Systemic Family Constellations
Explore your ancestral lineage, settle your present life.
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Starting at birth, we make unconscious contracts to be accepted and survive within our family systems. Through the Systemic Family Constellations process we can untangle the hidden loyalties that originated within our ancestral lineage, shifting the burdens, and invoking a broader horizon of possibility in our lives.
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A world-wide practice developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychotherapist and missionary, Family Systemic Constellations a therapeutic, transformative process that helps identify and resolve chronic, serious personal issues that repeat over generations.
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When ancestral suffering is kept silent, disruptions caused by war, death, loss of land and home, violence, outcast ancestors due to illness or life choice, system-wide entanglements emerge. This causes unconscious and often destructive patterns to develop, perpetuating the victim and perpetrator cycle.
As decedents, we can fall into a trance state, not fully engaged or conscious in our present day. This depletes our resources, holding us in a web of fear.
Family Constellations circles and individual sessions offer valuable and effective methods in which we can explore and release the hidden constrictions, allowing us to shift the burdens and invoke a broader horizon of possibility.
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As a trained Family Systemic Constellation facilitator, I work with people solo or within a circle of seekers ready to discover and settle persistent patterns of behavior, inexplicable feelings of guilt, shame and anger that are often carried over from our lineage and lived throughout our relationships with partners, friends and colleagues.
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How a Family Constellations Circle works:
In a Constellations circle we gather, ground and engage our bodies as instruments of perception. Through this somatic work, we tap into the collective wisdom of the Field, where inate wisdom is held.
Participation in a Constellations Circle can happen in one of three ways:
The SEEKER: primary focus of the Constellation, bringing an issue or pattern of behavior that the seeker would like to experience differently. Issues include entanglements with the mother, father and siblings, various family dynamics, financial imbalances and overall well-being in the world.
The REPRESENTATIVE: chosen by the Seeker or facilitator, representatives step in as key family members and/or elements that are relevant to the seeker’s issue. As we venture into the Field, we somatically intuit the experience, emotions and perspective of family members and generational dynamics.
The WITNESS: observers, grounds and holds the space during the Constellation. Witnesses can gain remarkable insight from objectively watching the process.
As the Constellation evolves, the map of our inner and family dynamics comes into clarity. We step into the brains right hemisphere and its connection to the body, emotions, and orientation to the relational world.
The Systemic Family Constellation process allows us to time-stamp traumatic and significant events and reconcile them within our lineage. We then can make sense and put in order what has occurred before, bringing light and knowledge into the present.
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As a trained Family Constellation facilitator, I aim to create a Constellations circle grounded in resonance, precision and safety.
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" The limitations of the past will surely
s how up in the future."
~ Suzi Tucker, Constellations master teacher
Systemic Ritual Constellations
I often draw on the methods and practices of Systemic Ritual® Constellations created by Daan van Kampenhout , an artist and Shamanic practitioner based in the Netherlands. Daan blended shamanic practices with Family Constellation theory, creating a form of systemic work that emphasizes the essence, or archaic structure of a family story, rather than on specific and precise details. Systemic Ritual Constellations is a powerful method used for retrieving the collective traumas and difficult history our ancestors experienced, such as war, slavery, persecution, natural disasters, forced migration, and the leaving of homelands.
I've also attended several workshops and training sessions with shamanic and family Constellations teacher Suzanne Hazen, who trained directly with Daan and leads Systemic Ritual Constellations workshops in Amsterdam and on line.
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