Family Constellations
Restore Strength and Love
This is a therapeutic approach used to recognize and resolve unconscious, transgenerational, family patterning that serves to keep families stuck in very real ways. Family Constellations originated by German Psychotherapist, Bert Hellinger, Ph.D., in the 1990s. His innovative methodology continues to bring extraordinary ways of calling forth compassion and resolution in the field of family therapy. Dr. Hellinger’s primary influence was Virginia Satir, MSW, a premier pioneer in the field of family therapy.
Family secrets and family shame are repeated in life circumstances in subsequent generations from both sides of a family. They are ways family members attempt to belong in order to maintain spoken and unspoken family loyalties and as such, are conscious and unconscious, constructive and destructive. Regardless of their positive or negative nature, they play a significant role in what is referred to as family entanglements.
Some of the ways generations replicate previous ones are as follows: financial loss, disease, migration, wars, early deaths, unfulfilled relationships, illness, addictions, etc.
A family constellation session takes place in a workshop setting made up of a group of volunteers who are unrelated to the client. They’re typically done in-person. Due to the current pandemic, we have discovered they are just as effective doing them on Zoom!
Family Constellations is a powerful and highly effective approach used to restore strength and love within a family system.
– Jeanne Villa, Certified Master Transformational NLP Practitioner
It begins with a person who wants resolution with a particular issue. This approach has consistently revealed whatever happened in past generations is unconsciously replicated in subsequent ones.
The objective of a family constellation is to move toward resolution through varying levels of acknowledgement, acceptance and agreement.
The facilitator identifies specific roles to be played out in a constellation. Roles are disclosed by the facilitator sometime after a constellation is in play.
What’s amazing is how quickly individuals are able to connect to the role and experience the emotions of the person they’re representing. According to Dr. Hellinger this can be described as telepathy that engages with a morphic resonance. As a result, the roles play out a family’s loyalties and entanglements.
I have witnessed the validity of what would be difficult to quantify except to say that family members not present and not knowledgeable of their family being constellated have been able to heal in ways they haven’t been able to for generations.
Family Constellations is a powerful and highly effective approach used to restore strength and love within a family system.
It is a phenomenal demonstration of the power of love.