Family Constellations
Family Constellations is the most commonly used name for the Therapeutic method of Systemic Constellations Work or Constellations Work. Family Constellations Work was developed by Bert Hellinger. Hellinger observed that traumatic events, such as the premature death of a parent, sibling or child, an abandonment, crime or suicide, can exert a powerful force affecting later generations. Entangled with unhappiness from the past, family members often continue patterns of anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, fear, chronic illness and unfulfilled relationships. It’s a common theme: sad mother, sad daughter... alcoholic father, alcoholic son... the relationship difficulties of the parents, mirrored by the children.
The method of Family Constellations Work has evolved over the past 20 years to include a wider field of subjects and systems. These include organisational systems, body systems (in the form of illness constellations), school systems, political systems and more.
Family Constellations Work uncovers the hidden dynamics in any system and the members belonging to that system in an experiential way, so that existing energy can be observed and change can take place. This is a very powerful and effective method of uncovering blockages in any situation and providing a solution.
Family Constellations Work is a solution-focused method of resolving stressful energy in relationships, which involves allowing members or elements of a system to occupy their rightful place in the system and reconnect them healthily to each other. The energy shifts that take place in the constellation ripple through to all the members of the system.
It is a way of working with emotional issues and relationship issues at a soul level, in an experiential and energetic way. It also works at a visual, emotional and kinesthetic level. No matter the apparent cause of an issue, the Constellations method will show what is really going on.