Systemic & Family Constellation

The origin of Systemic and Family Constellation is family therapy.

“Family Constellation” was first developed by the German psychotherapist, Bert Hellinger in the late 1980s and has continued to evolve and has been used successfully to resolve deep issues not resolved through conventional reductionistic psychotherapy.

Bert Hellinger called the attitude in practising true Systemic & Family Constellation “an attitude to life” and he believes if everyone in the world did just one Constellation, there would be world peace. In fact he was nominated for Nobel Prize for Peace.

For example, exclusion of family members in the family (e.g.“black sheep” in the family, divorce, given away for adoption, unacknowledged abortion, miscarriages, suicides, etc) may cause an imbalance and a misplaced identification by someone in the family system whether they have met or not, and sometimes generations later. We call the phenomenon entanglement.

Another cause of  entanglement* on the intuitive and trans-generational level can be that of victim and perpetrator – on the personal and even national level. The observations from thousands of constellations confirm the laws of “karma” – a physical law of cause and effect. 

(We do not use the word “entanglement” in a way that implies there is a “mistake”. It is neutral. Another way to describe it is “hidden patterns” – and they exist to continue the system, holding the parts on it together. The conflicts between the needs of different levels of conscience create these “patterns”.)

Renowned Cambridge educated Biologist Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field theory that explains the flock behaviours such as that of fish and birds and across animals can explain how family constellation works. This is a short explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JydjryhEl5o

Dr Rupert Sheldrake’s extensive work postulates how information and experience appear to be transferable outside of time and space. In Systemic (Family) Constellation, the shared memory of systems is also referred to as the “Knowing Field”. In this quantum space, layers and layers of information exist and whether we are aware or not, a part of us exists in this space and interacts with it all the time.

German origin Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt M.D., PhD, who is renowned for treating difficult health cases (patients who “have tried everything”) places Family Constellation accounting of 50% the root cause. (The 5 levels of Healing approach he practises underlies Eastern medicine such as Tibetan, Chinese, Ayurvedic medicine and yogic tradition of healing which are all SYSTEMIC.) This explains how he would for example treat autistic children not just addressing heavy metal and EMF stresses but also through Family Constellation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2EB4m9-DCw)

We integrate latest somatic trauma healing work informed by most recent neuroscience with systemic constellation work. 

Recognising each individual is the arbitrator of their own life while each individual is also under the influences of higher systemic forces, we often apply systemic constellation to do parts work – working with the split parts of the individual to bring back wholeness. 

As fragmentation is a trauma response – on the individual and collective level, we often apply the work to explore how a health symptom or life challenge is entangled with the split part of the individual or their family system.

For entrepreneurs and business owners, it has been clearly shown that their connection to their family of origin and hidden entanglements to the systems they belong to (such as cultural roots and society) can have profound impact on their success and fulfilment in their role as leader in their organisation. 

Trauma is an organisation and in a society also contributes to fragmentation and the breakdown of its optimal order. 

We are experienced in applying this work in leadership development – and in reality, everyone is a leader in their own life and so everyone also can benefit from “leadership development”. 

Systemic (Family) Constellation is an experiential and somatic process.

For group workshop in our space, it takes place in a group with about 8 (or more or less) participants sitting in a circle. The process begins where the client, after presenting their issue, invite the participants to represent members of his/her family or system (and they can accept or decline). The client then places intuitively each chosen person inside the circle. After everyone is placed, the client takes a seat and observes. The representatives begin to feel like the people or elements they are representing and providing information that otherwise is inaccessible. The facilitator may also invite representatives and decide together with the client what elements to be represented.

The facilitator would guide the client to witness what emerges. Specific resolution sentences may be used. Words are sometimes optional. The connection and shift takes place from seeing.

An effective Constellation facilitator is compassionate, intuitive and neutral. Their role is to hold space for what shows up and guides the client to acknowledge what is asking to be acknowledged from the bigger system. Constellation work is positively life-changing when facilitated with neutrality and humility.

For everyone who participates, they exercise their subtle intuitive senses. Being a representative is a somatic and intuitive experience. You learn to go inward, sense and feel what comes through. This is what we do everyday anyway unconsciously, but in the workshop, this is done consciously.

Representatives are chosen intuitively for having similar “resonance” with what they represent and the facilitated processes often touch them on a deeper level as well, giving them relevant and powerful insights.

Systemic (Family) Constellation can also be performed in private one-on-one session, or be incorporated in coaching and healing that we offer.

Our Systemic Constellation one-day or half-day workshops often end with Guided Healing Breathwork – a powerful integrative modality developed by Anita. Read more about it here.

Anyone who has been in a properly facilitated Systemic (Family) Constellation representative will tell you that as they step into their place in the Constellation and just trust “the field”, they start to sense movement and urges that are not their own, while they are fully conscious. Whatever that asks for completion and resolution is information in “the field”.

To be able to tap into the morphogenic field or the Knowing Field is our innate ability, it’s similar to the ability to sense someone is staring at us from our back, or the telepathic experience of thinking about calling someone and they call. Pet owners are often amazed how their pets seem to know they are coming home long before they are physically at the door. Dr Sheldrake’s works explains these phenomena and more.

Through the experiential exercises in the workshop, you will learn fascinating ways in tapping into the “information field” and become more in touch with your “intuition”. You do not need to be a “case-giver”. Everyone will experience constellation inspired exercises where you will sharpen your somatic awareness and subtle senses. 

With practice, you will develop stronger perception and confidence in your subtle senses or “intuition” that you can apply in everyday decision making. 

Most participants to our workshops reported gaining valuable insights. By developing your “systemic perception” and practising regularly, you will widen your awareness and you will likely approach your life differently and experience more joy, peace and wisdom.

Yes. The consciousness field transcends time and space and we are experienced in working on line. We can work with you with representatives being in our premises, or with representatives online, or both.

You can participate in any of our regular Constellation workshops, and join as an observer/representative. In those workshops there are always processes for all participants. You can get insight and benefit. (Refer to testimonials where past participants share their experiences.)

Being representative or even witnessing is often a powerful experience in itself.