Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 76, June 2017

96 Group-Analytic Society International - Contexts
10. You have to truly want it
When painter Hans Hoffman asked Jackson Pollock if he worked from
nature, he replied - “I am nature”
But love cuts deeper
WHY DON’T YOU CALL, CALL, CALL, CALL ME?
Ring-ring, ring-ring, ring-ring, click
Lavinia Palace: Hullo, this is Lavinia.
Peter Zelaskowski: Hi, Peter here.
LP: Peter…….oh, Peter Zelaskowski, Contexts editor.
PZ: Yeah, that’s me. Can I check you said Lavinia, didn’t you used to
be Davinia?
LP: No, that’s my sister, she’s the one who’s a therapist but not a
Group Analyst, although she does work with groups a lot. We’ve got
another sister called Crystal, but we don’t talk about her. Our parents
were crap at names.
PZ: I need some copy for the next Contexts and understand you’re
going to Berlin, so wondered if you could write something on your
thoughts, feelings and expectations about going there.
LP: Well I can tell you now, if that’s a help.
PZ: Sure, go ahead.
LP: Well, I worked for Age UK once when I thought I needed to come
to terms with getting older and in my early days there I was at one of
their resource centres having lunch. I was sitting next to a woman who
was 82 when she started talking about her experience at the end of the
war. Her parents were Polish/ Hungarian, they had met and got
married in East Berlin. As the Russians rolled in they jumped in the
back of a truck to the West leaving all their possessions behind. This
reminds me that refugees are what they are for a reason and that
immigrants are emigrating with cause. I associate Berlin with division