HEALING PRESENCE

THE EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP

One has to experience a family constellation to be able to appreciate its value. Family Constellations are usually done with a group of people but can be done in individual sessions. People across the world have been benefited by family constellation method, but its founder Bert Hellinger still considers it as an experimental and experiential method. Emphasis is on experiencing instead of understanding. Broad idea of what happens in a family constellation workshop with group of people is given below.

You can play three roles in a Family or Systemic Constellation workshop:

• Client: person who’s family constellation is set up

• Representative: person who represents a family member of client

• Observer: person who just watches from outside (not picked up as a representative)

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What happens in a constellation workshop?

* First the facilitator talks with the client, to establish the issue which brought him to family constellation, getting the details of family and any important event in history.

* Then the client chooses people from the group to represent each member of his family. A person can refuse to play that role if he does not feel up to it.

* Then the constellation is set – Client intuitively places the representatives in spatial and directional positions that represent their relationship with each other. As this is done, the constellation emerges and an autonomous energy field/matrix is created. Once this is done, the client sits among the observers and watches the matrix unfold ‘what is’.

* Then process takes over and guides the representative to shift positions, express their feelings. The facilitator occasionally intervenes but not always to facilitate the unfolding of truth. When the constellation reaches a resolution, client is put in the place of his representative. As he takes this new position, there is rewiring of neuropathways due to this new experience. This new perception sets the stage for manifesting the new reality in his life.

* Finally, the client thanks each representative and frees them from playing the role of his family members. Client is then given time in solitude to integrate the experience in their own way.

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Usually it is possible to conduct 3 to 4 family constellations in a day.

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Benefits of experiencing family constellation:

For Client: There could be three possible benefits for the client - Acknowledgement of ‘what is’ / direction to a possible solution / the resolution itself

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For Representatives: The role that a representative gets to play somewhere resonates with his story and experiencing it heals something in him & can give great insight into his own life

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For Observers: The mere act of witnessing someone else’s family constellation and being present to what is happening in front of him has the power to bring internal shifts in him in areas where he has found himself stuck for long.