Family Constellations are an analysis technique developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychologist and psychotherapist, in the field of systemic psychology. They are based on predefined archaic systemic laws, which include the law of order, belonging, and fair exchange; just as there is an order, albeit constantly changing, in the star system, there is an order in the family system.
The Family Constellations method offers the opportunity to observe how the unconscious involvements of one’s family of origin influence current relationships with ourselves, our partners, parents, and the family itself, as well as with work colleagues and our bosses.
We all unconsciously adhere to a familiar pattern, a model that imposes its structures and influences our relationships with life.
FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS
“Great courage is needed for that – to get rid of the family conditioning – because one feels guilty, as if one is betraying one’s parents. But if the parents are mad then it is perfectly right to get out of their possessiveness.
And they are mad, they are neurotic! In fact, to condition a child with any ideology is inhuman, but inhumanity is practised with such beautiful labels that unless you dig very deep you will not find the reality.”
OSHO, Philosophia Ultima
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A FAMILY CONSTELLATION?
This approach aims to trace the factors transmitted from generation to generation that can explain and motivate personal and family behaviours, tensions, and conflicts.
The Family Constellations process serves to:
- Understand that we are carrying burdens that don’t belong to us.
- Lovingly care for old wounds to enter the present with new energy, opening up to all the possibilities of life.
- Open space in your life for love to flow again and meditation to be deeper.
In fact, family constellations are a tool for personal and relational growth and an internal guide for one’s spiritual evolution.
They have different areas of application since different types of systems can be examined:
- the family of origin
- the current family
- the body-mind-spirit system
- the professional system
- any organizational system.
Making a Constellation means:
INVESTIGATE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS
You can observe closely, with a magnifying glass, the relationships within the social systems in which you are immersed in your daily life.
REVEAL AND OVERCOME STALL STATES AND EMOTIONAL BLOCKS
You can overcome situations of energetic stalemate or emotional blocks (for example, following traumatic events), allowing you to open new paths in your life.
OVERCOMING CONDITIONINGS IN THE BODY-MIND-SPIRIT SYSTEM
You can expand your awareness of the conditioning that limits the body-mind-spirit system.
EXPLORE AND FREE CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Energy can be released to enhance individual creative expression. Creativity means seeing a situation in which we are the protagonists in a new way and moving away from the idea that we can only do things by following what we have been taught or how we have learned it.