A Transformative Therapeutic Approach
Family Constellations, also known as Systemic Constellations, is a therapeutic approach developed by Bert Hellinger that explores hidden dynamics within family systems and relationships. This powerful method reveals unconscious patterns and helps resolve deep-seated issues that affect individuals across generations.
Developed by Bert Hellinger, this approach is based on the principle that families operate as systems with underlying orders and loyalties. When these natural orders are disturbed, it can lead to dysfunction, illness, or repeated negative patterns across generations.
This concept refers to a collective, morphic field of consciousness that holds information about family systems. Representatives can tap into this field and experience feelings, sensations, and insights belonging to the people they represent, despite having no prior knowledge of them.
In group settings, participants are chosen to represent family members or key elements of the issue. They stand in for these people and, through the knowing field, begin to feel and express emotions, tensions, and relationships that mirror the actual family dynamics.
The client (seeker) briefly describes their issue or concern to the facilitator. This could be a recurring problem, relationship difficulty, or unexplained emotional pattern.
The client chooses people from the group to represent key family members or elements related to their issue. In individual sessions, objects or floor markers may be used instead.
The client intuitively positions the representatives in the space, following their inner sense of where each person belongs in relation to others.
Representatives report their feelings, bodily sensations, and impulses. The facilitator observes the spatial relationships and dynamics that emerge.
The facilitator may ask representatives to move, speak certain phrases, or change positions to reveal hidden dynamics and entanglements within the system.
