Family Constellations is a therapeutic process that releases you from entanglements with family members and ancestors that are behind your painful issues.
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.
The process reveals how they are entangled with what is damaged in their family system so we can work toward reconciling past conflicts, repairing broken relationships, and restoring order and wholeness. In a Family Constellation the client presents their issue. With the help of the facilitator they select other members of the group to represent their family members or ancestors and arrange them in the circle according to what feels right. As the representatives connect to who they are representing they begin to answer questions about how they are feeling, how they feel about other representatives and give clues about what happened in the past. The facilitator suggests healing sentences and movements that help create a resolution for the 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. |
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According to Hellinger, 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, the client can be released from their entanglement. When clients release their entanglements, they can experience a very different relationship with their family and ancestors and feel free from loyalties to the past. Through subsequent work, the system can become healthier and more whole, allowing clients to further distance themselves from previous issues that do not belong to them. In a private sessions we can use objects as representatives that connect to the knowing field and help resolve entanglements and resolve the client's issues 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. |
Benefits of Family Constellations
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More information about Family Constellations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellation
- https://www.netflix.com/watch/81452291?trackId=255824129 (Another Self)
- https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/family-constellations
- https://goop.com/wellness/relationships/family-constellations/
- https://positivepsychology.com/family-constellation-therapy/
- https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/therapy/history-and-methods-of-family-constellation-therapy/