Family Constellations
Family Constellations – to find your right place and live in the present!
Several benefits can be directly derived from the Family Constellations approach:
- better understand one’s own dynamics, perceptions and impacts in the family system;
- better graps the current or past relational links with one or more members of the system;
- increase one’s own quality of life by freeing oneself from elements blocking one from being fully centered in one’s unique inner being;
- ajust one’s thoughts, communications, beliefs and behaviors in line with this new balance.
Conducting a personalized individual session:
- Develop the need, the objective of the session (online form to be filled in beforehand);
- To make visible the dynamics at stake with the establishment of a pictorial constellation including the different interactions in the family system (by sharing a visual document in remote mode or with the help of items to be installed spatially in face-to-face mode);
- To help decode these dynamics in order to identify actual or potential imbalances, conscious or unconscious;
- Perform short techniques and rituals of liberation, adapted and guided;
- If needed, establish personal development goals related to this new systemic balance.
Conduct of a group session:
- The constellant (the one doing the constellation) develops his/her need/goal to be worked on/clarified (online form to be filled in beforehand);
- The facilitator guides the constellant to instinctively choose a certain number of people to represent either a family member or an objective or impediment related to his/her objective. The facilitator guides the constellant to instinctively choose a number of people to represent either a family member or an objective or impediment related to his or her objective.
- The representatives playing a primordial role in the process, become thus at the service of the constellant, and let themselves be guided naturally with their feelings by temporarily putting aside their own history. This is done in order to connect heart to heart with the family member or item represented and it works well, even for those who say they are not very intuitive*.
- After each movement the facilitator invites the constellant and appropriate representatives to share their feelings. This helps the constellant to gradually decode their family dynamics in order to identify the various current or potential, conscious or unconscious links and imbalances in their family system;
- The facilitator finally performs short techniques and rituals of liberation with the constellant in relation to his or her goal, which closes the constellation afterwards.
Note that everyone (constellants, representatives chosen or not during the constellation) will find something to gain by simply participating in this workshop and in resonance with their own personal histories, elements of liberation naturally come into play. It is also helpful to note that a woman may be called upon to play the role of a grandfather, and that a representative is apt to refuse to play a role if he feels uncomfortable doing so.
*Bert Hellinger mentioned that a powerful field connects each member of a family system and that by accepting to represent a member of a clan, there is an instant connection with the energy of the clan, it is magical! Some people also suggest that the notions of the collective unconscious, epigenetics, mirror neurons, or morphogenetic fields would come into play in this type of approach.
We are all born and evolve through a family system. A system that includes several histories, a heritage, particular dynamics, beliefs, behaviors, a collective unconscious, etc. And in any system, there is also a fragile balance to respect, systemic laws that support this harmony, where each one has its place and its role to play.
When one of these laws is not respected, a systemic imbalance is observed. At this point, a member of the system will sacrifice, consciously or not, in order to re-establish a semblance of balance, which may become unhelpful over time.
This brief therapeutic technique brings to light dynamics and imbalances that may be unspoken, in order to free oneself from the energy of certain unconscious ties, limiting family patterns, intergenerational conflicts, and invisible loyalties.
This is to restore order in the system, to let love and life flow well, so that each member can assume his or her own responsibility and live his or her own life in all freedom and lightness. A helping approach, which initiates a powerful inner work of change.
The origin of Family and Systemic Constellations comes from the 1990s. This family therapy method based on the uncovering of the family unconscious through pictorial representation and role-playing, was created by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist and former priest, specialized in family relationships and trained with approaches such as NLP, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Family Therapy, etc.
Please note that this service is not a substitute for psychotherapy.
The Family Constellations service is offered in individual personalized sessions or in group, and can be done remotely or in person.
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