSA-registered Drama Therapist (AT 0000027), Family Constellations facilitator and trainer, and change agent with over 20 years of experience working in NGOs, corporate environments, groups, and private practice. I graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, USA in 2004 with a Master’s degree in Psychology, specializing in Drama Therapy with a transpersonal focus. I am a South African. I am a pioneer for Drama Therapy in South Africa being one of the first of a handful of people to go overseas and get trained in Drama Therapy which was not available in South Africa. I have also studied 8 years of Family Constellations and have used it as an integral part of my practice.

I run a private practice in Oaklands, Johannesburg, offering both in-person and online sessions.

My niche is working with adults who are going through stress, life changes, dark night of the soul or have daily life issues – family, money, relationships, stress, health issues, spiritual difficulties, depression, trying to make sense of their challenges and so on. I also work with people dealing with recovering from chronic illness. Sleep issues. PTSD. And more.

My approach blends a warm and friendly client centred approach to therapy.

My training draws on a wide range of creative and embodied methods, including play therapy, drama therapy, process theatre, narrative therapy, parts therapy, and family constellations.

Alice in Quantum Land, Family Constellations & The Morphogenetic Field

Proposal Presentation of Paper at the World Music Congress at University of Pretoria: 7 – 11 July 2020 by Amanda Gifford ( to be confirmed)
20 minute presentation on Family Constellations.

We can access knowing about much more than we realise. We live in a field of Consciousness and Energy and depending on how we perceive reality so we create the outcomes of the nature of our reality. Family Constellations was founded by Bert Hellinger who trained with the Zulus in KZN as a Sangoma for 15 years and then took the practice back to Europe and created a hybrid form of African Traditional Wisdom that was mixed with European psychologies specifically Phenomenology. Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations, is an alternative therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu attitudes to family. In a single session, a Family Constellation attempts to reveal a supposedly unrecognised dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject, through representatives, to encounter and accept the factual reality of the past. It can be applied in various ways. In this 20 minute presentation I will give a short presentation on how I work with it, a bit of the science and present a few client cases.

Testimonial: Deep Cleanse Healing through Family Constellation Therapy with Amanda Gifford

Testimonial: Deep Cleanse Healing through Family Constellation Therapy with Amanda Gifford

March 12, 2019 by participant Chelsey May

On the 16th of February 2018, my Step Father Leon Orsmond went missing in Kigali, Rwanda. Through sources, it was discovered that he was arrested for being politically expressive about his opposing political views. Police had no records of his arrest and government institutions were of no proactive assistance, even to this day.

Hovering in darkness, grief and confusion I was extremely grateful to Amanda for offering a constellation space for me to digest this unnerving experience. Through a specific embodied structure, the family constellation space offers an opportunity to become conscious of and break patterns connected to ancestors and current family members. Inspired by Zulu wisdom and structural beliefs around family, Bert Hellinger developed this multi-dimensional group process to guide one towards healing unconscious family wounds that still play out through us on a daily basis. Members of the group are ‘enrolled’ as representatives of one’s family, while the therapist guides you towards recognizing and confronting these wounds.

The beauty of this therapy is that you never know what you’re going into, yet you come out with peace either way – so there really isn’t much to fear if you approach the process with courage. During my constellation, Amanda effectively guided me towards connecting with the energy of what was going down and what could be done to move forward in the situation with Leon. My initial ‘goal’ was to find out what happened to him and what to do to find him but that’s not totally how it works, although there was strong reason to believe that he either did not want to be found or he was already dead. As Amanda weaved us deeper into the journey, I was rolled into a profound understanding and awareness of how I was holding onto deep pain from Leon living in another country for the past 8 years. I also gained a new awareness of how this pain had been negatively playing out in my life – specifically through my career and romantic relationships. All of this was plenty of new ‘stuff’ to digest so the session ended at this point. Had I chosen to go deeper into the process I would have likely gone into broader ancestral patterns calling for healing. I definitely recommend several sessions to deepen the cleansing.

I have been part of several constellation sessions with Amanda where I was a representative for others diving into the entanglements of family wounds. Overall, with her own grounded cosmic wisdom, Amanda brings an expanded mindfulness of the broad possibilities of where a wound is sitting in the family line and what needs to happen to confront and heal this wound, for the sake of the individual and their descendants. Amanda’s use of elements (such as water) and various medicines placed in the space as representatives adds extra support and power to the process. If you’re brave enough to do this work, I highly recommend Amanda to hold you through it. With her magical and grounded feminine presence, you’ll be sure to experience subtle, yet mind-blowing breakthroughs.

 

If you are keen to get in touch with Amanda for a constellation, here are her details: Whatsapp – 0784996472, Email – amanda@geniuslab.co.za. Visit her website – www.amandagifford.co.za

FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS TRAINING 2019

FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS TRAINING 2019
www.amandagifford.co.za
Cell: 078 499 6472
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What’s New… Amanda will be starting a Quantum Embodiment Family Constellations training which will be 18 days over 2 years in March 2019.
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Spooky action at a distance.

INTRO DAY FOR CONSTELLATIONS: Saturday 26th of January 2019 8:30 – 5pm Family Constellations Workshop and an Intro to Family Constellations. First Constellation of the year.

FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING QUANTUM EMBODIMENT

Our first event here will be a Family Constellations Quantum Embodiment Foundation Training with Amanda Gifford on the

1.) 8 – 10th March 2019 Foundation Course Module 1
2.) 15th – 17th of March 2019 Foundation Course Module 2

6 days will give you your foundational training.

R12 000 which will include 4 one on one Family Constellations individual therapy sessions with Amanda which will happen over this time. Intake therapy session before 8th of March.
Then 2 follow up therapy sessions in the week of 11th – 15th March and one integration session in the week after 15th March.

Medical Aid Claims possible( depending on which medical aid)

This Foundation Training does NOT make you a facilitator but you need to complete it to go onto the ADVANCED modules for Facilitator Training.

FACILITATOR TRAINING – ADVANCED

Choose your advanced track qualification from attending Constellations Workshops throughout the year.

Then you would move into the facilitator training
10 days of training over 2 years.
You can make up your training from the Family Constellations workshops Amanda runs throughout the year as well as others highly skilled trainers. You must attend some international facilitator trainings as part of your training 4 – 6 days.
Interview
10 Days of Family Constellations Workshops
4 – 6 days with other international Family Constellations facilitators
(price not included in training)
25 hours of self organised peer group sessions
2 mentoring sessions
2 days group supervision
Portfolio

You need to have a personal embodiment practice like yoga or dance and meditation practices to work with your intuition and 3rd eye. ( inner site)

R30 000 over 2 years

4.) International Training Modules: with Gui, Stephan Hausner, Tanja Meyburgh can be done in your training

Intake starts in January for the Foundation Course.
Please email amanda@geniuslab.co.za or phone 078 499 6472 to find out more.

FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS INSIGHTS & FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK FROM DR BULATOV on AMANDAS FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS

“INSIGHTS INTO FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS (21st August 2017) 

By Dr S V Bulatov – registered homeopath

I have known the principles of the family constellations for many years but had never participated.

My first experience with Amanda was very enlightening and empowering although it was not done on me. I just have been invited to assist the group.

I have realized that the family constellations are based on the following principles:

  1. The 11th commandment: “Love one another…” and “Faith without deeds is dead”. Each one of us had the pure intention to help the others and acted on it with truthful words, role play and dynamic movement.
  2. The fundamental laws of quantum physics:

-the least effort creates the biggest ripple effect;

-the one quant of the right energy balances the whole system.

      3. The practical application of Einstein-Podolski-Rosen experiment.

      4. Releasing the bondage created by the sins of the ancestors from the father and mother side and soul ties in present life.

      5. Releasing the negative effects from the morphic field that we have been exposed to during our life.

      6. The tremendous power of truthful words/role play/dynamic movements vs focused thoughts/intentions sent to another person like in hoponopono.

      7. The ease of expression in participants due to the playful, free flow, non-judgemental nature of the process.

      8. The spontaneous connection with the intuition, conscience and inner child without any mind interference.

      9. The instant transformation that takes place.

10. The profound positive effect that is created in the individual, group, community, human population, solar system and all galaxies.” Dr Bulotov

“Being part of the family constellation has helped me realize that some of the problems we experience are not just new issues they are a chain from our  past and some are linked with our ancestors and more importantly I learnt that acceptance and positive attitude is what makes a person be able to address issues. The constellation has healing movements, It teaches deep love towards family and our loved ones.. And mostly it makes us new people. At the end of the day it’s about the roots I’m glad I attended the constellation and I’m looking forward to many more. Thank you.” Zanele (August 2017)

SESSIONS WITH AMANDA

AMANDA GIFFORD
MA PSYCHOLOGY, COUNSELLING, DRAMA THERAPY
HPCSA REGISTERED
Therapist.

WHATSAPP for session booking 078 499 6472 with your name.

SESSIONS

1. Therapy Sessions with Amanda using Basic Counselling and Coaching Methodology, plus artistic and therapeutic methods including Expressive Arts Therapies, Drama Therapy methods for helping you with your life issues, areas that need change, personal exploration and Awakening aswell as Family Constellations to explore the themes of your life. Sessions available for individuals, couples, family sessions and more.

If you work with awareness around where you are at, you can bring greater depth of presence to your life. I offer weekly sessions in Johannesburg and via Skype for International or those outside of johannesburg.

Explore your story. Unlock your potential. Find Solutions. Leave behind Addictions.
Email me at amanda@geniuslab.co.za
Or if you are in South Africa
Cell/Whatsapp to book a session 078 499 6472
Some Medical Aids like Discovery cover these sessions.

Coaching based/ Solutions Focused/Hypnotherapy Style Constellations Also Available for deep seated themes.

First Sessions: R1200 ( 90 minutes) R200 added if you are claiming from medical aid. Should be able to get full amount back from Medical Aid depending on which one it is.

Follow Ups: R800 ( 1 hour)

Can possibly be claimed with Discovery Health.

Phone or Whatapp with name to 078 499 6472 with the request for an appointment or PM me on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/amanda.gifford.984

FOR SOUTH AFRICA
HPCSA registered Medical Aid claims possible for some medical aid schemes like Discovery.
Payments via Paypal for overseas clients.
Email: Amanda@geniuslab.co.za To Book.

 

De-Roling & Detoxification

Advice from two world famous Remote Viewers: Courtney Brown from the Far Sight Institute and Lyn Bucchanan from Problems: Solutions: Innovations

HI Lynne – We were in contact a few years ago. I live in South Africa. I have been meaning to ask your advice. You mentioned a detoxification process in your book. I think i need the process in the work that i am doing with Family Constellations .

Could you please send me some details how you teach or suggest remote viewers to detoxify after their sessions?

Hi.  Sorry to be so long in answering.  I get tons of email, and just can’t keep up.

The “detox” process – for Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) – is much easier than it is for other self-created remote viewing methods. The main reason for that is because in CRV, >>everything<< is written down.  It not only makes an official record of what was perceived, when, and how, but it also serves as a tool for the viewer to write the summaries without forgetting things that happened during the session.  People who use a methodology where they don’t write the session information down as they do the session have been shown to 1) forget half of more of what was perceived and 2) in their mental reconstruction of what happened in the session, they jump to conclusions (usually erroneous) as to the meanings of the things they do remember.

Anyway, having set that stage for the explanation of “detox”, the way it is done in CRV is  – after you finish the session and the summary, you then start at the end of the session and go backwards through it in a fashion that “unzips” you from any connections you’ve made with the target.  You start at the very end of the session and go back until you reach the point where you first made contact with the target.   Example:
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(The session leads up to the point where you get…….)
“tall”
“male”
“person”
(The monitor says: “Describe what this person knows about the targeted activity.”  {This is the point where you first access the target person.}  You continue your session and let’s say that pages later you get…)
“He’s very emotional about it”
“He doesn’t like it”
(example session ends here)
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OK.  Next, you do your summary before you get polluted by other things, turn your summary to whomever needs it, etc.  You’re finished with the remote viewing duties – now it’s time to see to your own needs.  It’s time to “detox”.  You start at the end and mentally separate yourself from the target person by reasoning out the difference between your response to the perception and the target person’s.

“He doesn’t like it!”
And ask yourself,
“Is that something >>HE<< doesn’t like, or is it something that >>I<< don’t like?
Well, he certainly didn’t like what was going on, but I could  care less about it.  So— that’s him, not me.”

Then you go up to the previous perception and do the same…
“He’s very emotional about it.”
And ask yourself,
“Is that his emotions or mine?  Well, sure!  I get emotional about the target activity, but >>MY<< emotion is out of principle.  >>His<< emotion is because he’s right in the middle of it.  So that perception is of >>HIS<< emotional response to the situation, not mine.”
Then you go up to the previous perception on the paper and do the same, same, same, until you get back to that point in the session where you first accessed the target person.  By “unzipping” yourself in this manner, you walk away from the session clean of any personal garbage you may have picked up from that other person.

It is a simple process, really, but can be very time-consuming.  Take the time.  It is a lot better than rushing through it (or not doing it at all) and finding out much later that something of that target person’s emotional, spiritual, political, etc. makeup has attached itself to you without you knowing it.

Anyway – I hope that helps.  Good to hear from you.  I hope that things are going well for you down there on the winter half of the planet.  Here, it’s around 100 degrees fahrenheit (38 Celcius), dry as a bone, and not a breeze to be found anywhere.  Got any extra snow lying around that you could spare?
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Lyn Buchanan, Executive Director
Problems Solutions Innovations
37 Camino Ranchitos, Alamogordo, NM 88310
(575) 437-8285
Please visit our website at http://www.crviewer.com
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It’s your mind.  Use it or lose it.
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The ultimate oxymoron:  “Holy war”
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Making a living is determined by what you get.
Making a life is determined by what you give.
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Performing miracles isn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be, but Man!  It sure takes a lot of practice!!!
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The surprising thing about “thinking outside the box” is how much different the box looks from the outside.  You suddenly see it for what it really is.
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  • Conversation on FB between Amanda Gifford & Courtney Brown

    Hi Courtney – Hope you are well. Can you please give me some advice on the process of detoxification after remote viewing? I need it after my work with Family Constellations.

  • Friday
  • Courtney Brown

    What in the world are you doing that would require detoxification?

  • Amanda Gifford

    i do applied Family Constellations – the method using a similar process to remote viewing where you tap into and clear out past lineages or go forward in time etc… i have recently done two quite powerful pieces of work around themes of clearing out old lineages of trauma and abuse, lines or ancestory that may have gone back to ritual abuse etc. dark stuff. You can look up Family Constellations if you want… i do an applied version of it because of my understanding of cosnciousness… so in doing this work i really need to get clean after the Constellation so that i dont soak up other peoples shit and end up carrying secondary trauma etc. any ideas?

  • Amanda Gifford

    I run groups. So i work with groups on clearing if that is what is needed. I do have one client with sexual abuse and incest from her father that i think went back quite a few generations. I just want to make sure i am not taking any of that stuff on.

    and the words detoxification has been calling me.

  • Amanda Gifford

    have you got a suggestion for simple detoxification that you could explain to me by any chance?

  • Friday
  • Courtney Brown

    Hmmm. Unless you are a trained psychotherapist, I think you should not be doing this. You are inserting your mind in their vibrational state, and the only way you can do this is to sync with their vibrations. What you are asking me regarding detoxification is actually the realization that you are beginning to vibrate as they are vibrating, and you don’t like how it feels. I don’t blame you. If you continue to vibrate the way they are vibrating, you will put yourself in a state similar to their own. Then the law of attraction takes over and you attract things that are compatible with that state of vibration. The best thing to do in situations like this is two-fold. First, meditate twice daily, never missing, morning and evening. Meditation is the best way to release unhealthy vibrations. If you want ongoing help with meditation, I suggest that you find an official instructor of Transcendental Meditation (TM). It is specifically designed to release stress like this. The second thing you may want to do is to stop doing this energy work that places you in with all these unhealthy states of mind. Here is a video that is helpful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gM_sXiUPvo

    David Lynch Foundation: Changing Lives With Meditation

    www.youtube.com

    http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/ Since 2005 the David Lynch Foundation has shared Transcendental Meditation with our most stressed populations. If you ar…
  • Saturday
  • Amanda Gifford

    Hi Courtney, I am a trained therapist with ALOT of training in the deeper states of mind, creating personal reality etc. I have an MA Psychology from www.ciis.edu, i have 4 years of Family Constellations training and more importantly i have 14 years of deep and involved work with consciousness & energy creating the nature of reality at Ramthas School of Enlightenment. I am no beginner to this work. I do however enjoy being able to reach out to like minded souls to ask for help and guidance when i need it because my work with Consciousness is Applied. Thank you for the resources and the advice, i do a 90 minute meditation that we call at the School the Golden Egg which is hard to explain in such a short time, but it does help clear out and get my frequency up again. I will pick up at night though. i think that is important. I am not sure if you are familiar with Ramthas work but its progressive & linked to the science of creating personal reality & much more. We have done a lot of remote viewing training and focus into manifestation work for years and years. I just sometimes need to consult someone in the here and now such as yourself with this expertise. I cant always get what i need straight away from the teachers and remember Lynn Buccannan speaking about detoxification. i know its important. Blessings. Thanks for being a resource to me. x

  • Saturday
  • Courtney Brown

    Hi Amanda. It is not a remote viewing thing. It is an issue of accumulating stress, from whatever source. I don’t know the mechanics of your Golden Egg meditation, but if it is “guided” or uses the conscious mind in any way to direct the process, it may not clear the mind and remove the stress. This has to be done by a different process, which is why I recommended TM. Lots of therapists use it for the same reasons you write about. But follow your own intuitions on this. Good luck with this. Perhaps you just need a vacation!

  • Amanda Gifford

    xx thanks courtney much appreciated.

  • Courtney Brown

    Head to the beach!

  • Amanda Gifford

    good idea.

  • Courtney Brown

    Do you surf?

  • Amanda Gifford

    i can give it a try.

  • Courtney Brown

    Be safe. Wear a sun suit. Tumble about….

  • Amanda Gifford

    sounds perfect.

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Sentience, DNA and Epigenetics in the Family System

Sentience, DNA and Epigenetics in the Family System

Family Constellations Workshops in Johannesburg and Durban

Durban Multidimensionality Family Constellations Workshop – 24th-25th August 2013

Like humans, dolphins have the amazing ability to build powerful family systems that operate on innate laws and natural principles. In this way, both schools of dolphins and family constellations share the common ability to act from deep unified field connections that can lead to amazing dynamic changes and healing within the family unit.

“Greetings everyone, I just wanted to inform you all of a Family Constellation Workshop that we will be running in Magaliesburg on the 27-28 July and in Durban on the 24-25 August 2013. I will be co-facilitating with Amanda Gifford who does amazing work through her incorporation of the many aspects of quantum physics, epigenetics, frequency of thought, DNA, future-self, time-lines, remote viewing and the principles of manifestation all in combination with Family Constellation work. Please note that space is limited and so I would advise you to book as early as possible to secure a place over the respective weekends of these workshops. We will do long distance constellations work for those who cannot get to the training venue. Amanda will highlight more on Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s work on the morphogenetic field which underpins constellation work at the workshop. The morphogenetic field, however, is a field of conscious energy that binds all things including members of a family, race, nation or tribe together. In Family Constellations we tap directly into this knowing field through simple intention. This work is truly amazing to experience, and it is my pleasure to be a part of it. This work can also be used as an attempt to heal illness and dis-ease.”

Warmest regards Dr Nevorndutt Somaru –
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS facilitator.”

If there are further questions on the subject matter or to book a place at a workshop itself – please feel free to contact either Amanda or myself via email or our mobile numbers at :

“Whew, what a weekend it was… Wow, it was powerful… I feel honoured to have worked with each one of you. The power and grace of the collective is mind-blowing. Something very big happened when we all worked together. Amanda thank you for holding the thread that connected us all.”
~ Michele – cranio sacral teacher and trainer South Africa May 201