What are Family Constellations?

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Basil Manning
What are Family Constellations?

Children rarely or never dare to live happier or more fulfilling lives than their parents. Inadvertently they remain faithful to unspoken family traditions that work invisibly. Family Constellations are a way of discovering the underlying family ties and forces that have been carried unconsciously over the course of several generations. Bertold Ulsamer

Contents

  • Family constellations: a way to explore and improve family dynamics
  • How is a Family Constellations session developed??
  • What are Family Constellations about?
  • Themes that can be constellated
  • Family Constellations: A Phenomenological Approach

Family constellations: a way to explore and improve family dynamics

A Family Constellation is a therapeutic process that is carried out in a group and that works on the deepest part of our consciousness. The theory on which this technique is based is that people have certain unconscious negative anchors, which transmit painful feelings to us and from which we sometimes do not know how to let go. These anchors often lead us to reproduce certain behaviors or live certain negative situations repeatedly, without us knowing very well how to solve it.

Family Constellations are carried out with several people who do not have any link between them and who attend the same workshop. It is important to clarify that although Family Constellations are carried out in a group, it is not considered a Group Therapy as such, since the work dynamics are very different.

Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist and former priest developed this method in the mid-1990s and is the founder of this technique. Throughout his career he has treated and studied families for more than 50 years, and observed that many of us unconsciously use destructive family patterns that lead us to anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, loneliness, alcoholism and even illness as a form of "belonging" to our families. His theory is that, united by deep love, a child often sacrifices his own interests in a vain attempt to alleviate the suffering of a parent or other family member..

Family Constellations allow us to break these patterns so that we can live in a more conscious, healthy, happy and, above all, full way. The results can be truly life changing.

Thus, the purpose of Family Constellations is to discover the hidden dynamics of a family and its relationships in an experimental way. This is a gentle and sensitive method that allows the energies of relationships to be revealed through the representatives, so that it can lead to a solution. This implies that each member of the system is allowed to find their place in the group through a healthy and respectful connection with each other..

How is a Family Constellations session developed??

To carry out the Family Constellation, several people meet including the constellator (therapist), and sessions are held that last one morning or one afternoon. A workshop consists of 3 to 6 people, depending on the organization with which the group has previously been structured. Each attendee will have their turn to constellate and their constellation will last approximately one hour. During the constellation, the other people become an active part of the therapy, since they can be chosen to represent the experiences of the unconscious of the person who is constellation (performing the therapy). After each constellation turn, a 10-minute break is made to rest and continues with the next. In this way, the work dynamic is continuous and each person who attends performs personal and group work..

It is not necessary that a person who attends has to have some kind of knowledge about the constellations, since the way of working is orderly and at the same time experiential and creative. In summary, each person who attends a family constellation workshop carries out personal work, both in their constellation and in that of others: it is very common to feel that the role or roles that each person has experienced as a representative is related to aspects of his life and personal history.

What are Family Constellations about?

This process is effective in matters of a systemic nature. When there are problems due to behavior patterns that come from the family of origin. This therapy helps solve family problems and find meaning and purpose in life, in addition to solving personal issues.

The Family Constellations process works on many levels simultaneously, it works on a deep level, like hypnotherapy. According to Hellinger, the energy we are dealing with here is mainly the energy of the soul.

Themes that can be constellated

  • Difficulties in family relationships.
  • Personal development.
  • Childhood trauma.
  • Conflicts of couple, current or past relationships
  • Problems with children.
  • Guidance in vital moments of change.
  • Depression, sadness and melancholy, with or without apparent cause.
  • Loss and Grief - Overcoming Tragic Events.
  • Resources to cope with diseases.
  • Fertility issues, adoptions.
  • Exclusion and social relationship problems.
  • Difficult destinations (premature deaths, abortions).
  • Feeling of Self-sabotage in order not to achieve financial, professional, or personal success.
  • Other topics: inheritances, lawsuits.
  • Guidance at professional level and projects.

Family Constellations: A Phenomenological Approach

Existential Therapy is based on a phenomenological approach as a way of working that requires the therapist to put aside the hypotheses, theories or learned programs, in order to allow the client to explore their reality and allow the situation to show itself herself. This can provide useful information from which a person can see the meaning of their situation..

Similarly, in Family Constellations a therapist is required or adopts a phenomenological approach in which he leaves his previous knowledge or assumptions, in order to allow the constellation with its representatives to unfold and reveal what is necessary for the client and the problem that presents.

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