Growth Vision, Bert Hellinger, POV, and Human Systems Institute, Inc.

 Jan. 8, 2019

When Growth Vision was founded in 2007 by Veronica "Veron" Lim in Singapore, the organization started on Day One as a promotional entity providing a venue for Psychology of Vision to recruit more followers. And it still does to this day.

From 2011 to 2014 Growth Vision acquired a second culty pseudoscience revenue stream that would look like a rival to POV for a bit-- the Family Constellations process of Bert Hellinger, who has been regarded as something of a wacky quacky by the majority of professional psychologists.

http://skepdic.com/hellinger.html

And by professionals I mean people with APA accredited degrees who are licensed to be psychologists. Professionals who are accountable to professional boards, who publish in peer reviewed journals. People with expertise that is credible and respected.

You won't find people like that in Psychology of Vision.

I suspect Chuck Spezzano lifted quite a bit of his psychoblather from Hellinger's writings, just as he has swiped from many others without attribution. Nothing is ever original in POV.

For whatever reason Growth Vision became very enthusiastic about another American group, the Human Systems Institute, Inc. founded 1999 in Portland, Oregon and currently out there with quite a few international branches.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111219221727/http://www.growthvision.bz:80/default.aspx?tabid=103&key=marketing_30052011_023713

Netra Chou is the HSI contact in Taiwan. Like POV, HSI apparently has "Master Trainers."

https://web.archive.org/web/20130923005248/http://growthvision.bz/default.aspx?tabid=103&key=marketing_19072012_055914

Starting in early 2013, Hellinger's family constellations shared the splash page billing with POV. This is not unusual in the esoteric world of New Age/New Thought healing. Just type in "Hellinger" in our blog's search box and you'll find plenty of New Age businesspeople who praise both POV and ol' Bertie.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130605083514/http://growthvision.bz/

Then, at some point in early 2014, all mention of Family Constellations and Bert Hellinger vanished from the Growth Vision website, once again giving POV the monopoly on victimizing vulnerable people.

Most mysterious.

There is a very faint POV connection with HSI. Haida Gwaii resident Lin Armstrong has more than one Linked In account. In reading them I see that among her very impressive skills in management and community coordination she adds accupressure, craniosacral therapy, Reiki, reflexology, and-- being a systemic family constellation counselor/facilitator for the Human Systems Institute since Feb. 2007.

Armstrong became the Executive Director of the Gwaalagaa Naay Corporation in May 2013 but has recently retired (Yay! Whenever anyone retires I am happy for them!). Several local POV followers are her Facebook friends and Armstrong includes the Ngystle Society as one of her fave organizations.

The more I look into the world of alternative healing the smaller and more insular it gets.