What are Family Constellations?
Family Constellations help us to let go of pain, illness and suffering that comes from our family and ancestors so that we can heal and live our lives more fully. This powerful energy/spiritual technique creates a model of the family system that discloses the deeper forces that unknowingly influence our thoughts, behaviors, emotional experiences, physical symptoms and illnesses. The work is focused on helping you discover what must be seen, what can be left behind and what you can honor in a different way. It is not psychotherapy, it's something quite different.
The science of epigenetics is rapidly proving that we carry the past within us. It also shows that healing trauma and developing a capacity to restore well-being can change genetics within our lifetime. Family Constellations give us a chance to charge our lives and move forward into our possibilities while still feeling the strength and support of our family system behind us.
In Family Constellations, we set up a model of a system with volunteer representatives, objects or guided visualization. In a typical workshop, participants are chosen to represent members or elements of the family or organization that is being addressed. In an individual session we use paper, objects or visualizations. In this process, hidden and unexpected dynamics operating within the system are revealed and addressed in a way that aims to find a healthy and respectful place for all members of the system in question. We can then grow, mature and thrive.
The science of epigenetics is rapidly proving that we carry the past within us. It also shows that healing trauma and developing a capacity to restore well-being can change genetics within our lifetime. Family Constellations give us a chance to charge our lives and move forward into our possibilities while still feeling the strength and support of our family system behind us.
In Family Constellations, we set up a model of a system with volunteer representatives, objects or guided visualization. In a typical workshop, participants are chosen to represent members or elements of the family or organization that is being addressed. In an individual session we use paper, objects or visualizations. In this process, hidden and unexpected dynamics operating within the system are revealed and addressed in a way that aims to find a healthy and respectful place for all members of the system in question. We can then grow, mature and thrive.
Issues that may be helped by Family Constellations
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Where things felt chaotic before, now it felt as if my universe was finally aligning itself. I was blown away from this first session, thinking about it gives me goose bumps. - J.B. San Antonio, TX
A powerful insight of Bert Hellinger, the founder of Family Constellations, is that each family system has a conscience that requires that all members be connected and remembered in a particular way. If someone in the system is not remembered correctly then younger members, out of love or the need to belong, can become "entangled" with their ancestors particularly with those who have been excluded, forgotten, shunned, or have experienced a difficult fate. Unconscious entanglements are behind most of the issues that are explored in constellations.
Another insight of Bert Hellinger is that our family systems appear to be guided by a form of natural law he called "the orders of love." One of these orders is that parents give life and children take life. Parents also come first and children second. This means that children cannot save or be bigger than their parents or take their fate. Another law is that everyone born into the system belongs and has their place even if they abandon their place or do something that might cause the family to shun or exclude that member. When these laws are not followed the system moves into imbalance. Younger members born into the system are very likely to become entangled in the imbalance and attempt in a loving way to restore that balance at the cost of their own lives and well being.
During the individual or group process, we search for possible solutions that can release entanglements and restore order and balance to the family system. A key part of the Family Constellation process is the use of healing sentences that speak the essential truth of the entanglement. Healing sentences are transformative when spoken in the right moment, and bring resolution to the entanglement. The process provides the client with a new image of their place in the family system with the proper honor to the ancestors and to the events.
Another insight of Bert Hellinger is that our family systems appear to be guided by a form of natural law he called "the orders of love." One of these orders is that parents give life and children take life. Parents also come first and children second. This means that children cannot save or be bigger than their parents or take their fate. Another law is that everyone born into the system belongs and has their place even if they abandon their place or do something that might cause the family to shun or exclude that member. When these laws are not followed the system moves into imbalance. Younger members born into the system are very likely to become entangled in the imbalance and attempt in a loving way to restore that balance at the cost of their own lives and well being.
During the individual or group process, we search for possible solutions that can release entanglements and restore order and balance to the family system. A key part of the Family Constellation process is the use of healing sentences that speak the essential truth of the entanglement. Healing sentences are transformative when spoken in the right moment, and bring resolution to the entanglement. The process provides the client with a new image of their place in the family system with the proper honor to the ancestors and to the events.
A few articles on Family Constellations
| 4_reasons_systemic_constellations_heal_situations_that_therapies_dont_copy.pdf |
| family_constellation_–_why_ancestors_matter__copy.pdf |
| family_constellations_according_to_bert_hellinger.pdf |