CONSTELLATIONS & GROUPS

Family Constellations

Family Constellations is a profoundly innovative process whereby past major events and traumas in our family systems may be brought to light so that we can see and experience the effects of those events in our ways of managing life now and have the possibility of freeing ourselves from the entanglements of the past and resolving present difficulties and dilemmas

The approach was first discovered by German psychtherapist and philosopher, Bert Hellinger in the latter part of the last century. It was first introduced in the UK in the late 90’s and has been taken up and developed further by therapists all over the world.

It is an approach that often seems to reach the parts other therapies don’t reach. We can work on our individual difficulties over many years without the change we long for, but to see ourselves as part of a family system with its own culture, values, religious beliefs, and, in particular, its own adaptations to past traumas  - which have been transmitted down the generations and are part of us - is an experience and a perspective that can free us to find our own sense of selfhood and true autonomy.

 A group workshop is an ideal environment in which to do this work. Participants can represent members of a person’s family – or different aspects of a person – or even a particular quality. Members of the group can serve each other in discovering the deeper, hidden layers of a problem and create  a respectful and confidential space for each other in which issues and feelings can be held and contained.

Some feedback from participants in my Constellation workshops:

Seeing my issues so clearly represented in front of me was very powerful and helped me connect to these dynamics in a way ordinary therapy/counselling has not been able to do…Why can’t all therapeutic work go that deep?

Thank you so much for the workshop last weekend. I found it such a powerful experience that will stay with me for a long time. It was great being a representative for others and I went home feeling different even on the days I didn’t do my own work. I love the way that you work – it is very inspiring both to watch and to be involved in.

In 2023 I am running another Constellations workshop over the weekend of 4th/5th November.  It will run from Saturday 9.30 till 5.30 and Sunday 9.30 till 5.00.

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