About Family Constellations / Systemic Constellations
You fully understand the uniqueness and far reaching impact of Family Constellation work, once you have actually been part of the workshop. Participants often describe that they experience ‘lightness’, ‘an internal shift’, ‘shift within their family or context within which they live/ work,’ ‘a release and flow’ in their lives. These experiences appear to unfold over time consequent to their constellation work.
What is unique about Family Constellation work?
The uniqueness of this method lies both in its perspective and methodology. Constellation work is holistic and systemic in its approach as we see that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. Eg. the human body is more than just limbs and organs. Families or organisations are also more than individual members or a number of individual members put together. All aspects or members work as a system that is linked and interactive. Our web of interconnectedness goes way beyond our imagination.
Constellations facilitate the healing of mind body spirit and the system or group within which one lives.
Constellation work is transgenerational. The family or group is a dynamic unit and is affected by past generations. Sometimes, we carry the shame, guilt, anger and traumas of previous generations and pass it on, usually unknowingly, to our future generations.
Bert Hellinger, the founder of Constellations as we know it, has provided many insights into the influence of individual, family and spiritual conscience and how it works, and the question of what entangles or ties up a person in the fate of another, within the family and beyond.
Every human being is born into a family and shares a bond with everyone who belongs to that family. The ‘family conscience’ oversees the balance and survival of the family group and the fate of all individuals are held with this unconscious authority. The family conscience attends to bonds within the system, the balance of giving and taking, the fate of the family members, and the ‘orders’ of the family system.
Hellinger has developed a method of working in Constellations that is truly a ‘hidden gem’. In Constellations, the entanglement or disruption at transgenerational and intergenerational levels surfaces in the here and now. The energy field or morphogenetic field in which the work unfolds, reveal the “Orders of Love’, opening the space for balance and harmony. These Orders of Love appear to be in tune with the harmony of life itself. In the process of restoring these orders, our heart opens to a new movement that is liberating and healing. Hellinger refers to this as the movement of the Spirit Mind or Tao. In some cases, the effects of the constellation are revealed immediately and sometimes it unfolds over time.
We have seen the effects of working this way both in physical spaces in a group and also online. At the beginning of the global pandemic protocols, Annie felt a greater guidance while developing a way of working online with people representatives and figures. Interconnection and interdependence came alive as people who believed in this work supported this development.
There are two positions available in the workshop –
- you have certain patterns of illnesses or occurrences that appear to repeat itself within your family system.
- you have persisted setbacks or relationship difficulties
- you feel blocked in your life with little or no joy.
- you are caught up in some emotions and unable to clarify.
- you long for balance and harmony in your life but feel blocked or fragmented.
- you want a release from some trauma that has occurred in your life.
- in cases of depression, tendency to run away or suicidal tendencies.
Constellations can also be a method of choice in organisations and core management teams, family run business, and other institutions.