The first time I tried Family Constellations, a friend invited me and I blindly went. I had no idea that I would see a visual and dimensional image of my family dynamics and how they related to me through live people in the room. These people had no idea who my family members were or anything about them. By connecting with their bodies, they were able to access EXACTLY what was happening in my family, both the painful and ugly parts, as well as the resource and strength that I hadn’t noticed. I found a deep, deep, resolution to my issue that reverberated its effect through my life and into the real family/friend relationships that I had worked with. I felt a strong bond with the people in the room that had “represented” my family members, and watched the shame in myself fade as I saw others in the room experience various emotions as well as similar dynamics that I know in myself. It felt like this process had cut through what talking or other therapies had never even opened, all in less than an hour.

 

Many wonder what Family Constellations is and feel apprehensive to try it, given that it is an unfamiliar and different kind of healing experience. It is one of those things where you won’t know until you try it whether it is for you! No matter how much we talk about it, your experience will ultimately tell you much more than the words ever could. However, the benefits of Family Constellations are clear to those who experience it.

 

Family Constellations is a unique body-to-mind process where we let what the body knows unfold rather than analyzing or talking about it. In a group process, it allows a live and visual mapping of what you may have inherited from or be bonded with in your family lineage. In order to really understand it, one must experience it. Here’s what Family Constellations (group or individual) can offer you:

1. Connection to Self and self-awareness
2. Healing at the root of your life issue or situation
3. Releasing the toxic pattern or cycle by placing it back in its original context
4. A recovery of the flow of love, re-source, Beauty and vitality
5. Movement towards life and what is life-giving
6. Acceptance of yourself and your human nature
7. Illumination of the patterns or bonds that you are unconsciously connected with
8. Cultivation of intuition, mind-body-soul connection
9. Release of grief, loss, or emotion that is holding you back
10. Resolution for deep issues that may cut through more than several years of talk therapy
11. Peace, authenticity, freedom to be in your life the way you want to
12. Walking in life with wholeness and ease
13. Building of capacity of more of life’s experiences and possibilities
14. Resilience to handle and navigate all emotions
15. Community and bond with others in a compassionate space
16. Decrease in shame or feeling alone

 

Do you want any of these aspects in your life? Are you feeling curious about what it can specifically offer you? Do you have an issue that seems out of place in your life or stuck? I challenge you to try Family Constellations and see what it can do for you.

 

Join me in the Family Constellations Taster- Introduction Workshop or at the next Family Constellations Group Workshop. Most people come in blindly, just like I had!