In a Family Constellations we discover how you are entangled with the painful experiences and events of your parents, grandparents and past generations. We setup a model of a family system, a constellation, that reveals what is damaged at the systemic level so we can work toward reconciling past conflicts, repairing broken relationships, restoring order and unburdening the client so they can live their life without the weight of the past.

We can do this in a group process with volunteers standing in a family members or ancestors or in a private, individual session where we use objects as the representative.

Developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist, Family Constellations create a model of the family system to reveal and transform hidden patterns that are difficult to understand and change. A powerful insight of Bert Hellinger 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 or shunned or have experienced a difficult fate. Unconscious entanglements are behind many of the issues that are explored in these constellations.

Issues often have to do with our loyalty to our family member and ancestors. When children are born into a family where they do not feel safe, seen, loved and nourished they often get entangled with the unresolved feelings, broken relationship and traumas of the past. They develop loyalty to the past to belong and feel safe. Unconsciously the say, "I do it for you," "I do it in your place," "I will take care of everyone," "I will exclude myself," "I will hold the pain and rage," "better me than you."

During the process, we search for possible solutions that can release entanglements / loyalties and restore order and balance to the family system. 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. Exploring what is hidden in our family system can help us to heal our deepest wounds.

Family Constellations take place in an energy field that connects family, ancestors, organizational members, the natural world and all of humanity. This "knowing field" is a conscious energy that we can enter to experience the feelings and sensations that mirror those of the real family members they represent and everyone and everything to which we are connected.

British biologist Rupert Sheldrake explains this field phenomenon, which he calls a “morphogenetic field,” as an organizing force that accounts for patterns of behavior in social groups, such as schools of fish and flocks of birds. Dr. Albrecht Mahr first used the term “the knowing field" to describe this energy field as it applies to human family systems. He referred to the experience through which volunteers in a constellation session access information about a family system as “representative perception."

During a Family Constellation, representatives begin to take on the essential qualities of who or what they are representing, and begin to sense thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations through the “knowing field”. They are able to reveal what is true even if they have no prior knowledge of what has occurred historically.

In individual/private Family Constellations sessions, we utilize objects to represent family members, ancestors, events, emotions, or even physical or mental conditions. You can use a variety of objects such as chess pieces, seashells, rocks, or crystals. They will take on the energy of what they are representing just as in a group workshop with volunteers.

A key part of the Family Constellation process is the use of healing sentences that speak the essential truth of entanglements or issues. There can also be powerful sentences that bring a resolution and a compassionate restoration of balance to the system. Bert Hellinger created many sentences that are still effective, but new ones are created spontaneously during the process. Healing sentences are transformative when spoken in the right moment.

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.

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