Family Constellations is a experiential therapy that helps release you from entanglements with family members, ancestors and past events that are behind your painful issues and challenges.
Family Constellations help us discover how we are entangled with suffering that actually belongs to family members, ancestors and the past. It is a therapeutic process, where hidden dynamics can be revealed and unraveled, freeing you to have a healthier connection with the people in your life and helping you to let go of the baggage of the past
This group therapy process reveals how you are entangled with what is damaged in your family system so we can work toward reconciling past conflicts, repairing broken relationships, and restoring order and wholeness. In a Family Constellation you presents your issue. With the help of the facilitator you choose other members of the group to represent (or stand in) as your family members or ancestors and arrange them according to what feels right to you in that moment. As you and the group observe, the representatives connect to who they are representing they describe what they are feeling including how they feel about the other representatives. This gives us clues about what happened in the past.
The facilitator also asks the representatives questions that can further reveal what happened and suggest sentences and/or movements that can help create a resolution for the your issue. We can experience these entanglements using a field of energy we call the "knowing field.” This energy field holds all of the feelings in a family system that are unresolved or painful. It allows us to see what remains hidden or unresolved in the family system, sometime over many generations. |
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According to Bert Hellinger, founder of Family Constellations, every family system follows natural laws that affect its health, known as the "Orders of Love." One of the essential natural laws is that all family members must belong and have a place in the family system.
If someone is excluded, younger members can become entangled with them and take on their difficult fate. This is particularly true with ancestors who have been forgotten or shunned or became a secret. If we can restore these members to their place in the system, you can be released from your own entanglements. When you release your entanglements, you can experience a very different relationship with your family and ancestors and feel free from loyalty to the past. Through subsequent work, the system can become healthier and more whole, allowing you to further distance yourself from previous issues that are not yours. In private therapeutic sessions we can use objects as representatives to connect to the knowing field and help identify and resolve entanglements. We might also use guided visualizations or floor markers to successfully understand and change your family relationships, entanglements to past events and unresolved generational trauma. Private sessions are very helpful for resolving complex family dynamics that can benefit from a number of Family Constellations.
Netflix is currently featuring the TV drama "Another Self" which includes Family Constellations as part of the story. Three women discover how their present is affected by the past and the power of Family Constellations to bring healing in their lives.
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"I am convinced that Constellation Work, with its systemic worldview and the gift of the opportunity to stand as a representative in a constellation, is one of the most relevant and important tools to support us as we navigate our evolution into our future. I am convinced because I have stood in powerful constellations, and I’ve had the felt experience of being guided to unexpected resolutions by some unseen hand, of knowing that we are parts of a larger whole, of knowing that, in one sense, we are not individuals, but rather human systems of relating, of knowing that the Here and Now contains both the past and the future, undivided. I have experienced deeply held beliefs transform in minutes and hate and fear and frozen hearts dissolve. Entanglements can be undone. Love can prevail."
-- Hunter Beaumont, September 2021 |
Benefits of Family Constellations
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